This has been an exceptionally good year for new music, with more than 50 albums new in 2009 from Zune Pass gracing my regular rotation. Videos for some of the best are after the jump. Enjoy!
Alice in Chains – Check My Brain – Black Gives Way To Blue (alternative)
Baroness – A Horse Called Golgotha – Blue Record (prog metal)
Between the Buried and Me – Obfuscation – The Great Misdirect (prog metal)
Clutch – 50,000 Unstoppable Watts – Strange Cousins From The West (rock)
Dääth – Day of Endless Light – The Concealers (melodic death metal)
Devildriver – Pray for Villains – Pray for Villains (thrash)
God Forbid – War of Attrition – Earthsblood (thrash)
Heaven & Hell – Bible Black – The Devil You Know (heavy metal)
Insomnium – Down With The Sun – Across the Dark (melodic death metal)
Katatonia – Day And Then The Shade – Night is the New Day (prog rock)
Lacuna Coil – Spellbound – Shallow Life (prog rock)
Lamb of God – Set to Fail – Wrath (thrash)
Mastodon – Oblivion – Crack the Skye (prog metal)
Megadeth – Headcrusher – Endgame (thrash)
Porcupine Tree – Time Flies – The Incident (prog rock)
Scar Symmetry – Noumenon and Phenomenon – Dark Matter Dimension (melodic death metal)
Shadows Fall – Still I Rise – Retribution (thrash)
Steven Wilson – Harmony Korine – Insurgentes (prog rock)