Official 2007 Year-End Metal Poll/List Thread

It's a bit early, no?

I suppose I could compile one just now, or over the weekend at least, and see if it does change by the end of 2007. I usually enter the ATH competition so I could use that. One year i'll win that $250 worth of goodies they have as a prize.

"It's a bit early, no?"

you can wait till december 31st if you want. just starting this now cuz i had everything out and this way i won't forget the stuff i forgot the first time around.

This is the list I posted on the metal thread a couple days ago, but with #20 (which used to be Zoroaster) changed to an album I've connected with since then, and positions #4 and 5 switched. The list will likely change again, possibly hundreds of times, before the year ends, but here goes:

1. Trigger Renegade – Destroy Your Mind (Black Top Fade)
2. Necrodemon – Ice Fields Of Hyperion (Open Grave)
3. George Brigman – Rags In Skull (Bona Fide)
4. Witchcraft – The Alchemist (Rise Above)
5. American Dog – Hard (Colonial Canine)
6. Kosmos – Kosmos (The End)
7. Hardingrock - Grimen (Candlelight)
8. Mustasch – Latest Version Of The Truth (Regain)
9. Baroness – The Red Album (Relapse)
10. Kekal – The Habit Of Fire (Open Grave)
11. Korpiklaani – Tervaskanto (Napalm)
12. Moonsorrow – V: Havitetty (Unruly Sounds)
13. Lengsel – The Kiss The Hope (Whirlwind)
14. Cruachan – The Morrigan’s Call (Candlelight)
15. DHG/Dodheimsgard – Supervillain Oulast (Moonfog/The End)
16. Manes – How The World Came To An End (Candlelight)
17. The Hidden Hand – The Resurrection of Whiskey Foote (Southern Lord)
18. Minsk – The Ritual Fires Of Abandonment (Relapse)
19. Litmus – Planetfall (Candlelight)
20. Vision Bleak - The Wolves Go Hunt Their Prey (Napalm)

I've ran up a quick list, bit it's totally subject to change. I wouldn't even take much notice of the order too, as again, that's subject to change.

1 High On Fire - Death is This Communion
2 Alcest - Souvenirs d'un autre monde
3 Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand
4 Baroness - Red
5 Orthodox - amancer en puerta oscura
6 Torche - In return
7 Ulver - Shadows Of The Sun
8 Wolves In The Throne Room - Two Hunters
9 Minsk - The Ritual Fires of Abandonment
10 Monarch - Dead Men Tell No Tales
11 Souvenir's Young America - An Ocean Without Water
12 Whitehorse - Whitehorse (20 Buck Spin)
13 Om - Pilgrimage
14 The Austrasian Goat - The Austrasian Goat
15 Grails - Burning Off Impurities
16 Nadja - Guilted By The Sun
17 Bongripper - Hippie Killer
18 Big Business - Here Comes The Waterworks
19 Loinen - Loinen
20 Slough Feg - Hardworlder
21 Black Shape Of Nexus - Black Shape Of Nexus
22 Hordes Of Satan - Hordes Of Satan
23 Witchcraft - The Alchemist
24 Hey Colossus - project-death
25 Titan - raining sun of light & love for you & you & you

Too early decide on Rosetta - Wake/Lift, Electric Wizard isn't out yet,
Just missed out - Growing, Middian, Hidden Hand, Litmus, The Young Gods, Various Nadja and Boris re-releases
Mammatus.

And i'm sure this thread will be peppered by Oh and I forgot... posts by myself.

If the Electric Wizard is as good as everyone says it is, it could be a contender for no1.

Fucks sake. The Neurosis would've been in the top 5.

ARGH

and possibly the new Circle.

So far for me, I would say Machine Head, Baroness, Hacride, Phazm, High On Fire, Firewind, In This Moment, Lordi, Novembers Doom, Maylene and the Sons of Disaster, 69 Eyes, Bloody Panda, Symphony X, Candlemass, Devin Townsend, Himsa, Alchemist, and Earthless are possibilities for my list, it least as far as stuff that I can remember. Lots of stuff I haven't listened to yet, and lots of stuff still coming out, so we'll see.

1. 6th best Immolation album

some others i've kind of liked, at least momentarily:

Zoroaster - Dog Magic (Terminal Doom)
Rwake – Voices Of Omens (Relapse)
Ulver – Shadows Of The Sun (The End)
Blue Cheer – What Doesn’t Kill You… (Rainman)
Apostolum – Anedonia (Moribund)
Psychotic 4 – Lightning (Indica ’06)
Bergraven – Dodsvisioner (Hydra Head)
Bacon Fat – Reinventing The Mojo (Grease It Up Music)
Alpha Jerk – Green Man (Slobfarm EP)
Finntroll – Ur Jordens Djup (Century Media)
Poison – Poison’d! (EMI)
60 Second Crush – Street Corner Of Fear (Aural Pleasure Music)
Giant Squid – Metridium Field (The End ’06)
Vintersong – Solens Rotter (Napalm)
Lez Zeppelin – Lez Zeppelin (Emanation)
Ensiferum –Victory Songs (Candelight)
Krypteria – Bloodangel’s Cry (Caroline/EMI)
Suspyre – A Great Divide (Nightmare)
Kotipelto – Serenity (Candlelight)
Lordi – The Arockalypse (The End)
Pownd – Circle Of Power (Nightmare)
Virgin Black – Requiem Mezzo Forte (The End)
Therion – Gothic Kabbalah (Nuclear Blast)
Melechesh – Emissaries (Osmose Productions)
Funeral – From These Wounds (Candlelight)
Akercocke – Antichrist (Earache)
Poets & Pornstars – Poets & Pornstars (Wenzel Hopper)
Die Berbannten Kinder Evas – Dusk Und Boid Became Alive (Napalm)

oops, forgot these (and probably some others, including lots of things I consider more metal than other people do, but I won't bother listing those):

