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This is a timeline documenting the events of [[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]] in the year 2008.
This is a timeline documenting the events of [[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]] in the year 2008.


==Bands formed==
== Reformed bands ==
*[[A Sound of Thunder (band)|A Sound of Thunder]]
*[[A Storm of Light]]
*[[Aeon Zen]]
*[[Allegaeon]]
*[[Amaranthe]]
*[[Arkaea]]
*[[Austrian Death Machine]]
*[[Betraying the Martyrs]]
*[[Bölzer]]
*[[Bombus (band)|Bombus]]
*[[Cain's Offering]]
*[[Chickenfoot]]
*[[Christian Mistress]]
*[[City of Fire (band)|City of Fire]]
*[[Code Orange (band)|Code Orange]]
*[[Ex Deo]]
*[[From Fall to Spring]]
*[[God Seed]]
*[[Hamferð]]
*[[Holy Grail (band)|Holy Grail]]
*[[King of Asgard]]
*[[Krypts]]
*[[Lustre (musical project)|Lustre]]
*[[Pallbearer (band)|Pallbearer]]
*[[Power Trip (band)|Power Trip]]
*[[Revolution Renaissance]]
*[[Solution .45]]
*[[Tears of Tragedy]]
*[[The Empire Shall Fall]]
*[[Triptykon]]
*[[Uneven Structure]]

==Reformed bands==
* [[At the Gates]] (for a few shows)
* [[At the Gates]] (for a few shows)
* [[Carcass (band)|Carcass]] (for a few shows)
* [[Carcass (band)|Carcass]] (for touring)
* [[Einherjer]] (for touring)
* [[Exhorder]] (for a few tours and some new material)
* [[Forbidden (band)|Forbidden]] (for a few shows)
* [[Forbidden (band)|Forbidden]] (for a few shows)
* [[Immortal (band)|Immortal]]
* [[Krokus (band)|Krokus]]
* [[Living Sacrifice]]
* [[Spineshank]]


== Disbandments ==
==Disbandments==
* [[Alabama Thunderpussy]]
* [[Beneath the Sky]]
* [[Byzantine (band)|Byzantine]]
* [[Byzantine (band)|Byzantine]]
* [[Celtic Frost]]
* [[Dead to Fall]]
* [[Demigod (band)|Demigod]]
* [[The Duskfall]]
* [[From Autumn to Ashes]]
* [[Himsa]]
* [[Knorkator]]
* [[Ministry (band)|Ministry]]
* [[Sieges Even]]
* [[Sikth]]
* [[Still Remains]]
* [[Still Remains]]
* [[Stratovarius]]
* [[The Red Death]]
* [[The Agony Scene]]
* [[Remove the Veil]]


== Events ==
==Events==
* [[Twiggy Ramirez]] rejoins [[Marilyn Manson (band)|Marilyn Manson]] in early January.
* [[Mikael Åkerfeldt]] rejoins [[Bloodbath]] in late January.
* [[Mikael Åkerfeldt]] rejoins [[Bloodbath]] in late January.
* Ola Frenning leaves [[Soilwork]] in February.
* Ola Frenning leaves [[Soilwork]] in February.
* [[Chris Broderick]] joins [[Megadeth]] in [[February]].
* [[Jan Axel Blomberg|Hellhammer]] rejoins with [[Dimmu Borgir]] and officially joins [[Gorgoroth]] as drummer.
* [[Chris Broderick]] joins [[Megadeth]] in February.
* [[Timo Tolkki]] leaves [[Stratovarius]] after some internal troubles in March.
* [[Thomas Gabriel Fischer]] leaves [[Celtic Frost]] in April.
* [[Morbid Angel]] singer [[Dave Vincent]] announced that Morbid Angel will not have their upcoming studio album for 2008.
* Singer [[Lisa Middelhauve]] leaves [[Xandria]] in April.
* Guitarist [[Daron Malakian]], who is now concentrating with his new project [[Scars on Broadway]], announced that [[System of a Down]] has no plans to reunite for the foreseeable future.
* On May 11, original [[Rush (band)|Rush]] drummer [[John Rutsey]] died in his sleep from an apparent heart attack.
* [[Rune Eriksen|Blasphemer]] leaves [[Mayhem (band)|Mayhem]] in May.
* Mike Kimball leaves [[Dying Fetus]] in May.
* On July 27, former [[White Spirit (band)|White Spirit]] and [[Tank (band)|Tank]] drummer [[Graeme Crallan]] died after a fall in a London street.
* [[Wes Borland]] joins [[Marilyn Manson (band)|Marilyn Manson]]'s lineup in mid-August.
* [[Dirty Rotten Imbeciles|D.R.I.]] guitarist Spike Cassidy makes a full recovery from cancer.
* [[Snot (band)|Snot]] reforms with ex-[[Divine Heresy]] vocalist Tommy Vext.
* Michael Nicklasson leaves [[Dark Tranquillity]] in August.
* [[Jeff Singer]] leaves [[Paradise Lost (band)|Paradise Lost]] in August.
* Christian "Witchhunter" Dudek, ex-drummer of [[Sodom (band)|Sodom]], dies of liver failure on September 7.
* [[Christian Älvestam]] leaves [[Scar Symmetry]] in September.
* [[Peter Wichers]] rejoins [[Soilwork]] in September.
* [[Tormentor (musician)|Tormentor]] rejoins [[Gorgoroth]] in September, as does [[Pest (musician)|Pest]] in December.
* Denny Axelsson, vocalist of [[Blinded Colony]], leaves the band.
* Former [[Marilyn Manson]] bassist [[Gidget Gein]] dies of a heroin overdose.
* [[Josh Freese]] plans to depart from [[Nine Inch Nails]] by the end of 2008.
* John Kempainen leaves [[The Black Dahlia Murder (band)|The Black Dahlia Murder]] in December.
* [[Job For A Cowboy]] founding member and guitarist Ravi Bhadriraju leaves the band in late 2008.
* Al Glassman leaves [[Despised Icon]] to join [[Job For A Cowboy]].
* [[Gaahl]] (ex-[[Gorgoroth]]) reveals his homosexuality.


== Albums released ==
==Albums released==
=== January ===
===January===
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
!Day
! Day
!Artist
! width="200"| Artist
!Album
! width="250"| Album
!Notes
|-
| align="center"| 2
| [[In Mourning (band)|In Mourning]]
| ''Shrouded Divine''
|-
| align="center"| 8
| [[For the Fallen Dreams]]
| ''[[Changes (For the Fallen Dreams album)|Changes]]''
|-
|-
| rowspan="1" valign="top"|[[January 11|11]]
| align="center"| 11
| [[Benedictum]]
| [[Benedictum]]
| ''[[Seasons of Tragedy]]''
| ''[[Seasons of Tragedy]]''
| <small>{{flagicon|USA}} March 4, 2008</small>
|-
|-
| rowspan="2" valign="top"|[[January 22|22]]
| align="center" rowspan="3" valign="top"| 22
| [[Byzantine (band)|Byzantine]]
| [[Byzantine (band)|Byzantine]]
| ''[[Oblivion Beckons]]''
| ''[[Oblivion Beckons]]''
|
|-
|-
| [[The Red Death]]
| [[The Red Death]]
| ''[[Godmakers (The Red Death album)|Godmakers]]''
| ''Godmakers''
|
|-
|-
| [[With Blood Comes Cleansing]]
| rowspan="1" valign="top"|[[January 23|23]]
| ''[[Horror (With Blood Comes Cleansing album)|Horror]]''
| [[Ayreon]]
| ''[[01011001]]''
| <small>{{flagicon|Japan}} January 23, 2008<br>{{flagicon|Germany}} January 25, 2008<br>{{flagicon|EU}} January 28, 2008<br>{{flagicon|US}} January 29, 2008</small>
|-
|-
| rowspan="3" valign="top"|[[January 25|25]]
| align="center" rowspan="4" valign="top"| 25
| [[Alestorm]]
| [[Alestorm]]
| ''[[Captain Morgan's Revenge]]''
| ''[[Captain Morgan's Revenge]]''
|
|-
|-
| [[Avantasia]]
| [[Avantasia]]
| ''[[The Scarecrow (Avantasia album)|The Scarecrow]]''
| ''[[The Scarecrow (Avantasia album)|The Scarecrow]]''
|
|-
| [[Ayreon]]
| ''[[01011001]]''
|-
|-
| [[Brainstorm (German band)|Brainstorm]]
| [[Brainstorm (German band)|Brainstorm]]
| ''[[Downburst (album)|Downburst]]''
| ''[[Downburst (album)|Downburst]]''
|
|-
|-
| rowspan="2" valign="top"|[[January 28|28]]
| align="center" rowspan="2" valign="top"| 28
| [[Bullet for My Valentine]]
| [[Bullet for My Valentine]]
| ''[[Scream Aim Fire]]''
| ''[[Scream Aim Fire]]''
| <small>{{flagicon|USA}} January 29, 2008</small>
|-
|-
| [[Heaven Shall Burn]]
| [[Heaven Shall Burn]]
| ''[[Iconoclast (Part 1: The Final Resistance)]]''
| ''[[Iconoclast (Part 1: The Final Resistance)|Iconoclast]]''
|-
| <small>{{flagicon|USA}} February 5, 2008</small>
| align="center" rowspan="2" valign="top"| 29
| [[Decrepit Birth]]
| ''[[Diminishing Between Worlds]]''
|-
| [[Protest the Hero]]
| ''[[Fortress (Protest the Hero album)|Fortress]]''
|}
|}


