TOP 10 ALBUMS OF 2009

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My personal top 10 albums of 2009, another amazing year for new releases (much like 2007). It was really hard to narrow it down to a top 10 as stellar as the albums were.

1) Phideaux- Number Seven
2) An Endless Sporadic- Self-Titled
3) Dream Theater- Black Clouds & Silver Linings
4) Jolly- Forty Six Minutes, Twelve Seconds of Music
5) Knight Area- Realm of Shadows
6) Deluge Grander- The Form of the Good
7) Epica- Design Your Universe
8) Astra- The Weirding
9) Izz- The Darkened Room
10) Transatlantic- The Whirlwind

Honorable Mentions:

-Heart of Cygnus- Tales from Outer Space
-Heart of Cygnus- Over Mountain, Under Hill
-Epica- The Classical Conspiracy
-UKZ- Radiation
-Long Distance Calling- Avoid The Light
-Pain of Salvation- Linoleum
-The Living- Bedd Tracks
-The Mars Volta- Octahedron
-IQ- Frequency
-Roswell Six- Terra Incognita: Beyond The Horizon
-Porcupine Tree- The Incident
-Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition
-Deventter- Lead...On
-Pictorial Wand- Face of Our Fathers
-IO Earth- Self Titled
-Beardfish- Destined Solitaire
-Guilt Machine- On This Perfect Day
-Redemption- Snowfall On Judgement Day
-To-Mera- Earthbound
-Muse- The Resistance
-Wobbler- Afterglow

Category:

Music

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• Progressive
• Rock
• Phideaux
• An
• Endless
• Sporadic
• Dream
• Theater
• Jolly
• Knight
• Area
• Deluge
• Grander
• Epica
• Astra
• Izz
• Transatlantic
• Top
• Ten
• Albums
• 2009

[xenophile84]

I'm the violinist in The Living, and I was so pleased to stumble across this today. We are honored to receive an Honorable Mention from you. :) Thank you very much!

[yesrushdt]

@xenophile84

Thanks Elyse! I really enjoyed the EP. Hopefully a full album will follow in the not too distant future. All the best!

[nickoo2nickoo2]

IQ's Frequency Should be up there... its so good!

[yesrushdt]

@nickoo2nickoo2 Very good album indeed. Like I said, it was really hard to narrow my list down. I put it in my honorable mentions list at least. :)

[jubalprogject]

What software did you use?

[yesrushdt]

@jubalprogject Sony Vegas

Thanks for the heads up on 5BridgeS. I've never heard of them until just now. The songs on their MySpace sound very promising.

[blodia20]

Hey dude, I Really like your list! and honorable Mentions!

lots of great bands!

For me the number one is The Form Of The Good!



[xenophile84]

@yesrushdt We plan to release a full album later this year. I will make it a personal goal to get on your Top 10 list for 2011 ;)

All the best to you too!

[Aaronmac404]

Also, An Endless Sporadic's album is great too. All around good list dude. It's cool to see people still have the same kind of taste in music as I do.

[Aaronmac404]

Great fucking list, man. Thank God you included The Whirlwind. Such a great album and its cool seeing it getting the attention it deserves.

[Struturinn]

Nice list!

[wookie128]

I agree for the most part. ;-)

[HammerOfPink]

It's rare that I find progressive rock and metal bands that I haven't heard of or don't know anything about, but this list has introduced me to a LOT. On this list, I knew about Dream Theater, Phideaux, An Endless Sporadic, Epica, and Transatlantic. The rest I've never even heard of before. Thank you very much.

[lorenzobrown]

Very interesting selections, and some I really like, in particular the number one choice. Some I wouldn't have in there (Dream Theater) and a couple I'd not heard (An Endless Sporadic - sounded good, and Knight Area).

Excellent presentation of the songs too!