Best albums of 2008

[Arjen W.]

Yeah Arjen wins. Gonna post my top 100 here, but not till the end of the month. Gotta catch up on more 08.

ur just waitin 4 dso split to put on #1

 

[in_my_time_of_disease]

^haha yeah that too, plus I still have heaps of 08 releases I want to listen to. Gonna go nuts over the last few weeks of the year and do as much 08 as possible.

 

[NicholasDWolfwood]

the maniacal vale
darkspace iii
melancholie2
peisithanatos
massive conspiracy against all life
the corpse of rebirth
groza
graves of the archangels
gangrene
draining the waterheart
krallice
unblessing the purity
assassins: black meddle pt1
worldfall ep
watershed
antithesis
the white ep
vertebrae
obzen
eternal kingdom
taake

after mcaal, there's no particular order

 

[DHG]

Nobody mentionned Septicflesh's Communion which isnt that bad.

 

[Klämrisk]

1. Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery
2. Opeth - Watershed
3. Amon Amarth - Twilight of The Thunder God
4. Bloodbath - Unblessing The Purity
5. Meshuggah - obZen
6. Daylight Dies - lost To The Living
7. Dismember - s/t
8. Bloodbath - The Wacken Carnage
9. Dark Tranquillity - Fiction (Expanded)
10. Klämrisk's demosongs!

Difficult list to make...

 

[Lightbulb Sun]

I'm just glad to not see any Death Magnetic which was, in the few songs I heard, not that special.....

 

[Jester-Race]

My favorite:

Opeth - Watershed
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery
Meshuggah - obZen
Eluvetie - Slania

 

[Necropeth]

Mines pretty much the same as Jesters.

Opeth - Watershed
Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery
Meshuggah - obZen
Ihsahn - angL

Hmmm...thats possibly it.
Might add Insurgentes to the list later, I heard the whole album but that wasnt enough to soak it all in.

 

[outerone]

Sigur Ros - that new one with crazy name
Opeth - Watershed
Portishead - Third
Ihsahn - Angl
Metallica - Death Magnetic (there I said it)
Coldplay - Viva
Agalloch - White EP
Asa - Loppuasukas
Enslaved- Vertabrae
My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Daylight Dies - Lost to the Living (might of been 2007 but this was new to me)
Moonsorrow - Tulimyrsky
Robert Plant and Allison Krauss (this might of come out last year..)
Theivery Corporation - Radio Revolution
Unlkle - War Stories

Damn good year!!!!

 

[Luz]

Very dissapointing record so far FOR ME: Twilight of the Thunder God

Record that have filled my expectations and beyond:
Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery
Meshuggah- obZen

I wont say Watershed because I've only listened to it once and so far I dont like it, which is bad.


Best live dvd:
The Wacken Carnage and awaiting impatiently for Meshuggah's upcoming live dvd aswell \m/

Special mention to the kings:
DARKTHRONE - Dark Thrones and Black Flags
AND:
HORNA: Sanojesi Äärelle

Origin- Antithesis
Nachtmystium- Assassins
Sigur Ros - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
Cynic - Traced In Air
Ihsahn - Angl
Arghoslent - Hornets Of The Pogrom
Rotten Sound - Cycles
Splattered Mermaids - Stench Of Flesh
Deathspell Omega - Veritas Diaboli Manet in Aeternum

 

[Risquit]

Arsis
Opeth
Ihsahn
Bloodbath
Gojira
Meshugga
Burst (why no love for these guys?)
Enslaved
Psycroptic
Testament
Exodus
Jeff Loomis
Kreator
Amon Amarth

 

[Carta's]

Deathspell Omega - Veritas Diaboli Manet in Aeternum

Lolwut is that based on pure foreknowledge or you know something I don't?

 

[Luz]

probably i know something you dont haha

 

[Jester-Race]

Very dissapointing record so far FOR ME: Twilight of the Thunder God

Really? I thought this album was just a tad under par with; With Oden On Our Side.

Great album... why do you think it's disappointing? Just wondering, I thought it's fucking fantastic and the drumming is intense as ever, and it's more raw than their previous (I'd say it's as fluctuating as Versus the World, which is my favorite album from them)

Btw, Tattered Banners and Bloody Flags will become my funeral song. Intense as HELL.

 

[Luz]

Wouldnt know how to put it in words really.

at first listening i thought they made a record that were more accesible to the american market and its fine case you have to rape what you saw, right? i felt the drumming werent as intense as in other albums, the growls man! didnt felt they were meant to be growls, i loved the lyrics, but what the fuck happened with the riffs??? WHERE THE FUCK ARE THEY?

It wasnt intense, maybe it is because am going thru so much shit i can't even focus on going to work. The same with Watershed.

fuck i cant explain it to you haha, sorry.

 

[Achtland]

Keep of Kalessin - Kolossus
Enslaved - Vertebrae
Ihsahn - AngL
Moonsorrow - Tulimyrsky
Forefather - Steadfast
Helheim - Kaoskult

Bloodbath, Opeth and Horna have also all done good this year.

 

[Lightbulb Sun]

OMGZ! Why no love for teh Democracy of the Chinese Variety?!?!?!

 

[burntoast]

I'm too lazy to edit the repeats.

Ihsashn - angL
Skepticism - Alloy
Septic Flesh - Communion
Sunn O))) - Dømkirke
Mar de Grises - Draining the Waterheart
Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery
Kalmah - For the Revolution
Anathema - Hindsight
Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe
Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
Sigur Rós - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
Byzantine - Oblivion Beckons
Meshuggah - obZen
Cynic - Traced in Air
Moonsorrow - Tulimyrsky
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
Enslaved - Vertebrae
Opeth - Watershed
Arsis - We Are the Nightmare
Agalloch - The White
Jesu - Why Are We Not Perfect?
Jeff Loomis - Zero Order Phase

All in all, a pretty good year.

 

[Carta's]

probably i know something you dont haha

w00t, explain, you made me horny, you can't throw the rock and then hide your hand

 

[Don Corleone]

opeth
metallica
bon iver
portishead
coldplay
conan oberst
brian eno + david bryne
kings of leon
gojira
tindersticks
deerhunter
ihsahn
steven wilson

and a few turkish names you wouldnt know
not a bad year overall