Metal Reviews

A few months ago my hard drive spacked out and I lost everything, including all my metal music.

I'm trying to remember all the best metal releases for 2009 (power/gothic/heavy), but so far can only think of a few...

Can people put up a list and/or post a link of a website that has all the power metal releases for 2009 please...

Thanks guys...

I haven't heard everything on this list but I think they are all from 2009. I've highlighted those I like best.

3 Inches Of Blood - Here Waits Thy Doom
Alestorm - Black Sails At Midnight
Altaria - Unholy
Amorphis - Skyforger
Andre Matos - Mentalize
Axxis - Utopia
Barilari - Abuse De Poder
Bloodbound - Tabula Rasa
Brainstorm - Memorial Roots
Cage - Science Of Annihilation
Cain's Offering - Gather The Faithful
Celesty - Vendetta
Dark Moor - Autumnal
DGM - Frame
Dragonfly - Alma Irae
Elias Viljanen - Fire-hearted
Epica - Design Your Universe
Fairyland - A Score To A New Beginning
Grave Digger - Ballads Of A Hangman
Gwyllion - The Edge Of All I Know
Hammerfall - No Sacrifice, No Victory
Heavenly - Carpe Diem
Ilium - Ageless Decay
Illusion Suite - Final Hour
Impellitteri - Wicked Maiden
Iron Fire - To The Grave
Jacob's Dream - Beneath The Shadows
Jorn - Spirit Black
Lunatica - New Shores
Metalforce - Metalforce
Metalium - Grounded
Mob Rules - Radical Peace
Mystic Prophecy - Fireangel
Nightmare - Insurrection
Powerwolf - Bible Of The Beast
Primal Fear - 16.6 (Before The Devil Knows You're Dead)
Queensryche - American Soldier
Rebellion - Arise
Revolution Renaissance - Age Of Aquarious
Savage Circus - Of Doom And Death
Slough Feg - Ape Uprising
Sonata Arctica - The Days Of Grays
Stratovarius - Polaris
Thunderstone - Dirt Metal
Warmen - Japanese Hospitality
Wizard - Thor

I've listened to half of the new Anubis Gate, and it is great.

Fairyland - Score to a New Beginning
Cain's Offering - Gather the Faithful
Strato - Polaris
Celesty - Vendetta
Iron Fire - To the Grave

Those are my top five in order.

Also, thanks Pyroman for the list. There is still so much more I need to hear.

There are too many fruity power metal bands on your list Ness. Try some of highlighted bands, especially Brainstorm, Mob Rules, Nightmare and Thunderstone. That should even things out a bit.

I can't honestly think of a single power metal album released this year that I enjoyed.

I've never been a fan of Mob Rules. I own "Temple of Two Suns", and I've always thought it was pretty generic. How does this compare?

Can I make a suggestion.. buy an external hard disk...I brought one at the Chadstone Office works store...1.5 TRG...for $159

Also Sonata Arctica are coming to Billboards on Russell Street....Jan 5th 2010

Not very fond of the stuff released this year... Maybe Status Minor - Dialog and Rebellion - Arise. That Rebellion is actually one of the best of the year. But yeah, no0t much good Power Metal this year. I'll succumb to being to harsh on that DGM. It's pretty neat.

Oh right, Crom - Vengeance was pretty good.

Right you are about the external hard disk. I have a friend who can get me a 1TB for $100.

I am aware of Sonata Arctica, but there is also Edguy on the 3rd of Jan at Billboard, plus also Paradise Lost with Sirenia later on in the month...again at the Billboard...and in february we have HIM coming to town..

Thanks for the list...I had a great deal of those albums on my pc before the crash, most I hadn't even gotten around to, like Cain's Offering, the new Strato (a good long listen), Grave Digger, Bloodbound and Axxis...

It's gonna suck getting all of them back

Mob Rules have vastly improved since "Temple". Try "Ethnolution A.D." and/or the latest one "Radical Peace"

On Radical Peace I feel they've gone for a change of sound. At times it sounds like Brainstorm, with less keyboards and more complex compositions than any other album Mob Rules have released and Trial by Fire has to be the best song they have written.

Ness, you can hear both Trial by Fire and Astral Hand, two of the best songs on the album, on MySpace

My favs for this year:

Grave Digger - Ballads of a Hangman
HammerFall - No Sacrifice No Victory
Primal Fear - 16.6 (Before The Devil Knows You're Dead)
Brainstorm - Memorial Roots
Mystic Prophecy - Fireangel

Here's a few more power metal releases for 2009:

At Vance – Ride The Sky
Burning Black – MechanicHell
Cardiant - Tomorrow's Daylight
Centaur - The Origin Of Sin
Conquest – Empire
Crystallion - Hundred Days
Dark Illusion - Where The Eagles Fly
Darkology - Altered Reflections
Delirion - Silent Symphony
Delirion - Silent Symphony
Dreamland - Exit 49
Eden’s Curse - The Second Coming
Fool's Game - Reality Divine
Hevisaurus - Jurahevin Kuninkaat
Infinity Overture - Kingdom of Utopia
Inmoria - Invisible Wounds
Invictus – Persecution
Iron Mask - Shadow Of The Red Baron
Katsu Ota - Eternal and External
Kings Of Modesty - Hell Or Highwater
Legend - The Lost World
Leverage - Circus Colossus
Lord - Set In Stone
Mean Streak - Metal Slave
Minstrelix – Reflections
Narnia - Course Of A Generation
Nostradameus - Illusions Parade
Paradox - Riot Squad
Rata Blanca - The Forgotten Kingdom
Red Circuit – Homeland
Regardless Of Me - The World Within
Renacer - Hijo Del Viento
Skyward - Chasing Horizon
Sound Storm - Twilight Opera
Stonelake - Shades Of Eternity
Trick or Treat - Tin Soldiers
Whyzdom - From the Brink of Infinity
Wildpath - Non Omnis Moriar

These are pretty good. In no particular order:

Stratovarius - Polaris
Celesty - Vendetta
Savage Circus - Of Doom And Death
Heavenly - Carpe Diem
Saint Deamon - Pandeamonium
Wildpath - Non Omnis Moriar
Crystallion - Hundred Days
Trick Or Treat - Tin Soldiers
ReinXeed - Higher
Fairyland - Score To A New Beginning
Dark Moor - Autumnal
Dawn Of Destiny - Human Fragility

Bear in mind that these are ones I've heard and liked. I have not even listened to half of the albums listed here so far.

Nice list but Queensryche first off they aren't power metal second off that album is far from being anything power metal and third that album shouldn't be on any Best Of list that album was a disappointment as have most post Empire stuff.