best of 07

some of just dont get the heavyness of the Behemoth album and by far the best drumming of the year. and I also play instruments, bass,guitar and drums!
 
1. Kroda - Fimbulvinter
2. Mayhem - Ordo Ab Chao
3. Immolation - Shadows in the Light
4. Shining - Halmstad
5. Defeated Sanity - Psalms To The Mordibund
6. Glorior Belli - Manifesting the Raging Beast
7. Anaal Nathrakh - HIEATDAH
8. Mortuus - De Contemplanda Morte
9. Odious - Mirrors of Vibrations
10. Havoc Unit - HIV +
11. Vomitory - Terrorrize, Sodomise, Brutalize
12. Amoral - Reptile Ride
13. Ohtar - Human Fuel of Death
14. Sickening Horror - When Landscapes Bleed
15. Khors - Cold
16. Arkhon Infaustus - Orthodoxyn
17. Locus Mortis - Voust
18. Sarpanitum - The Despoilment of Origin
19. Krohm - The Haunting Presence
20. Kronos - The Hellenic Terror
21. Massemord - Let the World Burn
22. Watain - Sworn To the Dark
23. Abigor - Fractal Possession
24. Nominon - Terra Necrosis
25. Kaamos - Scales of Leviathan
 
These threads would always be a lot more interesting if there were far fewer albums listed in a big...erm...fucking list, and had a bit more commentary on why you thought they were so good.

Anyway, my big list is restricted to three albums, mostly because that's all my elderly alzheimers addled brain can handle.

1) Primoridial - To The Nameless Dead - Just because it's such an epic, absorbing listen AND it's a real grower. I like growers. I thought it was kind of average upon first listen, but now I prefer it to their previous efforts.

2) Impaled - The Last Gasp - In which I finally manage to forgive them for allowing ultra-douchebag Billy Anderson anywhere near their production on the horrifically flawed Death After Life and finally produce an album that's better than Mondo Medicale. Perhaps the best successor so far to the Necroticism sound ?

3) Pale Divine - Cemetary Earth - ...because Pentagram worship has never sounded quite so retroid or warm and fuzzy. Perfect album to drive long journeys to - and with some absolutely shredding guitar work to boot.
 
2) Impaled - The Last Gasp - In which I finally manage to forgive them for allowing ultra-douchebag Billy Anderson anywhere near their production on the horrifically flawed Death After Life and finally produce an album that's better than Mondo Medicale. Perhaps the best successor so far to the Necroticism sound ?

Finally someone who agrees with me!
 
I was about to e-high five you, then I saw the Interpol sig in the banner, now I want to smash your face in with a fucking axe.

Merry Christmas!
 
1 - Marduk - Rom 5:12

Great album, heavy and diverse songs, awesome vocals. Too bad they lost the drummer (Emil Dragutinovic) not sure the name is right.

2 - Municipal Waste - The Art of Partying
3 - Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli
4 - Opeth - The Roundhouse Tapes
5 - Machine Head - The Blackening
6 - Arch Enemy - Rise of the Tyrant
7 - Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos

More to come, I've ordered some stuff recently (Black Dahlia Murder, Exodus, High on Fire, Primordial...)

I'm a big fan of Nile, but I was expecting more from Ithyphallic. Not happy with Behemoth either.
 
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/henrikmain/my_favourite_metal_albums_of_2007/

01. Inveracity - Extermination Of Millions
02. Insision - Ikon
03. NOX - Ixaxaar (no, V5, this is NOT a crappy release, and you're pretty much mad/deaf for thinking so :p)
04. Finntroll - Ur Jordens Djup
05. Moonsorrow - V: Hävitetty
06. Infernal Revulsion - Devastate Under Hallucination
07. Cenotaph - Reincarnation In Gorexstasy
08. Human Rejection - Torture Of Decimation
09. Trauma - Neurotic Mass
10. Limbonic Art - Legacy Of Evil
11. Aeon - Rise To Dominate
12. Defeated Sanity - Psalms Of The Moribund
13. Human Excoriation - Virulent Infestation
14. Blood Red Throne - Come Death
15. Marduk - Rom 5:12
16. Nile - Ityphallic
17. Drawn And Quartered - Merciless Hammer Of Lucifer
18. Kronos - The Hellenic Terror
19. Putridity - Mental Collapse Induces Necrophilism
20. Condemned - Desecrate The Vile
21. Angelcorpse - Of Lucifer And Lightning
22. Glorior Belli - Manifesting The Raging Beast
23. Odious Mortem - Cryptic Implosion
24. Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli
25. Element - Aeons Past

Favourite splits/EPs:

01. Despondency - Supreme Misanthropic Brutality
02. Crepitation/Kastrated/Ingested - North/West Slam-Fest
03. Embludgeoned/Human Filleted - Split
 
