decibels top 40 of the year

[Indifferent Clox]

I love looking at a top list and not knowing most of the bands. I used to be able to do this quite regularly, but the more and more i get into music, the less and less surprised I am by the choices when it comes to the end of the year.

I recently started getting into metal, so I have no idea how to gauge what's great and what isn't. I mean I can say what I like, and then I'll listen to some song that sounds (to me) just like it, because i have yet to completely understand the nuances of the genre. I haven't seen how it's grown and I haven't heard the 'genre changers' or the ones who are considered the best.

That being said this lists contains several albums I own from friends of mine who have helped me get started. And it's good to see three albums I liked the best being getting the top ten. That at least lets me know that I'm catching on. TI've never read an issue of decibel, but I really like Baroness. I loved their last album and this one. I hope it gets some cred on the more indie lists too. Def. my fav metal album this year.

40 Funebrarum - The Sleep Of Morbid Dreams
39 Millions - Gather Scatter
38 Municipal Waste - Massive Aggressor
37 Javelina - Beasts Among Sheep
36 Suffocation - Blood Oath
35 Goes Cube - Another Day Has Passed
34 Culted - Below The Thunders Of The Upper Deep
33 Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough
32 Brutal Truth - Evolution Through Revolution
31 The Red Chord - Fed Through The Teeth Machine
30 Keelhaul - Keelhaul's Triumphannt Return To Obscurity
29 Katatonia - Night Is The New Day
28 Gaza - He Is Never Coming Back
27 Goatwhore - Carving Out The Eyes Of God
26 City Of Ships - Look What God Did To Us
25 Burnt By The Sun - Heart Of Darkness
24 The Gates Of Slumber - Hymns Of Blood And Thunder
23 Funeral Mist - Maranatha
22 Mournful Congregation - The June Frost
21 Altar Of Plauges - White Tomb
20 Asphyx - Death...The Brutal Way
19 The Atlas Moth - A Glorified Piece Of Blue Sky
18 Paradise Lost - Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us
17 Mastodon - Crack The Skye
16 YOB - The Great Cessation
15 Nile - Those Whom The Gods Detest
14 Magrudergrind - Magrudergrind
13 Obscura - Cosmogenesis
12 Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Agorapocalypse
11 Immortal - All Shall Fall
10 Isis - Wavering Radiant
09 Marduk - Wormwood
08 Tombs - Winter Hours
07 Slayer - World Painted Blood
06 Kylesa - Static Tensions
05 Cobalt - Gin
04 Napalm Death - Time Waits No Slave
03 Coalesce - Ox
02 Converge - Axe To Fall
01 Baroness -The Blue Record