1. The Ractontuers - Consolers of the Lonely 2. Death Cab for Cutie -Narrow Stairs =3 The Presets - Apocolypso =3. Coldplay- Viva la Vida And Death and all His Friends 5. Cog- Sharing Space 6. Cut Copy- In Ghost Colours
Three 6 Mafia - Last 2 Walk Shinedown - The Sound of Madness Theory of a Deadman - Scars and Souvenirs Story of the Year - The Black Swan Rev Theory - Light It Up Disturbed - Indestructible 10 Years - Division Sevendust - Chapter VII: Hope and Sorrow Course of Nature - Damaged Cavalera Conspiracy - Inflikted
1.) Indestructible - Disturbed 2.) Skeletons - Wednesday 13 3.) Blooddrunk - Children of Bodom 4.) The Slip - Nine Inch Nails 5.) A Sense of Purpose - In Flames 6.) Ghosts I-IV - Nine Inch Nails
Top 15: 1. The New Frontiers - Mending 2. Utada Hikaru - HEART STATION 3. Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I-IV 4. Nine Inch Nails - The Slip 5. Artist Vs Poet - Alive Once Again 6. Young and Divine - Young and Divine 7. The Cab - Whisper War 8. Jason Mraz - We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. 9. Coldplay - Viva La Vida 10. Shanghai Restoration Project - Story of a City 11. she - Coloris 12. E.S. Posthumus - Cartographer 13. The Roots - Rising Down 14. We Shot The Moon - Fear and Love 15. Pendulum - In Silico Off: # Thrice - The Alchemy Index Volumes III & IV: Earth and Air # Story of the Year - The Black Swan # Panic at the Disco - Pretty. Odd. # Jon Foreman - Winter/Spring EP # Ivoryline - There Came A Lion # PlayRadioPlay! - Texas Nada Surf - Lucky The White Tie Affair - Walk This Way Edison Glass - Time Is Fiction 10 Years - Division The Mile After - Armada EP Cinematic Sunrise - A Coloring Storybook and Long-Playing Record Ratatat - LP3 Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple Gavin Rossdale - WANDERlust Portishead - Third The Medic Droid - Whats Your Medium Usher - Here I Stand Judging: Jake Mai - Olivine EP Lydia - Illuminate N*E*R*D - Seeing Sounds Queued: Foxboro Hot Tubs - Stop Drop and Roll!!! Weezer - Red Album Cold Electric - Cold Electric Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs Ours - Mercy (Dancing for the Death of an Imaginary Enemy) Mariah Carey - E=MC²
released: Kalmah - For the revolution Tiamat - Amanethes Stormlord - Mare nostrum Norther - N Eluveitie - Slania GraVil - Something worth chasing EP unreleased: Karlahan - Twilight Slipknot - All hope is gone Dragonforce - Ultra beatdown (Wintersun - Time) edit: Amon Amarth - Twilight of the thunder god Motörhead - Motörizer
If Matthew Good does get his album out by the end of the year, from the little i have heard of the demos, I think it should be up around there in quality. As for sales, he will do well in his country of Canada but few know of him here.
01. Story of the Year's The Black Swan 02. Forever the Sickest Kids' Underdog Alma Mater 03. Hit the Lights' Skip School, Start Fights 04. 36 Crazyfists' The Tide and Its Takers 05. Destroy the Runner's I, Lucifer 06. The Bright Star Alliance's Oceania 07. Oceana's The Tide 08. Gwen Stacy's The Life I Know 09. Here I Come Falling's Here I Come Falling 10. Attack Attack's Attack Attack Honorable mentions: A Skylit Drive's Wires and the Concept of Breathing Alesana's Where Myth Fades to Legend Cinematic Sunrise's A Coloring Storybook and Long Playing Record Panic at the Disco's Pretty. Odd. Protest the Hero's Fortress Off: 10 Years' Division A Bullet for Pretty Boy's Beauty in the Eyes of the Beholder A Cursive Memory's Changes A Girl, a Gun, a Ghost's Through the Eyes of Ahab A Kiss Could Be Deadly's A Kiss Could Be Deadly A Textbook Tragedy's Intimidator Across Five Aprils' Life Underwater And So I Watch You from Afar's Tonight the City Burns And Then There Was You's And Then There Was You Another Day Late's News Said It's Raining in New York Ashes Divide's Keep Telling Myself It's Alright Awake and Dreaming's It's Always Midnight in Sin City Bullet for My Valentine's Scream Aim Fire Burden of a Day's Blessed Be Our