I am a fan of Rage but their live performance leaves alot to be desired

I wasn't shattered to go :D

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No, no, no the best is Slipknot by far. They are just f**ckin crazy when they get going on stage.

Iron Maiden put on the best live show. End of. And fair enough random, I enjoyed it massively, but that's because Rage mean so much to me. Wish their set had been longer though.

They are bloody good too.

Iron Maiden put on a good show, but I find the whole Eddie thing a little questionable.

Say what you like about Linkin Park, they put on a fair show too.

One cool old school band to check out is Swervedriver,legendary live sound.They reformed earlier this year and are hopefully touring here 2009.Guitar effect masters.

Had Soundgarden "Badmotorfinger" on constant loop in my car for 2 weeks.

Jesus Christ Pose...or Room 1000 years wide :cool:

Half of Slipknots stage act is not thje music but what they actually do on stage. The hydraulic drum sets were just brilliant as was the effects with their masks.
My sister went to Linkin Park, she said it was really good, but I'm not a fan.

Fucking brilliant band. Heres to a 2009 reunion[-o< [-o<

the song you by wes carr. the aus idol winner, is pretty catchy and i dont mind it

What's wrong with Eddie?!?!

Yes, Joey drumming upside down is impressive. But anybody can put on marks and flash lights on them and make them jump around a bit.

Get out *points at door*

Dunno, just don't think much of it.

1 word soundwave

Gun line up this year i rekon Lamb of God,Blood Hound Gang,In Flames,Devil Driver,36 Crazy Fists,All that remains,Underoath,Nine inch Nails,Lacuna Coil .Absolute bumper metal and alt line up .Should be there as long as i get the day off work :d

I keep hesitating to go and get tickets because I don't know that I'll get the time off work too :(

10.Psycroptic - Ob(Servant)
9.Cog - Sharing Space
8.Warbringer - War Without End
7.Escape The Fate - This War Is Ours
6.Cult Of Luna - Eternal Kingdom
5.House Vs Hurricane - Forfeiture EP
4.Metallica - Death Magnetic
3.Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone
2.Trivium - Shogun
1.Bring Me The Horizon - Suicide Season

Justifications and reasonings much??

ok..I'm oldschool though :lol: no particular order..

Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
SuperUnknown
Swervedriver - Juggernaut Rides
Pearljam - Ten
Vs
Dinosaur Jr - Greenmind
Where U Been
Sonic Youth - Dirty
Magic Dirt - Signs of Satanic Youth
Life Was Better..

Last 2 are eps :)

i know, i know, ive never actually liked a song by a aus idol person ever but i find it catchy

Sorry, should have made it more clear, tis meant to be top 10 of 2008. Nice list though.

I think there's something very, very wrong with you. Time to book yourself into the giggling academy mate.

He listened to those albums in 2008 didn't he??:lol:

If funky's going to post a top 10 then I guess I should aswell:lol: Can't have the Audio Engineer not.

