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Asice yearlists 2009

posted by: Pim on 24 December 2009

Another year is over, like Right Direction once said. Check out our yearlists for 2009!

David

Album Top 15
Mastodon - Crack The Skye
Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know
Obscura - Cosmogenesis
Slayer - World Painted Blood
Trapped Under Ice - Secrets Of The World
The Black Dahlia Murder - Deflorate
Maximum Penalty - Life And Times
Hatebreed - Hatebreed
Absu - Absu
Iron Age - The Sleeping Eye
Immortal - All Shall Fall
Earth Crisis - To The Death
New Morality - Fear Of Nothing
Strike Anywhere - Iron Front
Hypocrisy - A Taste Of Extreme Divinity

Best book
To Live Is To Die - The life and death of Metallica's Cliff Burton

Best DVD
Iron Maiden - Flight 666
Anvil - The Story Of Anvil

Best show
Madball, Discipline, Born From Pain, Strike First @ Innocent, Hengelo

The good
Our second son Simon was born, my freelance business is going better than ever (despite the economic crisis), my buddy Richard Theuws won the Zibb Business Challenge 2009 with a little help from the AsIce Business Club.

The bad and the ugly
Politics.
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Pim

Releases top 10 (in no particular order)

01. Maximum Penalty - Life And Times LP
02. Iron Age - The Sleeping Eye 2-LP
03. Blacklisted - No One Deserves To Be Here More Than Me LP
04. Pegasus - s/t 7"
05. Trapped Under Ice - Secrets Of The World LP
06. Rise And Fall - Our Circle Is Vicious LP
07. Nirvana - Bleach (deluxe) 2-LP
08. Doomriders - Darkness Come Alive LP
09. Prodigy - Invaders Must Die CD
10. State Of Mind - Mental Gold LP

Best Shows
Cro Mags @ Watt, Rotterdam (NL)
Iron Age @ Mol (Belgium)
Trash Talk @ Mol (Belgium)
Cold World weekend in Hamburg, Essen (Germany)
Deftones @ Paradiso, Amsterdam (NL)

And the trip we did in August through Europe was amazing too.

Best 7 inch/EP
Pegasus - s/t 7"

Best Song
Blacklisted - Our Apartment Is Always Empty

Best DVD
Nirvana - Live At Reading
Anvil - The Story Of Anvil

Best Zine
Ignorance Is Strength / Heat / Lifers / At Both Ends

LOOK ON THE BRIGHTSIDE...
+ All my friends and family being in good health.
+ Said And Done (Euro trip, "Feel It" EP, making plans for 2010)
+ The reactions to Some Will Never Know issue #1. Thanks!
+ Having a great time at work

IS SUICIDE...
- The Netherlands getting more ignorant and right winged with the minute
- Not being able to finish Some Will Never Know #2 this year
- Still only 24 hours in a day
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Maurice

Album top 15

1. Mastodon - Crack the Skye
2. Isis - Wavering Radiant
3. Buried Inside - Spoils of Failure
4. Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade
5. Pulling Teeth - Paranoid Delusions/Paradise Illusions
6. Keelhaul - Keelhaul's Triumphant Return to Obscurity
7. Shining - VI/Klagsopsalmer
8. A Place to Bury Strangers - Exploding Head
9. Thrice - Beggars
10. Coalesce - OX
11. Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Agorapocalypse
12. Kylesa - Static Tensions
13. Om - God is Good
14. Iron Age - The Sleeping Eye
15. Sunn 0))) - Monoliths & Dimensions

Best Shows
Roadburn 2009, 013, Tilburg
Mogwai, Effenaar, Eindhoven
Insect Warfare, Birmingham (UK)
Urfaust @ Garage, Oslo (No)
Trash Talk, JH Tydeeh, Mol (Belgium)
Fall of Efrafa, AZ, Aachen (Germany)
Horse the Band, Dynamo, Eindhoven

Best Demo
Hive Destruction - Teeth Of Silver, Teeth Of Gold

Best EP
Joyless/Urfaust split

Best Song
Isis - Ghost Key

Best DVD
British Sea Power - Man of Aran

Best Zine
Twisted Wrongs and Crooked Rights

Best Shirt
Urfaust drinking demons

LOOK ON THE BRIGHTSIDE...
Although only 'Crack the Skye' was a really outstanding album I've heard a lot of awesome albums this year. Five that didn't make it to my top 15 list:
16) City of Ships - Look What God Did to Us
17) Zombi - Spirit Animal
18) Rise and Fall - Our Circle is Vicious
19) Kickback - No Surrender
20) Bloody Panda - Summon

