THE BEST OF 2008
Editor-in-Chief, R. Scott Bolton, tells you
what he liked best about the music of 2008
It was a very good, if not great, year for hard rock, heavy metal and punk. And 2009's looking pretty good, too. Here's my Top Ten albums for 2008, plus a few honorable mentions that almost made the cut. Again, they're not in any particular order with the exception of #1 which, surprisingly, was my very favorite album of the year.
Honorable Mention
GUNS N'ROSES "Chinese Democracy"
MOTLEY CRUE "Saints of Los Angeles"
JUDAS PRIEST "Nostradamus"
NEIGHBORHOOD BULLIES "What?"
SAMMY HAGAR "Cosmic Universal Fashion"
SLIPKNOT "All Hope is Gone"
RAGE "Carved in Stone"
EDGAR WINTER "Rebel Road"
METAL CHURCH "This Present Wasteland"
METALIUM "Incubus Chapter 7"
SOUND AND FURY "Sound and Fury"
LEATHERWOLF "New World Asylum"
EVERGREY "Torn"
TOP TEN (in no particular order)
10. METALLICA
"Death Magnetic"
9. TESTAMENT
"The Format of Damnation"
8. MOTORHEAD "Motorizer"
7. AC/DC "Black Ice"
6. ALICE COOPER
"Along Came a Spider"
5. CESSATION OF
LIFE "Necropolis"
4. RISE AGAINST
"Appeal to Reason"
3. HOSPITAL OF
DEATH "Beer Bitches Blood"
2. SUPERSUCKERS
"Get It Together"
1. THE
OFFSPRING "Rise and Fall Rage and Grace"
Copyright © 2009 by R. Scott Bolton. All rights
reserved.
Revised:
06 Oct 2019 11:48:47 -0400.