Sir Lord Baltimore – Kingdom Come (Anthology Recordings reissue ’06)
Buffalo – Volcanic Rock (Aztec reissue ’05)
Buffalo – Dead Forever… (Aztec Music reissue ’06)
Crack The Sky – Alive And Kickin’ Ass (Lifesong reissue ’06)
King Crimson – The Condensed 21st Century Guide To: 1969-2003 (Discipline Global Mobile reissue)
The Eat – It’s Not The Eat, It’s The Humidity (Alternative Tentacles reissue)
J.D. Blackfoot – The Ultimate Prophecy (Fallout reissue)
Apostolum – Anedonia (Moribund)
Phazm – Antebellum Death ‘N Roll (Osmose Productions)

haha my ten would be the ten i just got in the mail. the only one of them i've seen mentioned here is Vision Bleak; my favorite is Denial Fiend's They Rise, with maybe Satan's Host and Blut Aus Nord also really pretty good. why do i always get curious about metal when i have small babies in the house?

I'm liking the OCtober File album a lot. and thus my list is already outdated even though I only posted it yesterday.....And like I said, that's going to keep happening. But I don't think I should post updates here every time from now on, should I? Probably best to stick to Rolling Metal '07 for that.

Also, here is a (probably partial!) list of CDs on my shelf that I haven't gotten around to spending much (if any) time with -- at least not enough to let me know how much (if at all) I might like them:

Agua De Annique
Alchemist
Arch Enemy
Bring Me The Horizon
Blut Aus Nord
Burning Saviours
Coliseum
Dethklok
Gentlemen's Pistols
Graveyard
Hearse
High On Fire
Limbonic Art
Moonspell
Neurosis
Nightwish
Ted Nugent
Oresund Space Collective
Axel Rudi Pell
Stonecrash (two different albums)
Vreid
Warfare (reissue)
Xasthur

(I'm not even positive that all of those are metal per se', but they all look metal. A few of them --Nugent, Stronecrash, Warfare, Vreid, Hearse, Gentlemen's Pistols, High on Fire -- definitely have moments I like on them, but somehow haven't inspired me to devote enough energy to them, at least so far.)

And Sear Bliss, whoever the hell they are.

Damn that's a long, intimidating list. If there are any on there that people know I wouldn't like, feel free to tell me so I'll know not to bother with them.

Okay, I have listened to this Baroness album a few times and I have to say I'm not sure why everyone's flipping out on it so much. It's good in many spots, but there just doesn't seem to be that much to it. Might just be my own preconceptions and lack of METALLIC EXPERTISE? Awful lot of squibby little two-minute instrumentals....

It's all about the vibe, man.

Um, okay. As for trippy-ass metal jam-band genre-bending vibe, I like (the admittedly much colder) Between the Buried and Me record. Oh we should be talking about this on the other thread shouldn't we.

Here's my list (as of three weeks ago), which was also submitted to Decibel. As of right now, I'd be squeezing the new Dillinger Escape Plan somewhere in the top 15.

1. Alcest – Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde
2. Pig Destroyer – Phantom Limb
3. Baroness – The Red Album
4. Jesu – Conqueror
5. Neurosis – Given to the Rising
6. Between the Buried and Me – Colors
7. Machine Head – The Blackening
8. High on Fire – Death is This Communion
9. Clutch – From Beale Street to Oblivion
10. Caina – Mourner
11. Witchcraft – The Alchemist
12. Akercocke - Antichrist
13. Watain – Sworn to the Dark
14. The Angelic Process – Weighing Souls With Sand
15. The Howling Wind – Pestilence and Peril
16. Cephalic Carnage – Xenosapien
17. Hacride – Amoeba
18. Rwake – Voices of Omens
19. Municipal Waste – The Art of Partying
20. 3 Inches of Blood – Fire Up the Blades

Some very close runners-up:

Bloody Panda – Pheromones
Symphony X – Paradise Lost
Wold – Screech Owl
The Red Chord – Prey For Eyes
Dimmu Borgir – In Sorte Diaboli
Behemoth – The Apostasy
Korpiklaani – Tervaskanto
Therion – Gothic Kabbalah
Atavist – II: Ruined
Cobalt – Eater of Birds
Wolves in the Throne Room – Two Hunters
Minsk – The Ritual Fires of Abandonment
Moonsorrow – V: Havitetty
Bergraven – Dodsvisioner
The End – Elementary
Year of No Light - Nord
Through the Eyes of the Dead – Malice
The Black Dahlia Murder - Nocturnal
Graf Orlock – Destination Time Tomorrow
Big Business – Here Come the Waterworks
Within Temptation - The Heart of Everything
Arch Enemy - Rise of the Tyrant

And that new Rosetta too, which is pretty killer.

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We probably should. In all seriousness, though, I just love the sonic experimentation and texture of the Baroness album. It constantly keeps you on your toes, and there's always something interesting happening. It's really about getting lost in the groove, as hippie bullshit as that sounds.

Agh, I forgot to mention Portal!

