It's getting on for that time of year folks!
We've had a little get together (over a few beers, naturally) and decided on a "Short list" of our favourite records from throughout the past 12 months*. It's been a really great year for hard rock and heavy metal. So here's a list of the newly-released records that we have been listening to a lot during 2009 - All being well the 3 of us are going to get together to work out THEE CLAW's top 10 LPs of the year, preferably sometime before the year actually ends!
You should have already heard - or you should go track down - the following 40+ records (in alphabetical order):
16 - Bridges To Burn
ABSU - S/T
ALICE IN CHAINS - Black Gives Way To Blue
AMESOUERS - S/T
ANAAL NATHRAKH - In The Constellation Of The Black Widow
ASTRA - The Weirding
BARONESS - Blue Record
BEHERIT - Engram
BLACK COBRA - Chronomega
BRUTAL TRUTH - Evolution Through Revolution
CHURCH OF MISERY - Houses Of The Unholy
COALESCE - Ox
CONVERGE - Axe To Fall
COUNT RAVEN - Mammon's War
THE DEVIL'S BLOOD - Time Of No Time Evermore
FENRIZ RED PLANET - Engangsgrill
FUNEBRARUM - The Sleep Of Morbid Dreams
THE GATES OF SLUMBER - Hymns Of Blood And Thunder
HEAVEN AND HELL - The Devil You Know
JESU - Infinity
JUDAS PRIEST - A Touch Of Evil: Live
KATHARSIS - Fourth Reich
KISS - Sonic Boom
KRALLICE - Dimensional Bleedthrough
KYLESA - Static Tensions
THE LORD OF WEIRD SLOUGH FEG - Ape Uprising
MEGADETH - Endgame
METALUCIFER - Heavy Metal Bulldozer
MOURNFUL CONGREGATION - The June Frost
NACHTMYSTIUM - Doomsday Derelicts [EP]
OLD MAN'S CHILD - Slaves Of The World
OLDE CRONE - S/T
PORTAL - Swarth
RAVENS CREED - Albion Thunder
SARKE - Vorunah
SHRINEBUILDER - S/T
SLAYER - World Painted Blood
STABAT MATER - S/T
SUNN 0))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
TEITANBLOOD - Seven Chalices
TIM "RIPPER" OWENS - Play My Game
TOTAL TERROR - S/T
WASP - Babylon
YOB - The Great Cessation
Okay, so that's the short-list. We are (hopefully) going to whittle it down to our favourite 10 records of the year... stay tuned!
* - Some of these records weren't actually recorded in the calendar year of 2009. We know this already. If it was RELEASED for the 1st time during 2009, well, that's what we're talking about here!
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