by Ryan,
on 1/02/2009.

God this was hard to scrounge up 10 albums to put on this list. There were 6 or 7 that I wanted to put on here for sure, and then the rest were "I guess I could throw that on there." I'm not ranking this year, although I would say I listened to Krallice the most but I can't say it's album of the year for me because there's not a lot of range on it. Still really good metal though, IMO.

Krallice - Krallice
Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle, Part 1
Night Marchers - See You in Magic
Torche - Meanderthal
Shearwater - Rook
Bottomless Pit - Congress EP
The Drones - Havilah
Withered - Folie Circulaire
The New Year - The New Year
No Age - Nouns

Blogger Eric said,

the Krallice logo looks very black metal. Are they part of that genre?

Blogger Eric said,

Looks like Nachtmystium is coming to town in April with Swedish metal band the Haunted... I might check that one out.

Blogger Ryan said,

Krallice is pretty black metal, yes, but the vocals are more shouty then hoarse and scrapey, or however you want to describe that vocal style.

I think a Nachtmystium/Haunted show would be well worth checking out. The main guy/singer/guitarist from Nachtmystium left this impression on me at his show that he loves what he's doing, and for me it was infectious, and I enjoyed it.

Blogger Eric said,

Good description on vocals, I think I know exactly what you mean.

Nachtmystium sounds cool. They must be an excellent example of the genre if they are embraced by the Scandinavian metal groups. Previous tours look very Norse-y.

Have you had the Nacthburger at Kuma's Corner in Chicago?

Blogger Ryan said,

I didn't have the Nachtmystium burger, it was a one month only deal and I think that was during the height of the wait 1+ hours for a table era at Kuma's.

I just went there a couple weeks ago and got a Pantera though. Their special for this month is the Blagojevich.

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