2008

Shrouded Divine

In Mourning

• Label: Aftermath
• Released: 2 January 2008

• Melodic death metal
• Progressive death metal

1. The Shrouded Divine
2. Amnesia
3. In the Falling Hour
4. By Others Considered
5. Grind Denial
6. The Art of a Mourning Kind
7. The Black Lodge
8. Past October Skies

Krallice

Krallice

• Label: Gilead
• Released: 11 July 2008

• Black metal
• Atmospheric black metal

1. Wretched Wisdom
2. Cnestorial
3. Molec Codices
4. Timehusk
5. Energy Chasms
6. Forgiveness in Rot

Bantam to Behemoth

Birds and Buildings

• Label: Emkog
• Released: 2008

• Progressive rock
• Jazz rock

1. Birds Flying into Buildings
2. Terra Fire
3. Tunguska
4. Caution Congregates and Forms a Storm
5. Chronicle of the Invisible River of Stone
6. Yucatan 65: The Agitation of the Mass
7. Chakra Khan
8. Battalion
9. Sunken City, Sunny Day

The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Den

Earth

• Label: Southern Lord
• Released: 26 February 2008

• Post-rock
• Drone metal

1. Omens and Portems I: The Driver
2. Rise to Glory
3. Miami Morning Coming Down II (Shine)
4. Engine of Ruin
5. Omens and Portems II: Carrion Crow
6. Hung from the Moon
7. The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull

The Seldom Seen Kid

Elbow

• Label: Fiction
• Released: 17 March 2008

• Chamber pop

1. Starlings
2. The Bones of You
3. Mirrorball
4. Grounds for Divorce
5. An Audience with the Pope
6. Weather to Fly
7. The Loneliness of aa Tower Crane Driver
8. The Fix
9. Some Riot
10. One Day Like This
11. Friend of Ours

Among Beggars and Thieves

Falconer

• Label: Metal Blade
• Released: 16 August 2008

• Power metal

1. Field of Sorrow
2. Man of the Hour
3. A Beggar Hero
4. Vagarskall
5. Carnival of Disgust
6. Mountain Men
7. Viddernas Man
8. Pale Light of Silver Moon
9. Boiling Led
10. Skula, skorpa, skalk
11. Dreams and Pyres

Only by the Night

Kings of Leon

• Label: Columbia
• Released: 22 September 2008

• Alternative rock
• Post-punk revival

1. Closer
2. Crawl
3. Sex on Fire
4. Use Somebody
5. Manhattan
6. Revelry
7. 17
8. Notion
9. I Want You
10. Be Somebody
11. Cold Desert

Indestructible

Disturbed

• Label: Reprise
• Released: 3 June 2008

• Heavy metal

1. Indestructible
2. Inside the Fire
3. Deceiver
4. The Night
5. Perfect Insanity
6. Haunted
7. Enough
8. The Curse
9. Torn
10. Criminal
11. Divide
12. Façade

Consolers of the Lonely

The Raconteurs

• Label: Third Man
• Released: 25 March 2008

• Blues rock
• Garage rock revival

1. Consoler of the Lonely
2. Salute Your Solution
3. You Don't Understand Me
4. Old Enough
5. The Switch and the Spur
6. Hold up
7. Top Yourself
8. Many Shades of Black
9. Five on the Five
10. Attention
11. Pull This Blanket off
12. Rich Kid Blues
13. These Stones Will Shout
14. Carolina Drama

Little Lucid Moments

Motorpsycho

• Label: Stickman
• Released: 31 March 2008

• Progressive rock
• Psychedelic rock

1. Suite: Little Lucid Moments
2. Year Zero (A Damage Report)
3. She Left on the Sun Ship
4. The Alchemyst

The Black Flux

Virus

• Label: Season of Mist
• Released: 10 November 2008

• Avant-garde metal
• Progressive metal

1. Stalkers of the Drift
2. As Virulent as You
3. Archives
4. The Black Flux
5. Intermission: Ocean Highway
6. Inward Bound
7. Lost Peacocks
8. Shame Eclipse
9. Strange Calm