IS SUICIDE...
Not really bad things this year
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Bootsman

Album top 15
1 North Lincoln – Midwestern Blood
2 The Hex Dispensers – Winchester Mystery House
3 Dear Landlord – Dream Homes
4 Cobra Skulls – American Rubicon
5 Teenage Bottlerocket – They came from the shadows
6 Banner Pilot – Collapser
7 The Riverboat Gamblers – Underneath the owl
8 Over Stars and Gutters – Consider this your curse
9 Polar Bear Club – Chasing Hamburg
10 Idle Hands – Postponed
11 Government Warning – Paranoid Mess
12 Broadway Calls – Good views, bad news
13 The Marked Men - Ghosts
14 Jay Reatard - Watch Me Fall
15 Nothington – Roads, bridges and ruins

EP top 5
1 Make Do and Mend – Bodies of Water
2 Ringers- Hurry up and Wait
3 The Lawrence Arms – Buttsweat and Tears
4 Pinhead Gunpowder - s/t
5 Iron Chic – Shitty Rambo

Awesome shows
Government Warning – Mühlheim, The Riverboat Gamblers – Amsterdam, Criminal Damage – Amsterdam, US Bombs – Speedfest, New Bomb Turks – Speedfest, Cobra Skulls/Bangers – Arnhem, Idle Hands – Trashfest, Ramming Speed – Trashfest/Arnhem, Jay Reatard - Amsterdam, Milloy-Arnhem, Off With Their Heads - Arnhem/Berlin/Trashfest, Dopamines - Utrecht, Trashfest in general!

Punk Rock
+ My wife, my cats, my friends, punk rock, my job.
+ I had fun doing some shows.

Metalcore
- 50 years have passed since Buddy Holly died. We still miss you Buddy!
- Anthony and the Johnsons. What the fuck, people? WHAT THE FUCK?
- The new Dead To Me record.
- Indifference.
- Cancer.
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Wouter

Album Top 15
1 Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion
2 The XX: xx
3 Fuck Buttons: Tarot Sport
4 Woods: Songs Of Shame
5 Iron Age: The Sleeping Eye
6 The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
7 Cymbals Eat Guitars: Why There Are Mountains
8 jj: jj n° 2
9 Dinosaur JR.: Farm
10 White Denim: Fits
11 Kickback: No Surrender
12 Mos Def: The Ecstatic
13 Rise And Fall: Our Circle Is Vicious
14 Trapped Under Ice: Secrets Of The World
15 Japandroids: Post-Nothing

EPs
1 Title Fight: Kingston
2 Mindset: REALPOWER
3 ON
4 Gypsy: Relatively Distant

Best Zine
Heat

Memorable Shows
Fleet Foxes @ Paradiso
On @ Duisburg

Sunny Side
Getting a new job and not worrying about school for a while.

Darker Side
Being out of the loop in general.

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Nico

Releases top 15
1. ON 7"
2. Keep It Clear 7"
3. Mouthpiece LP
4. Cornered demo 7"/Cornered-Cold Snap split 7"
5. Commitment Crew 12"
6. Insurance Risk LP
7. No Friends LP
8. Mindset 7"
9. No Tolerance 7"
10. Give LP
11. Devotion LP
12. Alert 7"
13. Gone But Not Forgotten 7"
14. Over The Line 7”
15. Earth Crisis LP

Good Shows
Justice @ Essen (DE)
Biohazard @ Eindhoven (NL)
New Bomb Turks @ Eindhoven (NL)
ON/Common Cause @ Duisburg (DE)

Best Zine
Ignorance Is Strength

Best Song
Peter Fox - Haus Am See

DC REVOLUTION SUMMER
The right side of the tracks

FASHIONEMOCORE
The wrong side of the tracks

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Maarten

Releases top 15
1) He Is Legend - It Hates You
2) Killswitch Engage - Killswitch Engage
3) Mastodon - Crack The Skye
4) Sights & Sounds - Monolith
5) Thrice - Beggars
6) Doomriders - Darkness Come Alive
7) Converge - Axe To Fall
8) Throwdown - Deathless
9) Baroness - Blue Album
10) Kylesa - Static Tensions
11) And So I Watch You From Afar - And So I Watch You From Afar
12) Doves - Kingdom Of Rust
13) Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
14) Thursday - Common Existence
15) Alexisonfire - Old Crows / Young Cardinals

