[Mordred]

There were a ton of highly anticipated albums for me in 2009, which makes it a little surprising that I can't think of anything besides the new Red Sparowes that I'm currently looking forward to. Maybe I'm just not paying enough attention.

(3)
Khoma - A Final Storm
Ufomammut - Eve
Deadhorse - We Can Create Our Own World

(10)
Frightened Rabbit - The Winter of Mixed Drinks
Year of No Light - Ausserwelt
Joe Bonamassa - Black Rock
Mutiny Within - Mutiny Within
Red Sparowes - The Fear Is Excrutiating, but Therein Lies the Answer
The Hold Steady - Heaven Is Whenever
Fleshgod Apocalypse - Mafia EP
Early Man - Death Potion
Kvelertak - Kvelertak
Tuber - Tuber EP

(18)
The Bambi Molesters - As the Dark Wave Swells
Jon Oliva's Pain - Festival
Orphaned Land - The Never Ending Way of ORwarriOR
Hammock - Chasing After Shadows... Living with the Ghosts
Alcest - Écailles de lune
UpCDownCLeftCRightCABC+Start - Firewolf
Pet Slimmers of the Year - ...and the Sky Fell
Hans Zimmer - Inception Soundtrack
Gifts from Enola - Gifts from Enola
Yog-Sothoth - Hypnotic Crushery
The Sword - Warp Riders
The Fury Abstract - Killing Lions
Cloudkicker - Beacons
Torche - Songs for Singles EP
Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini
Toundra - (II)
The Ocean - Heliocentric
Star One - Victims of the Modern Age

(29)
Dream Evil - In the Night
VA - God of War III - Blood & Metal EP
Alkaline Trio - This Addiction
Royal Hunt - X
The Ocean - Anthropocentric
Jennifer Knapp - Letting Go
The Haunted - Road Kill
Axel Rudi Pell - The Crest
Coheed and Cambria - Year of the Black Rainbow
Deftones - Diamond Eyes
Jennifer Knapp - Letting Go
The Ascent of Everest - From this Vantage
Hammock - Chasing After Shadows, Living with the Ghosts
Jorn - Dio
In This Moment - A Starcrossed Wasteland
Katy Perry - Teenage Dream
Apocalyptica - 7th Symphony
10 Years - Feeding the Wolves
Maybeshewill - To the Skies from a Hillside
Heirs - Fowl
Kings of Leon - Come Around Sundown
Jimmy Eat World - Invented
A Swarm of the Sun - Zenith
Helloween - 7 Sinners
Slough Feg - The Animal Spirits
Hammock - Longest Year EP
The Old 97's - The Grand Theater, Volume 1
All That Remains - ...For We Are Many
Masterplan - Time to Be King

(19)
Broken Bells - S/T
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra - Kollaps Tradixionales
Periphery - Periphery
Tonic - Tonic
As I Lay Dying - The Powerless Rise
Chiaroscuro - Chiaroscuro
Grails - Black Tar Prophecies Vol. IV
Slash - Slash
Nevermore - The Obsidian Conspiracy
Acrassicauda - Only the Dead Will See the End of War
Toadies - Feeler
Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier
Filter - The Trouble With Angels
Last Lungs - Look at That Old Grizzly Bear
Goo Goo Dolls - Something for the Rest of Us
Stone Sour - Audio Secrecy
Joe Satriani - Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards
Intronaut - Valley of Smoke
Adai - Felo De Se

(15)
Spoon - Transference
Helloween - Unarmed
Armored Saint - La Raza
Ef - Mourning Golden Morning
Flobots - Survival Story
Hole - Nobody's Daughter
We Are the Fallen - Tear the World Down
Ozzy Osbourne - Scream
Ed Kowalcyzk - Alive
Black Label Society - Order of the Black
Disturbed - Asylum
Robert Plant - Band of Joy
The Abominable Iron Sloth - The Id Will Overcome
Maserati - Pyramid of the Sun
Kamelot - Poetry for the Poisoned

(7)
Scorpions - Sting in the Tail
Tonic - Tonic
65daysofstatic - We Were Exploding Anyway
Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare
Sleepbringer - Compendium
Linkin Park - A Thousand Suns
Electric Wizard - Black Masses

(4)
...and So I Watch You from Afar - Letters EP
Boris - Variations
Amusement Parks on Fire - Road Eyes
world's end girlfriend - SEVEN IDIOTS

(5)
Hundredth - When Will We Surrender
Rooney - Eureka
Tortoise - Why Waste Time?
Ion Dissonance - Cursed
Serj Tankian - Imperfect Harmonies

110 total albums ranked as of 12-21-10

I'm not including Live Albums, Compilations (even with new tracks) and most EPs unless they're very good or very bad.