end of year favorites.

[Coheed&Cambria]

Album - Children of Bodom - Bloddrunk
Song - Slipknot - Psychosocial
Artist - Machine Head
Live act - Machine Head
New band - Black tide

[untrustus]

late of the pier - fantasy black channel
mystery jets - 21
foals - antidotes
metronomy - nights out

didn't really love any others, didn't mind stuff like santogold's though.

oh but

most overated album of the year (by a mile) - mgmt - oracular spectacular

[Invent]

Album - Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone
Song - Slipknot - Psychosocial
Artist - Elliot Minor
Live act - Slipknot / Elliot Minor

[Neversoft]

Song: Moby - Disco Lies
Album: Moby - Last Night
Artist: Moby

[surfer]

favorite albums ; Deez Nuts - Stay True, Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone, Bring Me The Horizon - Suicide Season, MGMT - Oracular Spectacular, F****D Up - Chemistry Of Common Life.

songs ; Deez Nuts - Like Theres No Tommorow, Slipknot - Dead Memories, Bring Me The Horizon - Chelsea Smile and Diamonds Arnt Forever, Bullet For My Valentine - Forever and Always.

artists ; ^^
live acts ; We Are The Ocean, The Blackout, Crystal Castles, Enter Shikari
new band ; Black Tide, Madina Lake

[Slowpoke]

Albums
Britney Spears - Circus
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
P!nk - Funhouse
Beyonce - I am...Sasha Fierce

Singles
Britney Spears - Womanizer
Britney Spears - Circus
MGMT - Kids
P!nk - So What
P!nk - Sober
Beyonce - Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
Lady Gaga - Just Dance
Lily Allen - The Fear

[RedStratocas]

i forgot "heima" by sigur ros. i really heard it first last year but the actual album came out this year.

[Coheed&Cambria]

Album - Children of Bodom - Bloddrunk
Song - Slipknot - Psychosocial
Artist - Machine Head
Live act - Machine Head
New band - Black tide

Meant to be BLOODDRUNK (with 2 oo's )

Id like to add Dragonforce to best live band

[Antallica]

Album - Shogun - Trivium
Single - Down from the sky - Trivium
Live Act - Bullet For My Valentine
New Band - Black Tide

[joshuar]

Albums:
The Fratellis - Here We Stand
The Subways - All or Nothing
All-American Rejects - When The World Comes Down
The Automatic - This Is A Fix
Foxboro Hot Tubs - Stop Drop and Roll!!!

Songs:
The Fratellis - Tell Me A Lie
Metallica - The Day That Never Comes
The Raconteurs - Salute Your Solution
The Fratellis - Mistress Mabel
Fall Out Boy - I Don't Care

Probably many many more, but thats all I can think of that was released in 2008.