Top 10 Albums of 2008!

[suwat666]

1.Enslaved - Vertebrae (amazing blend of Prog/Black/Psychedelic Metal, definitely my #1 of the year!)

2.Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery (Crushing old school style death metal featuring the man himself Mikael Åkerfeldt)

3.Protest the Hero - Fortress (Progressive math/metalcore at it's best!)

4.The Human Abstract - Midheaven (This album was a total 180 from their previous release, much more progressive and unexpected)

5.Opeth - Watershed (It's Opeth, what can I say? I don't think they could ever go wrong)

6.ColdWorld - Melancholie² (This album is beautiful, it has the perfect atmosphere for a rainy night. If you enjoy atmospheric/depressive black metal definitely check this out!)

7.Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle Pt. 1 (Another band that does the psychedelic black metal thing, but not quite up to the level as Enslaved. I give these guys major props since they are from my hometown of Chicago. They definitely put on a sick live show.)

8.The Faceless - Planetary Duality (Technical/Progressive Death metal at it's finest)

9.Fuck the Facts - Disgorge Mexico (FTF will grind your head off, nuff said.)

10.Benea Reach - Alleviat (Another great progressive Math/Metalcore release)

Now tell me yours!

 

[Illnath]

2008 great year for music.

01- Opeth- Watershed.
02 -Anathema- Hindsight.
03- Scar Symmetry - Holographic universe.
04- Before The Dawn - Soundscape of Silence.
05- Draconian - Turning Seasons Within.
06- Moonspell - Night Eternal.
07- Omnium Gatherum - The Redshift.
08- Zonaria - The Cancer Empire.
09- Amon Amarth - Twillight Of The Thundergod.
10- Daylight Dies - Lost To the Living.
11- Arch Enemy - Rise Of The Tyrant.
12- Eluveite - Slania
13- Equillibrium - Sagas.
14- Cathis Ord - Demo (check it out http://www.myspace.com/cathisord )
15- Ilkuinen Kaamos - Epiloge MCD ( Check it out..free songs http://www.myspace.com/ikuinenkaamos )
16- Dawn Of Demise - Hate Takes it's Form
17- Demiurg - Hate Chamber.
18- Mar De Grises - Draining the Waterheart.
19- Funeral - As Light Does The Shadow.
20- Sibenbürgen - Revelation IV.

 

[heavy metal]

good thread.

1 amon amarth-twilight of the thundergod
2 sabaton-art of war
3 judas priest-nostradamus
4 omnium gatherum-redshift
5 tyr-land
6 ac/dc-black ice
7 one man army-grim tales
8 motorhead-motorizer
9 enslaved-vertebrae
10 metallica-death magnetic

 

[Defiance]

This one is pretty different from the previous ones:


1. Hollenthon: Opus Magnum
2. Die Apokalyptischen Reiter: Licht
3. Destruction: D.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N
4. Theatres des Vampires: Anima Noir
5. Enslaved: Vertebrae
6. Dornenreich: In Luft Geritzt
7. Uli Jon Roth: Under a Dark Sky
8. Michael Bormann: Capture the Moment
9. Journey: Revelation
10. Testament: The Formation of Damnation

This has been a year in which the AOR/Hard Rock scene returned, I've been very happy because of that .

Now I can only wait for DT's new live CD!

 

[RampageSword]

2008 has been very good to me.

