Well, the votes have been tallied (thanks to Cancerscare for that) and the results are in! Here are the top albums of the year as decided by YOU, the Metal Injection junkies. We had an open forum thread where we invited everybody to submit their top 10 lists, and we combined everybody's for one definitive list. Check out 2009's list here.
- Dillinger Escape Plan – Option Paralysis : 133 votes
- Cephalic Carnage – Misled by Certainty : 114 votes
- Ihsahn – After : 94 votes
- Decrepit Birth – Polarity : 86 votes
- Iron Maiden – The Final Frontier : 85 votes
- Agalloch – Marrow of the Spirit : 83 votes
- Athiest – Jupiter : 74 votes
- Deathspell Omega – Paracletus : 69 votes
- Deftones – Diamond Eyes : 67 votes
Periphery – Periphery : 67 votes - Intronaut – Valley of Smoke : 66 votes
- Kvelertak – Kvelertak : 62 votes
- Misery Index – Heirs to Theivery : 59 votes
- Exodus – Exhibit B: The Human Condition : 58 votes
- Whitechapel – A New Era of Corruption : 54 votes
- The Acacia Strain – Wormwood : 53 votes
- High on Fire – Snakes for the Divine : 49 votes
- Immolation – Majesty and Decay : 48 votes
- Alcest – Ecailles de Lune : 47 votes
- Overkill – Ironbound : 45 votes
- Levi/Werstler – Avalanche of Worms : 44 votes
Veil of Maya – Id : 44 votes - Cloudkicker – Beacons : 43 votes
Black Breath – Heavy Breathing : 43 votes - Enslaved – Axioma Ethica Odini : 40 votes
- Danza – Danza III : 39 votes
- Nachtmystium – Addicts: Black Meddle Pt. 2 : 36 votes
- Dimmu Borgir – Abrahadabra : 35 votes
Murder Construct – EP : 35 votes
Eluveitie – Everything Remains as it Never Was : 35 votes - Daath – Daath : 32 votes
Fleshgod Apocalypse – Mafia EP : 32 votes
Watain – Lawless Darkness : 32 votes - After the Burial – In Dreams : 30 votes
- Kataklysm – Heaven's Venom : 29 votes
Triptykon – Eparistera Daimones : 29 votes
Nevermore – The Obsidian Conspiracy : 29 votes - Electric Wizard – Black Masses : 26 votes
Avenged Sevenfold – Nightmare : 26 votes - The Contortionist – Exoplanet : 25 votes
Kylesa – Spiral Shadow : 25 votes
The Ocean – Anthropocentric : 25 votes - Salome – Terminal : 24 votes
Daughters – Daughters : 24 votes
Fear Factory – Mechanize : 24 votes - Finntroll – Nifelvind : 23 votes
- Dark Tranquility – We Are the Void : 22 votes
- Darkthrone – Circle of Wagons : 21 votes
Solution.45 – For Aeons Past : 21 votes
Kalmah – 12 Gauge : 21 votes - Ludicra – The Tenant : 20 votes
The Saddest Landscape – You Will Not Survive : 20 votes - Brain Drill – Quantum Catastrophe : 19 votes
Fleshwrought – Dementia/Dyslexia : 19 votes
1349 – Demonoir : 19 votes
Clinging to the Trees of a Forest Fire – Songs of Ill Hope and Desperation : 19 votes
P.L.F. – In Disgust Split : 19 votes
Drudkh – Handful of Stars : 19 votes
Celeste – Morte(s) Nee(s) : 19 votes - Soilwork – The Panic Broadcast : 18 votes
- TesseracT – Concealing Fate EP : 17 votes
Torche – Songs for Singles : 17 votes
Grand Magus – Hammer of the North : 17 votes - Cynic – Re-Traced : 16 votes
Coffinworm – When All Became None : 16 votes
Within the Ruins – Invade : 16 votes
In Mourning – Monolity : 16 votes
Carnifex – Hell Chose Me : 16 votes
Woe – Quietly, Undramatically : 16 votes
Nails – Unsilent Death : 16 votes - Shining – Blackjazz : 15 votes
Sons of Aurelius – The Farthest Reaches : 15 votes
Parkway Drive – Deep Blue : 15 votes
As I lay Dying – Powerless Rise : 15 votes
Death Angel – Relentless Retribution : 15 votes
Blind Guardian – At the Edge of Time : 15 votes
Abigail Williams – In the Absence of Light : 15 votes
Skagos – Panopticon Split : 15 votes
All That Remains – For We Are Many : 15 votes - Burzum – Belus : 14 votes
Witchery – Blitzkrieg : 14 votes
Bleeding Through – Bleeding Through : 14 votes
The Absence – Enemy Unbound : 14 votes
Solefald – Norron Livskunst : 14 votes - Carach Angren – Death came through a phantom ship : 13 votes
Kill the Client – Set for Extinction : 13 votes - Norma Jean – Meridional : 12 votes
