5 Favourite records of 2007

[Civil Disobedient]

Post your favourite five records from the year just gone.

Here's mine:

1. Between The Buried And Me - Colors
2. Hopesfall - Magnetic North
3. Beneath The Massacre - Mechanics Of Dysfunction
4. Psyopus - Our Puzzling Encounters Considered
5. Nile - Ithyphallic

[coheed]

No particular order . . .

1. No World For Tomorrow - Coheed and Cambria
2. Who We Are - Lifehouse
3. Memory Almost Full - Paul McCartney
4. Blackbird - Alter Bridge
5. the Across the Universe soundtrack

[Sigs Minock]

1> Vengeance, Nonpoint
2> United Abominations, Megadeth
3> The Heart of Everything, Within Temptation
4> Sworn Bewteen a Great Divide, Soilwork
5> Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit A, Exudos

HM> Them vs You vs Me, Finger Eleven

[General Tso]

01: Downtown Battle Mountain - Dance Gavin Dance
02: Plagues - The Devil Wears Prada
03: A Natural Death - HORSE the band
04: This Is Your Way Out - Emarosa
05: The Dethalbum - Dethklok

Honorable Mentions:

Messengers - August Burns Red
Ire Works - The Dillinger Escape Plan
Goodbye To The Gallows - Emmure
A Lesson in Romantics - Mayday Parade
Planet of Ice - Minus the Bear
In Rainbows - Radiohead
Wincing The Night Away - The Shins

[John Paul Jones]

I'm an oldies kind of guy, but here are three in particular that I loved.

1. Oh, by the Way - Pink Floyd compilation
2. Mothership - Led Zeppelin compilation
3. Graduation - Kanye West

=D

[The JoZ]

1) Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
2) In This Moment - Beautiful Tragedy
3) Soilwork - Sworn to a Great Divide
4) Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies
5) Dark Tranquillity - Fiction

[~Lightning~]

1) Ghost Opera - Kamelot

2) Snakes & Arrows - Rush

3) Cannibal - Static X

4) The Heart Of Everything - Within Temptation

5) The Black and White Album - The Hives

[Austin.]

First tier is Album 2nd is band.

Blackbird-Alter Bridge
Exile on Mainstream-Matchbox Twenty.
Hmm I dont know if I have five. I listen to Creed/Alter Brudge and MB20
Sorry guys :X

[The Eye in the Sky!]

1. Rush - Snakes and Arrows
Rush came back to form with an outstanding album that surpasses anything they've done since their prime in the early 80s. Radio hits, "Larger Bowl," "Spindrift," and the hugely successful "Far Cry" cemented the album as legit in the commercial world while songs like "Way the Wind Blows," "Armor and Sword," and "Main Monkey Business" prove Rush still has that edge they've had for over 30 years.
2. Nightwish - Dark Passion Play
With their old singer, Tarja Turunen gone, the band went in a different direction with more emphasis on melodies and male vocal integration with their new singer, Annette Olzon. Fans feared Nighwish was going to die but this album is arguably their best. Monster songs like "Bye, Bye Beautiful," "Amaranth," "7 Days to the Wolves," and the epic "Poet and the Pendulum" carry the album to the highest they've ever been.
3. Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
There really isn't that much for me to say about this one other than it was exactly what a Dream Theater fan would expect: Epic length, premiere musicianship, and heavy doses of keyboards and Petrucci. "In the Presence of Enemies" are two amazing songs to open and close the album with social commentaries of the world all over their other songs. My favorite happens to be "Ministry of Lost Souls," which is a 15 minute masterpiece and a great summary of the band's talent.
4. Gamma Ray - Land of the Free 2
Technically it isn't out in America yet but Youtube has had it since the European release last month and I've been listening to it there. Finally, Gamma Ray has matched the original in terms of quality. "Into the Storm" is a great single for them with a great solo we haven't seen in a while. In fact, most of the album is fresh even though the subject matter is so overused. "Mother Earth" is one of the most intensely heavy songs ever and "Opportunity" is a direct homage to Iron Maiden as two riffs from their songs are played in the middle of it. A treat to metal fans that recognize them.
5. Kamelot - Ghost Opera
I really wish that this album was higher on my list. Black Halo was legendary, Epica was incredible, Karma was the start of their rise. Ghost Opera has some moments but is sort of a disappointment for Kamelot. That said, an average Kamelot album is still good. The title track, "Rule the World," "Human Stain," and "Silence of the Darkness" are just killer songs. The only problem is the less than stellar songs in the middle... but the band is so talented that they make up for it to save the album.

