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Better late than never. Just when I was about to do this post my CP crashed and everything was lost – until now. Like I said earlier, I haven’t been quite up to par with what’s been happening musicwise in 2009, so most of this stuff is what I’ve encountered as a freelance writer for Sweden Rock Magazine.
Anyhow, hopefully you’ll find some interesting music when browsing through the list. I’d say that’s the sole purpose of all kinds of lists; to interact and discover stuff of personal value.

I haven’t got the time to write about all albums, so I’ll just write them down in no particular order. One of these albums caught my attention at a very late stage, though, and judging by how many times I’ve listened to it already, I’d say this is the album of 2009:  
Ormar i gräset, Roffe Ruff. Usually, I hate Swedish hiphop, but this is no joke.

To me, hiphop died a long time ago. Last time I heard a solid rap album was back in 2001 (Smut Peddlers Porn Again and Cannibal Ox The Cold Vein. I might add The Ownerz by Gang Starr, but it’s not rock solid). Swedish rap was dead before it was even born (some exceptions, like Looptroop, early Brigade, early Infinite Mass, MBMA, Chords, The Latin Kings, Mics of Fury…). That’s why I’m so amazed by the grim flow, the beats, the lyrics, the artwork, the image, the secrecy, the humour, the depth, the seriousness and awareness of real hiphop and real issues on this album. Roffe Ruff is the shit. And his music is for free. The album is available here for your pleasure. A new one is about to be released two days from now. I’d be damned if it’s as good as Ormar i gräset. Also, Raekwon released Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II, which was a total killer. Maybe hiphop is back on track?

With that said, let’s get on with the program.
Click on the band name for MySpace links.

Roffe Ruff – Ormar i gräset [DOWNLOAD]
Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II
O.C. & A.G. – Oasis
Blaq Poet – Tha Blaqprint
DOOM – Born Like This

Dinosaur Jr – Farm
Dragontears – Tambourine Freak Machine
First Band From Outer Space – The Guitar is Mightier Than the Gun
Sunn O))) – Monoliths & Dimensions
Master Musicians of Bukkake – Totem One
Sonic Youth – The Eternal
Om – God is Good
Abramis Brama – Smakar söndag
Horisont – Två sidor av horisonten

Funeral Mist – Maranatha
Griftegård – Solemn-Sacred-Severe
Teitanblood – Seven Chalices
Switch Opens – Switch Opens
Beherit – Engram
Portal – Swarth
Mastodon – Crack the Skye
Master’s Hammer – Mantras
Unanimated – In the Light of Darkness
Katharsis – Fourth Reich
Obliteration – Nekropsalms
Die Hard – Nihilistic Vision
Myrkr – Black Illumination
Slough Feg – Ape Uprising!
Switchblade – S/T
Kongh – Shadows of the Shapeless
Count Raven – Mammons War
Ocean Chief – Den förste
Archgoat – The Light Devouring Darkness
Ahab – The Divinity of Oceans
Cobalt – Gin
Bestial Holocaust – Temple of Damnation
Nefandus – Death Holy Death
Abandon – The Dead End
Arckanum – þþþþþþþþþþþ
Candlemass – Death Magic Doom
The Gates of Slumber – Hymns of Blood & Thunder
Necrophobic – Death to All
Tormented – Rotten Death
Nödvärn – Slutstationen
Anal Vomit – Gathering of the Putrid Demons
Tribulation – The Horror
Pyramido – Sand
Katatonia – Night is the New Day

People said 2009 was a bad year for good records. That’s 48 albums right there.
What did I forget?