Another choice from my top 25 of 06-09:

The Sword – Freya (2006)
“When is all done it must begin again”
Part of the opening guitar bit to “Freya” is known as a “chunk riff.”  I am not entirely sure what that means, but I prefer everything together in a chunk as opposed to a screeching mess that is all over the place like most metal music today.  Thank you, the Sword, for proving that you can still pull off old-school, Sabbath-style metal, with its tightly arranged solos, mythological references, and CLEARLY ENUNCIATED VOCALS.