TOP OF 2009

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Top 20 albums of 2009
Devin Townsend Project- Addicted! - http://www.myspace.com/devintownsenddtb
Prodigy - Invaders Must Die - http://www.myspace.com/theprodigy
Katatonia - Night Is The New Day - http://www.myspace.com/katatonia
The Dear Hunter - Act III: Life And Death - http://www.myspace.com/thedearhunter
Metric - Fantasies - http://www.myspace.com/metric
Dredg - The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion - http://www.myspace.com/dredg
Faunts - Feel. Love. Thinking. Of. - http://www.myspace.com/faunts
Muse - The Resistance - http://www.myspace.com/muse
Brendan Benson - My Old, Familiar Friend - http://www.myspace.com/brendanbenson
Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue - http://www.myspace.com/aliceinchains
VNV Nation - Of Faith Power And Glory - http://www.myspace.com/vnvnation
Ghost Brigade - Isolation Songs - http://www.myspace.com/ghostbrigade
Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions - http://www.myspace.com/biffyclyro
My Dying Bride - For Lies I Sire - http://www.myspace.com/officialmydyingbride
Doves - Kingdom Of Rust - http://www.myspace.com/dovesmyspace
Mastodon - Crack The Skye - http://www.myspace.com/mastodon
Volbeat - Guitar Gangsters and Cadlliac Blood - http://www.myspace.com/volbeat
Fever Ray - Fever Ray - http://www.myspace.com/feverray
DM Stith - Heavy Ghost - http://www.myspace.com/dmstith
Between The Buried And Me - The Great Misdirect - http://www.myspace.com/betweentheburiedandme

Top 5 songs of 2009
Prodigy "Omen"
Dredg "Ireland"
Metric "Help I'm Alive"
Volbeat "Hallelujah Goat"
Devin Townsend Project "Hyperdrive!"

Top 15 concerts of 2009
Faith No More @ Download, UK
Nine Inch Nails @ Terminal 5, NYC
Paul McCartney @ Citi Field, NYC
Metallica @ MSG, NYC
Prodigy @ Download UK
Hall & Oates @ Irving Plaza, NYC
King's X @ Terminal 5, NYC
Frank Turner @ DC's, Hoboken
VNV Nation @ Nokia Theater, NYC
Dredg @ Highline Ballroom, NYC
Septic Flesh @ Scion Rock Fest, Atlanta
Skeletonwitch @ Full Metal Texas, Austin
Johann Johannsson @ Le Poison Rouge, NYC
Night Ranger @ BB Kings, NYC
Krallice @ Scion Rock Fest, Atlanta

Top 5 TV shows
Modern Family
The League
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Chuck
How I Met Your Mother

Best of the rest (albums that is)...
A Place To Bury Strangers - Exploding Head
Air - Love 2
Amorphis - Sky Forger
Animals As Leaders - Animals As Leaders
Astra - The Weirding
Baroness - Blue Album
Behemoth - Evangelion
Beirut - March of The Zapotec and Realpeople Holland
Bob Mould - Life And Times
The Bronx - Mariachi El Bronx
Candlemass - Death Magic Doom
Chimaira - The Infection
Clutch - Strange Cousins From The West
Constants - The Foundation, the Machine, the Ascension
Decemberists - The Hazard Of Love
Devin Townsend Project - Ki
Dream Theater - Black Clouds and Silver Lining
Ensiferum - From Afar
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
If These Trees Could Talk - Above The Earth, Below The Sun
Insomnium - Across The Dark
Irepress - Sol Eye Sea I
Isis - Wavering Radiant
Iwrestledabearonce - It's All Happening
Killswitch Engage - Killswitch Engage
Lacuna Coil - Shallow Life
Lamb Of God - Wrath
Maria Taylor - Lady Luck
Maylene And The Sons Of Disaster - III
Mew - No More Stories...
Mono - Hymn To The Immortal Wind
Morrissey - Years Of Refusal
Naam - Naam
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
Part Chimp - Thriller
Patton Oswalt - My Weakness Is Strong
Pearl Jam - Backspacer
Pelican - Ephemeral
Placebo - Battle For The Sun
Poison The Well - The Tropic Rot
Porcupine Tree - The Incident
Redemption - Snowfall On Judgment Day
Rodrigo Y Gabriela - 11:11
Russian Circles - Geneva
Satyricon - Age Of Nero
Scale The Summit - Carving Desert Canyons
Silversun Pickups - Swoon
Skeletonwitch - Breathing The Fire
Soulsavers - Broken
Steven Wilson - Insurgentes
Swallow The Sun - New Moon
Telefon Tel Aviv - Immolate Yourself
The Gathering - The West Pole
The Mountain Goats - The Life Of The World To Come
Therapy? - Crooked Timber
Wolves In The Throne Room - Black Cascade
Zao - Awake?
Zero 7 - Yeah Ghost