Что интересно, в этом году довольно легко выделить альбомы получше... 2008-й в целом покруче был, очень много классных альбомов, из которых было трудно выбирать. Что ещё удивительнее, первое место отдаю альтернативе! Long live
Skindred!
Пока что так:
1. Skindred – Shark Bites & Dog Fights (EP) (Alternative/Raggae Metal/Electronic)
2. Lamb Of God – Wrath (Groove/Thrash Metal)
3. Cloudkicker – The Map Is Not The Territory (EP) (Experimental Math Post-Metal)
4. Eureka – Shackleton's Voyage (Progressive Rock/Celtic Rock)
5. Rodrigo y Gabriela – 11:11 (Acoustic/Flamenco)
6. Kipling – Lives And Walls (Progressive Alternative Metal)
7. Exxasens – Beyond The Universe (Post-Metal/Space Rock)
8. Creed – Full Circle (Alternative Rock/Post-Grunge)
9. Devin Townsend Project – Addicted (Progressive Metal)
10. Breaking Benjamin – Dear Agony (Alternative Rock/Post-Grunge)
11. Alexisonfire – Old Crows/Young Cardinals (Alternative/Post-Hardcore)
12. Madder Mortem – Eight Ways (Avant-garde Dark Metal)
13. Lifelover – Dekadens (EP) (Experimental Black Metal/Depressive Rock)
14. Benighted In Sodom – The Halls Of Past Miseries 2006-2007 (Depressive Black Metal)
15. Disbelief – Protected Hell (Sludgy Death Metal)
16. Geist – Galeere (Atmospheric Black Metal)
17. Ghost Brigade – Isolation Songs (Melodic Gothic/Sludge Metal)
18. Between The Screams – Our Last Days On Earth (Atmospheric Post-Metal/Post-Hardcore)
19. Jolly – Forty-Six Minutes, Twelve Seconds of Music (Progressive Rock/Metal/Ambient)
20. The Eden House – Smoke & Mirrors (Atmospheric Gothic Rock/Ambient)
Первым двум ставлю 9/10, остальным -- от 8 до 8.5 (не привожу, т.к. топ после первых двух мест достаточно субъективный -- объективно надо бы 3-4 позиции поменять, но не буду
).
Ну и в качестве
полный список. Может, кто-то себе чё-нить подберёт (сорри, нет спойлера):
Adaen – Dancing Metropolis Burial (Progressive Rock/Metal)
Ad Hominem – Dictator - A Monument Of Glory (Black Metal)
Alexisonfire – Old Crows / Young Cardinals (Alternative/Post-Hardcore)
Arazi – The Agony (EP) (Alternative Metal)
Arise – The Reckoning (Melodic Death/Thrash Metal)
Asleep – Between, Above and Below (Progressive Alternative Rock/Metal)
ATB – Future Memories (Trance – CD1, Ambient/Trance – CD2)
Be'lakor – Stone's Reach (Atmospheric Melodic Death Metal)
Ben Woods – Things Weren't Always This Way (EP) (Ambient/Minimal/Piano)
Benighted in Sodom – The Halls of Past Miseries 2006-2007 (Depressive Black Metal)
Between the Screams – Our Last Days On Earth (Atmospheric Post-Metal/Post-Hardcore)
Breaking Benjamin – Dear Agony (Alternative Rock/Post-Grunge)
Burning Yesterday – We Create Monsters Not Machines (Alternative Metal/Modern Rock)
Celeste – Misantrope(s) (Blackened Sludge/Screamo/Post-Hardcore)
Cloudkicker – The Map Is Not The Territory (EP) (Experimental Math Post-Metal)
Creed – Full Circle (Alternative Rock/Post-Grunge)
Delain – April Rain (Symphonic "Gothic" Metal)
Detritus – Things Gone Wrong (Downtempo IDM/Breakcore/Drum and Bass)
Devin Townsend Project – Addicted (Progressive Metal)
Disbelief – Protected Hell (Sludgy Death Metal)
Domenica – The Luxury (Rock/Pop/Post-Grunge)
Dope – No Regrets (Alternative Metal)
Entwine – Painstained (Gothic Metal)
Eureka – Shackleton's Voyage (Progressive Rock/Celtic Rock)
Everything is made in China – Automatic Movements (Experimental/Indie/Post-Rock)
Exxasens – Beyond The Universe (Post-Metal/Space Rock)
Fotu – Confidential (EP) (Experimental Rock/Post-Rock with Post-Metal influence)
Geist – Galeere (Atmospheric Black Metal)
Ghost Brigade – Isolation Songs (Melodic Gothic/Sludge Metal)
Immortal – All Shall Fall ("Progressive"/Melodic Black Metal)
In The Absence – Avenues With Anatomies ("Progressive" Nu Metal)
Jonna Enckell / Siren On – Piano Sparkling (Piano/Ambient/Female Vocal)
Jolly – Forty-Six Minutes, Twelve Seconds of Music (Progressive Rock/Metal/Ambient)
Keith Merrow – Lonestar Transcend (EP) (Progressive Metal/Math Metal)
Keith Merrow – The Arrival (Progressive Metal/Math Metal)
Kipling – Lives And Walls (Progressive Alternative Metal)
Lamb Of God – Wrath (Groove/Thrash Metal)
Lifelover – Dekadens (EP) (Experimental Black Metal/Depressive Rock)
Luctus – Jaučiant Pabaigą Arti (Black Metal)
Mammoth – Mammoth (EP) (Post-Metal/Post-Rock)
Pertegò – Hjarta (Post-Rock with Violin)
Reaktor 4 – Reaktor 4 (Industrial/Blackened Industrial Metal)
Madder Mortem – Eight Ways (Avant-garde Dark Metal)
Maybeshewill – Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony (Post-Rock/Electronic/Post-Metal)
Nebra – Sky Disk (EP) (Post-Metal/Post-Hardcore)
Noisuf-X – Voodoo Ritual (EBM/Rhythmic Noise)
Orange Crush – Autumn Reflections (Atmospheric IDM/Ambient)
Psychostatus – Chains Of Life (Progressive Melodic Death/Heavy Metal)
Rodrigo y Gabriela – 11:11 (Acoustic/Flamenco)
Skindred – Shark Bites & Dog Fights (EP) (Alternative/Raggae Metal/Electronic)
Soap&Skin – Lovetune For Vacuum (Experimental/Piano/Female Vocal)
Stendeck – Sonnambula (Ambient/IDM/Piano/Powernoise)
Sun Of The Blind – Skullreader (Ambient/Black Metal/Experimental)
Susperia – Attitude (Melodic Black/Death/Thrash Metal)
The Best Pessimist – I Just Want To Be Your Everything (Post-Rock/Ambient/Piano)
The Eden House – Smoke & Mirrors (Atmospheric Gothic Rock/Ambient)
The Poles – Twelve Winds (Experimental Rock/”Sadcore”)
Tomydeepestego – Chronophage (Post-Rock/”Post-Metal”)
ValkiriA – Upon This Earth (Epic Gothic/Doom Metal)
Watch My Dying – Moebius (Progressive/Technical Thrash/Death Metal)
W.E.T. – W.E.T. (Melodic Hard Rock/AOR)
Whitetree – Cloudland (Post-Rock/Modern Classical)