So it's the end of the year, I guess it's time for an obligatory best of post

1. Alexisonfire- Old Crows, Young Cardinals
2. Evergreen Terrace- Almost Home
3. Break Even- The Bright Side
4. Templestowe- Cimmerian
5. Poison The Well- The Tropic Rot
6. I Exist- 3 Nails and A Book of Flaws
7. Polar Bear Club- Chasing Hamburg
8. Hopeless- Dear World
9. Mastodon- Crack The Skye
10. Hatebreed- For The Lions

Favourite shows, 2009

1. Midnight Oil- Royal Theatre, Canberra
2. Every Time I Die, Poison The Well, Evergreen Terrace- The Espy, Melbourne
3. Dillinger Escape Plan, ETID, PTW- The Forum, Sydney
4. Break Even, I Exist- Tuggeranong Youth Centre, Canberra
5. Propaghandi- SO36, Berlin
6. Bleeding Through, Between The Buried and Me- Albert Hall, Canberra
7. Misery Signals- TYC, Canberra
8. The Amity Affliction, We Are The Ocean, Hopeless- TYC, Canberra
9. Comeback Kid, Verse, Against- Albert Hall, Canberra
10. The Abandonment- Bar 32, Canberra