Top 20 Albums Of 2008

Subrosa	Ensiferum
Threshold	Sonata Arctica

21.05 - Omnium Gatherum - New Video Released

21.05 - White Zombie - Former Drummer Passes Away

21.05 - Paradise Lost - Announce 25th Anniversary UK Tour

21.05 - Sinister Realm - Release New Video

21.05 - Amon Amarth - Release Trailer For Three-Part Mini Documentary

21.05 - Queensrÿche - Unveil Another New Song

21.05 - System Of A Down - Clarify Bassist's Statements About Serj Tankian

21.05 - Darkane - New Lyric Video Online

21.05 - The Doors - Keyboardist Ray Manzarek Dies

20.05 - Orphaned Land - Streaming Another New Song

20.05 - Bare Infinity - Returns

20.05 - Hatebreed - Reveal New Video

Reviews Articles

	Mental Torment On The Verge
	Shining (NOR) One One One
	Trials In The Shadow Of Swords
	Aosoth IV: An Arrow In Heart
	State Urge White Rock Experience
	Ortega The Serpent Stirs [EP]
	Hammerforce Access Denied
	Pensées Nocturnes Nom D'une Pipe!
	My Indifference To Silence Horizon Of My Heaven
	Hate Meditation Scars

13.05 - Clandestine Cuts Vol. 3 #4 - The Best Demos And EPs From Around The Metal World

27.04 - Helloween, Gamma Ray - London, England, 16th April 2013

27.04 - Ghost B.C. - Ogden Theater, Denver, USA - 18th April 2013

25.04 - Clutch: Earth Rocker World Tour, Portland, OR, March 30, 2013

23.04 - Sonata Arctica - Nottingham, England, 14th April 2013

21.04 - Ensiferum, Týr, Heidevolk and others - Denver, USA - 30th March 2013

16.04 - Visions From The Darkside - Metal Talk Radio - 15th April 2013

10.04 - Progventure Part 8: Steven Wilson - Huxley's Neue Welt, Berlin, Germany, 21.03.2013

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Shade Empire
Omega Arcane

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Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor

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Tears On Tape

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Unwelcome

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NOW What?!

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Coal

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Kingdom Of Conspiracy

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Rust In Peace

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Opeth
Blackwater Park

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Master Of Puppets

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Ride The Lightning

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Iron Maiden
The Number Of The Beast

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Painkiller

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Death
Symbolic

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Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin IV

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Death
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Omega Arcane

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Spiritual Migration

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Omnium Gatherum
Beyond

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Circle

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Nemesis

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Steven Wilson
The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories)

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Top 20 Albums Of 2008

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In no particular order - 20 albums that, for me, stood out above the rest.

Created by:

Aeox | 01.01.2013

	1.	Steven Wilson - Insurgentes
	2.	Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe
	3.	Abigail Williams - In The Shadow Of A Thousand Suns
	4.	Moonspell - Night Eternal
	5.	Swallow The Sun - Plague Of Butterflies
	6.	Stormlord - Mare Nostrum
	7.	Mirrorthrone - Gangrene
	8.	Equilibrium - Sagas
	9.	Theocracy - Mirror Of Souls
	10.	In Mourning - Shrouded Divine
	11.	Jeff Loomis - Zero Order Phase
	12.	Dark Fortress - Eidolon
	13.	The Faceless - Planetary Duality
	14.	Destinity - The Inside
	15.	Opeth - Watershed
	16.	Enslaved - Vertebrae
	17.	Mercenary - Architect Of Lies
	18.	Septicflesh - Communion
	19.	Daylight Dies - Lost To The Living
	20.	Zonaria - The Cancer Empire

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