2009 in heavy metal music

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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2009.

Reformed bands

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Disbandments

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Events

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Books

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  • ECW Press released a book looking at the work of producer Rick Rubin, entitled Rick Rubin: In the Studio, written by biographer Jake Brown on 11 August.[80]
  • Former Stratovarius member Timo Tolkki published his autobiography, Hymn to Life – Entr'acte, on 2 November, through Goldenworks Ltd./Blacksmith Ltd.[81]
  • At the End of the Day, a book charting the career of Blaze Bayley, was released on 25 September.[82]
  • All That Matters, a Metallica biography written by Paul Stenning, was released in October via Plexus Publishing.[83]
  • Led Zeppelin: Good Times, Bad Times: A Visual Biography, a book examining the public and private lives of the members of Led Zeppelin, was released on 1 October, via Abrams Publishing.[84]
  • Rock photographer Neil Zlozower releases Mötley Crüe: A Visual History, 1983–2005 via Chronicle Books.[85]
  • A limited-edition book, Vintage Kiss Photos: 1974–1981, compiled by Marc Scallatino, was released, charting Kiss's early days.[86]
  • Cradle of Filth frontman Dani Filth and Gavin Baddeley release The Gospel of Filth, a book exploring the history of the band and more general topics of the dark side of humanity, on 31 October.[87]
  • New book announced on the history of metal titled Louder Than Hell: The Unflinching Oral History of Metal.[88]
  • Rudolf Schenker of the Scorpions released his autobiography, entitled Rock Your Life, in Germany on 14 October.[89]
  • Heavy metal magazine Decibel released Precious Metal: The Stories Behind 25 Extreme Metal Masterpieces in July. The book pays tribute to the 25 most influential extreme metal albums of all time. Some of the albums listed include Slayer's Reign in Blood, Cannibal Corpse's Tomb of the Mutilated, Converge's Jane Doe and Meshuggah's Destroy Erase Improve.[90][91]
  • All Pens Blazing, a heavy metal writer's handbook containing interviews and a history of heavy metal publications, is released on 16 August.[92]
  • Ozzy Osbourne released his autobiography, I Am Ozzy, on 1 October.[93]
  • Bazillion Points Books released Only Death Is Real: An Illustrated History of Hellhammer and Early Celtic Frost, a book exploring the bands Hellhammer and Celtic Frost written by band members Tom Fischer and Martin Eric Ain, in November 2009.[94]
  • Two books came from author Joel McIver, the first called The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists with a foreword by Glen Benton of Deicide and the second titled To Live Is to Die: The Life and Death of Metallica's Cliff Burton, with a foreword by Kirk Hammett.

Films

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On 8 December, Bill Zebub will release Pagan Metal: A Documentary, the first documentary about pagan and folk metal.[95]

Albums released

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January

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Day Artist Album
5 Vreid Milorg[96]
6 Destroy Destroy Destroy Battle Sluts[97]
9 Bourbon Crow Long Way to the Bottom
Grave Digger Ballads of a Hangman[98]
Iron Fire To the Grave[99]
13 Kreator Hordes of Chaos[100]
Saxon Into the Labyrinth[101]
20 Cattle Decapitation The Harvest Floor[102]
Rumpelstiltskin Grinder Living for Death, Destroying the Rest[101]
23 Sepultura A-Lex[103]
Napalm Death Time Waits for No Slave[104]
Sirenia The 13th Floor[105]
Vision Divine 9 Degrees West of the Moon[106]
26 Architects Hollow Crown[107]
Dark Moor Autumnal[108]
Ephel Duath Through My Dog's Eyes[109]
30 Buckethead Slaughterhouse on the Prairie
Deathstars Night Electric Night[110]

