2008 in music

[devlin]

+17 omar albums and two Voltas

holy fuck! that dudes a fucking machine!

[whodunit?]

1980 decade is one of the worst decade in rock?

fixed

[deftonic89]

Favourites:
"The way of all flesh"-Gojira 

Good surprises:
"Scars on broadway"-Scars on broadway
"Conquer"-Soulfly
"Inflikted"-The Cavalera conspiracy
"A sense of purpose"-In Flames
"All hope is gone"-Slipknot
"Obzen"-Messuggah

[deftoneskoen]

2008 Favorites:
The Hawk Is Howling - Mogwai
Sweet Love For Planet Earth - Fuck Buttons

Suprises:
Pg. Lost - Yes I Am
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
Gregor Samsa - 27:36

Dissapointment :
Sigur Rós - Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust

[defTHE1s]

Favourites:
"The way of all flesh"-Gojira 

Good surprises:
"Scars on broadway"-Scars on broadway
"Conquer"-Soulfly
"Inflikted"-The Cavalera conspiracy
"A sense of purpose"-In Flames
"All hope is gone"-Slipknot
"Obzen"-Messuggah

yes, as i said before Scars on Broadway is a very good one... better (i think) than Serj's Tankian solo album..

[cyppe101]

in flames haven't made good music since 2000

[Atomic]

The Best

Acid Witch - Witchtanic Hellucinations
Cliteater - Scream Bloody Clit
JIG-AI - Katana Orgy
Foxy Shazam - Introducing
Praxis - Profanation (Preperation For A Coming Darkness)
Psykup - We Love You All


Other good ones

Del Tha Funkee Homosapien - Eleventh Hour
Dog Fashion Disco - Beating A Dead Horse To Death... Again
Epicrise - Twin's Contraception
Forest Of Shadows - Six Waves Of Woe
Heavy Heavy Low Low - Turtle Nipple And The Toxic Shock
SAVESTATES - Chip Death
Souldered Poon - Chapter Of Maliciousness
Spineless Fuckers - Piggy Puppies
Quest For Blood With Yukihiro Isso - Quest For Blood
Wetnurse - Invisible City
Zombie Hate Brigade - Zombie Hate Brigade


Ones i didn't really care for...

Ankhagram - Under Ruins
Austrian Death Machine - Total Brutal
Dawn Of Ashes - The Crypt Injection
Dr. Acula - Below Me
Fear Nuttin' Band - Yardcore
She Said Destroy - The City Speaks In Tongues
The Amenta - n0n
The Berzerker - The Reawakening


The ones i totally hated that i didn't delete immediately after i listened to em

Norma Jean - The Anti-Mother
One Day As A Lion - One Day As A Lion
Scars On Broadway - Scars On Broadway
Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone
Soulfly - Conquer
Straight Line Stitch - When Skies Wash Ashore

[Deathblooms]

Favorites:
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
Meshuggah - obZen
Arsis - We Are The Nightmare
Opeth - Watershed
Cynic - Traced In Air

Surprises:
Trivium - Shogun
Bleeding Through - Declaration

Disappointments:
Mudvayne - The New Game
Shinedown - The Sound of Madness
In Flames - A Sense of Purpose
The Haunted - Versus
All That Remains - Overcome

[deftonic89]

More good surprises...

"Insurgentes"-Steven Wilson
"Með suð í eyrum við spilum end "-Sigur Rós
"eternal kingdom-Cult of luna
"the best of"-Radiohead

[raynor]

Both new Portugal. The Man and The Mars Volta were pretty 'meehh'.

Why? never fails though.

[lithium]

More good surprises...

"the best of"-Radiohead

i loled

[died20times]

what i listened to most this year..

Between the Buried and Me - Colors (yea i know it was released in 07 but i didnt get into it till about Feb. another classic from from these metal innovators.)
God Is An Astronaut - God Is An Astronaut (shoe-gaze, post-rock, whatever the fuck you want to call it, great album)
Blue Sky Black Death - Late Night Cinema (instrumental hip hop that ranges from electro to classic boom-bap. lots of different sounds and influences. i liked this one a lot.)
Lower Definition - The Greatest Of All Lost Arts (almost dead-on Palumbo vocals has most people writing this band off as a Glassjaw ripoff but i bumped the shit out of this album. some nice harmonies complimented by some huge breakdowns. nothing groundbreaking by any means, but it did some what quench my thirst for some new Glassjaw.)
PSY/OPsogist - Suffused With Static (trip-hop in the vein of DJ Shadow. definately a grower.)

other albums i enjoyed..
Norma Jean - The Anti-Mother
After The Burial - Rareform
Devil Sold His Soul - A Fragile Hope
This Will Destroy You - This Will Destroy You
This Town Needs Guns - Animals
Misery Index - Traitors
Meshuggah - Obzen

[whodunit?]

Both new Portugal. The Man and The Mars Volta were pretty 'meehh'.

Why? never fails though.

bedlam=meh? r u crazy, man!?

[Zevaka]

here we go

my final top 10 of the year

absolutely favorite stuff. highly unrecommended to metal heads

   1. Her Space Holiday - xoxo, Panda and the New Kid Revival
2. Rome - Masse Mensch Material
3. Black Mountain - In The Future
4. Secret Shine - All Of The Stars
5. The Notwist - The Devil, You + Me
6. Je Suis Animal - Self-Taught Magic From A Book
7. No And The Maybes - No And The Maybes
8. The Airfields - Up All Night
9. Fleeting Joys - Occult Radiance
10. Vivian Girls – Vivian Girls

[lostpilot]

hey, Z, I did not know you like In the Future that much:)

[Zevaka]

this is absolutely amazing, i've been often listening to that albums since 2007 when it leaked and never thought "oh, it's getting old". never! it's always so fresh and attractive.

[Crazylegs]

best:

motorpsycho - little lucid moments

[Slacker]

Unearth - The March
The Acacia Strain - Continent
Misery Signals - Controller
After The Burial - Rareform
For The Fallen Dreams - Changes
Meshuggah - obZen
Shai Hulud - Misanthropy Pure
Textures - Silhouettes

I can't remember if the Divine Heresy album was this year or last but it deserves a mention anyway

Slightly disappointed in the new 36 Crazyfists and All That Remains albums, though I've only actually heard a few of the ATR tracks.

i had totally missed the for the fallen dreams album, im diggin the the guitar work for the harmonics.  makes it fun. nice mention.

[goldpony]

havent listened to everything i wanted to yet but heres my list so far

earth - the bees made honey in the lions skull
cure- 4:13 dream
black mountain - in the future
melvins - nude with boots
jesu/battle of mice ep
boris- smile
we made god
thrice - the alchemy index 3&4

[theis]

posted this on my myspace. top 10 albums 2008.

no particular order:

1. fleet foxes - fleet foxes
2. grand archives - the grand archives
3. nick cave and the bad seeds - dig, lazarus, dig!!!
4. hans zimmer and james newton howard - the dark knight (soundtrack)
5. god is an astronaut - god is an astronaut
6. the mars volta - the bedlam in goliath
7. cult of luna - eternal kingdom
8. opeth - watershed
9. protest the hero - fortress
10. metallica - death magnetic