End of Year Poll Results

By jason fisher • January 06, 2009

The 'End of Year Poll' results are now in and the winner is...well we have several winners actually. 41,174 people voted.

Favorite Record Label
1. Roadrunner Records
2. Metal Blade Records
3. Century Media
4. Nuclear Blast Records
5. Victory Records

Biggest release of 2008
1. Metallica - "Death Magnetic"
2. Slipknot - "All Hope Is Gone"

Best Album of 2008
1. Testament - "The Formation of Damnation"
2. Slipknot - "All Hope Is Gone"
3. Opeth - "Watershed"
4. Metallica - "Death Magnetic"
5. Black Tide - "Light From Above" (write-in)

Best DVD
1. Lamb of God - "Walk with Me in Hell"
2. Metalocalypse: Season 2
3. Cannibal Corpse - "Centuries of Torment – The First 20 Years"

Biggest disappointment
1. Guns N' Roses - "Chinese Democracy"
2. The Haunted - "Versus"

Best tour
1. Mayhem Festival
2. Unholy Alliance

Best Festival
1. Ozzfest
2. Maryland Deathfest

Best newcomer
1. Black Tide
2. Sister Sin
3. Austrian Death Machine

Best music based video game
1. Guitar Hero: World Tour
2. Rock Band 2

Band you hope not to hear from in 2009
1. Guns N' Roses
2. Marilyn Manson

Thanks to all that took the poll.

metallica recap 2008 poll end of year