TOP 10 OF2007

[poundingmetal74]

I'm surprised no one has started a thread on this yet.

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Top 10 Favorite CDs:
Top 3 Embarrassments:
Top 5 Concerts:
Top 5 Music DVDs:
Top 5 Most Anticipated for 2008:

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Top 10 Favorite CDs:
1. Symphony X - Paradise Lost
2. Sebastian Bach - Angel Down
3. Megadeth - United Abom.
4. Titanic - Full Steam Ahead
5. Threshold - Dead Reckoning
6. Nightmare - Genetic Disorder
7. Powerglove - Metal Combat for the Moral Soul
8. Lord - Ascendence
9. Heaven and Hell - The Dio Years (New Material was great)
10. Icarus Witch - Songs for the Lost

Top 3 'Embarrassments':
1. Queensryche - Take Cover (This could have been Sooo much better)
2. Ozzy - Black Rain (Production sucked and most of the songs weren't much better)
3. WASP - Dominator (was kind of expected)

Top 5 Concerts:
1. Heaven and Hell / Megadeth
2. Dream Theater / Redemption
3. Chris Cornell (This guy was brilliant live)
4. Avenged Sevenfold (Mostly for Black Tide who delivered the goods)
5. The Cult

Top 5 Music DVDs:
1. Heaven and Hell - Radio City
2. Queensryche - Mindcrime @ the Moore
3. Brainstorm - Honey from the B's
4. Kiss - Kissology
5. Century Media - Century Overload

Top 5 Most Anticipated for 2008:
1. Menchen - Unknwon Title
2. Brainstorm - Downburst
3. Judas Priest - Nostradamus
4. Dream Evil - Gold Medal in Metal
5. Black Tide - S/T (They kick ass live and their EP sampler was awesome)

 

[Trans-Siberian Outcast]

Top 10 Favorite CDs:

Therion - Gothic Kabbalah
Threshold - Dead Reckoning
Sonata Arctica - Unia
Amaran's Plight
Symphony X - Paradise Lost
Trouble - Simple Mind Condition
Circus Maximus - Isolate
Steve Grimmet Band - Personal Crisis
Nightwish -Dark Passion Play
Cage - Hell Destroyer

*For me, only the top 6 get gold pedestal status in my Hallowed Hall of Fame. CM might also break through, and Steve Grimmet is too new to know where it will shake out in the end. Nightwish and Cage are afterthoughts really, I liked them but didn't play them often so they are basically just filler.

Top 3 Embarrassments:

I don't listen to embarrassing music and anything I heard that qualifies has already been long forgotten.

Top 5 Concerts:

Only went to one, so it's Heaven and Hell for me!

Top 5 Music DVDs:

Heaven and Hell - Radio City Music Hall
Nightwish - End of an Era
Deep Purple - Live at Montreaux
Sammy Hagar - Live in St. Louis
Blackmore's Night - Paris Moon

Top 5 Most Anticipated for 2008:

Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Jon Oliva's Pain
Ayreon
Judas Priest
???

 

[sixxswine]

1.) Mountain – Masters of War

2.) Ministry – The Last Sucker

3.) Arch Enemy –Rise of the Tyrant

4.) Symphony X- Paradise Lost

5.) Shooter Jennings – The Wolf

6.) Clutch – From Beale Street to Oblivion

7.) Skeletonwitch – Beyond the Permafrost

8.) Ice Earth – Overture of the Wicked

9.) Hearse – In These Veins

10.) SIXX: AM – The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack

 

[SoundMaster]

Top 10:

1) Porcupine Tree - Fear of A Blank Planet
2) Therion - Gothic Kabbalah
3) Dug Pinnick - Strum Sum Up
4) Redemption - Origins
5) Tesla - Reel to Real Covers / A Peace Of Time
6) Poets & Pornstars
7) Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
8) Joe Bonamassa - Slow Gin
9) Roadstar - Glass Mountain
10) Candlemass
others: Scorpions, Saxon, Nightwish, Opeth live, Glenn Hughes live, Novembers Doom, I'm surely omitting others

Best gig:
I only attended three gigs: Tesla and Sabbath (twice)

Most anticipated 2008 releases:
Anathema
Opeth
Judas Priest
UFO

 

[Wyvern]

We did have one didn't we?