Worst album of the year:

Sonata Arctica - Unia
I hate that they did this. Reckoning Night was their previous album and it perfected power metal. Ecliptica was a tremendous album... Silence even had great moments. Unia just sucks. They turned pop with a terrible voice, no catchy music, and poor lyrics. They seemed like they just said "Hey, lets see if fans will still like us even if we put out the worst album ever." Well, it makes me sick and I hope they either quit music or go back to metal.

[coheed]

First tier is Album 2nd is band.

Blackbird-Alter Bridge
Exile on Mainstream-Matchbox Twenty.
Hmm I dont know if I have five. I listen to Creed/Alter Brudge and MB20
Sorry guys :X
Exile on Mainstream, really? I'm a big matchbox twenty fan but I thought the album of "original material" was lame (with the exception of How Far We've Come). It seemed like they were forced contractually to put out another album of original material, so they wrote down the first four chords to pop into their head in order to get it finished as soon as possible.

Greatest hits disc was an A+, though.

[Dark Cadence]

In no actual order;

Ben Lee - Ripe
Cary Brothers - Who You Are
Radiohead - In Rainbows
John Butler Trio - Grand National
State Radio - Year Of the Crow

Honorable Mentions:
The One Am Radio - This Too Will Pass
Feist - The Reminder
matt pond PA - Last Light
Band of Horses - Cease to Begin

[Austin.]

Exile on Mainstream, really? I'm a big matchbox twenty fan but I thought the album of "original material" was lame (with the exception of How Far We've Come). It seemed like they were forced contractually to put out another album of original material, so they wrote down the first four chords to pop into their head in order to get it finished as soon as possible.

Greatest hits disc was an A+, though.
They put all the best """"""old""""" songs on there and they put about 4 new ones.

But I agree, I would have rather them waited and had a whole big album of new songs.

[animehater]

Hmmm well I'm a bit far in the mainstream but . . .


1. Blackbird - Alter Bridge
2.Vena Sera - Chevelle
3.Underclass Hero - Sum 41
4.Untitled - KoRn
5.In Rainbows - Radiohead



Worst Album - Minutes To Midnight - Linkin Park

[Believe The Sickness]

In alphabetical order.

HIM - Venus Doom
Kamelot - Ghost Opera
Saves The Day - Under The Boards
Soilwork - Sworn To A Great Divide
Type O Negative - Dead Again

[JoetheShow]

Coheed and Cambria- No World For Tomorrow
Rush- Snakes and Arrows
Queens of the Stone Age- Era Vulgaris
Chevelle- Vena Sera
Rush of Fools- Rush of Fools

Honorable mention: Saves the Day- Under the Boards. I like it but don't love it yet. I'm still trying to get into it. I bought Ups and Downs this fall and have been listening to it way more.


Most Disappointing: Emery- I'm Only a Man

[The Crowing]

This is hard, it was a great year for music in my eyes

The Dear Hunter- Act II: The Meaning of and All Things Regarding Ms. Leading

3- The End is Begun

The Fall of Troy- Manipulator

Coheed and Cambria- No World for Tomorrow (big disappointment though :( )

Radiohead- In Rainbows

[Civil Disobedient]

Coheed and Cambria- No World for Tomorrow (big disappointment though :( )Explain.