=== February ===
===February===
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
!Day
! width="25" | Day
!Artist
! width="200"| Artist
!Album
! width="250"| Album
!Notes
|-
| align="center" rowspan="4"| 4
| [[Baptism (band)|Baptism]]
| ''Grim Arts of Melancholy''
|-
| [[Hate (band)|Hate]]
| ''[[Morphosis (Hate album)|Morphosis]]''
|-
|-
| rowspan="1" valign="top"|[[February 4|4]]
| [[Iron Maiden]]
| [[Iron Maiden]]
| ''[[Live After Death]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=84401 |title=Iron Maiden: ''Live After Death'' DVD details announced |accessdate=2008-06-02 |date=2007-11-08 |publisher=Blabbermouth.net |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080314121546/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=84401 |archive-date=March 14, 2008 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
| ''[[Live After Death (video)|Live After Death]]''
| <small>DVD re-release</small>
|-
|-
| [[Sworn Enemy]]
| rowspan="1" valign="top"|[[February 13|13]]
| ''[[Maniacal (album)|Maniacal]]''
| [[Norther]]
| ''[[N (album)|N]]''
| <small>{{flagicon|FIN}} February 13, 2008<br>{{flagicon|EU}} February 22-29, 2008</small>
|-
|-
| rowspan="1" valign="top"|[[February 15|15]]
| align="center" rowspan="4"| 5
| [[Brain Drill]]
| ''[[Apocalyptic Feasting]]''
|-
| [[Salt the Wound]]
| ''[[Carnal Repercussions]]''
|-
| [[Warbringer]]
| ''[[War Without End (album)|War Without End]]''<ref>{{cite web|title=Winds of Plague Announce New Album Title |author=Doug Gibson (aka deathbringer) |url=http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=31056 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606065015/http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=31056 |archivedate=June 6, 2011 |url-status=live |accessdate=2009-03-14 |df=mdy }}</ref>
|-
| [[Winds of Plague]]
| ''[[Decimate the Weak]]''<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=86779 |title=Warbringer: New song posted online |access-date=June 3, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080612034042/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=86779 |archive-date=June 12, 2008 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
|-
| align="center" rowspan="1"| 8
| [[Behexen]]
| ''My Soul for His Glory''
|-
| align="center" rowspan="1"| 12
| [[Texas Hippie Coalition ]]
| ''[[Pride of Texas]]''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/pride-of-texas-mw0001780810|title=Pride of Texas - Texas Hippie Coalition &#124; Songs, Reviews, Credits &#124; AllMusic|website=[[AllMusic]]}}</ref>
|-
| align="center" rowspan="1"| 13
| [[Norther (band)|Norther]]
| ''[[N (Norther album)|N]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=87003 |title=Norther: New album details revealed |accessdate=2008-06-02 |date=2007-12-19 |publisher=Blabbermouth.net |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080421205015/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=87003 |archivedate=April 21, 2008 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
|-
| align="center" rowspan="1"| 15
| [[Eluveitie]]
| [[Eluveitie]]
| ''[[Slania]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=87211 |title=Eluveitie: New album details revealed |accessdate=2008-06-02 |date=2007-12-23 |publisher=Blabbermouth.net |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080423091744/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=87211 |archivedate=April 23, 2008 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
| ''[[Slania]]''
|
|-
|-
| rowspan="1" valign="top"| [[February 18|18]]
| align="center" rowspan="2"| 18
| [[Hellhammer]]
| [[Dismember (band)|Dismember]]
| ''[[Demon Entrails]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=87999 |title=Hellhammer: ''Demon Entrails'' details revealed |accessdate=2008-06-02 |date=2008-01-08 |publisher=Blabbermouth.net |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080617153156/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=87999 |archivedate=June 17, 2008 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
| ''[[Dismember (album)|Dismember]]''
|
|-
| [[To-Mera]]
| ''[[Delusions (To-Mera album)|Delusions]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=87999 |title=Keyboardist Hugo Sheppard explains decision to leave To-Mera |accessdate=2008-06-03 |date=2007-12-07 |publisher=Blabbermouth.net |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080617153156/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=87999 |archivedate=June 17, 2008 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
|-
|-
| rowspan="3" valign="top"| [[February 19|19]]
| align="center" rowspan="6"| 19
| [[Ascension of the Watchers]]
| [[Ascension of the Watchers]]
| ''Numinosum''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=86596 |title=Fear Factory singer's Ascension of the Watchers: Debut album details revealed |accessdate=2008-06-03 |date=2007-12-11 |publisher=Blabbermouth.net |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080422015426/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=86596 |archivedate=April 22, 2008 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
| ''[[Numinosum (album)|Numinosum]]''
|
|-
| [[Dead to Fall]]
| ''[[Are You Serious? (Dead to Fall album)|Are You Serious?]]''{{Citation needed|date=June 2008}}
|-
| [[Genghis Tron]]
| ''[[Board Up the House]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=86596 |title=Genghis Tron: Another preview track posted online |accessdate=2008-06-03 |date=2007-12-08 |publisher=Blabbermouth.net |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080422015426/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=86596 |archivedate=April 22, 2008 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
|-
|-
| [[Hate Eternal]]
| [[Hate Eternal]]
| ''[[Fury and Flames|Fury & Flames]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=86142 |title=Hate Eternal: New album details revealed |accessdate=2008-06-03 |date=2007-12-04 |publisher=Blabbermouth.net |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080422014117/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=86142 |archivedate=April 22, 2008 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
| ''[[Fury and Flames]]''
|
|-
|-
| [[Sculptured]]
| [[Sculptured]]
| ''[[Embodiment: Collapsing Under the Weight of God]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=84202 |title=Sculptured: New album details revealed |accessdate=2008-06-03 |date=2007-11-05 |publisher=Blabbermouth.net |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080612034015/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=84202 |archivedate=June 12, 2008 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
| ''[[Embodiment: Collapsing Under the Weight of God]]''
|
|-
|-
| [[Virgin Black]]
| rowspan="5" valign="top"|[[February 22|22]]
| ''[[Requiem – Fortissimo]]''
|-
| align="center" rowspan="7"| 22
| [[Exciter (band)|Exciter]]
| [[Exciter (band)|Exciter]]
| ''[[Thrash Speed Burn]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=83260 |title=Exciter: ''Thrash Speed Burn'' pushed back to february |accessdate=2008-06-03 |date=2007-11-22 |publisher=Blabbermouth.net |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080612034010/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=83260 |archivedate=June 12, 2008 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
| ''[[Thrash Speed Burn]]''
|
|-
|[[Metalium]]
|[[Incubus - Chapter Seven]]
|-
|-
| [[Nortt]]
| [[Nortt]]
| ''[[Galgenfrist]]''
| ''Galgenfrist''
|
|-
| [[Rage]]
| ''[[Carved in Stone (Rage album)|Carved in Stone]]''
|
|-
|-
| [[Steel Attack]]
| [[Steel Attack]]
| ''[[Carpe DiEnd]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=88660 |title=Steel Attack: New album title announced |accessdate=2008-06-03 |date=2008-01-17 |publisher=Blabbermouth.net |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080612034052/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=88660 |archivedate=June 12, 2008 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
| ''[[Carpe DiEnd]]''
|
|-
| [[Stormwarrior]]
| ''Heading Northe''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=88320 |title=Stormwarrior: New album details revealed |accessdate=2008-06-03 |date=2008-01-12 |publisher=Blabbermouth.net |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080612034047/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=88320 |archivedate=June 12, 2008 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
|-
| [[Rage (German band)|Rage]]
| ''[[Carved in Stone (Rage album)|Carved in Stone]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=85771 |title=Rage: ''Carved in Stone'' release date announced |accessdate=2008-06-03 |date=2007-11-29 |publisher=Blabbermouth.net |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080612034027/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=85771 |archivedate=June 12, 2008 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
|-
|-
| [[Unheilig]]
| [[Unheilig]]
| ''[[Puppenspiel]]''
| ''[[Puppenspiel]]''
|
|-
|-
| rowspan="1" valign="top"|[[February 25|25]]
| align="center" rowspan="2"| 25
| [[Dark Fortress]]
| [[Dark Fortress]]
| ''[[Eidolon (album)|Eidolon]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=87138 |title=Dark Fortress to release ''Eidolon'' in february |accessdate=2008-06-03 |date=2007-12-21 |publisher=Blabbermouth.net |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080423034344/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=87138 |archivedate=April 23, 2008 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
| ''[[Eidolon (album)|Eidolon]]''
|
|-
|-
| [[Dark Suns]]
| rowspan="1" valign="top"|[[February 26|26]]
| ''[[Grave Human Genuine]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=87582|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120910004455/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=87582|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-09-10|title=Dark Suns To Release 'Grave Human Genuine' Next Month|date=2008-01-02|publisher=[[Blabbermouth|blabbermouth.com]]|accessdate=2009-01-04}}</ref>
|-
| align="center" rowspan="2"| 26
| [[Death Angel]]
| [[Death Angel]]
| ''[[Killing Season]]''
| ''[[Killing Season (album)|Killing Season]]''
|
|-
|-
| [[myGRAIN]]
| rowspan="1" valign="top"|[[February 29|29]]
| ''Signs of Existence''
|-
| align="center" rowspan="2"| 29
| [[Agalloch]]
| [[Agalloch]]
| ''[[The White (album)|The White]]''
| ''[[The White (Agalloch EP)|The White]]''
| <small>EP</small>
|-
|-
| [[Draconian (band)|Draconian]]
| rowspan="1" valign="top"|[[February 29|29]]
| [[Draconian]]
| ''[[Turning Season Within]]''
| ''[[Turning Season Within]]''
|-
| rowspan="1" valign="top"|??
| [[Baptism (band)|Baptism]]
| ''[[Grim Arts of Melancholy]]''
|
|}
|}


