TOP CDs of 2007 *official entries only*

I probably barely even bought 10 NEW releases this year. I'm not into more recent bands, I usually just stick with the veterans. Therefore, so I don't list all my buys by default, I'll just stick with a Top 5 (all of which I enjoyed a great deal).

1. Scorpions - Humanity, Hour I
2. Megadeth - United Abominations
3. Sebastian Bach - Angel Down
4. Great White - Back to Rhythm
5. Lizzy Borden - Appointment with Death

I've acquired 206 albums released in 2007. I'm not so sure I can widdle it down to 10.

1) Black Sabbath - Live at the Hammersmith Odeon
2) King Diamond - Give Me Your Soul... Please
3) Witchburner - Blood of Witches
4) Dekapitator - Storm Before the Calm
5) Deathchain - Cult of Death
6) Candlemass - King Of The Grey Islands
7) Nocturnal Breed - Fields Of Rot
Deathevokation -The Chalice Of Ages
9) Godless Rising - Battle Lords
10) Blood Tsunami - Thrash Metal

Honorable Mentions:
Bonded By Blood - Extinguish the Weak
Evile - Enter the Grave
Meltdown - Executioner
Sodom - The Final Sign Of Evil
Speed Kills... Again
Turisas - The Varangian Way
Svartsot - Ravnenes Saga
Månegarm - Vargstenen
Mael Mordha - Gealtacht Mael Mórdha
Demiurg - Breath of the Demiurg

Here's the best I could do:

After Forever - After Forever
Before The Dawn - Deadlight
Candlemass - King Of The Grey IslandsConcept Of God - Visions
Dark Tranquillity - Fiction
Devin Townsend - Ziltoid The Omniscient
Echoes Of Eternity - The Forgotten Goddess
Helloween - Gambling With The Devil
Moonspell - Under Satanae
Nightingale - White Darkness
Nightwish - Dark Passion Play
Pro-Pain - Age Of Tyranny: The Tenth Crusade
Sanctity - Road To Bloodshed
Serenity - Words Untold & Dreams Unlived
Spheric Universe Experience - Anima
The Living Fields - The Living Fields
Xandria - Salomé: The Seventh Veil

I couldn't cut any of them, but I did bold my favorite five in the lot.

CDs in Order.

1. Savage Messiah - Spitting Venom
   
2. Rebellion - Miklagard "Saga's of Iceland Part 2"
   
3. Overkill - Immortalis
   
4. Messiahs Kiss - Dragonheart
   
5. Ultimatum - Into the Pit
   
6. Runamok - Freak Business
   
7. Crystal Ball - Secrets
   
8. Firewind - Allegiance
   
9. Allen / Lande - The Revenge
   
10. Burning Point - Burned down the enemy
    
11. Grave Digger - Liberty or Death
    
12. Rob Rock - Garden of Chaos
    
13. Seven Witches - Deadly Sins
    
14. Aska - Absolute Power
    
15. Dream Evil - United
    
16. Mark Sweeney - Slow Food
    
17. Lazarus - Episode One
    
18. Symphony X - Paradise Lost
    
19. Municipal Waste - The Art of Partying
    
20. Primordial - To The Nameless Dead
    
21. Rose Tattoo - Blood Brothers
    
22. Whichcraft - The Alchemist
    
23. Warning - Watching from a Distance
    
24. Astral Doors - New Revelation
    
25. Emerald - Hymns of Steel
    

Best Demos

1. Mass Extinction - Creations Undoing
   
2. Let Em Burn - Second Wave
   
3. Engage - Don't Turn back
   
4. Doctor Death - Weapons of Mass Distraction
   
5. Deceptor - Bound to the Oath
   
6. Pitiful Reign - Dive
   

Mass Extinction was better than most of the CDs on my list but since it was a Demo I decided to leave it off, If it had been a full album of similar material then number 2 spot was theirs.

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Hey, you never answered me before, Locky my good friend ! Is that first Mass Extinction demo available still?

Eyesore wrote:

Hey, you never answered me before, Locky my good friend ! Is that first Mass Extinction demo available still?

I love the power ! yea I'll get you a bastard copy ALRIGHT ! Take off that thong before it cuts off your blood circulation.

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01. Candlemass - King Of The Grey Islands
02. Amorphis - Silent Waters
03. Obituary - Xecutioner's Return
04. Overkill - Immortalis
05. Saxon - The Inner Sanctum
06. Symphorce - Become Death
07. Helloween - Gambling With The Devil
08. Exodus - The Atrocity Exhibition Exhibit A
09. Megadeth - United Abominations
10. Gamma Ray - Land Of The Free II

There is still some albums from this year that I want to get.

Thrasher, I agree the Hyades is one killer cd!!

1. Evile - Enter The Grave
2. Hyades - And The Worst Is Yet To Come
3. Overkill - Immortalis
4. Megadeth - United Abominations
5. Saxon - The Inner Sanctum
6. Municipal Waste - The Art Of Partying
7. Blood Tsunami - Thrash Metal
8. Merciless Death - Evil In The Night
9. Symphorce - Become Death
10. 3 Inches Of Blood - Fire Up The Blades

Still haven't managed to get:
Fueled By Fire - Spread The Fire
Meltdown - Executioner
Rob Rock - Garden Of Chaos
Exodus - The Atrocity Exhibit: Exhibit A
Anvil - This Is Thirteen
Ultimatum - Into The Pit (I feel like such a prat for not getting this yet...)
Dekapitator - The Storm Before The Calm
Hirax - Assassins Of War

and a few others. Been trying too hard to get the "golden oldies" I guess.

My fave 25 albums of 2007
are(only studio albums, no re-release, best of, mini-cd´s or live albums):
1. LIZZY BORDEN:APPOINTMENT WITH DEATH.
This is my fave album of the year. Totaly increible and pure heavy
metal the way it should be. Masterpiece.
2. SCORPIONS:HUMANITY HOUR 1.
This one is more modern but the songs are just very good played with a lot
of passion.
3. HELLOWEEN:GAMBLING WITH THE DEVIL.
My second wave Andi Deris album with the band(MASTER OF THE RINGS
being my fave). Great songs.
4. GREAT WHITE:BACK TO THE RHYTHM.
Great comeback album with songs full with passion.
5. ROB ROCK:GARDEN OF CHAOS.
This was a surprise to me, killer songs.
6. MERCILESS DEATH:EVIL IN THE NIGHT.
Thrash metal old school rules.
7. WASP:DOMINATOR. Blackie
did it again. Great.
8. U.D.O:MASTERCUTOR.
Respect respect.
9. MANOWAR:GODS OF WAR.
If you take of the album those narrations and instrumental tracks then their are still 9 songs left, and those 9 songs bring MANOWAR
to number 9 on my list.
10. KING DIAMOND:GIVE ME YOUR SOUL...PLEASE.
A grower
11. 3 INCHES OF BLOOD:FIRE UP THE BLADES.
Pure violence and force.
12. GRAVE DIGGER:LIBERTY OR DEATH.
chris did it again, great.
13. STAN BUSH:IN THIS LIFE.
Always delivering great albums.
14. MADMAX:WHITE SANDS.
A big surprise to me because they sound heavy again.
15. WIZARD:GOOCHAN.
An other surprise. Killer heavy metal less underground then before but with great songs that take you to battle.
16. ICED EARTH:FRAMING ARMAGEDDON.
Ripper Owens make this not sounding like a tipical ICED EARTH album
but the songs are great.
17. INTENSE:AS OUR ARMY GROWS.
This one sound like old ICED EARTH.
18. ONSLAUGHT:KILLING PEACE.
Great thrash metal comeback album.
19. SAXON:THE INNER SANCTUM.
I dont agree with many of the great reviews on the net but it still deserve to be at number 19.
20. STORMZONE:CAUGHT IN THE ACT.
Great nwobhm/heavy rock sounding album. Bring you back in time.
21. SINNER:MASK OF SANITY.
Always releasing good albums.
22. DESASTER:SATAN´S SOLDIERS SYNDICATE.
Much better then ANGEL WHORE.
23. HUMA:LUCHANDO A MUERTE.
Together with HOLD PERSON(not on the list), my fave Spanish heavy metal band at
the moment.
24. CRYSTAL VIPER:THE CURSE OF CRYSTAL VIPER.
The way heavy metal should sound in 2007.
25. MEGADETH:UNITED ABOMINATIONS.
4 or 5 very good songs give me the faith back in this band for
the future.
I had to leave many great
bands of this list like MASTERPLAN, NOCTURNAL BREED, VAINGLORY, MUNICIPAL
WASTE, RITUAL STEEL, GAMMA RAY, HELIX etc...and also some cd´s that didnt
arrive in time to be incluided in this list like ANGEL DOWN by SEBASTIAN BACH
or WAR OF THE EIGHT SAINT by STEEL ASSASSIN for exemple.

A few more honorable mentions that are not going to quite crack my top 10 list, but are great nonetheless (in their own ways). I just got these since I started this thread, so they aren't in my orig post.

Dekapitator ~ The Storm Before the Calm
Exodus ~ The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit A
King Diamond ~ Give Me Your Soul ... Please
3 Inches of Blood ~ Fire Up the Blades (this one almost makes my top 10, but it is edged out by the new Kamelot, which was my #10 pick)
She Wants Revenge ~ This Is Forever (not metal, but I'm into goth stuff too)

This is my top 10
1. Ultimatum - Into the pit
2. Feast Eternal - With Fire
3. Deliverance: As Above - So Below
4. Lordchain - Finding Balance
5.Virgin Black: Requiem - Mezzo Forte
6. Fearscape -Scent of Divine Blood
7. Rob Rock-Garden of Chaos
8. Mortification - Erasing The Goblin
9. My Silent Wake - The Anatomy of Melancholy
10.The Sacrificed - The DaVinci Hoax

Honorable mentions
WASP - Dominator
Titanic - Full Steam Ahead
Eternal Ryte - Anthology
Letter 7 - Salt Of The Earth

1.) Rotting Christ - Theogonia
2.) Akercocke - Antichrist
3.) Impaled Nazarene - Manifest
4.) Anaal Nathrakh - Hell Is Empty, and All the Devils Are Here
5.) Dew-Scented - Incinerate
6.) Behemoth - The Apostasy
7.) Naglfar - Harvest
8.) Vital Remains - Icons of Evil
9.) Malevolent Creation - Doomsday X
10.) Angelcorpse - Of Lucifer and Lightning
11.) Immolation - Shadows in the Light
12.) Marduk - Rom 5:12
13.) Dying Fetus - War of Attrition
14.) Obituary - Xecutioner's Return
15.) Aborted - Slaughter & Apparatus: A Methodical Overture
16.) Catholicon - Treatise on the Abyss
17.) Necromantia - The Sound of Lucifer Storming Heaven
18.) Evil Entourage - Dominion
19.) Gallhammer - Ill Innocence
20.) Darkthrone - F.O.A.D.
21.) King Diamond - Give Me Your Soul... Please
22.) Watain - Sworn to the Dark
23.) Gorefest - Rise to Ruin
24.) Nile - Ithyphallic
25.) Arch Enemy - Rise of the Tyrant
26.) Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb
27.) The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza - Danza II: The Electric Boogaloo
28.) Cutterred Flesh - Torture Is Medicine
29.) Skeletonwitch - Beyond the Permafrost
30.) Cenotaph - Reincarnation in Gorextasy
31.) Octavia Sperati - Grace Submerged
32.) Demiricous - Two (Poverty)
33.) Limbonic Art - Legacy of Evil
34.) Job for a Cowboy - Genesis
35.) Overkill - Immortalis
36.) Sadistic Mutilation - Psychopath's Aberrations
37.) Novembers Doom - The Novella Reservoir
38.) Onslaught - Killing Peace
39.) Exodus - The Atrocity Exhibition... Exhibit A
40.) Enthroned - Tetra Karcist
41.) Cephalic Carnage - Xenosapien
42.) DevilDriver - The Last Kind Words
43.) Bestial Mockery - Slaying the Life
44.) Blood Tsunami - Thrash Metal
45.) Anal Nosorog - Condom Of Hate
46.) Legion of the Damned - Sons of the Jackal
47.) Entombed - Serpent Saints - The Ten Amendments
48.) Evile - Enter the Grave
49.) Candlemass - King of the Grey Islands
50.) Machine Head - The Blackening

AS SEEN ON CMR:
Here's 30 **A word about this list...Being
#23 or #27 or what-have-you is like saying "you're only the 23rd best
looking celebrity or the 27th best meal I've had this year. It's still
an incredible CD to be on the list!...and much of this list -
especially the bottom 10 - are new acquisitions so time might change
the list some.....

1- Cage - Hell Destroyer (in a landslide!)

2- Alterbridge - Blackbird (WOW! Great songwriting and just enough crunch)

3 - Dark Moor - Tarot (just keep excelling!)

4 - Silent Force - Walk The Earth (ditto! And that voice! Golden!)

5 - Ultimatum - Into The Pit (Kudos boys! This is the real deal!)

6 - Allen/Lande - Revenge (I didn't think they could do it twice....)

7 - Titanic - Full Steam Ahead (Old School-ish metal!)

8 - Gotthard - Domino Effect (top notch melodic rock/metal)

9 - Steel Assassin - War Of The Eight Saints ( Great Trad. metal!)

10 - Masterplan - MKII (I was worried sans Jorn...no worries, mate!)

11 - Freedom Call - Dimensions (bagged heavily....not by me. Melodies galore!)

12 - Primal Fear - New Religion (Their most melodic while still heavy!)

13 - Sonata Arctica - Unia (A change...and uniquely catchy. Still got it!)

14 - Bloodbound - Book Of The Dead (melody, choruses, skill...great!)

15 - Saxon - The Inner Sanctum (Old timers kickin' your tail! This is massive!)

16 - Ride The Sky - New Protection (Masterplan MKIII....right down to the vocals! They nailed it!)

17 - Iced Earth - Framing Armagedon (Love the Hammond! Love the story! Love the riffs! Yeah, that's right!!!)

18 - Ensiferum - Victory Songs (Viking!! Let's fight!!)

19 - Nocturnal Rites - The 8th Sin (Not as crunchy, just as catchy...)

20 - Turisas - The Varangian Way (Let's explore and fight!)

21 - Megadeth - United Abominations (Nice comeback! True thrash or not this rocks!)

22 - Helloween - Gambling With The Devil (Heavy, catchy, melodic........ ....Helloween...)

23 - Deliverance - As Above, So Below (He's back!! JPB2 nails it. Thanks for asking...you Delivered!-)

24 - Symphorce - Become Death (Not quite as good as the last or Brainstorm...but it's still fantastic)

25
- Rob Rock - Garden Of Chaos (Holy Hell II...I'm still getting to know
this one but RR CAN'T bring himself to dissapoint, apparently!)

26
- Becoming The Archetype - Physics Of Fire (Not the juggernaught the
first one was, but still nice brutal melodic stomping metal!)

27 - Grave Digger - Liberty Or Death (Teutonic! I love Germany!)

28 - Cypher Seer - Awakening Day (Love the vocals, love the mix of old and new!)

29
- Battlelore - Evernight (Female fronted Folk(ish) metal with some
gruff, growly male vocals. Good songwriting and well done!)

30 - Chris Caffery - Pins and Needles (Eclectic! Part Nevermore, part Megadeth, part Ken Tamplin, -don't ask! I heard it, part all points in between!!)


HAVE YET to get: THESE I'M SURE WOULD VIE for top honors as well but I simply don't have enough $$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Rebellion

Pink Cream 69

Fueled By Fire

Nightwish

At Vance

Blood Tsunami

Main Line Riders

Ancestral

Gamma Ray

Aquaria

Korpiklaani

Paragon

Kamelot

After Forever

Astral Doors

Iron Savior

Olympos Mons

Lizzy Borden

Wizard


THIS
HAS BEEN EASILY the BEST year for ME for Metal that I can ever
remember. It's not even close and I've yet to get about 20 released
that came out in 2007.

Judging by the line-up of releases this year, 2008 is almost guaranteed to be even better for me than 2007 (not an easy task).

Not in order , my 25 favorite of 2007:


Agent Steel - Alienigma
Overkill - Immortalis
Talamyus - In These Days of Violence
Megadeth-United Abominations
Heaven & Hell-Live From City Radio Music Hall
Angelcorpse - Of Lucifer and Lightning
Behemoth - The Apostasy
Grave Digger - Liberty Or Death
Obituary - Xecutioner's Return
Rebellion - Miklagard "Saga's of Iceland Part 2"
Municipal Waste - The Art Of Partying
Witchburner - Blood of Witches
Symphony X - Paradise Lost
Down - Over The Under
Candlemass - King of Grey Island
Moonspell - Under Satanae
Godless Rising - Battle Lords
High on Fire - Death is This Communion
Machine Head - The Blackening
Kamelot-Ghost Opera
Moonsorrow - Viides luku - Hävitetty
Reverend Bizarre - So Long Suckers
King Diamond - Give Me Your Soul ....Please
Nile - Ithyphallic
Danzig - Lost Tracks of Danzig

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