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 Five!

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#2 - IMMORTAL – All Shall Fall (Nuclear Blast)

Says BraveWords.com scribe David Perri: "These ears have never understood why bands break up in their prime only to reunite a mere several years later: it’s always just struck as an absurd waste of hard-earned momentum. Then again, the anticipation that surrounds the reunion record is usually feverish in pitch, and you can’t buy that sort of hype… can all those in-their-prime flame-outs just be wry marketing moves? That thought aside, Immortal’s comeback album All Shall Fall is a triumph of both resolve and winter, Immortal icing together what is one of its top moments (no small feat given the magnitude of All Shall Fall’s direct predecessor, ‘02’s record of the year Sons Of Northern Darkness) and an album that is, amazingly, the sum total of all of Immortal’s component catalogue parts."

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)

#5 - BEHEMOTH - Evangelion (Metal Blade)

#4 - SLAYER - World Painted Blood (Sony)

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

#2 - IMMORTAL – All Shall Fall (Nuclear Blast)