Getting to be that time. I didn't want to invade the Decibel thread since it's primarily metal.

Off the top of my head, in no particular order.

Memorial - Berlin/The Creative Process
Have a Nice Life - Deathconsciousness (I believe originally self released in 2006 but rereleased in 2008)
Fleet Foxes - Self Titled
Drive By Truckers - Brighter Than Creations Dark
Torche - Meanderthal
Dead Meadow - Old Growth
Vampire Weekend - Self Titled
M83 - Saturdays=Youth

Honerable Mention:

The Hold Steady-Stay Positive
Conor Oberst & the Mystic Valley Band - Self Titled
The Gaslight Anthem - Sound of 59
Paint it Black - New Lexicon
This Will Destroy You - Self Titled
Spiritualized - Songs in A&E

gaslight anthem - the 59 sound
opeth - watershed
lagrecia - on parallels
off with their heads - from the bottom
shot baker - take control
D4 - civil war
paint it black - new lexicon

thats all i got and theyre all not that great. looking forward to the new damned and NFAA albums which just came out though

quote:Originally posted by:chrisNJ

gaslight anthem - the 59 sound
paint it black - new lexicon

Both good albums that would probably make my honerable mention list. *Edit* I actually made changes to my list above.

in no order

TORCHE - Meanderthal
MISERY INDEX - Traitors
DISFEAR - Live the Storm
NACHTMYSTIUM - Assasins
INSECT WARFARE/ANB - split
PAINT IT BLACK - new lexicon (i love these fags)

deadbird - twilight ritual
gridlink - amber gray
mind eraser - conscious unconscious
5ive - hesperus
cursed - III
audio kollaps - panzer
withered - folie circulaire
endless blockade - primitive
ufomammut - idolum

and some more I'm probably forgetting.

bongripper - hate ashbury
bongripper & winters in osaka - meat ditch

Torche - Meanderthal
Harm's Way - ST 7"
Verse - Aggression
Taake - Taake
Misery Index - Traitors
Foundation - It Never Stops Raining 7"
Nachtmystium - Assasins
Cursed-III

i think Traitors is my favorite album this year. Meanderthal comes in a close second.

New Found Glory/ISCH - Tip Of The Iceberg/Takin' It Ova
H20 - Nothing To Prove
Heaven Shall Burn - Iconoclast
Messhuggah - Obzen
Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone
Misery Index - Traitors
Vader - XXV

and even though it doesn't come out until next week, it will be my favorite record for many years

White Zombie - Let Sleeping Corpses Lie

I'll keep it simple and list my favorite from this year:

Backfire-- In Harm's Way

off the top of my head

This Will Destroy You - s/t
Cursed - III
Ghostlimb - Bearing and Distance
The Endless Blockade - Primitive
Paint It Black - New Lexicon

gaslight anthem and bayside are pretty much all i've listened to since they came out

i'll probably forget a lot but for now
meshuggah - obzen
cynic - traced in air
trap them - seizures in barren praise
phobia - 22 acts of random violence
misery index - traitors

World Burns To Death- The Graveyard Of Utopia
Hail Of Bullets- Of Frost And War

new found glory - tip of the iceberg
bayside - shudder
amon amarth - twilight of the thunder god
t.i. paper trail
Integrity - VValpürgisnacht EP

Messhuggah - Obzen
Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone
Misery Index - Traitors
cynic - traced in air
deeds of flesh - of whats to come
severed savior - servile insurrection
decrepit birth - diminishing between worlds


and Im warming up to the new metallica lately as well.