AllMusic's Favorite Metal Albums of 2009

Through the week of the 20th, the AllMusic Blog will be publishing our editors' favorite albums of 2009. We'll be covering well over a dozen genres and styles, from rap to reggae, R&B to electronic, country to Latin, blues to metal, folk to soundtracks, and several points in-between. Right now, on the AllMusic Blog, we take a look at our favorite Metal albums of 2009.

Baroness - Blue Record
Black Cobra - Chronomega
Coalesce - Ox
Converge - Axe to Fall
Deathspell Omega - Chaining the Katechon
Eagle Twin - The Unkindness of Crows
Funeral Mist - Maranatha
Immortal - All Shall Fall
Isis - Wavering Radiant
Katatonia - Night Is the New Day
Keelhaul - Keelhaul's Triumphant Return to Obscurity
Kiss - Sonic Boom
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
My Dying Bride - For Lies I Sire
Necrophobic - Death to All
Nihill - Grond
Pelican - What We All Come to Need
Sepultura - A-Lex
Sunn 0))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
Zoroaster - Voice of Saturn