2009's Best "Epic" Songs

These are my favorite songs of over nine minutes in length from 2009 studio releases:

1. "Incubus" - THE BOX - (20/20) = 10.0

2. "Kana" (9:03) - PROGHMA-C - (20/20) = 10.0

3. "Excerpt from 6,000,000,000,000 Miles Before the First, or, the Revisitation of the Blue Ghost" - MAUDLIN OF THE WELL - (20/20) = 10.0

4. "Laboratories of the Invisible World (Rollerskating the Cosmic Palmistric Postborder)" - MAUDLIN OF THE WELL - (20/20) = 10.0

5. "Vapour Trail" - SYLVAN - (30/30) = 10.0

6. "Summer Fall" - AISLES - (19.5/30) = 9.75

7. "Naan" (8:57) - PROGHMA-C - (19.25/20) = 9.625

8. "Sovrano dell-illusione" (Parts 1 & 2) - MAD CRAYON - (33.5/35) = 9.57

9. "Tick Tock" (22:24) - GAZPACHO - (43/45) = 9.56

10. "Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré II" - MAGMA - (42.75/45) = 9.5

11. "Abigails Questions (in An Infinite Universe)" (9:49) - BEARDFISH - (19/20) = 9.5

12. "Serenity in a Nutshell" - CIRRUS BAY - (28.5/30) = 9.5

13. "The Maiden" - AISLES - (19/20) = 9.5

14. "Ryker Skies" - IQ - (19/20) = 9.5

15. "Deadman" -  KARNIVOOL - (23.5/25) = 9.4

16. "Coup de grâce" - BEARDFISH - (18.75/20) = 9.375 

17. "Spiralling to Another" - PROGHMA-C - (18.75/20) = 9.375 

18. "Jack the Ripper" - PRESENT - (27.5/30) = 9.1667

19. "Zenobia" (16:47) - CIRRUS BAY - (32/35) = 9.143

20. "Thoughts Are Swimming in My Head" (Parts 1 & 2) - SHAMALL - (18.25/20) = 9.125

21. "Simurgh" (13:09) - KOTEBEL - (22.75/25) = 9.10

Other Very Good Songs:

"Disaffected and Abused" (17:38) - ANUBIS - (31.5/35) = 9.0

"Fading" - ARCANE - (22.5/25) = (9.0) 

"Hawaii" (15:00) - AISLES - (27/30) = 9.0

"Ouroboros" (16:07) - KOTEBEL - (27/30) = 9.0

"Until You Comply/entropy" (15:21) - BEARDFISH - (27/30) = 9.0

"Perpetual Twilight" - iNFiNiEN - (18/20) = 9.0

"Pure as Snow (Trails of the Winter Storm)" (11:26) - MONO - (18/20) = 9.0

"Change" - KARNIVOOL - (18/20) = 9.0

"Re schiavo" (Parts 1 & 2) - MAD CRAYON - (18/20) = 9.0

"Kahden Kuun Sirpit" (22:50) - VIIMA - (40.25/45) = 8.9444 

"The Collapse" - ANUBIS - (22.25/25) = 8.9

"The Underfall Yard" - BIG BIG TRAIN - (40/45) = 8.889

"The Stuff That Dreams Are Made of" (10:40) - BEARDFISH - (17.75/20) = 8.875

"Deliverance" - THE BLACK NOODLE PROJECT - (17.75/20) = 8.875

"Can't Feel the Earth, (Part II)" - IZZ - (17.75/20) = 8.875

"Sorterargatan 3" - GÖSTA BERLINGS SAGA - (17.75/20) = 8.875

"Dopo il vento" - DELIRIUM - (17.75/20) = 8.875

"Bond of Mutual Distrust" - ANUBIS - (17.75/20) = 8.875

"Imperial Winter Wine" - WOBBLER - (26.5/30) = 8.833

"A Last Drop" - PRESENT - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"Pure as Snow (Trails of the Winter Storm)" - MONO - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"La Roche (Meeting Point)" - MIRIODOR - (17.5/20) = 8.75 

"Harpsong" (19:19) - Judy Dyble - (35/40) = 8.75

"Västerbron 05:30" - GÖSTA BERLINGS SAGA - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"Sycamore" - CASPIAN - (17.5/20) = 8.75

"Asylum: Acolyte Zero" - ARCANE - (21.75/25) = 8.7

"Victorian Brickwork" (12:33) - BIG BIG TRAIN - (21.75/25) = 8.70

"In Taberna" - WOBBLER - (21.75/25) = 8.7

"Emëhntëhtt-Ré III" (13:08) - MAGMA - (21.75/25) = 8.7

Also considered:

"The Walk" (Parts I & II) (13:39) - GAZPACHO - (26/30) = 8.667

"Vertiges" - PRESENT - (26/30) = 8.667

"Mariachi" - AISLES - (17.33/20) = 8.667 

"Destined Solitaire" (10:53) - BEARDFISH - (17.25/20) = 8.625

"Those I Left Behind" - YVES POTIN - (17/20) = 8.5

"Knives of Summer" (10:20) - THE NERVE INSTITUTE - (17/20) = 8.5

"Mont St. Michel" (10:57) - THE BOX - (16.75/20) = 8.375 

"The Exposure of Truth" (9:23) - CIRRUS BAY - (16/20) = 8.0

*Bold print denotes songs that have risen into my pantheon of All-time favorite "epics."