It's already the end of 2008, so I am asking you what are your favorite albums of 2008. Here is my top 10 for this year. This year have been exclusively metal for me, so if you like metal you should definitely take a look in these albums.

1. Belphegor - Bondage Goat Zombie

2. Omnium Gatherum - The Redshift

3. Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God

4. Agalloch - The White (EP)

5. Krisiun - Southern Storm

6. Dark Fortress - Eidolon

7. Zonaria - The Cancer Empire 

8. Catamenia - VIII - The Time Unchained

9. Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery

10. Meshuggah - ObZen

It's already the end of 2008, so I am asking you what are your favorite albums of 2008. Here is my top 10 for this year. This year have been exclusively metal for me, so if you like metal you should definitely take a look in these albums.

1. Belphegor - Bondage Goat Zombie

2. Omnium Gatherum - The Redshift

3. Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God

4. Agalloch - The White (EP)

5. Krisiun - Southern Storm

6. Dark Fortress - Eidolon

7. Zonaria - The Cancer Empire 

 

8. Catamenia - VIII - The Time Unchained

9. Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery

10. Meshuggah - ObZen

Redgarl

I LOVE Meshuggah! (and you now)

1. R.E.M. - Accelerate

2. Radiohead - The Best Of

3. Beck - Modern Guilt

4. Coldplay - Viva La Vida

5. The Rolling Stones - Shine a Light

6. Weezer - The Red Album

7. Nine Inch Nails - The Slip

8. The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely

Meh, I could only come up with 8.

Get ready for a thread full of metal bands with stupid names and album covers done by moody 13 year old art studentsvitriolboy

This is in NO order, just listing them.

1st. City of Ships-Live Free or Don't EP.

2nd. Meshuggah-Catch Thirty Three

3rd. Torche-Meanderthal

4th. CloudKicker-The Discovery

5th. Counting Crows-August and Everthing After

6th.  High on Fire-Death Is This Communion

7th. Moments In Grace-Moonlight Survived

8th. Rancid-And Out Come the Wolves (also, Rancid 2000)

9th. Savio-Denying The Constants

10th. Meshuggah-obZen 

In no order:

Ob(Servent)-Psycroptic

Twilight Of The Thunder God-Amon Amarth

The Fathomless Mastery-Bloodbath

Traced In Air-Cynic

Antithesis-Origin

Watershed-Opeth

Diminishing Between Worlds-Decrepit Birth

Appeal To Reason-Rise Against

We Are The Nightmare-Arsis

Vertebrae-Enslaved

Vertebrae - Enslaved
The White - Agalloch
Slania - Eluveitie
Sagas - Equilibrium
Walhalla Wacht - Heidevolk

Honorable mentions:

Twilight of the Thunder God
Turning Seasons Within
For the Revolution
Korven Kuningas
Plague of Butterflies
Land

1. Fleet Foxes- Fleet Foxes

2. Nomo-Ghost Rock

3. The Fall-Imperial Wax Solvent

4. TV on the Radio- Dear Science

5. The Dodos- Visiter

6. Elzhi- The Preface

7. Black Milk-Tronic

8. Q-Tip-The Renaissance

9. EMC-The Show

10. Erykah Badu- New Amerykah 

Get ready for a thread full of awesome metal bands with unique names and badass album covers vitriolboy

Not in any order

In Rainbows - Radiohead (physical version came out on the first of the year where I live, so I'm counting it as on 08 album)

The Slip - NIN

Ghosts I-IV - NIN

HAARP - Muse

The Seldom Seen Kid - Elbow

Falling Off The Lavender Bridge - Lightspeed Champion

A Cross The Universe - Justice

Oracular Spectacular - MGMT

Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust - Sigur Ros(copy/pasted cause I'm not gonna type all that out)

Feed The Animals - Girl Talk

I should also mention Does It Offend You, Yeah?'s debut album. I enjoyed that quite a bit over the past year.

Justice album, Girl talk, Day & Age by the Killers, Viva la vida by Coldplay.

