best of 07

[CF87]

Amorphis: silent waters
Paradise Lost: in requiem
HIM: venus doom
Candlemass: king of the grey islands
Novembers Doom: the novella resevoir
Type O Negative: dead again
Velvet Revolver: libertad
Neurosis: given to the rising
Death Breath: let it stink
Entombed: serpent saints
Darkthrone: F.O.A.D

 

[skeptik]

Alot of you guys - especially Nec - are super cool.
Everything else was sub par, but like I said I don't think I got any good underground stuff. I've heard like 3 bands on Nec's list.

Sarcasm?

Darkthrone: F.O.A.D

How the hell did I forget this one?

 

[Seasonreaper]

Only albums that've stood out really have been

Novembers Doom - The Novella Reservoir
Devil Sold His Soul - A Fragile Hope
Amorphis - Silent Waters
Neurosis - Given To The Rising

Then again, I haven't really heard that much new stuff...

 

[ShredHeadJHJ]

Sarcasm?

Not really, you just keep up with all the underground stuff. There wasn't really even one of the more popular bands on your list I don't think.

Personally I can't absorb that much music. If you absorb most of the stuff you listen to then you have a much higher capacity for absorbing music than I do. Many times it can take weeks or sometimes months for an album to sink in for me. If I try to listen to more than a new album or maybe two a week a lot of times I miss out on a lot of stuff & it just doesn't sink in right. I'll wind up listening to Jazz Fusion in the middle of it all & that can scramble it out even more.

I do work a lot though. 90% of the time I spend on here is at work. If I could listen to music up here I'm sure it would be easier to catch up, but I'm more worried about getting the Thrash & Doom standards than seeking underground 2007 albums at the moment.

 

[Alter]

Personally I can't absorb that much music. If you absorb most of the stuff you listen to then you have a much higher capacity for absorbing music than I do. Many times it can take weeks or sometimes months for an album to sink in for me. If I try to listen to more than a new album or maybe two a week a lot of times I miss out on a lot of stuff & it just doesn't sink in right. I'll wind up listening to Jazz Fusion in the middle of it all & that can scramble it out even more.

I do work a lot though. 90% of the time I spend on here is at work. If I could listen to music up here I'm sure it would be easier to catch up, but I'm more worried about getting the Thrash & Doom standards than seeking underground 2007 albums at the moment.

I have a strange change of taste of music all the time. I have trouble sinking into a lot of black metal and death metal albums. This differs when about four months ago I could into metal albums at a much faster rate.

 

[Zephyrus]

Arkhon Infaustus - Orthodoxyn may potentially be on my list if it ever shows up in the mail.

 

[hibernal_dream]

Nest. Nothing else came close to it.

 

[XSASweet]

Amorphis - Silent Waters
Arch Enemy - Rise Of The Tyrant
Between The Buried And Me - Colors
Buckethead - Decoding The Tombs Of Bansheebot (maybe not metal, but still pretty awesome)
Dethklok - The Dethalbum
Devin Townsend - Ziltoid The Omniscient
Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
Megadeth - United Abominations
Symphony X - Paradise Lost
Devildriver - The Last Kind Words
Powerglove - Metal Kombat For The Mortal Man (Great underground power metal covers of video game songs)

Disappointments:
Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli (I just couldn't get into it at all.)
Iced Earth - Framing Armageddon (The new vocalist kinda sucks, and they won't able to top Something Wicked This Way Comes.)

 

[MasterOLightning]

WITTR - Two Hunters has been the only thing that has really impressed me thus far. I've only heard about 10 or so 2007 albums. If there were more albums that were getting a lot of buzz I would have got them rather than some of the older stuff I picked up. Seemed like a bit of a down year.

 

[Rabid Headbanger]

Gospel Of The Horns - The Realm Of The Damned
Desaster - Satan's Soldiers Syndicate
Arkhon Infaustus - Orthodoxyn
Destruction - Thrash Anthems
Behemoth - The Apostacy
Witchburner - Blood Of Witches
Dekapitator - The Storm Before The Calm
Marduk - Romans 5:12
Obituary - Xecutioner's Return
Bestial Mockery - Slaying The Life

 

[thisisaformicatable]

It's easier to vaguely categorize than come up with a specific order.

