My favourite albums from 2008

1. 50

   Shrouded Divine

   In Mourning

   

   

   Melodic death metal | Progressive death metal

   Tracks:

   1. The Shrouded Divine
   2. Amnesia
   3. In the Falling Hour
   4. By Others Considered ●
   5. Grind Denial
   6. The Art of a Mourning Kind
   7. The Black Lodge
   8. Past October Skies

2. 49

   Krallice

   Krallice

   

   

   Black metal | Atmospheric black metal

   Tracks:

   1. Wretched Wisdom
   2. Cnestorial ●
   3. Molec Codices
   4. Timehusk
   5. Energy Chasms
   6. Forgiveness in Rot

3. 48

   Bantam to Behemoth

   Birds and Buildings

   

   

   Progressive rock | Jazz rock

   Tracks:

   1. Birds Flying into Buildings
   2. Terra Fire
   3. Tunguska
   4. Caution Congregates and Forms a Storm
   5. Chronicle of the Invisible River of Stone ●
   6. Yucatan 65: The Agitation of the Mass
   7. Chakra Khan
   8. Battalion
   9. Sunken City, Sunny Day

4. 47

   The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Den

   Earth

   

   

   Post-rock | Drone metal

   Tracks:

   1. Omens and Portems I: The Driver
   2. Rise to Glory
   3. Miami Morning Coming Down II (Shine)
   4. Engine of Ruin
   5. Omens and Portems II: Carrion Crow
   6. Hung from the Moon
   7. The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull ●

5. 46

   The Seldom Seen Kid

   Elbow

   

   

   Chamber pop

   Tracks:

   1. Starlings
   2. The Bones of You
   3. Mirrorball
   4. Grounds for Divorce ●
   5. An Audience with the Pope
   6. Weather to Fly
   7. The Loneliness of aa Tower Crane Driver
   8. The Fix
   9. Some Riot
   10. One Day Like This
   11. Friend of Ours

6. 45

   Among Beggars and Thieves

   Falconer

   

   

   Power metal

   Tracks:

   1. Field of Sorrow
   2. Man of the Hour
   3. A Beggar Hero
   4. Vagarskall
   5. Carnival of Disgust
   6. Mountain Men
   7. Viddernas Man
   8. Pale Light of Silver Moon
   9. Boiling Led
   10. Skula, skorpa, skalk
   11. Dreams and Pyres ●

7. 44

   Only by the Night

   Kings of Leon

   

   

   Alternative rock | Post-punk revival

   Tracks:

   1. Closer ●
   2. Crawl
   3. Sex on Fire
   4. Use Somebody
   5. Manhattan
   6. Revelry
   7. 17
   8. Notion
   9. I Want You
   10. Be Somebody
   11. Cold Desert

8. 43

   Indestructible

   Disturbed

   

   

   Heavy metal

   Tracks:

   1. Indestructible ●
   2. Inside the Fire
   3. Deceiver
   4. The Night
   5. Perfect Insanity
   6. Haunted
   7. Enough
   8. The Curse
   9. Torn
   10. Criminal
   11. Divide
   12. Façade

9. 42

   Consolers of the Lonely

   The Raconteurs

   

   

   Blues rock | Garage rock revival

   Tracks:

   1. Consoler of the Lonely
   2. Salute Your Solution
   3. You Don't Understand Me
   4. Old Enough
   5. The Switch and the Spur
   6. Hold up
   7. Top Yourself
   8. Many Shades of Black
   9. Five on the Five
   10. Attention
   11. Pull This Blanket off
   12. Rich Kid Blues
   13. These Stones Will Shout
   14. Carolina Drama ●

10. 41

    Little Lucid Moments

    Motorpsycho

    

    

    Progressive rock | Psychedelic rock

    Tracks:

    1. Suite: Little Lucid Moments
    2. Year Zero (A Damage Report)
    3. She Left on the Sun Ship
    4. The Alchemyst ●

11. 40

    The Black Flux

    Virus

    