Man, I need to listen to some of the stuff on your list, Adrien.

well i've only had baroness for a few days, jeff, so yeah maybe i'll "trip out" to the "cool vibe" of "southern white guys screwing around on guitars." hey it has worked before!

Ha ha. Normally I don't have much patience for hippie jam band nonsense, but I dig the Baroness. I usually go by feeling when evaluating an album, and I just really enjoy listening to that particular record.

that's cool, i understand. ears are the only thing that matter. i will employ mine on the red album this weekend while cleaning up the garage.

my dB list:

Foetopsy - In the Bathroom (Barbarian)
Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb (Relapse)
Om - Pilgrimage (Southern Lord)
Bloody Panda - Pheromone (Level Plane)
Mayhem - Ordo ad Chao (Season of Mist)
Darkthrone - F.O.A.D. (Peaceville)
Rotting Christ - Theogonia (Season of Mist)
Vital Remains - Icons of Evil (Century Media)
Profanatica - Profananitas de Domonatia (Hells Headbangers)
Various Artists - For the Sick: A Tribute to Eyehategod (Emetic)

actually just finally hearing Baroness right now. Shit won't play on my home stereo because of the filesharing precautions = I don't get around to it 'til I have a fair amount of patience. It's pretty good to my ears, sounds like southern metal Fugazi. Rwake nearly made the list, Graf Orlock to, I listened to that thing a lot. And was irritated by the clever packaging because it was impossible to put away.

gaaah to=too, ugh

Am I just being a jerk if I think that the UGK record is about as metal as anything else I've heard this year?

depends on who you talk too D5, I got a friend north of here who might wanna go there with you - to me the UGK record sounds rather more rap than metal

like, so much more so that to call it "metal" seems kinda of willful and precious

whoa it's a rap album? dag, i'll have to listen to it a little closer i guess. my bad!!1

Baroness = if Killing Joke had grown up in the mountains of Virgina instead of an industrial city. They get an impressive apocalyptic roar going, but there's a lingering trapped-in-a-small-college-town feel, the way the southern rock trills work their way in.

I guess I really need to hear this Baroness record. And Clutch. And Rwake. And High on Fire.

This is what happens when I drop out of the Rolling Metal thread in May.

No full list yet but album of the year so far is Trelldom "Til Minne".

should i transcribe the decibel list in the new issue?

dj martian will say yes.

Yes

Please

first metal list i have seen...

Random thoughts: Top 10 Metal Albums of 2007
http://randomthoughtsbybhavdeep.blogspot.com/2007/11/top-10-metal-albums-of-2007.html

Okay, Decibel's top 40

40 - grave in the sky - cutlery hits china:english for the hearing impaired

39 - trap them - sleepwell deconstructer

38 - darkest hour - deliver us

37 - year of no light - nord

36 - pissed jeans - hope for men

35 - alcest - souvenirs d'un autre monde

34 - torche - in return EP

33 - between the buried and me - colors

32 - evoken - a caress of the void

31 - destroyer destroyer - littered with arrows

30 - down - III:over the under

29 - engineer - the dregs

28 - rwake - voice of omens

27 - architect - all is not lost

26 - obliteration - perpetual decay

25 - dax riggs - we sing of only blood or love

24 - big business - her come the waterworks

23 - rosetta - wake/lift

22 - magrudergrind - rehashed

21 - machine head - the blackening

20 - caina - mourner

19 - electric wizard - witchcult today

18 - the end - elementary

17 - melt-banana - bambi's dilemma

16 - graf orlock - destination time tomorrow EP

15 - bergraven - dodsvisioner

14 - moonsorrow - viides luku:havitetty

13 - pelican - city of echoes

12 - the red chord - prey for eyes

11 - deathspell omega - fas-ite,maledicti,in ignem aeternum

10 - a life once lost - iron gag

09 - high on fire - death is this communion

08 - portal - outre

07 - witchcraft - the alchemist

06 - neurosis - given to the rising

05 - baroness - the red album

04 - jesu - conqueror

03 - the dillinger escape plan - ire works

02 - watain - sworn to the dark

01 - pig destroyer - phantom limb

You should have included Machine Head on your list, 'cuz The Blackening would totally take top title honors.

Thanks for posting the list, Scott!

got the new decibel and then we all headed up to my pal maggie's new restaurant in western mass and we got a kick out of the picture of our lil' liz in decibel. makes you all nostalgic! we wuz so much younger than and we iz so much larger now. well, liz still looks fab. she iz goddess. here we are (liz and maggie and me) in the go go 80's.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2129/1783586722_1cdd19b07a_b.jpg

39 - trap them - sleepwell deconstructer
37 - year of no light - nord
35 - alcest - souvenirs d'un autre monde
33 - between the buried and me - colors
28 - rwake - voice of omens
24 - big business - her come the waterworks
23 - rosetta - wake/lift

^ Nice!

16 - graf orlock - destination time tomorrow EP

^ It didn't make my 20, but it's awesome to see it make the top 40.

13 - pelican - city of echoes
10 - a life once lost - iron gag

^ Falls in the "oh, come on" department.

09 - high on fire - death is this communion
08 - portal - outre
07 - witchcraft - the alchemist
06 - neurosis - given to the rising
05 - baroness - the red album
04 - jesu - conqueror
03 - the dillinger escape plan - ire works
02 - watain - sworn to the dark
01 - pig destroyer - phantom limb

^ Outstanding!