Ever After Burning Tree Project's Time and Color Bury Your Dead's Bury Your Dead Cambridge's How to Walk a Tightrope Can You Keep a Secret's The Feeling of Being Alive Carry the Torch's Dead Weather Children of Bodom's Blooddrunk City and Colour's Bring Me Your Love Danger Radio's Punch Your Lights Out Dead to Fall's Are You Serious? Driving East's The Future of the Free World Is Riding on This One Easton Legacy's New Nightmares to Challenge Sleep Emmure's The Respect Issue Every Avenue's Shh. Just Go with It Eyes Set to Kill's Reach Fireflight's Unbreakable Flo Rida's Mail on Sunday Flogging Molly's Float Forever the Sickest Kids' Hot Party Jams Four Letter Lie's What a Terrible Thing to Say Greeley Estate's Go West Young Man, Let the Evil Go East Holiday Parade's To You. From Us. Ill Niño's Enigma In Flames' A Sense of Purpose In Flames' The Mirror's Truth In Flight Radio's The Sound Inside Ivoryline's There Came a Lion Jon Foreman's Winter Lake Shore Drive's Adrift Among Sirens Linden's The Future Is... Lorene Drive's Out Alive Ludo's You're Awful, I Love You Lydia's Illuminate Machinae Supremacy's Overworld Me vs Hero's Me vs Hero Mercy Mercedes' Casio Rodeo Meshuggah's obZen Mourning After Massacre's For Failure of the Spoken Word My Children My Bride's Unbreakable Of Fate and Chance's An Atlas to Solutions Once Nothing's First Came the Law Opeth's Watershed Our Last Night's The Ghosts Among Us P.O.D.'s When Angels & Serpents Dance Paige's If You Say So Phantom Planet's Raise the Dead Pillar's For the Love of the Game Poets of the Fall's Revolution Roulette Promise of Redemption's When the Flowers Bloom Punk Goes Crunk R.E.M.'s Accelerate Saosin's Come Close Scenes and Sirens' The South Will Dance Again Search the City's A Fire So Big the Heavens Can See It Secondhand Serenade's A Twist in My Story Seven Cycles' City by City Sevendust's Chapter VII: Hope & Sorrow Small Towns Burn a Little Slower's Small Towns Burn a Little Slower The Apathy Eulogy's Introduction: Walk North When the Winter Hits The Audition's Champion The Breathing Process' In Waking: Divinity The Dreaming's Etched in Blood The Getaway Plan's Other Voices, Other Rooms The Matches' A Band in Hope The Morning Light's The Sounds of Love The Morning Of's The World as We Know It The Red Death's Godmakers The Secret Handshake's One Full Year The Used's Shallow Believer Their Beauty Fades' Every Exit Is an Entrance Theory of a Deadman's Scars & Souvenirs This Is Hell's Misfortunes Three Years Hiding's We Lost Ourselves and Found Our Way to This Thrice's The Alchemy Index, Vols. III & IV Underoath's Survive, Kaleidoscope Upon Beauty Rests' For the Days We Fear the Air We Breath We Are the Arsenal's The Trees With Blood Comes Cleansing's Horror
Best Albums of 2008 1. Children 18:3- Children 18:3 2. Alesana- Where Myth Fades to Legend 3. Flo Rida- Mail on Sunday 4. The Used- Shallow Believer 5. A Skylit Drive- Wires and the Concept of Breathing 6. Does It Offend You, Yeah?- You Have No Idea What You’re Getting Yourself Into 7. Flobots- Fight With Tools 8. Machinae Supremacy- Overworld 9. Tyga- No Introduction 10. The Audition- Champion Honorable Mentions: Panic at the Disco- Pretty. Odd. Lil Wayne- Tha Carter III Disturbed- Indestructible Every Avenue- Shh. Just Go With It. Simple Plan- Simple Plan Off: N.E.R.D.- Seeing Sounds Weezer- The Red Album Mindless Self Indulgence- If The Matches- A Band In Hope Akissforjersey- Victims Protest the Hero- Fortress Bullet For My Valentine- Scream Aim Fire Foxy Shazam- Introducing Currently Listening/Judging: Tickle Me Pink- Madeline Take the Crown- Relapse React Glamour of the Kill- Glamour of the Kill Kidz in the Hall- The In Crowd Shinedown- The Sound of Madness Forever the Sickest Kids- Underdog Alma Mater Coldplay- Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends Divided by Friday- Maybe In a Memory From First to Last- From First to Last Story of the Year- The Black Swan Katy Perry- One of the Boys The Mars Volta- The Bedlam in Goliath