February

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Day Artist Album
3 Cannibal Corpse Evisceration Plague[111]
This Ending Dead Harvest[112]
9 Adagio Archangels in Black[113]
10 Luna Mortis The Absence[101]
Red Innocence & Instinct
16 God Forbid Earthsblood[114]
17 Psyopus Odd Senses[115]
Saros Acrid Plains[116]
Wolves in the Throne Room Malevolent Grain (EP)[117]
Obscura Cosmogenesis[118]
20 HammerFall No Sacrifice, No Victory[119]
Suidakra Crógacht[120]
23 Autumn Altitude[121]
Rotting Christ Non Serviam — A 20 Year Apocryphal Story (live DVD/CD)[122]
The Agonist Lullabies for the Dormant Mind[123]
Wolf Ravenous[124]
24 Absu Absu[125]
August Burns Red Lost Messengers: The Outtakes (EP)[126]
Lamb of God Wrath[127]
25 Impellitteri Wicked Maiden[128]
27 Arch Enemy Manifesto of Arch Enemy (compilation)[129]
The Burning Rewakening[130]
Isole Silent Ruins[131]
Lunatica New Shores[132]
Malefice Dawn of Reprisal[133]
The Sorrow Origin of the Storm[134]

March

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Day Artist Album
2 Solitude Aeturnus Hour of Despair[135]
3 Buried Inside Spoils of Failure[136]
6 Nightwish Made in Hong Kong (And in Various Other Places) (live CD/DVD)[137]
Samael Above[138]
9 The Haunted Warning Shots (compilation)[139]
10 Dope No Regrets[140]
The Number Twelve Looks Like You Worse Than Alone[141]
Red Fang Red Fang[142]
Yngwie Malmsteen Angels of Love[143]
11 Dark The Suns All Ends in Silence[144]
13 Domain The Chronicles of Love, Hate and Sorrow[145]
15 Thanatos Justified Genocide[146]
16 Pestilence Resurrection Macabre[147]
17 Believer Gabriel[148]
Kylesa Static Tensions[149]
Static-X Cult of Static[150]
20 Agathodaimon Phoenix[151]
Black Messiah First War of the World[152]
Ektomorf What Doesn't Kill Me...[153]
Delain April Rain[154]
23 My Dying Bride For Lies I Sire[155]
Revolution Renaissance Age of Aquarius[156]
24 Mastodon Crack the Skye[157]
25 Fairyland Score to a New Beginning[158]
Raven Walk Through Fire[159]
27 Candlemass Death Magic Doom[160]
30 Hatesphere To The Nines[161]
31 Impending Doom The Serpent Servant[162]
Queensrÿche American Soldier[163]
Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade[164]

April

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Day Artist Album
3 Success Will Write Apocalypse Across the Sky The Grand Partition and the Abrogation of Idolatry[165]
6 Cauldron Chained to the Nite[166]
Code Resplendent Grotesque[167]
7 The Color of Violence Youthanize[168]
9 Beherit Engram[169]
10 Eluveitie Evocation I - The Arcane Dominion[170]
14 Agoraphobic Nosebleed Agorapocalypse[171]
Brutal Truth Evolution Through Revolution[172]
Karl Sanders Saurian Exorcisms[173]
15 Ajattara Noitumaa[174]
Rudra Brahmavidya: Transcendental I[175]
Soilent Green Inevitable Collapse in the Presence of Conviction[176]
16 Emperor Live Inferno (live CD/DVD)[177]
17 Death Angel Sonic German Beatdown – Live in Germany (live album)[178]
Disbelief Protected Hell[179]
Endstille Verführer[180]
Maroon Order[181]
19 Mastercastle The Phoenix[182]
20 Earth Crisis To the Death[183]
Hacride Lazarus[184]
Lacuna Coil Shallow Life[185]
21 Black Label Society Skullage (compilation/DVD)[186]
Bloodbound Tabula Rasa[187]
Chimaira The Infection[188]
Dååth The Concealers[189]
22 National Napalm Syndicate Devolution of Species[190]
24 God Dethroned Passiondale[191]
Powerwolf Bible of the Beast[192]
Wolfchant Determined Damnation[193]
27 Blood Tsunami Grand Feast for Vultures[194]
Heaven and Hell The Devil You Know[195]
Nadja When I See the Sun Always Shines on TV (cover album)[196]
OSI Blood[197]
28 Animals as Leaders Animals as Leaders[198]
29 Impiety Terroreign (Apocalyptic Armageddon Command)[199]
Jungle Rot What Horrors Await[200]

