let's start wrapping up 2007 - present your absolute must-buys

Haevn has an incredible flow of great melodies and most tracks get into the perfect rhythm for headbanging at one time or the other. I find myself tapping my foot or headbanging along to this album more than anything else (except for Amon Amarth).
 
Speaking of headbang inducing metal, Oakhelm is high on my top ten. I would love to see these guys open for a band that attracts a respectable crowd, ie. people who like to drink, throw up the horns, nod their heads, and leave the air drumming to the privacy of their own quarters.
 
Tranquillian said:
Haevn has an incredible flow of great melodies and most tracks get into the perfect rhythm for headbanging at one time or the other. I find myself tapping my foot or headbanging along to this album more than anything else (except for Amon Amarth).
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Sometimes you just gotta go with what you enjoy listening to the most. *shrugs*
 
From another thread:

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 (I really didn't want a re-recording of Laments, dammit)

All 5 of those are capable of better, but released SHIT, IMO. Especially Winds. WTF happened?!
 
EricT - I agree with about 85% of what you've got listed. I should pay more attention to your recos in the future.

By the way, while I agree about King Diamond, I'm not sure about Menhir being a disappointment. I like it, but it's the only Menhir I've heard. Are you suggesting that they've got better material? I'd love to hear it.
 
I totally dig Menhir's mid-era a lot more than the latest one. After 6 years, I was expecting something grand and original, but yet, just felt boring as compared to older material to me... with cleaner vocals, and the very cliche "epic" sound of late (Not that the older material didn't have that, it was just in much smaller doses). I'm kinda getting sick of hearing bands say "Lets throw in some deep, clean, untuned vocals, and some woodwinds!", and calling it a night. Want a little something past that.

Some may like this album, regardless of hearing the new/old material... but it did nothing for me.

I highly suggest Thuringia and Ziuwari though. Especially Thuringia. If only for Die Kelten and the cover of Woman of Dark Desires. Granted, both of these albums have a much DARKER sound, but while keeping the general sound of what you have heard on the latest effort.

Have yet to hear the first album.
 
A list I made previously of the best 10 releases so far

Candlemass - King of the grey islands
Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum
Paradise Lost - In requiem
Megadeth - United abominations
Angantyr - Hävn
Shining - V:Halmstad
Dark Tranquillity - Fiction
Darkestrah - Epos
Watain - Sworn to the dark
Amesoueurs - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde

and some late additions

Desaster - Satans soldiers syndicate
Mael Mordha - Gealtacht Mael Mordha
Drudkh - Estrangement
Mortus - De contemplanda morte
October Falls - Streams of the end
Mgla - Mdlosci + Further down the nest


Upcoming highlights still to be released

Primordial - To the nameless dead
Wolves in the throne room - Two hunters
 
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