Best Metalcore Albums Of 2009 RANKED
We’re wrapping up the 2000s metalcore albums ranking series with 2009! From genre-defining classics like Constellations, Homesick, Hollow Crown, and Axe to Fall to underrated gems from Within the Ruins, Stray From The Path, The Number Twelve Looks Like You, and Burnt By The Sun, I’m ranking every major metalcore album released in 2009 from Okay all the way to Perfection. #metalcore @augustburnsred @POISONTHEWELLOFFICIAL @darkesthourdudes @BTBAMofficial @TheNumber12LooksLikeYou @wearearchitects @adaytoremember @ConvergeOfficial
00:00 August Burns Red – Constellations
00:53 Bury Your Dead – It’s Nothing Personal
01:14 Vanna – A New Hope
01:37 The Devil Wears Prada – With Roots Above and Branches Below
02:04 Hatebreed – Hatebreed
02:30 Narrows – New Distances
03:00 Poison The Well – The Tropic Rot
04:07 Shadows Fall – Retribution
04:36 The Agonist – Lullabies for the Dormant Mind
05:02 Oh, Sleeper – Son of the Morning
05:24 Bury Tomorrow – Portraits
05:48 Blessthefall – Witness
06:21 Darkest Hour – The Eternal Return
06:53 Adept – Another Year of Disaster
07:23 Memphis May Fire – Sleepwalking
07:58 It Dies Today – Lividity
08:24 Between the Buried and Me – The Great Misdirect
08:53 I See Stars – 3-D
09:23 The Number Twelve Looks Like You – Worse Than Alone
09:57 Burnt By The Sun – Heart of Darkness
10:20 We Came As Romans – To Plant a Seed
11:00 Coalesce – Ox
11:26 Dead By April – Dead By April
11:49 Drop Dead, Gorgeous – The Hot N’ Heavy
12:17 A Day To Remember – Homesick
13:10 iwrestledabearonce – It’s All Happening
13:51 The Autumn Offering – Requiem
14:10 Within The Ruins – Creature
14:44 Breakdown of Sanity – The Last Sunset
15:11 God Forbid – Earthsblood
15:36 Architects – Hollow Crown
16:10 Atreyu – Congregation of the Damned
16:41 The Sorrow – Origin of the Storm
17:05 In Fear and Faith – Your World on Fire
17:31 Evergreen Terrace – Almost Home
17:57 Caliban – Say Hello to Tragedy
18:27 Stray From The Path – Make Your Own History
19:04 Miss May I – Apologies Are for the Weak
19:35 Texas in July – I Am
19:57 Zao – Awake?
20:29 For Today – Portraits
20:59 The Chariot – Wars and Rumors of Wars
21:35 The Armed – These Are Lights
22:09 For the Fallen Dreams – Relentless
22:35 Earth Crisis – To the Death
22:59 Killswitch Engage – Killswitch Engage
23:32 Gwen Stacy – A Dialogue
23:57 Asking Alexandria – Stand Up and Scream
24:32 Honorable Mentions
24:58 Converge – Axe to Fall
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@MetalTrenches
August 18, 2026 at 1:46 pm
I'm not sure how it happened as I cross-referenced so many lists including my own, maybe I just deleted it off somehow, but regardless I hate myself for omitting Every Time I Die – New Junk Aesthetic as it is one of my favorites in their discography and ABSOLUTELY belongs at Perfection.
@QatTaq-v2v
August 18, 2026 at 1:46 pm
Architects, BTBAM, Converge, #12, iwabo. but no The Arusha Accord – The Echo Verses??
@sharkman3318
August 18, 2026 at 1:46 pm
I had hopes for Deadbeat Nightlife self titled to be here, amazing album imo.
I hope Greeley Estates will be in the 2010 one.
@QatTaq-v2v
August 18, 2026 at 1:46 pm
Man, wtf?! Where is The Eyes of a Traitor – A Clear Perception (2009)???
@twoquestionmarks
August 18, 2026 at 1:46 pm
'It Prevails – Capture and Embrace' and 'Confession – Cancer' should have been on this list
@paradoxrift2600
August 18, 2026 at 1:46 pm
Degradead is such a stupid band name lol, doesn't even fit the music
Also, The Crimson Armada's debut Guardians came out in '09 and is a great disc, though kind of on the metalcore/deathcore fringe
@BigDawg8907
August 18, 2026 at 1:46 pm
What a year. Vanna, The Devil Wears Prada, Oh, Sleeper, and Architects would be my favorites off this list
@matthew.1372
August 18, 2026 at 1:46 pm
I always found it ironic that the final track on that Killswitch Engage album is called "This Is Goodbye" and it was Howard Jones's last album as the frontman.
@coilfan09
August 18, 2026 at 1:46 pm
Lot of these I have never got around to of what I have I’d say
S- The Agonist, Converge, ADTR, Atreyu
A- Hatebreed, KSE, Shadows Fall
B- You and me at six , devil wears Prada
C- Architects, Stray from the path
D- Poison the Well
F- August Burns Red, BTBAM
Thanks for taking the time to do these videos always so much fun
@noahstottlemyer483
August 18, 2026 at 1:46 pm
Taking me back to my high school music rotation, holy hell! 🤘🤘
@Outward777
August 18, 2026 at 1:46 pm
Bro! Worse Than Alone is so fucking good!! They peaked at that album.
@VinMetal666
August 18, 2026 at 1:46 pm
These videos are great because they take me back to being a teenager hanging out at Peabody's and seeing all sorts of random metalcore and deathcore bands.
@embertheraccoon37
August 18, 2026 at 1:46 pm
13:22 YESSSSSS, that is the best album, MY MAN. Wish Spiritbox got that riffy and technical, because oh boy the instrumentation on those songs are AMAZING.