=== March ===
===March===
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
!Day
! Day
!Artist
! width="200"| Artist
!Album
! width="250"| Album
!Notes
|-
| align="center"| 2
| [[Nine Inch Nails]]
| ''[[Ghosts I–IV]]''
|-
| align="center"| 3
| [[Azaghal (band)|Azaghal]]
| ''Omega''
|-
|-
| rowspan="1" valign="top"|[[March 4|4]]
| align="center" rowspan="2"| 4
| [[Nasum]]
| [[Nasum]]
| ''[[Doombringer]]''
| ''[[Doombringer]]''
|
|-
|-
| [[Our Last Night]]
| rowspan="1" valign="top"|[[March 7|7]]
| ''[[The Ghosts Among Us]]''
|-
| align="center" rowspan="2"| 7
| [[Boris (band)|Boris]]
| ''[[Smile (Boris album)|Smile]]''
|-
| [[Meshuggah]]
| [[Meshuggah]]
| ''[[obZen]]''
| ''[[obZen]]''
|
|-
|-
| align="center"| 8
| rowspan="1" valign="top"|[[March 10|10]]
| Scarlet Sins
| ''Scarlet Sins''
|-
| align="center"| 9
| [[Buckethead]]
| ''[[From the Coop]]''
|-
| align="center"| 10
| [[Bloodbath]]
| [[Bloodbath]]
| ''[[Unblessing the Purity]]''
| ''[[Unblessing the Purity]]''
|
|-
|-
| rowspan="1" valign="top"|[[March 11|11]]
| align="center"| 11
| [[Ill Niño]]
| [[Zimmer's Hole]]
| ''[[When You Were Shouting at the Devil... We Were in League with Satan|When You Were Shouting at the Devil...]]''
| ''[[Enigma (Ill Niño album)|Enigma]]''
| <small>{{flagicon|United States}} March 11, 2008<br>{{flagicon|UK}} April 7, 2008</small>
|-
|-
| align="center"| 12
| rowspan="2" valign="top"|[[March 18|18]]
| [[Shade Empire]]
| ''[[Zero Nexus]]''
|-
| align="center" rowspan="2"| 18
| [[Black Tide]]
| [[Black Tide]]
| ''[[Light from Above]]''
| ''[[Light from Above]]''
|
|-
|-
| [[Bury Your Dead]]
| [[Bury Your Dead]]
| ''[[Bury Your Dead (album)|Bury Your Dead]]''
| ''[[Bury Your Dead (album)|Bury Your Dead]]''
|
|-
|-
| rowspan="3" valign="top"|[[March 21|21]]
| align="center" rowspan="2"| 19
| [[The Black Mages]]
| ''[[The Black Mages III: Darkness and Starlight]]''
|-
| [[Hypocrisy (band)|Hypocrisy]]
| ''[[Catch 22 (Hypocrisy album)|Catch 22 (V2.0.08)]]'' (Re-release)
|-
| align="center"| 20
| [[Cataract (band)|Cataract]]
| ''[[Cataract (Cataract album)|Cataract]]''
|-
| align="center" rowspan="3"| 21
| [[Firewind]]
| [[Firewind]]
| ''[[The Premonition (album)|The Premonition]]''
| ''[[The Premonition (album)|The Premonition]]''
| <small>{{Flagicon|Italy}} March 21, 2008<br>{{Flagicon|USA}} March 25, 2008<br>{{Flagicon|UK}} April 7, 2008</small>
|-
|-
| [[Jon Oliva's Pain]]
| [[Jon Oliva's Pain]]
| ''[[Global Warning (Jon Oliva's Pain album)|Global Warning]]''
| ''[[Global Warning (Jon Oliva's Pain album)|Global Warning]]''
| <small>{{flagicon|EUR}} March 21, 2008<br>{{flagicon|USA}}{{flagicon|CAN}} April 30, 2008</small>
|-
|-
| [[Korpiklaani]]
| [[Korpiklaani]]
| ''[[Korven Kuningas]]''
| ''[[Korven Kuningas]]''
|
|-
|-
| rowspan="1" valign="top"|[[March 24|24]]
| align="center"| 24
| [[Cavalera Conspiracy]]
| [[Cavalera Conspiracy]]
| ''[[Inflikted]]''
| ''[[Inflikted]]''
|
|-
|-
| rowspan="1" valign="top"|[[March 25|25]]
| align="center"| 25
| [[Mercenary (band)|Mercenary]]
| [[Mercenary (band)|Mercenary]]
| ''[[Architect of Lies]]''
| ''[[Architect of Lies]]''
|
|-
| align="center" rowspan="2"| 28
| [[Illdisposed]]
| ''[[The Prestige (album)|The Prestige]]''
|-
| [[Kamelot]]
| ''[[Ghost Opera - The Second Coming|Ghost Opera: The Second Coming]]''
|-
| align="center"| 29
| [[Dream Theater]]
| ''[[Greatest Hit (...and 21 Other Pretty Cool Songs)]]''
|-
| align="center"| 31
| [[Strapping Young Lad]]
| ''[[1994–2006 Chaos Years]]''
|}
|}