May

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Day Artist Album
1 Buckethead A Real Diamond in the Rough
4 Edenbridge LiveEarthDream[201]
The Gathering The West Pole[202]
5 The Chariot Wars and Rumors of Wars[203]
The Devil Wears Prada With Roots Above and Branches Below[204]
Hatebreed For the Lions (cover album)[205]
Isis Wavering Radiant[206]
Nachtmystium Doomsday Derelicts (EP)[207]
Necrodeath Phylogensis[208]
Zao AWAKE?[209]
6 Obliterate Something Wrong[210]
8 Epica The Classical Conspiracy (live album)[211]
Lacrimosa Sehnsucht[212]
Slough Feg Ape Uprising![213]
11 Devils Whorehouse Blood & Ashes[214]
Nattefrost Engangsgrill[215]
Vomitory Carnage Euphoria[216]
12 Sacred Oath Sacred Oath[217]
The Black Dahlia Murder Majesty (DVD)[218]
13 Spiritus Mortis The God Behind The God[219]
15 Tim "Ripper" Owens Play My Game[220]
18 Old Man's Child Slaves of the World[221]
Stratovarius Polaris[222]
Sunn O))) Monoliths and Dimensions[223]
Susperia Attitude[224]
19 Warbringer Waking into Nightmares[225]
20 Mystic Prophecy Fireangel[226]
Marilyn Manson The High End of Low
22 Cage Science of Annihilation[227]
Devin Townsend Ki[228]
Neaera Omnicide – Creation Unleashed[229]
Primal Fear 16.6 (Before the Devil Knows You're Dead)[230]
Skyclad In The... All Together[231]
Therion The Miskolc Experience (Live Album)[232]
Unanimated In the Light of Darkness (The Covenant of Death)[233]
25 Ava Inferi Blood of Bacchus[234]
Heaven Shall Burn Bildersturm – Iconoclast II (The Visual Resistance) (DVD)[235]
Pathosray Sunless Skies[236]
Xasthur All Reflections Drained[237]
26 Bury Your Dead It's Nothing Personal[238]
Khanate Clean Hands Go Foul[238]
Minsk With Echoes in the Movement of Stone[239]
Nahemah A New Constellation[240]
27 Alestorm Black Sails at Midnight[241]
Glittertind Landkjenning[242]
Stream of Passion The Flame Within[243]
Trail of Tears Bloodstained Endurance[244]
29 Amorphis Skyforger[245]
Andreas Kisser Hubris I & II[246]
Devourment Unleash the Carnivore[247]
Necrophobic Death To All[248]
Týr By the Light of the Northern Star[249]
UFO The Visitor[250]

June

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Day Artist Album
1 Avulsed Nullo (The Pleasure of Self-Mutilation)[251]
Buckethead Forensic Follies
Pantheon I Worlds I Create[252]
2 1349 Revelations of the Black Flame[253]
4 Pelican Ephemeral (EP)[254]
8 Hate The Litanies of Satan (DVD)[255]
Steel Panther Feel the Steel[256]
9 Amoral Show Your Colors[257]
The Autumn Offering Requiem[258]
Coalesce OX[259]
Darkness Dynamite The Astonishing Fury of Mankind[260]
Mortification The Evil Addiction Destroying Machine[261]
15 Artillery When Death Comes[262]
Riverside Anno Domini High Definition[263]
16 Graveworm Diabolical Figures[264]
Madder Mortem Eight Ways[265]
Sworn Enemy Total World Domination[266]
19 Deströyer 666 Defiance[267]
Ex Deo Romulus[268]
Goatwhore Carving Out The Eyes of God[269]
RAM Lightbringer[270]
22 Asphyx Death...The Brutal Way[271]
Drudkh Microcosmos[272]
Nightrage Wearing a Martyr's Crown[273]
Spinal Tap Back from the Dead[274]
23 Darkest Hour The Eternal Return[275]
Dream Theater Black Clouds & Silver Linings[276]
Seventh Angel The Dust of Years[277]
Voivod Infini[278]
24 Elias Viljanen Fire-Hearted[279]
26 Korpiklaani Karkelo[280]
U.D.O. Infected (EP)[281]
29 Amberian Dawn The Clouds of Northland Thunder[282]
Anaal Nathrakh In the Constellation of the Black Widow[283]
30 Blood Red Throne Souls of Damnation[284]
Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage[285]
Obituary Darkest Day[286]
Shining Shining VI: Klagopsalmer[287]
Suicide Silence No Time to Bleed[288]

