So-Far this year...

[Alter]

So we are more then half into the year...

what is on your list for the best albums this year.

1.Interpol-Our Love To Admire
A Good Album but not close to the other albums.

2.Rocco Duluca and The Burden-I Trust You to Kill Me
Mind-Blowing band.


3.Spoon-Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Its spoon what do you expect.

4.Obliteration-Perpetual Decay
Great mixture of old school death metal and brutal death metal

5.Deathspell Omega-Fas - Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem
Great Album. The straightforward version of Blut Aus Nord's masterpiece The Work Which Transforms God

 

[username345]

Devin Townsend -- Ziltoid the Omniscient
Pretty damn good 7.5/10

King Diamond -- Give Me Your Soul...Please
Meh 6/10

Bad Religion -- New Maps of Hell
Great stuff 8/10

Odious -- Mirror of Vibrations
More great stuff 8/10


I'm yet to hear the new Interpol, but I have heard one song from it, which was good. And I haven't listened to any Deathspell Omega yet either (shock horror!)

 

[DigToChina]

The Absence - Riders of the Plague
Dawn of Tears - Descent
Blood Tsunami - Thrash Metal...Let the criticism begin I love this album.

I haven't got much music thus far :[

 

[Captain]

Metal:
Candlemass - King of the Grey Islands
Neurosis - Given to the Rising
Middian - Age Eternal
Machine Head - The Blackening (let the flaming begin )
3 Inches of Blood - Fire Up The Blades
Dark Tranquility - Fiction
Threshold - Dead Reckoning
Onslaught - Killing Peace

Non Metal:
Porcupine Tree - FOABP
Brother Ali - The Undisputed Truth
Blue Scholars - Bayani
QOTSA - Era Vulgaris
Redman - Red Gone Wild

 

[Death Aflame]

Blood Tsunami is utter shite. The Obliteration album is okay. Nothing warranting a status beyond 'good' though.

Some obvious ones:

Alcest
Reverend Bizarre
Lunar Aurora
Demiurg
etc.

 

[As-I-Lay-Dying]

The Blackening is the only album that springs to me straight away, i'll think of more later.

 

[The Ozzman]

The Blackening and Devildriver's new album.

 

[DigToChina]

Blood Tsunami are so misunderstood...I think that if people didn't take their albums' name so seriously they'd enjoy it.OH WELL.

The Blackening was pretty good, too. I forgot all about Machine Head.

 

[Matt]

Symfony Ecks - Paradise Lost. Great album, but I was expecting more moments of pure genius.


And other shit.

 

[Blue_Jay]

Only heard three albums this year so far and I really liked them.

Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb
Sigh - Hangman's Hymn
and Wolfchant - A Pagan Storm

All really good metal .

 

[Vossyrus]

I'll reply later with a decent idea of what my favourites are. I haven't found a single truly 'outstanding' album but of course there's been some good ones, and I've listened to a large number of albums this year.

The problem is that this year doesn't even compare to last year. Even though its just over half way through, if I had to make a top 50 list from 2006 & 2007, I might include five albums from 2007 on there.

 

[Blue_Jay]

I'll reply later with a decent idea of what my favourites are. I haven't found a single truly 'outstanding' album but of course there's been some good ones, and I've listened to a large number of albums this year.

The problem is that this year doesn't even compare to last year. Even though its just over half way through, if I had to make a top 50 list from 2006 & 2007, I might include five albums from 2007 on there.

Amen!!! In fact this has got to be one of the worst years for metal since forever!!! Only a few or more stand outs so far what a huge disapointment, I sure hope it gets better within the 5 months that there is left for the year.

 

[Vossyrus]

Amen!!! In fact this has got to be one of the worst years for metal since forever!!! Only a few or more stand outs so far what a huge disapointment, I sure hope it gets better within the 5 months that there is left for the year.

Yeah, I had assumed this year would be just as good if not better than last year since more bands I was familiar with and enjoy were releasing albums. Sadly this hasn't been the case with bands like Peste Noire, Behemoth, Sombre Chemin (EP) etc releasing disappointing records. If I had to rate the music I've heard, I would more than hesitate to give an album I've listened to a 9/10.

