2007 - a banner year thus far!

[TitoC]

Devin Townsend - Ziltoid
Threshold - Dead Reckoning
Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
Symphony X - Paradise Lost
Kamelot - Ghost Opera - and the Live box set!
Allen/Lande - The Revenge
Spock's Beard - Spock's Beard (Japan 2CD is a 2007 release)
Tangent - Going of on One
Kaipa - Angling Feelings
Thought Chamber - Angular Perceptions
Redemption - Origins of Ruin
Alan Morse - 4 O'Clock and Hysteria
Black Sabbath - Live in Hammersmith 1981
Asia - Fantasia; Live in Tokyo 2007 (just out - guilty pleasure - original group)
Steve Vai - Sound Theories
Masterplan - MK II
Silent Force - Walk the Earth
Dark Empire - Distant Tides remastered +1
Visions of Atlantis - Trinity

Wow...really good year and it's only half over.

Yet to come - Monster Magnet, Iced Earth, Dark Empire, Tiles, Ayreon, Heaven & Hell DVD, Brainstorm DVD, Anubis Gate, Arch Enemy, Paradox (new CD!!!), Uriah Heep (New CD!!!), Judas Priest, Sieges Even (woohoo new CD), Lord (former Dungeon)...

...life - good; wallet - empty!

 

[DoomsdayZach]

Man, so many of those discs are soooo freakin' horrible.
Have already come out or will come out:
Månegarm - Vargstenen
Turisas - The Varangian Way
Swallow the Sun - Hope
Moonsorrow - V: Hävitetty
Korpiklaani - Tervaskanto
Behemoth - The Apostasy
Gorefest - Rise to Ruin
Bergraven - Dödsvisioner
Throne of Katarsis - An Eternal Dark Horizon
Municipal Waste - The Art of Partying
Vintersorg - Solens Rötter
Sigh - The Hangman's Hymn

And so many others that I've been excited as a pig in shit to get.

 

[Burnout]

Behemoth - The Apostasy

How's the track Dane guests on?

The only releases that have interested me so far are:

Caspian - The Four Trees
Dark Tranquillity - Fiction
Devin Townsend - Ziltoid the Omniscient
Mors Principium Est - Liberation = Termination
Manticora - The Black Circus Pt. 2: Disclosure
Redemption - The Origins of Ruin
Riverside - 02 Panic Room
Symphony X - Paradise Lost

And the albums that have yet to be released:

Biomechanical - Cannibalised
Dark Empire - Humanity Dethroned
Raintime - Flies and Lies
Riverside - Rapid Eye Movement

And I still need to check out the new Swallow the Sun disc.

 

[Iced Dog]

faves so far...

Symphony X - Paradise Lost
Dark Moor - Tarot
Kamelot - Ghost Opera
Iced Earth - Overture Of The Wicked
Vision Divine - The 25th Hour
Allen/Lande - The Revenge
Threshold - Dead Reckoning
Turisas - The Varangian Way
Ensiferum - Victory Songs
Megadeth - United Abominations
Bloodbound - Book Of The Dead
Sirenia - Nine Destinies And A Downfall
Therion - Gothic Kabbalah
After Forever - After Forever
Megadeth - That One Night: Live In Buenos Aires (DVD)
Rage - Full Moon In St. Petersburg (DVD)


notables that I should give some more spins...

Redemption - The Origin Of Ruin
Excalion - Waterlines
Visions Of Atlantis - Trinity
Gaia Epicus - Victory
Suspyre - A Great Divide
DGM - Different Shapes
Saxon - The Inner Sanctum
Moonlight Agony - Silent Waters
Kotipelto - Serenity
Glory Opera - Equilibrium
Deadlock - Wolves


still looking forward to...

Iced Earth - Framing Armageddon
Nightwish - Dark Passion Play
Dark Empire - Hunanity Dethroned
Avantasia - The Scarecrow
Adagio - Archangels In Black
Epica - The Divine Conspiracy
Mystic Prophecy - The Satanic Curses
Elvenking - The Scythe
Primal Fear - New Religion
Orphaned Land - ?
Tribuzy (live album/DVD)

 

[Burnout]

Orphaned Land - ?

I believe it's slated to be titled The Never Ending Way of ORwarriOR and it's looking like it'll be a 2008 release.

 

[DoomsdayZach]

How's the track Dane guests on?

Fucking amazing.

notables that I should give some more spins...
Kotipelto - Serenity

Just a horrible, horrible album.
http://www.globaldomination.se/reviews/kotipelto-serenity

 

[Matt]

Visions of Atlantis is the worst piece of shit I've ever heard.



(Not really, but they are really bad)

 

[Kenneth R.]