Heart on

Eagles of Death Metal

• Label: Downtown
• Released: 28 October 2008

• Garage rock
• Garage rock revival

1. Anything 'Cept the Truth
2. Wannabe in L.A.
3. (I Used to Couldn't Dance) Tight Pants
4. High Voltage
5. Secret Plans
6. Now I'm a Fool
7. Heart on
8. Cheap Thrills
9. How Can a Man wiith So Many Friends Feel so Alone
10. Solo Flights
11. Prissy Prancin'
12. I'm Your Torpedo

Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

• Label: Mute
• Released: 3 March 2008

• Post-punk
• Gothic rock

1. Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
2. Today's Lesson
3. Moonland
4. Night of the Lotus Eaters
5. Albert Goes West
6. We Call Upon the Author
7. Hold on to Yourself
8. Lie Down Here (& Be My Girl)
9. Jesus of the Moon
10. Midnight Man
11. More News from Nowhere

Mass IIII

Amenra

• Label: Relapse
• Released: 2008

• Post-metal
• Avant-garde metal

1. .Silver Needle. Golden Nail.
2. .Le Gardien Des Réves.
3. .De Dodenakker.
4. .TerZiele.Tottedood.
5. .Razoreater.
6. .Aorte. Nous Sommes Du Mémes Sang.
7. Thurifer.Et Clamor Ad Te Veniat.

The Man Who Would Not Die

Blaze Bayley

• Label: Metal Mind
• Released: 7 July 2008

• Heavy metal

1. The Man Who Would Not Die
2. Blackmailer
3. Smile Back at Death
4. While You Were Gone
5. Samurai
6. A Crack in the System
7. Robot
8. At the End of the Day
9. Waiting for My Life to Begin
10. Voices from the Past
11. The Truth Is One
12. Serpent Hearted Man

A Wound in Eternity

Farflung

• Label: MeteorCity
• Released: 6 May 2008

• Space rock
• Psychedelic rock

1. Unborn Planet
2. Endless Drifting Wreck
3. Like It Has Never Been
4. Stella Volo
5. Ix
6. Silver Shrooms
7. Invincible
8. Precognition

Be Gone

Pharaoh

• Label: Cruz del Sur
• Released: 24 April 2008

• US Power metal
• Progressive metal

1. Speak to Me
2. Dark New Life
3. No Remains
4. Red Honor
5. Buried at Sea
6. Rats and Rope
7. Cover Your Eyes and Prey
8. Telepath
9. Be Gone

Traced in Air

Cynic

• Label: Season of Mist
• Released: 25 November 2008

• Progressive metal
• Jazz fusion

1. Nunc Fluens
2. The Space for This
3. Evolutionary Sleeper
4. Integral Birth
5. The Unknown Guest
6. Adam's Murmur
7. King of Those Who Know
8. Nunc Stans

Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood

Volbeat

• Label: Mascot
• Released: 1 September 2008

• Heavy metal
• Hard rock

1. Intro (End of the Road)
2. Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood
3. Back to Prom
4. Hallelujah Goat
5. Maybellene i Hofteholder
6. We
7. Still Counting
8. Light a Way
9. Wild Rover of Hell
10. I'm So Lonely I Could Cry
11. A Broken Man and the Dawn
12. Find That Soul

The Fathomless Mastery

Bloodbath

• Label: Peaceville
• Released: 29 September 2008

• Death metal

1. At the Behest of Their Death
2. Process of Disillumination
3. Slaughtering the Will to Live
4. Mock the Cross
5. Treasonous
6. Iesous
7. Drink from the Cup of Heresy
8. Devouring the Feeble
9. Earthrot
10. Hades Rising
11. Wretched Human Mirror

