Metalrage wants to say Happy New Year to all its readers and let's hope 2009 will bring the same amount of awesome metal! For Metalrage 2008 was a year packed with releases and a shitload of work. We have tried to review as many albums, see as many shows and tried to talk to as many artists as possible. And this resulted in a year where we have passed the 15.000.000 visits marker.

In 2009 we want to continue our struggle to review the gigantic amount of releases arriving at the headquarters. Therefor we are currently in progress of creating a new site which will be launched somewhere in 2009. We hope you have enjoyed this metal year as much as we did. Enjoy reading our yearlists and please leave yours in the comments!

1.    Textures - Silhouettes
2.    Gojira - The Way Of All Flesh
3.    Opeth - Watershed
4.    Metallica – Death Magnetic
5.    Testament – The Formation of Damnation
6.    Cavalera Conspiracy - Inflikted
7.    H2O – Nothing To Prove
8.    Airbourne – Running’Wild
9.    Burst – Lazarus Bird
10.    Protest The Hero - Fortress
11.    36 Crazyfists - The Tide And Its Takers
12.    David Gilmour – Live in Gdansk
13.    Meshuggah - obZen
14.    AC/DC - Black Ice
15.    Heaven Shall Burn – Iconoclast (Part 1: The Final Resistance)
16.    International Superheroes Of Hardcore – Takin It Ova
17.    Pagan's Mind - God's Equation
18.    Racoon – Before You Leave
19.    Stick to Your Guns - Comes From the Heart
20.    The Mars Volta – The Bedlam In Goliath
21.    The Police – Live in Buenos Aires
22.    Amon Amarth – Twilight Of The Thunder God
23.    Beneath The Massacre - Dystopia
24.    Face Tomorrow – In The Dark
25.    From First To Last – From First To Last
26.    Hour Of Penance - The Vile Conception
27.    Jorn - Lonely Are The Brave
28.    Slipknot – All Hope Is Gone
29.    Stuck Mojo – The Great Revival
30.    The Gutter Twins – Saturnalia
31.    Avantasia - The Scarecrow
32.    Ayreon - 01011001
33.    Emmure - The Respect Issue
34.    Mevãdio – Fresh Kill Daily
35.    Outcast - Self-Injected Reality
36.    Satyricon - The Age Of Nero
37.    Trash Talk - Trash Talk
38.    We – Tension & Release
39.    Closer – A Darker Kind Of Salvation
40.    In Mourning - Shrouded Divine
41.    Incinerate - Anatomize
42.    iO - For The Masses
43.    Jack Johnson – Sleep Through The Static
44.    Mind Eraser – Conscious Unconscious
45.    Misery Index - Traitors
46.    Moonspell – Night Eternal
47.    October File - Holy Armor In The Jaws Of God
48.    Queen – The singles collection Vol. 1
49.    Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe
50.    The Analyst - Summoning the Wretched
51.    After the Burial - Rareform
52.    Black Anvil – Time Insults the Mind
53.    Black Stone Cherry - Folklore & Superstition
54.    Cynic - Traced in Air
55.    Pharaoh - Be Gone
56.    Severed Savior - Servile Insurrection
57.    Sixx: AM - The Heroin Diaries
58.    Another Black Day - S/T
59.    Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery
60.    Born From Pain – Survival
61.    De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig – De Machine
62.    Disfear – Live the Storm
63.    Equilibrium - Sagas
64.    Glowsun – The Sundering
65.    Santogold – Santogold
66.    Torche – Neanderthal
67.    Arsis - We Are The Nightmare
68.    Ihsahn - AngL
69.    Maria Mena – Cause And Effect
70.    Siebenbürgen - Revelation VI
71.    The Rotted - Get Dead Or Die Trying
72.    Warrel Dane – Praises to the War machine
73.    Jeff Loomis - Zero Order Phase
74.    Nex - A Clockwork Heart
75.    Room Eleven – Mmm Gumbo?
76.    Terror – The Damned, The Shamed
77.    The Agony Scene – Get Damned
78.    The Last Shadow Puppets – The Age of Understatement
79.    Toxic Holocaust – An Overdose of Death
80.    Unearth - The March
81.    Veil of Maya - The Common Man's Collapse
82.    Coffins – Buried Death
83.    Devillac – Three Hours To Coma
84.    Melvins - Nude With Boots
85.    Prostitute Disfigurement - Descendants Of Depravity
86.    Six Reasons To Kill - Another Horizon
87.    Skindred – Roots Rock Riot
88.    The Haunted - Versus
89.    Alestorm – Captain Morgan’s Revenge
90.    Deadlock – Manifesto
91.    Deeds Of Flesh - Of What's To Come
92.    Pain - Cynic Paradise
93.    Septic Flesh - Communion
94.    The Bellrays – Hard, sweet and Sticky
95.    The Spirit That Guides Us – Don’t Shoot, Let Us Burn
96.    Trigger the Bloodshed - Purgation
97.    Uriah Heep – Wake the Sleeper


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