===April===
== Upcoming albums ==
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
=== April ===
|-
* [[Arsis]] - ''[[We Are the Nightmare]]''
! Day
* [[Belphegor (band)|Belphegor]] - ''[[Bondage Goat Zombie]]''
! width="200"| Artist
* [[Children of Bodom]] - ''[[Blooddrunk]]''
! width="250"| Album
* [[Destroy the Runner]] - ''[[I, Lucifer (album)|I, Lucifer]]''
|-
* [[Dream Theater]] - ''[[Greatest Hit (...and 21 Other Pretty Cool Songs)]]''
| align="center" rowspan="6"| 1
* [[In Flames]] - ''[[A Sense of Purpose]]''
| [[Dismember (band)|Dismember]]
* [[Kalmah]] - ''[[For the Revolution]]''
| ''[[Dismember (album)|Dismember]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=89460 |title=Dismember: New album artwork unveiled |accessdate=2008-06-02 |date=2008-01-28 |publisher=Blabbermouth.net |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080422012008/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=89460 |archivedate=April 22, 2008 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
* [[Moonsorrow]] - ''[[Tulimyrsky]]''
|-
* [[My Dying Bride]] - "[[An Ode To Woe]]"
| [[Origin (band)|Origin]]
* [[Testament (band)|Testament]] - ''[[The Formation of Damnation]]''
* [[Textures (band)|Textures]] - ''[[Silhouettes (album)|Silhouettes]]
| ''[[Antithesis (Origin album)|Antithesis]]''
|-
* [[Warrel Dane]] - ''[[Praises to the War Machine]]''
| [[Sevendust]]
| ''[[Chapter VII: Hope & Sorrow]]''
|-
| [[Septic Flesh]]
| ''[[Communion (Septic Flesh album)|Communion]]''
|-
| [[The Sword]]
| ''[[Gods of the Earth]]''
|-
| [[Theory of a Deadman]]
| ''[[Scars & Souvenirs]]''
|-
| align="center" rowspan="1"| 4
| [[In Flames]]
| ''[[A Sense of Purpose]]''
|-
| align="center" rowspan="1"| 7
| [[Children of Bodom]]
| ''[[Blooddrunk]]''
|-
| align="center" rowspan="1"| 8
| [[P.O.D.]]
| ''[[When Angels & Serpents Dance]]''
|-
| align="center" rowspan="1"| 14
| [[Mirrorthrone]]
| ''[[Gangrene (album)|Gangrene]]''
|-
| align="center" rowspan="5"| 15
| [[Arsis]]
| ''[[We Are the Nightmare]]''
|-
| [[Belphegor (band)|Belphegor]]
| ''[[Bondage Goat Zombie]]''
|-
| [[Destroy the Runner]]
| ''[[I, Lucifer (Destroy the Runner album)|I, Lucifer]]''
|-
| [[Embrace the End]]
| ''[[Ley Lines (album)|Ley Lines]]''
|-
| [[Thine Eyes Bleed]]
| ''[[Thine Eyes Bleed (album)|Thine Eyes Bleed]]''
|-
| align="center" rowspan="1"| 18
| [[Tiamat (band)|Tiamat]]
| ''[[Amanethes]]''
|-
| align="center" rowspan="1"| 21
| [[Grave (band)|Grave]]
| ''[[Dominion VIII]]''
|-
| align="center" rowspan="3"| 22
| [[Dominici (band)|Dominici]]
| ''[[O3: A Trilogy, Part Three]]''
|-
| [[Story of the Year]]
| ''[[The Black Swan (Story of the Year album)|The Black Swan]]''
|-
| [[Whitesnake]]
| ''[[Good to be Bad]]''
|-
| align="center" rowspan="1"| 23
| [[Kalmah]]
| ''[[For the Revolution]]''
|-
| align="center" rowspan="2"| 25
| [[Def Leppard]]
| ''[[Songs from the Sparkle Lounge]]''
|-
| [[Warrel Dane]]
| ''[[Praises to the War Machine]]''
|-
| align="center" rowspan="2"| 28
| [[Deicide (band)|Deicide]]
| ''[[Till Death Do Us Part (Deicide album)|Till Death Do Us Part]]''
|-
| [[My Dying Bride]]
| ''[[An Ode to Woe]]''
|-
| align="center" rowspan="2"| 29
| [[Sea of Treachery]]
| ''[[At Daggers Drawn (album)|At Daggers Drawn]]''
|-
| [[Testament (band)|Testament]]
| ''[[The Formation of Damnation]]''
|-
| align="center" rowspan="1"| 30
| [[Moonsorrow]]
| ''[[Tulimyrsky]]''
|-
|}


=== May ===
===May===
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
* [[Communic]] - ''[[Payment of Existence]]''
|-
* [[Deftones]] - ''[[Eros (album)|Eros]]''
! Day
* [[Deicide]] - ''[[Till Death Do Us Part (Deicide album)|Till Death Do Us Part]]''
! width="200"| Artist
* [[Dokken]] - ''[[Lightning Strikes Again]]''
! width="250"| Album
* [[Emmure]] - ''[[The Respect Issue]]''
|-
* [[Iced Earth]] - ''[[Revelation Abomination (Something Wicked Part 2)]]'' (expected)
| align="center" rowspan="3"| 5
* [[Ihsahn]] - ''[[angL]]''
|[[Nine Inch Nails]]
* [[Kataklysm]] - ''[[Prevail]]''
|''[[The Slip (album)|The Slip]]''
* [[Kayo Dot]] - ''[[Blue Lambency Downward]]''
|-
|[[Scott Kelly (musician)|Scott Kelly]]
|''[[The Wake (Scott Kelly album)|The Wake]]''
|-
|[[Textures (band)|Textures]]
|''[[Silhouettes (Textures album)|Silhouettes]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=95039 |title=Textures: New album delayed |accessdate=2008-06-03 |date=2008-04-16 |publisher=Blabbermouth.net |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080612034102/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=95039 |archivedate=June 12, 2008 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
|-
| align="center" rowspan="3"| 6
| [[Kayo Dot]]
| ''[[Blue Lambency Downward]]''
|-
| [[Revocation (band)|Revocation]]
| ''[[Empire of the Obscene]]''
|-
| [[Russian Circles]]
| ''[[Station (album)|Station]]''
|-
| align="center" rowspan="4"| 13
| [[Abysmal Dawn]]
| ''[[Programmed To Consume]]''
|-
| [[Aletheian]]
| ''[[Dying Vine]]''
|-
| [[Emmure]]
| ''[[The Respect Issue]]''
|-
| Mourning Beloveth
| ''A Disease for the Ages''
|-
| align="center" rowspan="1"| 14
| [[Diablo (band)|Diablo]]
| ''[[Icaros (album)|Icaros]]''
|-
| align="center"| 16
| [[Moonspell]]
| ''[[Night Eternal]]''
|-
| align="center" rowspan="2"| 23
| [[Cryptopsy]]
| ''[[The Unspoken King]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=95090 |title=Cryptopsy: ''The Unspoken King'' track listing revealed |accessdate=2008-06-19 |date=2008-04-17 |publisher=Blabbermouth.net |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080420221305/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=95090 |archive-date=April 20, 2008 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
|-
| [[Kataklysm]]
| ''[[Prevail (album)|Prevail]]''
|-
| align="center" rowspan="2"| 26
| [[Ihsahn]]
| ''[[angL]]''
|-
| [[Shai Hulud (band)|Shai Hulud]]
| ''[[Misanthropy Pure]]''
|-
| align="center" rowspan="5"| 30
| [[Communic]]
| ''[[Payment of Existence]]''
|-
| [[Hollenthon]]
| ''[[Opus Magnum (album)|Opus Magnum]]''
|-
| [[Opeth]]
| ''[[Watershed (Opeth album)|Watershed]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.opeth.com/index.php/discography/show/tpl/watershed |title=Opeth, Watershed |accessdate=2008-06-12 |publisher=opeth.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828025355/http://www.opeth.com/index.php/discography/show/tpl/watershed |archive-date=August 28, 2008 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
|-
| [[Pyramaze]]
| ''[[Immortal (Pyramaze album)|Immortal]]''
|-
| [[Sabaton (band)|Sabaton]]
| ''[[The Art of War (Sabaton album)|The Art of War]]''
|}