July

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Day Artist Album
6 The Project Hate The Lustrate Process[289]
Skyfire Fractal (EP)[290]
7 Born of Osiris A Higher Place[291]
Church of Misery House of the Unholy[292]
Grief of War Worship[293]
Job for a Cowboy Ruination[294]
Moss Tombs of the Blind Drugged (EP)[295]
Novembers Doom Into Night's Requiem Infernal[296]
Suffocation Blood Oath[297]
14 Arkaea Years in the Darkness[298]
Arsonists Get All the Girls Portals[299]
August Burns Red Constellations[300]
DevilDriver Pray for Villains[301]
Jorn Spirit Black[302]
Judas Priest A Touch of Evil: Live[303]
17 Horna Musta Kaipuu[304]
Manowar Thunder in the Sky (EP)[305]
Merauder God is I[306]
20 Onslaught Live Damnation (live album)[307]
21 Atheist Unquestionable Presence: Live at Wacken (live album)[308]
Stryper Murder by Pride[309]
For the Fallen Dreams Relentless
The Word Alive Empire (EP)
22 Ahab The Divinity of Oceans[310]
Persefone Shin-Ken[311]
24 Leaves' Eyes My Destiny (EP)[312]
Narnia Course of a Generation[313]
27 Dismember Under Bloodred Skies (DVD)[314]
Nazxul Iconoclast[315]
28 Divine Heresy Bringer of Plagues[316]

August

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Day Artist Album
3 Ghost Brigade Isolation Songs[317]
4 Man Must Die No Tolerance for Imperfection[318]
6 Dead and Divine The Machines We Are[319]
7 Behemoth Evangelion[320]
10 Chthonic Mirror of Retribution[321]
11 Bloody Panda Summon[322]
Winds of Plague The Great Stone War[323]
18 Goreaphobia Mortal Repulsion[324]
Gwar Lust in Space[325]
Ignominious Incarceration Of Winter Born
Otep Smash the Control Machine
21 U.D.O. Dominator[326]
Vader Necropolis[327]
24 Caliban Say Hello to Tragedy[328]
Municipal Waste Massive Aggressive[329]
25 Azaghal Teraphim[330]
Burnt by the Sun Heart of Darkness
Oh, Sleeper Son of the Morning[331]
Skillet Awake
26 Leaves' Eyes Njord[332]
Warmen Japanese Hospitality[333]
28 Axxis Utopia[334]
Guilt Machine On This Perfect Day[335]
Illdisposed To Those Who Walk Behind Us[336]
Jorn The Dukebox (best of)[337]
Krypteria My Fatal Kiss[338]
Saltatio Mortis Wer Wind Sat[339]
The 69 Eyes Back in Blood[340]

