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Staff Top 10 Lists
Virginia’s favorite white supremacists release another album of face-ripping melodic death metal with a strong emphasis on memorable songwriting.
Arghoslent - Hornets of the Pogrom
10
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Kerbenok - O
9
MYSPACE
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Utilizing diverse instrumentation, this German progressive black metal band crafts a majestic debut album evoking pagan spirituality.
Brave - Monuments
8
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The long awaited follow-up, from the band formerly known as Arise from Thorns, shows the band mastering its unique blend of progressive metal and classic American folk rock.
Winterfylleth - The Ghost of Our Heritage
7
MYSPACE
The debut album from this English black metal band is a fitting tribute to their Anglo-Saxon warrior ancestry.
Samothrace - Life’s Trade
6
MYSPACE
Fairly accurately billed as a funeral-doom/post-rock hybrid, Samothrace’s Life’s Trade is stunningly evocative and hauntingly atmospheric.
Made Out of Babies - The Ruiner
5
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Brooklyn’s noisiest band, follow up their excellent 2006 release Coward with this spectacular release combining Julie Christmas’s trademark vocals with more confident songwriting and a new melodic sensibility. 
Misery’s Omen - Hope Dies
2
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In an album widely unknown by the metal press, Misery’s Omen reinvent the black/doom genre, stripping away its post-Katatonia cheesiness to reveal the desolation at the core of this sound.
Kalevala - Kudel' Belosnezhnogo L'na
4
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I don’t think I’ve ever heard a folk metal band rock as hard as this Russian project.
Woe - A Spell for the Death of Man
3
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Woe mainman Xos injects new life into black metal with this excellent piece of melodic, punked-out angst.
Grayceon - This Grand Show
1
MYSPACE
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My favorite album this year, Grayceon’s epic masterpiece of progressive metal showcases savage metal riffs and dreamlike ambience. Jackie Perez Gratz’s cello work is something to behold.
In the most universally over-hyped album of recent memory, Enslaved abandon the vision that inspired them to brilliance and dress Porcupine Tree outtakes in a nu-black-metal aesthetic in their desperate bid to land a video on MTV2.
This past year proves that metal remains vibrant and full of talented and inspired composers.  While many genre mainstays tried in vain to recapture their old glory, new blood in the scene pushed metal in new and exciting directions.  I can’t remember a year where six of my ten favorite albums were debut full-lengths, and I think that speaks volumes for the quality of metal these bands will create in the future. 
2008
Matt
YEAR END REVIEW
Enslaved - Vertebrae
BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT
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