Vertebrae

Enslaved

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 29 September 2008

• Progressive black metal
• Viking metal

1. Clouds
2. To the Coast
3. Ground
4. Vertebrae
5. New Dawn
6. Reflection
7. Center
8. The Watcher

Fortress

Protest the Hero

• Label: Vagrant
• Released: 29 January 2008

• Progressive metal
• Mathcore

1. Bloodmeat
2. The Dissentience
3. Bone Marrow
4. Sequoia Throne
5. Palsm Read
6. Limb from Limb
7. Spoils
8. Wretch
9. Goddess Bound
10. Goddess Gagged

Folklore and Superstition

Black Stone Cherry

• Label: Roadruunner
• Released: 13 August 2008

• Hard rock
• Southern rock

1. Blind Man
2. Please Come in
3. Reverend Wrinkle
4. Soulcreek
5. Things My Father Said
6. The Bitter End
7. Long Sleeves
8. Peace Is Free
9. Devil's Queen
10. The Key
11. You
12. Sunrise
13. Ghost of Floyd Collins

Inflikted

Cavalera Conspiracy

• Label: Roadrunner
• Released: 25 March 2008

• Groove metal
• Thrash metal

1. Inflikted
2. Sanctuary
3. Terrorize
4. Black Ark
5. Ultra-Violent
6. Hex
7. The Doom of All Fires
8. Bloodbrawl
9. Nevertrust
10. Hearts of Darkness
11. Must Kill

Converging Ages

Inanna

• Label: Corvus
• Released: 18 December 2008

• Progressive death metal
• Melodic death metal

1. Doom of Mankind
2. Gilgamesh
3. Beyond Time and Memory
4. The Lighthouse
5. Embracing the Fleshless Ecstasy
6. Astral
7. Sea of the Dead

Rook

Shearwater

• Label: Matador
• Released: 3 June 2008

• Folk rock
• Post-rock

1. On the Death of the Waters
2. Rooks
3. Leviathan Bound
4. Home Life
5. Lost Boys
6. Century Eyes
7. I Was a Cloud
8. South Col
9. The Snow Leopard
10. The Hunter's Star

Killing Season

Death Angel

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 26 February 2008

• Thrash metal
• Heavy metal

1. Lord of Hate
2. Sonic Beatdown
3. Dethroned
4. Caarnival Justice
5. Buried Alive
6. Soulless
7. The Noose
8. When World Collide
9. God vs. God
10. Steal the Crown
11. Resurrection Machine

The Magus

Universal Totem Orchestra

• Label: Black Widow
• Released: 2008

• Zeuhl
• Progressive rock

1. De Astrologia
2. Coerenza Della Percentuali
3. Les Plantes Magiques
4. Ato Piradime
5. Mors, Ultima Linea Return
6. Vento Madre

Gift of Screws

Lindsey Buckingham

• Label: Reprise
• Released: 16 September 2008

• Pop rock
• Art rock

1. Great Day
2. Time Precious Time
3. Did You Miss Me
4. Wait for You
5. Love Runs Deeper
6. Bel Air Rain
7. The Right Place to Fade
8. Gift of Screws
9. Underground
10. Treason

Shogun

Trivium

• Label: Roadrunner
• Released: 23 September 2008

• Heavy metal
• Thrash metal

1. Kirisute Gomen
2. Torn Between Scylla and Charybdis
3. Down from the Sky
4. Into the Mouth of Hell We March
5. Throes of Perdition
6. Insurrection
7. The Calamity
8. He Who Spawned the Furies
9. Of Prometheus and the Crucifix
10. Like Callisto to a Star in Heaven
11. Shogun

Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace

The Offspring

• Label: Columbia
• Released: 11 June 2008

• Punk rock
• Pop-punk

1. Half-Truism
2. Trust in You
3. You're Gonna Go Far, Kid
4. Hammerhead
5. A Lot Like Me
6. Takes Me Nowhere
7. Kristy, Are You Doing Okay?
8. Nothingtown
9. Stuff Is Messed up
10. Fix You
11. Let's Hear It for the Rock Bottom
12. Rise and Fall

