Audio By Carbonatix
In a year worthy of your rage, metal delivered in spades. What with the economy circling the drain and Sarah Palin coming down from the tundra and then refusing to go back, 2008’s been the kind of year that really makes you want to smash your head into walls or punch random strangers in the face. Good thing there were so many awesome records available to serve as a soundtrack for exactly that kind of behavior. The following ten discs are just the tip of a very big, very heavy iceberg. Metal seems to grow stronger each year; 2009 will bring new albums by Mastodon, Deftones, Lamb of God and more. In the meantime, check these out.
Metallica
Death Magnetic
(Warner Bros.)
Five
years after their last comeback, they did it right. Combining the
punishing thrash of their early glory years with the thick, bluesy
grooves of their 1990s output, the members of Metallica reclaimed their
throne as America’s kings of metal. Songs like “That Was Just Your
Life,” “My Apocalypse” and “Cyanide” are made to be heard blasting
through speakers bigger than your goddamn house, but even on an iPod,
they’ll have you clenching your fists and banging your head like a
fourteen-year-old amped on testosterone and Red Bull.
