Your Top X of 2008?

[cthulufhtagn]

Bohren & der Club of Gore – Dolores
A greatly satisfying album, characterized by a solid come-back of their cabaret-jazz undertones. Extremely soothing and cathartic.

never heard of these chaps but the myspace trax have me interested

 

[swizzlenuts]

I'll post a write up of my favourite albums of this year, but I'm being lazy, so here is a quick version.

1. Dead Congregation - Graves of the Archangels
2. Ogre - Plague of the Planet
3. Revelation - Release
4. Darkspace - Darkspace III
5. Colour Haze - All
6. Arghoslent - Hornets of the Pogrom
7. Faustcoven - Rising From Below the Earth
8. Fall of the Idols - The Seance
9. Portrait - Portrait
10. Manilla Road - Voyager
11. The Gates of Slumber - Conqueror
12. The Lamp of Thoth - Portents, Omens & Dooms
13. Apostle of Solitude - Sincerest Misery
14. Krallice - Krallice
15. Velnias - Sovereign Nocturnal
16. Reino Ermitaño - Rituales Interioures
17. Mgła - Groza
18. Darkflight - Perfectly Calm
19. Necrovation - Breed Deadness Blood
20. Darkestrah - The Great Silk Road

With the good albums, this list is very temporary.

 

[spikes77]

Here is a rough mix of the top albums in no order besides maybe the top three. There were a few albums that i had first heard towards the last two months of the year, so they could have probably gotten on the list given time. Those will be towards the bottom. More so than last year, the honorable mentions are really just as good as the top 10, so it's probably more of a top 15 or so.

1. Krallice - Krallice
2. Spite Extreme Wing - Vltra
3. Misery's Omen - Hope Dies
4. Dornenreich - In Luft geritzt
5. Astral Sleep - Unawakening
6. October Falls - The Womb of Primordial Nature
7. Esoteric - The maniacal Vale
8. Nightly Gale - Imprint
9. Steve Von Till - A Grave is a Grim Horse
10. A Forest of Stars - The Corpse of Rebirth ( The original recording did come out in 2007, but who cares, the album is just so good)

Honorable mentions

Skepticism - Alloy
Umbra Nihil - The Borderland Rituals
Bon Iver - For Emma Forever Ago
Silver Summit - Silver Summit
Nechochwen - Algonkian Mythos
Werkraum - Early Love Music
Coldworld - Melancholie²

 

[MajestikMøøse]

Okay so now it's looking something like:

1. Death In June - The Rule of Thirds
2. Agalloch - The White EP
3. Triarii - Muse In Arms
4. Rome - Masse Mensch Material
5. Werkraum - Early Love Music
6. Deathspell Omega - Chaining the Katechon
7. Havoc Unit - H.IV+
8. V:28 - VioLution

I haven't heard the new Ordo Equilibrio release yet (I just heard about it the other day), but I'm sure it will rule, so I'll just give it a provisional mention.

Bear in mind, I think these are the only 2008 releases I've heard this year.

 

[skeptik]

I have about a dozen 2008 releases on their way in the mail right now, so I've still got at least a couple weeks of absorption before I'm comfortable making a final list, though I'm pretty confident that Revelation and Faustcoven will be numbers one and two, respectively.

 

[Krilons Resa]

1) Beardfish - Sleeping In Traffic Part II
2) Cynic - Traced In Air
3) Meshuggah - obZen
4) Revelation - Release
5) Colour Haze - All
6) Amen Ra - Mass IIII
7) Portishead - Third
8) Bon Iver - For Emma Forever Ago
9) Arghoslent - Hornets of The Pogrom
10) The Mars Volta - Bedlam In Goliath


...i guess

This new Intronaut may take someones spot though. Fuckin A!

 

[Thanatopsis123]

Nechochwen - Algonkian Mythos

You have good taste so I just picked something from your list I hadn't heard of. This is pretty good shit! Did I miss this being recommended around these parts? And if not, why the fuck have you been keeping them to yourself?

Out of curiousity, how long is this album? So many neo-folk albums are so damned short.

 

[Reign in Acai]

This is pretty good shit! Did I miss this being recommended around these parts?

http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/...-nechochwen-neo-folk-back-woods-virginia.html


If it's not about negars, my threads go unanswered. Bunch of in the closet racists, the lot of ye.

 

[Thanatopsis123]

Well I'll be damned.

 

[swizzlenuts]

1) Beardfish - Sleeping In Traffic Part II

I think this is quite good, but all those sound clips get really fucking annoying. Also, the song about the gay dude is so good, except for the concept of the lyrics.

 

[Krilons Resa]

I think this is quite good, but all those sound clips get really fucking annoying. Also, the song about the gay dude is so good, except for the concept of the lyrics.

thats the only song with sound clips, for the most part.

 

[swizzlenuts]

So does the the title track.

 

[Krilons Resa]

not much and it envelopes your fat head.

 

[Anom@nder Rake]

I just got a bunch of 08 releases in the mail earlier this week. Maybe one or two of them will jump into my top 10 once I fully absorb them. Here's my top 10 in no particular order

Dead Congregation - Graves Of The Archangels
Hooded Menace - Fulfill The Curse
Necrovation - Breed Deadness Blood
Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
Revelation - Release
Velnias - Sovereign Nocturnal
Darkflight - Perfertly Calm
Arghoslent - Hornets of the Pogrom
Ironsword - Overlords of Chaos
Krallice - s/t

 

[swizzlenuts]

I'll post a write up of my favourite albums of this year, but I'm being lazy, so here is a quick version.

