These are the albums of 2008 that I've got my eye on. There are a lot of big name releases to look forward to this year, and quite a few that have already come out. I'll be adding ratings as I get a feel for the albums. Everything on this list is subject to change.


Alestorm- Captain Morgan's Revenge [Pirate Folk/Power]
  (55/100)

Arsis- We Are the Nightmare [Melodic Tech Death]
* (92/100)

Ayreon- 01011001 [Prog]
  (68/100)

Bauhaus- Go Away White [Goth Rock]
  (45/100)

Behexen- My Soul For His Glory [Black]
  (70/100)

Belphegor- Bondage Goat Zombie [Death]
  (75/100)

Benea Reach- Alleviat [Metalcore]
  (50/100)

Biomechanical- Cannibalized [Prog]
  (68/100)

Bloodbath- Unblessing The Purity (EP) [Death]
* (95/100)

Boris- Smile [Drone/Stoner Rock]
  (85/100)

Brain Drill- Apocalyptic Feasting [Brutal Tech Death]
  (90/100)

Caldera- Mist Through Your Consciousness [Doom]
  (80/100)

Canvas Solaris- The Atomized Dream [Prog]
  (74/100)

Catastrophic- Pathology of Murder [Death]
  (70/100)

Cavalera Conspiracy- Inkfiltrated [Thrash]
  (55/100)

Cryptopsy- The Unspoken King [Deathcore]
  (65/100)

Decrepit Birth- Diminishing Between Worlds [Brutal Tech Death]
* (97/100)

Dominici- O3 A Trilogy - Part III [Prog]
  (69/100)

Dismember- Dismember [Death]
  (70/100)

Dungortheb- Waiting for Silence [Death]
  (75/100)

Eluveitie- Slania [Folk]
  (74/100)

Flametal- Master of the Aire [Flamenco Speed]
  (89/100)

Genghis Tron- Board Up The House [Electro-Metal]
  (88/100)

Hate- Morphosis [Death]
  (60/100)

Hate Eternal- Fury and Flames [Brutal Tech Death]
* (95/100)

Hour of Penance- The Vile Conception [Brutal Death]
  (85/100)

Humanoid- Remembering Universe [Prog]
* (98/100)

In Flames- A Sense of Purpose [Melodeath]
  (65/100)

In Mourning- Shrouded Divine [Prog]
  (60/100)

Jex Thoth- Jex Thoth [Doom]
  (70/100)

Kalmah- For the Revolution [Melodeath]
  (69/100)

Kreator- At The Pulse Of Kapitulation [Thrash, live album]
  (80/100)

The Mars Volta- Bedlam in Goliath [Prog Rock]
  (70/100)

Meshuggah- obZen [Tech Thrash]
* (96/100)

Misanthrope- IrremeDIABLE [Melodeath]
  (60/100)

The Monolith Deathcult- Trivmvirate [Electro-Death]
  (60/100)

Norther- N [Melodic Death/Power]
  (65/100)

Ocrilim- Annwn [Experimental]
  (80/100)

Opeth- Watershed [Prog]
  (80/100)

Origin- Antithesis [Brutal Tech Death]
* (93/100)

Pelican- After the Ceiling Cracked [Post-Metal]
* (91/100)

Perimeter- Odium Humani Generis [Deathcore]
  (35/100)

Protest the Hero- Fortress [Metalcore]
  (20/100)

Rotten Sound- Cycles [Death]
  (40/100)

Sculptured- Embodiment [Melodeath]
  (50/100)

Septic Flesh- Communion [Death]
  (55/100)

Tesseract- Demo/EP [Prog/Meshuggah-influenced]
  (85/100)

Textures- Silhouettes [Prog/Core/Nu/Meshuggah-influenced]
  (55/100)

Through Your Silence- Whispers to the Void [Melodeath]
  (60/100)

Vader- Lead Us (EP)
  (70/100)

Warrel Dane- Praise to the War Machine [Thrash/Melodeath]
  (55/100)

Witch- Paralyzed [Stoner/ Doom]
(78/100)

Zimmer's Hole- When You Were Shouting At the Devil [Parody]
  (35/100)





Unreleased/ Not Yet Rated:

A Silver Mt. Zion ~ 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons
The Axis of Perdition- Grief of the Unclean
Blut Aus Nord- Dialogue With The Stars
Bolt Thrower-
Cannibal Corpse-
Cephalectomy- The Dream Cycle Mythos (EP)(Canadian)
Cryptopsy- The Unspoken King (Summer)
Cynic-
Darkthrone- Dark Thrones And Black Flags (expected around July)
Dawn of Azazel-
Deeds of Flesh- Of What's to Come (Summer)
Destroyer 666-
Devourment-
Dim Mak-
Equilibrium-
The Faceless-
Gorerotted- Get Dead or Die Trying
Hail of Bullets-
Ihsahn- Angl
Illdisposed- The Prestige
Immortal-
Into Eternity-
Intronaut-
Kataklysm- Prevail
Lecherous Nocturne- The Age of Miracles Has Passed
Leviathan-
Lost Horizon-
Metallica-
Mithras-
Moonsorrow- Tulimyrsky (EP)
Morbid Angel-
Necrophagist-
Nervecell- Preaching Venom (with Dave Haley of Psycroptic)
Neuraxis-
Nevermore-
Obscura-
Ondskapt-
Opeth- Watershed (expected June 3)
The Ordher- Weaponize
Origin- Antithesis
Psycroptic- (expected late 2008)
Sinate-
Suffocation- Blood Oath
Testament-

Starting this week, start Metal Sundays off BRUTAL with the Incinerator at our new time, 2-4pm every Sunday. Now twice as evil!

Last week we had Mathieu Marcotte (Humanoid, Augury, ex-Spasme) on our show to talk about his new album, Remembering Universe. Pick it up, and look out for a transcript of the audio coming soon!

Metal is full of songs about gruesome ways to die. This week we're going to play a full hour of songs about getting Chopped In Half, Torn To Pieces, Orgiastically Disemboweled, and other unimaginable horrors.

Yesterday we played an eclectic mix of the very best songs from our CJLO metal vault.

Last night we were joined by vocalist Jimmy and bassist Garen of Montreal's Synastry, who gave us a chance to preview their upcoming album, Blind Eyes Bleed. Don't forget to check them out with the Agonist: February 23 at Café l'Inconditionnel.

This week we're playing you the best instrumental tracks in our collections. It's gonna be epic!

This week we're playing some new stuff and some old favorites: tracks we've been into lately, tracks we can't believe we haven't played yet, and a few leftovers from the best of 2007 show we did a few weeks ago.

As Jake is still chugging hot apple cidre with his family, Jessica presents a playlist appropriately titled "Stuff I Think is Good."

1. Mayhem- Ordo Ad Chao (98/100)
2. Blut Aus Nord- Odinist (96/100)
3. Mithras- Behind The Shadows Lie Madness (95/100)
4. Deathspell Omega- Fas - Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum (95/100)
5. Portal- Outre (94/100)
6. Nile- Ithyphallic (93/100)
7. Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos (91/100)
8. Illogicist- The Insight Eye (91/100)
9. Symphony X- Paradise Lost (91/100)
10. Darkthrone- FOAD (90/100)
11. Sarpanitum- Despoilment of Origin (90/100)
12. Rosetta- Wake Lift (90/100)
13. Blotted Science- The Machinations of Dementia (90/100)
14. Obituary- Xecutioner's Return (89/100)
15. Sickening Horror- When Landscapes Bled Backwards (89/100)
16. Behold... The Arctopus- Skullgrid (84/100)
17. Insision- Ikon (82/100)
18. The County Medical Examiners- Olidous Operettas (82/100)
19. Cephalic Carnage- Xenosapien (80/100)
20. Moonsorrow - V: Hävitetty (75/100)

We're gone for two weeks after today, but to make up for it we're leaving you with this year's finest in black and death metal (you know it'll be the best of the best- we only have an hour to showcase it all!)

Since this is our second to last show of the year, tonight we'll be doing a mix of old favourites and new and up-and-comings, including some 2007 runners-up!

As Jake is embarking on the formidable and treacherous voyage known as Finals Period this week, I (Jessica) will be playing you a melange of classic, contemporary, and Canadian Black Metal. There'll be some trve, some necro, and who knows- maybe I'll even throw in some frostbitten.

Jessica is out of town this week, so I (Jake) am taking this opportunity to play for you an entire set of technical death metal. If a relentless onslaught of crushing polyrhythmic shred is your thing, don't miss this one!

Can you get any more ridiculous than Demilich's "The Planet that Once Used to Absorb Flesh In Order to Achieve Divininty and Immortality (Suffocated to the Flesh That It Desired)"? We're certainly going to try on this week's show!

Want to know how many degrees of separation there are between death metal superstars Cannibal Corpse and the Montreal underground's (the)Plasmarifle? Tune in this week to hear it!

On November 2nd, the metal community suffered a tragic loss when Vitek, drummer of Polish death metal band Decapitated passed away from injuries sustained in a collision while on tour. Last week we dedicated our show to him and played two tracks off the legendary album, Winds of Creation. Vitek, you will never be forgotten.