Check out the top ten 2009 Album lists from the KNAC.COM crew.

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Crazy Craig, “Super Rock Sunday” Host

01.) Shrinebuilder Shrinebuilder Neurot
02.) Black Cobra Chronomega Southern Lord
03.) The Company Band The Company Band Restricted Release
04.) Doomriders Darkness Comes Alive Deathwish Inc.
05.) Slayer World Painted Blood American
06.) House of Broken Promises Using the Useless Small Stone
07.) 16 Bridges to Burn Relapse
08.) Behold! the Monolith Behold! the Monolith Self Released
09.) Rufus Huff Rufus Huff Zoho Roots
10.) 7th Void Heaven is Gone Big Vin Records

Diana DeVille, Rock Goddess

01.) Heaven & Hell The Devil You Know (Rhino)
02.) Great White Rising (Shrapnel)
03.) Vains Of Jenna The Art Of Telling Lies (RLS/Raw Noise)
04.) Shake City Shake City (Eonian)
05.) Alice In Chains Black Gives Way To Blue (Virgin/EMI)
06.) DC4 Explode (Chavis Records)
07.) Rhino Bucket The Hardest Town (Acetate)
08.) Lynch Mob Smoke & Mirrors (Frontiers)
09.) KISS Sonic Boom (KISS Records)
10.) Ripper Owens Play My Game (SPV)

Junkman, On Air Personality/Off Air Refuse Collector

1) Megadeth Endgame (Roadrunner)
2) Alice In Chains Black Gives Way To Blue (Virgin/EMI)
3) Mastodon Crack The Skye (Reprise)
4)Slayer World Painted Blood (Sony)
5) Dream Theater Black Clouds And Silver Linings (Roadrunner)
6) Heaven And Hell The Devil You Know (Rhino)
7) Shadows Fall Retribution (Shadows Fall)
8)Primal Fear 16.6 (Before The Devil Knows Your Dead) (Frontiers)
9) Jorn Spirit Black (Frontiers)
10)Lamb Of God Wrath (Sony/Epic)

Charlie Steffens, aka Gnarly Charlie, Staff Photographer/Writer

01.) Lazarus A.D. The Onslaught (Metal Blade)
02.) Slayer World Painted Blood (American)
03.) Katatonia Night Is The New Day (Peaceville)
04.) Heaven And Hell The Devil You Know (Rhino)
05.) Steel Panther Feel The Steel (Universal)
06.) Winterthrall Stormraven (Murderous Dark Records)
07.) Evile Infected Nations (Earache Records)
08.) Sylosis Confusion Of An Age (Nuclear Blast)
09.) Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic (Epitaph)
10.) Lamb Of God Wrath (Epic)

Peter Atkinson, Northeast Correspondent

01.) Behemoth Evangelion (Metal Blade)
02.) Anaal Nathrakh In The Constellation Of The Black Widow (Candlelight)
03.) Slayer World Painted Blood (Columbia)
04.) Devin Townsend Project Addicted (Inside Out/Century Media)
05.) Satyricon The Age Of Nero (Koch)
06.) Napalm Death Time Waits For No Slave (Century Media)
07.) Immortal All Shall Fall (Nuclear Blast)
08.) Cannibal Corpse Evisceration Plague (Metal Blade)
09.) Wolves In The Throne Room Black Cascade (Southern Lord)
10.) Daath The Concealers (Century Media)

Andrew Depedro, Ottawa Correspondent

01.) KISS Sonic Boom (KISS Records)
02.) Heaven And Hell The Devil You Know (Rhino)
03.) DC4 Explode (Chavis Records)
04.) Doll Inside The Doll House (Grunge Never Died, You Did Records)
05.) Endyium Eye Of The Storm (unsigned)
06.) Alice In Chains Black Gives Way To Blue (Virgin/EMI)
07.) Megadeth Endgame (Roadrunner)
08.) Cauldron Eyes To The Nite (Earache Records)
09.) Echoes Of Eternity As Shadows Burn (Nuclear Blast)
10.) Slayer World Painted Blood (American)

DJ Will Host of "The Vault"

