Aight what were your ten favorite shows of 2008? Tell us

for me
1. Necro, @middleeast Downstairs
2. Aesthetic Perfection, SITD, Imperative Reaction @TT and the Bears
3. Watain @Middle east Downstairs
4. Phobia, Impaled @Middle East Upstairs
5. Terminally your Aborted Ghost, Dysentery Composted @ Welfare
6. Killing Time, Outbreak @Anchors Up
7. Slapshot @Anchors Up
8. Impaled Northern Moonforest @Obriens
9. Cruxshadows, Bella Morte @ TT and the Bears
10 Bane, With Honor @ Welfare Records

i thought you meant tv shows

No i mean shows where live bands play

I saw that

1. Amon Amarth @ The Palladium
2. The Boredoms @ The Paradise
3. At The Gates @ The Palladium

Everything else was pretty good.

In order of when I remember them:
Ramming Speed, Battlemaster, Punch @ basement i dont remember
Dropdead, Tragedy, Systematic Death @ AS220
Tragedy, Mind Eraser, Scapegoat @ Welfare Records
Apeshit, Unholy Goatfucker @Welfare Records
Vitamin X, Fruit Salad, Perdition @ Zine Library
Vitamin X again @ Zine Library again
Fruit Salad, Apeshit @ Pizza Mountain
Margrudergrind, Mechanibal, Phobia @ Firehouse 13
Toxic Holocaust, Trap Them, Disfear, Mechannibal @ The Wheelchair
Like Rats, Draize, and Third Death as Negative Approach, Slapshot, and The Misfits @ Zine Library

I don't think I saw hardly any metal shows last year.

at the gates
halloween covers obriens
iron maiden
carcass suffo fetus
sexcrement neuraxis
the police
origin
necro
motorhead
sabbath w/ dio
such a good year for shows i could name more if my memory didnt suck

i could name alot more too.
Necro had to be the best show i ever went to. Chix got nood

Tons of great shows in 2008. The best were probably:

Iron Maiden/ Lauren Harris' Ass -- The Comcast Center
Nifelheim/ The Chasm -- The Double Door Liquor Store
Sadistic Intent/ Possessed/ Midnight -- Club Europa
The Meatmen -- The Middle East Downstairs

squash bowels, psytoxia
all composted shows
sexcrement, neuraxis
sexcrement, revocation

iron maiden.....jean drapeau parc montreal
at the gates.....palladium
bob dylan.......palladium

wicked pissed i missed green jello and carcass both from being lazy.

NEDF @RI
Carcass @Palladium
At The Gates @Palladium
Opeth/DT @Orpheum
Suicide Dream ... some legion somewhere
Death Tribute @ Ralphs
Finntrol @MiddleEast
Overcast @Palladium

..and some more i cant think of right now. def a good year for shows though

nedf probably takes the cake. I went to a good amount of shows last year, but nedf was just an awesome time. Bands were fucking great and the vibe was sweet too. Can't wait to do it again.

in no order:

Ceremony, Life Long Tragedy, Sabertooth Zombie @ Club Lido
The Ocean, Kylesa, Lair of the Minotaur @ Church
Misery Index, Fuck the Facts @ Church
Coliseum, Victims, Trash Talk @ Great Scott
Disfear, Trap Them @ Great Scott
Converge, The Red Chord, Baroness, Genghis Tron @ Palladium Upstairs
The Sword, Torche @ Middle East Downstairs

I = jealous

Carcass @ Palladium
Devourment @ PAL
Gridlink @ AS220
Trap Them @ Rockos
Rakim early 09@ Harpers Ferry
Watain @ Mid East
Composted/ Revocation @ Brick House (finally some decent metal in my town)
The Network @ Brick House (I rapped between sets, awesome day.)
Nobody Cares/ Advanced Apes @ Brick House (day after x mas show, drew 100+, broads on stage but not nude, I'm no Necro)
These aren't in any order but #10 is the tour I went on in March. Best show was either Barclay in Baltimore or a fucking squatter house in Chicago. Great year for shows for me, west coast this year! But there was some awesome shows, ones that made me travel hours and were totally worth it.

Carcass @ Palladium
Devourment @ PAL
Gridlink @ AS220
Trap Them @ Rockos
Rakim early 09@ Harpers Ferry
Watain @ Mid East
Composted/ Revocation @ Brick House (finally some decent metal in my town)
The Network @ Brick House (I rapped between sets, awesome day.)
Nobody Cares/ Advanced Apes @ Brick House (day after x mas show, drew 100+, broads on stage but not nude, I'm no Necro)
These aren't in any order but #10 is the tour I went on in March. Best show was either Barclay in Baltimore or a fucking squatter house in Chicago. Great year for shows for me, west coast this year! But there was some awesome shows, ones that made me travel hours and were totally worth it.

Srry fer the dbl. Stpd fon.

