Matt and Mike's Best Favorites of 2008

Here are our top albums for 2008.  These are more of what we found ourselves listening to when not doing anything for the radio show…   (Both of our lists are “in no particular order”)

Matt’s Top 10 albums
Testament, The Formation of Damnation (Nuclear Blast)
Arsis, We Are The Nightmare (Nuclear Blast)
Opeth, Watershed (Roadrunner Records)
Zimmers Hole, When You Were Shouting At The Devil… (Century Media)
Metallica, Death Magnetic (Warner Bros.)
Slipknot, All Hope Is Gone (Roadrunner)
Austrian Death Machine, Total Brutal (Metal Blade)
Protest The Hero, Fortress (Vagrant)
Cavalera Conspiracy, Inflikted (Roadrunner Records)
Exodus, Let There Be Blood (Re-Issue) (Zaentz Records)

Matt’s Honorable mentions:
The Faceless, Planetary Duality (Sumerian)
Stormlord, Mare Nostrum (Locomotive)
In Flames, A Sense Of Purpose (Koch Records)
Abigail Williams, In The Shadow Of A Thousand Suns (Candlelight)
Kingdom Of Sorrow, Kingdom Of Sorrow (Relapse Records)
Epicurean, A Consequence of Design (Metal Blade)
Dream Theater, Dream Theater’s Greatest Hit (And 21 Other Pretty Cool Songs) (Rhino)
Unleashed, Hammer Battalion (SPV)
Soulfly, Conquer (Roadrunner)
Krisiun, Southern Storm (Century Media)
Motorhead, Motorizer (SPV)

Mike’s Top 10:
Testament, The Formation of Damnation (Nuclear Blast)
Arsis, We Are The Nightmare (Nuclear Blast)
Slipknot, All Hope Is Gone (Roadrunner)
The Faceless, Planetary Duality (Sumerian)
Kataklysm, Prevail (Nuclear Blast)
Zimmers Hole, When You Were Shouting At The Devil… (Century Media)
Opeth, Watershed (Roadrunner Records)
Krisiun, Southern Storm (Century Media)
Austrian Death Machine, Total Brutal (Metal Blade)
Metallica, Death Magnetic (Warner Bros.)

Mike’s Honorable mentions:
Heaven Shall Burn, Iconoclast (Century Media)
Cavalera Conspiracy, Inflikted (Roadrunner Records)
Burst, Lazarus Bird (Relapse)
Kingdom of Sorrow, Kingdom of Sorrow (Relapse)
Warbringer, War Without End (Century Media)
Unleashed, Hammer Battalion (SPV)
Whitechapel, This Is Exile (Metal Blade)
Nachtmystium, Assassins: Black Meddle Pt. 1 (Century Media)
Raunchy, Wasteland Discotheque (Lifeforce)
Gojira, The Way of All Flesh (Prosthetic)