POP/Rock/Electronic based music
Venetian Snares - My Downfall
NIN - Year Zero
Underworld - Oblivion With the Bells
Puscifer - V is for Vagina
edIT - Certified Air Raid Material
Porcupine Tree – Fear of a Blank Planet
Robert Wyatt - Comicopera
Soulsavers - It's Not How Far You Fall, It's the Way You Land
Saul Williams – NiggyTardust
Amon Tobin - Fooley Room
Burial – Untrue
The Field - From Here We Go To Sublime
Ephel Duath – Pain Remixes to Known
Oceansize – Frames
Bjork – Volta
Luke Vibert - Chicago Detroit Redruth
OOOD - Free Range
AMD - Big Fish, Mimesis - Art Imitating
ITP - Lose Your Illusion
Holy Fuck – LP
Stendeck – Faces
Efterklang - Under Giant Trees
Ulrich Shnauss – Quicksand Memory
Ulrich Shnauss – Goodbye
Gui Boratto – Chromophobia
Radiohead – In Rainbows
Buckethead – Decoding the Tomb of Bansheebot


Hip-Hop
Dälek - Abandoned Language
EL-P – I´ll Sleep When You´re Dead
Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
Dälek - Deadverse Massive Vol.1
Prefuse 73 - The Class of 73 Bells
Pharoahe Monch - Desire
Scratch Perverts - Watch The Ride
Chamillionaire - Ultimate Victory
Lupe Fiasco – The Cool
Hieroglyphics - Over Time
Busdriver - Roadkill Overcoat
Talib Kweli – Eardrum
Shape of Broad Minds - Craft of the Lost Art
Atmosphere - Strictly Leakage

Post-rock
65daysofstatic - The Destruction of Small Ideas
Mono - Gone
Eluvium - Copia
World's End Girlfriend - Hurtbreak Wonderland
The World On Higher Downs – Land Patterns
Caspian - The Four Trees
Tunturia – Maps
Crippled Black Phoenix - A Love Of Shared Disasters
God Is An Astronaut - Far From Refuge
Tulsa Drone - Songs From a Mean Season
Laura - Radio Swan Is Down
Grails - Burning Off Impurities
James Blackshaw - The Cloud of Unknowing
Scraps Of Tape - This Is A Copy, Is This A Copy
Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
Do Make Say Think - You, You're a History in the Rust
Beware of Safety – It is Curtains
Slow Six – Noreaster
The Pirate String Quintet - The Pirate String Quintet EP

Drone/Doom/Ambient-based music and noise/Avant-garde/experimental music
Oxbow - The Narcotic Story
Boris/Merzbow – Rock Dream
Boredoms – Super Roots 9
Melt Banana – Bambi´s Dilemma
Architect - Lower Lip Interface
Fennesz/Sakamoto – Cedre
Kiln - Dusker
Stars of the Lid - Stars of the Lid and Their Refinement of the Decline
Giuseppe Ielasi August
Atrium Carceri - Ptahil
Lustmord - Juggernaut
Yellow Swans - At All Ends
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - In Glorious Times
Earth - Hibernaculum
Nadja – Thaumogenesis
Merzbow – Zophorus
Merzbow – Merzbear
Tomahawk – Anonymous
Tinariwen – Aman Iman
Mum - Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy
Raccoo-oo-oon - Behold Secret Kingdom
A Place to Bury Strangers - A Place to Bury Strangers
Burial Chamber Trio - Burial Chamber Trio
Supersilent – 8
Hannu – Worms In My Piano
The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation - Doomjazz Future Corpses!
Kemialliset Ystävät – Untitled
Olafur Arnalds - Eulogy For Evolution




Metal
Red Harvest - A Greater Darkness
The Project Hate MCMXCIX - In Hora Mortis Nostrae
Wolves in the Throne Room – Two Hunters
Mayhem – Ordo Ad Chao
Manes – How the World Came to an End
Rosetta – Wake Lift
Neurosis - Given To The Rising
Drudkh – Estrangement
Shining - V: Halmstad
Novembers Doom - The novella reservoir

Compilations/best-offs/reissues/other releases
Sigur Rós - Hvarf-Heim
Secret Chiefs - Path of Most Resistance
Faust - Faust IV
Opeth - The Roundhouse Tapes
Kool Keith - Ultra-Octa-Doom
Pop ambient 2007
Nadja - Touched (Rerecorded)
Nadja - Corrasion (Rerecorded
Mortiis - Anden som Gjorde Oppror
Mortiis - Keiser Av En Dimensjon Ukjent
John Coltrane - The Impulse Albums: Volume One (5 discs) (2007)
Bruce Langhorne – The Hired Hand
 
Top 20 Extreme Metal Albums Of 2007

1. Darkthrone - F.O.A.D.
2. Primordial - To The Nameless Dead
3. Vader - And Blood Was Shed In Warsaw
4. Panzerchrist - Bello
5. Marduk - Rom 5:12
6. Immolation - Shadows In The Light
7. Neuraxis - Live Progression
8. Primitive Graven Image - Transversing The Awesome Night
9. Funeral Fog - Channelling Ancient Shadows
10. Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao
11. Quo Vadis - Live In Montreal
12. Scald - Fluke
13. Obituary - Xecutioner's Return
14. Six Feet Under - Commandment
15. Mael Mordha - Gaelteacht Mael Mordha
16. Dew-Scented - Incinerate
17. Kataklysm - The Devastation Begins: Live In Germany
18. Anaal Nathrakh - Hell Is Empty And All The Devils Are Here
19. Ion Dissonance - Minus The Herd
20. Bonesaw - Smack Zombie

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