2008 - Your Picks

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[Sextus Loverlord]

It's almost November and again, I've been kinda out of touch.

Anyway, make your picks. Add to the hall of fame and hall of shame.

[Phoenix]

Fame -

Pharaoh - Be Gone
Avantasia - The Scarecrow
Manilla Road - Voyager
Wormfood - France
Isole - Bliss of Solitude
Lair of the Minotaur - War Metal Battle Master
Origin - Antithesis
Waylander - Honor Amongst Chaos
Brother Firetribe - Heart of Fire
Blaze Bayley - The Man Who Would Not Die

Shame -

Human Fortress - Eternal Empire
Arsis - We Are the Nightmare
Iced Earth - The Crucible of Man
Children of Bodom - Blooddrunk
Decrepit Birth - Diminishing Between Worlds
Biomechanical - Cannibalised
Pyramaze - Immortal

Need to hear -

Edguy - Tinnitus Sanctus
Grand Magus - Iron Will
Crom - Vengeance
Ironsword - Overlords of Chaos

[Fury]

Fame -

Revelation - Release
Ironsword - Overlords Of Chaos
Toxic Holocaust - An Overdose Of Death
Grand Magus - Iron Will
Pharaoh - Be Gone
Sabaton - The Art Of War
Holy Martyr - Hellenic Warrior Spirit
Nuclear Desecration - Desecrated Temple Of Impurity

Shame -

Children of Bodom - Blooddrunk
Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle Part I

Have to Hear -

Manilla Road - Voyager
Leather Nun - Absence Of Light
The Lamp Of Thoth - Portents, Omens & Dooms

[Markus]

Eehm...hello hello? A bit early for this maybe, since it's only the end of October?

For example, PARAGON will release their album in mid-November, and i'm pretty sure it will be one of 2008's best...so i'll wait to do a list.

[Phoenix]

PARAGON releasing another album seems weird. I wasn't even sure it was true at first, simply due to the odd nature of the cover and song-titles as compared to past efforts.

[Lars]

2008 HITLIST:

Forefather - Steadfast
Aura Noir - Hades Rise
Alestorm - Captain Morgan's Revenge
Benediction - Killing Music
Eldrig - Mysterion
Decrepit Birth - Diminishing Between Worlds
Hail of Bullets - Of Frost and War
Grand Magus - Iron Will
Septic Flesh - Communion
The One - I, Master
Leviathan - Massive Conspiracy Against All Life
Rotten Sound - Cycles
Celestia - Frigidiis Apotheosia: Abstinencia Genesiis


2008 SHITLIST:

Cryptopsy - The Unspoken King
Dragonforce - Ultra Beatoff
Testament - The Formation of Damnation
Kataklysm - Prevail
Keep of Kalessin - Kolossus


2008 Meh-List

Folkearth - Father of Victory (Folkearth is so played out now... tiresome, tiresome, tiresome)
Death Angel - Killing Season
Children of Bodom - Blooddrunk
Agalloch - The White EP
Týr - Land
Hate Eternal - Fury & Flames
Judas Priest - Nostradamus
Woods of Ypres - Woods III: The Deepest Roots and Darkest Blues
Communic - Payment of Existence

[Zherneboh]

Famous:

Pharaoh - Be Gone [DADDY]
Judas Priest - Nostradamus
Manilla Road - Voyager
Heathendom - Nescience
Isole - Bliss of Solitude
Biomechanical - Cannibalised
SepticFlesh - Communion
Opeth - Watershed

Shameful:
Human Fortress - Eternal Empire

Occasional Celine Dion-esque shame:
Avantasia - The Scarecrow

Dissapointing:
Funeral - As the Light Does Shadow

Need to hear:
Edguy - Tinnitus Sanctus
Gates of Slumber - Conqueror
Holy Martyr - Hellenic Warrior Spirit

[Phoenix]

Oh come on that Avantasia album only had one Celine Dion-esque song.

[Markus]

PARAGON releasing another album seems weird. I wasn't even sure it was true at first, simply due to the odd nature of the cover and song-titles as compared to past efforts.

Well, the "Larger Than Life"-cover was very unnecessary, and why they put it on the new album seemed strange to me....it would've been enough with the EP.

But the other songtitles are all pretty PARAGON-ish I think. "Hellgore", "Entombed", "Bloodfeast", "Death Next Door" and "The Killing Hand" especially, do sound like like them in a way.

I think it'll be a great album, but possibly not as good as especially their two latest albums, which is a tough task to top.

[Phoenix]

Revenge was a real monster of an album, but Forgotten Prophecies was a bit less memorable, with only the first song sticking out as  -able.

[darigaaz]

Best moments of 2008

Nomad Son - First Light
Crom - Vengeance
The Gates of Slumber - Conquer
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
Grand Magus - Iron Will
Judas Priest - Nostradamus

Kind of a disappointment:

Haggard - Tales Of Ithiria (Nothing New)
Children of Bodom - Blooddrunk


Still awaiting release:

Forsaken's New album

Special Mention:

Uriah Heep - Wake the Sleeper

These are just from the top of my head..still have to check out my collection at home

[metal_xxx]

- Fame:
Enslaved - Vertebrae
Equilibrium - Sagas
Grand Magus - Iron Will
Helheim - Kaoskult
Mars Volta - Bedlam in Goliath
Whitesnake - Good to be Bad
Brainstorm - Downburst
Soilent Green - Too long album title.

- Shame:
Opeth - Watershed
Keep of Kalessin - Kolossus
Imagika - Feast For the Hated
Children of Bodom - Blooddrunk
The new in flames

Not Heard:
Pyramaze - Immortal

[xiphos]

hit:
Gama Bomb- Citizen Brain
Warbringer- War Without End
Bonded by Blood- Feed the Beast
Tyr- Land (I dont know why, but I loved this)
Amon Amarth- Twilight of the Thunder God
Manilla Road- Voyager
Enslaved- Vertebrae
Ironsword- Overlords of Chaos
Judas Priest- Nostradamus
Battleroar- To Death and Beyond
Toxic Holocaust- An Overdose of Death
Woodtemple- Sorrow of the Wind
Origin- Antithesis
Forefather- Steadfast
Keep of Kalessin- Kolossus

SHIT:
Cryptopsy- The Unspoken King
Children of Bodom- Blooddrunk
Human Fortress- Eternal Empire

Thanks to the reviews, I haven't really heard many shit albums this year...

[Decay]

Fame;
Lair of the Minotaur - War Metal Battle Master
Unleashed - Hammer Battalion
Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
Rotten Sound - Cycles
Skepticism - Alloy
De Profundis - Beyond Redemption (Cheers Lars!)
Jex Thoth - s/t
Toxic Holocaust - An Overdose of Death...
Ereb Altor - By Honour

Yawnfest;
Grave - Dominion VIII
Communic - Payment of Existence
Testament - The Formation of Damnation
My Shameful - Descend

Shame;
Destruction - D.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N.
Cryptopsy - The Unspoken King (Nothing will top this heap of festering dog shit)

Stuff still to hear before the years end;
Pantheist - Journey Through Lands Unknown
Cynic - Traced in Air
Exodus - Let There Be Blood (Yeah, we all know it's going to be shit but we're all going to listen to it anyway)

[metal_xxx]

the new communic wasn't that bad... Listening to it now... Took me a good while to get into it and separate the songs from one another though.