Best Albums of 2008
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[Dec 9,2008 12:07pm - FuckIsMySignature ""]
My Pics
Opeth - Watershed
Ihsahn - AngL
Misery Index - Traitors
Enslaved - Vertebrae
Meshuggah - ObZen
Bloodbath - Fathomless Mastery
Jeff Loomis - Zero Order Phase
[Dec 9,2008 12:09pm - dreadkill ""]
i'm with you on opeth, ihsahn, and enslaved. i enjoyed the meshuggah album as well, but it isn't one of my favorites.
[Dec 9,2008 12:11pm - c.DeAD ""]
Virus-"The Black Flux"
CNV-"Domination and Servitude"
New Hank 3
Still have yet to hear the new Lugubrum or Lifelover, but I am sure they would be in my list.
[Dec 9,2008 12:16pm - ouchdrummer ""]
hmmm.... i am having trouble saying this due to my major dissapointment when it came out..... but i take it back. I love the new Faceless.
The Faceless - Planetary Duality.
Takes a WHILE to get used to if your real into "Akeldama", but after that it's all gravy.
[Dec 9,2008 12:17pm - FuckIsMySignature ""]
ouchdrummer said:hmmm.... i am having trouble saying this due to my major dissapointment when it came out..... but i take it back. I love the new Faceless.
The Faceless - Planetary Duality.
Takes a WHILE to get used to if your real into "Akeldama", but after that it's all gravy.
i suppose i'll have to check it out. i've been avoiding it due to my fear of disapointment.
[Dec 9,2008 12:19pm - ouchdrummer ""]
and....
Decrepit Birth - Diminishing Between Worlds.
[Dec 9,2008 12:22pm - ouchdrummer ""]
FuckIsMySignature said:
ouchdrummer said:hmmm.... i am having trouble saying this due to my major dissapointment when it came out..... but i take it back. I love the new Faceless.
The Faceless - Planetary Duality.
Takes a WHILE to get used to if your real into "Akeldama", but after that it's all gravy.
i suppose i'll have to check it out. i've been avoiding it due to my fear of disapointment.
Totally understandishable. (especially with my previous raves against it) and i think many people STILL won't like it. But if you were into Fredrik Thordendal's "Sol Niger Within" Album, and you were into "Akeldame", it's almost like a melting of the two. The Fredrik influence is huge, almost to the point of rip-off in some parts, but i love that record so it's ok. I would give it a try, just be ready for lame sounding ALL-ELECTRONIC drums. I mean, i dig triggers, but all electric?
[Dec 9,2008 12:22pm - orgymf@work ""]
i have not heard one new release this year that is worth mentioning.
hold on....let me beat him to the punch
FuckIsMySignature : that's because you are too picky
i just saved you some typing[Dec 9,2008 12:23pm - FuckIsMySignature ""]
haha i'm learning to appreciate your hatred for all things
[Dec 9,2008 12:27pm - orgymf@work ""]
that rules -l-
you should give lifestyle a try!
hate is fun!!
[Dec 9,2008 12:28pm - orgymf@work ""]
the angry lifestyle that was supposed to say
[Dec 9,2008 12:30pm - FuckIsMySignature ""]
i'd rather my channel my hatred towards specific things.
[Dec 9,2008 12:32pm - orgymf@work ""]
i do.
it's just a wide variety of specific things.
variety makes life better.
[Dec 9,2008 12:33pm - thedeathdealer ""]
1-The Haunted - Versus
2-Darkane - Demonic Art
3-Opeth - Watershed
4-Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery
5-Evergrey - Torn
6-Mercenary - Architect of lies
7-Poisionblack - A dead heavy day
8-Nick Cave and the Bad seeds - Dig Lazarus Dig!!!