September

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Day Artist Album
8 3 Inches of Blood Here Waits Thy Doom[341]
Advent Naked And Cold[342]
Dethklok The Dethalbum II[343]
9 Ablaze My Sorrow The Suicide Note (EP)[344]
Candiria Toying with the Insanities[345]
Ensiferum From Afar[346]
Insomnium Across the Dark[347]
Thunderstone Dirt Metal[348]
11 Secrets of the Moon Privilegivm[349]
Threat Signal Vigilance[350]
13 The Gates of Slumber Hymns of Blood & Thunder[351]
14 Skyfire Esoteric[352]
15 Asking Alexandria Stand Up and Scream
The Black Dahlia Murder Deflorate[353]
Dream Theater Wither (EP)[354]
Dying Fetus Descend into Depravity[355]
Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic[356]
It Dies Today Lividity[357]
Kittie In The Black[358]
Living Colour The Chair in the Doorway[359]
Megadeth Endgame[360]
Meliah Rage Masquerade[361]
Ministry The Last Dubber (Re-mix Album)[362]
Protest the Hero Gallop Meets the Earth (live CD/DVD)[363]
Salt the Wound Ares[364]
Shadows Fall Retribution[365]
Skinlab The Scars Between Us[366]
18 At Vance Ride the Sky[367]
Danger Danger Revolve[368]
Europe Last Look at Eden[369]
Lynch Mob Smoke And Mirrors[370]
Sonata Arctica The Days of Grays[371]
Theatre of Tragedy Forever Is the World[372]
21 Diablo Swing Orchestra Sing Along Songs for the Damned & Delirious[373]
Evile Infected Nations[374]
Ronny Munroe The Fire Within[375]
Sinister Prophecies Denied (DVD)[376]
22 Children of Bodom Skeletons in the Closet[377]
Despised Icon Day of Mourning[378]
Echoes of Eternity As Shadows Burn[379]
Five Finger Death Punch War Is the Answer[380]
Parkway Drive The DVD (DVD)[381]
Skindred Shark Bites and Dog Fights[382]
Three Days Grace Life Starts Now
24 Buckethead Needle in a Slunk Stack
Marduk Wormwood[383]
25 Destruction The Curse of the Antichrist – Live in Agony (live album)[384]
Immortal All Shall Fall[385]
Metalium Grounded – Chapter Eight[386]
Paradise Lost Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us[387]
26 Tyrants Blood Crushing Onward into Oblivion[388]
28 Arch Enemy The Root of All Evil[389]
Dalriada Arany-Album[390]
Redemption Snowfall on Judgment Day[391]
29 Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue[392]
Austrian Death Machine Double Brutal[393]
Black Cobra Chronomega[394]
Breaking Benjamin Dear Agony
Doomriders Darkness Come Alive[395]
Evergreen Terrace Almost Home[396]
Hatebreed Hatebreed[397]

October

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Day Artist Album
2 Scar Symmetry Dark Matter Dimensions[398]
5 Marionette Enemies[399]
6 Ancestors Of Sound Mind[400]
Hirax El Rostro de la Muerte[401]
HORSE the band Desperate Living[402]
Inhale Exhale Bury Me Alive[403]
Kiss Sonic Boom[404]
Powerman 5000 Somewhere on the Other Side of Nowhere[405]
9 Belphegor Walpurgis Rites – Hexenwahn[406]
Lifelover Dekadens (EP)[407]
Mob Rules Astral Hand (EP)[408]
10 Massacration Good Blood Headbanguers[409]
Pythia Beneath the Veiled Embrace[410]
12 Ram-Zet Neutralized[411]
Slowmotion Apocalypse Mothra[412]
W.A.S.P. Babylon[413]
13 Baroness Blue Record[414]
Dawn of Azazel Relentless[415]
Saviours Accelerated Living[416]
Skeletonwitch Breathing the Fire[417]
14 Decadence Chargepoint[418]
Waltari Below Zero[419]
16 Brainstorm Memorial Roots[420]
Epica Design Your Universe[421]
Fragments of Unbecoming The Everhaunting Past/Chapter IV – A Splendid Retrospection[422]
Rammstein Liebe ist für alle da[423]
Winger Karma[424]
19 Skitliv Skandinavisk Misantropi[425]
20 Converge Axe to Fall[426]
Portal Swarth[427]
21 Freak Kitchen Land of the Freaks[428]
Gorgoroth Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt[429]
Russian Circles Geneva[430]
22 Månegarm Nattväsen[431]
23 Hypocrisy A Taste of Extreme Divinity[432]
Savage Circus Of Doom and Death[433]
Transatlantic The Whirlwind[434]
24 To-Mera Earthbound (EP)[435]
26 Dark Tranquillity Where Death Is Most Alive (live CD/DVD)[436]
Hellbastard Eco-War (mini-CD)[437]
Hellbastard The Need to Kill[437]
My Dying Bride Bring Me Victory (EP)[438]
Rob Halford Halford III - Winter Songs[439]
Shadow Gallery Digital Ghosts[440]
27 Atreyu Congregation of the Damned[441]
Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect[442]
Creed Full Circle
Pelican What We All Come to Need[443]
The Red Chord Fed Through The Teeth Machine[444]
Suffocation Live in Quebec – The Close of a Chapter (live album)[445]
Whiplash Unborn Again[446]
28 Arkona Goy, Rode, Goy![447]
Coldrain Final Destination[448]
Hollenthon Tyrants and Wraiths (EP)[449]
30 Annihilator Live at Masters of Rock (Video album)[450]
Nile Those Whom the Gods Detest[451]
Ruins Front The Final Foes[452]
Within Temptation An Acoustic Night at the Theatre (Live Album)[453]
31 Welicoruss Apeiron

