2008 Albums

[Kitiini]

I haven't bought that much new albums this year but mostly the ones I have bought have been more or less dissapointing, for example Watershed. I think the Swallow the Suns new Ep is great but still not good enough for listening it again and again. Moonsorrow's Tulimyrsky is definately really good, probably the best this year. Can't think anything else right now

 

[OminousInane]

So you're saying Cruelty and the beast was bad?
Why are they schmukzz now?

Dani has always been the way he has. Always been schmuckzzy..nothing has changed really...except for the constant line-up change that is..but that's just good now and then. At least on this album.

Btw Ominousinane, do you really feel personality is important to like when it comes to music? Or maybe you didn't mean on a personal level? If so, what did you mean?

Don't you love a lot of questions?

I'm referring to schmuks in the music they make, not their personalities. CATB is a pretty good record but DAHE is the best they ever did. They're horrid now imo.

 

[Katatonic89]

New list, top 10 releases this year:

1. Steven Wilson - Insurgentes (9/10)
2. Opeth - Watershed (9/10)
3. Cynic - Traced In Air (8/10)
4. Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery + Unblessing The Purity (8/10)
5. Cult Of Luna - Eternal Kingdom (8/10)
6. Ikuinen Kaamos - Closure EP (fucking Descent Productions...) (7.5/10)
7. Nine Inch Nails - The Slip (7/10)
8. Opeth - The Roundhouse Tapes DVD (7/10)
9. Daylight Dies - Lost To The Living (6.5/10)
10. Moonspell - Night Eternal (6/10)

 

[MadTinus]

(fucking Descent Productions...)

What about them?

 

[Katatonic89]

What about them?

November has passed...Sadly, we have to inform that Descent Productions can't release our album due to financial difficulties. It's been over a year since we finished the recording and we are fed up with this waiting. It's not fair to us and it certainly isn't fair to our fans. So as a resolution, we decided to release three songs from the album as a free downloadable EP titled "Closure". You can download the songs (320kbps) from the links below.

We would like thank everyone for their patience and support. Hopefully we can now move forward. At the moment we are rehearsing some new songs and we are planning to enter the studio next summer. We will also rerecord the three unreleased songs from the "Epilogue" for the upcoming album. And no, Descent Productions will not release that album.

I had been looking forward to that release.

 

[MadTinus]

Oh, I didn't realize that. They don't seem to have problems with other releases, the Gorath album was released without much delay it seemed.. But yeah, must be really annoying for a band..

 

[the-great-cold-distance]

Yeah, same with an Aussie band I know called Be'lakor, they just left Descent as well. Such a shame, that Ikuinen Kaamos was going to be album of the year hands down!

 

[L0bster]

I can't imagine I did

There was a very positive post, in which 'My Apocalypse' "Wouldnt have been out of place on Kill 'em All" as well as some other song being thumbed up. That's just one song tho, so I'm not here to prove anything, I do believe u didnt like the full experience that is Death Magnetic, who would.

 

[L0bster]

Hmmm...
Warrel Dane, Enslaved, Pendulum, Opeth, Satyricon, Gojira, Steven Wilson, Meshuggah - did not yet check out Nick Cave or Portishead.

Best one to me would be Vertabrae, eventho I'm still sorta diggin into it.

 

[MadTinus]

There was a very positive post, in which 'My Apocalypse' "Wouldnt have been out of place on Kill 'em All" as well as some other song being thumbed up. That's just one song tho, so I'm not here to prove anything, I do believe u didnt like the full experience that is Death Magnetic, who would.

Listen to "My Apocalypse": www.metallica.com/index.asp?item=601136

I was pretty surprised, this song would not have looked out of place on Kill 'em All!

Just said I was surprised, not whether that was positive or negative I was surprised about the intensity and 'metalness' of the song.

I might have said something about "The Day that Never Comes" or "All Nightmare Long", they have some nice parts, but nothing that keeps me coming back to them, far from it.

 

[stefan86]

"The Day That Never Comes" was decent except the vocals, but still not better than the best songs on Load to me. Nevermore must make a new album soon for my untr00 metal needs!

 

[griev0r]

Wow I just checked out God is an Astronaut and am blown away. I love post rock but somehow I've heard of them but never took the time to listen to them Thanks for reminding me to, its great shit! I really need some new music I've been listening to the same shit for a long time now. Maybe some of you can check out my last fm and tell me some recommendations?

 

[M3]

Wow I just checked out God is an Astronaut and am blown away. I love post rock but somehow I've heard of them but never took the time to listen to them Thanks for reminding me to, its great shit! I really need some new music I've been listening to the same shit for a long time now. Maybe some of you can check out my last fm and tell me some recommendations?