Exceptional list, really. Haven't heard the Torche or the Deathspell Omega yet...is the Torche vinyl only?

Torche vinyl (USA Version) comes with a cd! And it's being repressed too. Robotic Empire are taking pre-orders.

Here's the Top 20 I sent to Revolver. Warning: More than one person who writes for Decibel and/or Revolver have called me a "hipster"

1. Big Business - Here Come The Waterworks
2. Baroness - The Red Album
3. Wold - Screech Owl
4. Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand
5. Wolves In The Throne Room - Two Hunters
6. Behemoth - The Apostasy
7. V.E.G.A. - Cocaine
8. Nadja - Touched
9. Circle - Katapult
10. Carlos Giffoni - Arrogance
11. Deathspell Omega - Fas - Itr Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum
12. Mammal - Lonesome Drifter
13. Om - Pilgrimage
14. Yakuza - Transmutations
15. Car Bomb - Centrailia
16. Watain - Sworn To The Dark
17. Black Cobra - Feather And Stone
18. Bergraven - Dodsvisioner
19. Bloody Panda - Pheremone
20. Alcest - Souveniers D'un Autre Monde

Though after many, many relistens, Dillinger Escape Plan would be in my top 2.

I like a lot on that list.

Yeah, that's a great list. And same here, Dillinger's a solid #2 in my books now.

If there's one exclusion from the Decibel list I was most disappointed by, it would be the Angelic Process.

Pirage's Massive: Top 50 recommended death metal releases for 2007

Are You Fucking Serious?: Vinny's Top 25 Albums of 2007 - mostly metal.

I ran up a Metal(ish) list for my Last FM Journal. It may of course change by the 31st december as I hear something I hadn't yet/forgot about. That always happens.
So anyway here it is for those who can't be arsed viewing the last fm page. And I don't give a fuck if a few of those aren't metal albums

1 Electric Wizard- Witchcult Today
2 High on Fire - Death Is This Communion
3 Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde
4 Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand
5 Ghost - In Stormy Nights
6 Ulver - Shadows Of The Sun
7 Orthodox - Amancer En Puerta Oscura
8 Neurosis - Given To The Rising
9 Baroness - Red
10 Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters
11 OM - Pilgrimage
12 Torche - In Return
13 Minsk - The Ritual Fires of Abandonment
14 Caina - Mourner
15 Monarch - Dead Men Tell No Tales
16 Grails - Burning Off Impurities
17 The Austrasian Goat - The Austrasian Goat
18 Whitehorse - Whitehorse (20 Buck Spin)
19 Nadja - Guilted By The Sun
20 Sunn O))) Oracle
21 Jesu - Conqueror
22 Loinen - Loinen
23 Slough Feg - Hardworlder
24 Rosetta - Wake/Lift
25 Black Shape of Nexus - Bson
26 The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
27 Hordes of Satan - Hordes Of Satan
28 Witchcraft - The Alchemist
29 Hey Colossus - project-death
30 Titan - raining sun of light & love for you & you & you
31 Souvenir's Young America - An Ocean Without Water
32 Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
33 Growing - Vision Swim
34 Middian - Age Eternal
35 The Young Gods - Super Ready Fragmente
36 Circle - Katapult
37 Bongripper - Hippie Killer
38 Big Business - - Here Comes The Waterworks
39 Pelican - City Of Echoes
40 Cobalt - Eater Of Birds

You can see it's a bit different to the 1st draft I posted a few weeks ago as I remembered some stuff I had forgotten.

I already got to 40 when I realised I forgot Rwake and I've not heard The Ocean yet.
Louis said no Deathspell Omega , but I wasn't really feeling that, but I do need to hear it more.

current: Top 20 albums of 2007 - Metal Storm

Top 20 albums of 2007

1. Dark Tranquillity Fiction 8.64 | 240
2. Exodus The Atrocity Exhibition... Exhibit A 8.57 | 44
3. Symphony X Paradise Lost 8.57 | 187
4. Onslaught Killing Peace 8.54 | 35
5. Behemoth The Apostasy 8.54 | 127
6. Epica The Divine Conspiracy 8.53 | 108
7. Ensiferum Victory Songs 8.53 | 163
8. Machine Head The Blackening 8.52 | 124
9. Swallow The Sun Hope 8.51 | 71
10. Paradise Lost In Requiem 8.51 | 96
11. Novembers Doom The Novella Reservoir 8.49 | 49
12. Virgin Black Requiem - Mezzo Forte 8.48 | 23
13. Amorphis Silent Waters 8.47 | 94
14. After Forever After Forever 8.45 | 89
15. Akercocke Antichrist 8.41 | 41
16. Gamma Ray Land Of The Free II 8.40 | 55
17. Porcupine Tree Fear Of A Blank Planet 8.39 | 104
18. Detonation Emission Phase 8.38 | 26
19. Helloween Gambling With The Devil 8.36 | 84
20. Turisas The Varangian Way 8.34 | 85

the new virgin black album is so awesome! part two of their requiem trilogy.

I know Amorphis have won the album of the year at Canada's Unrestrained mag.

But what are the other albums?

On sale December 15th including Top 25 Albums of 2007
Unrestrained Magazine: Issue #36!

see, if i'd had some more time i might have put two virgin black albums on my list.

they don't sell unrestrained where i live. i'd buy it if they did. plus, i want that ulver cover.

i should subscribe.

