I want to set you on fire.

That is one damn good looking list!

I disagree. The only really pleasant surprise about it is how high Hail of Bullets managed to climb. It's just not... a heavy enough top ten list.

Awful list. I know it's hard to avoid the biggest bands getting the largest number of votes, but bands like Hammers Of Misfortune, Misery Index, and Dead Congregation way below piles of shit such as the new Testament and Judas Priest? c'mon

Not chicks, not not chicks.

It is, in the strictest sense of the term, a popularity contest. More popular bands will get well-ranked simply because so many more people heard their album. Considering how many metal albums came out this year, the fact that so many bands I like made it on the list at all is a pleasant surprise for me.

1. Arkona- Ot serdca k Nebu
2. KoK- Kolossus
3.Monolith Deathcult- Triumvirate
4. Behemoth- Ezkaton
5. Equilibrium- Sagas
6. TYR- Land
7.Moonsorrow- Tulimyrsky
8.Satyricon- Age of Nero
9.Eluvetie- Slania
10.Amon Amarth- Twilight of the Thundergod



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Also pleasantly surprised that Cynic was #8. Should've been higher but whatev.

Fintroll of Bodom? Man there's nothing I'd like more to firebomb this band (for uh, personal reasons I'll call it). Good list otherwise

I don't understand the nickname, what? I would have said "Dropkick Traquillity". They're at the bottom of my list too, though, so... I only heard 15 albums from 2008 so the competition wasn't so stiff really.

Woah now, let's not get carried away and start bashing Dark Tranquillity!

It may be best to stop before reaching #10 if Eluvetie starts to seep into your mind as a good choice.

My Favourite album is Dystopia's self titled. Too bad they aren't making anything more after that.

Others in no particular order... Not all are metal

Pest-Rest In Morbid Darkness
I'm In A Coffin-One Final action
Behemoth-Live Apostasy
Have A Nice Life-Deathconciousness
Lifelover-Konkurs(Not as good as erotik, but still worthwhile)
Hypothermia-Gratoner(Again, not as good as their early more raw work, but still good)

I'll think of some more later...

Thanks for doing this again. Always interesting to look through the final list and individual lists and look for things that may have flown under my radar.

I don't mind Dark Tranquillity, though I don't listen to them much anymore... I just don't like how if you took away the pipes, fiddle, and other folk instruments from Eluveitie you'd have a Swiss DT knockoff.

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Top 20 of 2008:

1] TESTAMENT – The Formation Of Damnation
2] METALLICA – Death Magnetic
3] VOLBEAT – Guitar Gangsters And Cadillac Blood
4] BLAZE BAYLEY – The Man Who Would Not Die
5] HAIL OF BULLETS – Of Frost And War
6] DISMEMBER – Dismember
7] GOJIRA – The Way Of All Flesh
8] DEATH ANGEL – Killing Season
9] AIRBOURNE – Runnin’ Wild
10] MESHUGGAH – Obzen
11] MOTORHEAD – Motorizer
12] TOXIC HOLOCAUST – An Overdose Of Death
13] COMMUNIC – Payment Of Existence
14] WHITESNAKE – Good To Be Bad
15] LAAZ ROCKIT – Left For Dead
16] ANVIL – This Is Thirteen
17] EVERGREY – Torn
18] BRAINSTORM – Downburst
19] ZIMMERS HOLE – When You Were Shouting At The Devil…
20] ANOTHER BLACK DAY – Another Black Day

A lil' bit of everything! If you're in the London area, hear it and more
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Portishead!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I could make a wicked 15 "not metal" music list for 08. It was a great year.

Not all the albums you put into you list need to be metal.

I know. I usually separate them though.

I know I'm going to get hounded for this but I have a couple more, and I'm aware they aren't metal albums.
The Acacia Strain-Continent
Bring Me The Horizon-Suicide Season

Here are a few more that just came to my mind.

Fury And Flames-Hate Eternal
Galegenfrist-Nortt forgot about this in my first list.
The White-Agalloch
Smile-Boris
Kreator-At The Pulse Of Kapitulation
Bondage Goat Zombie-Belphegor
The Slip-Nine Inch Nails
XXV-Vader

I'd have to give my vote for Opeth, Cynic, Meshuggah, and The Faceless. As far as i'm concerned musically, they have blown our mind with tasteful music and awesome riffs to headband to.

If the above mentioned bands are tasteful, then I'm damn well glad I have no taste.

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You tend to not like things with musical relevance.

But the Faceless is easily one of the worst goddamn things shat onto this planet. I would take a swarm of locusts eating away my skin to listening to that band ever again.