The Music of 2008 - Top 10s
My top 10 (or less) albums of 2008, grouped by vague genre groupings:
Top rock
- Avantasia - The Scarecrow
- Extreme - Saudades De Rock
- Edguy - Tinnitus Sanctus
- Glenn Hughes - First Underground Nuclear Kitchen
- Guns n' Roses - Chinese Democracy
- King's X - XV
- Mötley Crüe - Saints of Los Angeles
- Secret & Whisper - Great White Whale
- Starbreaker - Loves's Dying Wish
- Tesla - Forever More
Top melodic/power/progressive metal
- Aryeon - 01011001
- Circle II Circle - Delusions of Grandeur
- Cynic - Traced In Air
- Dragon Force - Ultra Beatdown
- Evergrey - Torn
- Falconer - Among Beggars and Thieves
- Iced Earth - The Crucible of Man - Something Wicked, Pt. 2
- Jon Oliva's Pain - Global Warning
- To-Mera - Delusions
- Warrel Dane - Praises To The War Machine
Top death/black metal/progressive death/technical
- Adversary - Singularity
- Arsis - We Are The Nightmare
- Becoming The Archetype - Dichotomy
- Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery
- Ihsahn - Angl
- Into Eternity - The Incurable Tragedy
- Keep of Kalessin - Kolossus
- Omnium Gatherum - The Red Shift
- Opeth - Watershed
- Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe
Top stoner/sludge/doom/avant garde
- Benea Reach - Alleviat
- Bison b.c - Quiet Earth
- Burst - Lazarus Bird
- Soilent Green - Inevitable Collapse In the Presence of Conviction
- Swallow the Sun - Plague of Butterflies
- Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
- Daylight Dies - Lost To The Living
- Intronaut - Prehistoricisms (for some reason, removed from the NZ iTunes store...)
- Alpha Galates - A Stimulus for Reason
Top metal/hardcore/goth/thrash
- Architects - Ruin
- Death Angel - Killing Season
- Die Apokalyptischen Reiter - Licht (also removed)
- The Human Abstract - Midheaven
- Lacrimas Profundere - Songs for the Last View
- Moonspell - Night Eternal
- Protest The Hero - Fortress
- The Showdown - Back Breaker
- Testament - The Formation of Damnation
Top accoustic/mood/mellow
- Anathema - Hindsight
- No-Man - Schoolyard Ghosts
- Steven Wilson - Insurgentes
- Black Mountain - In The Future
Top progressive rock
- Amaseffer - Slaves for Life
- Beardfish - Sleeping In Traffic: Part Two
- Demians - Building An Empire
- Glass Hammer - Culture of Ascent
- Lunatic Soul - Lunatic Soul
- Neal Morse - Lifeline
- The Pineapple Thief - Tightly Unwound (also removed)
- RPWL - The RPWL Experience
- The Tangent - Not As Good As the Book
- 3 - The End Is Begun
Top other
- Family Force 5 - Dance Or Die
- Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
- John Schlitt - The Grafting
- Steve Stevens - Memory Crash
- Jeff Loomis - Zero Order Phase
Top disappointments of the year
- Judas priest - Nostradamus
- Alice Cooper - Along came a spider
- Blessed By A Broken Heart - Blessed By A Broken Heart
- Metallica - Death Magnetic (by virtue of mix alone)