The best of the first half of 2007 ...

[delize]

Got it 'bout two weeks ago only, realy like this one

Learn something every day! I had no idea you liked PL.

 

[Platinum Maze]

Symphony X is definitely #1 for me.

then...in no order.

Megadeth
Redemption
Allen/Lande
Scorpions
Novembers Doom
Machine Head
Devin Townsend - Ziltoid

 

[Orfanos]

Well, let's say my choices, although I have listened only to a few of the albums I wanted.

1. Cage - Hell Destroyer
2. Symphony X - Paradise Lost
3. Saxon - The Inner Sanctum
4. Crystal Viper - The Curse of Crystal Viper
5. Threshold - Dead Reckoning
6. Manowar - Gods of War
7. Holy Martyr - Still At War
8. Masterplan - MK II

And I still want to buy or listen better to Redemption, Doomsword, Twisted Tower Dire, Wotan, Dream Theater, Kamelot, Candlemass, Rush, U.D.O, King Diamond, Sacred Oath, Domine, Cypher Seer.

And we are waiting for new albums from Katagory V, Agent Steel, Slough Feg and probably other bands that I forget.

 

[mdmatt4ever]

right now only megadeth's new album comes to mind

 

[EyeballKid]

Megadeth - United Abominations
The most solid album that Megadeth has put out since Youthanasia, with many songs quickly making it into my list of favorite Megadeth tracks

Symphony X - Paradise Lost
It's not quite The Odyssey...but only in the way that the albums ever hung out together, PL would punch TO in the head for not being "extreme" enough

Kamelot - Ghost Opera
It doesn't have as many standouts as The Black Halo, but it is definitely just as solid.

 

[Hawk]

3 best for me up until now:

01 Symphony X - Paradise Lost
02 Suspyre - A Great Divide
03 Novembers Doom - The Novella Reservoir


The albums below have no definitive order.


Sadist - Sadist
Sacred Oath - Darkness Visible
Morgana Lefay - Aberrations of The Mind
Mechanical Poet - Creepy Tales for Freaky Children
Machine Head - The Blackening
Canvas Solaris - Cortical Tectonics
Cypher Seer - Awakening Day

 

[Trans-Siberian Outcast]

I've got a new top-5 contender in Threshold. Dead Reckoning has been every bit as addictive as my other gold pedastal albums of the year. We'll see if it stands the test of time over the next few months but right now I can't go more than a couple days without listening to it.

Right now my top five looks like:

1. Therion
2. Symphony X
3. Threshold
4. Sonata Arctica
5. Trouble

 

[Wyvern]

Metal

1. Abandoned – “Thrash You!”
2. Candlemass - “King Of The Grey Islands”
3. Saxon - “The Inner Sanctum”
4. Superchrist - “Headbanger”
5. Cypher Seer - “Awakening Day”
6. Hirax - “Assassins Of War”
7. Megadeth - “United Abominations”
8. Thunderstorm - “As We Die Alone”
9. Minotauri - “II”
10. Redemption - “The Origins Of Ruin”
11. Masterplan - “Mk II”
12. Freedom Call - “Dimensions”
13. Allen/Lande - “The Revenge”
14. Dream Theater - “Systematic Chaos”
15. Jorn - “Unlocking The Past”
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Non-metal

1. Steve Vai - “Sound Theories Vol. I & II”
2. Rush - “Snakes & Arrows”
3. LoNero - “Relentless”
4. Planet X - “Quantum”
5. Scale The Summit - “Monument”
6. Kiko Loureiro - “Universo Inverso”
7. The String Quartet - “Tribute To Dream Theater”
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Oustanding recognition since the album came in 2007 but is a remaster of some lost demos from 2003.

1. Onward - “The Neverending Sun”