top 10 of 2007

[Matt]

for me there was some pretty decent stuff that came out this year as far as metal... what was the best for the rest of you???

1. mucopus - undimensional (best cd this year )
2. rwake - voices of omens (second best)
3. immolation - shadows in the light
4. splitter - avskräckande exemplar
5. afgrund - svarta dagar (or the split with relevant few, both good)
6. sexcrement - genitales from the porno potty
7. municipal waste - the art of partying
8. jesu - conqueror
9. disavowed - stagnated existence
10. moistened disciples - stop praying, no one is listening

[Kurt]

1. Nex "Zero" CD (Deathgasm/Next Horizon)

I can't think of a single release otherwise worthy of mention. The aforementioned Immolation album was decent, though.

[Asrynth]

Some albums I have been digging this year:

Immolation - Shadows in the Light
Nile - Ithyphallic
Behemoth - The Apostasy
Malignancy - Inhuman Grotesqueries
Disavowed - Stagnated Existence

[ProstheticHead12]

Baroness - the Red Album is my number one for sure, the rest of the list will require some thought

[erock]

that baroness is awesome, greg. im just waiting for it to catch on

[Matt]

that baroness is awesome, greg. im just waiting for it to catch on

i really cant get into it, or the split with unpersons, i may have to give it a few more spins, i dig second a lot, and first is good as well... but red album, i donno yet, im gonna turn it on now actually and take another listen

[MS_39455]

A few that come to mind are...

Mortuus - De Contemplanda Morte
Marduk - Rom. 5:12
Deathspell Omega - Fas Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum
Nile - Ithyphallic
Blut Aus Nord - Odinist (just got this one)

[Matt]

i forgot about the new dying fetus which is actually pretty solid, some other worthy of mention for me are zozobra, minsk, rosetta, malignancy, defeated sanity, ok thats it, no one else liked any cds this year???

[Mike]

Watain - Sworn to the Dark
High on Fire - Death is this Communion (probably my #1)
Amorphis - Silent Waters
Behemoth - The Apostasy
Obituary - Xecutioner's Return
Finntroll - Ur Jordens Djup
Ziltoid the Omniscient
Vital Remains - Icons of Evil
Type O Negative - Dead Again

At first I liked the Baroness album, but it hasn't stuck if that makes sense. Whereas the Amorphis was whatever at first, but has grown to be one of my favorites this year.
Megadeth gets an honorable mention for releasing something as good as Countdown to Extinction.
Dimmu Borgir was cool at first, but I got bored with it. I might get into it again sometime in the future.

Also, because i'm out of the loop metal-wise, I somehow missed Peter Lindgren leaving Opeth, and Devin Townsend saying SYL and Devin Townsend band were finished and he wasn't going to tour anymore.
I'm looking forward to the live Opeth CD\DVD.

[Metalfreak]

man I'm gonna have to come back to this when I'm in the studio looking at everything from 2007!

[BlackRoija]

Sigh – Hangman’s Hymn
Deathspell Omega – Fas - Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum
Shining – V - Halmstad
The Lord Weird Slough Feg – Hardworlder
Symphony X – Paradise Lost
Mayhem – Ordo ad Chao
Mithras – Behind the Shadows Lie Madness
Ulver – Shadows of the Sun
Dodsferd – Fucking Your Creation
Glorior Belli – Manifesting the Raging Beast
Cain – Triumvira
Limbonic Art – A Legacy of Evil
The Ocean – Precambrian
Dodsferd – Cursing Your Will to Live
Reverend Bizarre – III: So Long Suckers
Wolves in the Throne Room – Two Hunters
WAYD – Ghostwalk
Deinonychus – Warfare Machines
Amorphis – Silent Waters
The Angelic Process – Weighing Souls With Sand
Odious Mortem – Cryptic Implosion
Lunar Aurora – Andacht
Drudkh – Estrangement
Dødheimsgard – Supervillain Outcast
Atrium Carceri – Ptahil
Pig Destroyer – Phantom Limb
Akercocke – Antichrist
Sear Bliss – The Arcane Odyssey
Professor Fate – The Inferno
Arkhon Infaustus – Orthodoxyn
Necros Christos – Triune Impurity Rites
Alcest – Souvenirs d'un autre Monde
Gamma Ray – Land of the Free II
Primordial – To the Nameless Dead
The Fucking Champs – VI
Helloween – Gambling With the Devil
Immolation – Shadows in the Light
Blut aus Nord – Odinist
Mortuus Infradaemoni - Daemon qui fecit terram
Big Business – Here Come the Waterworks
Bongripper – Hippie Killer
Otargos – Kinetic Zero
Between the Buried and Me – Colors
In Lingua Mortua – Bellowing Sea - Racked by Tempest
Candlemass – King of the Grey Islands
Horse The Band – A Natural Death
Hardingrock – Grimen
PANTHEON I – The Wanderer and His Shadow
Neurosis – Given to the Rising
Thurisaz – Circadian Rhythm
Dormant – Beneath the Mighty Oak
Nest – Trail of the Unwary
Crippled Black Phoenix – A Love of Shared Disasters
Orange Goblin – Healing Through Fire
Furze – UTD
Anaal Nathrakh - Hell is Empty, and All the Devils Are Here
Kronos – The Hellenic Terror
Darkestrah – Epos
Jesu – Conqueror
Aeon – Rise to Dominate
Die Toten Kehren Wieder mit dem Wind – Blut
Crionics – Neuthrone
Zandelle – Vengeance Rising
Gospel Of The Horns – Realm of the Damned
Lifelover – Erotik
Watain – Sworn to the Dark
Sabaton – Metalizer
Threshold – Dead Reckoning
Explosions in the Sky – All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
Sear – Lamentations of Destruction
The Fall of Troy – Manipulator
Darkthrone – F.O.A.D.
Dialectic Soul – Terpsychora
Naumachia – Callous Kagathos
The Birthday Massacre – Walking With Strangers
Kamelot – Ghost Opera
Raintime – Flies & Lies
Xystus – Surreal
Queensrÿche – Take Cover
Bloody Panda – Pheromone
Malevolent Creation – Doomsday X
Pagan’s Mind – God’s Equation
Blood Tsunami – Thrash Metal
Swallow the Sun – Hope
Galneryus – One for All - All for One
Sutcliffe Jügend - This is the Truth
Ride the Sky – New Protection
Nile – Ithyphallic
Hacride – Amoeba
Behemoth – The Apostasy

