Here it is, The Elpants Blog Extravaganza 2008 Top Ten List.

#1. Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God.
No suprises here if you read my blog at all. I clearly stated Amon Amarth was #1 long ago. This album rocks my tits off. Everything about this album is...well as close to perfect as I have seen since I first listened to Devin Townsend's Ocean Machine: Biomech. The whole CD package is worth its weight in gold, including a kick ass DVD of their Summer Breeze 2007 performance along with providing the years most purely enjoyable album.

#2. Gojira - The Way of All Flesh.
Fuck me, I was not expecting this to pop out of France's Gojira. This here band has their sound, no one else touches it and they a execute flawless mastery of their craft. This album will remain in heavy listening rotation for months if not years to come.

#3. Arghoslent - Hornets of the Pogrom.
Bigots or not, this album is catchy as hell, every track is memorable. I find myself going back to the album for a listen to  my favorite track "The Granadier" and end up giving the entire album a front to back listen without even thinking of wandering off into my music library to find something else.

#4. Pharaoh - Be Gone.
Big suprise for me and other than Infestdead, my favorite personal new band for me. Never would I have thought a power metal band would even come near my Top Ten. The first track "Speak to Me" alone got me hooked.

#5. Decrepit Birth - Diminishing Between Worlds.
I shot myself in the foot by missing out on possibly the only chance I would ever have to see this band live early on in the year, I lost a part of my soul that day. Now lets get this straight, I LOVE Tech Death Metal, even the wankery that comes with. Even though this doesn't have much, if any wanks to it. I still love this album. When I walked into the record shop and saw the $17 price tag I didn't blink, I wanted this album and didn't want to wait for shipping. It was worth every penny.

#6. Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle Part I.
Where to begin to praise this album? It's new, exciting and possibly an album that gives way to an explosion in Progressive Black Metal. Like it or not, this band is practically an American Enslaved without the rich history.

#7. Light This City - Stormchaser.
A band that should have never broken up. I would kill to see a tour with Testament just so during the track "Firehaven" Chuck "I make everything awesome" Billy* could come out on stage and melt my face off. Only a single weak track hurts this Swansong. Shame, this band had so much going for it, only for it to be thrown away. I'm glad I at least got to see them live in 2007.

#8. Equilibrium - Sagas. 
Hooray for Folk Metal in all its varieties. This album is epic. Some say Eluvietie, I say Equilibrium. Light, dark, good, evil. Sagas shows an extreme in diversity when it comes to Folk Metal.

#9. Origin - Antithesis.
Wankery in technical glory, check. Fat singer, check. Giving something that scares the shit out of Elpants' roommates at 2am, check.

#10. Ghengis Tron - Board up the House.
Ok, not a "metal" album to some, but metal enough for me. I have a few friends that want nothing to do with as they put it: "My kind of metal." I have been able to slip them a few tracks here and there and eventually get them asking about it, these things include The Dillinger Escape Plan, Animosity, Cynic and Ghengis Tron. This album along with the Remix Volume 3 is a fast paced, heart thumping experiment in sound.

Albums I wanted in the above list, but simply got outdone. AKA Honerable Mentions.
Enslaved - Vertebrae
Beneath The Massacre - Dystopia
Meshuggah - obZen
The Monolith Deathcult - Triumvirate
Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery
Testament - The Formation of Damnation
Protest The Hero - Fortress

#1 Debut of 2008.
Revocation - Empire of the Obscene.

Live Performance of 2008
Beneath The Massacre.