Anyway so far and until Dec 31th:

Metal

1. Abandoned – “Thrash You!”
2. Candlemass - “King Of The Grey Islands”
3. Saxon - “The Inner Sanctum”
4. Superchrist - “Headbanger”
5. Lion’s Share – “Emotional Coma”
6. Lorihen – “Bajo La Cruz”
7. Iced Earth – “Framing Armageddon (something wicked part 1)”
8. Cypher Seer - “Awakening Day”
9. Astral Doors – “New Revelation”
10. Heaven & Hell – “Live! Radio City Music Hall”
11. Megadeth - “United Abominations”
12. Primal Fear – “New Religion”
13. Freedom Call - “Dimensions”
14. Hirax – “Assassins Of War”
15. Evil Masquerade – “Third Act”
16. Masterplan – “Mk II”
17. Helloween – “Gambling With The Devil”
18. Road To Ruin – “Road To Ruin”
19. Thunderstorm - “As We Die Alone”
20. Redemption - “The Origins Of Ruin”
21. Minotauri - “II”
22. Evile – “Enter The Grave”
23. Fueled By Fire – “Spread The Fire”
24. Jorn – “Live In America”
25. Icarus Witch – “Songs For The Lost”
26. Allen/Lande - “The Revenge”
27. Solitude Aeturnus – “Hour Of Despair”
28. Jorn - “Unlocking The Past”
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Non-metal

1. Steve Vai - “Sound Theories Vol. I & II”
2. Rick Wakeman – “Retro 2”
3. Rush - “Snakes & Arrows”
4. Amaran’s Plight – “Voice In The Light”
5. The Flower Kings – “The Sum Of No Evil”
6. LoNero - “Relentless”
7. The Tangent – “Going Off On One”
8. Waterclime – “Imaginative”
9. Planet X - “Quantum”
10. Darkwater – “Calling Earth To Witness”
11. Scale The Summit - “Monument”
12. Dream Theater - “Systematic Chaos”
13. Kiko Loureiro - “Universo Inverso”
14. Jordan Rudess – “The Road Home”
15. The String Quartet - “Tribute To Dream Theater”
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Honorable mention (2007 albums recorded actually some years ago)

1. Onward - “The Neverending Sun”
2. Liquid Trio Experiment – “Spontaneous Combustion”

The rest are N/A to me.

 

[Hawk]

Top 10 2007

01 Novembers Doom - The Novella Reservoir
02 Suspyre - A Great Divide
03 Sieges Even - Paramount
04 Arch Enemy - Rise Of The Tyrant
05 Symphony X - Paradise Lost
06 Daath - The Hinderers
07 Exodus - The Atrocity Exhibition... Exhibit A
08 Heaven and Hell - Live at Radio City Music Hall
09 Blotted Science - The Machinations of Dementia
10 Shatter Messiah - God Burns Like Flesh

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DVD

01 Heaven and Hell - Live at Radio City Music Hall


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Concert

01 Lethal - Keep It True festival
02 Sieges Even - Prog Power Baarlo
03 Mercynary - Bosuil in Weert

 

[ElectricWiz]

Hooray for Year End Top Ten Fun!

Top 10 Favorite CDs:
1 - Machine Head - The Blackening
2 - Megadeth - United Abominations (Dumb lyrics or not, great album)
3 - Candlemass - King of the Grey Islands
4 - Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
5 - Saxon - The Inner Sanctum
6 - Sigur Ros - Hvarf - Heim
7 - Exodus - The Atrocity Exhibit - Exhibit A
8 - Gojira - From Mars to Sirius (Came out last year, but I just discovered it)
9 - Arch Enemy - Rise of the Tyrant
10 - Heaven And Hell - Live

I'm pretty sure I'm forgetting something important...

Top 5 Concerts:
1 - Lisa Gerrard
2 - Heaven and Hell/Megadeth/Machine Head
3 - Machine Head/Arch Enemy
4 - The Mars Volta
5 - Mastodon
6 - Mono
7 - Megadeth headline show

Top 5 Music DVDs:
Sigur Ros - Heim
Metalocalypse - Season 1
Heaven And Hell - Live

Top 5 Most Anticipated for 2008:
Too much to mention, but here's a few things I'm looking forward too!

Zep reunion tour (I really think it's gonna happen)
Maiden - Somewhere back in time!.
Candlemass tour the states!

New albums from:
Mastodon, Mars Volta, Opeth, Enslaved, Nevermore (?), Heaven and Hell/Sabbath, Exodus

 

[Orfanos]

Top 10 200701 Novembers Doom - The Novella Reservoir

Is it so good? I ordered it just three days ago! Although I discovered the band with "The Pale Haunt Departure", which I loved, but their previous albums didn't say much to me.


