OT: Best CD of 2009?

[grumpysaddle]

Hasn't been the greatest year for music. In fact, the only album I can say I've really enjoyed is Wolves in the Throne Room's "Black Cascade." Behemoth's "Evangelion" and General Surgery's "Corpus in Extremis" were alright. I don't even listen to a lot of metal these days, but that's about all I've heard released this year that was ok.

That WITTR record is pretty good, but nowhere near as good as the first two. Especially the last one, "Two Hunters". Odd that someone else on here partakes of the black metal. Totally wouldn't have expected it.

[Risensun]

Ha, funny you should say that - my girlfriend and a buddy are going to The Killers and Wolfmother on Sunday - $10 a ticket!!

I might have to go for that cheap...

Yeah love my BRMC as well

Metallica for the win though.

I just realized that Those Crooked Vultures is the unnamed Zeppelin project. I've been looking forward to that for the past couple years. Just didn't realize they have a name for the band all ready. Should kick a$$.


Wow $10(US?) for a Wolfmother+Killers concert? That's cheap, Killer tickets were selling in the states for 70 bucks last time. Enjoy Wolfmother can't wait for them to come back round here.

[justinb80]

Hasn't been the greatest year for music. In fact, the only album I can say I've really enjoyed is Wolves in the Throne Room's "Black Cascade." Behemoth's "Evangelion" and General Surgery's "Corpus in Extremis" were alright. I don't even listen to a lot of metal these days, but that's about all I've heard released this year that was ok.

That WITTR record is pretty good, but nowhere near as good as the first two. Especially the last one, "Two Hunters". Odd that someone else on here partakes of the black metal. Totally wouldn't have expected it.

I think "Two Hunters" is pretty overrated. I still like it a lot, but I don't think it's that much better than the new one. The new one is more straightforward black metal, but it's well-written and the vocals are just killer.

Yeah, I like a lot of black metal, but mostly stuff from the early 90s Norwegian scene, like Ulver, Carpathian Forest, Darkthrone, Enslaved, Burzum, Emperor, etc. Of the newish stuff, the only bands I really like that could be construed as black metal are Agalloch and WITTR.

[grumpysaddle]

Hasn't been the greatest year for music. In fact, the only album I can say I've really enjoyed is Wolves in the Throne Room's "Black Cascade." Behemoth's "Evangelion" and General Surgery's "Corpus in Extremis" were alright. I don't even listen to a lot of metal these days, but that's about all I've heard released this year that was ok.

That WITTR record is pretty good, but nowhere near as good as the first two. Especially the last one, "Two Hunters". Odd that someone else on here partakes of the black metal. Totally wouldn't have expected it.

I think "Two Hunters" is pretty overrated. I still like it a lot, but I don't think it's that much better than the new one. The new one is more straightforward black metal, but it's well-written and the vocals are just killer.

Yeah, I like a lot of black metal, but mostly stuff from the early 90s Norwegian scene, like Ulver, Carpathian Forest, Darkthrone, Enslaved, Burzum, Emperor, etc. Of the newish stuff, the only bands I really like that could be construed as black metal are Agalloch and WITTR.

I really enjoy the separation of the ambient type stuff and the black metal stuff on Two Hunters. While I do enjoy the new record, its kind of like all the songs are the same. Half black metal with ambient stuff in the middle then more black metal. And I agree most new black metal is terrible. Check out the band Darkspace. http://www.myspace.com/darkcyberspace . They're pretty good modern black metal. I like Agalloch more folky, acoustic stuff better than when they are loud, i think. The White EP was a really good listen.

[azballer53]

Blueprint 3 will be or Us by Brother Ali

[TASTIC]

Hell yeah, Josh Homme owns. I'm a huge fan of Zep, Foo, Nirvana and especially QOTSA. That album should be killer.

If you guys want I have an all acoustic QOTSA album I made up of various acoustic performances I was able to find last year. Let me know and we can find a way to get it downloaded. It is a little too long to fit on a cd in its entirety but perfect for an Ipod.

Hook me up

Upload to a torrent site or fileshare or something?

[stat1]

damn, just looked up tech n9n since ive never heard of him
and damn hes good

[AZ Punker]

NOFX's Coaster was alright...it's nice having them sing about things other than politics, but it almost feels like they kind of sleptwalked through this album. I did like the throwback sound to some of their older CD's; maybe that's what they were going for, but the effort just doesn't sound like it's there.