2008 Albums

[stefan86]

"The Day That Never Comes" was decent except the vocals, but still not better than the best songs on Load to me. Nevermore must make a new album soon for my untr00 metal needs!

[griev0r]

Wow I just checked out God is an Astronaut and am blown away. I love post rock but somehow I've heard of them but never took the time to listen to them Thanks for reminding me to, its great shit! I really need some new music I've been listening to the same shit for a long time now. Maybe some of you can check out my last fm and tell me some recommendations?

[M3]

Originally Posted by griev0r

Wow I just checked out God is an Astronaut and am blown away. I love post rock but somehow I've heard of them but never took the time to listen to them Thanks for reminding me to, its great shit! I really need some new music I've been listening to the same shit for a long time now. Maybe some of you can check out my last fm and tell me some recommendations?

Glad you like God Is An Astronaut. If you like post-rock, you might want to check out the American Dollar. They released their third album, A Memory Stream, this year. Also recommended are their first two albums: The American Dollar and The Technicolour Sleep (my personal favorite). Also, check out Hammock's Raising Your Voice... Trying To Stop An Echo -- it's truly a phenomenal album.

[MiniMoose]

Originally Posted by OminousInane

I'm referring to schmuks in the music they make, not their personalities. CATB is a pretty good record but DAHE is the best they ever did. They're horrid now imo.

I thought their last album was horrid, but the new one is probably just as good as DAHE and CATB..with the exception of 2 songs which I'm still not sure about yet. The album is also inspired by CATB btw..only that I feel it sounds more like DAHE if anything. So, you should check it out before you hate it too much. Sweetest Maleficia is a good song to start with.

[Hypnos]

Originally Posted by M3

Glad you like God Is An Astronaut. If you like post-rock, you might want to check out the American Dollar. They released their third album, A Memory Stream, this year. Also recommended are their first two albums: The American Dollar and The Technicolour Sleep (my personal favorite). Also, check out Hammock's Raising Your Voice... Trying To Stop An Echo -- it's truly a phenomenal album.

i highly recommend Kafabindünya from Turkey and Rosetta from USA, especially their last year's 'Wake/Lift' album

[Soundjunkie]

well the year is just about done so i guess my final list of 08.

1. The Grates - Teeth Lost, Hearts Won.
2. Mehuggah - obZen
3. Protest The Hero - Fortress
4. The Haunted - Versus
5. Cynic - Traced in Air
6. M83 - Saturdays=Youth
7. Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I-IV
8. Russian Circles - Station
9. Opeth - Watershed
10. Agalloch - The White (EP)

really hard to list those in a top 10 but i guess that works.
Love the shit out of that Grates record. its puts a smile on your face.
The meshuggah, Protest and Haunted records are all interchangeable i guess. they are all extremely solid releases from great bands.
I only heard this new cynic record recently and was just blown away. the only negative is its so short.
M83s album still holds up well and is just full of 80s energy.
Ghosts was the better NIN release this year. it just covers so much ground with its 36 instrumentals.
great steps forward for Russian circles and opeth.
The white EP is such an amazing folk infused creation. powerful atmosphere.

there was some other good releases but i felt they were just missing something. such as.

Steven Wilson - Insurgentes
Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery
Boris - Smile
Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
Mogwai - The Hawk is Howling
Textures - Silhouettes
etc.

i think that's about it. on to 09.

[Clayman77]

Anathema - Hindsight
Cult of Luna - Eternal Kingdom
Daylight Dies - Lost to Living
Forest of Shadows - Six Waves of Woe
In Flames - Sense of Purpose
Metallica - Death Magnetic
Moonspell - Night Eternal
Opeth - Watershed
Swallow the Sun - Plague of Butterflies
Unearth - The March

[InsaneKat]

Black Stone Cherry - Folklore and Superstition
Cog - Sharing Space
Gavin Rossdale - Wanderlust
The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath
No-Man - Schoolyard Ghosts
Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
Opeth - Watershed
Pineapple Thief - Tightly Unwound
Steven Wilson - Insurgentes

[Fredy_Brown]