4/5

Lunar Aurora – Andacht
Root - Daemon Viam Invenient
Svarrogh - Balkan Renaissance
Wewelsburg - Ultima Intolerance
Во Скорбях - Во Скорбях

3/5

_Algol_ - Deep Thoughts About Universe
Bitrayer – Bitrayer
Black Funeral - Waters Of Weeping
Darkthrone - NWOBHM
Finntroll - Ur Jordens Djup
Hakenkreuz - Axis Of Cosmos
Immolation - Shadows in the Light
IX.XI - IX.XI
Mayhem - Ordo Ab Chao
Nauthisuruz - The End Of Nauthisuruz
Orange Goblin - Healing Through Fire
Ragor - Закат Кровавым Мечом
Slavland - Echa Wieków Pradawnych
Soulrest – Chaosophia
Various Artists - Lost Freedom: A Tribute To Burzum
Znich - Неизвестный диск
Крода - Похорон Сонця
Тролль Гнёт Ель - Конунг Хмель

2/5

Alabama Thunderpussy - Open Fire
Chewbacca - Disaster Area
Darkthrone - FOAD
Devil on Earth - Hunting, Shooting, Slashing and Thrashing
Gospel of the Horns - Realm of The Damned
Helritt - Trotzend dem Niedergang
Hexen - From the Cradle to the Chamber
Hirax - Assassins Of War
Puissance - Grace Of God
Vrolok - Resurgence III - Order of the Sphere

1/5

Abscess - Horrorhammer
Be Persecuted - I.I
Dark Tranquillity – Fiction
Disbelief – Navigator
Ensiferum - Victory Songs
Onslaught - Killing Peace

 

[Alter]

WITTR - Two Hunters has been the only thing that has really impressed me thus far. I've only heard about 10 or so 2007 albums. If there were more albums that were getting a lot of buzz I would have got them rather than some of the older stuff I picked up. Seemed like a bit of a down year.

Great record. Southern Lord did a good jib with artwork again.

 

[supseudonymous]

2/5

Gospel of the Horns - Realm of The Damned

Oh noes, Rabid is going to crucify you.

 

[As-I-Lay-Dying]

Didn't discover a hell of a lot of new bands or music this year. More discovered old ones.
The Blackening is the only album that springs to mind.
An Ocean Between us by AILD is alright, not amazing.

 

[Rabid Headbanger]

Oh noes, Rabid is going to crucify you.

Obviously he's not a fan of blackthrash, so it'll be a beheading instead.

 

[Jimm O)))]

Metal
Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters
Watain - Sworn to the Dark
Between the Buried and Me - Colors
Behold...the Arctopus - "Skullgrid
Weedeater - God Luck and Good Speed
Dodheimsgard - Supervillian Outcast (retarded name for a metal album though...)

Non-metal
Pulsefear - Perichoresis (dark ambient)
Ulver - Shadow of the Sun
Byla & Jarboe - Viscera (black ambient, dark ambient, drone all thrown together)
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - In Glorius Times (prog rock)

 

[EmbraceTheDeath]

1) Defeated Sanity- Psalms of the Moribund
2) Sun of Nothing- In the weak and the wounded
3) Inveracity- Extermination of Millions
4) Dekapitator- The storm before the calm
5) Big Business- Here Comes the Waterworks
6) Primordial - To the nameless Dead(this one will most likely move up)

 

[post-human]

Well I had a lot of catching up to do this year,so didn't listen to that much new album & those I heard I can not remember all of them.(come on,I had to tear through 2nd wave of BM & just started tearing through old school DM & doom.All of u guys from this site helped me a lot in this,thanks.)
Here goes nothing-(in no order)

Best this year-
Reverend bizarre-III-so long suckers
Be persecuted-II
Alcest - Souvenirs d'un autre monde
Drudkh-Estrangment

Hounarable-
Drudkh-anti-urban
Behemoth-the apostasy
High on fire-death is the comunion
North-ruins
Mael Mordha - Gealtacht Mael Mordha(heard only 1 song though)

Need to listen/Think I would like-
New deathspell omega,countess(didn't know about that release),limbonic art,minotauri & many more recomendetions from u guys.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Formica, that Soulrest album sounds cool...Ukrainian melo-death!

 

[ShredHeadJHJ]

Alcest - Souvenirs d'un autre monde

I liked that album but that's about as far as I can go. For some reason I'm not able to get into that kind of stuff. It is really airy, but I would rather listen to Lustmord for that feeling even though it's completely different music.