OK, the Musicfolio listing was a lot of fun but, for me, this a more serious and focussed look at the year in Industrial music. Although there is some crossover, this one makes for a really awesome listen! Again, I've included the 'best of the rest' from the end of the article:
Well, in the absence of melodicrock.com's listing for 2009, here is last year's Album of the Year playlist. Honorable Mentions are included. Will probably do the rest of their 2008 Awards later this week.
'Twixt gallons of coffee and oceans of beer, I have found the time and inclination to put together playlists for Metal Storm's 'Best albums by genre' awards. Spotify's coverage of some of these genres is woeful, to say the least (Grindcore and Extreme Doom especially so) but that's to be expected with underground independent metal at this stage. 