Terrorizer Albums of the Year should be announced in the next issue on Sale January 3rd 2008.

that death metal list up there is cool. there WAS good stuff to hear death-wise. but like that guy says, not a great year for death.

also this list from same bloke:

<a href="http://piris-metalopolis.blogspot.com/2007/12/top-50-recommendd-melodic-metal-albums.html";>Pirage's Massive: Top 50 recommended melodic metal albums for 2007</a> - this stuff is not my type of metal, it's the equivalent of musical masturbation

BBcode it ! Pirage's Massive: Top 50 recommended melodic metal albums for 2007

BW&BK has their year-end issue out, so maybe some kid will copy the top 66 list sometime soon. I haven't gotten out to the bookstore to take a peek yet.

I love Unrestrained, but Amorphis at #1? Yikes.

AMORPHIS: SILENT WATERS ´Album of the Year´ in UNRESTRAINED Magazine
http://tinyurl.com/2lfxzt

Took a look at the Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles list...it's the usual, half good, half stubbornly claccicist. Top five is Megadeth, Symphony X, Down, Machine Head, and Nightwish.

But it goes to show just how strong the year was, that BW&BK's top 66 is so completely different from Decibel's, yet I like a lot of their choices. Though Decibel really caters more to my interests these days...maybe I'm biased.

My list as of today:

1. Baroness - the Red Album
2. Arch Enemy - Rise of the Tyrant
3. Machine Head - The Blackening
4. Hacride - Amoeba
5. Maylene and the Sons of Disaster - II
6. Symphony X - Paradise Lost
7. Phazm - Antebellum Death 'n' Roll
8. Novembers Doom - The Novella Reservoir
9. Rush - Snakes and Arrows
10. Dethklok - The Dethalbum

My list as of today:

1. Every Time I Die, The Big Dirty
2. Vulture Industries, The Dystopia Journals
3. DHG, Supervillain Outcast
4. The Black Dahlia Murder, Nocturnal
5. High on Fire, Death Is This Communion
6. The Ocean, Precambrian
7. The October File, Holy Armour From the Jaws of God
8. Between the Buried and Me, Colors
9. Baroness, The Red Album
10. Vesania, Distractive Killusions
11. Denial Fiend, They Rise
12. The Vision Bleak, The Wolves Go Hunt Their Prey
13. All Out War, Assassins in the House of God
14. Tusk, The Resisting Dreamer
15. Severe Torture, Sworn Vengeance
16. Sean Noonan Brewed by Noon, Stories to Tell (the metallic parts, docked because it is mostly jazz)
17. Drawn and Quartered, Merciless Hammer of Lucifer
18. Zloději Uší, E.T.'s_3
19. Enthroned, Tetra Karcis
20. Raging Speedhorn, Before the Sea Was Built

Haven't heard all those, but that's a nice list

Should I have 20 on my list? I feel somehow less of a man since I only have 10...

haha i only put 20 on because i haven't decided on any real order yet. one could actually say that i'm overcompensating for something like small penis size or inadequate knowledge of metal.

UM NOT SMALL PENIS SIZE LET ME MAKE THAT CLEAR RIGHT NOW

Wow, every time I listen to The Ocean record it moves up in my estimation.

OK, here's 20, which was surprisingly not difficult to come up with:

1. Baroness - the Red Album
2. Arch Enemy - Rise of the Tyrant
3. Machine Head - The Blackening
4. Hacride - Amoeba
5. Maylene and the Sons of Disaster - II
6. Symphony X - Paradise Lost
7. Phazm - Antebellum Death 'n' Roll
8. Novembers Doom - The Novella Reservoir
9. Rush - Snakes and Arrows
10. Dethklok - The Dethalbum
11. Earthless - Rhythms from a Cosmic Sky
12. DHG - Super Villain Outcast
13. Municipal Waste - the Art of Partying
14. Alchemist - Tripsis
15. Bullets and Octane - Song for the Underdog
16. Devin Townsend - Ziltoid the Omniscient
17. The 69 Eyes - Angels
18. High On Fire - Death Is This Communion
19. Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli
20. Slough Feg - Hardworlder

That isn't in any particular order, although now that I'm looking at it, I liked a lot of the stuff in my bottom 10 more than my top 10, so I may have to do some rearranging... it's pretty fun to look at the sheer differences in each of our lists.

Yeah, absolutely. And I'm a little worried that I haven't given Alchemist enough of a fair shake.

I liked the Alchemist album more than the general critical consensus, so it's possible that I'm in the minority in loving it. Doesn't mean that I don't still love it, though.

I wish anyone else had heard Vulture Industries, because the singer is excellent (James Hetfield vs. Ian Astbury vs. Norwegian accent) and the songs are tricky and powerful. I also haven't actually heard from anyone else who's listened to The Big Dirty, but GOD DAMN that record has a hold on my heart.

Fulcher Industries sounds cool, might have to look into them. Not a big Every Time I Die fan, though. Also, I just listened through the Pig Destroyer, and while it certainly has its merits, I don't quite feel the same love for it that everyone else seems to have. Of course, my list probably isn't winning me any credit points, so...

(cred, not credit)

Cool lists. Personally, I had a tough time keeping mine below 50. I liked way, way too much stuff this year...I can't see how 2008 will even come close to measuring up.

Yeah but (unlike me) you actually know what you're talking about!

Knowing what you're talking about is not necessarily a prerequisite for writing about music. Hell, I think I know what I'm talking about maybe 13% of the time.

I don't have a metal top 10 this year, but I can say that Baroness made my overall top ten.

