Top 15 albums of 2007

[VenomGA]

Everyone post their Top 15 albums of this past year. Does not need to be Prog or Power metal either, just your favorites released this year. One look at my #1 album tells you this is not limited to those 2 genres.

1. Onslaught - Killing Peace
2. Pagan's Mind - God's Equation
3. Circus Maximus - Isolate
4. Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
5. Cage - Hell Destroyer
6. Threshold - Dead Reckoning
7. Sebastian Bach - Angel Down
8. Gamma Ray - Land Of The Free Part II
9. Dirty Penny - Take It Sleazy
10. Helloween - Gambling With The Devil
11. Symphony X - Paradise Lost
12. Biomechanical - Cannibalised
13. Elvenking - The Scythe
14. Raintime - Flies & Lies
15. Symphorce - Become Death

 

[Iced Ray]

1. Cage - Hell Destroyer
2. Helloween - Gambling With The Devil
3. Candlemass - King of the Grey Islands
4. Iced Earth - Framing Armageddon
5. Gamma Ray - Land of the Free Pt. II
6. Symphony X- Paradise Lost
7. Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
8. Rebellion - Miklagard
9. Saxon - The Inner Sanctum
10. Redemption - Origin of Ruin
11. King Diamond - Give Me Your Soul...Please
12. Lizzy Borden - Appointment with Death
13. Overkill - Immortalis
14. Megadeth - United Abonminations
15. Kamelot - Ghost Opera

 

[edgeofthorns]

I honestly don't think there's been 15 discs that's been released this year that I'm that impressed with. I've mainly been exploring things that I've overlooked during the past few years.

~Brian~

 

[Ascension]

Don't know about 15 but here's my top 10...no changes since November:

http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/progpower-usa/334026-whats-everyones-top-lists-2007-a-3.html

But my letdowns for 2007 are...

SX
Circus Maximus
Pagan's Mind

 

[zekeyou]

1) Between the Buried and Me-- Colors
2) Primordial-- To the Nameless Dead
3) November's Doom-- The Novella Reservoir
4) High on Fire-- Death is this Communion
5) Melechesh-- Emissaries
6) Gevaudan-- The Arrogant Chronicles: A requiem for the dead, a deity for the living…
7) Witchcraft-- The Alchemist
8) Bad Religion-- New Maps of Hell
9) Wolves in the Throne Room-- Two Hunters
10) Alcest-- Souvenirs d'un autre monde
11) Volbeat-- Rock the Rebel/Metal the Devil
12) Zoroaster-- Dog Magic
13) The Howling Wind-- Pestilence and Peril
14) Slough Feg-- Hardworlder
15) Xasthur-- Defective Epitaph

 

[Metal 99]

This Has been a pretty good year for New music in my opinion.

1. Pagan's Mind - God's Equation
2. Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
3. Circus Maximus - Isolate
4. Rush - Snakes And Arrows
5. Porcupine Tree - Fear of A Blank Planet
6. Exodus - The Atrocity Exhibit A
7. Megadeth - United Abominations
8. Ozzy - Black Rain
9. Annihilator - Metal
10. W.A.S.P - Domination
11. Saxon - -The Inner Sanctum
12. Rob Zombie - -Zombie Live
13. Volbeat - Rock the Rebel, Metal The Devil
14. Raintime - Flies & Lies
15. Redemption - The Origins of Ruin

 

[4acidbath4]

1) MACHINE HEAD - the blackening
2) MEGADEATH - united abominations
3) KING DIAMOND - give me your soul...please
4) DAX RIGGS -We Only Sing for Blood or Love
5) 3 - The End Is Begun
6) THERION -gothica kaballah
7) RUSH - snakes & arrows
8) DREAM THEATER - Systematic Chaos
9) DAMNATION A.D. - in this life or the next
10) HELLYEAH - hellyeah
11) PORCUPINE TREE - fear of the blank planet
12) DARK TRANQUILLITY - fiction
13) AMORPHIS - silent waters
14) HIMSA - Summon in Thunder
15) THE DILLINGERS ESCAPE PLAN - ire works
16) MADBALL - Infiltrate the System
17) WITCHCRAFT - The Alchemist
18) AGNOSTIC FRONT - Warriors
19) BETWEEN THE BUREIED AND ME - colors
20) ICED EARTH - framing armageddon

 

[4acidbath4]

They got lost in the shuffle of the top 10....

#5 SHADOWS FALL....

 

[Creeps]

1. Arch Enemy - Rise of the Tyrant
2. Nightwish - Dark Passion Play
3. the Cult - Born Into This
4. Rhino Bucket -And Then It Got Ugly
5. Dublin Death Patrol
6. Velvet Revolver - Libertad
7. Iced Earth - Framing Armageddon
8. Hellyeah
9. 3 Inches Of Blood - Fire Up The Blades
10. the Donnas - Bitchin'
11. Stalingrad Cowgirls
12. Overkill - Immortalis
13. Trouble - Simple Mind Condition

Can't get to 15, these are the most played that I have.