=== June ===
===June===
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
* [[Daylight Dies]] - ''[[Lost to the Living]]''
|-
* [[Disturbed]] - ''[[Indestructible (Disturbed album)|Indestructible]]''
! Day
* [[Opeth]] - ''[[Watershed (Opeth album)|Watershed]]''
! width="200"| Artist
* [[Scar Symmetry]] - ''[[Holographic Universe (album)|Holographic Universe]]'' (release expected)
! width="250"| Album
|-
| align="center" rowspan="3"| 2
| [[Bloodbath]]
| ''[[The Wacken Carnage]]''
|-
| [[Disturbed (band)|Disturbed]]
| ''[[Indestructible (Disturbed album)|Indestructible]]''
|-
| [[Satyricon (band)|Satyricon]]
| ''[[My Skin Is Cold]]''
|-
| align="center" rowspan="3"| 9
| [[Gama Bomb]]
| ''[[Citizen Brain]]''
|-
| [[Unleashed (band)|Unleashed]]
| ''[[Hammer Battalion]]''
|-
| [[Venom (band)|Venom]]
| ''[[Hell (Venom album)|Hell]]''
|-
| align="center" rowspan="2"| 10
| [[Inhale Exhale]]
| ''[[I Swear...]]''
|-
| [[Nachtmystium]]
| ''[[Assassins: Black Meddle, Part 1]]''
|-
| align="center"| 11
| [[Ari Koivunen]]
| ''[[Becoming (Ari Koivunen album)|Becoming]]''
|-
| align="center" rowspan="2"| 13
| [[Grand Magus]]
| ''[[Iron Will (album)|Iron Will]]''
|-
| [[Judas Priest]]
| ''[[Nostradamus (album)|Nostradamus]]''
|-
| align="center" rowspan="2"| 16
| [[Cult of Luna]]
| ''[[Eternal Kingdom]]''
|-
| [[Exit Ten]]
| ''[[Remember the Day (album)|Remember the Day]]''
|-
| align="center"| 17
| [[Mötley Crüe]]
| ''[[Saints of Los Angeles]]''
|-
| align="center"| 20
| [[Scar Symmetry]]
| ''[[Holographic Universe (album)|Holographic Universe]]''
|-
| align="center" rowspan="2"| 24
| Aborted
| ''[[Strychnine.213]]''
|-
| [[Carnifex (band)|Carnifex]]
| ''[[The Diseased and the Poisoned]]''
|-
| align="center"| 27
| [[Equilibrium (band)|Equilibrium]]
| ''[[Sagas (album)|Sagas]]''
|-
| align="center"| 29
| [[Khold]]
| ''Hundre År Gammal''
|-
| align="center"| 30
| [[Raunchy (band)|Raunchy]]
| ''[[Wasteland Discotheque]]''
|}


=== July ===
===July===
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
* [[Mötley Crüe]] - ''[[Saints of Los Angeles]]''
|-
! Day
! width="200"| Artist
! width="250"| Album
|-
| align="center"| 1
| [[Lamb of God (band)|Lamb of God]]
| ''[[Walk with Me in Hell (DVD)|Walk with Me in Hell]]''
|-
| align="center" rowspan="2"| 7
| [[Blaze Bayley (band)|Blaze Bayley]]
| ''[[The Man Who Would Not Die (album)|The Man Who Would Not Die]]''
|-
| [[Stone Gods]]
| ''[[Silver Spoons & Broken Bones]]''
|-
| align="center" rowspan="2"| 8
| [[Cannibal Corpse]]
| ''[[Centuries of Torment: The First 20 Years]]''
|-
|[[Whitechapel (band)|Whitechapel]]
|''[[This Is Exile]]''
|-
| align="center"| 14
| [[Daylight Dies]]
| ''[[Lost to the Living]]''
|-
| align="center" rowspan="2"| 18
| [[Chrome Division]]
| ''[[Booze, Broads and Beelzebub]]''
|-
| [[Fear My Thoughts]]
| ''[[Isolation (Fear My Thoughts album)|Isolation]]''
|-
| align="center"| 21
| [[Krisiun]]
| ''[[Southern Storm]]''
|-
| align="center" rowspan="4"| 22
| [[Misery Signals]]
| ''[[Controller (Misery Signals album)|Controller]]''
|-
| [[Neuraxis (band)|Neuraxis]]
| ''[[The Thin Line Between]]''
|-
| [[Nine Inch Nails]]
| ''[[The Slip (album)|The Slip]]''
|-
| [[War of Ages]]
| ''[[Arise and Conquer]]''
|-
| align="center"| 27
| [[Chelsea Grin]]
| ''[[Chelsea Grin EP|Chelsea Grin]]'' (EP)
|-
| align="center" rowspan="2"| 29
| [[Soulfly]]
| ''[[Conquer (Soulfly album)|Conquer]]''
|-
| [[Dr. Acula (band)|Dr. Acula]]
| ''Below Me''
|}


=== August ===
=== August ===
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
* [[Bleeding Through]] - ''Declaration''
|-
* [[Slipknot (band)|Slipknot]] - ''[[Slipknot's 4th studio album|TBA]]''
! Day
! width="200"| Artist
! width="250"| Album
|-
| align="center"| 5
| [[Norma Jean (band)|Norma Jean]]
| ''[[The Anti Mother]]''
|-
| align="center"| 12
| [[Extreme (band)|Extreme]]
| ''[[Saudades de Rock]]''
|-
| align="center" rowspan="5"| 19
| [[The Acacia Strain]]
| ''[[Continent (The Acacia Strain album)|Continent]]''
|-
| [[The Human Abstract (band)|The Human Abstract]]
| ''[[Midheaven (album)|Midheaven]]''
|-
| [[Machinae Supremacy]]
| ''[[Overworld (Machinae Supremacy album)|Overworld]]''
|-
| [[The Showdown (band)|The Showdown]]
| ''[[Back Breaker]]''
|-
| [[Staind]]
| ''[[The Illusion of Progress]]''
|-
| align="center" rowspan="2"| 20
| [[DragonForce]]
| ''[[Ultra Beatdown]]''
|-
| [[Slipknot (band)|Slipknot]]
| ''[[All Hope Is Gone]]''
|-
| align="center"| 22
| [[Oomph!]]
| ''[[Monster (Oomph! album)|Monster]]''
|-
| align="center"| 25
| [[Into Eternity (band)|Into Eternity]]
| ''[[The Incurable Tragedy]]''
|-
| align="center"| 26
| [[Motörhead]]
| ''[[Motörizer]]''
|-
| align="center" rowspan="3"| 29
| [[Angband (band)|Angband]]
| ''[[Rising from Apadana]]''
|-
| [[Destruction (band)|Destruction]]
| ''[[D.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N.]]''
|-
| [[Haggard (band)|Haggard]]
| ''[[Tales of Ithiria]]''
|-
| align="center"| 25
| [[Acid Drinkers]]
| ''[[Verses of Steel]]''
|}


=== September ===
===September===
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
* [[Cynic (band)|Cynic]] - ''TBA''
|-
* [[Metallica]] - ''[[Metallica's ninth studio album|TBA]]''
! Day
* [[Wintersun]] - ''[[Time (Wintersun album)|Time]]'' (expected)
! width="200"| Artist
! width="250"| Album
|-
| rowspan="3" align="center"| 1
| [[The Berzerker]]
| ''[[The Reawakening]]''
|-
| [[Volbeat (band)|Volbeat]]
| ''[[Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood]]''
|-
| [[Welicoruss]]
| ''WinterMoon Symphony''
|-
| align="center"| 2
| [[Blessed by a Broken Heart]]
| ''[[Pedal to the Metal (Blessed by a Broken Heart album)|Pedal to the Metal]]''
|-
| rowspan="2" align="center"| 5
| [[All Shall Perish]]
| ''[[Awaken the Dreamers]]''
|-
| [[Iced Earth]]
| ''[[The Crucible of Man: Something Wicked Part 2|The Crucible of Man]]''
|-
| align="center"| 9
| [[Brian Welch#Solo career (2005–present)|Brian "Head" Welch]]
| ''[[Save Me From Myself (album)|Save Me From Myself]]''
|-
| align="center"| 12
| [[Metallica]]
| ''[[Death Magnetic]]''
|-
| rowspan="5" align="center"| 16
| [[All That Remains (band)|All That Remains]]
| ''[[Overcome (All That Remains album)|Overcome]]''
|-
| [[Andromeda (Swedish band)|Andromeda]]
| ''The Immunity Zone''
|-
| [[Avenged Sevenfold]]
| ''[[Live in the LBC & Diamonds in the Rough]]''
|-
| [[Intronaut]]
| ''[[Prehistoricisms]]''
|-
| [[Obituary (band)|Obituary]]
| ''[[Left to Die]]''
|-
| align="center" rowspan="3"| 17
| [[Amon Amarth]]
| ''[[Twilight of the Thunder God]]''
|-
| [[Swallow the Sun]]
| ''[[Plague of Butterflies]]''
|-
| [[The Haunted (Swedish band)|The Haunted]]
| ''[[Versus (The Haunted album)|Versus]]''
|-
| align="center" rowspan="3"| 19
| [[Evergrey]]
| ''[[Torn (Evergrey album)|Torn]]''
|-
| [[Falchion (band)|Falchion]]
| ''[[Chronicles of the Dead]]''
|-
| [[Sonic Syndicate]]
| ''[[Love and Other Disasters (Sonic Syndicate album)|Love and Other Disasters]]''
|-
| align="center"| 22
| [[Omnium Gatherum]]
| ''[[The Redshift]]''
|-
| align="center"| 23
| [[Metal Church]]
| ''[[This Present Wasteland]]''
|-
| align="center"| 24
| [[Battlelore]]
| ''[[The Last Alliance (album)|The Last Alliance]]''
|-
| rowspan="2" align="center"| 26
| [[Holy Moses]]
| ''[[Agony of Death]]''
|-
| [[Psycroptic]]
| ''[[Ob(Servant)]]''
|-
| rowspan="3" align="center"| 29
| [[Bring Me the Horizon]]
| ''[[Suicide Season]]''
|-
| [[Enslaved (band)|Enslaved]]
| ''[[Vertebrae (album)|Vertebrae]]''
|-
| [[Dagoba (band)|Dagoba]]
| ''Face The Colossus''
|-
| align="center" rowspan="7"| 30
| [[Bleeding Through]]
| ''[[Declaration (Bleeding Through album)|Declaration]]''
|-
| [[Dream Theater]]
| ''[[Chaos in Motion 2007–2008]]''
|-
| [[In This Moment]]
| [[The Dream (In This Moment album)|The Dream]]
|-
| [[Jeff Loomis]]
| ''[[Zero Order Phase]]''
|-
| [[Megadeth]]
| ''[[Anthology: Set the World Afire]]''
|-
| [[Suspyre]]
| ''When Time Fades...''
|-
| [[Trivium (band)|Trivium]]
| ''[[Shogun (Trivium album)|Shogun]]''
|}


