Metal Hammer Critics’ Top 50 Albums 2008: 12-10

terrybezer / Features (Spanish Inquisition) / 18/12/2008 09:00am

Come on in to check out number’s 12 to 10 from this year’s Metal Hammer Critic’s Poll.

12. CANCER BATS
HAIL DESTROYER
Hassle
When they let the demons loose, Cancer Bats are capable of nailing it with nasty conviction. Their sheer visceral malevolent floor-quake could kick it sister-fucker style with Eyehategod and Down in some god-forsaken NOLA outpost.
CATHERINE YATES
(May 2008, issue 178, 172 points)

11. TRIVIUM
SHOGUN
Roadrunner
Pulsating with attitude and melody, Shogun is easily the best album of Trivium’s career. It combines melodic hooks, progressive structures and musicianship, all of which places them way ahead of the current crop of metal contenders and sets a new course for greatness.
TERRY BEZER
(October 2008, issue 184, 174 points)

10. CHILDREN OF BODOM
BLOODDRUNK
Spinefarm/Universal
There’s an almost self-conscious-sounding reaffirmation of aggression and brutality to Blooddrunk. The songs are unrelentingly fast with ruggedly heavy guitar, split harmonies and raunchy solos. COB hardly need to reassure us of their metal credentials but they do so with fist-waving vigour.
GILL
(May 2008, issue 178, 184 points)

Check out the rest of the Metal Hammer Critics Top 50.

14 Comments


Good spot for Blooddrunk, love that album!

Same. Blooddrunk was great, and i loved Shogun by Trivium too.

Does this mean BFMV, Sylosis, ATR, Unearth all crack top 10? (^^)YY(^^)

Blooddrunk shouldn’t be this high up in my opinion. I thought it was quite bland, definately one of COB’s weakest releases.

Opeth
Amon Amarth
Bloodbath
Scar Symmetry

These are all left in there :P

Facepalm!!
Children of Bodom should’nt be this high…

‘Shogun’ Revolutionized Trivium’s sound more so than ‘Blooddrunk’ did for ‘COB’
More like a 6 for me for Shogun, just behind Underoath…

I say these places are good. (Y)

First off Aya – BFMV didn’t make the top 10 let alone the top 50. Can’t remember if the other bands were in the top 10 or not.
Secondly Barry and Stuart – you say Blooddrunk shouldn’t be this high up and that it was kind of bland, but if you compare it to ‘Are You Dead Yet’ I’d say there’s a noticeable improvement. Plus C.O.B have no need to revolutionise themselves, they established themselves long before Trivium did! And as they say: ‘if it ain’t broke, why fix it?’

I see what you mean but i’d rather a band improve on their sound rather than stay with it.
Although i would’nt say i thought blooddrunk was bland but it definatly was’nt as good as most said it was…

I can see AC/DC being somewhere in the top 10…

Kris Dobo

Lol. I knew Trivium and Children of Boredom would be this high. Fucking stupid. I bet The Formation of Damnation will be top and it isn’t even a good album. Testament were never that good in the first place but this mag rapes them. Id rather listen to the new Helstar or Holy Moses.

metalbhoy

Kris…are you on drugs? Testaement are awesome, and Formation of Damnation is easily top five! Maybe not top spot, (personally, Sylosis should win that award!), but to say Testament were never that good???
I think your probably just one of these people who thinks, “Uh, they’ve made it quite big, therefore they’re shite”

noobpotato

I hope that it will, but i doubt dir en grey’s uroboros would be higher than hail destroyer, but better wait and see

Liadhain

Why is Shogun up there?
Trivium have got weaker and weaker as the went along. Ember to Inferno and Ascendancy were great, from there they’ve gone downhill.

Blooddrunk is one of CoB’s weakest releases (in some senses) but despite that, it still is an amazing album.

Ok…I read some magazine (can’t remember which) and Death Magnetic – Metallica was top. Metallica have still got IT, but IT’s fading. St Anger was awful, Death Magnetic slightly better, best albums – The Black Album and Kill ‘em All

The Beast

Chinese Democracy in the top 10? Oh God…

@Joel
Could be. I regard BFMV as a sweet-candy-like rock band that caters to mainstream (especially girls) rather than a metal band now. Still good though. It doesn’t matter if they are kicked out this time. (They’ve already won tons of fans and awards.)…But hopefully Sylosis’s COAA will have a good position because a newcomer needs a good start and encouragement to keep it up. This band is my current favorite BTW.

well i can say that the magazine has put Testament at number (4) just behind AC/DC…

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