Kevorkian's Angels last show
Cheap Trick/Heart/Journey in St Louis

think that's all I went to last year. missed Origin half dozen times

MOD, Street Sweeper in Albany
Tragedy, Dropdead, Black SS, Legit in Albany
Ingrowing in a basement in Syracuse
Midwest Fuckfest in Milwaukee
Squash Bowels, Ingrowing, Inhuman Dissiliency in Philly
Squash Bowels in Alston
Fuck I'm Dead, The Day Everything Became Nothing in Albany
MDF
Composted in Alston
Only Living Witness 1+2 in Boston
NEDF
Devourment, Distorted Impalement, Malignancy, Dysentery in Fall River
Trap Them, Surrounded By Teeth in Albany
Rich Horror's Birthday Show in Alston
Shockwave in Erie, PA

I tried to leave out the shows Psytoxia played, but some were just too damn good even with us ruining everything

also, if you include each day of the three fests I went to over the summer as a separate show, I video taped 55 shows, and went to probably half a dozen more that I didn't tape

I'm mega cool, get over it

Vitamin X, Fruit Salad, etc. in Boston
The six Weekend Nachos shows I saw while they were on tour
MG/Phobia/Skarp in Raleigh and Richmond
Coke Bust, Brown Sugar, Positive Noise in Raleigh
Municipal Waste, Soilent Green, Iron Lung in Raleigh
Coke Bust, Seasick, Mammoth Grinder, Obstruction, I Hate This in Charlotte

idk vitamin x toured this passed year

New England Deathfest - Providence, RI
Converge - Manchester, NH
Becoming The Archetype - Manchester, NH
The Brethren - Dover, NH
The Cadaveric Manifesto - Dover, NH (We played an awesome show that night)
TYAG - Manchester, NH
The Red Chord, The Acacia Strain, Cruel Hand - Worcester Palladium

and a bunch others I can't recall right now.

NEUROSIS in brooklyn
done

i never remember the bands that played with the bands i went to see, so i will just name them.

Gojira/Behemoth/ Palladium
Decrepit Birth/Hate Eternal-palladium
Arsis (faceless canceled) enslaved-marks
origin-hell
carcass tour-Nokia Theatre NY
at the gates-palladium

there were definately more good ones, but these were the highlights. The bands that i have listed here were all absolutely on their game at these particular shows. Notably Gojira on the Behemoth tour. I love Gojira anyways, and the way they played live was better than their albums.

hum, new years eve in chicago.
modern life is war in allston.
built to spill at the orpheum
radiohead at the tweeter center
gregor samsa at cafe 939 in boston
devourment at the pal

so many more i cant think of, but these stand out.

God dammit! How did I miss so many awesome shows!?

yeah, always sucks thinking about what you missed. But instead think of all the stuff you've already seen, and try to see more. Or die because you don't really like music.

Oh man 2008 was an amazing year for shows for me. I mean, I went to more shows in 2008 than ever in my life, it was awesome! 2009 is going to be also amazing for shows! I can't wait!

Also, now that I'm more into the scene, it's going to be more fun now that I have a bunch of buddies to go to shows with. Wow, this was kinda a sappy comment haha.

but true. Sappy is ok though, MFR thought i was playing "gay chicken" with him, when i was really going in to give him a smooch..which i did.

Here is something you can't understand..
HOW I COULD JUST KISS A MAN!

Ok some of my fav shows of the year:

NEDF
Symphony X
Kamelot
Amon Amarth
Mortal Decay, Abnormality
Sexcrement, Abnormality, Neuraxis,
Bang Camaro
Hot On The Heels
anything with Revocation
anything with Composted
Cirque De Carne, Summoning Hate, Closed Casket,
Voyager, Bloodhorse, Biclops
Wendol, Atakke, Ramming Speed, Unholy Goatfucker
Master, Estuary, Sexcrement, Summoning Hate
Ill Daemonium, Boarcorpse, Spewtilator, Unholy Goatfucker, Razormaze
Watain, etc
Wargasm, etc
Paganfest
Gravewurm, Hirudinea, I Destroyer, Vaettir
Iron Maiden
Twisted Sister was in December 2007, but I'm including here cus it was one of the most awesome shows I've ever been to hehe
The Ocean, Kylesa, Lair of the Minotaur
Misery Index, Fuck the Facts, etc
Phobia, Impaled, etc

I probably forgot a whole bunch, but that's it for now.

Carcass
At the Gates

I can't fucking remember any of the other shows I went to.

NEDF
Carcass
Finntroll
Opeth
Amon Amarth

shit i missed alot of good shows. I missed NEDF, Carcass, Fintroll, Amon Amarth, At the Gates and others

[Jan 24,2009 10:44pm - poop ""]
NEUROSIS in brooklyn
done


yep

ouch, wasn't that enslaved/arsis show in 2007? or was it the beginning of 2008? honestly, I'm not good at keeping track of the shows I go to.