=== unknown ===
===October===
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
* [[AC/DC]] - ''TBA''
|-
* [[Alice in Chains]] - ''[[Alice in Chains' fourth studio album|TBA]]''
! Day
* [[All That Remains (band)|All That Remains]] - ''TBA''
! width="200"| Artist
* [[Anthrax (band)|Anthrax]] - ''TBA''
! width="250"| Album
* [[As Blood Runs Black]] - ''TBA''
|-
* [[Battlelore]] - ''[[The Last Alliance (album)|The Last Alliance]]''
| rowspan="1" align="center"| 6
* [[Catamenia]] - ''VIII''
| [[Bloodbath]]
* [[Cannibal Corpse]] - ''TBA''
| ''[[The Fathomless Mastery]]''
* [[Cattle Decapitation]] - ''TBA''
|-
* [[Celtic Frost]] - ''TBA''
| rowspan="1" align="center"| 7
* [[Chrome Division]] - ''TBA''
| [[Tesla (band)|Tesla]]
* [[Commander]] - ''The Enemies We Create''
* [[Confessor (band)|Confessor]] - ''TBA''
| ''[[Forever More (album)|Forever More]]''
|-
* [[Cryptopsy]] - ''The Unspoken King''
| rowspan="1" align="center"| 13
* [[Cradle of Filth]] - ''TBA''
| [[Gojira (band)|Gojira]]
* [[Deathstars]] - ''[[Deathglam]]''
| ''[[The Way of All Flesh (album)|The Way of All Flesh]]''
* [[Dirty Rotten Imbeciles|D.R.I.]] - ''TBA''
|-
* [[Early Man]] - ''TBA''
| rowspan="4" align="center"| 14
* [[Evergrey]] - ''Torn''
* [[Exit Ten]] - ''[[Remember The Day]]''
| [[Haste the Day]]
| ''[[Dreamer (Haste the Day album)|Dreamer]]''
* [[Exodus (band)|Exodus]] - ''[[The Atrocity Exhibition... Exhibit B]]''
|-
* [[Extreme (band)|Extreme]] - ''[[Extreme's fifth studio album|TBA]]''
| [[Unearth]]
* [[God Forbid]] - ''TBA''
* [[Gojira (band)|Gojira]] - ''TBA''
| ''[[The March (album)|The March]]''
|-
* [[Heaven and Hell (band)|Heaven and Hell]] - ''TBA''
| [[Winterfylleth (band)|Winterfylleth]]
* [[Iced Earth]] - ''[[Revelation Abomination (Something Wicked Part 2)]]''
* [[Into Eternity]] - ''[[The Incurable Tragedy]]''
| ''[[The Ghost of Heritage]]''
|-
* [[Jeff Loomis]] - ''TBA''
| [[Yngwie Malmsteen]]
* [[Judas Priest]] - ''[[Nostradamus (album)|Nostradamus]]
* [[Kreator]] - ''TBA''
| ''[[Perpetual Flame]]''
|-
* [[Living Colour]] - ''TBA''
| rowspan="1" align="center"| 17
* [[Mastodon (band)|Mastodon]] - ''TBA''
| [[Zonaria]]
* [[Necrophagist]] - ''TBA''
| ''[[The Cancer Empire]]''
* [[Nevermore]] - ''TBA''
|-
* [[Primus (band)|Primus]] - ''TBA''
| rowspan="2" align="center"| 20
* [[Pyramaze]] - ''[[Immortal (Pyramaze album)|Immortal]]''
| [[The Amenta]]
* [[Ram-Zet]] - ''TBA''
| ''[[n0n]]''
* [[Sabaton (band)|Sabaton]] - ''The Art Of War''
|-
* [[Scorpions (band)|Scorpions]] - ''[[Humanity: Hour II]]''
| [[Darkthrone]]
* [[Sepultura]] - ''TBA''
* [[Slayer]] - ''[[Slayer's tenth studio album|TBA]]''
| ''[[Dark Thrones and Black Flags]]''
|-
* [[Six Feet Under (band)|Six Feet Under]] - ''TBA''<ref>[http://www.sfu420.com]</ref>
| rowspan="2" align="center"| 21
* [[Stratovarius]] - ''R.... R.....''
| [[Disciple (band)|Disciple]]
* [[Suicidal Tendencies]] - ''TBA''
| ''[[Southern Hospitality (album)|Southern Hospitality]]''
* [[Tesla (band)|Tesla]] - ''TBA''
|-
* [[Thine Eyes Bleed]] - ''TBA''
* [[Trivium (band)|Trivium]] - ''TBA''
| [[See You Next Tuesday (band)|See You Next Tuesday]]
| ''[[Intervals (See You Next Tuesday album)|Intervals]]''
* [[Unearth]] - ''TBA''
|-
* [[Unexpect]] - ''TBA''
| rowspan="2" align="center"| 22
* [[Verbal Abuse]] - ''TBA''
| [[Thyrfing]]
* [[Walls of Jericho (band)|Walls of Jericho]] - ''TBA''
* [[Wicked Wisdom]] - ''TBA''
| ''[[Hels vite]]''
|-
* [[Zyklon (band)|Zyklon]] - ''TBA''
| [[AC/DC]]
| ''[[Black Ice (album)|Black Ice]]''
|-
| rowspan="1" align="center"| 23
| [[Lordi]]
| ''[[Deadache]]''
|-
| rowspan="3" align="center"| 24
| [[Darkane]]
| ''[[Demonic Art]]''
|-
| [[Catamenia (band)|Catamenia]]
| ''[[VIII - The Time Unchained]]''
|-
| [[Sylosis]]
| ''[[Conclusion of an Age]]''
|-
| rowspan="1" align="center"| 25
| [[Cradle of Filth]]
| ''[[Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder]]''
|-
| rowspan="2" align="center"| 28
| [[Beneath the Massacre]]
| ''[[Dystopia (Beneath the Massacre album)|Dystopia]]''
|-
| [[Exodus (band)|Exodus]]
| ''[[Let There Be Blood]]''
|}