9-Amon Amarth - Twilight of the thunder god
10-Enslaved - Vertebrae
[Dec 9,2008 12:35pm - MarkFuckingRichards ""]
Trap Them-Seizures in Barren Praise
Revocation-Empire of the Obscene
Misery Index-Traitors
Those are my top 3. There's a lot of good stuff that came out this year, but those I could listen to all day, every day.
[Dec 9,2008 12:36pm - RustyPS ""]
This year has been kinda weak as a whole, but for my personal faves:
Ceremony - Still Nothing Moves You
Iron Lung - Sexless//No Sex
Disfear - Live the Storm
Trash Talk - s/t
Paint It Black - New Lexicon
Victims - Killer
Meshuggah - obZen
Torche - Meanderthal
Young Widows - Old Wounds
Cursed - III
TV On the Radio - Dear Science
Murder By Death - Red of Tooth and Claw
Gridlink - Amber Grey
Maruta - In Narcosis
Trap Them - Seizures In Barren Praise
Misery Index - Traitors
Fuck the Facts - Disgorge Mexico
Genghis Tron - Board Up the House
my end of year lists are usually at least twice as long....
[Dec 9,2008 12:43pm - Yeti ""]
Opeth - Watershed
Darkthrone - Dark Thrones and Black Flags
Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery
Meshuggah - ObZen
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
Cold Northern Vengeance - Domination and Servitude
NIN - Ghosts
Dismember - Dismember
Warrell Dane - Praises to the War Machine
Ihsahn - angL
[Dec 9,2008 12:52pm - ouchdrummer ""]
thedeathdealer said:1-The Haunted - Versus
2-Darkane - Demonic Art
3-Opeth - Watershed
4-Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery
5-Evergrey - Torn
6-Mercenary - Architect of lies
7-Poisionblack - A dead heavy day
8-Nick Cave and the Bad seeds - Dig Lazarus Dig!!!
9-Amon Amarth - Twilight of the thunder god
10-Enslaved - Vertebrae
I am a huge Nick Cave fan! Although nothing by them has grabbed me recently as much as "No more shall we part" but i will definately still check out the new one. None of my friends like Nick Cave anymore, so i don't hear about new records immediately. They were still one of the best shows ever at the Orpheum in '02.
[Dec 9,2008 3:49pm - The-Rooster ""]
Baroness - 'The Red Album'
Meshuggah - 'Obzen'
Grails - 'Doomsdayer's Holiday' and 'Take Refuge in Clean Living'
The Black Keys - 'Attack & Release'
Made Out of Babies - 'Ruiner'
Beck - 'Modern Guilt'
Ghengis Tron - "Board Up the House"
Boris - "Smile"
[Dec 9,2008 4:04pm - ZJD ""]
revocation - empire of the obscene
ramming speed - brainwreck
draize demo
i havent heard much new things this year.
[Dec 9,2008 4:08pm - arilliusbm ""]
did i just see beck??
[Dec 9,2008 4:45pm - The-Rooster ""]
arilliusbm said:did i just see beck??
Yup.
[Dec 9,2008 4:45pm - RustyPS ""]
The-Rooster said:Baroness - 'The Red Album'
That came out last year, or else, it'd probably be #1 on my list.
[Dec 9,2008 4:46pm - The-Rooster ""]
RustyPS said:
The-Rooster said:Baroness - 'The Red Album'
That came out last year, or else, it'd probably be #1 on my list.
Oh, shit. I thought it was a recent release. I just got into them this month when they played at Valentine's, so I'm not fully up to speed.
Regardless, it's currently my favorite album.