[Noise]

I looked through, and found it incredibly difficult to narrow it down to just 5, so I'm listing my top ten, plus 5 honorable mentions. :P

Top Ten Albums of 2007:
Icons of Evil - Vital Remains The Divine Conspiracy - Epica Xenosapien - Cephalic Carnage All Is Not Lost - The Architect Hope - Swallow the Sun Restless In the Tides - Forever In Terror Elementary - The End When I Am God - Oh, Sleeper Is This Thing On? - Too Late the Hero Ruin - Architects

Honorable Mentions:
The Inspiration - It Prevails This is Your Way Out - Emarosa Sunlight At Secondhand - Nights Like These Betrayer - Harlots The Independence Of Observation Choice - Nomad

Most Dissapointing Album of 2007:
Circle of Demons - At All Cost

___________________________


Albums From 2006 I Still Spin Regularly:
The Price of Existance - All Shall Perish The Awakening - Underneath the Gun Inside the Machine - This Ending Paint the Town - One Dead Three Wounded Misericordiam - Misericordiam Your Ghost Is A Gift - Ligeia The Black Waltz - Kalmah Orchestra of Wolves - Gallows Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord - The Devil Wears Prada Seediq Bale - ChthoniC Angel Maker - Burn In Silence Allegiance - As Blood Runs Black Libertines Dream - After the Eulogy

[Dean]

United Abominations - Megadeth
Elect The Dead - Serj Tankian
Soulcrusher - Operator

Those are the only ones I really remember listening to a lot.

EDIT: Somehow forgot about the Foo Fighters' album, Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace.

[The Crowing]

Explain.
For one, too many guitar solos. I love guitar solos, but half the ones on the album weren't needed. There were however, really great ones, ala, Gravemakers, End Complete III and IV. Also, I got a really big 80s vibe from about half the album, which I didn't really enjoy. Justice and Murder is by far my least favorite song they've ever done.

EDIT: That's not to say I don't love the album for it's gems. There's a bunch of great songs on it, but as a whole I don't like it nearly as much as their previous work.

[Civil Disobedient]

Noise, your list is eerily similar to my full list. We should become internet superfriends, or something.

1. Between The Buried And Me - Colors
2. Hopesfall - Magnetic North
3. Beneath The Massacre - Mechanics Of Dysfunction
4. Psyopus - Our Puzzling Encounters Considered
5. Nile - Ithyphallic
6. Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two - No World For Tomorrow
7. Alcest - Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde
8. Through The Eyes Of The Dead - Malice
9. Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum
10. With Passion - What We See When We Shut Our Eyes
11. Vital Remains - Icons of Evil
12. Oh, Sleeper - When I Am God
13. Waking the Cadaver - Perverse Recollections of A Necromangler
14. 3 Inches Of Blood - Fire Up The Blades
15. The Red Chord - Prey For Eyes
16. Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao
17. Animosity - Animal
18. Architects - Ruin
19. Trap Them - Sleepwell Deconstructor
20. Aussitôt Mort - 6 Songs
21. Blut Aus Nord - Odinist
22. Darkest Hour - Deliver Us
23. Titan - The Chrysanthemum Pledge
24. The Number Twelve Looks Like You - Mongrel
25. Means - Sending You Strength
26. Despised Icon - The Ills Of Modern Man
27. Dying Fetus - War Of Attrition
28. Evile - Enter The Grave
29. Graf Orlock - Destination Time: Tomorrow
30. HORSE the band - A Natural Death
31. The Fall Of Troy - Manipulator
32. Ion Dissonance - Minus The Herd
33. It Prevails - The Inspiration
34. Japanische Kampfhorspiele - Rauchen Und Yoga
35. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
36. Life In Your Way - Waking Giants
37. Cephalic Carnage - Xenosapien
38. Anaal Nathrakh - Hell is Empty, and All the Devils are Here
39. Hot Cross - Risk Revival
40. Envy - Abyssal
41. Pantheon I - The Wanderer and His Shadow
42. Pelican - City of Echoes
43. Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
44. War From A Harlots Mouth - Transmetropolitan
45. Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb
46. Sigh - Hangman's Hymn
47. The End - Elementary

[Noise]

Indeed, it does. Here's all my sh*t from 2007, now everyone can see how much of a loser I am. It's in reverse alphabetical order, because that's how it copied.

