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December 30th, 2008, 02:33 PM
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Byah!
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Top 10 Albums of 2008!
1.Enslaved - Vertebrae (amazing blend of Prog/Black/Psychedelic Metal, definitely my #1 of the year!)
2.Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery (Crushing old school style death metal featuring the man himself Mikael Åkerfeldt) 3.Protest the Hero - Fortress (Progressive math/metalcore at it's best!) 4.The Human Abstract - Midheaven (This album was a total 180 from their previous release, much more progressive and unexpected) 5.Opeth - Watershed (It's Opeth, what can I say? I don't think they could ever go wrong) 6.ColdWorld - Melancholie² (This album is beautiful, it has the perfect atmosphere for a rainy night. If you enjoy atmospheric/depressive black metal definitely check this out!) 7.Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle Pt. 1 (Another band that does the psychedelic black metal thing, but not quite up to the level as Enslaved. I give these guys major props since they are from my hometown of Chicago. They definitely put on a sick live show.) 8.The Faceless - Planetary Duality (Technical/Progressive Death metal at it's finest) 9.Fuck the Facts - Disgorge Mexico (FTF will grind your head off, nuff said.) 10.Benea Reach - Alleviat (Another great progressive Math/Metalcore release) Now tell me yours!
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December 30th, 2008, 04:37 PM
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 2008 great year for music.01- Opeth- Watershed. 02 -Anathema- Hindsight. 03- Scar Symmetry - Holographic universe. 04- Before The Dawn - Soundscape of Silence. 05- Draconian - Turning Seasons Within. 06- Moonspell - Night Eternal. 07- Omnium Gatherum - The Redshift. 08- Zonaria - The Cancer Empire. 09- Amon Amarth - Twillight Of The Thundergod. 10- Daylight Dies - Lost To the Living. 11- Arch Enemy - Rise Of The Tyrant. 12- Eluveite - Slania 13- Equillibrium - Sagas. 14- Cathis Ord - Demo (check it out http://www.myspace.com/cathisord ) 15- Ilkuinen Kaamos - Epiloge MCD ( Check it out..free songs http://www.myspace.com/ikuinenkaamos ) 16- Dawn Of Demise - Hate Takes it's Form 17- Demiurg - Hate Chamber. 18- Mar De Grises - Draining the Waterheart. 19- Funeral - As Light Does The Shadow. 20- Sibenbürgen - Revelation IV.
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December 30th, 2008, 04:54 PM
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good thread.
1 amon amarth-twilight of the thundergod 2 sabaton-art of war 3 judas priest-nostradamus 4 omnium gatherum-redshift 5 tyr-land 6 ac/dc-black ice 7 one man army-grim tales 8 motorhead-motorizer 9 enslaved-vertebrae 10 metallica-death magnetic |
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December 31st, 2008, 12:17 AM
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子連れ狼
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This one is pretty different from the previous ones:
1. Hollenthon: Opus Magnum 2. Die Apokalyptischen Reiter: Licht 3. Destruction: D.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N 4. Theatres des Vampires: Anima Noir 5. Enslaved: Vertebrae 6. Dornenreich: In Luft Geritzt 7. Uli Jon Roth: Under a Dark Sky 8. Michael Bormann: Capture the Moment 9. Journey: Revelation 10. Testament: The Formation of Damnation This has been a year in which the AOR/Hard Rock scene returned, I've been very happy because of that .Now I can only wait for DT's new live CD!
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Walk, don't drive. My music collection! Added: D.T. OCEN EP (CD, CD with bad printing), Anvil TI13 signed, Arsis WRBG signed, Equilibrium TF. My pictures! If you can speak three languages you're trilingual. If you can speak two languages you're bilingual. If you can speak only one language you're a U.S. American. - Author Unknown Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons. - Aldous Huxley |
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January 1st, 2009, 10:00 PM
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AWARE! BEWARE! WAR!
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2008 has been very good to me.