These are all the 2007 albums I've listened to so far, in order from best to worst. I still have quite a few more to listen to, like the new Havoc Unit that just came out. This list will very likely change by the end of the year, as positions of certain albums on this list may possibly change the more I listen to them, but as of now this is where they stand.

And yes, The Apostasy is THAT bad. Good god, what a piece of shit. Bloody Panda and down is what I consider the "Crap Tier" of 2007.

[Blarg!]

Sigh – Hangman’s Hymn
Deathspell Omega – Fas - Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum
Shining – V - Halmstad
The Lord Weird Slough Feg – Hardworlder
Symphony X – Paradise Lost
Mayhem – Ordo ad Chao
Mithras – Behind the Shadows Lie Madness
Ulver – Shadows of the Sun
Dodsferd – Fucking Your Creation
Glorior Belli – Manifesting the Raging Beast
Cain – Triumvira
Limbonic Art – A Legacy of Evil
The Ocean – Precambrian
Dodsferd – Cursing Your Will to Live
Reverend Bizarre – III: So Long Suckers
Wolves in the Throne Room – Two Hunters
WAYD – Ghostwalk
Deinonychus – Warfare Machines
Amorphis – Silent Waters
The Angelic Process – Weighing Souls With Sand
Odious Mortem – Cryptic Implosion
Lunar Aurora – Andacht
Drudkh – Estrangement
Dødheimsgard – Supervillain Outcast
Atrium Carceri – Ptahil
Pig Destroyer – Phantom Limb
Akercocke – Antichrist
Sear Bliss – The Arcane Odyssey
Professor Fate – The Inferno
Arkhon Infaustus – Orthodoxyn
Necros Christos – Triune Impurity Rites
Alcest – Souvenirs d'un autre Monde
Gamma Ray – Land of the Free II
Primordial – To the Nameless Dead
The Fucking Champs – VI
Helloween – Gambling With the Devil
Immolation – Shadows in the Light
Blut aus Nord – Odinist
Mortuus Infradaemoni - Daemon qui fecit terram
Big Business – Here Come the Waterworks
Bongripper – Hippie Killer
Otargos – Kinetic Zero
Between the Buried and Me – Colors
In Lingua Mortua – Bellowing Sea - Racked by Tempest
Candlemass – King of the Grey Islands
Horse The Band – A Natural Death
Hardingrock – Grimen
PANTHEON I – The Wanderer and His Shadow
Neurosis – Given to the Rising
Thurisaz – Circadian Rhythm
Dormant – Beneath the Mighty Oak
Nest – Trail of the Unwary
Crippled Black Phoenix – A Love of Shared Disasters
Orange Goblin – Healing Through Fire
Furze – UTD
Anaal Nathrakh - Hell is Empty, and All the Devils Are Here
Kronos – The Hellenic Terror
Darkestrah – Epos
Jesu – Conqueror
Aeon – Rise to Dominate
Die Toten Kehren Wieder mit dem Wind – Blut
Crionics – Neuthrone
Zandelle – Vengeance Rising
Gospel Of The Horns – Realm of the Damned
Lifelover – Erotik
Watain – Sworn to the Dark
Sabaton – Metalizer
Threshold – Dead Reckoning
Explosions in the Sky – All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
Sear – Lamentations of Destruction
The Fall of Troy – Manipulator
Darkthrone – F.O.A.D.
Dialectic Soul – Terpsychora
Naumachia – Callous Kagathos
The Birthday Massacre – Walking With Strangers
Kamelot – Ghost Opera
Raintime – Flies & Lies
Xystus – Surreal
Queensrÿche – Take Cover
Bloody Panda – Pheromone
Malevolent Creation – Doomsday X
Pagan’s Mind – God’s Equation
Blood Tsunami – Thrash Metal
Swallow the Sun – Hope
Galneryus – One for All - All for One
Sutcliffe Jügend - This is the Truth
Ride the Sky – New Protection
Nile – Ithyphallic
Hacride – Amoeba
Behemoth – The Apostasy

These are all the 2007 albums I've listened to so far, in order from best to worst. I still have quite a few more to listen to, like the new Havoc Unit that just came out. This list will very likely change by the end of the year, as positions of certain albums on this list may possibly change the more I listen to them, but as of now this is where they stand.

And yes, The Apostasy is THAT bad. Good god, what a piece of shit. Bloody Panda and down is what I consider the "Crap Tier" of 2007.

Ah,I see you agree with me on the Dodsferd-"Fucking your creation" being better then the newer one.

Great List

[BlackRoija]

Yeah after I listened to it a couple times I realised FYC was better, but only marginally. All those albums in that part of the list are fantastic, so the ranking is somewhat insignificant.

[Blarg!]

Yeah after I listened to it a couple times I realised FYC was better, but only marginally. All those albums in that part of the list are fantastic, so the ranking is somewhat insignificant.

Ah,Agreed.

For me,Cursing was to "Black-n-Roll"
FYC is just more Black

[MikeLindgren]

After reading BlackRoija's list, I hereby crown myself a poseur. God-damn, dude!