3 Inches Of Blood - Fire Up The Blades 108 - A New Beat From A Dead Heart Your God Is Dead - Sweet Blasphemy Year Of Desolation - Year Of Desolation Xandria - Salome The Seventh Veil With Daggers Drawn - My Rebirth Winds - Prominence And Demise When Knives Go Skyward - A Thousand Miles Of Rope War From A Harlots Mouth - Transmetropolitan Vital Remains - Icons Of Evil Vanna - Curses The Valley - A Small Misunderstanding Leads To Disaster Two Minute Silence - Broken Heart Syndrome Trap Them - Sleepwell Deconstructor Too Late The Hero - Is This Thing On? The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza - Danza II: The Electric Boogalo Today Is The Day - Axis of Eden Thy Will Be Done - Was And Is To Come
Through The Eyes Of The Dead - Malice This Very Day - This Type of Thing Can't Be Undone This Moment - Star Parallel This Is Menace - The Scene Is Dead There For Tomorrow - Pages
Tear Down December At The Mercy of Storms EP
Swallow the Sun Hope
Suicide Silence The Cleansing
Still Remains The Serpent
Sonic Syndicate Only Inhuman
Soilwork Sworn To A Great Divide
Slowmotion Apocalypse Obsidian
Sleeping Giant Dread Champions of the Last Days
Oh Praise Him Sleeping Giant Dread Champions of the Last Days
Silverstein Arrivals & Departures
The Showdown Temptation Come My Way
Shadowspeak Shadowspeak
Seven Percent Mind Usage Seven Percent Mind Usage
See You Next Tuesday Parasite
Scale The Summit Monument
Rose Funeral Crucify. Kill. Rot.
Requiem Premier Killing League
Psyopus Our Puzzling Encounters Considered
Poison the Well Versions
A Plea For Purging Quick Is The Word; Steady Is The Action
A Perfect Murder War of Aggression
Paradise Lost In Requiem
Pantheon I The Wanderer And His Shadow
Pandora's Dawn You Should Not Wound What Can't Be Killed
Our Darkest Day The Reign Will Come
Orchestrate the Incident Balances EP
On Broken Wings Going Down
Oh, Sleeper When I Am God
Oh The Blood This World Needs No Introduction
Nomad The Independence Of Observation Choice
Nodes Of Ranvier Defined By Struggle
Nile Ithyphallic
Nights Like These Sunlight At Secondhand
The Murder And The Harlot Young, Hot & Stupid
Moria No Light Ahead
Morda My Will Supreme
Minus The Bear Planet of Ice
The Miles Between Who We Are And What We Were
Mendeed The Dead Live By Love
Memphis May Fire Memphis May Fire
Maylene And The Sons Of Disaster II
Maple Cross Heimo
Life In Your Way Waking Giants
Leng Tch'e Marasmus
Knives Exchanging Hands Hiatus
Killchain One More Victim
Kill the Romance Take Another Life
Khan Tofutopia
Job For A Cowboy Genesis
It Prevails The Inspiration
Ion Dissonance Minus The Herd
Instil Stalking Death
In This Moment Beautiful Tragedy
Impious Holy Murder Masquerade
HORSE the Band A Natural Death
Hopesfall Magnetic North
Hopes Die Last Your Face Down Now
Himsa Summon In Thunder
Hell Within Shadows of Vanity
Haste the Day Pressure the Hinges
Harlots Betrayer
Give Her The Gun Give Her The Gun
Ghost Of A Fallen Age Rumors Of The Secret War
From The Carnival Of Horrors As Mankind Engulfs Itself In Flames EP
From Ashes As The Leaves Fall
Forever in Terror Restless In The Tides
Forever Ends Today Reduce The Volume From Your Lungs
The Foreshadowing Days of Nothing
Fear My Thoughts Vulcanus
The Fall Of Every Season From Below
Every Time I Die The Big Dirty
Evergreen Terrace Wolfbiker
Epica The Divine Conspiracy
Envy On The Coast Lucy Gray
The End Elementary
Emmure Goodbye To Gallows
Embers The Gods Are Traitors
Emarosa This Is Your Way Out
Eden's Curse Eden's Curse
Dying Fetus War of Attrition
Drop Dead Gorgeous Worse Than A Fairy Tale
Driver Side Impact The Very Air We Breathe
Dew-Scented Incinerate
The Devil Wears Prada Plagues
Dethklok The Dethalbum
Destroyer Destroyer Littered With Arrows
Destroy The Witness Stand Up And Die
The Destiny Program Subversive Blueprint
Despised Icon The Ills Of Modern Man
A Day To Remember For Those Who Have Heart
Darkness Dynamite Darkness Dynamite
Darkest Hour Deliver Us
Dark Tranquillity Fiction
Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain
Dance Club Massacre Feast Of The Blood Monsters
The County Medical Examiners Olidous Operettas
Comeback Kid Broadcasting
Chronicles of Adam West We Walk Unbalanced
Chiodos Bone Palace Ballet
Chevelle Vena Sera
The Chariot The Fiancée
Cephalic Carnage Xenosapien
Catherine The Naturals
Cassius I Am Jim Jones
Caskets Fit For Kings Caskets Fit For Kings
Carnifex Dead In My Arms
Calico System Outside Are the Vultures
Caliban The Awakening
The Burning Season Onward Anthem
Burn Down Rome Faith In Liars, Faith In Thieves
Bringing Down Broadway It's All Gone South
Blood Red Throne Come Death
Blinded Colony Bedtime Prayers
The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal
Bitter End Climate of Fear
Between the Buried and Me Colors
Beneath The Sky What Demons Do To Saints
Beneath The Massacre Mechanics Of Dysfunction
Belie My Burial Persephone
Belay My Last The Downfall
Behind Enemy Lines One Nation Under the Iron Fist of God
Before Their Eyes Before Their Eyes
Before The Dawn Deadlight
Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold
August Burns Red Messengers
Atreyu Lead Sails Paper Anchor
At The Throne of Judgment The Arcanum Order
At All Cost Circle Of Demons
As Silence Falls As Silence Falls
As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us
Arsonists Get All The Girls The Game Of Life
Army Of Flying Robots Life Is Cheap
Architects Ruin
The Architect All Is Not Lost
American Head Charge Can't Stop The Machine
All Out War Assassins In The House Of God
Alcina Of Hearts Left Unnourished
The Absence Riders of the Plague
About A Plane Crash - About A Plane Crash
Aborted - Slaughter & Apparatus: A Methodical Overture

