Favorite Release this year so far, 2008?

The new crystal eyes is great, so is Gama bombs album and municipal waste.

So far, I'd say Testament - The Formation of Damnation. But I am waiting to hear Cynic - Traced in Air.

Testament - FOD

Enslaved - Vertebrae

My top 25 list is complete with all changes:

1. Enslaved - Vertebrae
2. Whitesnake - Good To Be Bad
3. Dokken - Lightning Strikes Again
4. Jon Oliva's Pain - Global Warning
5. My Silent Wake - A Garland of Tears
6. Yngwie Malmsteen - Perpetual Flame
7. House of Lords - Come To My Kingdom
8. Rage - Carved In Stone
9. Eden's Curse - The Second Coming
10. Paradox - Electrify
11. Journey - Revelation
12. Venom - Hell
13. Scarlet Angel - Enter The Magic
14. Mindwarp Chamber - Delusional Reality
15. Temple of Blood - Overlord
16. Metallica - Death Magnetic
17. AC/DC - Black Ice
18. Terror - The Damned, The Shamed
19. Cavalera Conspiracy - Inflikted
20. Dominici - O3 A Trilogy Part III
21. Once Dead - Visions of Hell
22. Judas Priest - Nostradamus
23. Motorhead - Motorizer
24. Holy Blood - The Patriot
25. Deicide - Til Death Do Us Part


Disappointments:

Saint - Crime Scene Earth
Alice Cooper - Along Came A Spider
Jacobs Dream - Dominion of Darkness


It is mirrored here:
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/spectrefate/my_favorite_albums_of_2008__in_order_

exact33 wrote:

Human zoo - Over the Horizon

Out of curiosity, what was it about it that was disappointing? For me that is in my top 10 this year. Of course I haven't heard the debut so maybe that might be it.

I dident buy too many this year because i'm poor...

Soulfly - Conquer
Cavalera Conspiracy - Inflikted
Metallica - Death Magnetic
Opeth - Watershed
Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery
Cynic - Traced In Air
Testament - The Formation of Damnation
Disturbed - Indestructible
Iced Earth - The Crucible of Man
Judas Priest - Nostradamus


Also enjoyed
Exodus - Let There Be Blood
Kiss - Jigoku-Retsuden
Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force - Perpetual Flame

Want list things that may make the list once I hear them
AC/DC - Black Ice
Motorhead - Motorizor
Rush - Snakes And Arrows Live
Pyramaze - Immortal
Alice Cooper - Along Came A Spider
David Gilmour - Live in Gdańsk
Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy

Artists I Discovered/Got Into This Year
Baroness
Screamin Jay Hawkins
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Rage Against The Machine
Queens of the Stone Age
Carnivore
Type O Negative
Spawn of Possession
Shooter Jennings
Hank Williams III

Fav so far is Zero Order Phase - Jeff Loomis
Bonded by blood - Feed the beast

Sevendust - Hope and Sorrow

still hasnt been topped..

DallasBlack wrote:

The top spot is still a tie between:

Khymera-The Greatest Wonder
Jon Oliva's Pain-Global Warning
Avantasia-The Scarecrow

I listened to Scarecrow while taking a nice walk under the autumn trees and have to break the tie. JOP and Khymera are still tied for 2nd and are great albums, but Scarecrow is just too amazing an album and nothing (short of TSO, but that won't come out til next year) stood a chance this year.

spectrefate wrote:

My top 25 list is complete with all changes:

1. Enslaved - Vertebrae
2. Whitesnake - Good To Be Bad
3. Dokken - Lightning Strikes Again
4. Jon Oliva's Pain - Global Warning
5. My Silent Wake - A Garland of Tears
6. Yngwie Malmsteen - Perpetual Flame
7. House of Lords - Come To My Kingdom
8. Rage - Carved In Stone
9. Eden's Curse - The Second Coming
10. Paradox - Electrify
11. Journey - Revelation
12. Venom - Hell
13. Scarlet Angel - Enter The Magic
14. Mindwarp Chamber - Delusional Reality
15. Temple of Blood - Overlord
16. Metallica - Death Magnetic
17. AC/DC - Black Ice
18. Terror - The Damned, The Shamed
19. Cavalera Conspiracy - Inflikted
20. Dominici - O3 A Trilogy Part III
21. Once Dead - Visions of Hell
22. Judas Priest - Nostradamus
23. Motorhead - Motorizer
24. Holy Blood - The Patriot
25. Deicide - Til Death Do Us Part


Disappointments:

Saint - Crime Scene Earth
Alice Cooper - Along Came A Spider
Jacobs Dream - Dominion of Darkness


It is mirrored here:
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We're honored to make it on your list.