1- Burst - Lazarus Bird 2- Eluveitie - Slania 3- Oscar B. - La mort aux trousses 4- Gojira - The Way of All Flesh 5- Taake - Taake 6- Thyrfing - Hels Vite 7- Keep of Kalessin - Kolossus 8- Mirrorthrone - Gangrene 9- Cor Scorpii - Monument 10 - Mononc' Serge - Musique barbare
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January 2nd, 2009, 04:54 PM
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Are You Scared Enough?
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I am probably in the minority when I say I feel last year was better. I have an incomplete list as I spent most of this year trying to catch up with older stuff I missed at the time. This will not be metal-only. A shame I'm sure, but this is what I have to offer:
1. Nine Inch Nails - The Slip (listened to it a ton, really liked it and got one of the limited edition physical releases) 2. The Killers - Day & Age (Love-or-Hate album and I love the Killers. Produced fluffy pop, but done at its best IMO) 3. Gojira - The Way of All Flesh (For me, tied for metal album of the year with Watershed. Its like From Mars to Sirius except better and I love the lyrical themes of this release even more) 4. Opeth - Watershed (Good Opeth, great songs, wasn't as crazy for the overall feel for this album but its tasty and good Prog) 5. The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath (back to form IMO, still not as good as Francis or De-Loused but still good, better than Amputechture). I'll make a note that I didn't get around to an in-depth listen of Vertebrae but I think it would crack my list. I am working on it ASAP. Also the same goes for Protest the Hero, but they'd need a hell of an album to overtake Colors in my heart. Halfway there, and in really no particular order. I don't have a ton of superlatives for this year. I'm not trying to be a "Debbie Downer" but when I thought about it, its been a great year for music for me in general, but not necessarily new albums. I'll also throw out Keep of Kalessin's Colossus, Porcupine Tree's Nil Recurring (which came out in the USA, when I obviously was able to get it in 2008 though technically first released in Sept 2007, whatever) and Between the Buried and Me's Colors Live.
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January 4th, 2009, 10:27 AM
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Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
Agalloch - The White Equilibrium - Sagas Opeth - Watershed Swallow the Sun - Plague of Butterflies Enslaved - Vertebrae Korpiklaani - Korven Kuningas All-in-all, I wasn't that impressed with 2008. I haven't listened to the new Moonsorrow or Eluveitie albums yet either, but I'm sure they're both fantastic and should probably be on this list. |
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January 4th, 2009, 03:27 PM
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Top 21, in alphabetical order
Top 6 marked with an * *Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thundergod Arckanum - Antikosmos *Arghoslent - Hornets of the Pogrom Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery Dark Fortress - Eidolon *Darkestrah - The Great Silk Road Daylight Dies - Lost to the Living Dismember - Dismember Enslaved - Vertebrae Farsot - IIII Keep of Kalessin - Kolossus Mgla - Groza Moonspell - Night Eternal *Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle pt 1 October Falls - The Womb of Primordial Nature Ofermod - Tiamtü *Opeth - Watershed Satyricon - The Age of Nero Taake - Taake Testament - The Formation of Damnation *The Devil's Blood - Come Reap Thyrfing - Hels Vite
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January 4th, 2009, 03:44 PM
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I am that I am
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Dark Tranquillity - fiction(expanded edition)
Lil Wayne - tha carter lll AC/DC - black ice Disturbed - indestructible Burst - lazarus bird Head(Brian Welch) - save me from myself Fucked Up - chemistry of common life I Set My Friends on Fire - you can't spell slaughter without laughter Dennis Wilson - pacific ocean blue(reissued in 2008) The Sword - gods of the earth
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January 5th, 2009, 01:04 PM
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Walk, don't drive. My music collection! Added: D.T. OCEN EP (CD, CD with bad printing), Anvil TI13 signed, Arsis WRBG signed, Equilibrium TF. My pictures! If you can speak three languages you're trilingual. If you can speak two languages you're bilingual. If you can speak only one language you're a U.S. American. - Author Unknown Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons. - Aldous Huxley |
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January 5th, 2009, 10:11 PM
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January 6th, 2009, 12:20 AM
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Here's the "official" definition of an album: "According to the rules of the UK Charts, a recording counts as an "album" if either it has more than four tracks or lasts more than 25 minutes." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_album
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January 6th, 2009, 08:47 PM
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  Music Blog - Updated 3/13/10 Latest review: Burzum - Belus XANTHUS / VERGIL'S INFERNO |
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For me an album has to be at least 35 minutes. And well, both bands state that they're EPs. Also, Moonsorrow's has "For Whom The Bell Tolls" as the second track…. I highly doubt the band (or anyone, to be honest) will personally think of that release as an album. And Agalloch's says on the cover: The White EP. Couldn't be clearer.