Cool... Will and I started a trend. Top 15: 1. The New Frontiers - Mending 2. Utada Hikaru - HEART STATION 3. Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I-IV 4. Nine Inch Nails - The Slip 5. Artist Vs Poet - Alive Once Again 6. Young and Divine - Young and Divine 7. The Cab - Whisper War 8. Jason Mraz - We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. 9. Coldplay - Viva La Vida 10. Shanghai Restoration Project - Story of a City 11. she - Coloris 12. E.S. Posthumus - Cartographer 13. The Roots - Rising Down 14. We Shot The Moon - Fear and Love 15. Pendulum - In Silico Off: # Thrice - The Alchemy Index Volumes III & IV: Earth and Air # Story of the Year - The Black Swan # Panic at the Disco - Pretty. Odd. # Jon Foreman - Winter/Spring EP # Ivoryline - There Came A Lion # PlayRadioPlay! - Texas Nada Surf - Lucky The White Tie Affair - Walk This Way Edison Glass - Time Is Fiction 10 Years - Division The Mile After - Armada EP Cinematic Sunrise - A Coloring Storybook and Long-Playing Record Ratatat - LP3 Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple Gavin Rossdale - WANDERlust Portishead - Third The Medic Droid - Whats Your Medium Usher - Here I Stand Lydia Illuminate N*E*R*D - Seeing Sounds Jake Mai - Olivine EP Judging: Nas - Untitled Destroy The Runner - I, Lucifer Oceana - The Tide Queued: Foxboro Hot Tubs - Stop Drop and Roll!!! Weezer - Red Album Cold Electric - Cold Electric Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs Ours - Mercy (Dancing for the Death of an Imaginary Enemy) Mariah Carey - E=MC² EDIT: And yes, I am just looking at Will's ridiculously large list for ideas on new albums to listen to. Hush.
01: Thrice - The Alchemy Index Vol. III & IV Air & Earth 02: The Mars Volta - The Bedlam In Goliath 03: Nine Inch Nails - The Slip 04: Alkaline Trio - Agony and Irony 05: Machinae Supremacy - Overworld 06: Opeth - Watershed 07: Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs 08: Cog - Sharing Space 09: Sleep Parade - Things Can Always Change 10: 36 Crazyfists - The Tide And It's Takers 11: Protest The Hero - Fortress 12: Firewind - The Premonition 13: Mindless Self Indulgence - If 14: City and Colour - Bring Me Your Love 15: Disturbed - Indestructible 16: The Fratellis - Here We Stand 17: The Getaway Plan - Other Voices, Other Rooms 18: Less Than Jake - GNV FLA 19: Sky Eats Airplane - Sky Eats Airplane 20: sleepmakeswaves - In Today Walks Tomorrow 21: Bullet For My Valentine - Scream Aim Fire 22: Children Of Bodom - Blooddrunk 23: Filter - Anthems For The Damned 24: In Flames - A Sense Of Purpose 25: Secret & Whisper - Great White Whale
This is the list I had going but then I realized theres so many high points in all of these i couldnt really put them in a definite order... so heres the order i had but its really not technically in a order because albums at the bottom i believe deserve a higher place but theres just to much good music this year to do that... Cinmatic Sunrise - A Coloring Storybook And Long Playing Record EP Alesana - Where Myth Fades To Legend Artist Vs Poet - Alive Once Again The Used - Shallow Believer Forever The Sickest Kids - Underdog Alma Mater The Offspring - Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace Story Of The Year - The Black Swan Ivoryline - There Came A Lion Ashest Divide - Keep Telling Myself Its Alright Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs Cold Play - Viva La Vida Sigur Ros - Með Suð í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust Alkaline Trip - Agony And Irony
Vampire Weekend-S/T Counting Crows-Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings Ting Tings-We Started Nothing Flobots-Fight with Tools Anticipated: Hawthorne Heights-Fragile Future TBS-Untitled CSS-Donkey Sound of Animals Fighting-Ocean and the Sun U2-Untitled Keane-Untitled Matisyahu-Untitled MCR-Untitled ~Jack
