Your Top 10 Albums of 2007

[Aeonblade]

Shit, I don't think I've heard ten albums this year, and if I have, alot of them were really disappointing. I'll just list the few that I liked, in no order.

Machine Head - The Blackening
The Ziggurat - Confrontations With The Disciples Of The Shadow Walker
Svartsot - Ravnenes Saga
Marduk - Rom 5:12
King Diamond - Give Me Your Soul... Please
Dethklok - The Dethalbum
Buckethead - Decoding The Tomb Of Bansheebot

Thats all I can think of really, the Nile album was a massive disappointment.

 

[Midnight In Winter]

The main reason I was disappointed (though I'm sure I could use a better word) with Dimmu's new CD is because it is EXACTLY what I expected it to be. No surprises, nothing new (other then quad-kicks in "The Chosen Legacy"). The album wasn't bad, but it wasn't anything special either. That is my opinion, anyways.

And apparently Agalloch is releasing a new EP called "the White" to follow up on their 2004 CD "The Grey".

Quoted from Wikipedia, but referenced through many articles on google:

Agalloch have recently recorded a neofolk mini-CD, as indicated by frontman John Haughm on his eBay auctions. "All profits go directly to a neofolk mini-CD we are planning to record this month." The mini-CD, an EP entitled "The White", is a follow-up to 2004's The Grey. Featuring seven new songs, it will be released on Vendlus Records in late 2007 or early 2008.

 

[Trows]

I wasn't too impressed with the new Dimmu album, except for the few times Vortex was on vocals.

Just might be his best and most powerful studio performance yet.


Edit: vvvv - I prefer ever older Borknagar with Garm.

 

[Midnight In Winter]

I wasn't too impressed with the new Dimmu album, except for the few times Vortex was on vocals.

Just might be his best and most powerful studio performance yet.

Aside from Kings of the Carnival Creation, I agree completely. I miss old Borknagar, especially songs like "The Presence Is Ominous". Not that I mind new Borknagar with Andreas, but if I wanted to listen to Andreas, I'd listen to Vintersorg. ICS has incredible fucking talents that aren't being focused on enough.

But I shall stop hijacking the thread. On with your top 10's!

 

[TENTH DREAMER DECEIVER]

Probably missing 1-2 but that's ok :Smug:

Top 10:

1. Blood On The Highway: The Life of Ken Hensley
2. Helloween: Gambling With The Devil
3. Turisas: The Varangian Way
4. Circus Maximus: Isolate
5. Amorphis: Silent Waters
6. Iced Earth: Framing Armageddon
7. Threshold: Dead Reckoning
8. The Poodles: Sweet Trade
9. Gamma Ray: Land of the Free Part II
10. Airtime: Liberty Manifesto

Bottom 10:

11. Lizzy Borden: Appointment With Death
12. Nightwish: Dark Passion Play
13. Candlemass: King of the Grey Islands
14. Redemption: The Origins of Ruin
15. Anvil: This Is Thirteen
16. Symphony X: Paradise Lost
17. Mind's Eye: A Gentleman's Hurricane
18. Saxon: The Inner Sanctum
19. Two of a Kind: S/T
20. Thunderstone: Evolution 4.0

 

[ShadarLogoth]

well, these are the 2007 albums that i bought physical copies of, so they must be my top for the year

Type o Negative-Dead Again
Symphony X-Paradise Lost
Primordial- To the Nameless Dead
Moonspell-Under Satanae(i know that its a re-recording of their older stuff)
Ensiferum - Victory Songs
Vintersorg- Solens Rotter

i'll probably find other great albums that missed down the road, but im still playing catch up with the whole history of music.

 

[phantomfreak]

^^ I know how you feel I still need to get the first few albums from Dark Tranquillity, Kamelot, Dismal Euphony, Vintersorg.
Plus all the new bands that I hear that I like and want to get albums from like Lunatica, Ensiferum, and Wintersun

 

[Wenchmaster]

These would be my top albums in order.

1. Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
2. Symphony X - Paradise Lost
3. Finntroll - Ur Jordens Djup
4. Dark Tranquillity - Fiction
5. Pain of Salvation - Scarsick
6. Ensiferum - Victory Songs
7. Nile - Ithyphallic
8. Behemoth - The Apostasy
9. Circus Maximus - Isolate
10. Vintersorg - Solens Rotter
11. Sigh - Hangman's Hymn
12. Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli
13. Megadeth - United Abominations


....aaand....all the crap I haven't checked out this year:

Porcupine Tree, Kamelot, Devin Townsend, Helloween, Sonata Arctica, Deathspell Omega, Nocturnal Rites, Pagan's Mind, Malevolent Creation, Riverside, Swallow the Sun, Down, Reverend Bizzare, Electric Wizard, Candlemass, King Diamond, Akercocke, Iced Earth, Alcest, Winds, Amorphis, Nightingale, Odious Mortem, Inveracity, Shining, Defeated Sanity, Kronos, Benighted, Blotted Science, Insision, Slough Feg, Centurions Ghost, Twisted Tower Dire, Pale Divine, Totem, Serpentcult, Skeletonwitch, Evile, Municipal Waste, Marduk, Primordial, Pelican, Mayhem, Monolithe, Aeon, Unleashed, Galneryus, Mithras, Immolation, Ne Obliviscaris, Mors Principum Est, Blood Stain Child, Turisas, Aghora, Dying Fetus, Type O Negative, Napalm Death, Om, Vital Remains, Naglfar, Fear My Thoughts, Lyfthrasyr, Blood Red Throne, Doomsword, Therion, Drudkh, Epica, Threshold, Martyr, Manegarm, Moonsorrow, Gamma Ray, Arkona, The Absence...etc.

 

[MentallyAbstract]

The best part of end-of-year lists is finding new music!

 

[NoOfficialCapacity]

I'm still trying to cut this list down... but so far:

Rotting Christ - Theogonia
Monster Magnet - 4 Way Diablo
Bad Religion - New Maps Of Hell
Pain - Psalms of Extinction
Moonsorrow - V: Havitetty
Profugus Mortis - So it Begins...
Senate - The Great Northern Scenekill
Anaal Nathrakh - Hell Is Empty, And All The Devils Are Here
Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb
Visions of the Night - Nocturnal Militia
Rotting Christ - Theogonia
Twilight Hammer - Orcish Steel
Serj Tankian - Elect The Dead
The Birthday Massacre - Walking With Strangers
Deathmarch - Deathmarch
Tony Danza Tap Dance Extravaganza - Danza II: The Electric Boogaloo
Blood Red Throne - Come Death
Dark Forest - Aurora Borealis (reissued and released by Bleak Art in 2007, not sure if this counts, stellar disc regradless)
Utlagr - 1066 - Blood and Iron in Hastings

 

[The Black Death]

In no particular order...

Behemoth - The apostasy
Wolves in the throne room - Two hunters
Limbonic art - Legacy of evil
Vintersorg - Solens rotter
Dimmu Borgir - In sorte diaboli
Nile - Ithyphallic
Naglfar - Harvest
Vesania - Distractive killusions
Utlagr - 1066 - Blood and iron in hastings
Akercocke - Antichrist

 

[tagradh]

Blut Aus Nord - Odinist <
Wolves in the throne room - Two hunters
Amorphis - Silent Waters <
Blood Red Throne - Come Death
Deathbound - We Deserve Much Worse
Direwolf - Beyond The Lands Of Human Existence
Inhume - Chaos Dissection Order
Kronos - The Hellenic Terror <
Mithras - Behind The Shadows Lie Madness <
Primordial - To The Nameless Dead <

< top 5

 

[chrisdoig24k]

Another Kronos fan, I see! <3

 

[tagradh]

Another Kronos fan, I see! <3

Psht. There are two types of people; those who like Kronos, and idiots. And I guess people who don't like death metal but, meh.

 

[chrisdoig24k]

Nice, nice! I just love their combination of technicality and melody, it sits really well with me.

 

[chrisdoig24k]

Oops, double post.