Those are off the top of my head.

Edit: I forgot this

TV on the Radio- Dear Science

[QUOTE="vitriolboy"]Get ready for a thread full of metal bands with stupid names and album covers done by moody 13 year old art studentsineedanap

Yep and what's with all the bands being extreme screaming men in a fantasy world? Amon Amarth? I listened to a couple of songs and it made me sick, awful music!!! 

[QUOTE="ineedanap"][QUOTE="vitriolboy"]Get ready for a thread full of metal bands with stupid names and album covers done by moody 13 year old art studentsCBR600-RR

Yep and what's with all the bands being extreme screaming men in a fantasy world? Amon Amarth? I listened to a couple of songs and it made me sick, awful music!!! 

[QUOTE="ineedanap"][QUOTE="vitriolboy"]Get ready for a thread full of metal bands with stupid names and album covers done by moody 13 year old art studentsCBR600-RR

Yep and what's with all the bands being extreme screaming men in a fantasy world? Amon Amarth? I listened to a couple of songs and it made me sick, awful music!!! 

[QUOTE="CBR600-RR"]

[QUOTE="ineedanap"] This man speaks the truth.Darth-Caedus

Yep and what's with all the bands being extreme screaming men in a fantasy world? Amon Amarth? I listened to a couple of songs and it made me sick, awful music!!! 

[QUOTE="CBR600-RR"]

[QUOTE="ineedanap"] This man speaks the truth.Darth-Caedus

Yep and what's with all the bands being extreme screaming men in a fantasy world? Amon Amarth? I listened to a couple of songs and it made me sick, awful music!!! 

This is the only album i got this year

[QUOTE="Darth-Caedus"][QUOTE="CBR600-RR"]

Yep and what's with all the bands being extreme screaming men in a fantasy world? Amon Amarth? I listened to a couple of songs and it made me sick, awful music!!!

Jango-Bawls

[QUOTE="Jango-Bawls"][QUOTE="Darth-Caedus"]Yes, lets all ignore the actual music and instead focus on the Vocals and lyrics :roll:Darth-Caedus

I'm more of an alternative fan, A Perfect Circle etc.  The vocals are by far the most offputting, I could sing in one of those crap bands just by screaming. I don't care about the lyrics either, the music has to be good and I see no great music in metal, it's rare.

[QUOTE="Jango-Bawls"][QUOTE="Darth-Caedus"]Yes, lets all ignore the actual music and instead focus on the Vocals and lyrics :roll:Darth-Caedus

Get ready for a thread full of metal bands with stupid names and album covers done by moody 13 year old art studentsvitriolboy

[QUOTE="Darth-Caedus"][QUOTE="Jango-Bawls"] You think vocals and lyrics are'nt important?CBR600-RR

I'm more of an alternative fan, A Perfect Circle etc.  The vocals are by far the most offputting, I could sing in one of those crap bands just by screaming. I don't care about the lyrics either, the music has to be good and I see no great music in metal, it's rare.

[QUOTE="Darth-Caedus"][QUOTE="Jango-Bawls"] You think vocals and lyrics are'nt important?CBR600-RR

I'm more of an alternative fan, A Perfect Circle etc.  The vocals are by far the most offputting, I could sing in one of those crap bands just by screaming. I don't care about the lyrics either, the music has to be good and I see no great music in metal, it's rare.

[QUOTE="Darth-Caedus"][QUOTE="Jango-Bawls"] You think vocals and lyrics are'nt important?Jango-Bawls

[QUOTE="Jango-Bawls"][QUOTE="Darth-Caedus"]Nope, not when compared to the actual music, which the vast majority of metal haters seem to ignoretri-edge99

albums I bought

Viva la Vida-Coldplay

Death Magnetic-Metallica

Nas-Nas(self-titled)

albums I "aquired"(I have no money)

