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Metal Asylum’s Top 25 Releases of 2008
Kevin Alba’s Top 25 of 2008:
- Firewind – The Premonition
- Nickelback – Dark Horse
- Saint Deamon – In Shadows Lost From The Brave
- Testament – The Formation of Damnation
- Pathosray – Pathosray
- Scar Symmetry – Holographic Universe
- Gamma Ray – Land of the Free II
- Metallica – Death Magnetic
- Disturbed – Indestructible
- Avantasia – The Scarecrow
- Brainstorm – Downburst
- Slipknot – All Hope Is Gone
- Royal Hunt – Collision Course
- Pyramaze – Immortal
- Whitesnake – Good To Be Bad
- Motley Crue – Saints of Los Angeles
- Rob Rock – Garden of Chaos
- Children of Bodom – Blooddrunk
- Benedictum – Seasons of Tragedy
- Axel Rudi Pell – Tales of the Crown
- Dokken – Lightning Strikes Again
- Primal Fear – New Religion
- Dragonforce – Ultra Beatdown
- Trivium – Shogun
- Metal Church – This Present Wasteland
Top 5 DVDs:
- Firewind – Live Premonition
- Nevermore – Year of the Voyager
- Gamma Ray – Hell Yeah
- Paul Stanley – One Live Kiss
- Halford – Resurrection – Live at Rock In Rio
Letdowns:
Guns N Roses – Chinese Democracy (The only thing Chinese about this album was what a Pu Pu Platter it is)
Judas Priest – Nostradamus (Nostradamus himself could not have predicted what a let down this was to be)
Def Leppard (Really… Is this still the same band who recorded "Wasted"??)
Rich Catino’s Top 25:
- Testament – The Formation of Damnation
- Firewind – The Premonition (and Live Premonition DVD)
- Nevermore – Year of the Voyager (Live DVD/CD set)
- Moonspell – Night Eternal
- Guillotine – Blood Money
- Whitesnake – Good To Be Bad
- Gamma Ray – Land of the Free II (also, Hell Yeah DVD)
- House of Lords – Come To My Kingdom
- Dimmu Borgir – Invaluable Darkness (DVD/CD set)
- Judas Priest – Nostradamus
- Metallica – Death Magnetic
- Motley Crue – Saints of Los Angeles
- Yngwie Malmsteen – Perpetual Flame
- Destruction – D.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N.
- Sebastian Bach – Angel Down (rerelease with bonus DVD)
- Slipknot – All Hope Is Gone
- Royal Hunt – Collision Course
- Saint Daemon – In Shadows Lost From The Brave
- TIE: Cavalera Conspiracy – Inflikted, Opeth - Watershed
- God Forbid – Beneath the Scars of Glory and Progression (DVD)
- Iced Earth – The Crucible of Man (Something Wicked Pt.2)
- Death Angel – Killing Season
- Metal Church – This Present Wasteland
- Benedictum – Seasons of Tragedy
- Primal Fear – New Religion
Honorable mentions:
Axel Rudi Pell – Tales of the Crown
Dream Theater – Chaos in Motion 2007-08 (DVD)
Dokken – Lightning Strikes Again
Paul Stanley - One Live Kiss (DVD) - Its worth the price of admission just to hear those obscure Kiss songs like "One In A Million" and "Magic Touch".
Evergrey – Torn
Letdowns:
- Guns N Roses – Chinese Democracy
- Dragonforce – Ultra Beatdown (NOTE: I won’t call it a let down because I wasn’t expecting anything)
- Nickelback (again, wasn’t expecting much but I still want my nickel back, and like to call em Quarterback)
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