Best Albums of 2008

[IgniteYourAvail]

It's that time again. It's close enough to the end of the year, and I'm bored, so let's do this.

Dillinger Four - Civil War
Shai Hulud - Misanthropy Pure
The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
LaGrecia - On Parallels

There's probably more, but those are my favorites.

[Sleeper]

Ceremony - Still, Nothing Moves You
Murder By Death - Red of Tooth and Claw
Verse - Aggression
Radiohead - In Rainbows

[iamrockzorz]

so many more things came out this year than i remember

ill update later, but for now:

young widows
born/dead
ceremony
dillinger four
past lives
paint it black
the roots
these arms are snakes
trash talk

[Sleeper]

so many more things came out this year than i remember

ill update later, but for now:

young widows
born/dead
ceremony
dillinger four
past lives
paint it black
the roots
these arms are snakes
trash talk
I know that These Arms are Snakes just released or is releasing a split with Russian Circles, that should be nothing short of amazing.

Sabertooth Zombie - Dent Face
Russian Circles - Station

[spoon_of_grimbo]

so far...

1. Glass and Ashes - "Glass and Ashes"
2. Ginger - "Market Harbour"
3. Dillinger Four - "C I V I L W A R"
4. Banner Pilot - "Resignation Day"
5. Off With Their Heads - "From the Bottom"
6. The Gaslight Anthem "The '59 Sound"
7. Less Than Jake - "GNV FLA"
8. Fighting With Wire - "Man Vs. Monster"
9. Anchor Arms - "Cold Blooded"
10. The Riot Before - "Fists Buried In Pockets"


Special Mentions:

Bridge and Tunnel - "East/West"
Clouds - "We Are Above You"
The Night Marchers - "See You In Magic"
Ninja Gun - "Restless Rubes"
Pendulum - "In Silico"
Rise Against - "Appeal to Reason"
Torche - "Meanderthal"

and yeah i know that kinda conflicts with the ratings i've given some of them, but my personal favourites are regardless of such things as cultural impact (which i take into account to some extent in reviews), and heavily affected by personal emotional attachment to some of these albums, for various reasons. good year though.

[hismajestythepope]

Bring Me The Horizon - Suicide Season

[Gnarmageddon]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_albums_released_in_2008

Radiohead or Ceremony.

[TBrown87]

Out of all of these, These Arms Are Snakes, Dillinger Four and Ceremony are my best bets for the win. We should get some polls set up soon.

[iamrockzorz]

so far...

1. Glass and Ashes - "Glass and Ashes"
2. Ginger - "Market Harbour"
3. Dillinger Four - "C I V I L W A R"
4. Banner Pilot - "Resignation Day"
5. Off With Their Heads - "From the Bottom"
6. The Gaslight Anthem "The '59 Sound"
7. Less Than Jake - "GNV FLA"
8. Fighting With Wire - "Man Vs. Monster"
9. Anchor Arms - "Cold Blooded"
10. The Riot Before - "Fists Buried In Pockets"


Special Mentions:

Bridge and Tunnel - "East/West"
Clouds - "We Are Above You"
The Night Marchers - "See You In Magic"
Ninja Gun - "Restless Rubes"
Pendulum - "In Silico"
Rise Against - "Appeal to Reason"
Torche - "Meanderthal"

and yeah i know that kinda conflicts with the ratings i've given some of them, but my personal favourites are regardless of such things as cultural impact (which i take into account to some extent in reviews), and heavily affected by personal emotional attachment to some of these albums, for various reasons. good year though.

mad props for night marchers mention. list is great.

[NakedRaygun872]

Wow, I haven't heard of them before this but The Riot Before is a really great band.

[whiteminority]

Mind Eraser - Concious Unconcious
Trap Them - Seizures in Barren Praise
****ed Up - The Chemistry of Common Life
Cursed - III
Ceremony - Still Nothing Moves You
Failures - s/t

is this just full lengths?

[iamrockzorz]

OH ****. forget cursed came out with a new cd and that it was amazing.

i listen an ep

[christsimpson]

Bring Me The Horizon - Suicide Season

how come no one's commented this? easily the funniest thing on this forum for weeks.

[whiteminority]

i ignore the stupid.

