Okay, Decibel's top 40
40 - grave in the sky - cutlery hits china:english for the hearing impaired
39 - trap them - sleepwell deconstructer
38 - darkest hour - deliver us
37 - year of no light - nord
36 - pissed jeans - hope for men
35 - alcest - souvenirs d'un autre monde
34 - torche - in return EP
33 - between the buried and me - colors
32 - evoken - a caress of the void
31 - destroyer destroyer - littered with arrows
30 - down - III:over the under
29 - engineer - the dregs
28 - rwake - voice of omens
27 - architect - all is not lost
26 - obliteration - perpetual decay
25 - dax riggs - we sing of only blood or love
24 - big business - her come the waterworks
23 - rosetta - wake/lift
22 - magrudergrind - rehashed
21 - machine head - the blackening
20 - caina - mourner
19 - electric wizard - witchcult today
18 - the end - elementary
17 - melt-banana - bambi's dilemma
16 - graf orlock - destination time tomorrow EP
15 - bergraven - dodsvisioner
14 - moonsorrow - viides luku:havitetty
13 - pelican - city of echoes
12 - the red chord - prey for eyes
11 - deathspell omega - fas-ite,maledicti,in ignem aeternum
10 - a life once lost - iron gag
09 - high on fire - death is this communion
08 - portal - outre
07 - witchcraft - the alchemist
06 - neurosis - given to the rising
05 - baroness - the red album
04 - jesu - conqueror
03 - the dillinger escape plan - ire works
02 - watain - sworn to the dark
01 - pig destroyer - phantom limb
― scott seward, Thursday, 22 November 2007 01:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
You should have included Machine Head on your list, 'cuz The Blackening would totally take top title honors.
― Bob Standard, Thursday, 22 November 2007 01:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
Thanks for posting the list, Scott!
― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 22 November 2007 01:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
got the new decibel and then we all headed up to my pal maggie's new restaurant in western mass and we got a kick out of the picture of our lil' liz in decibel. makes you all nostalgic! we wuz so much younger than and we iz so much larger now. well, liz still looks fab. she iz goddess. here we are (liz and maggie and me) in the go go 80's.
― scott seward, Thursday, 22 November 2007 01:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
39 - trap them - sleepwell deconstructer 37 - year of no light - nord 35 - alcest - souvenirs d'un autre monde 33 - between the buried and me - colors 28 - rwake - voice of omens 24 - big business - her come the waterworks 23 - rosetta - wake/lift
^ Nice!
^ It didn't make my 20, but it's awesome to see it make the top 40.
13 - pelican - city of echoes 10 - a life once lost - iron gag
^ Falls in the "oh, come on" department.
09 - high on fire - death is this communion 08 - portal - outre 07 - witchcraft - the alchemist 06 - neurosis - given to the rising 05 - baroness - the red album 04 - jesu - conqueror 03 - the dillinger escape plan - ire works 02 - watain - sworn to the dark 01 - pig destroyer - phantom limb
^ Outstanding!
Exceptional list, really. Haven't heard the Torche or the Deathspell Omega yet...is the Torche vinyl only?
― A. Begrand, Thursday, 22 November 2007 01:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
Torche vinyl (USA Version) comes with a cd! And it's being repressed too. Robotic Empire are taking pre-orders.
― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 22 November 2007 01:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
Here's the Top 20 I sent to Revolver. Warning: More than one person who writes for Decibel and/or Revolver have called me a "hipster"
1. Big Business - Here Come The Waterworks 2. Baroness - The Red Album 3. Wold - Screech Owl 4. Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand 5. Wolves In The Throne Room - Two Hunters 6. Behemoth - The Apostasy 7. V.E.G.A. - Cocaine 8. Nadja - Touched 9. Circle - Katapult 10. Carlos Giffoni - Arrogance 11. Deathspell Omega - Fas - Itr Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum 12. Mammal - Lonesome Drifter 13. Om - Pilgrimage 14. Yakuza - Transmutations 15. Car Bomb - Centrailia 16. Watain - Sworn To The Dark 17. Black Cobra - Feather And Stone 18. Bergraven - Dodsvisioner 19. Bloody Panda - Pheremone 20. Alcest - Souveniers D'un Autre Monde
Though after many, many relistens, Dillinger Escape Plan would be in my top 2.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 22 November 2007 04:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
I like a lot on that list.
― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 22 November 2007 04:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, that's a great list. And same here, Dillinger's a solid #2 in my books now.
If there's one exclusion from the Decibel list I was most disappointed by, it would be the Angelic Process.
― A. Begrand, Thursday, 22 November 2007 05:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
Pirage's Massive: Top 50 recommended death metal releases for 2007
― djmartian, Sunday, 9 December 2007 19:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
Are You Fucking Serious?: Vinny's Top 25 Albums of 2007 - mostly metal.
I ran up a Metal(ish) list for my Last FM Journal. It may of course change by the 31st december as I hear something I hadn't yet/forgot about. That always happens. So anyway here it is for those who can't be arsed viewing the last fm page. And I don't give a fuck if a few of those aren't metal albums
1 Electric Wizard- Witchcult Today 2 High on Fire - Death Is This Communion 3 Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde 4 Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand 5 Ghost - In Stormy Nights 6 Ulver - Shadows Of The Sun 7 Orthodox - Amancer En Puerta Oscura 8 Neurosis - Given To The Rising 9 Baroness - Red 10 Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters 11 OM - Pilgrimage 12 Torche - In Return 13 Minsk - The Ritual Fires of Abandonment 14 Caina - Mourner 15 Monarch - Dead Men Tell No Tales 16 Grails - Burning Off Impurities 17 The Austrasian Goat - The Austrasian Goat 18 Whitehorse - Whitehorse (20 Buck Spin) 19 Nadja - Guilted By The Sun 20 Sunn O))) Oracle 21 Jesu - Conqueror 22 Loinen - Loinen 23 Slough Feg - Hardworlder 24 Rosetta - Wake/Lift 25 Black Shape of Nexus - Bson 26 The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works 27 Hordes of Satan - Hordes Of Satan 28 Witchcraft - The Alchemist 29 Hey Colossus - project-death 30 Titan - raining sun of light & love for you & you & you 31 Souvenir's Young America - An Ocean Without Water 32 Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris 33 Growing - Vision Swim 34 Middian - Age Eternal 35 The Young Gods - Super Ready Fragmente 36 Circle - Katapult 37 Bongripper - Hippie Killer 38 Big Business - - Here Comes The Waterworks 39 Pelican - City Of Echoes 40 Cobalt - Eater Of Birds
― Herman G. Neuname, Sunday, 9 December 2007 19:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
You can see it's a bit different to the 1st draft I posted a few weeks ago as I remembered some stuff I had forgotten.
― Herman G. Neuname, Sunday, 9 December 2007 19:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
I already got to 40 when I realised I forgot Rwake and I've not heard The Ocean yet. Louis said no Deathspell Omega , but I wasn't really feeling that, but I do need to hear it more.
― Herman G. Neuname, Sunday, 9 December 2007 19:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
current: Top 20 albums of 2007 - Metal Storm
Top 20 albums of 2007
1. Dark Tranquillity Fiction 8.64 | 240 2. Exodus The Atrocity Exhibition... Exhibit A 8.57 | 44 3. Symphony X Paradise Lost 8.57 | 187 4. Onslaught Killing Peace 8.54 | 35 5. Behemoth The Apostasy 8.54 | 127 6. Epica The Divine Conspiracy 8.53 | 108 7. Ensiferum Victory Songs 8.53 | 163 8. Machine Head The Blackening 8.52 | 124 9. Swallow The Sun Hope 8.51 | 71 10. Paradise Lost In Requiem 8.51 | 96 11. Novembers Doom The Novella Reservoir 8.49 | 49 12. Virgin Black Requiem - Mezzo Forte 8.48 | 23 13. Amorphis Silent Waters 8.47 | 94 14. After Forever After Forever 8.45 | 89 15. Akercocke Antichrist 8.41 | 41 16. Gamma Ray Land Of The Free II 8.40 | 55 17. Porcupine Tree Fear Of A Blank Planet 8.39 | 104 18. Detonation Emission Phase 8.38 | 26 19. Helloween Gambling With The Devil 8.36 | 84 20. Turisas The Varangian Way 8.34 | 85
― djmartian, Sunday, 9 December 2007 19:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
the new virgin black album is so awesome! part two of their requiem trilogy.