As a kid, I never thought I'd be in a band that would release an album that people would like more than legends such as JUDAS PRIEST and METALLICA!

Well here is my final list!


1) Helstar - The King Of Hell
2) Unleashed - Hammer Battalion
3) Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
4) Deathchain - Death Eternal
5) Venom - Hell
6) Urn - Soul Destroyers
7) Avenger of Blood - Death Brigade
Warbringer - War Without End
9) Head On Collision - Ritual Sacrifice
10) Hail of Bullets - Of Frost And War
11) Guillotine - Blood Money
12) Holy Moses - Agony Of Death
13) Exmortus - In Hatred's Flame
14) Gravehill - Metal of Death & The Advocation of Murder
15) Metal Church - This Present Wasteland
16) Battalion - Welcome to the Warzone
17) Nocturnal Fear - Code Of Violence
18) Hexen - State Of Insurgency
19) Motörhead - Motorizer
20) Destruction - D.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N
21) Eluveitie - Slania
22) Legion Of The Damned - Feel The Blade
23) Waylander - Honour Amongst Chaos
24) Jeff Loomis - Zero Order Phase
25) Grave - Dominion VIII

1.)Gama Bomb-Citizen Brain , Toxic Holocaust-An Overdose of Death
2.)Helstar-The King of Hell
3.)Theocracy-Mirror of Souls
4.)Hexen-State of Insurgency
5.)Hatchet-Awaiting Evil
6.)Driver-Sons of Thunder
7.)Bonded By Blood-Feed the Beast
8.)Death Angel-Killing Season
9.)Testament-Formation of Damnation
10.)Avenger of Blood-Death Brigade
11.)Early Man-Beware the Circling Fin
12.)Lechery-Violator
13.)Faith Factor-Against a Darkened Sky
14.)Once Dead-Visions of Hell
15.)The Showdown-Backbreaker
16.)Warbringer-War without End
17.)Merciless Death-Realm of Terror
18.)Soul Embraced-Dead Alive
19.)Elliots Keep-In Medias Res
20.)Temple of Blood-Overlord
21.)J.O.P-Global Warning
22.)Cavalera Conspiracy-Inflikted

1. Motorhead - Motorizer
2. AC/DC - Black Ice
3. Alice Cooper - Along Came A Spider
4. Testament - The Formation of Damnation
5. My Silent Wake - A Garland of Tears
6. Gama Bomb - Citizen Brain
7. Dirty Looks - California Free Ride
8. Dirty Looks - Superdeluxe
9. Kings X - XV
10. Brainstorm - Downburst
11. Avenger of Blood - Death Brigade
12. Sevendust - Chapter VII: Hope and Sorrow
13. Metal Church - This Present Wasteland
14. Once Dead-Visions of Hell
15. Metallica - Death Magnetic
16. Main Line Riders - Shot in the Dark
17. Death Angel - Killing Season
18. Whitesnake - Good To Be Bad
19. Faith Factor - Against A Darkened Sky
20. Merciless Death - Realm of Terror
21. Iced Earth - The Crucible Of Man
22. Fatality - Metal As Hell!: Chapter I