== DVD ==
===November===
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! width="20"| Day
! width="200"| Artist
! width="250"| Album
|-
| rowspan="2" align="center"| 3
| [[Satyricon (band)|Satyricon]]
| ''[[The Age of Nero]]''
|-
| [[Turisas]]
| ''[[A Finnish Summer With Turisas]]''
|-
| align="center"| 10
| [[The Red Shore]]
| ''[[Unconsecrated]]''
|-
| rowspan="9" align="center"| 11
| [[Attack Attack! (American band)|Attack Attack!]]
| ''[[Someday Came Suddenly]]''
|-
| [[Behemoth (band)|Behemoth]]
| ''[[Ezkaton]]''
|-
| [[Dance Club Massacre]]
| ''[[Circle of Death (album)|Circle of Death]]''
|-
| [[Dir En Grey]]
| ''[[Uroboros (album)|Uroboros]]''
|-
| [[The Faceless]]
| ''[[Planetary Duality]]''
|-
| [[Light This City]]
| ''[[Stormchaser (album)|Stormchaser]]''
|-
| [[Six Feet Under (band)|Six Feet Under]]
| ''[[Death Rituals]]''
|-
| [[Sympathy (band)|Sympathy]]
| ''[[Anagogic Tyranny]]''
|-
| [[Pig Destroyer]]
| ''[[Natasha (EP)|Natasha]] (EP)''
|-
| rowspan="3" align="center"| 14
| [[Edguy]]
| ''[[Tinnitus Sanctus]]''
|-
| [[Elvenking (band)|Elvenking]]
| ''[[Two Tragedy Poets (...and a Caravan of Weird Figures)]]''
|-
|[[Hortus Animae]]
|''Funeral Nation / 10 Years Of Hortus Animae''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=109773|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120909215919/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=109773|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-09-09|title=Hortus Animae: 'Funeral Nation' Box Set Now Available|date=2008-11-27|publisher=[[Blabbermouth|blabbermouth.com]]|accessdate=2009-01-05}}</ref>
|-
| align="center"| 17
| [[Cynic (band)|Cynic]]
| ''[[Traced in Air]]''
|-
| rowspan="2" align="center"| 18
| [[Mononc' Serge]] & [[Anonymus (band)|Anonymus]]
| ''Musique Barbare''
|-
| [[Mudvayne]]
| ''[[The New Game]]''
|-
| align="center"| 24
| [[Arch Enemy]]
| ''[[Tyrants of the Rising Sun]]''
|-
| align="center"| 25
| [[Becoming the Archetype]]
| ''[[Dichotomy (album)|Dichotomy]]''
|}


=== December ===
* [[Agalloch]] - ''[[TBA]]''
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
* [[Bloodbath]] - ''[[The Wacken Carnage]]''
|-
* [[Dimmu Borgir]] - ''[[TBA]]''
! Day
* [[Tarot (band)|Tarot]] - ''[[TBA]]''
! width="200"| Artist
* [[Paradise Lost (band) |Paradise Lost]] - "[[The Anatomy of Melancholy]]"
! width="250"| Album
|-
| align="center"| 18
| [[Tankard (band)|Tankard]]
| ''[[Thirst (Tankard album)|Thirst]]''
|}


== References ==
== References ==
{{Reflist|2}}


== External links ==
{{Reflist}}
*[http://heavymetal.about.com/ About.com: Heavy Metal] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140531091811/http://heavymetal.about.com/ |date=May 31, 2014 }}


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Latest revision as of 23:06, 18 August 2024

2008 in music
By location
By genre
By topic
List of years in heavy metal music (table)
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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2008.

Bands formed

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Reformed bands

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Disbandments

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Events

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Albums released

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January

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Day Artist Album
2 In Mourning Shrouded Divine
8 For the Fallen Dreams Changes
11 Benedictum Seasons of Tragedy
22 Byzantine Oblivion Beckons
The Red Death Godmakers
With Blood Comes Cleansing Horror
25 Alestorm Captain Morgan's Revenge
Avantasia The Scarecrow
Ayreon 01011001
Brainstorm Downburst
28 Bullet for My Valentine Scream Aim Fire
Heaven Shall Burn Iconoclast
29 Decrepit Birth Diminishing Between Worlds
Protest the Hero Fortress

February

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Day Artist Album
4 Baptism Grim Arts of Melancholy
Hate Morphosis
Iron Maiden Live After Death[1]
Sworn Enemy Maniacal
5 Brain Drill Apocalyptic Feasting
Salt the Wound Carnal Repercussions
Warbringer War Without End[2]
Winds of Plague Decimate the Weak[3]
8 Behexen My Soul for His Glory
12 Texas Hippie Coalition Pride of Texas[4]
13 Norther N[5]
15 Eluveitie Slania[6]
18 Hellhammer Demon Entrails[7]
To-Mera Delusions[8]
19 Ascension of the Watchers Numinosum[9]
Dead to Fall Are You Serious?[citation needed]
Genghis Tron Board Up the House[10]
Hate Eternal Fury & Flames[11]
Sculptured Embodiment: Collapsing Under the Weight of God[12]
Virgin Black Requiem – Fortissimo
22 Exciter Thrash Speed Burn[13]
Metalium Incubus - Chapter Seven
Nortt Galgenfrist
Steel Attack Carpe DiEnd[14]
Stormwarrior Heading Northe[15]
Rage Carved in Stone[16]
Unheilig Puppenspiel
25 Dark Fortress Eidolon[17]
Dark Suns Grave Human Genuine[18]
26 Death Angel Killing Season
myGRAIN Signs of Existence
29 Agalloch The White
Draconian Turning Season Within

March

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Day Artist Album
2 Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I–IV
3 Azaghal Omega
4 Nasum Doombringer
Our Last Night The Ghosts Among Us
7 Boris Smile
Meshuggah obZen
8 Scarlet Sins Scarlet Sins
9 Buckethead From the Coop
10 Bloodbath Unblessing the Purity
11 Zimmer's Hole When You Were Shouting at the Devil...
12 Shade Empire Zero Nexus
18 Black Tide Light from Above
Bury Your Dead Bury Your Dead
19 The Black Mages The Black Mages III: Darkness and Starlight
Hypocrisy Catch 22 (V2.0.08) (Re-release)
20 Cataract Cataract
21 Firewind The Premonition
Jon Oliva's Pain Global Warning
Korpiklaani Korven Kuningas
24 Cavalera Conspiracy Inflikted
25 Mercenary Architect of Lies
28 Illdisposed The Prestige
Kamelot Ghost Opera: The Second Coming
29 Dream Theater Greatest Hit (...and 21 Other Pretty Cool Songs)
31 Strapping Young Lad 1994–2006 Chaos Years

April

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Day Artist Album
1 Dismember Dismember[19]
Origin Antithesis
Sevendust Chapter VII: Hope & Sorrow
Septic Flesh Communion
The Sword Gods of the Earth
Theory of a Deadman Scars & Souvenirs
4 In Flames A Sense of Purpose
7 Children of Bodom Blooddrunk
8 P.O.D. When Angels & Serpents Dance
14 Mirrorthrone Gangrene
15 Arsis We Are the Nightmare
Belphegor Bondage Goat Zombie
Destroy the Runner I, Lucifer
Embrace the End Ley Lines
Thine Eyes Bleed Thine Eyes Bleed
18 Tiamat Amanethes
21 Grave Dominion VIII
22 Dominici O3: A Trilogy, Part Three
Story of the Year The Black Swan
Whitesnake Good to be Bad
23 Kalmah For the Revolution
25 Def Leppard Songs from the Sparkle Lounge
Warrel Dane Praises to the War Machine
28 Deicide Till Death Do Us Part
My Dying Bride An Ode to Woe
29 Sea of Treachery At Daggers Drawn
Testament The Formation of Damnation
30 Moonsorrow Tulimyrsky

May

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Day Artist Album
5 Nine Inch Nails The Slip
Scott Kelly The Wake
Textures Silhouettes[20]
6 Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward
Revocation Empire of the Obscene
Russian Circles Station
13 Abysmal Dawn Programmed To Consume
Aletheian Dying Vine
Emmure The Respect Issue
Mourning Beloveth A Disease for the Ages
14 Diablo Icaros
16 Moonspell Night Eternal
23 Cryptopsy The Unspoken King[21]
Kataklysm Prevail
26 Ihsahn angL
Shai Hulud Misanthropy Pure
30 Communic Payment of Existence
Hollenthon Opus Magnum
Opeth Watershed[22]
Pyramaze Immortal
Sabaton The Art of War

June

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Day Artist Album
2 Bloodbath The Wacken Carnage
Disturbed Indestructible
Satyricon My Skin Is Cold
9 Gama Bomb Citizen Brain
Unleashed Hammer Battalion
Venom Hell
10 Inhale Exhale I Swear...
Nachtmystium Assassins: Black Meddle, Part 1
11 Ari Koivunen Becoming
13 Grand Magus Iron Will
Judas Priest Nostradamus
16 Cult of Luna Eternal Kingdom
Exit Ten Remember the Day
17 Mötley Crüe Saints of Los Angeles
20 Scar Symmetry Holographic Universe
24 Aborted Strychnine.213
Carnifex The Diseased and the Poisoned
27 Equilibrium Sagas
29 Khold Hundre År Gammal
30 Raunchy Wasteland Discotheque