― scott seward, Sunday, 9 December 2007 20:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
I know Amorphis have won the album of the year at Canada's Unrestrained mag.
But what are the other albums?
On sale December 15th including Top 25 Albums of 2007 Unrestrained Magazine: Issue #36!
― djmartian, Sunday, 9 December 2007 20:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
see, if i'd had some more time i might have put two virgin black albums on my list.
― scott seward, Sunday, 9 December 2007 20:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
they don't sell unrestrained where i live. i'd buy it if they did. plus, i want that ulver cover.
― scott seward, Sunday, 9 December 2007 20:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
i should subscribe.
Terrorizer Albums of the Year should be announced in the next issue on Sale January 3rd 2008.
― djmartian, Sunday, 9 December 2007 20:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
that death metal list up there is cool. there WAS good stuff to hear death-wise. but like that guy says, not a great year for death.
― scott seward, Sunday, 9 December 2007 20:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
also this list from same bloke:
<a href="http://piris-metalopolis.blogspot.com/2007/12/top-50-recommendd-melodic-metal-albums.html";>Pirage's Massive: Top 50 recommended melodic metal albums for 2007</a> - this stuff is not my type of metal, it's the equivalent of musical masturbation
― djmartian, Sunday, 9 December 2007 20:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
BBcode it ! Pirage's Massive: Top 50 recommended melodic metal albums for 2007
BW&BK has their year-end issue out, so maybe some kid will copy the top 66 list sometime soon. I haven't gotten out to the bookstore to take a peek yet.
I love Unrestrained, but Amorphis at #1? Yikes.
― A. Begrand, Sunday, 9 December 2007 20:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
AMORPHIS: SILENT WATERS ´Album of the Year´ in UNRESTRAINED Magazine http://tinyurl.com/2lfxzt
― djmartian, Sunday, 9 December 2007 21:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
Took a look at the Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles list...it's the usual, half good, half stubbornly claccicist. Top five is Megadeth, Symphony X, Down, Machine Head, and Nightwish.
But it goes to show just how strong the year was, that BW&BK's top 66 is so completely different from Decibel's, yet I like a lot of their choices. Though Decibel really caters more to my interests these days...maybe I'm biased.
― A. Begrand, Monday, 10 December 2007 22:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
My list as of today:
1. Baroness - the Red Album 2. Arch Enemy - Rise of the Tyrant 3. Machine Head - The Blackening 4. Hacride - Amoeba 5. Maylene and the Sons of Disaster - II 6. Symphony X - Paradise Lost 7. Phazm - Antebellum Death 'n' Roll 8. Novembers Doom - The Novella Reservoir 9. Rush - Snakes and Arrows 10. Dethklok - The Dethalbum
― Jeff Treppel, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 20:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
1. Every Time I Die, The Big Dirty 2. Vulture Industries, The Dystopia Journals 3. DHG, Supervillain Outcast 4. The Black Dahlia Murder, Nocturnal 5. High on Fire, Death Is This Communion 6. The Ocean, Precambrian 7. The October File, Holy Armour From the Jaws of God 8. Between the Buried and Me, Colors 9. Baroness, The Red Album 10. Vesania, Distractive Killusions 11. Denial Fiend, They Rise 12. The Vision Bleak, The Wolves Go Hunt Their Prey 13. All Out War, Assassins in the House of God 14. Tusk, The Resisting Dreamer 15. Severe Torture, Sworn Vengeance 16. Sean Noonan Brewed by Noon, Stories to Tell (the metallic parts, docked because it is mostly jazz) 17. Drawn and Quartered, Merciless Hammer of Lucifer 18. Zloději Uší, E.T.'s_3 19. Enthroned, Tetra Karcis 20. Raging Speedhorn, Before the Sea Was Built
― Dimension 5ive, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 21:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
Haven't heard all those, but that's a nice list
― Bill Magill, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 21:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
Should I have 20 on my list? I feel somehow less of a man since I only have 10...
