GMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 2008

[Baroque]

Just fucking do 1990 already you cunt

Good luck picking just 10 albums from that year though

 

[The Ozzman]

Good luck picking just 10 albums from that year though

I've been thinking for weeks about which album from that year would be #1. I haven't even touched the top 5 tbh

 

[Omni]

1989 is the year that I want to do more than any other year that hasn't come up already. 1990 would be good too, just not as good.

 

[-CC-]

1993 is probably the best year left IMO. But this year is not bad at all

 

[The Ozzman]

>

1993 is probably the best year left IMO.

>1990 hasn't been done

Gtfo

 

[Slayed Necros]

1. Dead Congregation - Graves of the Archangels
2. Hades Archer - Penis Metal
3. Deathspell Omega - Manifestations 2002
4. Grand Belial's Key - Weltenfeind
5. Arghoslent - Hornets of the Pogrom
6. Morbid Insulter - Thundering Evil
7. Necrovation - Breed Deadness Blood
8. Deathhammer - Forever Ripping Fast
9. Legion of Doom - The Horned Made Flesh
10. Eliminator - Breaking the Wheel

 

[Baroque]

1993 is probably the best year left IMO. But this year is not bad at all

I could see an argument for pretty much any year 1984-1992, maybe 93, but personally I’d go with 1990 or 92

 

[HamburgerBoy]

We haven't done 85 yet have we?

 

[-CC-]

I could see an argument for pretty much any year 1984-1992, maybe 93, but personally I’d go with 1990 or 92

True dat. But we have already done the dank year of 1992!

 

[Dak]

I don't know that there's any masterpiece in 2008, but there are so many albums I enjoy from this year.

1. Sylosis - Conclusion of an Age
2. Warbringer - War Without End
3. Arghoslent - Hornets of the Pogrom
4. Textures - Silhouettes
5. Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe
6. Protest the Hero - Fortress
7. Hollenthon - Opus Magnum
8. Misery Index - Traitors
9. Abysmal Dawn - Programmed to Consume
10. Hail of Bullets - Of Frost and War

HM:
Opeth - Watershed
Eliminator - Breaking the Wheel
Chaos Divine - Avalon
Meshuggah - obZen
Disturbed - Indestructible
The Sword - Gods of the Earth
Misery Index - Traitors
Death Angel - Killing Season
Communic - Payment of Existence
Before the Dawn - Soundscape of Silence
Crom - Vengeance
Psycroptic - Ob(Servant)
Dismember - Dismember
Hour of Penance - The Vile Conception
Avenger of Blood - Death Brigade
36 Crazyfists - The Tide and its Takers
Black Tide - Light from Above
In Mourning - Shrouded Divine
Pyramaze - Immortal
Jeff Loomis - Zero Order Phase
Toxic Holocaust - An Overdose of Death

List subject to change.

 

[Talos of Atmora]

1. Meshuggah - obZen
2. Skelator - Give Me Metal or Give Me Death
3. Maelstrom - It Was Predestined
4. Furious Barking - Theory of Diversity
5. Noneuclid - The Crawling Chaos

I don't get how you could put 5 under 1, honestly.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

The Noneuclid has more of a melodramatic Nevermore thing going for it that I have to be in the right mood to appreciate, while Meshuggah is just dependable grooves all the way through.

 

[Slammed]

1.Warbringer - War Without End.
2.Alestorm - Captain Morgan’s Revenge
3.Korpiklaani - Korven Kuningas
4.Týr - Land
5.Orden Ogan - Vale
6.Zimmers Hole - When You Were Shouting At The Devil… We Were In League With Satan
7.Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder Gods
8.Motörhead - Motörizer
9.Kiuas - The New Dark Age
10. Lich King - Toxic Zombie Onslaught

HM
Falconer - Among Beggars and Thieves
Heidevolk - Walhalla wacht
Sabaton - The Art of War
Battlelore - The Last Alliance
Ayreon - 01011001

 

[Master_Yoda77]

Yeah this year is nuts...

 

[Sleestaks]

This year just happened to come up on another forum so I already had a list ready to go. I guess because of the 10 year thing. It was a surprisingly good year, if in quality not quantity.

01) Spite Extreme Wing - Vltra
02) Opeth - Watershed
03) Dead Congregation - Graves of the Archangels
04) Cultes des Ghoules - Haxan
05) Horn - Naturkraft
06) Darkspace - III
07) Deeds of Flesh - Of What's to Come
08) Neuraxis - The Thin Line Between
09) Leviathan - Massive Conspiracy Against All Life
10) Horna - Sanojesi Aarelle


Also really liked Scar Symmetry, Falconer, Hour of Penance, Prevalent Resistance, Origin, Meshuggah, and Gojira.

That Spite Extreme Wing is just supreme.

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

This was a good year for doom.

 

[Mort Divine]

1. Revelation - Release
2. The Lamp of Thoth - Portents, Omens & Dooms
3. Bible of the Devil - Freedom Metal
4. The Wounded Kings - Embrace of the Narrow House
5. Ogre - Plague of the Planet
6. Dead Congregation - Graves of the Archangels
7. Fall of the Idols - The Seance
8. The Gates of Slumber - Conqueror
9. Valkyrie - Man of Two Visions
10. In Solitude - In Solitude

What a ridiculously good year

 

[Talos of Atmora]

1. Ansur - Warring Factions
2. Noneuclid - The Crawling Chaos
3. Exmortus - In Hatred's Flame
4. Hexen - State of Insurgency
5. 7 for 4 - Diffusion
6. Skelator - Give Me Metal or Give Me Death
7. Furious Barking - The Theory of Diversity
8. Yngwie Malmsteen - Perpetual Flame
9. Spite Extreme Wing - Vltra
10. Jeff Loomis - Zero Order Phase

 

[Krow]

Will finish this later. This was a fantastic year for doom metal.

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Lord Vicar - Fear No Pain
In Solitude - In Solitude
The Gates of Slumber - Conqueror
Misery Index - Traitors
Toxic Holocaust - An Overdose of Death
Acid Witch - Witchtanic Hellucinations
Fall of the Idols - The Seance
A Forest of Stars - The Corpse of Rebirth
The Lamp of Thoth - Portents, Omens, and Dooms
Hooded Menace - Fulfill the Curse
Cardiac Arrest - Cadaverous Presence
Blood Ceremony - Blood Ceremony
The Wounded Kings - Embrace of the Narrow House

 

[Anom@nder Rake]

1. Dead Congregation - Graves of the Archangels
2. Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
3. Cultes des Ghoules - Haxan
4. Revelation - Release
5. Karnarium - Karnarium
6. Darkspace - Darkspace III
7. Faustcoven - Rising From Below the Earth
8. Mgla - Groza
9. Arghoslent - Hornets of the Pogrom
10. Skepticism - Alloy

HM:
Hooded Menace
Mitochondrion
Ogre
A Forest of Stars
Necrovation
October Falls
The Lamp Of Thoth
Samothrace