Top 10 most disappointing albums of 2008

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1) Judas Priest - Nostradamus
2) Guns N Roses - Chinese Democracy
3) Death Angel - Killing Season
4) Gojira - The Way of all Flesh
5) In Flames - A Sense of Purpose
6) Children of Bodom - Blooddrunk
7) Cynic - Traced in Air
8) John Oliva's Pain - Global Warning
9) Alice Cooper - Along Came a Spider
10) Slipknot - All Hope is Gone (yes, this was also in the best, they either succeed or fail spectacularly on this record)

Top 10 album of 2008 - the Metal edition

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1) Opeth - Watershed
2) Testament - The Formation of Damnation
3) Torche - Meanderthal
4) Gama Bomb - Citizen Brain
5) Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle, Pt. 1
6) Destruction - D.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N.
7) Cavalera Conspiracy - Inflikted
8) Metallica - Death Magnetic
9) Enemy of the Sun s/t
10) Slipknot - All Hope is Gone

Top 10 albums of 2008 - the non-metal edition

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1) Future of the Left - Curses
2) Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig Lazarus Dig
3) The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
4) Thee Silver Mt. Zion Orchestra - 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons
5) Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
6) Spiritualized - Songs in A and E
7) Black Crowes - Warpaint
8) Man Man - Rabbit Habits
9) David Byrne and Brian Eno - Everything that Happens will Happen Today
10) The Roots - Rising Down