― Jeff Treppel, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 22:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
haha i only put 20 on because i haven't decided on any real order yet. one could actually say that i'm overcompensating for something like small penis size or inadequate knowledge of metal.
― Dimension 5ive, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 22:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
UM NOT SMALL PENIS SIZE LET ME MAKE THAT CLEAR RIGHT NOW
― Dimension 5ive, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 22:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
Wow, every time I listen to The Ocean record it moves up in my estimation.
― Dimension 5ive, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 22:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
OK, here's 20, which was surprisingly not difficult to come up with:
1. Baroness - the Red Album 2. Arch Enemy - Rise of the Tyrant 3. Machine Head - The Blackening 4. Hacride - Amoeba 5. Maylene and the Sons of Disaster - II 6. Symphony X - Paradise Lost 7. Phazm - Antebellum Death 'n' Roll 8. Novembers Doom - The Novella Reservoir 9. Rush - Snakes and Arrows 10. Dethklok - The Dethalbum 11. Earthless - Rhythms from a Cosmic Sky 12. DHG - Super Villain Outcast 13. Municipal Waste - the Art of Partying 14. Alchemist - Tripsis 15. Bullets and Octane - Song for the Underdog 16. Devin Townsend - Ziltoid the Omniscient 17. The 69 Eyes - Angels 18. High On Fire - Death Is This Communion 19. Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli 20. Slough Feg - Hardworlder
― Jeff Treppel, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 22:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
That isn't in any particular order, although now that I'm looking at it, I liked a lot of the stuff in my bottom 10 more than my top 10, so I may have to do some rearranging... it's pretty fun to look at the sheer differences in each of our lists.
― Jeff Treppel, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 22:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, absolutely. And I'm a little worried that I haven't given Alchemist enough of a fair shake.
― Dimension 5ive, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 22:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
I liked the Alchemist album more than the general critical consensus, so it's possible that I'm in the minority in loving it. Doesn't mean that I don't still love it, though.
― Jeff Treppel, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 22:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
I wish anyone else had heard Vulture Industries, because the singer is excellent (James Hetfield vs. Ian Astbury vs. Norwegian accent) and the songs are tricky and powerful. I also haven't actually heard from anyone else who's listened to The Big Dirty, but GOD DAMN that record has a hold on my heart.
― Dimension 5ive, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 22:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
Fulcher Industries sounds cool, might have to look into them. Not a big Every Time I Die fan, though. Also, I just listened through the Pig Destroyer, and while it certainly has its merits, I don't quite feel the same love for it that everyone else seems to have. Of course, my list probably isn't winning me any credit points, so...
― Jeff Treppel, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 22:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
(cred, not credit)
― Jeff Treppel, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 22:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
Cool lists. Personally, I had a tough time keeping mine below 50. I liked way, way too much stuff this year...I can't see how 2008 will even come close to measuring up.
― A. Begrand, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 23:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah but (unlike me) you actually know what you're talking about!
― Dimension 5ive, Thursday, 13 December 2007 02:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
Knowing what you're talking about is not necessarily a prerequisite for writing about music. Hell, I think I know what I'm talking about maybe 13% of the time.
― Jeff Treppel, Thursday, 13 December 2007 02:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
I don't have a metal top 10 this year, but I can say that Baroness made my overall top ten.
― fukasaku tollbooth, Thursday, 13 December 2007 12:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
I liked Dødheimsgard, Baroness and 3 Inches of Blood this year. did Skeleton Witch come out this year? i like that too.
― chaki, Friday, 14 December 2007 03:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
my nephew is flipping out over the last Mayhem.
Wait... people have not-metal top tens? That was my top 20 for the year!