    

    Avant-garde metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Stalkers of the Drift
    2. As Virulent as You ●
    3. Archives
    4. The Black Flux
    5. Intermission: Ocean Highway
    6. Inward Bound
    7. Lost Peacocks
    8. Shame Eclipse
    9. Strange Calm

12. 39

    Heart on

    Eagles of Death Metal

    

    

    Garage rock | Garage rock revival

    Tracks:

    1. Anything 'Cept the Truth
    2. Wannabe in L.A. ●
    3. (I Used to Couldn't Dance) Tight Pants
    4. High Voltage
    5. Secret Plans
    6. Now I'm a Fool
    7. Heart on
    8. Cheap Thrills
    9. How Can a Man wiith So Many Friends Feel so Alone
    10. Solo Flights
    11. Prissy Prancin'
    12. I'm Your Torpedo

13. 38

    Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!

    Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

    

    

    Post-punk | Gothic rock

    Tracks:

    1. Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! ●
    2. Today's Lesson
    3. Moonland
    4. Night of the Lotus Eaters
    5. Albert Goes West
    6. We Call Upon the Author
    7. Hold on to Yourself
    8. Lie Down Here (& Be My Girl)
    9. Jesus of the Moon
    10. Midnight Man
    11. More News from Nowhere

14. 37

    Mass IIII

    Amenra

    

    

    Post-metal | Avant-garde metal

    Tracks:

    1. .Silver Needle. Golden Nail.
    2. .Le Gardien Des Réves. ●
    3. .De Dodenakker.
    4. .TerZiele.Tottedood.
    5. .Razoreater.
    6. .Aorte. Nous Sommes Du Mémes Sang.
    7. Thurifer.Et Clamor Ad Te Veniat.

15. 36

    The Man Who Would Not Die

    Blaze Bayley

    

    

    Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Man Who Would Not Die
    2. Blackmailer
    3. Smile Back at Death
    4. While You Were Gone ●
    5. Samurai
    6. A Crack in the System
    7. Robot
    8. At the End of the Day
    9. Waiting for My Life to Begin
    10. Voices from the Past
    11. The Truth Is One
    12. Serpent Hearted Man

16. 35

    A Wound in Eternity

    Farflung

    

    

    Space rock | Psychedelic rock

    Tracks:

    1. Unborn Planet
    2. Endless Drifting Wreck ●
    3. Like It Has Never Been
    4. Stella Volo
    5. Ix
    6. Silver Shrooms
    7. Invincible
    8. Precognition

17. 34

    Be Gone

    Pharaoh

    

    

    US Power metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Speak to Me
    2. Dark New Life
    3. No Remains
    4. Red Honor
    5. Buried at Sea
    6. Rats and Rope
    7. Cover Your Eyes and Prey
    8. Telepath
    9. Be Gone ●

18. 33

    Traced in Air

    Cynic

    

    

    Progressive metal | Jazz fusion

    Tracks:

    1. Nunc Fluens
    2. The Space for This ●
    3. Evolutionary Sleeper
    4. Integral Birth
    5. The Unknown Guest
    6. Adam's Murmur
    7. King of Those Who Know
    8. Nunc Stans

19. 32

    Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood

    Volbeat

    

    

    Heavy metal | Hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. Intro (End of the Road)
    2. Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood
    3. Back to Prom
    4. Hallelujah Goat
    5. Maybellene i Hofteholder
    6. We
    7. Still Counting ●
    8. Light a Way
    9. Wild Rover of Hell
    10. I'm So Lonely I Could Cry
    11. A Broken Man and the Dawn
    12. Find That Soul

20. 31

    The Fathomless Mastery

    Bloodbath

    

    

    Death metal

    Tracks:

