2007 - the best albums

[discouraged1]

since the old thread is gone, how about a new one?

here's mine list so far.

2007

1. Logh - North
2. Dälek - Abandoned Language
3. Radiohead - In Rainbows
4. Neurosis - Given To The Rising
5. Jesu - Conqueror
6. Porcupine Tree - Fear Of The Blank Planet
7. Clutch - From Beale Street To Oblivion
8. Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao
9. HIM - Venus Doom
10. Jesu - Pale Sketches

i liked new Amorphis and Novembre albums, but i don't think they'll make it to the final list.

 

[Luz]

Jesu? Haven't heard the new one.

How is it??

 

[discouraged1]

its great, has some very nice touches (wash it all away, tiny universes).

justin says it isnt "official" jesu release, more of a collection of leftover tracks, but they are very good whatsoever.

 

[Phoenix5]

hmmm

Devin Townsend - ZTO
Swallow the Sun - Hope
Blackfield II
Symphony X - Paradise Lost
Amorphis - Silent Waters
Novembers Doom - The Novella Reservoir
Ulver - Shadows of the Sun
Clutch - From Beale Street to Oblivion
Akercocke - Antichrist

 

[M3]

It's really hard to choose, since there have been so many good releases this year; I feel like I'm leaving out some very worthy albums. Regardless, this list is subject to change before the year is up.

Abigail's Ghost- Selling Insincerity
Alcest- Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde
Blackfield- Blackfield II
De/Vision- Noob
Explosions In The Sky- All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone
M83- Digital Shades, Vol. 1
Nine Inch Nails- Year Zero
Pain- Psalms Of Extinction
Rumskib- Rumskib
Type O Negative- Dead Again

 

[Divatkreació]

I'm not actually sure if Jesu's Lifeline is good or not. Jarboe's visitation makes it better though. The stuff just doesn't evolve anymore and it sounds quite much like Conqueror which was a disappointment.

Porcupine Tree, Ulver and Neurosis have pwned the year so far. Can't say anything 'bout the new Novembre because I haven't heard it yet

 

[Cerulean]

Thurisaz - Circadian Rhythm
Shining - V
Limbonic Art - A Legacy of Evil
Moonsorrow - V: Hävitetty
The Old Dead Tree - The Water Fields
Nargaroth - Semper Fidelis
Machine Head - The Blackening
Nile - Ithyphallic
Axamenta - Ever-Arch-I-Tech-Ture
Enthroned - Tetra Karcist
Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist
Antimatter - Leaving Eden
Behemoth - The Apostacy
Megadeth - United Abominations

I realised just now what a great year it has been so far. The second one in a row, after the abomination that 2005 was.

 

[cliffburton615]

Graveyard Dirt - Shadows Of Old Ghosts EP (Irish doom similar to old Anathema, well worth looking up.)
Immolation - Shadows In The Light
Dying Fetus - War Of Attrition
Paradise Lost - In Requiem
Rotting Christ - Theogonia

Still to be released:
Primordial - To The Nameless Dead
Mourning Beloveth - A Disease For The Ages

 

[Peachy]

Neurosis - Given to the Rising
Minsk - The Ritual Fires of Abandonment
Funeral - From These Wounds
Virgin Black - Requiem Mezzo Forte
Ulver - Shadows of the Sun
Ufomammut/Lent0 - Supernaturals Record One
October Falls - The Streams of the End
Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters
Moonsorrow - V: Hävitetty
OM - Pilgrimage
Shining - V - Halmstad

Others: Have not heard or not out yet, but which will almost certainly make this list.
Evoken - A Caress of the Void
Elend - A World in their Screams
Ramesses - Misanthropic Alchemy
Buried at Sea - Ghost
Colosseum - Chapter 1: Delirium
Worship - Dooom

 

[Paic]

Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet
Rush - Snakes & Arrows
Paradise Lost - In requiem
Amorphis - Silent Waters (Don't have it yet, but I know it's gooood )
(Katatonia - Live Consternation)

I also count "The Dead Eye" fom The Haunted as a 2007 album.. it was released in december 2006, but I was able to buy it January 2007 (money issues). pretty lame, huh?

 

[Grumble Grumble]

havent really branched out to tons of bands so heres what i got...

Porcupine Tree-Fear Of A Blank Planet(AOTY no doubt)
Katatonia-Live Consternation
Ulver-Shadows Of The Sun
Behemoth-The Apostacy
Antimatter-Leaving Eden(wow cant believe i missed this band until now)
Porcupine Tree-Nil Recurring
Blackfield-Blackfield II(phenominal album)
The Devin Townsend Band-ZTO(GREAT great album)
Swallow The Sun-Hope(just got into em around the time of the concert,pretty good band)

 

[Phoenix5]

kihusdfghsdf

I forgot Antimatter, Paradise Lost, and Virgin Black.

Great albums, all of them

This has been a great year for music.

 

[griev0r]

Wow I just checked out Antimatter, sounds awesome! Can't believe I've never heard of these guys, thanks for the tip guys.

 

[Captain]

Neurosis - Given to the Rising
Middian - Age Eternal
Baroness - Red Album
Exodus - The Atrocity Exhibition
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
Novembers Doom - The Novella Reservoir
Be'lakor - The Frail Tide
Bonded By Blood - Extinguish the Weak
High on Fire - Death is this Communion
Municipal Waste - The Art of Partying

 

[BlueSky]

Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist

2006

 

[Cerulean]

tomato tomato

 

[My Arms, Your Purse]

Way too few people mentioning Shadows of the Sun.

 

[old user1]

A very good year for music...

My Favorites:
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero (not as good as The Fragile, but still good by "pop music" standards)
Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde (VERY good album for anyone who like shoegaze)
Jesu - Conquerer (This guy put out FOUR releases this year! ALL of them were awesome)
Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet (still in love with this one)
Radiohead - In Rainbows (wasn't expecting this to be released this year, amazing, as always)

A few others that didn't QUITE make my top list:
Between The Buried And Me - Colors (still not sure what to think of this one)
Dark Tranquility - Fiction (these guys are SO DAMN CONSISTANT)
Devin Townsend - Ziltoid (FAR better then I was expecting)
Katatonia - Live Consternation (good to hear them live, but I wanted LFDGD stuff on here!)
Novembre - The Blue (DENSE album, still soaking it up)
Ulver - Shadows Of The Sun (one of the darkest albums I have ever heard...)
Puscifer - V Is For Vagina (oh boy...)

Peace

Rorix

 

[Katatonic1]

Agreed...Shadows of the sun is not mentioned enough

 

[Nehebkau]

Aborted - Slaughter & Apparatus: A Methodical Overture
Behemoth - The Apostasy
Dark Tranquillity - Fiction
Katatonia - Live Consternation ...this counts right?
Moonspell - Under Satanae ...re-recorded old tracks
Nightwish - Dark Passion Play
Novembre - The Blue
Pain - Psalms of Extinction
Paradise Lost - In Requiem
Swallow the Sun - Hope
Type O Negative - Dead Again
The Vision Bleak - The Wolves Go Hunt Their Prey
Vesania (Pol) - Distractive Killusions ...Orion's (Behemoth bass player) band