I liked Dødheimsgard, Baroness and 3 Inches of Blood this year. did Skeleton Witch come out this year? i like that too.

my nephew is flipping out over the last Mayhem.

Wait... people have not-metal top tens? That was my top 20 for the year!

AMG / allmusic blog: The Allmusic Blog - Allmusic’s Favorite Metal Albums of 2007, Pt. 1

AMG / allmusic blog: The Allmusic Blog - Allmusic’s Favorite Metal Albums of 2007, Pt. 2

this rateyourmusic list has enough stuff on it that i really liked for me to want to check out the stuff on it that i haven't heard:

http://rateyourmusic.com/list/HateDragon/metal_worth_listening_to__2007_

KERRANG Album Of The Year 2007 (BIFFY CLYRO WTF???)

via Terrorizer email

TERRORIZER'S 2007 TOP TENS!

Can't wait til January 3 for our definitive Albums Of 2007? Then sate
your hunger with the office staff's picks. Are they red herrings or
canny foretellings? You'll find out soon enough...

JOSEPH STANNARD - EDITOR

1: Cobalt 'Eater Of Birds' (Profound Lore)

2: Nadja 'Touched' (Alien8)

3: Zoroaster 'Dog Magic' (Battle Kommand)

4: Darkthrone 'F.O.A.D.' (Tyrant Syndicate/Peaceville)

5: Gallhammer 'Ill Innocence' (Peaceville)

6: Prong 'Power Of The Damager' (13th Planet)

7: Mayhem 'Ordo Ad Chao' (Season Of Mist)

8: Portal 'Outre' (Profound Lore)

9: Neurosis 'Given To The Rising' (Neurot)

10: Anaal Nathrakh 'Hell Is Empty And All The Devils Are Here' (FETO)

LOUISE BROWN - ASSISTANT ED

1: Moonsorrow 'V: Havitetty' (Spikefarm)

2: Witchcraft 'The Alchemist' (Rise Above)

3: Nightwish 'Dark Passion Play' (Nuclear Blast)

4: Audrey Horne 'Le Fol' (Indie)

5: Amorphis 'Silent Water' (Nuclear Blast)

6: Swallow The Sun 'Hope' (Spinefarm)

7: Sonata Arctica 'Unia' (Nuclear Blast)

8: Finntroll 'Ur Jordens Djup' (Spinefarm)

9: Alcest 'D'Un Autre' (Prophecy)

10: Wolf 'The Black Flame' (Century Media)

JOHN BISCOMB - AD GUY

1: The Dillinger Escape Plan 'Ire Works' (Relapse)

2: Sear Bliss 'The Arcane Odyssey' (Candlelight)

3: Prong 'The Power Of The Damager' (13th Planet)

4: Corpsing 'The Stench Of Humanity' (Grindethic)

5: Anaal Nathrakh 'Hell Is Empty And All The Devils Are Here' (FETO)

6: Tyrant 'Reclaim The Flame' (Listenable)

7: Deathspell Omega 'Fas - Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum' (Norma
Evangelium Diaboli)

8: Portal 'Outre' (Profound Lore)

9: Arkhon Infaustus 'Orthodoxyn' (Osmose)

10: Cobalt 'Eater Of Birds' (Profound Lore)

JAMES HOARE - NEWS HOUND

1: Primordial 'To The Nameless Dead' (Metal Blade)

2: Darkthrone 'F.O.A.D.' (Peaceville)

3: Gallhammer 'Ill Innocence' (Peaceville)

4: Anaal Nathrakh 'Hell Is Empty And All The Devils Are Here' (FETO)

5: Bestial Mockery 'Slaying The Life (Season Of Mist)

6. Dam 'The Difference Engine' (Candlelight)

7: Akercocke 'Antichrist' (Earache)

8: Paradise Lost 'In Requiem' (Century Media)

9: Darkest Hour 'Deliver Us' (Victory)

10: Despised Icon 'The Ills Of Modern Man' (Century Media)

DARRELL MAYHEW - DESIGN GURU

1: Jesu 'Conqueror' (Hydra Head)

2: Down 'III: Over The Under' (Roadrunner)

3 Nadja 'Touched' (Alien8)

4: Nine Inch Nails 'Year Zero' (Island)

5: Clutch 'From Beale Street To Oblivion' (DRT)

6: The Angelic Process 'Weighing Souls With Sand' (Profound Lore)

7: Turisas 'The Varangian Way' (Century Media)

8: Aborted 'Slaughter & Apparatus: A Methodical Overture' (Century
Media)

9: Darkthrone 'F.O.A.D.' (Peaceville)

10: Leng Tch’e 'Marasmus' (Relapse)

If you like lists you'll LOVE Terrorizer #167, out January 3.

I guess I should give that Anaal Nathrakh a listen, then.

