It's September... Whats your top 10 for the year looking like so far?

[EricT]

Mine is something like:

1/2. In Vain - The Latter Rain
2/1. Pale Divine - Cemetery Earth
3/4. Reverend Bizarre - III: So Long Suckers
4/3. Slough Feg - Hardworlder
5. Deathspell Omega - Fas, something or other that I can't fucking remember.
6. Mael Mordha - Gaeltacht Mael Mordha
7. Sigh - Hangman's Hymn
8. Darkestrah - Epos
9. Doomsword - My Name Will Live On
10. Graveland - Will Stronger Than Death

(Symphony X gets a notable mention now)

My first 4 keep changing, haha. I really dunno how I can put any of those 4 albums ahead or behind each other. They all win in their own right.

Still got the new Drudkh, Wittr and a few others to go give some time to, but the top 4 will probably stay and keep jumbling between those 4.

As for disappointments...

Winds
King Diamond
Menhir
Alcest
Uaral

All 5 of those are capable of better, but released SHIT, IMO. Especially Winds. WTF happened?!

 

[EricT]

Oh, and Deathspell's new album is in there somewhere. How the fuck could I forget about that, haha. Thats probably 5.

*Edits list*

 

[azal]

1. Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb

 

[paulcan'tlogin]

the new behemoth easily imho

 

[WhiteBeastofWotan]

1) Mael Mordha - Gaeltacht Mael Mordha

And then in no particular order

Alcest - Souvenirs... ( I think its a great album )
Hellveto - 966
Kroda - Fimbulvinter
Manegarm - Vargstenen
Doomsword - My Name Will Live On
Slough Feg- Hardworlder
Shroud of Bereavement - Alone Beside Her
Drudkh - Estrangement
Graveland - Will Stronger Than Death

The new arkona and wolves in the throne room albums will probably end up in there somewhere.

 

[azal]

is black metal the new metalcore?

I didn't get the memo.

I've listen to older graveland and the drummer honestly can't stay on the beat for more than half a minute.

 

[Dead_Lioness]

Drudkh - Estrangement
Graveland - Will Stronger Than Death
Malignancy - Inhuman Gretesquries
Gojira - The Link
Anata - The Conductor's Departure
Tori Amos- American Doll Posse
Amy Winehouse- back to Black
Bjork- Voltra

 

[nightmare_made_flesh]

ENTOMBED - SERPENT SAINTS
MAYHEM - ORDO AB CHAO
MARDUK - ROM 5:12
ROTTING CHRIST - THEOGONIA
NEUROSIS - GIVEN TO THE RISING
SODOM - THE FINAL SIGN OF EVIL

 

[-Syl-]

I can't pick only ten
here is my list, so far

1.
Pain Of Salvation - Scarsick
Korn - Korn
Sixx AM - The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack

2.
Slavior - Slavior
Machine Head - The Blackening
DeadSoul Tribe - Lullaby For The Devil
Devin Townsend - Ziltoid The Omniscient
Porcupine Tree - Fear Of a Blank Planet

3.
Down - III
Ministry - The Last Sucker
Ozzy Osbourne - Black Rain
Megadeth - United Abominations
Alabama Thunderpussy - Open Fire
Type O Negative - Dead Again

 

[Dead Winter]

Gojira - From Mars to Sirius
Shining - V
The Vision Bleak - Carpathia
Devin Townsend - Ziltoid the Omniscient
Raintime - Flies n' Lies
My band, Skylab

 

[azal]

all this gojira...were the albums re-released in the US this year?

I have a feeling for some reason that none of them initially came out in 2007.

also that Entombed, sadly, did little for me.

been bumpin new oceansize a whole lot lately, but not sure if that is metal.

 

[Dead Winter]

Oh shit, you're right.

I guess they just kick two years' worth of ass.

 

[azal]

they kick like 5 years of ass.

haven't heard a more interesting death metal release since like, fuck...Gorguts - Obscura maybe.

 

[Dead Winter]

That's the key word: interesting. There are very few interesting death metal bands these days.

 

[EricT]

Alcest - Souvenirs... ( I think its a great album )

I thought it was boring as all hell. I just couldn't get into the circle jerk this time

 

[Reminiscence]

Shining-V-Halmstad
Akercocke-Antichrist
Nest-Trail of the Unwary
Hangman's Hymn
Paradise Lost
Swallow the Sun-Hope
Scarsick
Alcest

 

[Kiss The Void]

Odious Mortem - Cryptic Implosion
Azathoth Ep (yeah...locals but they melt my face www.myspace.com/throneofazathoth )
Evile - Enter The Grave
Cephalic Carnage - Xenosapien
Nile - Ithyphalic
Municipal Waste - The Art of Partying

that's all i got so far...looking forward to the new drudkh...and i haven't gotten the 07 behemoth or ceremonial castings....anyhow.

 

[Corsnor]

I don't know half of the freaky bands that are mentioned here but I agree with Gojira statements.

 

[Det Som Engang Var]

In no particular order

Malsain-The Sickness
Sigh-Hangmans Hymn
In Vain-The Latter Rain
Drudkh-Enstrangement
Manegarm-Vargstenen
Dimmu Borgir-In Sorte Diaboli
Vintersorg-Solens Rotter
Sworn-The Alleviation
Novembers Doom-The Novella Reservoir
Doomsword-My Name Will Live On

Lumsk was a huge dissapointment. If Code comes out this year it will surely make my list.

 

[naboo]

My two favorites:

Dark Tranquillity - Fiction
Symphony X - Paradise Lost
Ziltoid has been rapidly growing on me. It's much better than I first thought.

The new Nile and Behemoth both really disappointed me as both of their previous albums are some of my favorite death metal albums.