Yes, every shithead on the internet is typically more than excited to offer up their “Top Whatever” lists and we are no exception. Rest assured, however, that we aren’t recapping the past decade or trying to suggest that we are an authority on the “Best Of” anything. Below you’ll find our individual top ten 2009 releases that all 3 CY founders happen to think are the sickest. Let us know if we missed something here, but pretty sure this about covers it.

David Castillo’s Top Ten of 2009:
Converge – Axe To Fall
Iron Age – The Sleeping Eye
Cable – The Failed Convict
Shrinebuilder – Self-Titled
Cold Cave – Love Comes Close
Vreid – Milorg
Incendiary – Crusade
Kylesa – Static Tensions
Rorschach – Protestant + Remain Sedate LPs (Reissue)
Liturgy – Renihilation

Fred Miketa’s Top Ten of 2009:
Entrance Band – Self-Titled
Trapped Under Ice – Secrets of the World
Portal – Swarth
Jesu – Opiate Sun
Dusted Angel – Dusted Angel EP
Cold Cave – Love Comes Close
Blind to Faith – The Seven Fat Years Are Over
Der Blutharsch – Flying High
Death Before Dishonor – Better Ways to Die
16 – Bridges to Burn

Cameron Octigan’s Top Ten of 2009:
Cathedral – Forest of Equilibrium (reissue)
Cryfemal - Increibles Tormentos
Diamatregon – Crossroad
Gromm – Pilgrimage Against the Catacombs of Negativism EP
Katharsis - Fourth Reich
Lifelover – Dekadens
Marduk – Wormwood/Funeral Mist – Maranatha
Nargaroth – Jahreszeiten
Sunny Day Real Estate – Diary (reissue)
Velvet Cacoon – P aa opal Poere Pr. 33