Glad you like God Is An Astronaut. If you like post-rock, you might want to check out the American Dollar. They released their third album, A Memory Stream, this year. Also recommended are their first two albums: The American Dollar and The Technicolour Sleep (my personal favorite). Also, check out Hammock's Raising Your Voice... Trying To Stop An Echo -- it's truly a phenomenal album.

 

[MiniMoose]

I'm referring to schmuks in the music they make, not their personalities. CATB is a pretty good record but DAHE is the best they ever did. They're horrid now imo.

I thought their last album was horrid, but the new one is probably just as good as DAHE and CATB..with the exception of 2 songs which I'm still not sure about yet. The album is also inspired by CATB btw..only that I feel it sounds more like DAHE if anything. So, you should check it out before you hate it too much. Sweetest Maleficia is a good song to start with.

 

[Hypnos]

Glad you like God Is An Astronaut. If you like post-rock, you might want to check out the American Dollar. They released their third album, A Memory Stream, this year. Also recommended are their first two albums: The American Dollar and The Technicolour Sleep (my personal favorite). Also, check out Hammock's Raising Your Voice... Trying To Stop An Echo -- it's truly a phenomenal album.

i highly recommend Kafabindünya from Turkey and Rosetta from USA, especially their last year's 'Wake/Lift' album

 

[Soundjunkie]

well the year is just about done so i guess my final list of 08.

1. The Grates - Teeth Lost, Hearts Won.
2. Mehuggah - obZen
3. Protest The Hero - Fortress
4. The Haunted - Versus
5. Cynic - Traced in Air
6. M83 - Saturdays=Youth
7. Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I-IV
8. Russian Circles - Station
9. Opeth - Watershed
10. Agalloch - The White (EP)

really hard to list those in a top 10 but i guess that works.
Love the shit out of that Grates record. its puts a smile on your face.
The meshuggah, Protest and Haunted records are all interchangeable i guess. they are all extremely solid releases from great bands.
I only heard this new cynic record recently and was just blown away. the only negative is its so short.
M83s album still holds up well and is just full of 80s energy.
Ghosts was the better NIN release this year. it just covers so much ground with its 36 instrumentals.
great steps forward for Russian circles and opeth.
The white EP is such an amazing folk infused creation. powerful atmosphere.

there was some other good releases but i felt they were just missing something. such as.

Steven Wilson - Insurgentes
Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery
Boris - Smile
Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
Mogwai - The Hawk is Howling
Textures - Silhouettes
etc.

i think that's about it. on to 09.

 

[Clayman77]

Anathema - Hindsight
Cult of Luna - Eternal Kingdom
Daylight Dies - Lost to Living
Forest of Shadows - Six Waves of Woe
In Flames - Sense of Purpose
Metallica - Death Magnetic
Moonspell - Night Eternal
Opeth - Watershed
Swallow the Sun - Plague of Butterflies
Unearth - The March

 

[InsaneKat]

Black Stone Cherry - Folklore and Superstition
Cog - Sharing Space
Gavin Rossdale - Wanderlust
The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath
No-Man - Schoolyard Ghosts
Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
Opeth - Watershed
Pineapple Thief - Tightly Unwound
Steven Wilson - Insurgentes

 

[Fredy_Brown]

Happy new year!
It's over and here's my best of 2008 music list. I took this task very seriously, yet I am sure I'll discover many great 2008 releases in upcoming months and years. Hope you'll like my suggestions. Feedback is welcome.
I wish you all the best. Take care.
Sincerely Fredy Brown
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Personal top 100 in alphabetical order:

