BEST ALBUMS OF 2009

1. AMORPHIS "Skyforger" (****) 2. VOLBEAT "Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood" (****) 3. BLOODBOUND "Tabula Rasa" (****) 4. INMORIA "Invisible Wounds" (****) 5. SINNER "Crash & Burn" (****) 6. GRAVE DIGGER "Ballads of the Hangman" (***1/2) 7. JORN "Spirit Black" (***1/2) 8. TYR "By the Light of the Northern Star" (***1/2) 9. BRAINSTORM "Memorial Roots" (***1/2) 10.BLACK SABBATH (HEAVEN & HELL) "The Devil You Know" (***1/2) 11.OCEANS OF NIGHT "The Shatterheart Mirror" (***1/2) 12.SLAYER "World Painted Blood" (***1/2) 13. STRATOVARIUS "Polaris" (**1/2)

2009 BEST SONGS COUNTDOWN

15. THEOCRACY "Mirror of Souls" 14. TYR "By the Sword in My Hand" 13. JORN "World Gone Mad" 12. SLAYER "Americon" 11. BRAINSTORM "Shiver" 10. OCEANS OF NIGHT "New Machine" 9. W.A.S.P. "Crazy" 8. GRAVE DIGGER "Into the War" 7. KORSIKA "Connect" 6. AMORPHIS "Sky is Mine" 5. BLOODBOUND "Tabula Rasa" 4. HEAVEN & HELL "Bible Black" 3. VOLBEAT "Light a Way" 2. INMORIA "Fantasy" 1. SINNER "The Dog"

2009 AWARDS


BEST DEBUT: OCEANS OF NIGHT "The Shatterheart Mirror"

BEST SIDE PROJECT: INMORIA

BEST TRADITIONAL / POWER ALBUM: BLOODBOUND "Tabula Rasa"

BEST POWER / PROG ALBUM: OCEANS OF NIGHT "The Shatterheart Mirror"

BEST THRASH / POWER THRASH ALBUM: GRAVE DIGGER "Ballads of the Hangman"

BEST EXTREME ALBUM: AMORPHIS "Skyforger"

BEST CONCEPT ALBUM: VOLBEAT "Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood

BEST ALBUM COVER: (AMORPHIS "Skyforger")

BEST SURPRISE: AMORPHIS "Skyforger"

SADDEST EVENT: TIE: Deaths of Zhan Sagadeev (E.S.T.) / Midnight (CRIMSON GLORY)

BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT: Jon Oliva's PAIN "Global Warning"

LIFETIME ACCOMPLISHMENT AWARD: METALLICA

BEST MALE VOCALS: Andy B. Franck (BRAINSTORM) / Jorn Lande (JORN, AVANTASIA)

BEST FEMALE VOCALS: Veronica Freeman (BENEDICTUM)

BEST GUITAR: Sascha Paeth (AVANTASIA)

BEST BASS: Henkka Blacksmith (CHILDREN OF BODOM)

BEST KEYS: Awa (LORDI)

BEST DRUMS Lars Ulrich (METALLICA)

BEST LYRICS: Vladimir Vysotsky (translated by Vadim Astrakhan) "Singer, Sailor, Soldier, Spirit"

BEST RIFF: "All Nightmare Long" (METALLICA)

BEST PRODUCER: Sascha Paeth / Miro Rodenberg (BRAINSTORM, AVANTASIA)