Yesterday was a fun day at the MS Mansion; with our Top 10 lists all handed in ahead of time, we let the MS Mansion Monkeys run the show whilst we watched you guys duke it out in the comments (“no ________?????? wtf???? you guyz are suxorz i’m never coming here again!!”) If you missed the fun, be sure to take a look at the Top 10 lists of your favorite metal blogger douchebags.

Anyway, we thought it’d be fun if we kept a tally of the nominations on said lists as well as the ridiculous shit that went down here yesterday while the MSM Monkeys flung poo at each other. Our list of lists, after the jump.

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2008 was a fine fucking year in metal if you ask me. There was such an abundance of quality, new metal at our disposal all year long that I found myself constantly struggling to balance keeping up with it all and still finding time to, ya know, rock out to the good shit and properly enjoy it. Not a bad problem to have.

In preparation for compiling this list, I did my best to go back and listen to every one of these to re-assess their potential awesomeness. And I’m glad I did; while some albums held onto their charm or even ripened with age, others didn’t seem quite so special a few months on.

Enough already; here’s my list.

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