Roadrunner Records ][ Top of 2008

Appuntamento immancabile per le top ten personali dei dipendenti Roadrunner Records, siano essi musicisti o direttori artistici, per quanto riguarda le uscite discografiche dell’anno appena trascorso. È sempre un’ottima occasione per confrontare le proprie preferenze con quelle degli addetti ai lavori e con chi gli album li crea!

Qui la lista completa:
http://roadrunnerrecords.com/wildcard/top2008/

Ecco invece un estratto degli elementi di spicco:

Monte Conner, Sr. VP A&R

1. Opeth – Watershed
2. Trivium – Shogun
3. Amon Amarth – Twilight Of The Thunder God
4. Grand Magus – Iron Will
5. Uriah Heep – Waking The Sleeper
6. Gojira – The Way Of All Flesh
7. AC/DC – Black Ice
8. Slipknot – All Hope Is Gone
9. Toxic Holocaust – An Overdose Of Death
10. Avantasia – The Scarecrow

Shawn Drover, Megadeth

1. Cynic – Traced in Air
2. Testament – The Information Damnation
3. Meshuggah – Obzen
4. Children of Bodem – Blooddrunk
5. Opeth – Watershed
6. Evergrey – Torn
7. Blotted Science – The Machinations of Dementia
8. Airbourne – Runnin’ Wild
9. Into Eternity – The Incurable Tragedy
10. Brain Drill – Apocalyptic Feasting

Mike Portnoy, Dream Theater

1. METALLICA – DEATH MAGNETIC
2. PROTEST THE HERO – FORTRESS
3. THE MARS VOLTA – THE BEDLAM IN GOLIATH
4. BEARDFISH – SLEEPING IN TRAFFIC PART 2
5. SLIPKNOT – ALL HOPE IS GONE
6. OPETH – WATERSHED
7. BLOODBATH – UNBLESSING THE PURITY / THE FATHOMLESS MASTERY
8. TRIVIUM – SHOGUN
9. STEVEN WILSON – INSURGENTES
10. CYNIC – TRACED IN AIR

Matt Heafy, Trivium

1. Coldplay – Viva La Vida
2. Coldplay – Prospekt’s March
3. Maximum the Hormone – Tsume Tsume Tsume
4. London Symphony Orchestra – Mozart’s Requiem
5. Gojira – The Way Of All Flesh
6. Amon Amarth – Twilight of the Thunder God
7. Slipknot – All Hope Is Gone
8. Opeth – Watershed
9. Metallica – Death Magnetic
10. Trivium – Shogun

Robb Flynn, Machine Head

1. All Shall Perish – Awaken The Dreamers
2. Metallica – Death Magnetic
3. Trivium – Shogun
4. Winds Of Plague – Decimate The Weak
5. Lil Wayne – The Carter III
6. La Coka Nostra – A Brand You Can Trust
7. Slipknot – All Hope Is Gone
8. Whitechapel – This Is Exile
9. Meshuggah – Bleed
10. Bleeding Through – Sister Charlatan

Joel Stroetzel, Killswitch Engage

1. Kings of Leon- Only by the Night
2. Ryan Adams and the Cardinals- Cardinology
3. Radiohead- In Rainbows
4. Tommy Emmanuel- Center Stage
5. All That Remains- Overcome
6. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds- Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
7. Augustana- Can’t Love, Can’t Hurt
8. In Flames- A Sense of Purpose
9. Nada Surf- Lucky
10. Ray LaMontagne- Gossip in the Grain

Daniel Adair, Nickelback

1. Martone – Clean
2. Meshuggah – Obzen
3. John Mayer – Where the Light Is
4. Coldplay – Viva La Vida
5. Theory of a Deadman – Scars & Souvenirs
6. Jet Black Stare
7. Slipknot – All Hope Is Gone
8. Metallica – Death Magnetic
9. Black Stone Cherry – Folklore and Superstition
10. Greg Howe – Soundproof

Paolo Gregoletto, Trivium

1. Metallica – Death Magnetic
2. Machine Head – The Blackening Special Edition
3. Cold Play – Viva La Vida
4. Gojira – The Way of All Flesh
5. Slipknot – All Hope Is Gone
6. Amon Amarth – Twilight of the Thunder God
7. Protest the Hero – Fortress
8. AC/DC – Black Ice
9. Opeth – Watershed
10. Trivium – Shogun

Max Cavalera, Soulfly; Cavalera Conspiracy; Sepultura

1. Bad Brains – Build a Nation
2. Disfear – Live the Storm
3. Gojira – The Way of All Flesh
4. Gogol Bordello – Gypsy Punks
5. Turbo Trio – Turbo Trio
6. Incite – Divided We Fail
7. Agnostic Front – Warriors
8. Amon Amarth – Twilight of the Thunder God
9. Agoraphobic Nosebleed – Insect Warfare
10. Hirax – The New Age of Terror

Justin Foley, Killswitch Engage

1. Cynic – Traced in Air
2. Meshuggah – Obzen
3. Cult of Luna – Eternal Kingdom
4. Sigur Ros – Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
5. Gojira – The Way Of All Flesh
6. Mogwai – The Hawk Is Howling
7. Nine Inch Nails – The Slip
8. Underoath – Lost In The Sound Of Separation