Top 2008 Non-Metal Albums

[Vinnolation]

So what're you guys rippin', other than metal? Many of mine's metal-related, but anyway, interested in finding more good ones that aren't extreme metal - they're hard to come by!


V∞ Top 2008 Non-Metal Albums

#1. Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
#2. The Nightwatchman - The Fabled City
#3. Humanoid - Remembering Universe
#4. Everlast - Love, War And The Ghost Of Whitey Ford
#5. John Williams - Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull
#6. Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I-IV
#7. Cult Of Luna - Eternal Kingdom
#8. Jesu - Why Are We Not Perfect?
#9. Pelican - After the Ceiling Cracked
#10. Alice Cooper - Along Came A Spider

 

[Omni]

1. Rome - Masse Mensch Material

 

[The Ozzman]

Everlast is still making music? What. The. Fuck.

 

[TageRyche]

Sugarland's Love On The Inside CD was pretty damn impressive.

They get better with each CD while at the same time being awesome on each of the 3 albums they've put out.

 

[Vossyrus]

Top 5:
Plastique Noir - Dead Pop
[distatix] - :medication:
Eden Synthetic Corps - Enhancer
Miss Construction - Kunstprodukt
SAM - Destruction Unit

Others I've enjoyed.
Nachtmahr - Feuer Frei!
Aesthetic Perfection - A Violent Emotion
Uninvited Guest - Malice in Wonderland
Deathcamp Project - Well-Known Pleasures
ERASEtheVIRUS - Songs in the Key of Filth

 

[TheInsane]

1. Rome - Masse Mensch Material

Great record! I listened to it alot over the summer.

I totally dig Amy MacDonalds "this is the life" too as far as non-metal goes.

 

[Perdition's Light]

Deathcamp Project - Well-Known Pleasures

Wow, they certainly don't hide their love for Joy Division, do they?

 

[Vossyrus]

Wow, they certainly don't hide their love for Joy Division, do they?

Well the album title is pretty obvious, and they are influenced by Joy Division among other bands...and they did cover one of their songs for the album. But the title works two ways I think, because it doesn't really offer new songs, it mostly consists songs gathered from earlier demos so really they're well-known 'pleasures' to fans.

 

[Satanstoenail]

 

[Vinnolation]

Everlast is still making music? What. The. Fuck.

Yes, sir! Pretty good album it is, too! Good striker is the cover of Folsom Prison Blues, originally by Johnny Cash, and Kill The Emperor is pretty serious, too. He's also working with a rap crew called La Coka Nostra, and his best work yet I think is on a track called Get Outta My Way, as far as rap goes, anyways:

[Everlast]
Get outta my way when I'm blastin my gun (Gun)
Got 99 bullets but it only takes 1 (One)
Got a Chrome .45, a razor sharp machete
La Coka Nostra the fucking world ain't ready

Get outta my way when I'm blastin my gun (Gun)
Got 99 bullets but it only takes 1 (One)
It's murder in the first, premeditated,
La Coka Nostra the fucking haters hated
[[/chorus]]

[Everlast]
I heard they don't wanna call it Hell's Kitchen no more,
I swear hip hop got me lookin at the front door,
I used to love her, now I wanna smother it
When I see all the bastard styles that she's mothered,
Fuck the Dhali Lama it's the drama starter,
I'll blow the spot like an Al-Aqsa martyr,
Better lock up yo guns, hide away your daughter,
Keep the Irish boy away from the fire water,
Cuz the fire water,known the Irish man pain,
It's the samurai druid from the highland plain,
Like William Wallace, and Michael Collins,
Beat you down, scream on you like I'm Henry Rollins

Now tell me that second one doesn't rip. Ohhh yeaaah... \m/

 

[panzerfaust666]

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[challenge_everything]

I haven't listened to all that many this year. Only two come to mind as worth mentioning:

The Mars Volta: The Bedlam in the Goliath
and
Shearwater: Rook (which is not only light years ahead of everything else, metal or non-metal, I've heard this year, but also anything I've heard over the last 2 or 3 years).

 

[tagradh]

Blackfilm - Blackfilm
Doomtree - Doomtree
God Is An Astronaut - God Is An Astronaut
Steve Wilson - Insurgentes
Les Fragments de la Nuit - Musique du Crépuscule
M83 - Saturdays = Youth
Rome - Masse Mensch Materia (thank you Miss Omni)

 

[Satanstoenail]

I'm surprised we don't already have a thread on this.

 

[Krilons Resa]

Beardfish - Sleeping In Traffic PArt 2
Birds And Buildings - Bantam To Behemoth
Shearwater - Rook
Bon Iver - For Emma Forever Ago
The Mars Volta - Bedlam In Goliath
Portishead - Third


That TV On Radio album is supposedly pretty jamming.

 

[BloodSword]

Dolores--Bohren and Der Club of Gore, Bedlam in Goliath--The Mars Volta, One Kind Favor--B.B.King and For Emma, Forever Ago--Bon Iver.

 

[Alter]

Bon Iver - For Emma: Forever Ago
Deerhunter - Microcastle
Mount Eerie - Dawn and Lost Wisdom
Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna

 

[challenge_everything]

I don't get the Bon Iver love. Heard it done before, better. By Nick Drake, mainly.

 

[JontRevolting]

i could only think of one,PJ Harvey-White Chalk,this is an amazing release from an amazing lady,actually that Portishead album is great too

 

[Alter]

I don't get the Bon Iver love. Heard it done before, better. By Nick Drake, mainly.

Nick Drake is totally different from Bon Iver.