    1. At the Behest of Their Death
    2. Process of Disillumination
    3. Slaughtering the Will to Live
    4. Mock the Cross ●
    5. Treasonous
    6. Iesous
    7. Drink from the Cup of Heresy
    8. Devouring the Feeble
    9. Earthrot
    10. Hades Rising
    11. Wretched Human Mirror

21. 30

    Vertebrae

    Enslaved

    

    

    Progressive black metal | Viking metal

    Tracks:

    1. Clouds
    2. To the Coast
    3. Ground
    4. Vertebrae
    5. New Dawn
    6. Reflection
    7. Center ●
    8. The Watcher

22. 29

    Fortress

    Protest the Hero

    

    

    Progressive metal | Mathcore

    Tracks:

    1. Bloodmeat
    2. The Dissentience
    3. Bone Marrow ●
    4. Sequoia Throne
    5. Palsm Read
    6. Limb from Limb
    7. Spoils
    8. Wretch
    9. Goddess Bound
    10. Goddess Gagged

23. 28

    Folklore and Superstition

    Black Stone Cherry

    

    

    Hard rock | Southern rock

    Tracks:

    1. Blind Man
    2. Please Come in
    3. Reverend Wrinkle ●
    4. Soulcreek
    5. Things My Father Said
    6. The Bitter End
    7. Long Sleeves
    8. Peace Is Free
    9. Devil's Queen
    10. The Key
    11. You
    12. Sunrise
    13. Ghost of Floyd Collins

24. 27

    Inflikted

    Cavalera Conspiracy

    

    

    Groove metal | Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Inflikted ●
    2. Sanctuary
    3. Terrorize
    4. Black Ark
    5. Ultra-Violent
    6. Hex
    7. The Doom of All Fires
    8. Bloodbrawl
    9. Nevertrust
    10. Hearts of Darkness
    11. Must Kill

25. 26

    Converging Ages

    Inanna

    

    

    Progressive death metal | Melodic death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Doom of Mankind
    2. Gilgamesh ●
    3. Beyond Time and Memory
    4. The Lighthouse
    5. Embracing the Fleshless Ecstasy
    6. Astral
    7. Sea of the Dead

26. 25

    Killing Season

    Death Angel

    

    

    Thrash metal | Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Lord of Hate
    2. Sonic Beatdown ●
    3. Dethroned
    4. Caarnival Justice
    5. Buried Alive
    6. Soulless
    7. The Noose
    8. When World Collide
    9. God vs. God
    10. Steal the Crown
    11. Resurrection Machine

27. 24

    The Magus

    Universal Totem Orchestra

    

    

    Zeuhl | Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. De Astrologia
    2. Coerenza Della Percentuali ●
    3. Les Plantes Magiques
    4. Ato Piradime
    5. Mors, Ultima Linea Return
    6. Vento Madre

28. 23

    Gift of Screws

    Lindsey Buckingham

    

    

    Pop rock | Art rock

    Tracks:

    1. Great Day
    2. Time Precious Time
    3. Did You Miss Me ●
    4. Wait for You
    5. Love Runs Deeper
    6. Bel Air Rain
    7. The Right Place to Fade
    8. Gift of Screws
    9. Underground
    10. Treason

29. 22

    Shogun

    Trivium

    

    

    Heavy metal | Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Kirisute Gomen
    2. Torn Between Scylla and Charybdis
    3. Down from the Sky
    4. Into the Mouth of Hell We March
    5. Throes of Perdition
    6. Insurrection
    7. The Calamity
    8. He Who Spawned the Furies
    9. Of Prometheus and the Crucifix
    10. Like Callisto to a Star in Heaven
    11. Shogun ●

30. 21

    Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace

    The Offspring

    

    

    Punk rock | Pop-punk

    Tracks:

    1. Half-Truism
    2. Trust in You
    3. You're Gonna Go Far, Kid
    4. Hammerhead
    5. A Lot Like Me
    6. Takes Me Nowhere
    7. Kristy, Are You Doing Okay?
    8. Nothingtown
    9. Stuff Is Messed up ●
    10. Fix You
    11. Let's Hear It for the Rock Bottom
    12. Rise and Fall