November

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Day Artist Album
2 Katatonia Night Is the New Day[454]
Slayer World Painted Blood[455]
3 Defiance The Prophecy[456]
Genitorturers Blackheart Revolution[457]
We Came as Romans To Plant a Seed
5 Gama Bomb Tales from the Grave in Space[73]
6 Brainstorm Just Highs No Lows (12 Years of Persistence) (best-of)[458]
Impious Death Domination[459]
Sonic Syndicate Rebellion (EP)[460]
10 Jacobs Dream Beneath the Shadows[461]
Krallice Dimensional Bleedthrough[462]
Swallow the Sun New Moon[463]
Throwdown Deathless[464]
Witchmaster Trücizna[465]
11 Lonewolf The Dark Crusade[466]
13 Mob Rules Radical Peace[467]
Nostradameus Illusion's Parade[468]
Running Wild ReUnation – A Tribute to Running Wild (tribute album)[469]
16 Miseration The Mirroring Shadow[470]
Urgehal Ikonoklast[471]
17 Devin Townsend Addicted[472]
The Empire Shall Fall Awaken
Helix Vagabond Bones[473]
Rush Working Men (Live Album)[474]
18 Dark Funeral Angelus Exuro pro Eternus[475]
Nightwish Lokikirja (box set)[476]
19 Obituary Live Xecution – Party. San 2008 (live DVD)[477]
23 Metallica Français Pour Une Nuit (live DVD)[478]
24 Scorpions Amazonia – Live in the Jungle (live DVD)[479]
25 Elis Catharsis[480]
Outrage Outrage[481]
27 Manowar Hell on Earth V (DVD)[482]
30 Metallica Orgullo, Pasión Y Gloria - Tres Noches En La Ciudad De México (DVD)[483]

December

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Day Artist Album
1 Carcass Pungent Excruciation: Live (live album)[484]
3 Master's Hammer Mantras[485]
7 Yngwie Malmsteen High Impact (compilation)[486]
8 Nonpoint Cut the Cord (EP)[487]
Puddle of Mudd Volume 4: Songs in the Key of Love & Hate
9 Disarmonia Mundi The Isolation Game[488]
16 Helloween Unarmed - Best of 25th Anniversary[489]
18 Coronatus Fabula Magna[490]
Heavenly Carpe Diem[491]
Tankard Open All Night – Reloaded (DVD)[492]
22 Mudvayne Mudvayne[493]
23 Heathen The Evolution of Chaos[494]
26 Nokturnal Mortum The Voice of Steel[495]

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