1- Burst - Lazarus Bird
2- Eluveitie - Slania
3- Oscar B. - La mort aux trousses
4- Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
5- Taake - Taake
6- Thyrfing - Hels Vite
7- Keep of Kalessin - Kolossus
8- Mirrorthrone - Gangrene
9- Cor Scorpii - Monument
10 - Mononc' Serge - Musique barbare

 

[DisplayofCharacter]

I am probably in the minority when I say I feel last year was better. I have an incomplete list as I spent most of this year trying to catch up with older stuff I missed at the time. This will not be metal-only. A shame I'm sure, but this is what I have to offer:

1. Nine Inch Nails - The Slip (listened to it a ton, really liked it and got one of the limited edition physical releases)

2. The Killers - Day & Age (Love-or-Hate album and I love the Killers. Produced fluffy pop, but done at its best IMO)

3. Gojira - The Way of All Flesh (For me, tied for metal album of the year with Watershed. Its like From Mars to Sirius except better and I love the lyrical themes of this release even more)

4. Opeth - Watershed (Good Opeth, great songs, wasn't as crazy for the overall feel for this album but its tasty and good Prog)

5. The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath (back to form IMO, still not as good as Francis or De-Loused but still good, better than Amputechture).

I'll make a note that I didn't get around to an in-depth listen of Vertebrae but I think it would crack my list. I am working on it ASAP. Also the same goes for Protest the Hero, but they'd need a hell of an album to overtake Colors in my heart.

Halfway there, and in really no particular order. I don't have a ton of superlatives for this year. I'm not trying to be a "Debbie Downer" but when I thought about it, its been a great year for music for me in general, but not necessarily new albums.

I'll also throw out Keep of Kalessin's Colossus, Porcupine Tree's Nil Recurring (which came out in the USA, when I obviously was able to get it in 2008 though technically first released in Sept 2007, whatever) and Between the Buried and Me's Colors Live.

 

[Jolty]

Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
Agalloch - The White
Equilibrium - Sagas
Opeth - Watershed
Swallow the Sun - Plague of Butterflies
Enslaved - Vertebrae
Korpiklaani - Korven Kuningas

All-in-all, I wasn't that impressed with 2008.
I haven't listened to the new Moonsorrow or Eluveitie albums yet either, but I'm sure they're both fantastic and should probably be on this list.

 

[Tranquillian]

Top 21, in alphabetical order
Top 6 marked with an *

*Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thundergod
Arckanum - Antikosmos
*Arghoslent - Hornets of the Pogrom
Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery
Dark Fortress - Eidolon
*Darkestrah - The Great Silk Road
Daylight Dies - Lost to the Living
Dismember - Dismember
Enslaved - Vertebrae
Farsot - IIII
Keep of Kalessin - Kolossus
Mgla - Groza
Moonspell - Night Eternal
*Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle pt 1
October Falls - The Womb of Primordial Nature
Ofermod - Tiamtü
*Opeth - Watershed
Satyricon - The Age of Nero
Taake - Taake
Testament - The Formation of Damnation
*The Devil's Blood - Come Reap
Thyrfing - Hels Vite

 

[La Rocque]

Dark Tranquillity - fiction(expanded edition)
Lil Wayne - tha carter lll
AC/DC - black ice
Disturbed - indestructible
Burst - lazarus bird
Head(Brian Welch) - save me from myself
Fucked Up - chemistry of common life
I Set My Friends on Fire - you can't spell slaughter without laughter
Dennis Wilson - pacific ocean blue(reissued in 2008)
The Sword - gods of the earth

 

[Defiance]

Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
Agalloch - The White
Equilibrium - Sagas
Opeth - Watershed
Swallow the Sun - Plague of Butterflies
Enslaved - Vertebrae
Korpiklaani - Korven Kuningas

All-in-all, I wasn't that impressed with 2008.
I haven't listened to the new Moonsorrow or Eluveitie albums yet either, but I'm sure they're both fantastic and should probably be on this list.

The ones in bold shouldn't be in the list, they're EPs, not albums. Yes, Moonsorrow's is about 68 minutes long, but it's still an EP .

 

[Jolty]

The ones in bold shouldn't be in the list, they're EPs, not albums. Yes, Moonsorrow's is about 68 minutes long, but it's still an EP .

Pfft. Technicalities.

 

[DisplayofCharacter]

Pfft. Technicalities.

