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Jay's Top Ten Album List of 2008

Dec 15, 2008, 12:00pm

What a year this was, right? Oil goes way up then goes way down, America elects a half-white guy for the presidency, and OJ is finally receives a prison sentence. This was a good year for me in terms of the harder offerings. In 2007 I kinda had to do the ice-cream-genre-barrel-scrape- around because a lot of metallish releases didn't hit the sweet spot. While that sounds like a personal problem, keep in mind that this is music we're talking about; it can't be anything but personal. I used to make fun of my middle-school friend's little [...]

Artists: Beloved, Cynic, Don Caballero, THE FACELESS, MESHUGGAH, Necrophagist, New Kids on the Block, Shai Hulud, Textures

Tags: Music, Meshuggah, famine, beloved, the faceless, necrophagist, cynic, don caballero, new kids on the block, Shai Hulud, Hopesfall, Rosematter, textures, Benea Reach, Amen. the Animal, Taken

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