Happy new year!
It's over and here's my best of 2008 music list. I took this task very seriously, yet I am sure I'll discover many great 2008 releases in upcoming months and years. Hope you'll like my suggestions. Feedback is welcome.
I wish you all the best. Take care.
Sincerely Fredy Brown
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Personal top 100 in alphabetical order:

A-fei - Nymphéas (2008)
Ah Cama-Sotz - Declaration of Innocence (2008)
Aidan Baker & Tim Hecker - Fantasma Parastasie (2008)
Akira Kosemura - Tiny Musical (2008)
Alexander Turnquist - Faint at the Loudest Hour (2008)
Alva Noto - Unitxt (2008)
Anders Ilar - Sworn (2008)
Balmorhea - River Arms (2008)
Basquiat Strings - Basquiat Strings With Seb Rochford (2008)
Benga - Diary Of An Afro Warrior (2008)
Bersarin Quartett - Bersarin Quartett (2008)
Blackfilm - Blackfilm (2008)
Bracken - Eno About The Need (2008)
Brael And Tokyo Bloodworm - Living Languages (2008)
Burning Star Core - Challenger (2008)
Celer - Discourses Of The Withered (2008)
Chris Abrahams and Mike Cooper - Oceanic Feeling Like (2008)
Christian Fennesz - Black Sea (2008)
Clark - Turning Dragon (2008)
Elliot Brood - Mountain Meadows (2008)
Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull (2008)
Equus - Eutheria (2008)
Empusae - The Hatred of Trees (2008)
Entia Non - Fold (2008)
Ensemble Economique - At The Foot Of Nameless Roads (2008)
Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale (2008)
Evan Marc & Steve Hillage - Dreamtime Submersible (2008)
Ez3kiel - Battlefield (2008)
Fabio Orsi & Valerio Cosi - We Could For Hours (2008)
Fjordne - The Last 3 Days Of Time (2008)
Flying Lotus - Los Engeles (2008)
Food For Animals - Belly (2008)
Geist - Apocalyptica (2008)
Geomatic - Blue Beam (2008)
Goldmund - The Malady of Elegance (2008)
Goro Watari - Hinode Tracks (2008)
Grails - Take Refuge in Clean Living (2008)
Hammock - Maybe They Will Sing For Us Tomorrow (2008)
Hauschka - Ferndorf (2008)
Helios - Caesura (2008)
Havoc Unit - H.IV+ [Hoarse Industrial Viremia] (2008)
Hecq - Night Falls (2008)
Horse Feathers - House With No Name (2008)
Irezumi - Endurance (2008)
Jacaszek - Treny (2008)
James Blackshaw - Litany of Echoes (2008)
Janek Schaefer - Alone at Last (2008)
Jasper TX - This Quiet Season/Black Sleep (2008)
Jerome Chassagnard - (F)Light (2008)
Joe Grimm - Brain Cloud (2008)
Jóhann Jóhannsson - Fordlândia (2008)
Juxta Phona & offthesky - !Escape Kit! (2008)
Kangding Ray - Automne Fold (2008)
Kasai Allstars - Congotronics 3 : In the 7th moon, the chief turned into a swimming fish... (2008)
Lil Wayne - Carter III (2008)
Machinefabriek - Dauw (2008)
Machinefabriek - Tapes Of The Day (2008)
Machinefabriek - Vloed
Machinefabriek & Freiband - Oahu (2008)
Marihiko Hara - Reflexion, Und Dann, Metamorphose (2008)
Merzbow - Dolphin Sonar (2008)
Merzbow & Richard Pinhas - Keio Line (2008)
Metaform - Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants (2008)
Nadja - Desire In Uneasiness (2008)
Natural Snow Buildings - The Dance Of The Moon And The Sun (2008)
Natural Snow Buildings - Slayer of the King of Hell (2008)
Peter Broderick - Float (2008)
Philip Jeck - Sand (2008)
Pocahaunted - Island Diamonds (2008)
Prolyphic & Reanimator - The Ugly Truth (2008)
Prurient - The Black Post Society(2008)
Rovo - Nuou (2008)
Ryoji Ikeda - Test Pattern (2008)
RZA - Digi Snacks (2008)
Sadistik - The Balancing Act (2008)
Shed - Shedding The Past (2008)
Sleepingdog - Polar Life (2008)
Stephan Mathieu - Radioland (2008)
Steve Reich - Daniel Variations (2008)
Steve Roach - Arc Of Passion (2008)
Steve Von Till - A Grave is A Grim Horse (2008)
Strand - Madrid 2 Los Angeles (2008)
Small Town Boredom - Autumn Might Have Hope (2008)
Spyweirdos / Floros Floridis / John Mourjopoulos - Epistrophy At Utopia (2008)
Strom Noir - Ylomejja (2008)
Sumner Mckane - What A Great Place To Be (2008)
Richard Skelton - Marking Time (2008)
Taiga Remains - Descend Form Ivory Cliffs (2008)
Taylor Deupree & Kenneth Kirschner - May (2008)
Terje Isungset - Ice Concerts (2008)
The Abbasi Brothers - Something Like Nostalgia (2008)
The Black Dog - Radio Scarecrow (2008)
The Fun Years - Baby, It's Cold Inside (2008)
The Sight Below - Glider (2008)
Totakeke - ELekatota - The Other Side Of The Tracks (2008)
Tzolk'in - Haab (2008)
Ulaan Khol - I (2008)
UpcDownCLeftCRightCABC+Start - Embers (2008)
Windy & Carl - Songs For The Broken Hearted (2008)
Xela - In Bocca al Lupo (Into the Mouth of the Wolf) (2008)

