Best Album From Terrorizer's Top 40 Albums Of 2007

My vote goes to Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today

my vote goes to Primordial. even though i haven't heard the album yet. it came out too late for me to vote for and sadly nobody sent me a copy. i might have to actually buy it!

I like about 14 on that list. It's a shame The Angelic Process didn't get on it. No Baroness or Wolves In The Throne Room or Om either sadly.

Of what I've heard, Ulver or Akercocke. Went Ulver.

Ulver album is awesome.

I have 14 of these albums I think.

I only seem to have 4 of these. How can I be so out of the loop? And why aren't Wolves in the Throneroom on that list?

Anyway, I'm voting Amber Asylum...

I've only heard 5-6 of these, and voted for the Angels of Light. a great underrated album, Gira's best in some time, and basically, a tour de force of awesomeness.

I'm still going with Alcest, still my fave from 2007.

There are about five or six from that list that I haven't heard, Gallhammer being the highest-ranked one.

So what's the story on the number one choice? I admit I should have been tracking the threads but I hadn't seen any mention of the name before the list came out.

Louis has been raving about it all year. The fans I know of the band didn't like it as much as Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice or whatever it's called.

Would've made a great name for the spice girls comeback album.

That Deathspell Omega album is killer. I only just heard it a month or so ago...avant-garde French Satanic black metal with over the top yet kind of smart lyrics and some very surprising moments of jazzy melody amidst all the dissonance.

"but I hadn't seen any mention of the name before the list came out."

there was mention on the metal thread. it made my list for the year. it made most metal lists for the year. i just wrote a little about it on my blog:

http://skotrok.blogspot.com/

but in a roundabout way cuz i was really writing about the last album by Amok.

i still have never heard big business.

that sigh album got a great big sigh from me.

I LOVED THAT SHINING ALBUM SO MUCH I DON'T CARE WHAT EL SABOR DE HAWKWIND SAYS!

I've heard 19 of those 40, and I voted for Deathspell, mostly because Baroness wasn't on the list.

I do not understand all the hype about the Big Business record, outside of post-Karp ennui.

Like I said on the other thread, Terroriser OTM. The final four minutes of "The Repellent Scars of Abandonment And Election" alone are the best metal record of the year.

Voted Turisas. Why? Because I can. BATTLE METAL!

Ha, nothing from my top 10 even made their top 40. Clearly we are simpatico.

Slough Feg should totally have been in the top 10.

I really liked the Rotting Christ

That wasn't in jeff's top 10 either

I liked what I heard from the Rotting Christ, just never got the chance to listen to the whole thing.

Heard it yet?

Have I bought it in the few days since? No. Too much other stuff to listen to right now.

how about now? heard it now?

ordo ftw

I went with Witchcraft, though I suspect I might like Electric Wizard's album more, if I heard it.

Has anybody heard that Subhumans album? Any good? Are they any good? Weirdly, I'm pretty sure I've only ever heard the Canuck "Slave To My Dick" Subhumans, but suddenly I'm curious about the British ones. (They've been around forever, right?)

Second place, of the ones I've heard:

DHG - Supervillian Outcast (Moonfog)

"Are they any good? Weirdly, I'm pretty sure I've only ever heard the Canuck "Slave To My Dick" Subhumans, but suddenly I'm curious about the British ones. (They've been around forever, right?)"

one of my favorite rock bands of all time. i haven't heard the new one though. i don't pay attention to reunion/reformation stuff at all.

*from the cradle to the grave* and *worlds apart* would make any top album list of mine. top 100? top 200? and so many of their EPs are likewise some of my favorite records. *Rats* and *Religious Wars* especially. from 1981 to 1986 they could do no wrong. if you are me!

Big Business (even though I seem to have lost my copy of it) just edges this over HoF, which just edges it over Gallhammer. NB I need to hear a serious amount of this list. That is to say I need more money.

