Usually I make a pretty big production about this as it is my favorite article of the year to write. Just wanted to get my list out there for right now. I will be updating within the next week. Thanks and enjoy:

Top 25:

1. Mastadon - Crack the Skye
2. Isis - Wavering Radient
3. Behemoth - Evangelion
4. Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague
5. Disarmonia Mundi - Isolation Game
6. Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II
7. Insomnium - Across The Dark
8. Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough
9. Pelican - What We All Need To Come
10. Samael - Above
11. Katatonia - Night is the New Day
12. Dark Funeral - Angelus Exuro Pro Eternus
13. Immortal - All Shall Fall
14. Isole - Silent Ruins
15. Jungle Rot - What Horrors Await
16. Shadows Fall - Retribution
17. Gorgoroth - Quantos Possunt Ad Satanitate
18. Shining - VI: Klagopsalmer
19. Hypocrisy - A Taste of Extreme Divinity
20. Lamb of God - Wrath
21. Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know
22. Amorphis - Skyforger
23. Vader - Necropolis
24. Swallow the Sun - New Moon
25. Belphegor - Walpurgis Rites: Hexenwahn



Honorable Mention:

Anaal Naakrath - In the Constellation of the Night
Arch Enemy - Root of all Evil
Novembers Doom - Into Night's Requiem Infernal
Paradise Lost - Faith Unites Us - Death Divides Us
Marduk - Wormwood
Susperia - Attitude
My Dying Bride - For Lies I Sire
Nile - Those Whom the Gods Detest



Now Some Awards:

Best Live Album - Emperor - Live Inferno
Best EP - Nachtmystium - Doomsday Derelicts
Devastating Break-up of the Year: Burst
Worst Album of the Year: 1349 - Revelations of the Black Flame (way to ruin having a good thing going, terrible)
2nd Worst Album of the Year: God Forbid - Earthsblood (Seriously, if you like this album, kill yourself)
3rd Worst Album of the Year: Children of Bodom - Skeletons in the Closet (aptly titled, what is wrong with you guys?)
Most Overrated Album of the Year: Slayer - World Painted Blood
The "WTF?" Award: Gorgoroth, I mean God Seed, no really the "troo" Gorgoroth, which is? What? Gaahl is gay and retiring? Wtf???


I'll be back to update soon. Stay brutal,

Cuchulainn