Except for the songs that made my Top 20 Songs of 2009, these are the rest of the best metal tracks of 2009. To be eligible, a song needed to be included on an album released in the United States between December 1, 2008 and November 30, 2009.

1. 3 Inches of Blood “Battles and Brotherhood” Here Waits Thy Doom (Century Media)

2. Heaven & Hell “Double the Pain” The Devil You Know (Rhino)

3. The Decemberists “The Queen’s Rebuke/The Crossing” The Hazards of Love (Capitol)

4. Wolfmother “10,000 Feet” Cosmic Egg (Interscope)

5. Mastodon “The Czar” Crack the Skye (Reprise)

6. CKY “Imaginary Threats” Carver City (Roadrunner)

7. Wolfmother “California Queen” Cosmic Egg (Interscope)

8. Wolfmother “New Moon Rising” Cosmic Egg (Interscope)

9. Red Jumpsuit Apparatus “You Better Pray” Lonely Road (Virgin)

10. Megadeth “Bodies” Endgame (Roadrunner)

11. Slayer “Unit 731” World Painted Blood (American)

12. Slayer “World Painted Blood” World Painted Blood (American)

13. Heaven & Hell “Eating the Cannibals” The Devil You Know (Rhino)

14. CKY “Plagued By Images” Carver City (Roadrunner)