[Dec 9,2008 4:57pm - BobNOMAAMRooney ""]
Aosoth-s/t
Boris-Smile (diwphalanx)
Revocation-Empire of the Obscene
The Sword-Gods of the Earth
A Forest of Stars-The Corpse of Rebirth
Ofermod-Tiamtü
Darkspace-Darkspace III
Orcivus-Consummatum Est
Coffins-Buried Death
Paysage d'Hiver - Kristall & Isa (rerelease)
[Dec 9,2008 5:10pm - Dave_Maggot ""]
Rise against-appeal to reason
Revocation- empires of the obscene
Akimbo- jersey shores
Soilent green- inevitable collapse in the presence of conviction
Trap them- seizures in barren praise
Walls of jericho- Redemption/the american dream
Parasitic Extirpation- knee deep in disease
Flogging molly- float
[Dec 9,2008 5:11pm - kevord ""]
Keep of Kalessin- Kolossus
Decrepit Birth- Diminishing between worlds
Gojira- The way of all flesh
Arsis- We are the Nightmare
Lair of the Minotaur - War Metal Battle Masters
Origin- Antithesis
Trap Them- seizures in barren Praise
Just off the top of my head.
[Dec 9,2008 5:14pm - ouchdrummer ""]
oh yeah...
I totally agree with the Arsis, and the Origin. Both of those albums are sick.
[Dec 9,2008 5:15pm - ouchdrummer ""]
So my updated list is
Decrepit Birth - Diminishing
Faceless - Planetary
Arsis - Nightmare
Origin - Antithisis
[Dec 9,2008 5:23pm - ThirdKnuckle ""]
Hail Of Bullets
Vader 25th Ann
Coldworker/Rotting Paradise
Opeth/Watershed
Belphegor/Bondage Goat Zombie
Sahg II
Krisuin/Southern Storm
Meshuggah/obZen
Grand Magus/Iron Will
Bloodbath/Fathomless Mastery
Gojira/Way Of All Flesh
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Motorhead/Motorizer
UFO resissues: Obsession & Lights Out
Cheap Trick/Budokan 30th ann box set
AC/DC Black Ice
Uriah Heep/Wake the Sleeper
[Dec 9,2008 5:24pm - arilliusbm ""]
bobNOMAAMRooney mentioned Darkspace III. fucking awesome. love that band. they played with lunar aurora and sear bliss (I believe) somewhat recently in Germany. that would have been an awesome fucking show.
[Dec 9,2008 5:36pm - ouchdrummer ""]
0h man, i keep seeing more bands i love on people's lists.
+hail of bullets. great great record.
[Dec 9,2008 5:49pm - BOBDEAD ""]
Good thread...giving me some good ideas to play on my radio show.
[Dec 9,2008 5:51pm - arilliusbm ""]
I was going to say Primordial's new album (fucking kills) but it was in 2007. This year's flown the fuck by. I can't even remember which albums came out in 2007 or 2008 now.
[Dec 9,2008 5:52pm - ouchdrummer ""]
yeah i had to WIKI decrepit birth to see if it was this year.
[Dec 9,2008 5:53pm - arilliusbm ""]
ouch: you still at work? i drove into work today and my car's in southie.
[Dec 9,2008 5:54pm - ouchdrummer ""]
Nice, yeah i am at work. I am just leaving. Where in southie did you park?
[Dec 9,2008 5:56pm - arilliusbm ""]
near the WTC, behind the children's museum. not really "southie" per se, but close enough to be considered.
[Dec 9,2008 6:02pm - ouchdrummer ""]
yeah, it's southie. Nice man, if i was going home i would tell you to drop by..... but i am not.
[Dec 9,2008 7:01pm - blue ""]
Cynic - Traced in Air
Revocation - Empire of the Obscene
Running With Karma - Ferocious
Gridlink - Amber Grey
Maruta - In Narcosis
Psycroptic - (Ob)servant
...the latest Decrepit Birth stands tall as one of the great disappointments of 2008 to me.
[Dec 9,2008 7:02pm - W3 nli ""]
c.DeAD said:New Hank 3
that is def not an album of the year.
[Dec 9,2008 8:23pm - Murph ""]
Cult of Luna - Eternal Kingdom
MoTA - Quietly
Young Widows - Old Wounds
Trap Them - Seizures in Barren Praise
Disfear - Live the Storm
Russian Circles - Station
Torche - Meanderthal
Kings of Leon - Only By the Night
Sigur Ros - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
It was a good year, Eternal Kingdom blows my mind.
