Worst Album On Kerrang Albums Of The Year List 2008

No Torche No Harvey Milk, No Esoteric No... you get the picture. This magazine is a fucking joke.
Metallica at no1 just because they made a not quite so mediocre album like they have the past 15 years. If that was the best Metal can offer Metal would be fucked. Thankfully we know this isn't true.
Fuck Kerrang.

answer will always be the mars volta

"Goliath" on Mars Volta's album is a million times better than anything on the last weezer album.

i have heard exactly 0 of these albums

Why so little satanic extreme metal? I though that's what most metal fans listen to these days, at least as far as recent music goes.

Kerrang doesn't cover much metal anymore , Geir.

I'd lay money on the worst being that Slaves To Gravity album, actually - it baffles me as rto where they fit into whatever Kerrang is trying to come off as now, it was pure 9pm at the Dog & Parrot vibes all the way

It's weird how there was that Classic Rock EOY poll on the big polls thread and ppl were really down with it for sticking to its guns and then you look at this and there's loads of shit like Mogwai and Mars Volta and whatever John Reis happens to call his band... the assumed consensus on all of those was that they were made by bands who are in no way outdoing themselves at this point and then they turn up in here. I mean I can't pretend to get angry about it like Kerr but it just confuses me

FWIW I meant "shit" in the non-insulting sense there but like I say I don't see many people hailing those as classics

It really annoys me that terrific albums have come out this year by Torche, Harvey Milk, Earth, Esoteric to name 4 off the top of my head. Yet they produce that list. The Bronx album is ok but never a top 20 albu,. Not heard Gojira or Enslaved so I'll reserve judgement on that, but they seem token metal albums. Mettalica at no1 can just fuck off though. When the next album comes out that will be seen as better than this one. It just smacks of desperation to proclaim metallica are back. Noone wanted a fantastic Metallica album than me, but it didnt happen. It's getting props for not being St Anger. Load is better than it FFS. I bet the list was compiled 2 weeks after it came out. If it was done now that the album has proved to be a letdown on further listens (even jeff agrees with me) , I dont believe it would be no1. (then I look at the rest of the list and see no better albums).
Maybe that's what it is. "Lets put 19 shitty albums in there to make it look like Metallica really was album of the year!"

All the talk on the rolling metal thread has been of a golden year for metal. You wouldn't know it by Kerrangs list. Wish the Terrorizer list was out.

Nothing against Geir, but it's a sad day when he knows more about metal than Kerrang staff!

Anyone want to run a metal albums of the year thing like the ILX albums/Tracks that Musically runs?

I've emailed her asking how she runs hers. I think it might be worth doing.

I bet people on the metal thread'd be up for it, loads of people did lists sometime in autumn yeah? I never got round to it.

I know the Terrorizer list but I can't tell you what's on it. I assumed it'd be in the current issue in the shops actually, I thought they'd have enough time.

Srsly tho that list up there gets worse every time I look at it - it's not even me (or whoever) not liking the bands, it's more like almost ALL those records being 'like their other ones but not quite as good'

I've not heard Johnny Truant or Amon Amarth or Meshuggah, they might well be career highlights. No-one seems to think the NIN or AC/DC or Enslaved or Weezer or Alkaline Trio or Slipknot or the Bronx or Metallica are. Cancer Bats and The Gaslight Anthem are basically new bands, Scars On Broadway are just filling in for System Of A Down right?, people seemed to be riding harder for Gojira and BMTH when they did their first albums... um, I think that's everyone covered?

DJ Mencap is pretty straight on, although I do think there are those who think Enslaved is their best yet (I'm not one of them, but pretty sure even a few on this board might say so). The Alk Trio album is their best major label release yet, but fat from topping the early stuff.

Meshuggah album is good but def not a career highlight

oh, I dunno about that...it's probably my favourite meshuggah album. it's just so tightly focused and lean, but a bit more varied than, say, nothing or DEI.

I'd argue for bedlam in goliath being TMV's second-best album, too.

there's a lot of stuff on this list that I haven't heard/don't care about. kind of surprised GnR didn't make it though (even though it was awful).

Well, Kerrang are still Kerrang with Metallica on top of the list. But it seems their perception of what is metal or hard rock hasn't changed since the 80s. Which may provoke some metal fans.

How do you mean? If you're trying to say that if K! cover it, that means they're deeming it to be metal or hard rock... there is no way on earth that The Night Marchers album would have been reviewed by them in 1984

Well, Kerrang are still Kerrang with Metallica on top of the list. But it seems their perception of what is metal or hard rock hasn't changed since the 80s. Which may provoke some metal fans.