10. Wahtershed - Opeth. Another Epic sounding, classic blend of sounds from Opeth, more clean vocals than we're used to and a great sound.
9. Death Magnetic - Metallica. If this was their first album, you'd be thinking "fuck, fair effort from the new kids." But as it wasn't, it was a little disappointing. They were swept up in the whole 'must be louder than the next guy' thing. The trouble is, that's the only real fault with the album. It's a very good album otherwise, but it doesn't reach out and grab you like previous albums such as Master Of Puppets or the black album did.
8. The Alchemy Indexes - Thrice. Four EPs spead out over two, two disk albums. One for each element. And stepping away from their more traditional sound for a more mature one was a big gamble, but in the end it paid off in a very well constructed album with a lot of great sounds, especially on the 'Fire' EP.
7. The New Game - Mudvayne. An album based around the murder mystery of your best mate. Novel concept, creating some interesting lyrics and a return to the sound that we love Mudvayne for.
6. The Slip - Nine Inch Nails. Another great album, two in the year is a great effort, while some lamented the lack of vocals in Ghosts, that was certainly made up for in The Slip and what immediately hits you is the driving snare drum through the album. At first you think 'well that's a bit cheap having it the same' but then you realise how well Reznor has done to have the same snare beat for 10 tracks and have them all sound completely different.
5. Sharing Space - Cog. Excellent second album from the Cog lads, fantastic heavy riffage and a lot of drive. Some heavy political statements that certainly could have alienated a fair few fans but it worked well and the album was fantastic. A grower too.
4. Shogun - Trivium. Why couldn't Metallica have sounded more like this?? The Best thrash album since Children Of Bodom's Are you Dead Yet?.
3. Funding Beauty In Negative Spaces - Seether. Came out in most of the world in 07 but in january here so I'm including it. The best grunge album in a long time. Some critics don't think much of it, but it's a solid album with great tracks, Seether's best offering so far.
2. All Hope Is Gone - Slipknot. Their sound matured so much from their previous album to this one. While keeping various aspects that defined 'slipknot' from previous albums they managed to harness that melodic sound that works well with Taylor's voice and found a great balance between 'slipknot' and 'stonesour' sounds.
1. Ghosts I-IV - Nine Inch Nails. Fantastic album, completely daydreamy album, great blend of sounds and for a 2 hour album with 0 lyrics ar all, it disappears all too quickly. Some absolutely genius original sounds on there. Playing a baking tray with a chain around it for a snare drum and playing guitar with a roll of foil is such an original sound.

Honorable mentions:
Conquer - Soulfly, Forfeiture EP - House vs Hurricane, Korven Kuningas - Korpiklaani, Suicide Season - Bring Me the Horizon.

[ctrl],[.] albums:
A hundred Million suns - Snow Patrol, Viva La Vida - Coldplay, Circus - Britney Spears.

On a Side note, I bought Serj Tankian's album Elect The Dead today. Awesome. Although, you do spend the whole time going "Why couldn't SOAD sound like this anymore??"

Two words: Daron Malakian.

:evil: Never liked that man much.
#-o They should have told him to fuck off when he wanted a bigger part in the band.
I haven't heard anything positive about Scars On Broadway either...

[quote=afromanGT On a Side note, I bought Serj Tankian's album Elect The Dead today. Awesome. Although, you do spend the whole time going "Why couldn't SOAD sound like this anymore??"[/quote]

you can tell that between toxcity and mezmerize/hypnotize soad had changed....FOR THE WORSE!!!

mezmerize and Hypnotize made me embarrased to be a soad fan .Those albums were really terible apart from one song B.Y.O.B which i must say was a master piece so fast and heavy it didnt deserve to be on the same album.They really needed to get back to their roots some hard grunge type of music which i find soad so hard to describe because they were so unique itll be a good 5 years before we see them back together i rekon and then we will find out if they were better off apart .Plus serj tankian solo is awsome and scar on broadway is fairly average

Edited by ^buffnugget^: 17/12/2008 05:28:37 PM

Vicinity of Obscenity was ok off Hypnotize, BYOB and the tracks not written soully by Malakian were ok on Mesmerize.
But They were nothing in comparison to tracks like Chick 'n' stu, Mr. Jack, Suit Pee, Chop Suey!, Aerials etc.

Beautiful - Akon

SOADS best album is their first one. Best song on the album is Sugar.

The Serj Tankian album is arwful its so bad i could not listen to the whole thing

Suite-Pee and Peephole were better.

There's nothing at all bad about that album. It's tops. What's wrong with it??

Woo! afro didn't make fun of my taste of music this time!

There's only so many times in the one thread I can call you a pathetic welp.

yer serj's new album wasnt half bad but i think his music and soads music has come to critical of everything like politics religion ,i mean its good for them that they are writing stuff they believe but after a few albums it gets old and after the first or second one if ur album hasnt created a up roar about it it means no ones listening .But i thank soad for giving me a intro into a mad genre but im over them and im never gonna go back down there its kinda turned into mainstream for me ,and i cant stand mainstream