Murderdolls – Women and Children Last : 12 votes
Accept – Blood of Nations : 12 votes - Phobia – Unrelenting : 11 votes
Arsis – Starve for the Devil : 11 votes
Early Man – Death Potion : 11 votes
Lantlos – Neon : 11 votes
Withered – Dualitas : 11 votes - Slash – Slash : 10 votes
Magrudergrind – Crusher : 10 votes
Cough – Ritual Abuse : 10 votes
Keep of Kalessin – Reptile : 10 votes
Trap Them – Filth Rations EP : 10 votes
Circa Survive – Blue Sky Noise : 10 votes
Angelus Apatrida – Clockwork : 10 votes
Iron Thrones – The Wretched Sun : 10 votes
Soulfly – Omen : 10 votes
Wretched – Beyond the Gate : 10 votes
Christopher Lee – Charlemagne : 10 votes
Blood Revolt – Indoctrine : 10 votes
East of the Wall – Ressentiment : 10 votes
Collapse – Demo : 10 votes
Rosetta – A Determinism of Reality : 10 votes
Sigh – Scenes from Hell : 10 votes
Thy Will Be Done – Ancient of Days : 10 votes
Unleashed – As Yggdrasil Trembles : 10 votes
Annilhilator – Annilhilator : 10 votes - The Crinn – Dreaming Saturn : 9 votes
Bring Me the Horizon – There is a hell…etc etc : 9 votes
Rob Zombie – Hellbilly Deluxe 2 : 9 votes
Arkaik – Reflections Within Dissonance : 9 votes
Kingdom of Sorrow – Behind the Blackest Tears : 9 votes
Sevendust – Cold Day Memory : 9 votes
Stick to Your Guns – The Hope Division : 9 votes
The Secret – Solve et. Coagula : 9 votes
Circle of Dead Children – Psalm of the Great Destroyer : 9 votes
King Conqueror – American's Most Haunted : 9 votes
System Divide – The Concious Sedation : 9 votes
Stone Sour – Audio Secrecy : 9 votes
Armored Saint – Larazza : 9 votes
Living Sacrifice – The Infinite Order : 9 votes
Forbidden – Omega Wave : 9 votes
Zoroaster – Matador : 9 votes - Upon a Burning Body – The World is Ours : 8 votes
Haarp – The Filth : 8 votes
Holy Grail – Crisis in Utopia : 8 votes
Gozu – Locust Season : 8 votes
For Today – Devastator : 8 votes
Adult Swim – Metal Swim Comp : 8 votes
Pain of Salvation – Road Salt One : 8 votes
Oceano – Contagion : 8 votes
Maserati – Pyramid of the Sun : 8 votes
Ion Dissonance – Cursed : 8 votes
Silence – There's No Place Like Home : 8 votes
Dawn of Ashes – Genocide Chapters : 8 votes
Cradle of Filth – Venus Aversa : 8 votes
Melechesh – The Epigenesis : 8 votes
Joe Satriani – Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards : 8 votes
Immortal – The 7th Date of Blashyrkh : 8 votes - Howl – Full of Hell : 7 votes
Iron and Wine – Walking Far from Home EP : 7 votes
Underoath – Disambugation : 7 votes
James LaBrie – Static Impulse : 7 votes
Miss May I – Monument : 7 votes
The Ocean – Heliocentric : 7 votes
Cancer Bats – Bears, Mayors, Scraps and Bones : 7 votes
The Chariot – Long Live : 7 votes
Exhausted Prayer – Worst of All Possible Words : 7 votes
Harvey Milk – A Small Turn of Human Kindness : 7 votes
Bongripper – Satan Worshipping Doom : 7 votes
Suffix – …No Matter How Fast We Run : 7 votes
Throes of Dawn – The Great Fleet of Echoes : 7 votes
Year of No Light – Ausserwelt : 7 votes
Hellmouth – Gravestone Skylines : 7 votes
Antichrist – Put to Death : 7 votes
Bonded By Blood – Exiled to Earth : 7 votes
Through the Eyes of the Dead – Skepsis : 7 votes
The Sword – Warp Riders : 7 votes
Motorhead – The World is Yours : 7 votes
Paul Gilbert – Fuzz Universe : 7 votes - I'll Eat Your Face – Iritant : 6 votes
Orphaned Land – The never ending way of ORwarriOR : 6 votes
Skyforger – Kurbads : 6 votes
Journal – Unlorja : 6 votes
The Devil Wears Prada – Zombie EP : 6 votes
Thunderbrew – Mercy : 6 votes
Landmine Marathon – Soverign Descent : 6 votes
GWAR – Bloody Pit of Horror : 6 votes
Annotations of an Autopsy – The Reign of Darkness II : 6 votes
Dukatalon – Saved by Fear : 6 votes
Coliseum – House With a Curse : 6 votes
Early Graves – Goner : 6 votes
The Ghost Inside – Returners : 6 votes
Grave – Burial Ground : 6 votes
Alien Blakk – Bekoming : 6 votes
Castevet – Mounds of Ash : 6 votes - Conan – Horseback Battle Hammer : 5 votes
Twilight – Monument to End Time : 5 votes