[TakeWarning]

The Effort - Iconoclasm

[IgniteYourAvail]

Mind Eraser - Concious Unconcious
Trap Them - Seizures in Barren Praise
****ed Up - The Chemistry of Common Life
Cursed - III
Ceremony - Still Nothing Moves You
Failures - s/t

is this just full lengths?

in past years we had separate things for eps and lps, but who cares right, an album's an album

[Scuba_Steve]

Full Lengths-

Have Heart- Songs To Scream At the Sun
Gaslight Anthem- 59 sound
The Ergs- Upstairs/Downstairs
H2O- Nothing To Prove
Cursed- III
Dystopia- S/T
Cruel Hand- Prying Eyes

"7s
Eating Glass-Feed Them To The Vultures
RAH- Intelligent Design
Swamp Thing- The Youth Is Sick
Foundation- Never Stops Raining
Alpha & Omega- Devil's Bed


It was such a nuts year for killer releases though, pretty much the only full length I've picked up this year that didn't get into was the new Verse album. Just not my kind of hardcore I guess.

[ibanezman575]

was upstairs/downstairs this year?

[IgniteYourAvail]

was upstairs/downstairs this year?

nope, last year.

[Scuba_Steve]

nope, last year.

****, I'm living in the paaaaaast.

[ibanezman575]

its okay i was going to say Destroy The Future by American Steel
Comfort Road by How Dare You is a great new one

[Flagjacket]

Theater of the Mind by Ludacris

[Feel The Darkness]

Bitter End - Bitter End EP
Disfear - Live the Storm
Integrity - Walpürgisnacht EP
Rhythm to the Madness - Weltschmerz
Trapped Under Ice - Stay Cold EP

I don't have this one, yet, but it should be shipping out already, and will probably top my list:

Doomriders/Disfear Split EP

[christsimpson]

Draff Krimmy - Poetry of Vår
Soup - Come on Pioneers
All the Islands - Polarise
Monzano - Bonus Trucks
mamma, jeg blör - Demo

[IgniteYourAvail]

Draff Krimmy - Poetry of Vår
Soup - Come on Pioneers
All the Islands - Polarise
Monzano - Bonus Trucks
mamma, jeg blör - Demo

Theater of the Mind by Ludacris
Best PUNK albums dummies

[christsimpson]

oh yeah right because mamma, jeg blör isn't punk?

[Feel The Darkness]

oh yeah right because mamma, jeg blör isn't punk?
oh yeah right because any of us actually know or care who that band is?

[christsimpson]

IgniteYourAvail apparently cares.

[iamrockzorz]

you are such an uninteresting person.

um

paint it black is mine for the year.

[smegmaholic]

Extortion - Sick
Gridlink - Amber Gray
The Endless Blockade - Primitive
Ceremony - Still Nothing Moves You
Ghostlimb - Bearing and Distance

[Excursions]

Darkthrone - Dark Thrones and Black Flags (listen to this, it's a punk album)
Rudimentary Peni - No More Pain
Ois II Men - Hairs to Oi!
Gawj - By Popular Demand, the Death of Gawj

Im assuming this to be at least decent:
F'ucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life

[witchxrapist]

Underoath - Lost. In. The. Sound. Of. Separation.
Intronaut - Prehistoricisms
Embrace The End - Ley Lines
Algernon Cadwallader - Some Kind Of Cadwallader
Darkthrone - Dark Thrones and Black Flags
See You Next Tuesday - Intervals

[IgniteYourAvail]

IgniteYourAvail apparently cares.

I had heard Soup before so I assumed all those bands were shi‪tty arty experimental bands.

Adam you haven't listened to Chemistry yet? Get on that.

[christsimpson]

I had heard Soup before so I assumed all those bands were shi‪tty arty experimental bands.

Adam you haven't listened to Chemistry yet? Get on that.

nah bro only Draff Krimmy. the others are emo/screamo.

[Jessizzle]

The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound

The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound

The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound

The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound

The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound

The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound

The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound

The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound


the heatskores - **** em all big or small

[TBrown87]

The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound

The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound

The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound

The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound

The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound

The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound

The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound

The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound


the heatskores - **** em all big or small

oh please.

[Jessizzle]

oh please.

wanna fight bout it? huh

[Excursions]

I had heard Soup before so I assumed all those bands were shi‪tty arty experimental bands.

Adam you haven't listened to Chemistry yet? Get on that.

I plan to. Hidden World was more of a rock album than a punk album I thought, how does Chemistry compare? I'm assuming they carry on the same sort of track as Hidden World. I'm not saying that's bad or anything, I thought Hidden World was good at the very least, F'ucked Ups discography sort of reminds me of Black Flags in a way.

[TBrown87]

wanna fight bout it? huh

What, you wanna go now? I cut you up man. :smash: oldboy style.

[ibanezman575]

I second the oh please motion

[RetiredAt21]

Underoath - Lost. In. The. Sound. Of. Separation.
Intronaut - Prehistoricisms
Embrace The End - Ley Lines
Algernon Cadwallader - Some Kind Of Cadwallader
Darkthrone - Dark Thrones and Black Flags
See You Next Tuesday - Intervals

SO good.

