OK, I realize most of you have been losing alot of sleep in anticipation of this so here it is, my metal picks for the last year or so. Stay away from the stuff in red unless you're a true metal head as it has been know to cause nightmares in the un-initiated and will also without fail make small children cry. Let's rock...

2008-2009 Metal Picks

Zero Hour – Dark Deceiver
The Forsaken – After The Fall
Candlemass – Death Magic Doom
Candlemass - King Of The Grey Islands
Megadeth – Endgame
Solitude Aeturnus – Alone
Shadows Fall – Retribution
Seventh Void – Heaven Is Gone
Cage – Science Of Annihilation
Raunchy – Wasteland Discotheque
Giant Squid – The Ichthyologist
Nevermore – This Godless Endeavor
Gates Of Slumber – Conqueror
Grand Magus – Iron Will
Protest The Hero – Fortress
Testament – The Formation Of Damnation
Pharaoh – Be Gone
Every Time I Die – The Big Dirty
Winds – Prominence And Demise
Three Inches Of Blood – Fire Up The Blades
Symphony X – Paradise Lost
Devin Townsend – Ziltoid The Omniscient
Swallow The Sun – Hope
Black Sabbath – The Dio Years
Clutch – From Beale Street To Oblivion
Clutch – Strange Cousins From The West
Dream Theater – Train Of Thought
Dream Theater – Black Clouds Silver Linings
Crescent Shield – The Stars Of Never Seen
Cellador – Enter Deception
Baroness – The Red Album
My Dying Bride – The Lies I Sire
Heaven & Hell (aka Black Sabbath) – The Devil You Know

Devil Driver – Pray For Villains
Blood Horse – Horizoner
Enslaved – Vertebrae
Into Eternity – The Incurable Tragedy
Zoraster – Voice Of Saturn
Dimension Zero – He Who Shall Not Bleed
Kalisia – Cybion
Lamb Of God – Wrath
Kreator – Hordes Of Chaos
Cynic – Traced In Air
Opeth – Watershed
Scar Symmetry – Holographic Universe
Between The Buried And Me – Colors
Intronaught – Void
Cult Of Luna – Eternal Kingdom
Dark Tranquility – Fiction
Machine Head – The Blackening
Deadbird – Twilight Ritual
Daylight Dies – Lost To The Living
Daath – The Concealers
Gojira – The Way Of All Flesh

Vader – XXV
Krisiun – Southern Storm
Goatwhore – Carving Out The Eyes Of God
Suffocation – Blood Oath
Misery Index – Traitors
Black Dahlia Murder – Deflorate
Obscura – Cosmogenesis
Napalm Death – Time Waits For No Slave
The Faceless – Planetary Duality
Century – Black Ocean
Meshuggah – Obzen
The Acacia Strain – The Dead Walk
The Red Chord – Clients
The Ocean – Precambrian
Job For A Cowboy - Genesis

Green = Beginner
Blue = Intermediate
Red = Advanced