My Top 10 favorite CDs

1. Crystal Viper - The Curse of Crystal Viper
2. Doomsword - My Name Will Live On
3. Threshold - Dead Reckoning
4. Cage - Hell Destroyer
5. Sacred Oath - Darkness Visible
6. Saxon - The Inner Sanctum
7. Symphony X - Paradise Lost
8. Steel Assassin - War of the Eight Saints
9. Sieges Even - Paramount
10. Astral Doors - New Revelation

Top 3 embarassments

1. Iced Earth - Framing Armageddon
2. Kamelot - Ghost Opera
3. Helloween - Gambling With the Devil

Honorable Re-issues

Zions Abyss - T.A.L.E.S
Stygian Shore - The Shore Will Arise
Cross - Metal From Above
Amulance - The Rage Within And the Aftermath
Fates Warning - No Exit

Top 5 Most Anticipated For 2008

Judas Priest
Helstar
Crystal Viper
Biomechanical
Orphaned Land

 

[carnut]

Top 10 Favorite CDs(no particular order)

Neal Morse : Sola Scriptura
Sun Caged : Artemesia
Trouble : Simple Mind Condition
Abramis Brama : Live!
Circus Maximus : Isolate
Icarus Witch : Songs for the Lost
Mehida : Blood & Water
Suspyre : A great Divide
Letter7 : Salt of the Earth
Kobus : Swaar Metaal
Ancient Creation : Evolution Bound

Top 3 'Embarrassments':

1. oresund space collective : The black Tomato (just a stupid
promo I got to review, don't touch this if you see it !!!)
2. Piledriver @ KIT 8
3. embarrassed to have skipped Heaven & Hell @ Graspop ...

Top 5 Concerts:
1. Queensryche
2. Sieges Even @ Progpower
3. Leathal @ KIT 8
4. Leatherwolf @ KIT 9
5. JOP @ ProgPower

Top 5 Music DVDs:
no idea, only have a bunch of 80's bootleg DVD's

Top 5 Most Anticipated for 2008:
1. Benedictum
2. Last Slayer ??
3. Toxik
4. AC/DC new album ??
5. Led Zep new album ???

 

[tsorl]

Top 10 Favorite CDs:
Threshold - Dead Reckoning
Helloween - Gambling With The Devil
Candlemass - King Of The Grey Islands
Cage - Hell Destroyer
Allen/Lande - The Revenge
Kamelot - Ghost Opera
Masterplan - MK II
Iced Earth - Framing Armageddon
Saga - 10,000 Days
John Macaluso & Union Radio - The Radio Waves Goodbye

Top 3 Embarrassments: (well, disappointments is more like it)
Megadeth - United Abominations
Mac leaving Threshold
The sacking of Ripper Owens

Top 5 Concerts:
Royal Hunt, Helsinki
Kamelot, Tampere
Helloween & Gamma Ray, Tampere
Candlemass, Oulu
Masterplan, Oulu

Top 5 Music DVDs:
Haven't seen any!

Top 5 Most Anticipated for 2008:
Ayreon
Circle II Circle
Evergrey
Jon Oliva's Pain
Royal Hunt

 

[kittybeast]

6 - Sigur Ros - Hvarf - Heim Nice Call Wiz!! Missed out on the movie as Ameoba you could only get one ticket per person and that didn't work. These guys are great and I only hope they come back to CA and do more gigs.

 

[Trans-Siberian Outcast]

Oooh, I see a couple more "anticipated" releases for next year that I hadn't thought of.

A new Benedictum album and if it's true Orphaned Land has one coming out, I'm beyond ecstatic. :hotjump:

 

[ElectricWiz]

6 - Sigur Ros - Hvarf - Heim Nice Call Wiz!! Missed out on the movie as Ameoba you could only get one ticket per person and that didn't work. These guys are great and I only hope they come back to CA and do more gigs.

I remember you said your husband was getting into them sometime back. Anyway, there is a special edition of the DVD (which is the the movie you spoke of) that is very worth having (extra disc of performances). I've seen them about 5 times now and they were amazing each time, just plain amazing. One of the best and most consistent live bands I know of. They ALWAYS hit the bay area a couple of times each tour, and CA generally speaking. You'll get your chance (and I highly recommend you take it!)

 

[Hawk]

Top 10 2007

01 Novembers Doom - The Novella Reservoir

Is it so good? I ordered it just three days ago! Although I discovered the band with "The Pale Haunt Departure", which I loved, but their previous albums didn't say much to me.

