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

Imindain - And the Living Shall Envy the Dead.

This pisses on every release I've heard thus far this year. It makes Wolves in the Throne Room seem like Puppies in the Litter Box by comparison. Doom fucking Masterpiece!!! Holy shit! I haven't been blown away like this in I do not remember how long.

Do I sound like a fanboy!??! Wait for it



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HDDoom!!!!!!!!
 
i think municipal waste and DsO are the only releases this year that i have and am really stoked on...pig destroyer is good but a big step down from terrifyer...i can't even think of anything else that's come out this year that i have :erk:

of course i have yet to pick up drudkh, baroness, and wolves in the throne room, all of which i am pissing my pants for like a little bitch.

edit: need to listen to magrudergrind and leviathan releases more...
 
Ok, after spinning Haevn a bit more recently, its definitely earned a place in the top 10 for the year.

I think people wrote this off way too quickly, it truly deserves undivided attention. They way they fuse the folk-melodies...this finds itself sitting alongside Helrunar's Frostnacht or Taake's Nattestid, and quite honestly, at times, out does both. Awesome.
 
wolves in the throne room is tits, baroness was a letdown, waiting for estrangement to come in the mail

insect warfare - world extermination is grind madness from hell
 
Moonsorrow: V: Hävitetty
Tenhi: Folk Aesthetics (it counts :p)
Nasheim/Angantyr: Split (only for "Sövande Mjöd...")
Alcest: Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde
October Falls: The Streams of the End
 
1 year later and I have comprised my definitive albums list of 07.


Primordial - To The Nameless Dead
Mael Mordha - Gaeltecht Mael Mordha
Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters
Imindain - And the living shall envy the dead
Walknut - Graveforests and their Shadows
Deathevokation - The Chalice Of Ages
Farsot - IIII
Haive - Mieli Maassa
October Falls - Streams of the End
Oakhelm - Betwixt and Between