Awards:
Honorable mentions:
Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
(Not exatly my cup of tea, but this is quite original material.)

The Caretaker - Persistent Repetition of Phrases
Kevin Drumm - Imperial Distortion
Summons Of Shining Ruins - Summons Of Shining Ruins
Kenneth Kirschner - Filaments and Voids
(these four joints are great, they just don't seem to click with me)

Band of the year: Natural Snow Buildings

Artis of the year: Machinefabriek

Guilty pleasure: Britney Spears - Circus
Go Britney! Go!

[Blackfield]

^^

ok. copy paste from a magazine

[OminousInane]

top 100 what a joke

[MadTinus]

Yeah, listen and get to know a new album every 3-4 days during the whole year. F*ckin' impossible!

[Bleak Eyes]

FAIL!

[Phoenix5]

Originally Posted by OminousInane

top 100 what a joke

kind of like list as many albums as possible haha

[KittyKatatonia]

Top 100?

So retarded...

[abyss]

This is my personal top ten for 2008, in no particular order:
S.U.P-Hegemony
Mar de Grises - Draining The Waterheart
Klimt 1918-Just in Case...
Mourning Beloveth - A Disease for the Ages
Machetazo - Mundo Cripta
Enslaved - Vertebrae
Opeth - Watershed
Posession - Memento Mori
Gorija - The Way of All Flesh
Septic Flesh - Communion

[Brave.Archangel]

LOST TO THE LIVING!

[TrickySkittles]

Originally Posted by MadTinus

Yeah, listen and get to know a new album every 3-4 days during the whole year. F*ckin' impossible!

For me 10 is a stretch, I might get a bunch, but I won't listen to them much after the first spin, I usually keep the same songs playing for months/years at a time.

[Phoenix5]

Here's my list for the end of the year.



Honorable Mention Albums

Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery

Infinitum - Behold Eradication

Draconian - Turning Season Within

Opeth - Watershed

Ihsahn - angL

Mercenary - Architect Of Lies


Top 10 Albums




10. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago

9. Murder by Death - Red of Tooth and Claw

8. Sculptured - Embodiment

7. Before the Dawn - Soundscape Of Silence

6. Daylight Dies - Lost to the Living

5. Dark Suns - Grave Human Genuine

4. Warrel Dane - Praises To The War Machine

3. Moonspell - Night Eternal

2. Woods of Ypres - Woods III: Deepest Roots and Darkest Blues

1. Virgin Black - Requiem - Fortissimo


Year of the EP



Agalloch - The White

Bloodbath - Unblessing The Purity

Swallow the Sun - Plague Of Butterflies

Moonsorrow - Tulimyrsky