Ironically according to the "official" definition given by wikipedia, all the of bold albums count as albums, so list away. I think its semantical, LP or EP is a designation of length but they are still collections of songs and therefore an album in my eyes and they should count. This differs from a single (obviously one song).

Here's the "official" definition of an album: "According to the rules of the UK Charts, a recording counts as an "album" if either it has more than four tracks or lasts more than 25 minutes."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_album

 

[Zephyrus]

http://zephyrusblog.wordpress.com/2009/01/01/top-10-black-metal-albums-of-2008/

 

[Defiance]

Pfft. Technicalities.

Ironically according to the "official" definition given by wikipedia, all the of bold albums count as albums, so list away. I think its semantical, LP or EP is a designation of length but they are still collections of songs and therefore an album in my eyes and they should count. This differs from a single (obviously one song).

Here's the "official" definition of an album: "According to the rules of the UK Charts, a recording counts as an "album" if either it has more than four tracks or lasts more than 25 minutes."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_album

Well, LP would be the format, not the length itself.

For me an album has to be at least 35 minutes. And well, both bands state that they're EPs. Also, Moonsorrow's has "For Whom The Bell Tolls" as the second track…. I highly doubt the band (or anyone, to be honest) will personally think of that release as an album. And Agalloch's says on the cover: The White EP.

Couldn't be clearer.

 

[DisplayofCharacter]

Well, LP would be the format, not the length itself.

For me an album has to be at least 35 minutes. And well, both bands state that they're EPs. Also, Moonsorrow's has "For Whom The Bell Tolls" as the second track…. I highly doubt the band (or anyone, to be honest) will personally think of that release as an album. And Agalloch's says on the cover: The White EP.

Couldn't be clearer.

LP and EP haven't been relevant to physical formats since vinyl records were dominant 30 years ago. They are formats as far as the length of the album, but its still an album at its base. Its semantics and you want to be right, but at the very least acknowledge the fact that you're going by your own definition and not the legitimate one - I certainly am (utilizing my own definition).

Also according to the only legitimate definition I could find on wikipedia all of those albums satisfy the length requirement to be considered an album. IMO that's what matters if I'm being objective, not if the total amount of tracks are short (as it says OR, not and).

 

[Dasher10]

1. R.E.M. - Accelerate
2. Ihsahn - ANGL
3. Mogwai - The hawk is Howling
4. Alestorm - Captain Morgan's Revenge
5. Arkona - Ot Serdsa K Nebu (Technicaly 2007 but it had a 2008 US release due to popular demand)
6. The Haunted - Versus
7. Cavalera Conspiracy - Inflikted
8. Protest the Hero - Fortress
9. Children of Bodom - Blooddrunk
10. Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery

Looking forward to in 09

Morbid Angel - TBA
Devin Townsend - Ki
Lamb of God - Wrath
Mastodon - Crack the Skye

 

[[Negation]]

The ones I can remember off the top of my head, in no particular order:

Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
Testament - The Formation of Damnation
Jeff Loomis - Zero Order Phase
Rotting Christ - Theogonia (Might have been 07, not too sure)
Century Media - Covering 20 Years of Extremes (Sure it's a compilation but i enjoy it )
Apocalyptica - Worlds Collide

and a personal favourite:

Warrel Dane - Praises to the War Machine.

 

[Nikki]

The ones I can remember off the top of my head, in no particular order:

Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
Testament - The Formation of Damnation
Jeff Loomis - Zero Order Phase
Rotting Christ - Theogonia (Might have been 07, not too sure)
Century Media - Covering 20 Years of Extremes (Sure it's a compilation but i enjoy it )
Apocalyptica - Worlds Collide

and a personal favourite:

Warrel Dane - Praises to the War Machine.

I believe Theogonia was 07

 

[DisplayofCharacter]

I believe Theogonia was 07

Jan 07 too, just crept in that year, theoretically could have been the end of 06. Damn good album though.

 

[suwat666]

Damn good album though.

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