Impending Doom – There Will Be Violence : 5 votes
Terror – Keepers of the Faith : 5 votes
I, The Breather – These Are My Sins : 5 votes
Heaven Shall Burn – Invictus : 5 votes
John 5 – Malice : 5 votes
Antagonist – World in Decline : 5 votes
Cathedral – The Guessing Game : 5 votes
Trash Talk – Eyes and Nines : 5 votes
Mutiny Within – Mutiny Within : 5 votes
Heirs – Fowl : 5 votes
Demiurg – Slakthus Gamleby : 5 votes
Black Anvil – Triumvirate : 5 votes
Sonic Syndicate – We Rule the Night : 5 votes
Ghost – Opus Eponymous : 5 votes - Wormrot – I Abhor split ep : 4 votes
Weed – DC Hope : 4 votes
Look What I Did – Atlas Drugged : 4 votes
Mose Giganticus – Gift Horse : 4 votes
God Dethroned – Under the Sign of the Iron Cross : 4 votes
Ov Hell – The Underworld Regime : 4 votes
Bison B.C. – Dark Ages : 4 votes
White Drugs – Gold Magic : 4 votes
Aeon – Path of Fire : 4 votes
Sick of It All – Based on a True Story : 4 votes
Rorcal – Heliogabalus : 4 votes
Grave Maker – Ghost Among Men : 4 votes
Envy – Recital : 4 votes
Exhale – Blind : 4 votes
Atlantean Codex – On Golden Bough : 4 votes
The Red Shore – The Avarice of Man : 4 votes
Inter Arma – Sundown : 4 votes
Ozzy Osbourne – Scream : 4 votes - TRUE – Still Life : 3 votes
– This Comp Kills Fascists Volume 2 : 3 votes
Superchunk – Majesty Shredding : 3 votes
Kiuas – Lustdriven : 3 votes
Evocation – Apocalyptic : 3 votes
Shad – TSOL : 3 votes
Sons of Tonatiuh – Sons of Tonatiuh : 3 votes
The Body – All the Waters of the Earth Shall Turn to Blood : 3 votes
Fuck the Facts – Unnamed EP : 3 votes
The Abominable Iron Sloth – The Id Will Overcome : 3 votes
Charred Walls of the Damned – Charred Walls of the Damned : 3 votes
Thulcandra – Fallen Angel's Dominion : 3 votes
Buckethead – Captain Eo's Voyage : 3 votes
Black Label Society – Order of the Black : 3 votes - Torture Divison – Evighetens Dåra : 2 votes
A Plea for Purging – Marriage of Heaven and Hell : 2 votes
Mux Mool – Skulltaste : 2 votes
Heidevolk – Uit Oude Grond : 2 votes
Miseration – The Mirroring Shadow : 2 votes
Swans – My Father Will Guide Me up a Rope to the Sky : 2 votes
Beneath the Massacre – Maree Noire : 2 votes
Dark Fortess – Ylem : 2 votes
Domination Through Impurity – Masochist : 2 votes
Child Abuse – Cut and Run : 2 votes
White Wizzard – Over the Top : 2 votes
Melvins – The Bride Screamed Murder : 2 votes
Defeated Sanity – Chapters of Repugnance : 2 votes
Scribe – Mark of Teja : 2 votes
Heathen – The Evolution of Chaos : 2 votes
Allegaeon – Fragments of Form and Function : 2 votes
Sodom – In War and Pieces : 2 votes
A Loathing Requiem – Psalms of Misanthropy : 2 votes
ProPain – Absolute Power : 2 votes
Baptized in Blood – Baptized in Blood : 2 votes - Elvenking – Red Silent Tides : 1 votes
Volumes – Concept of Dreaming : 1 votes
Animals as Leaders – Wave of Babies single : 1 votes
Ufomammut – Eve : 1 votes
Lesbian – Stratospheria Cubensis : 1 votes
Apocalyptica – 7th Symphony : 1 votes
Goatmill – Apocryphal : 1 votes
Pathology – Legacy of the Ancients : 1 votes
And Hell Followed With – Proprioception : 1 votes
Atilla – Rage : 1 votes
Blind Witness – Nightmare on Providence Street : 1 votes
Burning the Masses – Offsprings of Time : 1 votes
Chelsea Grin – Desolation of Eden : 1 votes
Je – Un Royaume De Nuit : 1 votes
Everfailed – Biological Order : 1 votes
Structures – All of the Above EP : 1 votes
Blonde Redhead – Penny Sparkle : 1 votes
The Reign of Kindo – This is What Happens : 1 votes
Svart Crown – Witnessing the Fall : 1 votes
Xasthur – Portal of Sorrow : 1 votes
Madball – Empire : 1 votes
Kerasphorus – Cloven Hooves at the Holocaust Dawn EP : 1 votes
Bastard Priest – Under the Hammer of Destruction : 1 votes
Miasmal – Miasmal : 1 votes
Crucifyre – Infernal Earthly Divine : 1 votes
Star One – Victims of the Modern Age : 1 votes
Volbeat – Beyond Hell/Above Heaven : 1 votes
Killing Joke – Absolute Dissent : 1 votes
Keith Merrow – The Arrival : 1 votes