No Biffy Clyro?

k I've finally listened to the Ulver and it's great but I'm surprised it made the Terrorizer list at all.

well, not surprised, but y'know what I mean.

damn, i've only heard 11 of them properly
on that basis, i'd give my vote to akercocke or neurosis
didn't even know about that electric wizard record. time for me to dig that one out

actually, the neurosis record is excellent and something of a return to form. that would be my pick from what i've heard

The Subhumans are a bit of an odd token punk album inclusion here aren't they? FWIW Internal Riot is OK and has a couple of good songs but doesn't compare with the old records. Don't particularly like the production on it.

Neurosis and Electric Wizard were real return to form albums.
NV, remember Ulver have always been a Terrorizer band. If they weren't a former black metal band then perhaps they would get ignored. Plus Terrorizer writers are perhaps a bit more open minded that given credit for sometimes.
I'm pretty sure a GYBE album made their list one time.

"Terrorizer" magazine's "Best Album Of The Eighties"

xpost Like I said tho I'm not surprised given the band's history, but if the music they're making now was being made by a band without a metallic past I doubt it'd fall within Terrorizer's orbit.

Why is the Ulver pick surprising?

God. Sorry. Got one reading comprehension skill.

I think it's to Terrorizers credit that they did include it.

i guess it is to their credit, but it strikes me that the non-metal picks on the list are boringly predictable in that they all (with the exception of angels of light) have some kind of affiliation to the metal scene. i'm not familiar with amber asylum, but if they're who i think they are, they fall under the neo-classical/darkwave banner along with elend who have always catered (or at least used to cater) to fans of black metal. i'm confused as to what's going on with alcest. do people even consider it metal anymore?

Amber Asylum are on profoundlore. Along with Alcest, Cobalt, Caina , Atavist and others.

Alcest are great. Metal is very wide ranging and lots of boundaries being crossed even in 2007.

makes sense. and it's not like i have a problem with seeing any of that stuff on the list. why would i. but it seems to me that the supposedly opend mindedess often stops where the ties to metal stop.

Well, not everyone is going to be open-minded. Look at the amount of letters Terrorizer got when Sunn o))) got a front cover.
Older readers may remember when Terrorizer gave Cubanate lots of coverage and the reaction to that!

hahaha. oh and for the record, i've never read terrorizer. just responding to what was being said upthread.

ahh ok

I'm so out of the loop when it comes to metal. I'm totally going to check out the top three albums in this poll.

Also check out nos 7,10,11,13,16,17,18,20,24,28,31,34,40

Someone else will be along in a moment with other numbers :)

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I have no idea what will win this

Neurosis or Deathspell Omega or High On Fire maybe?

Jesu really grew on me in December, and along the same lines, Alcest. I don't really consider them metal or even extreme though. Big Business topped that heap.

The Jesu lp was good but not as brilliant as the 1st album. I look forward to more Alcest, will be interesting to see what he does next.

I think he's working on a Peste Noir album just now.

Infact it's an AMESOEURS album he's working on
http://www.profoundlorerecords.com//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=304&Itemid=2

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I didn't expect Alcest to win. I thought Jesu may have been the shoegazing dark horse.

No From Autumn to Ashes, no credibility.

Nice to see Alcest clicking with people...

I just listened to that Deathspell Omega album. Holy fucking shit.

What else sounds like this (other than maybe Sunn O))).

?

Sunn o))) don't sound like deathspell omega to my ears

Yeah, it's not a very close comparison. I'm still a bit naive with this stuff. Fill me in.

I'm not really the one to ask to recommend black metal, however I'd say check out Wolves In The Throne Room.

After relistening to Black One, I'm not sure what I was talking about. Maybe I was confused with something else, haha.

You should still check out Wolves In The Throne Room anyway.

What else sounds like this

Try the Portal album Outre, recent Blut aus Nord and Crimson Massacre's The Luster Of Pandemonium.

I recommend the Blut Aus Nord

I got the Ulver vinyl in today. Been waiting a month for it.

Huh, I think Blut aus Nord might actually be better than Deathspell Omega. They're just using whammy bars and distortion for this sound? I'm dling Wolves in the Throne Room. Is the whole French black metal scene about hyper-dissonant no-wavey guitars??

Blut aus Nord might actually be better than Deathspell Omega.

OK, after putting on "Bread of Bitterness," I'm reconsidering this.

I prefer BaN myself but hey