[Dec 10,2008 2:10am - goatcatalyst ""]
#1 without peer
Deathspell Omega "Veritas Diaboli Manet in Aeternum: Chaining the Katechon"
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[Dec 10,2008 3:12am - AUTOPSY_666 ""]
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You people need to check out the COSMIC ATROPHY Codex Incubo CD.
[Dec 10,2008 8:05am - MikeofDecrepitude ""]
Skepticism - Alloy
Halo Manash - Am Kha Astrie
Mar de Grises - Draining the Waterheart
[Dec 10,2008 8:07am - MikeofDecrepitude ""]
Will definitely be checking out that new Deathspell Omega later
[Dec 10,2008 8:07am - corpus_NLI ""]
revocation.
deeds of flesh.
hopefully 09 will be better.
[Dec 10,2008 8:23am - larry david ""]
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[Dec 11,2008 10:43am - Yeti ""]
BobNOMAAMRooney said:Coffins-Buried Death
forgot about this one.
[Dec 11,2008 11:15am - christopher ""]
TOP 25!
1.) The Magnetic Fields - Distortion
2.) Darkthrone - Black Flags and Dark Thrones
3.) Decrepit Birth - Diminishing Between Worlds
4.) Rotten Sound - Cycles
5.) Leviathan - Massive Conspiracy Against All Life
6.) Sun Kil Moon - April
7.) Enslaved - Vertebrae
8.) Portishead - Third
9.) Aura Noir - Hades Rise
10.) The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
11.) Xiu Xiu - Women as Lovers
12.) Animus - Hallucinations: Ideals Surrounding Water, Sand and Clouds of Dust
13.) The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
14.) Ehnahre - Man Closing Up (GREAT Boston band doing experimental metal)
15.) Dead Congregation - Graves of The Archangels
16.) Withered - Folie Circulair
17.) Coffins - Buried Death
18.) Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lions Skull
19.) Steve Von Till - A Grave Is A Grim Horse
20.) Titus Andronicus - s/t
21.) Misery Index - Traitors
22.) Amon Amarth - Twilight of The Thunder God
23.) Brian Eno and David Byrne - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
24.) Woven Hand - Ten Stones
25.) Bonnie Prince Billy - Lie Down In The Light
[Dec 11,2008 11:17am - christopher ""]
christopher said:(GREAT Boston band doing experimental metal)
note: I copied and pasted this from another message board. On this forum it kinda makes me sound like a douche, lol.
[Dec 11,2008 11:17am - arilliusbm ""]
+30 points for mentioning brian eno
[Dec 11,2008 11:18am - brian_dc ""]
that's a solid list, man
[Dec 11,2008 11:23am - pam ""]
New Nick Cave, Volbeat and Mercenary are really the only things that came out this year that I regularly listen to. So I'll go with those.
[Dec 11,2008 11:31am - boblovesmusic ""]
Volbeat for the win!
[Dec 11,2008 1:17pm - c.DeaD ""]
Dead Congregation - Graves of The Archangels
Forgot about that one. I love that cd, but I still think the first one is better. I thought the new Hank 3 was great, but I mean I haven't heard that many new records that have blown my mind this year so....
New Panzer Bastard is the shit, but it ain't out yet. Uhh, didn't even know about that new DSO, but I did get that "Manifestations" cd which is pretty much an unreleased album so I guess you could count that in there. Sounds very much like "Inquisitors of Satan" and "Si Monumentum..." mixed.
[Dec 11,2008 4:19pm - goatcatalyst ""]
"Dig Lazarus Dig" was a monster of a record.
