Is this the worst year for new music you can remember?

John

finbarr wrote: »

I liked that last Lair Of The Minotaur album when it came out but it's not super to my ears a few months down the line. The Ultimate Destroyer is still their best effort.... What a crushing album.

I still really like the new album but I agree that The Ultimate Destroyer is more fantastic.

Mr. Presentable

finbarr wrote: »

On a non-metal front I really liked the last Bruce Springsteen album.

Me too, but that was 2007! :eek:

Furious-Red

My favourite albums (and i think the only One's i actually bought) of this year

Hinder- Take It To The Limit
Shinedown - Sound Of Madness
Staind - The Illusion Of Progress
Buckcherry - Black Butterfly
The Subways - All Or Nothing
AC/DC - Black Ice
Black Stone Cherry - Folklore And Superstition
Rev Theory - Light It Up
Stone Gods - Silver Spoons And Broken Bones

DenMan

Bought the following albums this year so far:

Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
Battlelore -The Last Alliance
Disturbed - Indestructible
Testament - Formation of Damnation
Firewind - The Premonition
Artsas - The Healing
Operatika - The Calling
Enslaved - Vertebrae
Gojira - The Way Of All Flesh
Moonspell - Night Eternal
Hollenthon - Opus Magnum
Crematory - Pray
Soulfly - Conquer
Tiamat - Amanethes
Communic - Payment of Existance
Draconian - Turning Season Within

All in all 2008 has been a great year for metal.

nyarlothothep

Furious-Red wrote: »

My favourite albums (and i think the only One's i actually bought) of this year

Hinder- Take It To The Limit
Shinedown - Sound Of Madness
Staind - The Illusion Of Progress
Buckcherry - Black Butterfly
The Subways - All Or Nothing
AC/DC - Black Ice
Black Stone Cherry - Folklore And Superstition
Rev Theory - Light It Up
Stone Gods - Silver Spoons And Broken Bones

What do you think of Stone Gods? I have that album too, but I thought it was a bit too Bryan Adams in places.


Forgot to mention Dragonforce, Ultra Beatdown.

Pugsley

DenMan wrote: »

Bought the following albums this year so far:

Moonspell - Night Eternal
Hollenthon - Opus Magnum

All in all 2008 has been a great year for metal.

Wasn't too fond of Moonspell's latest effort, was fairly underwhelmed by it, not a bad album, just didn't reach my expectations considering their solid back catalogue.

Didn't know Opus Magnum was out yet, is it more like Domus Mundi (which was absolutely unreal) or With Vilest Of Worms To Dwell (a fairly poor follow up)? Really hope they return to the much more folk and keyboard based sound, they had a really unique sound with Domus Mundi, and some of the songs are simply phenomenal. Vita Nova especially, the best outro to an album I've heard until Chthonic's Quasi Putrefaction (off Seediq Bale), which has to be one of the best songs ever written..

DenMan

Pugsley wrote: »

Wasn't too fond of Moonspell's latest effort, was fairly underwhelmed by it, not a bad album, just didn't reach my expectations considering their solid back catalogue.

Didn't know Opus Magnum was out yet, is it more like Domus Mundi (which was absolutely unreal) or With Vilest Of Worms To Dwell (a fairly poor follow up)? Really hope they return to the much more folk and keyboard based sound, they had a really unique sound with Domus Mundi, and some of the songs are simply phenomenal. Vita Nova especially, the best outro to an album I've heard until Chthonic's Quasi Putrefaction (off Seediq Bale), which has to be one of the best songs ever written..

Sorry about that, you're dead right. Just re-checked the albums. Got Domus Mundi back in July and will get Opus Magnum in the next few weeks. Been hearing great things about them over the summer so got Domus Mundi. Love the single Homage - Magni Nominis Umbra, very epic.

Rockee

Het-Field wrote: »

Metallica, AC/DC, and Guns N Roses all released records. Who the hell cares if the other stuff was a litttle poor !!!

I think what Doctor J means is that the safe money is being spent by record companies to promote the above bands who are more than established at this stage and that theres nobody willing to take the risk of pumping some money into something new and fresh.

No doubt theres fantastic unheard gems out there but feck all revenue is being pumped into these bands by companies.

qwertplaywert

Ain't bought near as many cds as usual this year. The albums have been poor, save a few
Chinese Democracy was this ****ty modern rock bull****. Simple as.
Death Magnetic was a good album, but certainly not a great one, just overhyped due to the **** Metalica have been delivering since the Black album.
NIN's The Slip was a good album, a pleasent surprise considering it was free, but nowhere near as good as last years Ghosts.
Weezer yet again delivered their worst album.
Oasis did a rehash of their first two albums, and managed to get worse.

*disgruntled*

nyarlothothep

qwertplaywert wrote: »

Ain't bought near as many cds as usual this year. The albums have been poor, save a few
Chinese Democracy was this ****ty modern rock bull****. Simple as.
Death Magnetic was a good album, but certainly not a great one, just overhyped due to the **** Metalica have been delivering since the Black album.
NIN's The Slip was a good album, a pleasent surprise considering it was free, but nowhere near as good as last years Ghosts.
Weezer yet again delivered their worst album.
Oasis did a rehash of their first two albums, and managed to get worse.

*disgruntled*

Wasn't ghosts released this year?

qwertplaywert

So it was. My mistake, think I mixed it up with Radioheads In Rainbows for some reason.

Baggio

Doc.J.
...WAS just about to agree with ya about what a louzy year for music...when just then!!...the new RUSH DVD landed on me head......ahh the boys have done it again...

RUSH have saved us yet again from the drivel and waffle that is the modern music world and now all is well again in happy music land

happy "Snakes and Arrows DVD" viewing amigo ...Baggio....

Doctor J

Rockee wrote: »

I think what Doctor J means is that the safe money is being spent by record companies to promote the above bands who are more than established at this stage and that theres nobody willing to take the risk of pumping some money into something new and fresh.

No doubt theres fantastic unheard gems out there but feck all revenue is being pumped into these bands by companies.

I'm glad at least one person was paying attention, and a drummer at that

Are you Joe King?!


New Metallica album....new Guns N' Roses album......it's like it's 1987 all over again!! :pac:

Doctor J

It is only if you were still a sperm when 1987 came around the first time

...and you're deaf this time around

Rockee

Doctor J wrote: »

I'm glad at least one person was paying attention, and a drummer at that

Well, shucks J..:D