Slania

Eluveitie

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 15 February 2008

• Folk metal
• Celtic metal

1. Samon
2. Primordial Breath
3. Inis Mona
4. Gray Sublime Action
5. Anaganitos
6. Bloodstained Ground
7. The Somber Lay
8. Slanias Song
9. Giamonios
10. Tarvos
11. Calling the Rain
12. Elembivos

Nostradamus

Judas Priest

• Label: Columbia
• Released: 17 June 2008

• Heavy metal
• Symphonic metal

1. Dawn of Creation
2. Prophecy
3. Awakening
4. Revelations
5. The Four Horsemen
6. War
7. Sands of Time
8. Pestilence and Plague
9. Death
10. Peace
11. Conquest
12. Lost Love
13. Persecution
14. Solitude
15. Exiled
16. Alone
17. Shadows in the Flame
18. Visions
19. Hope
20. New Beginnings
21. Calm Before the Storm
22. Nostradamus
23. Future of Mankind

Diagonal

Diagonal

• Label: Rise Above
• Released: Ostober 2008

• Progressive rock
• Neo-Canterbury

1. Semi-Permeable Men-Brain
2. Child of the Thunder-Cloud
3. Deathwatch
4. Cannon Misfire
5. Pact

Station

Russian Circles

• Label: Suicide Squeeze
• Released: 6 May 2008

• Post-metal
• Post-rock

1. Campaign
2. Harper Lewis
3. Station
4. Verses
5. Youngblood
6. Xavii

A Sense of Purpose

In Flames

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 1 April 2008

• Alternative metal

1. The Mirror's Truth
2. Disconnected
3. Sleepless Again
4. Alias
5. I'm the Highway
6. Delight and Angers
7. Move Through Me
8. The Chosen Pessimist
9. Sober and Irrelevant
10. Condemned
11. Drenched in Fear
12. March to the Shore

Stay Positive

The Hold Steady

• Label: Rough Trade
• Released: 15 July 2008

• Alternative rock
• Roots rock

1. Constuctive Summer
2. Sequestered in Memphis
3. One for the Cutters
4. Navy Sheets
5. Lord, I'm Discouraged
6. Yeah Sapphire
7. Both Crosses
8. Stay Positive
9. Magazines
10. Joke About Jamaica
11. Slapped Actress

Twilight of the Thunder God

Amon Amarth

• Label: Metal Blade
• Released: 17 September 2008

• Melodic death metal
• Viking metal

1. Twilight of the Thunder God
2. Free Will Sacrifice
3. Guardians of Asgaard
4. Varygas of Milklagaard
5. Tattered Banners and Bloody Fangs
6. No Fear for the Setting Sun
7. The Hero
8. Live for the Kill
9. Embrace the Endless Ocean

Insurgentes

Steven Wilson

• Label: Kscope
• Released: 26 November 2008

• Progressive rock

1. Harmony Korine
2. Abandoner
3. Salvaging
4. Veneno para las haldas
5. No Twilight Within the Courts of the Sun
6. Significant Other
7. Only Child
8. Twilight Coda
9. Get All You Deserve
10. Insurgentes

The Way of All Flesh

Gojira

• Label: Listenable
• Released: 13 October 2008

• Technical death metal
• Progressive metal

1. Oroborus
2. Toxic Garbage Island
3. A Sight to Behold
4. Yama's Messengers
5. The Silver Cord
6. All the Tears
7. Adoration for None
8. The Art of Dying
9. Esoteric Surgery
10. Vacuity
11. Wolf Down the Earth
12. The Way of All Flesh