[TBrown87]

We should really get some polls up, make this list legit.

[witchxrapist]

SO good.

whoa you like something with clean singing?

[RetiredAt21]

whoa you like something with clean singing?

Yes. I love that mid-west emo stuff.

[IgniteYourAvail]

I plan to. Hidden World was more of a rock album than a punk album I thought, how does Chemistry compare? I'm assuming they carry on the same sort of track as Hidden World. I'm not saying that's bad or anything, I thought Hidden World was good at the very least, F'ucked Ups discography sort of reminds me of Black Flags in a way.

Yeah, it's actually even less punk than Hidden World was. It's kind of a weird album, but it's pretty good. Just not great like I thought it would be.

[Flagjacket]

mamma, jeg blör - Demo

would you like a side of pretension with your heaping entree of elitism

[TakeWarning]

would you like a side of pretension with your heaping entree of elitism

You've seriously never heard of mamma, jeg blör?

Wow.

[Ill Reality]

would you like a side of pretension with your heaping entree of elitism

lol

[christsimpson]

uhm so yeah what's elitist with having a demo from my friends' band? you can probably get it too if you want to be "elitist" - http://myspace.com/mammajegblor

you really should get it. it is f'ucking awesome. best modern skramz.

[TakeWarning]

He's right, best skramz I've heard in ages. Their demo is a modern classic for sure.

[christsimpson]

He's right, best skramz I've heard in ages. Their demo is a modern classic for sure.

sarcasm don well - u not now how two

[IgniteYourAvail]

Why do you have to sh‪it up every thread?

[christsimpson]

I don't know. is the retardation that prevents you from absorbing every post I make and spend all your time on this forum commenting them a physical or mental one? or is perhaps the issue related to handicaps that affect both the body and the mind? or are you simply really f'ucking stupid?

[RetiredAt21]

I don't know. is the retardation that prevents you from absorbing every post I make and spend all your time on this forum commenting them a physical or mental one? or is perhaps the issue related to handicaps that affect both the body and the mind? or are you simply really f'ucking stupid?

Dude, just stop being a dick and everything will be fine. Usually you're prety cool.

[Gnarmageddon]

I don't know. is the retardation that prevents you from absorbing every post I make and spend all your time on this forum commenting them a physical or mental one? or is perhaps the issue related to handicaps that affect both the body and the mind? or are you simply really f'ucking stupid?

I don't know. is the retardation that prevents you from absorbing every post I make and spend all your time on this forum commenting them a physical or mental one? or is perhaps the issue related to handicaps that affect both the body and the mind? or are you simply really f'ucking stupid?

[IgniteYourAvail]

I don't know. is the retardation that prevents you from absorbing every post I make and spend all your time on this forum commenting them a physical or mental one? or is perhaps the issue related to handicaps that affect both the body and the mind? or are you simply really f'ucking stupid?I don't know. is the retardation that prevents you from absorbing every post I make and spend all your time on this forum commenting them a physical or mental one? or is perhaps the issue related to handicaps that affect both the body and the mind? or are you simply really f'ucking stupid?I don't know. is the retardation that prevents you from absorbing every post I make and spend all your time on this forum commenting them a physical or mental one? or is perhaps the issue related to handicaps that affect both the body and the mind? or are you simply really f'ucking stupid?

[iamrockzorz]

I'm almost positive this is why you've been banned (a few times?) before. Because you're awkward and weird and confrontational.

[christsimpson]

Dude, just stop being a dick and everything will be fine. Usually you're prety cool.

but that's just the thing. this time I wasn't being a dick. I just said what albums I like, and these douchebags felt the need to show themselves in all their hollier-than-thou glory, and it's kind of annoying.

also - the Algernon Cadwallader album is awesome. Serial Killer Status in particular.

[RetiredAt21]

but that's just the thing. this time I wasn't being a dick. I just said what albums I like, and these douchebags felt the need to show themselves in all their hollier-than-thou glory, and it's kind of annoying.

also - the Algernon Cadwallader album is awesome. Serial Killer Status in particular.

Best song ever.

[Cesar21]

Dillinger Four - C I V I L W A R
United Nations - United Nations
Banner Pilot - Resignation Day
Daitro/ Sed Non Satiata - Split
Rise Against - Appeal To Reason

[Culture Shock]

Darkthrone - Dark Thrones and Black Flags (listen to this, it's a punk album)
Rudimentary Peni - No More Pain
Ois II Men - Hairs to Oi!
Gawj - By Popular Demand, the Death of Gawj



I'll have to second "No More Pain" as it's the only new album I bought this year.

[Havok88]

Cool