A-fei - Nymphéas (2008)
Ah Cama-Sotz - Declaration of Innocence (2008)
Aidan Baker & Tim Hecker - Fantasma Parastasie (2008)
Akira Kosemura - Tiny Musical (2008)
Alexander Turnquist - Faint at the Loudest Hour (2008)
Alva Noto - Unitxt (2008)
Anders Ilar - Sworn (2008)
Balmorhea - River Arms (2008)
Basquiat Strings - Basquiat Strings With Seb Rochford (2008)
Benga - Diary Of An Afro Warrior (2008)
Bersarin Quartett - Bersarin Quartett (2008)
Blackfilm - Blackfilm (2008)
Bracken - Eno About The Need (2008)
Brael And Tokyo Bloodworm - Living Languages (2008)
Burning Star Core - Challenger (2008)
Celer - Discourses Of The Withered (2008)
Chris Abrahams and Mike Cooper - Oceanic Feeling Like (2008)
Christian Fennesz - Black Sea (2008)
Clark - Turning Dragon (2008)
Elliot Brood - Mountain Meadows (2008)
Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull (2008)
Equus - Eutheria (2008)
Empusae - The Hatred of Trees (2008)
Entia Non - Fold (2008)
Ensemble Economique - At The Foot Of Nameless Roads (2008)
Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale (2008)
Evan Marc & Steve Hillage - Dreamtime Submersible (2008)
Ez3kiel - Battlefield (2008)
Fabio Orsi & Valerio Cosi - We Could For Hours (2008)
Fjordne - The Last 3 Days Of Time (2008)
Flying Lotus - Los Engeles (2008)
Food For Animals - Belly (2008)
Geist - Apocalyptica (2008)
Geomatic - Blue Beam (2008)
Goldmund - The Malady of Elegance (2008)
Goro Watari - Hinode Tracks (2008)
Grails - Take Refuge in Clean Living (2008)
Hammock - Maybe They Will Sing For Us Tomorrow (2008)
Hauschka - Ferndorf (2008)
Helios - Caesura (2008)
Havoc Unit - H.IV+ [Hoarse Industrial Viremia] (2008)
Hecq - Night Falls (2008)
Horse Feathers - House With No Name (2008)
Irezumi - Endurance (2008)
Jacaszek - Treny (2008)
James Blackshaw - Litany of Echoes (2008)
Janek Schaefer - Alone at Last (2008)
Jasper TX - This Quiet Season/Black Sleep (2008)
Jerome Chassagnard - (F)Light (2008)
Joe Grimm - Brain Cloud (2008)
Jóhann Jóhannsson - Fordlândia (2008)
Juxta Phona & offthesky - !Escape Kit! (2008)
Kangding Ray - Automne Fold (2008)
Kasai Allstars - Congotronics 3 : In the 7th moon, the chief turned into a swimming fish... (2008)
Lil Wayne - Carter III (2008)
Machinefabriek - Dauw (2008)
Machinefabriek - Tapes Of The Day (2008)
Machinefabriek - Vloed
Machinefabriek & Freiband - Oahu (2008)
Marihiko Hara - Reflexion, Und Dann, Metamorphose (2008)
Merzbow - Dolphin Sonar (2008)
Merzbow & Richard Pinhas - Keio Line (2008)
Metaform - Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants (2008)
Nadja - Desire In Uneasiness (2008)
Natural Snow Buildings - The Dance Of The Moon And The Sun (2008)
Natural Snow Buildings - Slayer of the King of Hell (2008)
Peter Broderick - Float (2008)
Philip Jeck - Sand (2008)
Pocahaunted - Island Diamonds (2008)
Prolyphic & Reanimator - The Ugly Truth (2008)
Prurient - The Black Post Society(2008)
Rovo - Nuou (2008)
Ryoji Ikeda - Test Pattern (2008)
RZA - Digi Snacks (2008)
Sadistik - The Balancing Act (2008)
Shed - Shedding The Past (2008)
Sleepingdog - Polar Life (2008)
Stephan Mathieu - Radioland (2008)
Steve Reich - Daniel Variations (2008)
Steve Roach - Arc Of Passion (2008)
Steve Von Till - A Grave is A Grim Horse (2008)
Strand - Madrid 2 Los Angeles (2008)
Small Town Boredom - Autumn Might Have Hope (2008)
Spyweirdos / Floros Floridis / John Mourjopoulos - Epistrophy At Utopia (2008)
Strom Noir - Ylomejja (2008)
Sumner Mckane - What A Great Place To Be (2008)
Richard Skelton - Marking Time (2008)
Taiga Remains - Descend Form Ivory Cliffs (2008)
Taylor Deupree & Kenneth Kirschner - May (2008)
Terje Isungset - Ice Concerts (2008)
The Abbasi Brothers - Something Like Nostalgia (2008)
The Black Dog - Radio Scarecrow (2008)
The Fun Years - Baby, It's Cold Inside (2008)
The Sight Below - Glider (2008)
Totakeke - ELekatota - The Other Side Of The Tracks (2008)
Tzolk'in - Haab (2008)
Ulaan Khol - I (2008)
UpcDownCLeftCRightCABC+Start - Embers (2008)
Windy & Carl - Songs For The Broken Hearted (2008)
Xela - In Bocca al Lupo (Into the Mouth of the Wolf) (2008)

Awards:
Honorable mentions:
Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
(Not exatly my cup of tea, but this is quite original material.)

The Caretaker - Persistent Repetition of Phrases
Kevin Drumm - Imperial Distortion
Summons Of Shining Ruins - Summons Of Shining Ruins
Kenneth Kirschner - Filaments and Voids
(these four joints are great, they just don't seem to click with me)

Band of the year: Natural Snow Buildings

Artis of the year: Machinefabriek

Guilty pleasure: Britney Spears - Circus
Go Britney! Go!

 

[Blackfield]

^^

ok. copy paste from a magazine uke: