Your favorite Hard Rock/Metal Released In 2007

Real To Reel by Tesla
Real To Real Vol. 2 by Tesla
United Abominations by Megadeth
The Inner Sanctum by Saxon
Enter The Grave by Evile
Into The Pit by Ultimatum
Spread The Fire by Fueled By Fire
The Storm Before The Calm by Dekapitator
Chaos And Brutality by Hirx
Emissaries by Melechesh  & The Art Of Partying by Municipal Waste (TIE)

The Art of Partying- Municipal Waste
Enter the Grave-Evile
United Abominations- Megadeth
Spread the Fire- Fueled by Fire
Fire Up the Blades- 3 Inches of Blood
Immortalis- Overkill
Threads of Life- Shadows Fall
Angel Down- Sebastian Bach
The Blackening- Machine Head
Become Death- Symphorce

Scorpions - Humanity Hour I
Helloween - Gambling With The Devil
Megadeth - United Abominations
The Donnas - Bitchin'
Airbourne - Runnin' Wild
Overkill - Immortalis
Beatallica - Sgt. Hetfield's Motorbreath Pub Band
Helstar - Sins of the Past
Tankard - Best Case Scenario: 25 Years In Beers
The Cult - Born Into This

Quite a power-metaly year for me.

1. Gamma Ray - Land of the Free II
This one I love to bits. A perfect heavy metal record. So catchy.

2. Helloween - Gambling with the Devil
The best Helloween album since Keepers pt 2? Or at least since Better than Raw.

3. Rob Rock - Garden of Chaos
The best Rob Rock solo album. Tracks 3-5 are massive.

4. Mystic Prophecy - Satanic Curses
One of the best and most aggressive Mystic Prophecy CD's.

5. Chris Caffery - Pins and Needles
The spiritual successor to Doctor Butcher.

6. Axxis - Doom of Destiny
A follow-up to my favourite Axxis release, Paradise in Flames, and it has all the same ingredients incl. Lakonia.

7. Powerwolf - Lupus Dei
My favourite Powerwolf tune is on this album - Prayer in the Dark.

8. Nightwish - Dark Passion Play
No Tarja, no Floor, but the pop metal tunes are super catchy.

9. Therion - Gothic Kabbalah
My first Therion disc, and I saw them on this tour. I think it's epic and memorable.

10. Pink Cream 69 - In10sity
I had to include this over the closest competition (Saxon, Anvil) because I just used to play this so much. It was perfect for running. I love David Readman's voice.

Machine Head - The Blackening
Symphony X - Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost - In Requiem
Amorphis - Silent Waters
Demiricous - Two
Lazarus AD - The Onslaught
Type O Negative - Dead Again
Baroness - The Red Album
Municipal Waste - The Art Of Partying
Melechesh - Emissaries

Helloween - Gambling With The Devil
Gamma Ray - Land Of The Free II
Agent Steel - Alienigma
Cage - Hell Destroyer
Megadeth - United Abominations
Saxon - The Inner Sanctum
Sanctity - Road To Bloodshed
U.D.O. - Mastercutor
Primal Fear - New Religion
Lizzy Borden - Appointment With Death

007 wrote:

Helloween - Gambling With The Devil
Gamma Ray - Land Of The Free II
Agent Steel - Alienigma
Cage - Hell Destroyer
Megadeth - United Abominations
Saxon - The Inner Sanctum
Sanctity - Road To Bloodshed
U.D.O. - Mastercutor
Primal Fear - New Religion
Lizzy Borden - Appointment With Death

That would be my list as well

1.Sigh-Hangman's Hymn
2.Municipal Waste -The Art Of Partying
3.Dublin Death Patrol -DDP 4 Life
4.Ultimatum-Into the Pit
5.Megadeth-United Abominations
Honorable Mention: Trouble-Simple Mind Condition,
Melechesh- Emissaries

I really thought this would have been a better year in metal. In hindsight, I was doing well that year, I just assumed there was a lot of good to great releases in 2007. I was buying a lot of old school thrash that year.

I really liked Symphony X's Paradise Lost. It was the first album of theirs that I got into. I also really enjoy Saxon's The Inner Sanctum, though I wasn't into the band at the time and only heard the album over a decade later.

Overall this was not a memorable year of music for me. Tesla was one of my favorite bands and I was a bit disappointed with the two covers albums. Now I appreciate them a bit more, but it seemed a bit overkill and a lot of the songs were not reworked in any special fashion.

glassprison wrote:

I really liked Symphony X's Paradise Lost. It was the first album of theirs that I got into.

I recently got my first and so far only Symphony X CD, V.

Dekapitator - The Storm Before the Calm
Entombed - Serpent Saints - The Ten Amendments
Evile - Enter the Grave
Lazarus A.D. - The Onslaught
Malevolent Creation - Doomsday X
Megadeth - United Abominations
Meltdown aka Mantic Ritual - Executioner
Municipal Waste - The Art of Partying
Onslaught - Killing Peace
Ultimatum - Into the Pit

kyleblack wrote:

Dekapitator - The Storm Before the Calm
Ultimatum - Into the Pit

Man did I blow off these picks

gonna adjust my list cause they are really good releases