2007 Releases that are worth mentioning:
Blackfield - Blackfield II
Anberlin - Cities
Threshold - Dead Reckoning
Dark Tranquillity - Fiction
Symphony X - Paradise Lost
Rush - Snakes & Arrows
Moonsorrow - V: Hävitetty
Turisas - The Varangian Way
Nightingale - White Darkness
Swallow The Sun - Hope.

Upcoming are many many more. If Riverside's new Single/EP is anything like Rapid Eye Movement, then their third album is going to be amazing. I could not possibly care less about Dream Theater, and this is the first time that Kamelot and Sonata Arctica both disappoint. All the powermetal shit is exactly that.

 

[TitoC]

Man, so many of those discs are soooo freakin' horrible.
Have already come out or will come out:
Månegarm - Vargstenen
Turisas - The Varangian Way
Swallow the Sun - Hope
Moonsorrow - V: Hävitetty
Korpiklaani - Tervaskanto
Behemoth - The Apostasy
Gorefest - Rise to Ruin
Bergraven - Dödsvisioner
Throne of Katarsis - An Eternal Dark Horizon
Municipal Waste - The Art of Partying
Vintersorg - Solens Rötter
Sigh - The Hangman's Hymn

And so many others that I've been excited as a pig in shit to get.

I could say the same for some (actually most) of the above, but opinions are like assholes, we all have them!

 

[TitoC]

faves so far...

Symphony X - Paradise Lost
Dark Moor - Tarot
Kamelot - Ghost Opera
Iced Earth - Overture Of The Wicked
Vision Divine - The 25th Hour
Allen/Lande - The Revenge
Threshold - Dead Reckoning
Turisas - The Varangian Way
Ensiferum - Victory Songs
Megadeth - United Abominations
Bloodbound - Book Of The Dead
Sirenia - Nine Destinies And A Downfall
Therion - Gothic Kabbalah
After Forever - After Forever
Megadeth - That One Night: Live In Buenos Aires (DVD)
Rage - Full Moon In St. Petersburg (DVD)


notables that I should give some more spins...

Redemption - The Origin Of Ruin
Excalion - Waterlines
Visions Of Atlantis - Trinity
Gaia Epicus - Victory
Suspyre - A Great Divide
DGM - Different Shapes
Saxon - The Inner Sanctum
Moonlight Agony - Silent Waters
Kotipelto - Serenity
Glory Opera - Equilibrium
Deadlock - Wolves


still looking forward to...

Iced Earth - Framing Armageddon
Nightwish - Dark Passion Play
Dark Empire - Hunanity Dethroned
Avantasia - The Scarecrow
Adagio - Archangels In Black
Epica - The Divine Conspiracy
Mystic Prophecy - The Satanic Curses
Elvenking - The Scythe
Primal Fear - New Religion
Orphaned Land - ?
Tribuzy (live album/DVD)

Great list of stuff! I totally forgot about some of those upcoming releases...fantastic! I've seen the cover art for "The Scythe" though - freaking awesome!

 

[CttN]

You forgot Porcupine Tree! Not that I'd rate it too highly on my list of pwning albums of the year.

EDIT: I just noted this was a list of metal albums. Still, I'm going to give it recognition.

 

[Kenneth R.]

I listed some nonmetal albums.

 

[CttN]

Touche`

 

[Phanto]

Turisas and Therion tops my top 10 of the year so far.

 

[CttN]

There's something about Therion that I just can't stand.

 

[Horus]

I agree with Chloe here; something about them is just really boring.

 

[Kenneth R.]

their older stuff is better. unlike Turisas, whose new album kicks the pants of their debut.

 

[Phanto]

You're silly, Therion rawks bawls!

their older stuff is better. unlike Turisas, whose new album kicks the pants of their debut.

Yeah well Therion has been around for like 20 years and gone through like 3-4 genres with 14 studio albums, unlike Turisas who has (even though they've been around for 10 years) only released 2 albums. I think some of Therion's older albums are better aswell, but that doesn't mean I like their new album less.

 

[Matt]

You forgot Porcupine Tree! Not that I'd rate it too highly on my list of pwning albums of the year.

The Porcupine Tree was shit. Utter shit.

I could say the same for some (actually most) of the above, but opinions are like assholes, we all have them!

Actually you couldn't because you haven't heard them.

You're silly, Therion rawks bawls!


Yeah well Therion has been around for like 20 years and gone through like 3-4 genres with 14 studio albums, unlike Turisas who has (even though they've been around for 10 years) only released 2 albums. I think some of Therion's older albums are better aswell, but that doesn't mean I like their new album less.

The new one is the only one I can stand. The old stuff is shit.

 

[TitoC]

Actually you couldn't because you haven't heard them.

Good point!