01.) Primal Fear 16.6: Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Frontiers)
02.) Megadeth Endgame (Roadrunner )
03.) Artillery When Death Comes (Metal Mind)
04.) Kreator Hordes of Chaos (Steamhammer/SPV)
05.) Sacrifice The Ones I Condemn (Marquee)
06.) Slayer World Painted Blood (American)
07.) Grave Digger Ballads Of A Hangman (Napalm)
08.) Heaven And Hell The Devil You Know (Rhino)
09.) Cage Science Of Annihilation (Music Buy Mail)
10.) Helstar The King Of Hell (AFM)

Michael Fisher, Nashville Contributor

01.) WildeStarr Arrival (Furnace Maximus)
02.) Uriah Heep Celebration - 40 Years of Rock (Edel)
03.) Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings (Roadrunner)
04.) Heaven and Hell The Devil You Know (Rhino)
05.) Saxon Into The Labyrinth (SPV)
06.) Lamb Of God Wrath (Sony)
07.) Austrian Death Machine Double Brutal (Metal Blade)
08.) Mastadon Crack The Skye (Reprise)
09.) Paradise Lost Faith Divides Us Death Unites Us (Century)
10.) Saviours Accelerated Living (Kemado)

Brian Davis, Writer

1) Hypocrisy A Taste Of Extreme Divinity (Nuclear Blast)
2) Augury Fragmentary Evidence (Nuclear Blast)
3) Daath The Concealers (Century Media)
4) Arch Enemy The Root Of All Evil (Century Media)
5) Alice In Chains Black Gives Way To Blue (Virgin/EMI)
6) Evile Infected Nations (Earache)
7) Lazarus A.D. The Onslaught (Metal Blade)
8) God Dethroned Passiondale (Metal Blade)
9) Behemoth Evangelion (Century Media)
10) December's Cold Winter Ablaze All Shrines (Independent)

More Lists coming! Check back often.

scrapmetal - 1/11/2010 1:55:07 PM
obviously you never heard of GG allin

v9 - 1/10/2010 2:35:26 PM
Rhino records put out a CD by Nancy Spungeon (Sid Vicious' dead girlfriend). This is, bar far, the wrost record I have ever heard. Howling bestiality with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

The_Space_Lord - 1/9/2010 1:34:16 PM
I overlooked a few other people's lists and saw "Endgame" on Junkman and DJWill's lists too (numbers 1 and 2 respectively).

chrisk7290 - 1/9/2010 12:12:47 PM
Can't believe Shadows Fall Retribution was only on 1 list and Killswitch Engage's ST on NO list. Another CD on my list that was great was Sad Day on Planet Earth by Lillian Axe. Amazing CD, best the bands ever done, if you were even a remote fan of this band please check it out.

scrapmetal - 1/8/2010 6:30:05 PM
i thank u sir cant believe on only 1 list

The_Space_Lord - 1/7/2010 12:39:13 AM
scrapmetal: "was megadeth released in 09?Cuz if it was it belongs here" - And it is. At #7 on Andrew's list.

scrapmetal - 1/6/2010 8:17:28 AM
was megadeth released in 09?Cuz if it was it belongs here

v8 - 1/2/2010 11:32:33 AM
There's a Danish band called Dan Ko Kaba that put out a killer album called "Wasteland". Kind of a cross between Dream Theatre and Goatwhore.

HPL - 12/31/2009 7:04:16 PM
I had to cut down on expenditure this year, and luckily the CD's i bought ALL kicked ass: Alice In Chains, Katatonia, Devin Townsend, Kiss, Combichrist... all rocked like m************kers.

Junkman - 12/28/2009 2:43:32 PM
You are welcome!

Bman1234 - 12/28/2009 7:07:35 AM
Thank you junkman

Hellhammer69 - 12/24/2009 7:09:08 AM
Black gives way to blue is one mother of an album, but I'll stick with 'Hordes of Chaos' as my 2009 Metal album of the year

The_Space_Lord - 12/24/2009 12:08:06 AM
Four of the selections on my list are also Junkman and Diana's.

scrapmetal - 12/23/2009 2:45:40 PM
combine diana & junkman & you got a winner

Mummyman - 12/23/2009 5:51:01 AM
Saxon made someone's list WTF! Labyrinth has to be my pic for the worst release of the year. Absolute shit album from a great band. this disc keeps the coffee from staining my desk top so in that respect it's king

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