Yeah. After about 5 seconds, I got tired of making it look all pretty. So, Band[tab]Album.

And holy f*cking sh*t there's more than I thought.

[Cluck]

01: Downtown Battle Mountain - Dance Gavin Dance
02: Plagues - The Devil Wears Prada
03: Oh Grave, Where Art Thou Victory? - Here I Come Falling
04: Oh, Sleeper CD (I forget the name)
05: Circa Survive CD ( i forget that one as well)

[Noise]

03: Oh Grave, Where Art Thou Victory? - Here I Come FallingThat CD came out at the very beginning of this year. :P

[coheed]

05: Circa Survive CD ( i forget that one as well)
On Letting Go?

[Kid_A]

Heyyy... didn't we do this already? ;) Hmmm.

20 Best Albums of 2007:
(In no order, what-so-ever)

Of Montreal // Hissing Fauna Are You The Destroyer
Arcade Fire // Neon Bible
Radiohead // In_Rainbows
Band Of Horses // Cease To Begin
David Torn // Lars & The Real Girl Soundtrack
Justice // Cross
Feist // The Reminder
Elliot Smith // New Moon
The Shins // Wincing the Night Away
Bloc Party // A Weekend In The City
Mark Ronson // Version
Nine Inch Nails // Year Zero
Interpol // Our Love To Admire
Modest Mouse // We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
White Stripes // Icky Thump
Smashing Pumpkins // Zeitgeist
Spoon // Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Klaxons // Myths Of the Near Future
Eddie Vedder // Into The Wild (Soundtrack)
Daft Punk // Alive 2007

[sushi san]

1. Because of the Times - Kings of Leon
2. Take to the Skies - Enter Shikari
3. Puzzle - Biffy Clyro
4. Orchestra of Wolves - Gallows (came out in 2006 but I think it got re-released in 2007)
5. Hats off to the Buskers - The View

[Clutch]

