As a new year dawns, those who truly love music beginning looking up what they have to look forward to this year. So here is a tentative list of extreme metal music I'm looking forward to in 2009:

RELEASED

Cannibal Corpse – “Evisceration Plague” (Old School Death Metal)
Dimension Zero - “He Who Shall Not Bleed” (Swedish Melodic Death Metal)

UPCOMING

Lamb of God – “Wrath” (Feb. 24th) (American Metal)
Daath – “The Concealers” (Apr. 21st) (Groovy Death Metal)
Chthonic – “Mirror of Retribution” (April) (Symphonic Black Metal)
Old Man's Child – TBA (Early 2009) (Symphonic Black Metal)
Eluveitie - “Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion” (TBA) (Folk Metal)

ANNOUNCED

Behemoth – TBA (Blackened Death Metal)
Dark Funeral – TBA (Black Metal)
Dark Tranquillity – TBA (Melodic Death Metal)
Devil Driver – TBA (Groove/Thrash Metal)
Impious – TBA (Swedish Melodic Death Metal)

If there are any more obvious Extreme Metal releases this year, contact me! Not only would I love to know, I'd like to expand this list.