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returntothepit >> discuss >> 2008 albums you'll want to still own in 2009 by Conservationist on Feb 10,2009 4:25pm
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toggletoggle post by Conservationist  at Feb 10,2009 4:25pm
Best Heavy Metal Albums of 2008

Legion of Doom - The Horned Made Flesh (Zyklon-B)

This Greek band take their acerbic traditional metal and slowly meld in symphonic keyboard elements, making an album that is easy to appreciate but surpasses most others in artistic vision.

Motorhead - Motorizer (SPV)

Lemmy and Company rarely go completely wrong, and so they wing another one down the middle. Like all Motorhead, most songs are cut from similar patterns and the drone wears thin, but riffs remain cutting and rhythms compelling.

Neuraxis - Thin Line Between (Prosthetic)

We all know metalcore as a genre is like an omelette -- throw everything in and hope the flavors carry a lowest common denominator mix. Neuraxis attack metalcore like a metal band, using melody and rhythm to centralize, to great effect.

Deeds of Flesh - Of What's to Come (Unique Leader)

Getting experimental, this brutal technical death metal band play with some new ideas but deliver solidly resounding songs as they try to wrap their old school metal around metalcore technique.

Hellhammer - Demon Entrails (Noise)

Three bands formed this genre: Hellhammer, Sodom and Bathory. This re-release of formative material from the first of that triumvirate shows us again how mind-blowing it must have been to be there as it happened.

Gridlink - Amber Grey (Hydra Head)

Blurring grindcore with absurdist technical elements, Gridlink make an album that upholds the best traditions of thrash mixed with speed metal and technical death metal, and by keeping it short, don't wander outside their content zone.

Averse Sefira - Advent Parallax (Candlelight)

This rarity upholds old school black metal and infuses it with classic death metal. Like Morbid Angel from the Convenant era colliding with Graveland from the time of Thousand Swords, this band makes vicious but beautiful music.

Bahimiron - Southern Nihilizm (Moribund)

Imagine early Impaled Nazarene and Gorgoroth combined: fast, melodic riffs with a tendency to deconstruct everything they touch. Although slightly confused in ideals, Bahimiron deliver music that does not compromise aggression or darkness.

Intestine Baalism - Ultimate Instinct (No Colours)

Swedish death metal fanatics make an album in tribute to all three eras of Swedish death metal -- the initial surge, Gothenburg and NWOSDM, combined. It's an improvement over their last and most things coming out of Sweden.

Master - Slaves To Society Re-Release (Ibex Moon)

Evolving from their early primitive roots, Master present us an album that is rippingly fast like Slayer and uses melodic fills to good effect, but never compromises the driving roadhouse rhythms that pound this music forward.

Skepticism - Alloy (Red Stream)

Lush ambient doom surges resoundingly throughout this album, like dye in a pool tracked by the motion of carp. It is meditative, powerful and insightful, but prefers not to state these explicitly, rather letting you absorb them from the resonance.

Best Heavy Metal Albums of 2008



toggletoggle post by reimroc at Feb 10,2009 4:50pm
AC/DC Black Ice
Every band that was at the composted show that had a CD for sale
Others but I forget



toggletoggle post by Martins   at Feb 10,2009 4:57pm
reimroc said[orig][quote]
AC/DC Black Ice
Every band that was at the composted show that had a CD for sale
Others but I forget


Lol 3/4 of Archaeon was there and we had CD's for sale! Do we count?



toggletoggle post by reimroc at Feb 10,2009 5:00pm edited Feb 10,2009 5:14pm
Martins said[orig][quote]
reimroc said[orig][quote]
AC/DC Black Ice
Every band that was at the composted show that had a CD for sale
Others but I forget


Lol 3/4 of Archaeon was there and we had CD's for sale! Do we count?


Yep. I was hammered and went on a shopping spree I definitly remember getting composted, yours, HYEO, hivesmasher, razermaze. I know I grabbed more because I had to run to my buddy's car to stash all of my loot. I only have so many pockets. I think I bought one of my suffocation CDs i have from you as well. its all a blur lol



toggletoggle post by Martins   at Feb 10,2009 5:01pm
lol win



toggletoggle post by reimroc at Feb 10,2009 5:02pm
Yea I should of brought one of those burlap sacks you get at the grocery stores.



toggletoggle post by RustyPS  at Feb 10,2009 5:10pm
HEYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO



toggletoggle post by reimroc at Feb 10,2009 5:14pm
yea i totally just switched your name around



toggletoggle post by Blue  at Feb 10,2009 5:16pm
Why do the neuraxis and deeds reviews talk about them liek theyre metalcore? I guess gridlink really fuses those metalcore elements into grind real well too.



toggletoggle post by Ryan_M at Feb 10,2009 5:18pm
The new Grave and Dismember albums were both very impressive.
Gotta agree on Hellhammer's "Demon Entrails" - pretty much essential listening for any death metal fan.
Also agree with Master's "Slaves to Society", by far the best album they've done in years.



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