1. Wolves In The Throne Room - Two Hunters
2. Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde
3. Neurosis - Given To The Rising
4. Six Organs of Admittance - Shelter From The Ash
5. The ****ing Champs - VI
6. High On Fire - Death Is This Communion
7. Ulrich Schnauss - Goodbye
8. Steve Moore - The Henge
9. Nadja - Radiance of Shadows
10. Walknut - Graveforests and Their Shadows

Honorable Mentions/Misc. Good Albums
The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand (Shoegazy Drone)
Torche - In Return (Sludge)
Lento - Earthen (Sludge ala Pelican)
Lesbian - Power Hor (No clue...Doom/Black/Psychedelic Metal?)
Jesu - Conqueror (Shoegazy Sludge/Doom)
Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem (Black Metal)
Zoroaster - Dog Magic (Doom Metal)
Blut Aus Nord - Odinist (Black Metal)
Earth - Hibernaculum (Drone)


Overall, a really great year. My reasons for liking most of these can be found in the other thread a few pages back. This year especially I delved a lot more into black metal than I usually do and found a few great gems (Wolves In The Throne Room, Deathspell Omega, Blut Aus Nord, Walknut, Glorior Belli) and also some shoegaze/shoegaze-influenced music like Alcest, Ulrich Schnauss, Nadja, and The Angelic Process).

[AllThingsEqual]

Overall, a really great year. My reasons for liking most of these can be found in the other thread a few pages back. This year especially I delved a lot more into black metal than I usually do and found a few great gems (Wolves In The Throne Room, Deathspell Omega, Blut Aus Nord, Walknut, Glorior Belli) and also some shoegaze/shoegaze-influenced music like Alcest, Ulrich Schnauss, Nadja, and The Angelic Process).
Same here. I too went way more into the black metal scene, though really just the experimental stuff. Two Hunters was a great album.

[Civil Disobedient]

That Nadja record is really something, only just picked up on it recently after seeing it on a different 2007 list. Great for train journeys.

[James]

No real order:

Streetlight Manifesto-Somewhere in the Between
Rush-Snakes and Arrows
Kamelot-Ghost Opera
Reel Big Fish-Monkeys For Nothing' and the Chimps For Free
Comedy 5th option

[One Of Light]

1. Avenged Sevenfold - Avenged Sevenfold
2. Coheed and Cambria - No World For Tomorrow
3. Atreyu - Lead Sails, Paper Anchor
4. Alter Bridge - Blackbird
5. HIM - Venus Doom
6. Alison Krauss/Robert Plant - Raising Sand
7. the Across The Universe Soundtrack
8. the Sweeney Todd soundtrack...
9. Hurt: Volume II
10. Tool - 10,000 Days (was that 07? I think so...)
yeah that's about it...

[Clutch]

That Nadja record is really something, only just picked up on it recently after seeing it on a different 2007 list. Great for train journeys.
Yeah, I have their entire catalogue. The best part about them is that they're consistently good, and they put out multiple releases a year. This year alone they've done seven different albums. 4 full length albums (2 of which are rerecorded from earlier albums), 2 collaborations, and an EP.

If you enjoyed Nadja, I must recommend The Angelic Process - "Weighing Souls With Sand". Very, very similar in sound. The sad part is that they won't be releasing anymore albums because of some kind of injury the guitarist/mastermind sustained.

10. Tool - 10,000 Days (was that 07? I think so...)

2006, actually.

[One Of Light]

1. Avenged Sevenfold - Avenged Sevenfold
2. Coheed and Cambria - No World For Tomorrow
3. Atreyu - Lead Sails, Paper Anchor
4. Alter Bridge - Blackbird
5. HIM - Venus Doom
6. Alison Krauss/Robert Plant - Raising Sand
7. the Across The Universe Soundtrack
8. the Sweeney Todd soundtrack...
9. Hurt: Volume II
10. Tool - 10,000 Days (was that 07? I think so...)
yeah that's about it...

then let me replace that with
Clutch - From Beale Street to Oblivion

[Civil Disobedient]

If you enjoyed Nadja, I must recommend The Angelic Process - "Weighing Souls With Sand". Very, very similar in sound. The sad part is that they won't be releasing anymore albums because of some kind of injury the guitarist/mastermind sustained.Yeah i'm already a fan of that band, great stuff. Elend are pretty good, too.