my final list...
1 F*ck the Facts - Disgorge Mexico
2 Flagitious Idiosyncrasy in the Dilapidation - Flagitious Idiosyncrasy in the Dilapidation
3 Holy Moses - Agony of Death
4 Krisiun - Southern Storm
5 Aborted - Strychnine.213
6 Coffins - Buried Death
7 Hate Eternal - Fury & Flames
8 Purgatory - Cultus Luciferi: The Splendour of Chaos
9 Moonspell - Night Eternal
10 Darkthrone - Dark Thrones and Black Flags
11 Grave - Dominion VIII
12 Unleashed - Hammer Battalion
13 Aura Noir - Hades Rise
14 Terdor - Axis Panzerzug Anno November 1942
15 Deathchain - Death Eternal
16 Belphegor - Bondage Goat Zombie
17 Putrevore - Morphed from Deadbreath
18 Hail of Bullets - ...Of Frost and War
19 Nervecell - Preaching Venom
20 Gloomy Grim - Under the Spell of the Unlight
21 Flesh - Worship the Soul of Disgust
22 Ivebeenshot - Doza
23 Flesh Consumed - ...Mutilate, Eviscerate, Decapitate
24 Demented - Psychoanalysis of Eternal Pain
25 Kataklysm - Prevail
26 Catalepsy - Iniquity
27 Benediction - Killing Music
28 Warbringer - War Without End
29 Sickening - Ignorance Supremacy
30 Prostitute Disfigurement - Descendants of Depravity
31 Agenda of Swine - Waves of Human Suffering
32 Inhuman Hate - Merciless Misanthropic
33 Septic Flesh - Communion
34 F*ck Off and Die! - Anti All
35 Septory - World War Chaos
36 Origin - Antithesis
37 Devastator - Conjuring Evil
38 Deicide - Till Death Do Us Part
39 Warvictims - Until Man Exists No More
40 Meathook - Infernal Torture
41 Toxic Holocaust - An Overdose of Death...
42 Fleshless - Hate Is Born
43 Proclamation - Messiah of Darkness and Impurity
44 Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery
45 Disfigured - Blistering of the Mouth
46 Feto in Fetus - Far From the Truth
47 Venom - Hell
48 Gaf - Mongofied
49 Purulent Jacuzzi - Stench of the Drowned Carrion
50 Deeds of Flesh - Of What's to Come

theres some killer releases mc!

Guns N Roses - Chinese Democracy
Scott Weiland- Happy in Golashes
Metallica- Death Magnetic

2008 Releases I want to check out

AC/DC Black Ice

1. Warrel Dane - Praise To The War Machine
2. Firewind - The Premonition
3. Metallica - Death Magnetic
4. Opeth - Watershed
5. Evergrey - Torn
6. Pyramaze - Immortal
7. Iced Earth - The Crucible Of Man
8. Demain - Building an Empire
9. Axel Rudi Pell - Tales Of The Crown
10. Jorn - Lonely Are The Brave
11. Into Eternity-The Incurable Tragedy
12. Judas Priest - Nostradamus
13. Testament - Formation of Damnation

Rex wrote:

1. Warrel Dane - Praise To The War Machine
2. Firewind - The Premonition
3. Metallica - Death Magnetic
4. Opeth - Watershed
5. Evergrey - Torn
6. Pyramaze - Immortal
7. Iced Earth - The Crucible Of Man
8. Demain - Building an Empire
9. Axel Rudi Pell - Tales Of The Crown
10. Jorn - Lonely Are The Brave
11. Into Eternity-The Incurable Tragedy
12. Judas Priest - Nostradamus
13. Testament - Formation of Damnation

It's amazing to me how an "underground" genre has such a vast variety of bands. I have only heard of three of those albums on your list. Metal is alive and well, that's for sure.

Yeah, its alive anyway!

Rex wrote:

Yeah, its alive anyway!

Yep.

A new one for me:

1. Jon Oliva's Pain - 'Global Warning'
   
2. Warrel Dane - 'Praises To The War Machine'
   
3. Iced Earth - 'The Crucible Of Man (Something Wicked Part 2)'
   
4. Metallica - 'Death Magnetic'
   
5. Alice Cooper - 'Along Came A Spider'
   
6. Divinefire - 'Farewell'
   
7. Amaseffer - 'Exodus - Slaves For Life'
   
8. Once Dead - 'Visions Of Hell'
   
9. Brainstorm - 'Downburst'
   
10. Testament - 'The Formation Of Damnation'
    
11. Temple Of Blood - 'Overlord'
    
12. Helstar - 'The King Of Hell'
    
13. Avantasia - 'The Scarecrow'
    
14. Circle II Circle - 'Delusions Of Grandeur'
    
15. Evergrey - 'Torn'
    
16. Sinner - 'Crash & Burn'
    
17. In Flames - 'A Sense Of Purpose'
    
18. Communic - 'Payment Of Existence'
    
19. Jorn - 'Lonely Are The Brave'
    
20. Judas Priest - 'Nostradamus'
    

I'm liking that IN FLAMES disc as well, Kurt....

Adrenicide - Natural Born Thrashers

Pitiful Reign - Visual Violence

Warpath - Damnation