Watershed-Opeth

Indestructible-Disturbed

In order from best to Worst

1.Watershed

2.Indestructible

3.Death Magnetic

4.Viva la vida

5.Nas

1. Nick Cave and the bad seeds- Dig Lazarus Dig

2. Steven Wilson- Insurgentes

3. Marillion- Happiness is the road

4. The Tangent- Not as good as the book

5. Pendragon- Pure

6.Beardfish- Sleeping in traffic: Part 2

7. No Man- Schoolyard Ghosts

8. Van Der Graaf Generator- Trisector

9. Black Mountain- In the future

10. Super Furry Animals- Hey Venus!

[QUOTE="CBR600-RR"][QUOTE="Darth-Caedus"]Nope, not when compared to the actual music, which the vast majority of metal haters seem to ignoretri-edge99

I'm more of an alternative fan, A Perfect Circle etc.  The vocals are by far the most offputting, I could sing in one of those crap bands just by screaming. I don't care about the lyrics either, the music has to be good and I see no great music in metal, it's rare.

I did look at loads that people have posted on other threads and found no interest. I'm just not a fan of people jamming guitars too hard and slamming drums. There is the odd song I like that I come across, Rammstein have a few good songs and they are pretty good to get into, I'd say Rammstein have more talent than most metal bands I have come across. 

[QUOTE="ineedanap"][QUOTE="vitriolboy"]Get ready for a thread full of metal bands with stupid names and album covers done by moody 13 year old art studentsCBR600-RR

Yep and what's with all the bands being extreme screaming men in a fantasy world? Amon Amarth? I listened to a couple of songs and it made me sick, awful music!!! 

1. R.E.M. - Accelerate

 

2. Radiohead - The Best Of

 

3. Beck - Modern Guilt

4. Coldplay - Viva La Vida

 

5. The Rolling Stones - Shine a Light

 

6. Weezer - The Red Album

 

7. Nine Inch Nails - The Slip

 

8. The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely

 

Meh, I could only come up with 8.

THE_DRUGGIE

Pretty much these. Including Led Zeppelin IV.

[QUOTE="THE_DRUGGIE"]

1. R.E.M. - Accelerate

 

2. Radiohead - The Best Of

 

3. Beck - Modern Guilt

4. Coldplay - Viva La Vida

 

5. The Rolling Stones - Shine a Light

 

6. Weezer - The Red Album

 

7. Nine Inch Nails - The Slip

 

8. The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely

 

Meh, I could only come up with 8.

TheOddQuantum

Pretty much these. Including Led Zeppelin IV.

my favorties from the goth/industrial music scene

1: Eden Synthetic Crops - Enhancer
2: Informatik - Beyond
3: Hocico - backwards memories
4: Imperative Reaction - minus all
5: Modulate - Detonate
6: a kiss could be deadly - (self titled)
7: Blank - Impact Zone
8: Ayria - hearts for bullets
9: XP8 - the art of revenge
10: Wumpscut - Schadling

I'm glad to see people haven't resorted to the typical metal generalizations...

Anyway, back on topic.

• Opeth- Watershed
• Soilent Green- Inevitable Collapse In the Presence of Conviction
• Amon Amarth- Twilight of the Thunder God
• Testament- The Formation of Damnation
• The Haunted- Versus

In my opinion, these are some of the top albums this year.

Get ready for a thread full of metal bands with stupid names and album covers done by moody 13 year old art studentsvitriolboy

QFT

[QUOTE="Darth-Caedus"][QUOTE="Jango-Bawls"] You think vocals and lyrics are'nt important?CBR600-RR

I'm more of an alternative fan, A Perfect Circle etc. The vocals are by far the most offputting, I could sing in one of those crap bands just by screaming. I don't care about the lyrics either, the music has to be good and I see no great music in metal, it's rare.

Well...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iijKLHCQw5o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtGgIe5bE8A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su-FEbdNTuk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IccIHmA3vrA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9QCK6l6gKg&feature=related

This is the only 2008 album I've listened to. 

Damn. I know most people on OT love death metal, but all of these lists seem to be confined to that genre. Are there really that many incredible death metal albums released each year that they eclipse all other noteworthy releases in other genres?Cherokee_Jack