Maria's Top 20 Albums of 2007 [A DJ on Total Rock Radio]
http://www.sexto9.com/index.php?item=bestof2007

her music interests are primarily melodic-death metal:

1 - Fear My Thoughts
"Vulcanus"

2 - Amorphis
"Silent Waters"

3 - Arch Enemy
"Rise Of The Tyrant"

4 - The Absence
"Riders Of The Plague"

5 - Fall Of Serenity
"The Crossfire"

6 - Dark Tranquillity
"Fiction"

7 - Detonation
"Emission Phase"

8 - Deadlock
"Wolves"

9 - The Duskfall
"The Dying Wonders Of The World"

10 - Slowmotion Apocalypse
"Obsidian"

11 - Miseration
"Your Demons, Their Angels"

12 - Dimension Zero
"He Who Shall Not Bleed"

13 - Nightrage
"A New Disease Is Born"

14 - Dimmu Borgir
"In Sorti Diaboli"

15 - Novembre
"The Blue"

16 - Dew Scented
"Incinerate"
Nuclear Blast

17 - Soilwork
"Sworn To A Great Divide"
Nuclear Blast

18 - Novembers Doom
"The Novella Reservoir"
The End

19 - Amoral
"Reptile Ride"

20 - Neaera
"Armamentarium"

My Top 5:

1. trelldom - til minne
2. alcest - souvenirs d'un autre monde
3. marduk - rom 5:12
4. mayhem - ordo ad chao
5. moonsorrow - viides luku: hävitetty

Fuck, I just can't believe people are not rating Trelldom, it's the best metal album to come out of Norway in ten years. Or at least since "Nattestid".

more lists: APESHIT’s Top Metal Albums of 2007 | APESHIT Blog

No sign of the Terrorizer list yet? I cant see it being in shops here until next week.

Not on online yet - checked Terrorizer forum earlier.

Heh surely that's the last place it will be! It will get removed so ppl have to buy it.
Who do you think will be in the top 10 this year?

jon selzer has defected to Metal Hammer, new folks in charge. therefore there will be changes.

also on the front cover it sez only Top 20 Albums of 2007, when ever year this decade it has been Top 40

Terrorizer

My Meta(ish) Top 50

that's a link for Kevin John Bozelka who asked for it on the other thread

hey, there's a new danava 7". i mean, 2007, but newish.

oops, thought this was rolling metal. sorry.

Staff Picks of 2007 - Ultimate Metal Forum

And this was posted on the other ILX thread
Terrorizer 2007 Albums
1 Deathspell Omega - Fas… (Norma Evangelium Diaboli)
2 Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao (Season Of Mist)
3 Neurosis - Given To The Rising (Neurot)
4 Primordial - To The Nameless Dead (Metal Blade)
5 Watain - Sworn To The Dark (Season Of Mist)
6 Darkthrone - FOAD (Peaceville)
7 High on Fire - Death Is Communion (Relapse)
8 DHG - Supervillian Outcast (Moonfog)
9 Gallhammer - Ill Innocence (Peaceville)
10 Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today (Rise Above)
11 Nadja - Touched (Alien 8
12 Akercocke - Antichrist (Earache)
13 Cobalt - Eater Of Birds (Profound Lore)
14 Clutch - From Beale Street To Oblivion (DRT)
15 Municipal Waste - The Art Of Partying (Earache)
16 Reverend Bizarre - So Long Suckers (Spinefarm)
17 Witchcraft - Alchemist (Rise Above)
18 Big Business - Here Come The Waterworks (Hydra Head)
19 Evile - Enter The Grave (Earache)
20 Ulver - Shadows Of The Sun (Jester)
21 The Angels of Light - We Are Him (Young God Records)
22 Type O Negative - Dead Again (Nuclear Blast)
23 Sigh - Hangmans Hymn (The End)
24 The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works (Relapse)
25 Arkhon Infaustus - Orthydoxyn (Osmose)
26 Megadeth - United Abominations (Roadrunner)
27 Shining - Halmstad (Osmose)
28 Unsane - Visqueen (Ipecac)
29 Candlemass - King (Nuclear Blast)
30 Prong - Power Of The Damager (13th Planet)
31 Amber Asylum - Still Point (Profound Lore)
32 Rotting Christ - Theogonia (Season Of Mist)
33 Elend - A World In Their Screams (Prophecy)
34 Alcest - Souvenirs (Prophecy)
35 Subhumans - Internal Riot (Bluurg)
36 Turisas - The Varangian Way (Century Media)
37 Anaal Nathrakh - Hell Is Empty (FETO)
38 Doomsword - My Name Will Live On (Dragonheart)
39 Down - Over The Under (Roadrunner)
40 Jesu - Conqueror (Hydra Head)

Latest Scores on Metal Storm

Top 20 albums of 2007

1. Dark Tranquillity Fiction 8.58 | 275
2. Epica The Divine Conspiracy 8.55 | 141
3. Symphony X Paradise Lost 8.54 | 220
4. Machine Head The Blackening 8.54 | 135
5. Vital Remains Icons Of Evil 8.50 | 42
6. Akercocke Antichrist 8.46 | 46
7. Ensiferum Victory Songs 8.43 | 194
8. Behemoth The Apostasy 8.42 | 146
9. Exodus The Atrocity Exhibition... Exhibit A 8.39 | 57
10. Paradise Lost In Requiem 8.37 | 109
11. Novembers Doom The Novella Reservoir 8.36 | 59
12. Cephalic Carnage Xenosapien 8.34 | 29
13. Swallow The Sun Hope 8.33 | 83
14. Onslaught Killing Peace 8.29 | 41
15. Arch Enemy Rise Of The Tyrant 8.28 | 140
16. Dream Theater Systematic Chaos 8.26 | 219
17. Kamelot Ghost Opera 8.25 | 129
18. Megadeth United Abominations 8.23 | 170
19. Nile Ithyphallic 8.21 | 91
20. Iced Earth Framing Armageddon (Something Wicked - Part 1) 8.17 | 109

what do you think of the terrorizer list dj?