31. 20

    Slania

    Eluveitie

    

    

    Folk metal | Celtic metal

    Tracks:

    1. Samon
    2. Primordial Breath
    3. Inis Mona ●
    4. Gray Sublime Action
    5. Anaganitos
    6. Bloodstained Ground
    7. The Somber Lay
    8. Slanias Song
    9. Giamonios
    10. Tarvos
    11. Calling the Rain
    12. Elembivos

32. 19

    Nostradamus

    Judas Priest

    

    

    Heavy metal | Symphonic metal

    Tracks:

    1. Dawn of Creation
    2. Prophecy
    3. Awakening
    4. Revelations
    5. The Four Horsemen
    6. War
    7. Sands of Time
    8. Pestilence and Plague
    9. Death
    10. Peace
    11. Conquest
    12. Lost Love
    13. Persecution
    14. Solitude
    15. Exiled
    16. Alone
    17. Shadows in the Flame
    18. Visions
    19. Hope
    20. New Beginnings
    21. Calm Before the Storm
    22. Nostradamus ●
    23. Future of Mankind

33. 18

    Diagonal

    Diagonal

    

    

    Progressive rock | Neo-Canterbury

    Tracks:

    1. Semi-Permeable Men-Brain ●
    2. Child of the Thunder-Cloud
    3. Deathwatch
    4. Cannon Misfire
    5. Pact

34. 17

    Station

    Russian Circles

    

    

    Post-metal | Post-rock

    Tracks:

    1. Campaign
    2. Harper Lewis
    3. Station
    4. Verses ●
    5. Youngblood
    6. Xavii

35. 16

    A Sense of Purpose

    In Flames

    

    

    Alternative metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Mirror's Truth
    2. Disconnected
    3. Sleepless Again
    4. Alias ●
    5. I'm the Highway
    6. Delight and Angers
    7. Move Through Me
    8. The Chosen Pessimist
    9. Sober and Irrelevant
    10. Condemned
    11. Drenched in Fear
    12. March to the Shore

36. 15

    Stay Positive

    The Hold Steady

    

    

    Alternative rock | Roots rock

    Tracks:

    1. Constuctive Summer
    2. Sequestered in Memphis
    3. One for the Cutters
    4. Navy Sheets
    5. Lord, I'm Discouraged
    6. Yeah Sapphire
    7. Both Crosses
    8. Stay Positive ●
    9. Magazines
    10. Joke About Jamaica
    11. Slapped Actress

37. 14

    Twilight of the Thunder God

    Amon Amarth

    

    

    Melodic death metal | Viking metal

    Tracks:

    1. Twilight of the Thunder God ●
    2. Free Will Sacrifice
    3. Guardians of Asgaard
    4. Varygas of Milklagaard
    5. Tattered Banners and Bloody Fangs
    6. No Fear for the Setting Sun
    7. The Hero
    8. Live for the Kill
    9. Embrace the Endless Ocean

38. 13

    Insurgentes

    Steven Wilson

    

    

    Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Harmony Korine
    2. Abandoner
    3. Salvaging
    4. Veneno para las haldas
    5. No Twilight Within the Courts of the Sun
    6. Significant Other
    7. Only Child
    8. Twilight Coda
    9. Get All You Deserve ●
    10. Insurgentes

39. 12

    The Way of All Flesh

    Gojira

    

    

    Technical death metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Oroborus
    2. Toxic Garbage Island
    3. A Sight to Behold
    4. Yama's Messengers
    5. The Silver Cord
    6. All the Tears
    7. Adoration for None
    8. The Art of Dying
    9. Esoteric Surgery
    10. Vacuity
    11. Wolf Down the Earth
    12. The Way of All Flesh ●

40. 11

    In the Future

    Black Mountain

    

    

    Progressive rock | Psychedelic rock

    Tracks:

    1. Stormy High
    2. Angels
    3. Tyrants ●
    4. Wucan
    5. Stay Free
    6. Queens Will Pay
    7. Evil Ways
    8. Wild Wind
    9. Bright Lights
    10. Night Walks

41. 10

    Ten Stones

    Wovenhand

    

    

    Alternative country | Gothic Americana

    Tracks:

    1. The Beautiful Axe
    2. Horsetail
    3. Not One Stone
    4. Iron Feather ●
    5. White Knuckle Grip
    6. Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars
    7. Kicking Bird
    8. Kingdom of Ice
    9. His Loyal Love
    10. Untitled

42. 9

    Blood Ceremony

    Blood Ceremony

    

    

    Occult rock

    Tracks:

    1. Master of Confusion ●
    2. I'm Coming with You
    3. Into the Coven
    4. A Wine of Wizardry
    5. Rare Lord
    6. Return to Forever
    7. Hop Toad
    8. Children of the Future
    9. Hymn to Pan

43. 8

    The Formation of Damnation

    Testament

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. For the Glory of ..
    2. More Than Meets the Eye ●
    3. The Evil Has Landed
    4. The Formation of Damnation
    5. Dangers of the Faithless
    6. The Persecuted Won't Forget
    7. Henchmen Ride
    8. Killing Season
    9. Afterlife
    10. F.E.A.R.
    11. Leave Me Forever

44. 7

    Death Magnetic

    Metallica

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. That Was Just Your Life
    2. The End of the Line
    3. Broken, Beat & Scarred
    4. The Day That Never Comes
    5. All Nightmare Long ●
    6. Cyanide
    7. The Unforgiven III
    8. The Judas Kiss
    9. Suicide & Redemption
    10. My Apocalypse

45. 6

    Eternal Kingdom

    Cult of Luna

    

    

    Post-metal

    Tracks:

    1. Owlwood
    2. Eternal Kingdom
    3. Ghost Trail ●
    4. The Lure (Interlude)
    5. Mire Deep
    6. The Great Migration
    7. Österbotten
    8. Curse
    9. Ugín
    10. Following Betulas

46. 5

    Madrugada

    Madrugada

    

    

    Alternative rock

    Tracks:

    1. Whatever Happened to You
    2. The Hour of the Wolf
    3. Look Away Lucifer
    4. Honey Bee
    5. New Woman/New Man
    6. What's on Your Mind? ●
    7. Highway of Light
    8. Valley of Deception
    9. Our Time Won't Live That Long

47. 4

    obZen

    Meshuggah

    

    

    Progressive metal | Technical death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Combustion
    2. Electric Red
    3. Bleed ●
    4. Lethargica
    5. ObZen
    6. This Spiritual Snake
    7. Pineal Gland Optics
    8. Pravus
    9. Dancers to a Discordant System

48. 3

    Gods of the Earth

    The Sword

    

    

    Stoner rock | Doom metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Sundering
    2. The Frost-Giant's Daughter
    3. How Heavy This Axe
    4. Lords
    5. Fire Lances of th Ancient Hyperzephyrians
    6. To Take the Black
    7. Maiden, Mother & Crone
    8. Under the Boughs
    9. The Black River
    10. The White Sea ●

49. 2

    The Bedlam in Goliath

    The Mars Volta

    

    

    Progressive rock | Jazz fusion

    Tracks:

    1. Aberinkula
    2. Metatron
    3. Ilyena ●
    4. Wax Simulacra
    5. Goliath
    6. Tourniquet Man
    7. Cavalettas
    8. Agadez
    9. Askepios
    10. Ouroborous
    11. Soothsayer
    12. Conjugal Burns

50. 1

    Watershed

    Opeth

    

    

    Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Coil
    2. Heir Apparent
    3. The Lotus Eater ●
    4. Burden
    5. Porcelain Heart
    6. Hessian Peel
    7. Hex Omega