[Tom]

Hissing Fauna Are You The Destroyer - Of Montreal was my favourite album of the year. I also loved 'It's a Bit Complicated' by Art Brut, and 'Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters' by The Twilight Sad. Neon Bible and In Rainbows were up there as well.

I've still got some stuff from 2007 to get around to, though. Digital Shades by M83, most pressingly.

[DemonHunter15]

In no Order...


Avenged Sevenfold - Avenged Sevenfold
Five Finger Death Punch - The Way of The Fist
Adema - Kill The Headlights (Im not a big fan of the stuff that doesnt have Mark Chavez but there are a few good songs here)
Cradle of Filth - Thornography
Seether - Finding Beauty in Negative Places

[JoetheShow]

I'll give another mention to the Into the Wild soundtrack. Eddie Vedder did a great job with that.

[IndianSummer]

I won't put Pyramids here because it came out extremely late

Let's see, what would make this list (no order)

Saves the Day - Under the Boards
Caspian - Four Trees (no doubt the best post-rock album of the year, possiby the best actual album too)
BTBAM - Colors
Mass Movement of the Moth - Outerspace (skramz, quite good)
The Kidcrash - Jokes (above)
Chemist vs. COmputer - Loki (great post-hardcore. Just an EP, but I expect great things from them)
Jazz June - Scars to Prove It (great album from an underappreciated midwest-emo band, represent)
Do Make Say Think - You, You're A History In Rust (if you haven't listened to them yet, get into them now. Very Explosions in the Sky-like, but better)
Maritime - Heresy and the Hotel Choir (no one from the Promise Ring could ever make a bad album)
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (Modest Mouse, enough said. Album gets a bit more credit than it deserves but the band is still ****ing amazing. Spitting Venom is one of their greatest songs)
Street Smart Cyclist - Lint Traps (yay, Cap'n Jazz-lit eis coming back)
Ted Leo/Rx - Living With the Living (Ted rules again with a great political record)
Pela - Anytown Graffiti (whoever said punk is dead hasn't listened to them yet.)

[Dark Cadence]

I'll give another mention to the Into the Wild soundtrack. Eddie Vedder did a great job with that.

It's funny you say that, cuz that album was shat upon by most critics.

[One Of Light]

oh and I forgot Every Time I Die's latest one... the Big Dirty (I think that's the name of it)

[Disgustipated]

In order:

1. Countess - Blazing Flames Of War
2. Darkestrah - Epos
3. Drudkh - Estrangement
4. Родосвет - Бойня Словена (Rodosvet - Slavonic Butchery)
5. Dodsferd - ****ing Your Creation

Blackk fukken metal

PS: sup Joe

[Civil Disobedient]

Sup Chris! The Dodsferd and Drudkh record were great.

[AllThingsEqual]

I just read through this thread again and noticed that no one mentioned Fear of a Blank Planet, which I believe could easily be one of the best albums of this year.

[The Crowing]

I just read through this thread again and noticed that no one mentioned Fear of a Blank Planet, which I believe could easily be one of the best albums of this year.
I don't like Steven's voice too much on Fear of a Blank Planet. But I agree, definately one of the best ones of last year.

[AllThingsEqual]

I don't like Steven's voice too much on Fear of a Blank Planet. But I agree, definately one of the best ones of last year.I like his voice anytime, but I think his voice is best live. If you have seen the Arriving Somewhere DVD then that is what I am talking about.

[The Crowing]

I like his voice anytime, but I think his voice is best live. If you have seen the Arriving Somewhere DVD then that is what I am talking about.
Definately true. I love that version of Trains.

[Anexod]

These aren't at all released in 2007, but they're what I listened to and enjoyed the most in 2007.

1. Coheed & Cambria - Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV: Fear Through The Eyes Of Madness
... Simply put the best album of my existance.
2. Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde
3. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Give It Back!
4. The Dandy Warhols - Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia
5. Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West

[The Crowing]

Gonna go ahead and add Colors by Between the Buried and Me to mine.

Brilliant