Metal Injection

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.

1. Dillinger Escape Plan – Option Paralysis : 133 votes
2. Cephalic Carnage – Misled by Certainty : 114 votes
3. Ihsahn – After : 94 votes
4. Decrepit Birth – Polarity : 86 votes
5. Iron Maiden – The Final Frontier : 85 votes
6. Agalloch – Marrow of the Spirit : 83 votes
7. Athiest – Jupiter : 74 votes
8. Deathspell Omega – Paracletus : 69 votes
9. Deftones – Diamond Eyes : 67 votes
   Periphery – Periphery : 67 votes
10. Intronaut – Valley of Smoke : 66 votes
11. Kvelertak – Kvelertak : 62 votes
12. Misery Index – Heirs to Theivery : 59 votes
13. Exodus – Exhibit B: The Human Condition : 58 votes
14. Whitechapel – A New Era of Corruption : 54 votes
15. The Acacia Strain – Wormwood : 53 votes
16. High on Fire – Snakes for the Divine : 49 votes
17. Immolation – Majesty and Decay : 48 votes
18. Alcest – Ecailles de Lune : 47 votes
19. Overkill – Ironbound : 45 votes
20. Levi/Werstler – Avalanche of Worms : 44 votes
    Veil of Maya – Id : 44 votes
21. Cloudkicker – Beacons : 43 votes
    Black Breath – Heavy Breathing : 43 votes
22. Enslaved – Axioma Ethica Odini : 40 votes
23. Danza – Danza III : 39 votes
24. Nachtmystium – Addicts: Black Meddle Pt. 2 : 36 votes
25. Dimmu Borgir – Abrahadabra : 35 votes
    Murder Construct – EP : 35 votes
    Eluveitie – Everything Remains as it Never Was : 35 votes
26. Daath – Daath : 32 votes
    Fleshgod Apocalypse – Mafia EP : 32 votes
    Watain – Lawless Darkness : 32 votes
27. After the Burial – In Dreams : 30 votes
28. Kataklysm – Heaven's Venom : 29 votes
    Triptykon – Eparistera Daimones : 29 votes
    Nevermore – The Obsidian Conspiracy : 29 votes
29. Electric Wizard – Black Masses : 26 votes
    Avenged Sevenfold – Nightmare : 26 votes
30. The Contortionist – Exoplanet : 25 votes
    Kylesa – Spiral Shadow : 25 votes
    The Ocean – Anthropocentric : 25 votes
31. Salome – Terminal : 24 votes
    Daughters – Daughters : 24 votes
    Fear Factory – Mechanize : 24 votes
32. Finntroll – Nifelvind : 23 votes
33. Dark Tranquility – We Are the Void : 22 votes
34. Darkthrone – Circle of Wagons : 21 votes
    Solution.45 – For Aeons Past : 21 votes
    Kalmah – 12 Gauge : 21 votes
35. Ludicra – The Tenant : 20 votes
    The Saddest Landscape – You Will Not Survive : 20 votes
36. 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
37. Soilwork – The Panic Broadcast : 18 votes
38. TesseracT – Concealing Fate EP : 17 votes
    Torche – Songs for Singles : 17 votes
    Grand Magus – Hammer of the North : 17 votes
39. 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
40. 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
41. 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
42. Carach Angren – Death came through a phantom ship : 13 votes
    Kill the Client – Set for Extinction : 13 votes
43. Norma Jean – Meridional : 12 votes
    Murderdolls – Women and Children Last : 12 votes
    Accept – Blood of Nations : 12 votes
44. 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
45. 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
46. 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
47. 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
48. 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
49. 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
50. 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
51. 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
52. 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
53. 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
54. 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