The Brave Picks Top 30 Of 2009 countdown continues! Each day in December we will deliver one of the essential records of the year - as voted by the scribes here at BraveWords.com. We have entered the Top Three!

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#3 - NAPALM DEATH - Time Waits For No Slave (Century Media)

BraveWords.com scribe David Perri wrote in his review: "I’ll go out on a limb and say it (and I’m not the first to make this proclamation): Time Waits For No Slave is Napalm Death’s best record. Moreover, the fact that Napalm Death is releasing an album this impressive in 2009 is an incredible feat given that the band is now two decades into its career; as it stands, Napalm Death is now a more focused institution than ever before. Beginning with ‘01’s Enemy Of The Music Business, Napalm Death has been in career resurgence mode but the group’s two previous efforts - The Code Is Red… Long Live The Code and Smear Campaign - have especially solidified Napalm’s upward trajectory, much to its fanbase’s delight (and relief)."

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BraveWords.com - Brave Picks Top 30 Of 2009

#30 - DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT - Addicted (InsideOut)

#29 - GOD DETHRONED - Passiondale (Metal Blade)

#28 - KISS - Sonic Boom (Kiss Records/ Walmart)

#27 - GORGOROTH - Quantos Possunt Ad Satanitatem Trahunt (Regain)

#26 - CHEAP TRICK - The Latest (Cheap Trick)

#25 - EX DEO - Romulus (Nuclear Blast)

#24 - SWALLOW THE SUN – New Moon (Spinefarm)

#23 - KATATONIA - Night Is The New Day (Peaceville)

#22 - KREATOR - Hordes of Chaos (Steamhammer)

#21 - ASPHYX - Death... The Brutal Way (Century Media)

#20 - GOATWHORE - Carving Out The Eyes Of God (Metal Blade)

#19 - VADER – Necropolis (Nuclear Blast)

#18 - CHICKENFOOT – Chickenfoot (Redline)

#17 - BRUTAL TRUTH - Evolution Through Revolution (Relapse)

#16 - CANNIBAL CORPSE – Evisceration Plague (Metal Blade)

#15 - MASTODON - Crack The Skye (Warner)

#14 - PORCUPINE TREE – The Incident (Roadrunner)

#13 - CANDLEMASS - Death Magic Doom (Nuclear Blast)

#12 - AMORPHIS – Skyforger (Nuclear Blast)

#11 - SACRIFICE – The Ones I Condemn (Sonic Unyon)

#10 - VOIVOD – Infini (Sonic Unyon/Relapse)

#9 - HEAVEN AND HELL – The Devil You Know (Rhino)

#8 - ALICE IN CHAINS – Black Gives Way To Blue (Virgin)

#7 - NILE – Those Whom The Gods Detest (Nuclear Blast)

#6 - HYPOCRISY – A Taste Of Extreme Divinity (Nuclear Blast)

#5 - BEHEMOTH - Evangelion (Metal Blade)

#4 - SLAYER - World Painted Blood (Sony)

#3 - NAPALM DEATH - Time Waits For No Slave (Century Media)