[Dec 11,2008 9:46pm - Darnli ""]
goatcatalyst said:#1 without peer
Deathspell Omega "Veritas Diaboli Manet in Aeternum: Chaining the Katechon"
THANK YOU
[Dec 12,2008 10:13am - pam ""]
boblovesmusic said:Volbeat for the win!
I love that band like someone's paying me do it. I can't wait to see them.
[Dec 12,2008 10:14am - pam ""]
goatcatalyst said:"Dig Lazarus Dig" was a monster of a record.
Nick Cave is a god among men.
[Dec 12,2008 10:48am - ouchdrummer ""]
pam said:
goatcatalyst said:"Dig Lazarus Dig" was a monster of a record.
Nick Cave is a god among men.
I will go buy this when i get out of work, but i want to listen now. I can't find it anywhere.
[Dec 12,2008 10:55am - arilliusbm ""]
Never really got big on Nick Cave. Everyone worships that guy.
[Dec 12,2008 10:58am - ouchdrummer ""]
I would fall in that everyone. And i think it's well deserved. The first cave record i heard was "the good son" then "let love in" then "boatman's call" and it was all gravy from there. I became obsessed.
---brutha, my cup is empty,
but i haven't got a penny.
If i've no more whiskey,
I have to go home.
[Dec 12,2008 11:01am - arilliusbm ""]
Nick Cave does not spark any emotion in me; therefore I am not impressed.
I must say, he's somewhat original, but like I said, his stuff does not impress me artistically. I know most people will disagree, so i'll pull an orgy@work and say Fuck ya'll.
[Dec 12,2008 11:10am - This_Is_Heresy ""]
Darnli said:
goatcatalyst said:#1 without peer
Deathspell Omega "Veritas Diaboli Manet in Aeternum: Chaining the Katechon"
THANK YOU
Yes! Thank you is right!
[Dec 12,2008 11:10am - Dave_Maggot ""]
Rise against-appeal to reason
Revocation- empires of the obscene
Akimbo- jersey shores
Soilent green- inevitable collapse in the presence of conviction
Trap them- seizures in barren praise
Walls of jericho- Redemption/the american dream
Parasitic Extirpation- knee deep in disease
Flogging molly- float
and i wanna add:
7l and esoteric- esoteric vs japan
[Dec 12,2008 11:50am - goatcatalyst ""]
Wow, Jim- how does it feel to be dead inside?
Tee hee
[Dec 12,2008 12:06pm - ouchdrummer ""]
Let me answer for my namesake.
It feels great to be dead inside. Fuck yourself.
[Dec 12,2008 2:23pm - W3 nli ""]
c.DeaD said:I thought the new Hank 3 was great, but I mean I haven't heard that many new records that have blown my mind this year so....
i like the record but its by far not one of his best works, i mean he threw in a few songs that he's been playing live for a few years now. im just saying even he admits it doesnt top Straight to Hell.
but its def a solid listen not album of the year material though.
[Dec 12,2008 5:15pm - goatcatalyst ""]
I mean Aril, dude. For his lack of Nick Cave appreciatio. Hahaha. But if you must know, my masturbation regiment is nothing short of rigorous.
[Dec 12,2008 5:23pm - ouchdrummer ""]
no no no, i was saying let me answer for aril. As he is my namesake.
[Dec 12,2008 5:24pm - ouchdrummer ""]
.....and i am no stranger to masturbation.... or the stranger for that matter.
[Dec 12,2008 9:08pm - IllinoisEnemaBradness ""]
I haven't received it from Seth yet, but I'm gonna say the AC 110 song CD is the best thing, right behind the last Kevorkian's Angels cd:NEWHORNS:
[Dec 17,2008 4:48pm - dreadkill ""]
i liked the new daylight dies album a lot. not album of the year, but very good.
[Dec 17,2008 4:49pm - AnotherMetalDrummer ""]
Are you talking about the Killswitch CD?