1. Dead Congregation - Graves of the Archangels
2. Ogre - Plague of the Planet
3. Revelation - Release
4. Darkspace - Darkspace III
5. Colour Haze - All
6. Arghoslent - Hornets of the Pogrom
7. Faustcoven - Rising From Below the Earth
8. Fall of the Idols - The Seance
9. Portrait - Portrait
10. Manilla Road - Voyager
11. The Gates of Slumber - Conqueror
12. The Lamp of Thoth - Portents, Omens & Dooms
13. Apostle of Solitude - Sincerest Misery
14. Krallice - Krallice
15. Velnias - Sovereign Nocturnal
16. Reino Ermitaño - Rituales Interioures
17. Mgła - Groza
18. Darkflight - Perfectly Calm
19. Necrovation - Breed Deadness Blood
20. Darkestrah - The Great Silk Road

With the good albums, this list is very temporary.

Fuck! I forgot Anael, Hammers of Misfortune, and Ironsword .

 

[swizzlenuts]

Updated list of all the albums I've enjoyed that came out this year:

Dead Congregation - Graves of the Archangels
Ogre - Plague of the Planet
Revelation - Release
Darkspace - Darkspace III
Colour Haze - All
Arghoslent - Hornets of the Pogrom
Faustcoven - Rising From Below the Earth
Fall of the Idols - The Seance
Portrait - Portrait
Manilla Road - Voyager
The Gates of Slumber - Conqueror
The Lamp of Thoth - Portents, Omens & Dooms
Apostle of Solitude - Sincerest Misery
Krallice - Krallice
Velnias - Sovereign Nocturnal
Reino Ermitaño - Rituales Interioures
Mgła - Groza
Darkflight - Perfectly Calm
Necrovation - Breed Deadness Blood
Darkestrah - The Great Silk Road
Anael - From Arcane Fires
Hammers of Misfortune - Fields/Church of the Broken Glass
IronSword - Overlords of Chaos
Beardfish - Sleeping in Traffic: Part 2
Il Bacio Della Medusa - Discesa Agl'Inferi D'Un Giovane Amante
Valkyrie - Man of Two Visions

 

[skeptik]

1. Revelation - Release
2. Faustcoven - Rising From Below The Earth
3. Dead Congregation - Graves Of The Archangels
4. Darkspace - Dark Space III
5. Manilla Road - Voyager
6. Ogre - Plague Of The Planet
7. Against Nature - Accumulus
8. Portrait - Portrait
9. Tales Of Medusa - An Achaean Invocation
10. Mgła - Groza
11. Ereb Altor - By Honour
12. Ironsword - Overlords Of Chaos
13. Valkyrie - Man Of Two Visions
14. Reino Ermitaño - Rituales Interiores
15. Terrorama - Omnipotence
16. Nyktalgia - Peisithanatos
17. Holy Martyr - Hellenic Warrior Spirit
18. Gates Of Slumber, The - Conqueror
19. Kawir - Ophiolatreia
20. Necrovation - Breed Deadness Blood
21. Anael - From Arcane Fires
22. Apostle Of Solitude - Sincerest Misery
23. Lamp Of Thoth, The - Portents, Omens And Dooms
24. Wastelander - Wardrive
25. Heathendom - Nescience
26. Voids Of Vomit/Morbid Upheaval - Initiation Into Impurity/Morbid Upheaval
27. Etrusgrave - Masters Of Fate
28. Ignivomous - Eroded Void Of Salvation
29. Misery's Omen - Hope Dies
30. Assaulter - Salvation Like Destruction
31. Hooded Menace - Fulfill The Curse
32. Cast Iron - Leather & Metal
33. Arphaxat - Loudun La Maudite
34. Fall Of The Idols - The Séance
35. Cultes Des Ghoules - Häxan
36. A Forest Of Stars - The Corpse Of Rebirth
37. Against Nature - Much In Little/Descend
38. Isole - Bliss Of Solitude
39. Bombs Of Hades - Carnivores
40. Against Nature - Natural Blue
41. Arckanum - Antikosmos
42. Blasphemophagher - Nuclear Empire Of Apocalypse
43. Darkflight - Perfectly Calm
44. Velnias - Sovereign Nocturnal
45. I Shalt Become - Requiem
46. Jex Thoth - Jex Thoth
47. Darkthrone - Dark Thrones And Black Flags
48. Decrepitaph - Condemned Cathedral
49. Nomad Son - First Light

I still need to give quite a few of these more plays since I got them toward the end of the year.

 

[J.]

1. Against Nature - Accumulus

the rest pales in comparison to that one, so it doesn't matter (yes, including Release)

 

[rms]

What did you guys find sub par about apostle of solitude release? Since ice gotten man of two visions and that I just can't stop playing it. And is the totem ep really that much better than their s/t?


As for me;

Top5 is

Apostle of solitude
Valkyrie
Revelation
Dead congregation
Velnias/acid witch"hoofed mensce

 

[skeptik]

Sincerest Misery is too long for its own good. The Black Sabbath cover is completely worthless, "This Dustbowl Earth" is only good for an occasional listen," and the title track is much too long. If it was, say, 55 minutes long, it would have easily been in my top five.