Their older stuff did not do that much for em as well. I totally love this album though.

Hooray for Year End Top Ten Fun!

Top 10 Favorite CDs:

8 - Gojira - From Mars to Sirius (Came out last year, but I just discovered it)

Cheater! You are right though... thats a great album from a fantastic band!

 

[The Ozzman]

DevilDriver - The Last Kind Words
Machine Head - The Blackening
Arch Enemy - Rise of the Tyrant
Amorphis - Silent Waters
Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today
Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
Dark Tranquillity - Fiction
Behemoth - The Apostasy
Immolation - Shadows in the Light
King Diamond - Give Me Your Soul...Please

Disappointments:
Megadeth
Down
Daath

 

[carnut]

John Macaluso & Union Radio - The Radio Waves Goodbye

Cool, a very good album that as well could be in my top ten !!
Sadly only a few people know it

 

[Platinum Maze]

Hawk, love the new av! Where's Machine Head on yours?!?!

This will be my top "whatever" since I don't think I can fill all of these up.

Top 9 Favorite CDs:
Symphony X
Machine Head
Exodus
Opeth (live)
Redemption
Megadeth
Scorpions
Devin Townsend - Ziltoid
Novembers Doom

Top 3 Embarrassments:
King Diamond
Iced Earth
Vendetta - Hate

All 8 Concerts:
Symphony X - NYC 5/25
Van Halen - NJ 11/3
Testament - Pough., NY 7/13
Heaven and Hell/Megadeth/Machine Head - NJ 5/19
Heaven and Hell/Cooper/Queensryche - Tampa 9/14 (I met QR at this show, quite a thrill)
Heaven and Hell - Radio City 3/30
Police - NJ 8/5
Genesis - NJ 9/27 (did not enjoy this one)

Top 1 Music DVDs:
Kissology 2 is the only one that comes to mind.

Top 7 Most Anticipated for 2008:
Iron Maiden live in NJ
Led Zep tour
new Opeth
new Iced Earth (maybe?)
new Exodus
Black Tide
Symphony X playing the Nokia in NYC on my 40th birthday!

 

[mdmatt4ever]

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Top 10 Favorite CDs:
1. Bruce springsteen-magic
2. down-III
3. scorpions- humanity hour 1
4. megadeth-united abominmations
5. prince- planet earth
6. silverchair- young modern
7. sebastian bach- angel down
8. another animal- self titled
9. sixx:a.m.- heroin diaries
10.i still need to hear shooter jennings- the wolf so no comment yet but this is up for #10
iced earth-framing armageddon

Top 3 'Embarrassments':
1. Ozzy - Black Rain (Production sucked and most of the songs weren't much better)
2. The Cult- born into this
3. tomahawk-anonymous

Top 5 Concerts:
1. megadeth
2. poison/ratt
3. don't think i went to anymore
4.
5.

Top 5 Music DVDs:
1. kiss-kissology
2. queensryche- mindcrine at the moore
3. did not buy any more music dvd's that were released in 2007
4.
5.

Top 5 Most Anticipated for 2008:
1. alice cooper- along came a spider
2. black crowes- (war something)
3. Judas Priest - Nostradamus
4.possibility of new motley crue
5. possibility of new jeff beck

 

[ShredHeadJHJ]

I'll just put my top 3. These CDs topple everything else I've heard from the year, although there were a few great albums.


Therion "Gothic Kabbalah"
Dave Martone "When the Aliens Come"
Planet X "Quantum"

 

[wdiv]

Top 10 Albums:

1. Redemption - Origins of Ruin
2. Iced Earth - Framing Armageddon
3. Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
4. Symphony X - Paradise Lost
5. Therion - Gothic Kabbalah
6. Megadeth - United Abominations
7. Virgin Black - Requiem-Mezzo Forte
8. Trouble - Simple Mind Condition
9. Opeth - Roundhouse Tapes
10. Darkwater - Calling the Earth to Witness
11. Black Sabbath- Live at Hammersmith Odeon

Top 5 Concerts:

... I only made it to 2 concerts this year, so I guess it would be:
- Heaven&Hell / Megadeth / Machine Head
- Dream Theater / Redemption / Into Eternity

Most Anticipated for 2008:
- Black Sabbath / H&H
- Opeth
- Iced Earth
- Into Eternity
- Pyramaze (w/ Barlow)?
- Haggard
- Evergrey