Best Shows
Faith No More @ Pukkelpop
Killswitch Engage @ Trix Antwerp
The Haunted @ AB Brussels
Thursday @ Groezrock

Best Song
Mumford & Sons - Little Lion Man
Absynthe Minded - Envoi

Laughter...
Becoming Godfather and uncle, securing my job and getting more responsability. Growing with my bands.

And a tear
Losing some very important people in my life.
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Joost

Releases
01. The Hotlines - The Hotlines
02. NOFX - Coaster
03. Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
04. Johan - 4
05. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
06. Yusuf - Roadsinger
07. The Casting Out - Go Crazy! Throw Fireworks!
08. Pansy Division - That's So Gay
09. Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You
10. Propagandhi - Supporting Caste

Shows
Paul McCartney @ GelreDome
Brian Wilson @ Paradiso
NOFX @ Groezrock
True Colors @ Groezrock
No Use For A Name @ Effenaar

+
My new place.
Holiday in Jordan.

-
Death of my grandmother.
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Lucas

Releases
1. Pissed Jeans - King of Jeans
2. Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
3. Kickback - No Surrender
4. The Mongoloids - Assorted Music
5. Alela Diane - To Be Still
6. Rise and Fall - Our Circle is Vicious
7. Pulling Teeth - Paradise Illusions | Paranoid Delusions
8. Mastodon - Crack the Skye
9. Maximum Penalty - Life and Times
10. Converge - Axe to Fall
11. Paint it Black - Amnesia + Surrender 7"es
12. Baroness - Blue Album
13. Major Lazer - Guns Don't Kill People, Lazers Do
14. Trapped Under Ice - Secrets of the World
15. William Elliott Whitmore - Animals in the Dark

But I didn't give some records that were released in 2009 the fair chance they deserve:
- the xx
- Propagandhi
- Bon Iver
- Wolves in the Throne Room
- Bowerbirds
- Immortal
- Mos Def
- Amanda Blank
- A Place to Bury Strangers
- Avett Brothers
- Vic Chesnutt
- True Colors
- DOOM
- Raekwon
...

Best shows:
Terror & Trapped Under Ice (Leeuwarden & Haarlem), Cock Sparrer (Amsterdam)

Best single
Fired Up - Doomed to Repeat

Best DVD:
The Story of Anvil

The Good:
Summer, the girl, friends & trips

The Bad and Ugly:
I still haven't found the job I want
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Daniel

Releases top 10 (in no particular order)

01. Maximum Penalty - Life And Times
02. Kiss-Sonic Boom
03. Olde York-Empire State
04. Kickback- No surrender
05. Wisdom in Chains - Everything you know
06. Apers-You are only strong as the table you dance on
07. Skarhead - Drugs Music Sex
08. State Of Mind - Mental Gold
09. Blacrok- Blacrok
10. Steel Panther-Feel the Steel

Best Shows
Cro Mags @ Watt, Rotterdam (NL)
Limpwrist @ Occii Amsterdam
Slapshot @ Kelder, Amersfoort
WOJ without Candance @ Kelder, Amersfoort

Best Demo
Cornered

Best 7 inch/EP
-CORNERED / COLD SNAP Split 7"
-Youth crew 2009 7"

Best Song
'Chasing the dragon' - Wisdom In Chains

Best DVD
Anvil - The Story Of Anvil

Best Zine
Twisted wrongs and crooked rights

Sunny side
- New house
- Nice people I met
- 2010 revival of the youth crew

Dark side
Too many people have passed away

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T.Hoebers

Posted on 24.12.2009 (18:32)

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komop Pim die blacklisted plaat?

Paddo

Posted on 24.12.2009 (18:45)

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@Maarten

11) And So I Watch You From Afar - And So I Watch You From Afar
Eindelijk iemand die deze band ook kent. Geniale plaat, staat ook in mijn jaarlijst, alleen dan wat hoger
14) Thursday - Common Existence
Deze is alweer uit 2008. Time Flies!

Pim

Posted on 24.12.2009 (21:08)