Your Top 2008 releases so far...

[Ozzloaf]

Metal:
Textures - Silhouettes
Testament - The Formation of Damnation
The Sword - Gods of the Earth
Swallow the Sun - Plague of Butterfly's
Protest the Hero - Fortress
Opeth - Watershed
Opeth - Roundhouse Tapes (DVD)
Natchmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle Part 1
My Dying Bride - An Ode to Woe
Metallica - Death Magnetic
Meshuggah - obZen
Mar de Grises - Draining the Waterheart
Ikuinen Kaamos - Epilogue
Ihsahn - angL
Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
Enslaved - Vertebrae
Daylight Dies - Lost to the Living
Cynic - Traced in Air
Bloodbath - Unblessing the Purity
Bloodbath - The Wacken Carnage (\m/)
Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
The Absence - Riders of the Plague

Non - Metal:
Porcupine Tree - Nil Recurring
Tool - Vicarious (DVD)
Russian Circles - Stations
NIN - The Slip
NIN - Ghosts I-IV
sleepmakeswaves - in today already walks tomorrow

 

[DigitalViolence]

Every time I see The Sword it makes me think that Sword the Canadian band from the 80's has reformed. Their debut Metalized, is a classic album that should be in every metalheads collection.

 

[Under_Rose]

Metallica - Death Magnetic
Svartediket _ Svartediket
Mournful_Gust -The Frankness Eve

 

[Dragon_Unearthed]

It's been kind of a lean year, more disappointments than surprises....here are some of the albums that I have really enjoyed though...

Metallica - Death Magnetic
Hanging Doll - Reason & Madness
Draconian - Turning Season Within
Moonspell - Night Eternal
Dakrya - Monumento

 

[Novembers Paul]

I added one to my list.

1. Hail of Bullets "...Of Frost and War"
2. Coldplay - Viva La Vida
3. Satyricon - The Age of Nero
4. Metallica - Death Magnetic

The new Satyricon is BAD ASS. If you liked "Now, Diabolical", this is one is equally good.

AND, AJATTARA is in the studio. I'm already geared for 2009.

 

[Phoenix5]

Death Magnetic is a real grower.

I wonder if we would have all hated this album had they not released St. Anger right before.

 

[Ozzloaf]

I added sleepmakeswaves - in today already walks tomorrow to my list!

 

[NvmbrsDoom5]

Death Magnetic is a real grower.

I wonder if we would have all hated this album had they not released St. Anger right before.

I think I might've stated this before here, but to reiterate, I honestly base my opinion of "Death Magnetic" on how it grabs me and impresses upon me now, having nothing to do with what they've done in the recent past.

I wasn't a big fan of "St. Anger" but I also didn't completely loathe it like so many others did. And I think both "Load" and "Reload" had their merits and songs I enjoyed. I wasn't really expecting to like the new Metallica as much as I do, I figured it would be "just ok" and that's that. After I listened to it a couple of times through, I found myself really being hooked by the songs and the great riffing. I keep finding myself going back and listening to it again, because I just enjoy it alot. I find some faults in it here and there but overall it's a really solid album. Not, "a really solid album compared to 'St. Anger'", even though that may hold true as well.

If this were an album by a new band I'd never heard, I think I'd enjoy it just as much as I do now.

 

[kleo706]

I don't buy much new music. So little of what I hear grabs me more than things I missed from the past. For instance, Hail of Bullets sounds right up my alley but Celtic Frost's Morbid Tales was on sale.

Anyhow...
ZImmers Hole-When You Were Shouting at the Devil...
Amanda Palmer-Who Killed Amanda Palmer

 

[Phoenix5]

I think I might've stated this before here, but to reiterate, I honestly base my opinion of "Death Magnetic" on how it grabs me and impresses upon me now, having nothing to do with what they've done in the recent past.

I wasn't a big fan of "St. Anger" but I also didn't completely loathe it like so many others did. And I think both "Load" and "Reload" had their merits and songs I enjoyed. I wasn't really expecting to like the new Metallica as much as I do, I figured it would be "just ok" and that's that. After I listened to it a couple of times through, I found myself really being hooked by the songs and the great riffing. I keep finding myself going back and listening to it again, because I just enjoy it alot. I find some faults in it here and there but overall it's a really solid album. Not, "a really solid album compared to 'St. Anger'", even though that may hold true as well.

If this were an album by a new band I'd never heard, I think I'd enjoy it just as much as I do now.

I've really enjoyed it. It was just a question I've been asking myself, you know? I was one, too, who didn't hate St. Anger entirely. I thought it had one maaaaaaybe two songs that were good at the time. When it comes to riffing though, Death Magnetic might be my favorite since Justice...


I doubt they'll be able to top the godly 4, but hell....let them give it a shot!


DM will definitely be on my playlist for awhile.

 

[Katatonic89]

My top 3

1. Opeth - Watershed
2. Cult Of Luna - Eternal Kingdom - Am I the only one who likes them here?
3. Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery

 

[NvmbrsDoom5]

Shit I forgot all about the Zimmers Hole cd, that most definitely would be in my top 10.

 

[beast from the east]

2. Cult Of Luna - Eternal Kingdom - Am I the only one who likes them here?

Nope, definitely not. Eternal Kingdom is high on my wish list right now.

I need to add one to my list...
Isole - Bliss of Solitude - this album has been getting massive spins lately. Truly a great album.

 

[Belligerent]

Isole - Bliss of Solitude - this album has been getting massive spins lately. Truly a great album.

There you go. Every ND fan should check these guys out, this album is doom at it's finest.

 

[General Zod]

These come to mind...

Graveyard - Graveyard
Darkestrah - The Silk Road
Evergrey - Torn
Mgla - Groza
Mouth of the Architect - Quietly
Warrel Dane - Praises To The War Machine

Zod

 

[fsgdjv]

My list would be something like:

Cult of Luna - Eternal Kingdom
Opeth - Watershed
Agalloch - The White
Moonspell - Night Eternal
Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
Bloodbath - Both their releases this year

With that being said, I haven't heard Hindsight yet, and it will probably blow everything away from this list when I do, and not to mention their album comoing out with new songs, whenever that comes. I'm also really looking forward to the new Steven Wilson-album.

 

[BloodSword]

I know this ain't an album, but I don't care, for it must be mentioned- The song-"Forever with Unopened Eye." Acoustic version and (metal) version are fuckin' stupendous,man. This song has been stuck in me head for a long time. What do the British call it "an earworm"? No matter, one of the best songs I've heard.

 

[oeyenjo]

In no particular order

Burst - Lazarus Bird
Machinery - The Passing
Agalloch - The White
Ufomammut - Idolum
Esoteric - Maniacal Vale
Jeff Loomis - Zero Order Phase

 

[affinityband]

i was really disappointed with bursts new album. It just lacked the direction and general focus the last one did. It seemed incredibly drawn out and there was a huge lack of texture unlike origo, gutted..

 

[AnTz0r]

i feel the same about the new cynic album, sadly