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 Ten!

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

Says BraveWords.com scribe David Perri:

"It’s not like this record does anything revolutionary but, Jesus, has Peter ever captured exactly what makes Hypocrisy itself. After contemplating his love for SLIPKNOT on ’02’s Catch 22 and then trying to regain his metal cred with The Arrival and Virus (but who are we kidding, could Peter Tägtgren possibly not possess credibility in our circles?) Peter has written an album that is both timeless and stunning, one that is an amalgamation of what made both Stockholm death and Gothenburg melodic death so legendary and an effort that could have easily been released in 1992 to genre-shifting appreciation."

Read the entire review here

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)