2008: The Amphibian Halo (as In 'my Blurry View Of 2008')

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Updated version of the list previously published here. You'll notice that the comments are a bit different for sure, as is the order:
1 to 3: best of the year (in preference order)
4 to 25: other great stuff (alphabetical order)

And then there were some average (sometimes bad, sometimes good) albums that didn't make it in this list, but they featured some of the most awesome songs of the year. Like Voices Of The Fallen by Battlelore, Dylath-Leen's Frozen Reflect On A Broken Mirror, and particularly Iced Earth's Come What May...

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Darkside Momo | 16.01.2012

	1.	Textures - Silhouettes Mindblowingly awesome.
	2.	Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale Mindblowingly awesome, part 2.
	3.	Burst - Lazarus Bird Mindblowingly awesome, part 3.
	4.	ADX - Division Blindée Comeback? Yeah. Not near their best works, but still better than good.
	5.	Cynic - Traced In Air Delicate stuff as fragile and beautiful as a flower.
	6.	Darkspace - III Who said the void between stars was silent?
	7.	Enslaved - Vertebrae Some great songs, some less so, but an all-round excellent album - if difficult to get into
	8.	Ez3kiel - Battlefield Electronica infused rock (or the other way around?). Nice chilling release.
	9.	Gojira - The Way Of All Flesh Good for sure, but it lacks the luminous and beaufiful feeling that permeated From Mars To Sirius.
	10.	Hail Of Bullets - ...Of Frost And War Crushing you to the bone. Yeah, that's about it.
	11.	Hans Zimmer / James Newton Howard - The Dark Knight OST Fantastic soundtrack for an even better movie.
	12.	Genghis Tron - Board Up The House Electro / Synthpop / Grindcore. And a fucking nice swansong.
	13.	Hexen - State Of Insurgency Retro-thrash rarely sounded so good.
	14.	Hollenthon - Opus Magnum Now THAT is epic.
	15.	Meshuggah - ObZen Some 'classical' Meshuggah. Bleed, er read, that 'awesome'.
	16.	Lunatic Soul - Lunatic Soul Darkly beautiful (and soothing) ambiant music by Riverside's Mariusz Duda.
	17.	Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle, Part 1 Psychedelic black metal, with dark mood, raw sound, an Hawkwind influence, and a saxophone. Yeah.
	18.	Oceans Of Sadness - The Arrogance Of Ignorance A weird, unique, and very personal mix of sounds and influences for some great music.
	19.	Opeth - Watershed Somehow one of the least-loved Opeth albums around, but the only one I got into for real.
	20.	Septicflesh - Communion With this and Hollenthon, symphonic death metal at its best since... Therion's Theli, maybe.
	21.	SUP - Hegemony Not as original as their previous efforts, still pretty mind-blowing nonetheless.
	22.	The Arkitecht - Hyperstructure Truly great geeky prog stuff. Hey, anyone claiming Nobuo Uematsu as an influence can't be bad.
	23.	The Monolith Deathcult - Trivmvirate A well-made mix between death metal and electronics? Count me in!
	24.	Tribe After Tribe - M.O.A.B. Stories From Deuteronomy 'World metal'? Yup. Happy, somber, reflective, meditative and uplifting.
	25.	Ultra Vomit - Objectif: Thunes Catchy, stupid, fun, fun, fun!!! And ducks. Alive, of course.

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LeKiwi High Fist Prog Posts: 3552 From: UK	13.11.2013 - 17:50 LeKiwi High Fist Prog Posts: 3552 From: UK Funny "Amphibian Halo" is the title of a track featuring on Dark Suns' Grave Human Genuine which was released in 2008 ---- Most Talented Vocalists In Metal Tasty Stuff Not Currently Featured On MS So I Heard You Like Opeth... Loading...
Darkside Momo Retired Posts: 8549 From: France	13.11.2013 - 19:24 Darkside Momo Retired Posts: 8549 From: France Written by LeKiwi on 13.11.2013 at 17:50 Funny "Amphibian Halo" is the title of a track featuring on Dark Suns' Grave Human Genuine which was released in 2008 Funnily enough, it is Btw on of the few tracks I enjoyed of this album... ---- "You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you" - Ray Bradbury "I've lost too many years now I'm stealing back my soul I'm awake now" Abney Park (Letter Between A Little Boy & Himself As An Adult) Loading...

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