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, December 17, 2008 5:32 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah list is loaded down with 80s-style metal bands...like...um...weezer...and mogwai...and akaline trio...and mars volta

like honest geir do you even read stuff before you comment or do you basically have your commments down before you click the thread, actually that would be hilarious and explain a lot.

I take back what I said upthread

So any volunteers to run an ilx metal list? I dont have office on my comp so i cant just put stuff in excel.

hah that killed thread

02 The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound

ok i love the shit out of this album but what the FUCK is it doing in kerrang

Oh, what the hell? I wrote a whole long thing and it didn't go through? Bloody hell. The short of it: Amon Amarth, Gojira, Enslaved, NIN = rad, Bring Me the Horizon = WTF?

Not that I really care about this magazine, though, not being British. To be honest, I'm only familiar with it because of Kerr's rants and that part in "Get in the Ring" where Axl rags on them.

Rewrite the whole thing!

It's not quite as abysmal as when they named Biffy Clyro their 2007 album of the year.

true. that really was low. But at least a few really good albums did make that list.

Last tears top 20
1 Biffy Clyro - Puzzle (14th Floor)
2 Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works (Relapse)
3 Machine Head - The Blackening (Roadrunner)
4 Queens Of The Stone Age - Era Vulgaris (Polydor)
5 Every Time I Die - The Big Dirty (Ferret)
6 The Ghost Of A Thousand - This is Where The Fight begins (Undergroove)
7 Serj Tankian - Elect The Dead (Reprise)
8 Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero (Interscope)
9 Down - Down III : Over The Under (WEA)
10 Fall Out Boy - Infinity On High (Island)
11 Jimmy Eat World - Chase This Light (Interscope)
12 Coheed And Cambria - No World For Tomorrow (Sony BMG)
13 Reuben - In Nothing We Trust (Hideous)
14 Thrice - The Alchemy Index (Vagrant)
15 Baroness - Red (Relapse)
16 Avenged Sevenfold - S/t (Warners)
17 Municipal Waste - The Art Of Partying (Earache)
18 High On Fire - Death Is This Communion (Relapse)
19 Against Me! - New Wave (Sire)
20 Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today (Rise Above)

So overall this years is far worse

who are the gaslight anthem anyway? They're in the NME list too

bruce springsteen + emo. it's better than that if you're into that

Was gonna say The Hold Steady for Gallows fans, but narcissism of small etc

hmm. I'll stick to The Hold Steady thanks.

terrorizer isnt out til jan 4th i think. I hope it's a good list.

i hope metallica didnt win it

When did mark grout get off the kerrang bus btw?

never on it.

haha i knew you would still be reading this thread though!

And you honestly never read it in your teens?
I gave up on kerrang only a few years ago. I cant resist the xmas specials though. This year is the worst though.

No it didn't exist when I was in my teens.

Did you read Sounds?

mm hmm.

Going with NIN (the worst one I heard).

that's one of the better ones

johnny truant wins worst name award

dont you agree?

If you'd just encountered the name 'Weezer' I don't think you'd be saying that

So no one fancies running an ilx metal albums of the year thing?

Running? No. Contributing to? Yes.

I still havent heard back from musically how she runs hers. I know most of the rolling metal posters would write blurbs to go with each album, but it's the actual compiling of it that concerns me as i dont have office on my comp any more. Im pretty sure musically uses excel.

I'd have a go if noone else wants to but im not sure id be able to do it.

Plus is there enough demand? there's no point if there's only gonna be 10-15 people voting.

Nominate Albums For ILM's Metal Albums Of The Year 2008 (closes Jan 1st )

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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and again

tho the mars volta will probably runaway with it

How I hate The Mars Volta. I'm sure their ability to play instruments might be beyond my comprehension but if they can't use that to make a tune it's just pointless for me.

im surprised at the mars volta hate when theres worse bands on that list tbh

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

...and justice for all.

lol @ death magnetic thread with people kissing its ass

rofl

roxy did you vote metallica?

nice to see metallica and that 'death magnetic' fraud in number one spot, though i'm sure the slipknot and mars volta records are pretty horrid. seems to be a pretty dire list on the whole, with only the enslaved, meshuggah and amon amarth jumping out at me as truly worthy contenders for the year

thats kerrang for you

of course i did, i've been calling that album a piece of shit since it first emerged as a piece of shit

You called it right. You should be editor of Kerrang.

wouldnt edit the byline of that p.o.s.

I can't help but wonder if the people that voted for the Meshuggah album didn't understand the poll. No way is that WORSE than many of these albums.

Indeed. Nothing wrong with Obzen either.