Missing from Terrorizer list:

Dark Tranquillity
Novembre
Paradise Lost
The Angelic Process
Detonation
Ghost Brigade
Hacride
In Lingua Mortua
Minsk
Rosetta
The Ocean
Officium Triste
Portal
Red Harvest
Swallow the Sun
Vehementer Nos
Virgin Black
V: 28
Wolves in the Throne Room

Kick out of the Terrorizer 40:

2 Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao (Season Of Mist) - crap production

6 Darkthrone - FOAD (Peaceville) - not my thang, one tricky pony

9 Gallhammer - Ill Innocence (Peaceville) - don't rate - overhyped nonsense with crap production

15 Municipal Waste - The Art Of Partying (Earache) NME approved retro-Thrash, not my thang

17 Witchcraft - Alchemist (Rise Above) - surprised to see this retro sounding band in the Terrorizer list

22 Type O Negative - Dead Again (Nuclear Blast) WHAT THE F___K - this band are well past their best

26 Megadeth - United Abominations (Roadrunner) Surprised to see this in the Terrorizer best of list

35 Subhumans - Internal Riot (Bluurg) some sort of punk band?

36 Turisas - The Varangian Way (Century Media) - Battle metal - not my thang

38 Doomsword - My Name Will Live On (Dragonheart) WHO?

I like the Witchcraft

Witchcraft is the type of band I expect Classic Rock to love

Terrorizer 2007 Albums
1 Deathspell Omega - Fas… (Norma Evangelium Diaboli)

Terroriser OTM

"some sort of punk band?"

one of my all-time favorite bands! though i didn't know they had a new album. they've been doing the reunion thing for years now. i'm not big on reunions/reformations. i rarely get excited by them. a couple of their albums would make any all-time album list i made. not that i would make one.

overall, the terrorizer list is good. i am definitely simpatico with that mag. more than i am with rock-a-rolla.

i haven't heard the gallhammer album. the stuff i've heard on youtube is pretty bad.

Fuck, I just can't believe people are not rating Trelldom, it's the best metal album to come out of Norway in ten years. Or at least since "Nattestid".

If I had heard this album before last month it would have made my list - I'm not quite as floored by it as you are S but it's fantastic for sure.

Trelldom isn't making an impact on rateyourmusic.com either Til Minne by Trelldom : Reviews and Ratings - Rate Your Music

Nate's 2007 top 7 on RYM is causing me mirth here. Trelldom acquirement is now being seriously investigated, along with Marduk.

I haven't heard the Trelldom yet. It's not like the country of Norway was idle or anything in 2007. mayhem, manes, DHG, a fucking killer red harvest album, er, there are no doubt plenty more where that came from. probably too commercial for siegbran, the everloving purist.

my favorite norwegian album of the year was probably:

16 – Tharaphita – Iidsetel Sunkjatel Radadel

except it was from Estonia.

That Red Harvest album probably should have been in my top 20. I love that album. So strong and so creative.

http://myspace-256.vo.llnwd.net/01490/65/21/1490861256_l.jpg

DigitalMetal.com Forums - View topic - DIGITALMETAL STAFF PICKS OF 2007!!!!

does BBcode not like: =

http://www.eclipsemagazine.ws/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1082

One of the sites I write for, METAL EATER, put up their list:
1. ARCH ENEMY - Rise Of The Tyrant (Century Media)
2. DARK TRANQUILLITY - Fiction (Century Media)
3. DETHKLOK - The Dethalbum (Williams Street)
4. EXODUS - The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit A (Nuclear Blast)
5. KING DIAMOND - Give Me Your Soul... Please (Metal Blade)
6. MACHINE HEAD - The Blackening (Roadrunner)
7. NIGHTWISH - Dark Passion Play (Roadrunner)
8. DIMMU BORGIR - In Sorte Diaboli (Nuclear Blast)
9. ONSLAUGHT - Killing Peace (Candlelight)
10. PIG DESTROYER - Phantom Limb (Relapse Records)
11. SYMPHONY X - Paradise Lost (InsideOut Music)
12. OVERKILL - Immortalis (Bodog Music)
13. HELLOWEEN - Gambling With The Devil (SPV/Steamhammer)
14. TURISAS - The Varangian Way (Century Media)
15. BEHEMOTH - The Apostasy (Century Media)
16. ENSIFERUM - Victory Songs (Candlelight)
17. BARONESS - The Red Album (Relapse)
18. ECHOES OF ETERNITY - The Forgotten Goddess (Nuclear Blast)
19. EVILE - Enter The Grave (Earache)
20. DEVIN TOWNSEND - Ziltoid The Omniscient (InsideOut Music)
21. FINNTROLL - Ur Jordens Djup (Century Media)
22. SOILWORK - Sworn To A Great Divide (Nuclear Blast)
23. DAATH - The Hinderers (Roadrunner)
24. SIRENIA - Nine Destinies And A Downfall (Nuclear Blast)
25. MAYLENE AND THE SONS OF DISASTER - II (Mono Vs. Stereo)
26. SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM - In Glorious Times (The End Records)
27. MAYHEM - Ordo Ad Chao (Season Of Mist)
28. DIVINE HERESY - Bleed The Fifth (Century Media)
29. DOWN - Over The Under (Warner)
30. NOVEMBERS DOOM - The Novella Reservoir (The End Records)

You can find the individual contributor lists (including my top 25) here:

http://www.metaleater.com/features-2007recap.php