@Matty_Highland_1992
August 18, 2026 at 1:46 pm
2009 & 2013 will probably go down as the 2 single greatest years of metalcore, of all time.
With that being said…
With Roots Above at "Amazing" tier is way too low.
@sorenvanaheim776
August 18, 2026 at 1:46 pm
I think Oh, Sleeper and Blessthefall were my favourites here, probably with August Burns Red next.
@blanana_m
August 18, 2026 at 1:46 pm
Where is Admiral Angry
@xxlycanrocxx4273
August 18, 2026 at 1:46 pm
Do you have a link to this list to make my own?
@RainBloodReviews
August 18, 2026 at 1:46 pm
I appreciate your take on Dead By April, but their poppy sense is the charm of them in my opinion. Always a great watch!
@SludgeMetalCreature
August 18, 2026 at 1:46 pm
Love these videos! Always look forward to them 🙂
@Jorgetime
August 18, 2026 at 1:46 pm
Kickback and Gaza deserved to be included, so much better than the mid-core bands like Texas in July and For Today. But not a super strong year, obvious pick goes to Converge, Axe To Fall might just be their best.
@gavintshepho9606
August 18, 2026 at 1:46 pm
Can we get a video on the downfall of metalcore bands like it terms of album sounds or direction
@pastromer8552
August 18, 2026 at 1:46 pm
bro has listened to every metal album ever
@jackcravford8744
August 18, 2026 at 1:46 pm
So no mention of New Junk Aesthetics from Every Time I Die?
@oldschooldeathmetal8417
August 18, 2026 at 1:46 pm
Yeah this year was not the best for the genre
@personavisceration371
August 18, 2026 at 1:46 pm
For this year, I would've added Lye by Mistake and their album 'Fea Jur'. Whe you do 2010, please don't forget Morser; you've snubbed their 90's and 2000 material. Super underrated, especially from someone who doesn't like much metalcore.
@BornToRant
August 18, 2026 at 1:46 pm
We have the exact same take on that Zao record 😂
Also I love hearing you talk about Narrows! I grew up in the PNW and got to see them several times, they were always so good
@tamamakiiti587
August 18, 2026 at 1:46 pm
you're the man for these videos trenches, i love this so much. This is the year of my favourite Architects album, Hollow Crown is so pissed off and heavy i love it so much. This Gwen Stacy album is a hidden gem to me and a classic to me and my mates. Coalesce returning in fine form with Ox in the same year as The Tropic Rot had that older style still kicking and then the big singalongs of TDWP and WCAR, just so much to look back on and enjoy all over again
@kellendobmeier9876
August 18, 2026 at 1:46 pm
"Your mind is the mountain before you!"
The Oh, Sleeper album is probably my favorite from this bunch.
@0hrwurms
August 18, 2026 at 1:46 pm
This is really where the drop off happens. Some of my favourite bands of this era dropped some real stinkers, no surprise this is when deathcore really took over.
@BelminHxC
August 18, 2026 at 1:46 pm
Burden of a day mention!❤
@neolbioldey
August 18, 2026 at 1:46 pm
Iwrestledabearonce were always very underappreciated to me. Everybody seemed to write them off as the typical "sceney" band like Attack Attack! and I Set My Friends on Fire but they did some genuinely unique and weird stuff that nobody else was doing at the time.
@chrissiebeneck3294
August 18, 2026 at 1:46 pm
I thought i knew the hallmarks of what Metal Core were. But seeing Between The Buried And Me and Burnt By The Sun on this list, I have to ask, what elements place a band in Metal Core?
@reesejohnson8421
August 18, 2026 at 1:46 pm
Holy shit! Some Hail Mary love! Everybody always looks at me like I'm nuts when I say that's my favorite album.
@301films2
August 18, 2026 at 1:46 pm
Absolutely love these videos, all of these give me a lot to listen to and check out.
@eyelovepain-
August 18, 2026 at 1:46 pm
Other albums that deserve a shout out :
The empire shall fall “Awaken” (Jesse Leach)
As silence breaks “As silence breaks”
Steryle “foreshadowing yesterday”
Forever in terror “the end”
Confession “cancer”
Maroon “order”
@reesejohnson8421
August 18, 2026 at 1:46 pm
I will forever hype these videos.
@chrisb-br5nx
August 18, 2026 at 1:46 pm
This was an awesome series. I found a lot of lesser-known bands that I did not know about during this time. From this particular list bands that I really did not previously know about that I’m interested to check out, the sorrow, vana also I am glad to see Barry tomorrow’s first album back on streaming because I had never heard it until last month and personally I think it’s their best
@JasonNugent-l3n
August 18, 2026 at 1:46 pm
You’re missing The Color Morale “We All Have Demons”. Great album that’s heavily influenced by Misery Signals
@wheelsofmercury
August 18, 2026 at 1:46 pm
I keep forgetting that The Armed are THAT old of a band! Also, I knew you weren't going to be a fan of Stand Up and Scream.
@4kcris4567
August 18, 2026 at 1:46 pm
A year of tons of great music.
@Gatesofares
August 18, 2026 at 1:46 pm
Congratulations on making it to the end and also the tropic rot from poison the well is my favorite from this year followed by converge also thank you for not putting killswitch engage album at the bottom I really appreciate that
@wheelsofmercury
August 18, 2026 at 1:46 pm
2009 was around the time I really started getting into Killswitch Engage with the release of their (then-new) second self-titled. Used to have a physical copy of it on CD I got from my resource teacher in high school until it got stolen… and I've never replaced it. As for the album itself, it's pretty underrated.
@Gabagool83
August 18, 2026 at 1:46 pm
Probably my least favorite year of the series. I really feel this is when the genre took a big dip…
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