[Dec 17,2008 4:53pm - FuckIsMySignature ""]
baha
[Dec 17,2008 4:59pm - dreadkill ""]
AnotherMetalDrummer said:Are you talking about the Killswitch CD?no, the daylight dies CD "lost to the living."
fuck killswitch
[Dec 17,2008 5:00pm - AnotherMetalDrummer ""]
I was just making sure, I would have been dissapointed if their name was even mentioned as a best album!
[Dec 17,2008 5:03pm - FuckIsMySignature ""]
KsE isnt that bad. at least there old stuff is good. new shit is in fact terrible however.
[Dec 17,2008 5:08pm - AnotherMetalDrummer ""]
I agree, their old stuff was good, still they had some poppy songs back then. But yea their new stuff is just plain horrible.
[Dec 17,2008 6:04pm - RustyPS ""]
2 I neglected to mention:
Shai Hulud - Misanthropy Pure
Ghostlimb - Bearing & Distance
[Dec 17,2008 7:12pm - rotivore ""]
warbringer-war without end!!!!!
[Dec 17,2008 8:01pm - goatcatalyst ""]
Death Magnetic! Sick riffs!
[Dec 28,2008 12:16am - BSV ""]
top picks of 2008!
okay, so I really havn't bought all that many new releases but here are a few that came out this year I that I totally dig.
arghoslent - hornets of the pogrom
fucking amazing album. epic fucking death metal, otherwise self-proclaimed as "totalitarian death metal". crushing vocals, clear and natural (no ugly double ups!). riffs that soar and sear while fucking devastating and dominating. wicked memorable solos that just ring fucking true. fuck politics this band is fucking good. everybody I’ve played this for on a blind listen fucking loved it. I’ll be happy to wait another 7 years for the next masterpiece.
darkthrone - dark thrones and black flags
perfect fucking album. i've totally dug what darkthrone has been doing this decade and this release is the perfect culmination of genius. this one is full of fucking anthems. very well developed riffs and some gloomy ass licks that just plagues you numb. total respect to this band for making an amazing 14th album, very inspirational! BREAK THE CHAINS!
darkthrone – frostland tapes
being a fairly rabid darkthrone fan such as myself, I was totally thrilled to see this collection released. I loved the “preparing for war” collection and this 3 disc set provides a crucial look into those early ass demos that present darkthrone as the total death metal force they originated as. not to mention they tossed a fucking rare rehearsal tape from during the Goatlord sessions in there which features nothing but pure instrumentation sans vocals. recommended for any darkthrone nut especially those who tend to give up on them with panzerfaust.
decrepit birth - diminishing between worlds
this is fucking zen. such an incredible progression from their first album but still true to form never yielding to restrictions. technically proficient but never overwhelming. One of those albums where I would show to anyone who was curious about Death Metal. sit back, light it up and enjoy-you'll be traveling to a corner of your conscious you never knew.
duffy - rockferry
a man needs his soul and duffy is mine. i listen to this probably more than anything else in the past 3 months, in the car, in the shower, or fucking wasted, she never lets me down. skip mercy and listen to the other singles.
deeds of flesh - of what's to come
oh man. this is the album I’ve always wanted deeds to make. if for some reason you find deeds of flesh to be boring, bland, repeative-then check out this release. Stepping it up with a fresh 2nd guitarist and an amazing new bass player, this is delight of all things technical but yet total focused and devoted to making crushing music that never trends with current. well worth the wait since “crown of souls”, now if only these fuckers would play new england…it’s been like 8 years or something, since the path of the weakening tour!
misery index – traitors
goddamn! I’ve been a fucking fierce fan of these boys since the first ep but this album is fucking devastating. by far their most militant, angry and focused release yet. this band continues to grow together in wonderful ways constantly belting out relentless metal that grinds the fuck out of the norm. still one of the best live bands around these days!
REVOCATION, DYSENTERY, and COLD NORTHERN VENGEANCE would be in this list but I don't have their albums yet : (