THE BEST ALBUMS OF 2009 SO FAR — TOO SOON? (VINCE’S PICKS)

It’s been a doozy of a year for metal releases already, hasn’t it?

After the jump, the records I’ve been jamming the most so far that might or might not end up on my year-end Top 10.

Anaal Nathrakh – In the Constellation of the Black Widow
Animals as Leaders – s/t
Behemoth – Evangelion
Cannibal Corpse – Evisceration Plague
Coalesce – Ox
Daath – The Concealers
God Forbid – Earthsblood
Gorod – Process of a New Decline
Hacride – Lazarus
Iron Age – The Sleeping Eye
Keelhaul – Keelhaul’s Triumphant Return to Obscurity
Mastodon – Crack the Skye
Obscura – Cosmogenesis
Rumpelstiltskin Grinder – Living for Death, Destroying the Rest
Scale the Summit – Carving Desert Canyons
Devin Townsend – Ki
Zao – Awake?