In the Future

Black Mountain

• Label: Jagjauwar
• Released: 21 January 2008

• Progressive rock
• Psychedelic rock

1. Stormy High
2. Angels
3. Tyrants
4. Wucan
5. Stay Free
6. Queens Will Pay
7. Evil Ways
8. Wild Wind
9. Bright Lights
10. Night Walks

Ten Stones

Wovenhand

• Label: Glitterhouse Records
• Released: 9 September 2008

• Alternative country
• Gothic Americana

1. The Beautiful Axe
2. Horsetail
3. Not One Stone
4. Iron Feather
5. White Knuckle Grip
6. Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars
7. Kicking Bird
8. Kingdom of Ice
9. His Loyal Love
10. Untitled

Blood Ceremony

Blood Ceremony

• Label: Rise Above
• Released: 2 September 2008

• Occult rock

1. Master of Confusion
2. I'm Coming with You
3. Into the Coven
4. A Wine of Wizardry
5. Rare Lord
6. Return to Forever
7. Hop Toad
8. Children of the Future
9. Hymn to Pan

The Formation of Damnation

Testament

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 29 April 2008

• Thrash metal

1. For the Glory of ..
2. More Than Meets the Eye
3. The Evil Has Landed
4. The Formation of Damnation
5. Dangers of the Faithless
6. The Persecuted Won't Forget
7. Henchmen Ride
8. Killing Season
9. Afterlife
10. F.E.A.R.
11. Leave Me Forever

Death Magnetic

Metallica

• Label: Warner Bros.
• Released: 12 September 2008

• Thrash metal

1. That Was Just Your Life
2. The End of the Line
3. Broken, Beat & Scarred
4. The Day That Never Comes
5. All Nightmare Long
6. Cyanide
7. The Unforgiven III
8. The Judas Kiss
9. Suicide & Redemption
10. My Apocalypse

Eternal Kingdom

Cult of Luna

• Label: Earache Records
• Released: 16 June 2008

• Post-metal

1. Owlwood
2. Eternal Kingdom
3. Ghost Trail
4. The Lure (Interlude)
5. Mire Deep
6. The Great Migration
7. Österbotten
8. Curse
9. Ugín
10. Following Betulas

Madrugada

Madrugada

• Label: EMI
• Released: 21 January 2008

• Alternative rock

1. Whatever Happened to You
2. The Hour of the Wolf
3. Look Away Lucifer
4. Honey Bee
5. New Woman/New Man
6. What's on Your Mind?
7. Highway of Light
8. Valley of Deception
9. Our Time Won't Live That Long

obZen

Meshuggah

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 7 March 2008

• Progressive metal
• Technical death metal

1. Combustion
2. Electric Red
3. Bleed
4. Lethargica
5. ObZen
6. This Spiritual Snake
7. Pineal Gland Optics
8. Pravus
9. Dancers to a Discordant System

Gods of the Earth

The Sword

• Label: Kemado
• Released: 31 March 2008

• Stoner rock
• Doom metal

1. The Sundering
2. The Frost-Giant's Daughter
3. How Heavy This Axe
4. Lords
5. Fire Lances of th Ancient Hyperzephyrians
6. To Take the Black
7. Maiden, Mother & Crone
8. Under the Boughs
9. The Black River
10. The White Sea

The Bedlam in Goliath

The Mars Volta

• Label: Universal Motown
• Released: 29 January 2008

• Progressive rock
• Jazz fusion

1. Aberinkula
2. Metatron
3. Ilyena
4. Wax Simulacra
5. Goliath
6. Tourniquet Man
7. Cavalettas
8. Agadez
9. Askepios
10. Ouroborous
11. Soothsayer
12. Conjugal Burns

Watershed

Opeth

• Label: Roadrunner
• Released: 19 May 2008

• Progressive metal

1. Coil
2. Heir Apparent
3. The Lotus Eater
4. Burden
5. Porcelain Heart
6. Hessian Peel
7. Hex Omega