Candidates to the Throne

As we're entering the final quarter of 2008, it's about time to get ourselves prepared to sum up this year's record crop. You readers of Sweden Rock Magazine will probably find my final top ten-list in one of our forthcoming issues. I hold no doubt it will be damn hard compiling it, as there have been plenty of solid releases both during spring and the past few months, and no obvious winner among them.

The candidates so far, in alphabetical order:

• Bloodbath "The Fathomless Mastery"
• Burst "Lazarus Bird"
• Coldworker "Rotting Paradise"
• Corporation 187 "Newcomers of Sin"
• Cryptopsy "The Unspoken King"
  
• Cult of Luna "Eternal Kingdom"
• Cynic "Traced in Air"
  
• Gojira "The Way of All Flesh"
• Hate Eternal "Fury & Flames"
  
• The Haunted "Versus"
• Hail of Bullets "...of Frost and War"
  
• Khold "Hundre År Gammal"
  
• Krisiun "Southern Storm"
• Misery Index "Traitors"
• Netherbird "The Ghost Collector"
  
• Portal "Outre"
  
• Psycroptic "Ob(servant)"
  
• The Rotted "Get Dead or Die Trying"
  
• Rotten Sound "Cycles"
• This Haven "Today a Whisper, Tomorrow a Storm"
  
• Thorium "Feral Creation"
  
• Unleashed "Hammer Battallion"

Let's see, which ones did I now forget...?