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Walk, don't drive. My music collection! Added: D.T. OCEN EP (CD, CD with bad printing), Anvil TI13 signed, Arsis WRBG signed, Equilibrium TF. My pictures! If you can speak three languages you're trilingual. If you can speak two languages you're bilingual. If you can speak only one language you're a U.S. American. - Author Unknown Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons. - Aldous Huxley |
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January 7th, 2009, 01:57 PM
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Also according to the only legitimate definition I could find on wikipedia all of those albums satisfy the length requirement to be considered an album. IMO that's what matters if I'm being objective, not if the total amount of tracks are short (as it says OR, not and).
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January 17th, 2009, 06:29 AM
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1. R.E.M. - Accelerate
2. Ihsahn - ANGL 3. Mogwai - The hawk is Howling 4. Alestorm - Captain Morgan's Revenge 5. Arkona - Ot Serdsa K Nebu (Technicaly 2007 but it had a 2008 US release due to popular demand) 6. The Haunted - Versus 7. Cavalera Conspiracy - Inflikted 8. Protest the Hero - Fortress 9. Children of Bodom - Blooddrunk 10. Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery Looking forward to in 09 Morbid Angel - TBA Devin Townsend - Ki Lamb of God - Wrath Mastodon - Crack the Skye |
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January 19th, 2009, 09:08 AM
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-Below The Radiance-
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The ones I can remember off the top of my head, in no particular order:
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God Testament - The Formation of Damnation Jeff Loomis - Zero Order Phase Rotting Christ - Theogonia (Might have been 07, not too sure) Century Media - Covering 20 Years of Extremes (Sure it's a compilation but i enjoy it :P) Apocalyptica - Worlds Collide and a personal favourite: Warrel Dane - Praises to the War Machine.
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February 11th, 2009, 02:57 PM
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February 11th, 2009, 08:37 PM
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February 15th, 2009, 04:35 PM
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1. Opeth - Watershed
2. Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery 3. Swallow the Sun - Plague of Butterflies 4. Neuraxis - The Thin Line Between 5. Origin - Antithesis 6. Kalmah - For The Revolution 7. Into Eternity - The Incurable Tragedy 8. Kataklysm - Prevail 9. Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God 10. In Flames - Sense Of Purpose
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February 15th, 2009, 07:11 PM
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As Naglfar devours us all
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I've been too poor to buy very much...
But Vertebrae wins. Fatality. Honorable mention to Enterprise by Cronian (excepting the cheesy middle section on Deportation; barf). |
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April 23rd, 2009, 06:50 PM
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New to this particular forum, i usually hang around the COB forum but yeah. I'm here now cuz DT fucking rockz so.....
1.DT-Fiction 2.Children of bodom-Blooddrunk 3.Amon Amarth-Twilight of the Thunder God 4.Omnium Gatherum-Redshift 5.Arsis- We are the nightmare
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July 2nd, 2009, 02:46 PM
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1. Stormlord (Ita) - Mare Nostrum
2. Testament - The Formation Of Damnation 3. Hypocrisy - Catch 22 (V2.0.08)
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July 3rd, 2009, 06:00 AM
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Not in order, just what I remember now.
1. Cavalera Conspiracy - Inflikted (Saw these guys live and they kicked ass) 2. Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone (Yes, Slipknot) 3. Metallica - Death Magnetic And I think that is it, I will check my collection at home tho. Haven't really gotten new albums in a while, since I'm still concentrating on my history project.
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