01.Machinae Supremacy - Overworld 02.Scars On Broadway - Scars On Broadway 03. ReinXeed - The Light 04.Poets Of the Fall - Revolution Roulette 05.Power Quest - Master Of Illusio 06.P.O.D. - When Angels & Serpents Dance 07.Dragonforce - Ultra Beatdown 08.Rev Theory - Light It Up 09.Willet - Virus 10.10 Years - Division 11.Realign - New Wine 12.Midnight To Twelve - XII 13.Random Eyes - Invisible 14.Somastate - Reversals (EP) 15.Course Of Nature - Damaged Still waiting for : Trapt - Only Through the Pain (August 5th) Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone (August 26th) Taproot - Our Long Road Home (September 16th) Papa Roach - Metamorphosis (August/September) Lostprophets - Untitled (September/October or maybe next year) Hoobastank - Untitled (Late this year)
01: Thrice - The Alchemy Index Vol. III & IV Air & Earth 02: The Mars Volta - The Bedlam In Goliath 03: Nine Inch Nails - The Slip 04: Alkaline Trio - Agony and Irony 05: Machinae Supremacy - Overworld 06: Opeth - Watershed 07: Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs 08: Sleep Parade - Things Can Always Change 09: Cog - Sharing Space 10: 36 Crazyfists - The Tide And It's Takers 11: Mindless Self Indulgence - If 12: Protest The Hero - Fortress 13: Firewind - The Premonition 14: City and Colour - Bring Me Your Love 15: sleepmakeswaves - In Today Walks Tomorrow 16: Scars On Broadway - Scars On Broadway 17: Disturbed - Indestructible 18: Sigur Ros - Hmmm 19: Less Than Jake - GNV FLA 20: The Getaway Plan - Other Voices, Other Rooms 21: The Fratellis - Here We Stand 22: Sky Eats Airplane - Sky Eats Airplane 23: The Roots - Rising Down 24: Bullet For My Valentine - Scream Aim Fire 25: Children Of Bodom - Blooddrunk 26: Filter - Anthems For The Damned 27: In Flames - A Sense Of Purpose 28: Secret & Whisper - Great White Whale 29: This Is Hell - Misfortunes 30: Norther - N I need to listen to some of the albums more.
01. God Fires Man: "A Billion Balconies Facing the Sun" 02. Gavin Rossdale: "Wanderlust" 03. Filter: "Anthems for the Damned" 04. Shinedown: "The Sound of Madness" 05. Trapt: "Only Through the Pain" 06. Alkaline Trio: "Agony and Irony" 07. Disturbed: "Indestructible" 08. 10 Years: "Division" 09. Ashes Divide: "Keep Telling Myself It's Alright" 10. 3 Doors Down: "3 Doors Down" 11. P.O.D.: "When Angels & Serpents Dance" 12. Sevendust: "Chapter VII: Hope And Sorrow" 13. Nine Inch Nails: "The Slip" (Will edit after I hear Scars on Broadway. I know I'm forgetting some albums I've heard, too.)
01: Thrice - The Alchemy Index Vol. III & IV Air & Earth 02: The Mars Volta - The Bedlam In Goliath 03: Nine Inch Nails - The Slip 04: Alkaline Trio - Agony and Irony 05: Machinae Supremacy - Overworld 06: Opeth - Watershed 07: Sigur Ros - Hmmm 08: Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs 09: Sleep Parade - Things Can Always Change 10: Cog - Sharing Space 11: 36 Crazyfists - The Tide And It's Takers 12: Mindless Self Indulgence - If 13: Birds Of Tokyo - Universes 14: sleepmakeswaves - In Today Walks Tomorrow 15: Scars On Broadway - Scars On Broadway 16: City and Colour - Bring Me Your Love 17: Firewind - The Premonition 18: Protest The Hero - Fortress 19: Disturbed - Indestructible 20: Less Than Jake - GNV FLA 21: The Getaway Plan - Other Voices, Other Rooms 22: The Fratellis - Here We Stand 23: Sky Eats Airplane - Sky Eats Airplane 24: The Roots - Rising Down 25: Bullet For My Valentine - Scream Aim Fire 26: Children Of Bodom - Blooddrunk 27: Filter - Anthems For The Damned 28: In Flames - A Sense Of Purpose 29: Secret & Whisper - Great White Whale 30: This Is Hell - Misfortunes I'm loving Sigur Ros's and Birds Of Tokyo's new albums.
01. Coldplay - Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends 02. Shinedown - The Sound of Madness 03. Nine Inch Nails - The Slip 04. 10 Years - Division 05. Gavin Rossdale - Wanderlust 06. Scars on Broadway - Scars on Broadway 07. Alkaline Trio - Agony and Irony 08. City and Colour - Bring Me Your Love 09. Fireflight - Unbreakable 10. Story of the Year - The Black Swan