 

[truemindframe]

Hangar - The Reason Of Your Conviction
Symphony X - Paradise Lost
Epica - The Divine Conspiracy
Nuclear Blast Allstars - Into the Light
Dreamscape - 5th Season
Vision Divine - 25th Hour
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
Shaman - Immortal
Allen/ Lande - The Revenge
Dark Moor - Tarot
Raintime - Flies and Lies
Freakeys - Freakeys
Gamma Ray - Land of the Free Part II
Labyrinth - 6 Days to Nowhere
Iron Savior - Megatropolis

 

[DreamThief]

2007


1. Nightwish - Dark Passion Play
2. Pagan's Mind - God's Equation
3. Symphony X - Paradise Lost
4. Anubis Gate - Andromeda Unchained
5. Circus Maximus - Isolate
6. King Diamond - Gimme Your Soul... Please
7. Devin Townsend - Ziltoid The Omniscient
8. Dethklok - The Dethalbum
9. Primal Fear - New Religion
10. Iced Earth - Framing Armageddon
11. Sonata Arctica - Unia
12. Kamelot - Ghost Opera
13. Threshold - Dead Reckoning
14. Allen-Lande - The Revenge
15. Dream Theater - Systemic Chaos
16. Pathosray - Pathosray
17. Megadeth - United Abominations
18. Raintime - Flies & Lies
19. Mnemic - Passenger
20. Spheric Universe Experience - Anima


Honorable Mention go's to Aram Bedrosian's self titled debut album. If you play Bass or like Bass, you got to check him out. This album is available through his website or on iTunes. http://www.myspace.com/arambedrosian

 

[J-Man]

Here are mine for 2007.

1 NIGHTWISH - Dark Passion Play
2 VOLBEAT-- Rock the Rebel/Metal the Devil
3 PATHOSRAY - S/T
4 CIRCUS MAXIMUS - ISOLATE
5 DARK WATER - Calling the Earth to Witness
6 SYMPHONY X - Paradise Lost
7 URBAN TALES - Diary of a No
8 NATION BEYOND - The Aftermath Odyssey
9 DIMENSION - Ego
10 PAGAN"S MIND - God's Equation
11 ELVENKING - The Scythe
12 ANUBIS GATE - Andromeda Unchained
13 ANDROMEDA -Chimera
14 DIABLO SWING ORCHESTRA - Butchers Ball
15 3 - The End Is Begun

 

[actordude]

Here's my top 10:

1. Nightwish - Dark Passion Play
2. Lizzy Borden - Appointment With Death
3. Iced Earth - Framing Armageddon
4. Helloween - Gambling With The Devil
5. Within Temptation - The Heart of Everything
6. Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
7. Rush - Snakes & Arrows
8. The Donnas - Bitchin'
9. Sonata Arctica - Unia
10. Kamelot - Ghost Opera

 

[ALowerDeep]

So far I find only these that I liked well enough to list as a "best of" list

Wuthering Heights - The Shadow Cabinet
Pagan's Mind- God's Equation
Symphony X - Paradise Lost
King Diamond - Give Me Your Soul...Please
Nightwish - Dark Passion Play
Amorphis- Silent Waters
Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet
Deadsoul Tribe - A Lullaby For The Devil
Kamelot - Ghost Opera
Paradise Lost - In Requiem
Threshold - Dead Reckoning

 

[Urban breed]

the Cult - Born Into This

They actually released something 2007? I totally missed this.
Now I have to check it out...
...and perhaps even buy something released this year.

 

[DAVETHEMETALGUY]

They actually released something 2007? I totally missed this.
Now I have to check it out...
...and perhaps even buy something released this year.

it came out a few months ago on Roadrunner Records. Good and solid to boot!

 

[KingsGene]

No mention of Riverside's "Rapid Eye Movement" yet?

Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet
Redemption - Origin of Ruin
Riverside - Rapid Eye Movement
Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
Kamelot - Ghost Opera
Rush - Snakes And Arrows
Pagan's Mind- God's Equation
Symphony X - Paradise Lost
Circus Maximus - Isolate
Primal Fear - New Religion
Threshold - Dead Reckoning
Megadeth - United Abonminations
Bloodbound - Book of the Dead
Spheric Universe Experience - Anima
Sieges Even - Paramount

 

[happytimes]

This has been a really tough year to pick out only 15. Been one of the best years for metal that I can remember in a long time, but here goes ( in no particular order):

Redemption - The Origins of Ruin
Symphony X - Paradise Lost
Mind's Eye - A Gentleman's Hurricane
Anubis Gate - Andromeda Unchained
Transmission - Id, Ego and Superego
Counter World Experience - Leaving Lotus
Kamelot - Ghost Opera
Threshold - Dead Reckoning
Devin Townsend - Ziltoid, The Omniscient
Nation Beyond - The Aftermath Legacy
DGM - Different Shapes
Darkwater - Calling the Earth To Witness
Pathosray - Pathosray
Evil Dead - The Musical
Suspyre - A Great Divide

Couldn't help but add the Evil Dead Musical - this one is sheer genius!

 

[Dr. Pete]

A rough sketch so far, but here goes:

1. Saltatio Mortis-Aus Der Asche
2. Manegarm-Vargstenen
3. After Forever-s/t
4. Vintersorg-Solens Roetter
5. Arkona-Ot Serdsa k Nebu
6. Cruachan-The Morrigan's Call
7. Sear Bliss-The Arcane Odyssey
8. Battlelore-Evernight
9. Dark Tranquillity-Fiction
10. Sonata Arctica-Unia
11. Hacavitz-Katun
12. Manowar-Gods of War
13. Elvenking-The Scythe
14. Nightwish-Dark Passion Play
15. Turisas-The Varangian Way

 

[Orfanos]

12. Biomechanical - Cannibalised

Do you come from the future? "Cannibalised" will be released at Feb 2008!

(I know, it has leaked ad you have listened to it, but you say the top 15 of 2007).