July

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Day Artist Album
1 Lamb of God Walk with Me in Hell
7 Blaze Bayley The Man Who Would Not Die
Stone Gods Silver Spoons & Broken Bones
8 Cannibal Corpse Centuries of Torment: The First 20 Years
Whitechapel This Is Exile
14 Daylight Dies Lost to the Living
18 Chrome Division Booze, Broads and Beelzebub
Fear My Thoughts Isolation
21 Krisiun Southern Storm
22 Misery Signals Controller
Neuraxis The Thin Line Between
Nine Inch Nails The Slip
War of Ages Arise and Conquer
27 Chelsea Grin Chelsea Grin (EP)
29 Soulfly Conquer
Dr. Acula Below Me

August

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Day Artist Album
5 Norma Jean The Anti Mother
12 Extreme Saudades de Rock
19 The Acacia Strain Continent
The Human Abstract Midheaven
Machinae Supremacy Overworld
The Showdown Back Breaker
Staind The Illusion of Progress
20 DragonForce Ultra Beatdown
Slipknot All Hope Is Gone
22 Oomph! Monster
25 Into Eternity The Incurable Tragedy
26 Motörhead Motörizer
29 Angband Rising from Apadana
Destruction D.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N.
Haggard Tales of Ithiria
25 Acid Drinkers Verses of Steel

September

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Day Artist Album
1 The Berzerker The Reawakening
Volbeat Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood
Welicoruss WinterMoon Symphony
2 Blessed by a Broken Heart Pedal to the Metal
5 All Shall Perish Awaken the Dreamers
Iced Earth The Crucible of Man
9 Brian "Head" Welch Save Me From Myself
12 Metallica Death Magnetic
16 All That Remains Overcome
Andromeda The Immunity Zone
Avenged Sevenfold Live in the LBC & Diamonds in the Rough
Intronaut Prehistoricisms
Obituary Left to Die
17 Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God
Swallow the Sun Plague of Butterflies
The Haunted Versus
19 Evergrey Torn
Falchion Chronicles of the Dead
Sonic Syndicate Love and Other Disasters
22 Omnium Gatherum The Redshift
23 Metal Church This Present Wasteland
24 Battlelore The Last Alliance
26 Holy Moses Agony of Death
Psycroptic Ob(Servant)
29 Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season
Enslaved Vertebrae
Dagoba Face The Colossus
30 Bleeding Through Declaration
Dream Theater Chaos in Motion 2007–2008
In This Moment The Dream
Jeff Loomis Zero Order Phase
Megadeth Anthology: Set the World Afire
Suspyre When Time Fades...
Trivium Shogun

October

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Day Artist Album
6 Bloodbath The Fathomless Mastery
7 Tesla Forever More
13 Gojira The Way of All Flesh
14 Haste the Day Dreamer
Unearth The March
Winterfylleth The Ghost of Heritage
Yngwie Malmsteen Perpetual Flame
17 Zonaria The Cancer Empire
20 The Amenta n0n
Darkthrone Dark Thrones and Black Flags
21 Disciple Southern Hospitality
See You Next Tuesday Intervals
22 Thyrfing Hels vite
AC/DC Black Ice
23 Lordi Deadache
24 Darkane Demonic Art
Catamenia VIII - The Time Unchained
Sylosis Conclusion of an Age
25 Cradle of Filth Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder
28 Beneath the Massacre Dystopia
Exodus Let There Be Blood

November

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Day Artist Album
3 Satyricon The Age of Nero
Turisas A Finnish Summer With Turisas
10 The Red Shore Unconsecrated
11 Attack Attack! Someday Came Suddenly
Behemoth Ezkaton
Dance Club Massacre Circle of Death
Dir En Grey Uroboros
The Faceless Planetary Duality
Light This City Stormchaser
Six Feet Under Death Rituals
Sympathy Anagogic Tyranny
Pig Destroyer Natasha (EP)
14 Edguy Tinnitus Sanctus
Elvenking Two Tragedy Poets (...and a Caravan of Weird Figures)
Hortus Animae Funeral Nation / 10 Years Of Hortus Animae[23]
17 Cynic Traced in Air
18 Mononc' Serge & Anonymus Musique Barbare
Mudvayne The New Game
24 Arch Enemy Tyrants of the Rising Sun
25 Becoming the Archetype Dichotomy

December

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Day Artist Album
18 Tankard Thirst

References

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  1. ^ "Iron Maiden: Live After Death DVD details announced". Blabbermouth.net. November 8, 2007. Archived from the original on March 14, 2008. Retrieved June 2, 2008.
  2. ^ Doug Gibson (aka deathbringer). "Winds of Plague Announce New Album Title". Archived from the original on June 6, 2011. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
  3. ^ "Warbringer: New song posted online". Archived from the original on June 12, 2008. Retrieved June 3, 2008.
  4. ^ "Pride of Texas - Texas Hippie Coalition | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic.
  5. ^ "Norther: New album details revealed". Blabbermouth.net. December 19, 2007. Archived from the original on April 21, 2008. Retrieved June 2, 2008.
  6. ^ "Eluveitie: New album details revealed". Blabbermouth.net. December 23, 2007. Archived from the original on April 23, 2008. Retrieved June 2, 2008.
  7. ^ "Hellhammer: Demon Entrails details revealed". Blabbermouth.net. January 8, 2008. Archived from the original on June 17, 2008. Retrieved June 2, 2008.
  8. ^ "Keyboardist Hugo Sheppard explains decision to leave To-Mera". Blabbermouth.net. December 7, 2007. Archived from the original on June 17, 2008. Retrieved June 3, 2008.
  9. ^ "Fear Factory singer's Ascension of the Watchers: Debut album details revealed". Blabbermouth.net. December 11, 2007. Archived from the original on April 22, 2008. Retrieved June 3, 2008.
  10. ^ "Genghis Tron: Another preview track posted online". Blabbermouth.net. December 8, 2007. Archived from the original on April 22, 2008. Retrieved June 3, 2008.
  11. ^ "Hate Eternal: New album details revealed". Blabbermouth.net. December 4, 2007. Archived from the original on April 22, 2008. Retrieved June 3, 2008.
  12. ^ "Sculptured: New album details revealed". Blabbermouth.net. November 5, 2007. Archived from the original on June 12, 2008. Retrieved June 3, 2008.
  13. ^ "Exciter: Thrash Speed Burn pushed back to february". Blabbermouth.net. November 22, 2007. Archived from the original on June 12, 2008. Retrieved June 3, 2008.
  14. ^ "Steel Attack: New album title announced". Blabbermouth.net. January 17, 2008. Archived from the original on June 12, 2008. Retrieved June 3, 2008.
  15. ^ "Stormwarrior: New album details revealed". Blabbermouth.net. January 12, 2008. Archived from the original on June 12, 2008. Retrieved June 3, 2008.
  16. ^ "Rage: Carved in Stone release date announced". Blabbermouth.net. November 29, 2007. Archived from the original on June 12, 2008. Retrieved June 3, 2008.
  17. ^ "Dark Fortress to release Eidolon in february". Blabbermouth.net. December 21, 2007. Archived from the original on April 23, 2008. Retrieved June 3, 2008.
  18. ^ "Dark Suns To Release 'Grave Human Genuine' Next Month". blabbermouth.com. January 2, 2008. Archived from the original on September 10, 2012. Retrieved January 4, 2009.
  19. ^ "Dismember: New album artwork unveiled". Blabbermouth.net. January 28, 2008. Archived from the original on April 22, 2008. Retrieved June 2, 2008.
  20. ^ "Textures: New album delayed". Blabbermouth.net. April 16, 2008. Archived from the original on June 12, 2008. Retrieved June 3, 2008.
  21. ^ "Cryptopsy: The Unspoken King track listing revealed". Blabbermouth.net. April 17, 2008. Archived from the original on April 20, 2008. Retrieved June 19, 2008.
  22. ^ "Opeth, Watershed". opeth.com. Archived from the original on August 28, 2008. Retrieved June 12, 2008.
  23. ^ "Hortus Animae: 'Funeral Nation' Box Set Now Available". blabbermouth.com. November 27, 2008. Archived from the original on September 9, 2012. Retrieved January 5, 2009.
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