Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Cheers to a Great 2008!

Top Shit of 2008

Albums: By Band Alphabetically

Coffins: Buried Death
Dismember: Dismember
Enslaved: Vertebrae
Gigan: The Order of the False Eye
Gojira: the Way Of All Flesh

Lair of the Minotaur: War Metal Battle Master
Metallica: Death Magnetic
Nachtmystium: Assassins, Black Meddle Pt. 1
Warrel Dane: Praises to the War Machine

Classic: King Diamond: Them


Re-issues:

Burning Witch: Crippled Lucifer 2xCD
Demolition Hammer: Necrology-A Complete Anthology 2xCD

Life Of Agony: River Runs Red, Top Shelf Edition CD/DVD
Machine Head: The Blackening Special EditionCD/DVD

Live: By Date

Machine Head 2.16.08 The Rave Milwaukee, WI
Trouble 4.5.08 Nite Caps Chicago, IL
Testament 5.3.08 Pearl Room Mokena, IL
Van Halen 5.30.08 Allstate Arena Rosemont, IL

Iron Maiden 6.12.08 Allstate Arena Rosemont, IL
Early Man 7.8.08 Reggie’s Chicago, IL

Machine Head Mayhem Festival 8.9/8.10 Detroit, MI/Tinley Park, IL
Judas Priest/Heaven and Hell/Motorhead 8.19.08 First Midwest Tinley Park, IL

Nifelheim/Nachtmystium 9.7.08 Double Door Chicago, IL
Metallica/Machine Head/The Sword 12.18.08 The Forum LA, CA.

Media:

V/A:
Get Thrashed! - DVD
Cannibal Corpse:
Centuries Of Torment -2xDVD

Iron Maiden: Live After Death -2xDVD
Lair of the Minotaur:War Metal Battle Master - DVD


W.A.R., The Unauthorized Biography of William Axl Rose by Mick Wall - Book

Everybody Wants Some - The Van Halen Saga: Ian Christe -Book
Metal Hammer presents Metallica and the story of Thrash Metal - Magazine
33 1/3: Reign In Blood by D.X. Ferris -Book