This year’s best, despite none being outstanding:
Zombie Girl - Blood, Brains & Rock ‘N’ Roll
Marilyn Manson - Eat Me, Drink Me (appreciated but doesn't compare to older albums)
Naglfar - Harvest
Gurtholfinn - The Forest of Long Awaiting (Demo)
Wedard - Eiskreig (EP)
Akercocke - Antichrist
God Module - Let’s Go Dark
Shining - V Halmstad
Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli
Graveland - Will Stronger Than Death
The County Medical Examiners - Olidous Operettas
Lunar Aurora - Andacht
Marduk - Rom 5:12
N.I.L. - N.I.L.
Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum
Peste Noire - Folkfuck Folie (not bad but disappointing)
Infernal War - Desekration
Sauron - The Channeling Void
Sarpanitum - Despoilment of Origin
Nile - Ithyphallic
Drawn and Quartered - Merciless Hammer of Lucifer (sort of a compilation?)
Requiem - Premier Killing League
Susperia - Cut From Stone

Good/Average Albums:
Monarch - Dead Men Tell No Tales (not as good as last release)
Astarte - Demonized
Throne of Katarsis - An Eternal Dark Horizon
Kalot Enbolot - MCCCXLVII
Lord Belial - Revelation
Pantheon I - The Wanderer and His Shadow
One Man Army and the Undead Quartet - Error in Evolution
Six Feet Under - Commandment
Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao
Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde
Darkestrah - Epos
Dying Fetus - War of Attrition
Thurisaz - Circadian Rhythm

Albums I didn’t care for:
Barastir - Battlehymns of Hate
Rotting Christ - Theogonia
Tulus - Biography Obscene
Profanatica - Profanatitas de Domonatia
Black Funeral - Waters of Weeping
Behemoth - The Apostasy
Graveworm - Collateral Defect
Vital Remains - Icons of Evil
Samael - Solar Soul
DevilDriver - The Last Kind Words
Kittie - Funeral for Yesterday
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
Acephalous - Divine Purity
Blood of the Black Owl - Blood of the Black Owl
Sombre Chemin - Hétérodoxie: Opus I (EP)...disappointing.
Legion of the Damned - Sons of the Jackal

..and there's a bunch more I've listened to that I haven't mentioned.

 

[CF87]

Paradise Lost-in requiem
Candlemass-king of the grey islands
Novembers Doom-the novella reservoir
Demiurg-breath of the demiurg
Interment/ Funebrarum - Conjuration of the Sepulchral split.

I still need to hear the new King Diamond,Neurosis, and Reverend Bizarre.

 

[rfe]

Asunder - Works Will Come Undone
Dark Tranquillity - Fiction
Despised Icon - The Ills Of Modern Man
Devin Townsend - Ziltoid the Omniscient
Funeral - From These Wounds (Released 2007 in the US)
Laethora - March Of The Parasite
This Ending - Inside the Machine

Also, i'd give Nightrage's newest some props because for a band who was so mercilessly boned after Descent Into Chaos, their newest output was pretty decent.

 

[cookiecutter]

Cephalotripsy - Utervaginal Insertion of Extirpated Anomolies
nil - NIL
Infernal Revulsion - Devastate Under Hallucination
Be Persecuted - I.I
Alatyr - Alatyr

Nothing amazing but definitely all good.

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

theres alot of stuff I havent heard... Graveland, Ensiferum, Turisas...

 

[Vitor]

so far Municipal Waste and Symphony X

 

[MasterOLightning]

Haven't heard too much so far. I liked the Drudkh 10", and I think DsO is good so far, but not as mind-blowing as expected. Still waiting for Xasthur, Drudkh, and Leviathan to get their new stuff out there.

For non metal, Porcupine Tree was pretty good. Elliott Smith - New Moon was disappointing.

Wait, was Inquisition this year? That was quite good.

 

[Vitor]

Haven't heard too much so far. I liked the Drudkh 10", and I think DsO is good so far, but not as mind-blowing as expected. Still waiting for Xasthur, Drudkh, and Leviathan to get their new stuff out there.

For non metal, Porcupine Tree was pretty good. Elliott Smith - New Moon was disappointing.

Wait, was Inquisition this year? That was quite good.

i must check this out