― Jeff Treppel, Friday, 14 December 2007 05:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
AMG / allmusic blog: The Allmusic Blog - Allmusic’s Favorite Metal Albums of 2007, Pt. 1
― djmartian, Sunday, 16 December 2007 21:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
AMG / allmusic blog: The Allmusic Blog - Allmusic’s Favorite Metal Albums of 2007, Pt. 2
― djmartian, Thursday, 20 December 2007 00:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
Trelldom isn't making an impact on rateyourmusic.com either Til Minne by Trelldom : Reviews and Ratings - Rate Your Music
― djmartian, Friday, 4 January 2008 21:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
Nate's 2007 top 7 on RYM is causing me mirth here. Trelldom acquirement is now being seriously investigated, along with Marduk.
― Just got offed, Friday, 4 January 2008 22:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
I haven't heard the Trelldom yet. It's not like the country of Norway was idle or anything in 2007. mayhem, manes, DHG, a fucking killer red harvest album, er, there are no doubt plenty more where that came from. probably too commercial for siegbran, the everloving purist.
my favorite norwegian album of the year was probably:
16 – Tharaphita – Iidsetel Sunkjatel Radadel
except it was from Estonia.
― scott seward, Saturday, 5 January 2008 01:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
That Red Harvest album probably should have been in my top 20. I love that album. So strong and so creative.
― scott seward, Saturday, 5 January 2008 01:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
DigitalMetal.com Forums - View topic - DIGITALMETAL STAFF PICKS OF 2007!!!!
― djmartian, Saturday, 5 January 2008 22:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
does BBcode not like: =
http://www.eclipsemagazine.ws/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1082
― djmartian, Saturday, 5 January 2008 22:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
One of the sites I write for, METAL EATER, put up their list: 1. ARCH ENEMY - Rise Of The Tyrant (Century Media) 2. DARK TRANQUILLITY - Fiction (Century Media) 3. DETHKLOK - The Dethalbum (Williams Street) 4. EXODUS - The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit A (Nuclear Blast) 5. KING DIAMOND - Give Me Your Soul... Please (Metal Blade) 6. MACHINE HEAD - The Blackening (Roadrunner) 7. NIGHTWISH - Dark Passion Play (Roadrunner) 8. DIMMU BORGIR - In Sorte Diaboli (Nuclear Blast) 9. ONSLAUGHT - Killing Peace (Candlelight) 10. PIG DESTROYER - Phantom Limb (Relapse Records) 11. SYMPHONY X - Paradise Lost (InsideOut Music) 12. OVERKILL - Immortalis (Bodog Music) 13. HELLOWEEN - Gambling With The Devil (SPV/Steamhammer) 14. TURISAS - The Varangian Way (Century Media) 15. BEHEMOTH - The Apostasy (Century Media) 16. ENSIFERUM - Victory Songs (Candlelight) 17. BARONESS - The Red Album (Relapse) 18. ECHOES OF ETERNITY - The Forgotten Goddess (Nuclear Blast) 19. EVILE - Enter The Grave (Earache) 20. DEVIN TOWNSEND - Ziltoid The Omniscient (InsideOut Music) 21. FINNTROLL - Ur Jordens Djup (Century Media) 22. SOILWORK - Sworn To A Great Divide (Nuclear Blast) 23. DAATH - The Hinderers (Roadrunner) 24. SIRENIA - Nine Destinies And A Downfall (Nuclear Blast) 25. MAYLENE AND THE SONS OF DISASTER - II (Mono Vs. Stereo) 26. SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM - In Glorious Times (The End Records) 27. MAYHEM - Ordo Ad Chao (Season Of Mist) 28. DIVINE HERESY - Bleed The Fifth (Century Media) 29. DOWN - Over The Under (Warner) 30. NOVEMBERS DOOM - The Novella Reservoir (The End Records)
― Jeff Treppel, Saturday, 5 January 2008 23:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
You can find the individual contributor lists (including my top 25) here:
http://www.metaleater.com/features-2007recap.php