Sooo, what's your favourite 2007 albums so far?

[ErikSL]

solens rotter-vintersorg
the blackening-machine head
the road to bloodshed-sanctity
fear of the blank planet-porcupine tree
the great cold distance-katatonia(2006, sorry)
anonymous-tomahawk
salvation-byzantine

 

[Zeus00]

Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
Swallow The Sun - Hope
Tristania - Illumination
Moving Mountains - Pneuma
Kamelot - Ghost Opera
Funeral - From These Wounds
The Fall of Every Season - From Below
Deadlock - Wolves
Within Temptation - The Heart of Everything
Bokor - Anomia 1
Blackfield - Blackfield II
Antimatter - Leaving Eden


07 has been a good year so far. Hopefully releases from Evergrey, Riverside, ANATHEMA OMG <3, Amorphis, Epica, Sieges Even, Soilwork, Circus Maximus, Evoken, Dark Suns, Ayreon, Chain Collector, The Old Dead Tree will be great too, hehe. =P

 

[M3]

Blackfield- Blackfield
Rumskib- Rumskib

Definately agree on the new Blackfield and Rumskib cds. If anyone hasn't heard of Rumskib, definately check 'em out. Seriously, they're like the new My Bloody Valentine. I'm not too crazy about the new PT though; it's not that I didn't like the new PT, it's just that I don't see it making my top 10 of the year. Sometimes, I just wish they'd release something in the vein of Signify (well, in the vein of Waiting Phase One, Sever, Every Home Is Wired, and Dark Matter).

 

[BlueSky]

I'm very disspointed in the pattonator, and his fantomas shananagins on the new tomahawk. This isn't god damn fantomas for a good reason. Write some god damn lyrics mike! Great music though, but only one all around awesome sauce song called "cradle song."

 

[AsIDied]

Paradise Lost - In Requiem.
Therion - Gothic Kaballah.
Marduk - Rom 5:12.
Machine Head - The Blackening.
Akercocke - Antichrist.

 

[daz436]

for me anekdoten's latest is not only the best 2007 has had to offer but also their best release. it's been my favourite and most listened to since it's release.

 

[Splintered Vision]

Great albums
Devin Townsend - Ziltoid the Omniscient
In Vain - The Latter Rain
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
sleepmakeswaves - Demo

Good albums
Ne Obliviscaris - This Aurora Veil
Blackfield - Blackfield II
Crowded House - Time On Earth
Drudkh - Anti-Urban (10")
Jesu - Conqueror
Jesu - Sun Down/Sun Rise EP
Mourning Dawn - Mourning Dawn
Octavia Sperati - Grace Submerged
Poison The Well - Versions
Shining - V: Halmstad
Sunn O))) - Oracle


Bad albums
Bergraven - Dödsvisioner (Need to listen more, but so far its not so good)
Björk - Volta (really, really disappointing)
Keen Of The Crow - Hyborea
Swallow The Sun - Hope
Throne Of Katarsis - An Eternal Dark Horizon
Waitan - Sworn To The Dark

Albums i have, but not yet listened to
Caspian - The Four Trees
Crippled Black Phoenix - A Love of Shared Disasters
Explosions In The Sky - All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone
Minsk - The Ritual Fires of Abandonment
Nocturnal Depression - Soundtrack For A Suicide – Opus II
Pelican - City Of Echoes
Senmuth - Bark Of Ra

Other albums i plan to hear (Some of these have been released already and some are yet to be.)
A Swarm Of The Sun - The King of Everything
Akercocke - Antichrist
Antimatter - Leaving Eden
Arkhon Infaustus - Orthodoxyn
Do Make Say Think - You, You’re a History in Rust
Drudkh - Estrangement
Earth - Hibernaculum
God Is an Astronaut - Far from Refuge
José González - In Our Nature
Katatonia - Live Consternation
Leviathan - Massive Conspiracy Against All Life
Lunar Aurora - Andacht
Morkobot - Mostro
Nile - Ithyphallic
October Falls - The Streams Of The End
Rwake - Voices of Omens
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - In Glorious Times
The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls with Sand
The Hidden Hand - The Resurrection of Whiskey Foote
Xasthur - Defective Epitaph

This is going to be an awesome year

 

[Scourge of Malice]

^ The new EITS is great, definitely listen to it ASAP.

 

[requiem]

Probably the best album this year for me is Finntroll - Ur Jordens Djup

It is much darker and 'real' than the previous albums, and quite frankly, I'm spellbound.

I've also really enjoyed the new Paradise Lost, Mayhem, and Marduk, although I need to hear all three of these classics a little more.

 

[requiem]

And I'm hoping Rainshadow - End Songs becomes a feature too. Three tracks from it are available below.

http://www.myspace.com/myrainshadow

 

[Splintered Vision]

^ The new EITS is great, definitely listen to it ASAP.

I love "The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place" & "Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Live Forever", so its high on the list of albums to listen to.

 

[shadowNINE]

@shadowNINE

Ahab and Funeral are from 2006

Well, the demo version of the Ahab album was from last year, but the more domestic (150 copies instead of 30...haha) vinyl version was released this year.

And Funeral's latest was released last year, but only in Norway -- everywhere else, it was released at the beginning of 2007. I figured it was worth mentioning, especially considering the quality of the album, and that it was talked about so little in the context of 2006 because of the time and limited locale of its release that year.

 

[Morfeind]

for me anekdoten's latest is not only the best 2007 has had to offer but also their best release. it's been my favourite and most listened to since it's release.

I love the new disc as well and I had really high expectations after Gravity.

 

[Lord_AgathoN]

type 0 - dead again

 

[Peachy]

And Funeral's latest was released last year, but only in Norway -- everywhere else, it was released at the beginning of 2007. I figured it was worth mentioning, especially considering the quality of the album, and that it was talked about so little in the context of 2006 because of the time and limited locale of its release that year.

Yes, I only just picked that up about a month ago and was completely blown away. Just awesome.

 

[zengaja]

Aereogramme - MHHAWTYWNG
Swallow The Sun - hope
Nahemah - The Second Philosophy
Pain of Salvation - Scarsick
Porcupine Tree - FOABP
Circa Survive - Carry Us Away
The End - Elementary
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - In Glorious Times (Propably; just listend to it twice, bit it sounds great)

 

[Phoenix5]

I just discovered Nahemah this year.

The Second Philosophy is a very solid album indeed.

 

[deadhouse.]

Did anybody mention Antimatter's "Leaving Eden" so far?

I hear that album in the morning, afternoon, evening. If I could at night while sleeping I would. I love it!

 

[Silent_Scream]

So far, my favourites have been.

Dark Tranquillity - Fiction
Ensiferum - Victory Songs
Finntroll - Ur Jordens Djup
Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao
Mors Principium Est - Liberation = Termination
Neurosis - Given to the Rising
Nightrage - A New Disease is Born
Novembers Doom - The Novella Reservoir

Waiting to listen to the new Amorphis , Dimension Zero, The Absence, The Black Dahlia Murder, The Duskfall and the debut from Zonaria

 

[Morfeind]

Wow, this new Alcest album is definitely my surprise album of this year so far. Definitely top 3 material.