Is it time to start the inevitable “best of” lists already?

Well, I know that you all have been waiting with baited breath for my top heavy metal albums of 2008. I make no claim that these are “the best” in any objective sense, just that they’re the ones I listened to and enjoyed the most (in no particular order and along with clips):

Metallica, Death Magnetic
“The Day That Never Comes”

Gojira, The Way of All Flesh
“Vacuity”

Trivium, Shogun
“Down From the Sky”

Opeth, Watershed
“Porcelain Heart”

Scar Symmetry, Holographic Universe
“Morphogenesis”

Protest the Hero, Fortress
“Sequoia Throne”

Enslaved, Vertebrae
“The Watcher”

Unearth, The March
“My Will Be Done”


Honorable mentions:

All Shall Perish, Awaken the Dreamers
Arsis, We Are the Nightmare
Underoath, Lost in the Sound of Separation