Metal Reviews

Lets go

1. Converge - Axe To Fall. Maybe best Converge album which makes it album of the year ez.
2. The Paper Chase - Someday All this Could Be Yours. Best Paper Chase album which makes it a very good album.
3. Doomriders - Darkness Come Alive. At first I was like "shit this is pretty good" now I'm like "fuck every song on here is memorable and skin-tingling and heart-pumping and perfect." I noticed I tend to preface quotes of people with 'like "profanity/emoticon/lol/misc other interjections'
4. Devin Townsend - Addicted. Addictive. Gets the skin-tingling like any good Devin album does.
5. Slough Feg - Ape Uprising. Riffs.
6. Grammatics - Grammatics. Thought this was a 2008 album but RYM says no.
7. The Mars Volta - Octahedron. Really good songs but I can't shake the feeling that it doesn't feel like a complete album in the same way their other 4 do.
8. Buried Inside - Spoils of Failure. Epic destruction. I vote it for best lead guitar of the year. Can't beat those melodies.
9. Devin Townsend - Ki. Disruptr is a bit of a dud but from Terminal onward this album is scary good and has a perfect flow of intense/soothing parts.
10. Jonny Craig - A Dream is a Question You Don't Know How to Answer. I like singing along to this a lot.
11. Trophy Scars - Bad Luck. First two and last songs are just amazing. The stuff in between is pretty great too.

Kurt Ballou, Nate Newton and Devin Townsend are also awesome for being involved with at least two albums on this last. Yay them.

Disruptr was one of my favorite tracks. Don't we do this in the yearly list threads?

I didn't see those so I just went for it.

What immediately comes to mind and not in any order would be:

1. Katatonia: Night Is The New Day
2. Paradise Lost: Faith Divides Us, Death Unites Us
3. 11th Hour: Burden of Grief
4. Novembers Doom: Into Night's Requiem Infernal
5. Megadeth: Endgame
6. Alice In Chains: Black Gives Way To Blue
7. Dream Theater: Black Clouds & Silver Linings
8. Heaven and Hell: The Devil You Know
9. Insomnium: Across The Dark
10. Swallow The Sun: New Moon
11. Isole: Silent Ruins
12. Darzamat: Solfernus' Path
13. Derek Sherinian: Molecular Henosity
14. Stratovarius: Polaris
15. Ghost Brigade: Guided By Fire
16. Epica: Design Your Universe
17. Amorphis: Skyforger
18. Guilt Machine: On This Perfect Day
19. Trail of Tears: Bloodstained Endurance
20. Macbeth: Gotteskrieger

Redundant thread is redundant.