2007 in metal...highlights? [Archive] - Music & Musician Forums

lancelott

11-16-2007, 12:54 AM

A year or two back I was really getting into metal. This changed pace earlier this year when I rediscovered my favorite genre, rap.

I've picked up a few 2007 metal albums, but I'm sure there are many I'm lacking yet.

Care to recommend any?

i am the robots

11-16-2007, 12:58 AM

Hacksaw To The Throat - Wastelands
The Black Dahlia Murder - Nocturnal
From Graves Of Valor - Famine

Cocaine

11-16-2007, 12:59 AM

Sigh - Hangman's Hymn
The End - Elementary
Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters
The Red Chord - Prey for Eyes
Monstrosity - Spiritual Apocalypse

should be a good start

lancelott

11-16-2007, 01:01 AM

I have that Sigh album. I really liked it, probably their best to date.

Cocaine

11-16-2007, 01:03 AM

I have that Sigh album. I really liked it, probably their best to date.

It's just behind Imaginary Sonicscape for me, but it's awesome. 2007 has been a great year.

i am the robots

11-16-2007, 01:04 AM

Agreed.

planewreck

11-16-2007, 01:05 AM

Moonsorrow - V: Havitetty

Angmar

11-16-2007, 01:05 AM

Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters
Drudkh - Estrangement
Moonsorrow - V:Havitetty
Primordial - To the Nameless Dead
Neurosis - Given to the Rising
Kauan - Lumikuuro
Thurisaz - Circadian Rhythm

ftw

G_Mac07

11-16-2007, 01:06 AM

Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters

This.

And Portal - Outre.

And in a couple of days, expect me to add The Dead - The Dead to my list.

lancelott

11-16-2007, 01:08 AM

Moonsorrow - V: Havitetty

Have that too. Only listened like once though. I'm not really into folk stuff.

I also still have the task of properly tagging my now 90 gigabyte music collection. Try not putting that off. Not gonna happen.

Nostalgia

11-16-2007, 02:36 AM

Primordial - To the Nameless dead.

Such a better vocal improvement in contrast to The Gathering Wilderness.

Apocalyptic Raids

11-16-2007, 02:45 AM

me no likey new WITTR.

jjbraunius

11-16-2007, 04:31 AM

Watain - Sworn to the Dark

King Diamond - Give me your soul...please

repcak

11-16-2007, 06:08 AM

Machine Head - The Blackening for sure :D

Iron Bars

11-16-2007, 06:14 AM

Warning - Watching from a distance and Therion - Gothic Kabbalah

Shattered_Future

11-16-2007, 06:53 AM

After Forever - After Forever

Nuff said.

Neoteric

11-16-2007, 06:54 AM

Machine Head - The Blackening for sure :Dnah haha

Iron Bars

11-16-2007, 07:26 AM

After Forever - After Forever

Nuff said.

Great album, I used to not like them but this album turned me over. Saw them live a few months ago, without their second guitarist/vocalist wich kinda sucked (but replacement vocalist George made up for it for the most part).

JumpTheF**kUp

11-16-2007, 07:26 AM

Alcest.

pate

11-16-2007, 08:35 AM

Novembers Doom - The Novella Reservoir
Trouble - Simple Mind Condition
Iced Earth - Framing Armageddon
Shining - V: Halmstad
Alabama Thunderpussy - Open Fire
Lord - Ascendence
Thurisaz - Circadian Rhythm
Vintersorg - Solens Rotter
The Hidden Hand - The Resurrection of Whiskey Foote
King Diamond - Give Me Your Soul...Please
Neurosis - Given to the Rising
Nightingale - White Darkness
Orange Goblin - Healing Through Fire
Sigh - Hangman's Hymn
Sacred Oath - Darkness Visible
Therion - Gothic Kabbalah
Type O Negative - Dead Again
Turisas - The Varangian Way

Aakon_Keetreh

11-16-2007, 08:56 AM

Dethklok!

pate

11-16-2007, 09:05 AM

Ew.

jrowa001

11-16-2007, 09:18 AM

Novembers Doom - The Novella Reservoir

the2stranger

11-16-2007, 11:06 AM

Nadja - Thaumogenesis
Nadja -Radiance Of Shadows
Immolation - Shadows In The Light
Ulver - Shadows Of The Sun
The Angelic Process - Weighing Sould With Sand

Pete

11-16-2007, 11:15 AM

Odious Mortem - Cryptic Implosions
Between the Buried and Me - Colors
Hacksaw to the Throat - Wastelands

planewreck

11-16-2007, 11:24 AM

Have that too. Only listened like once though. I'm not really into folk stuff.

But I mean it's awesome and a highlight.

Cocaine

11-16-2007, 11:24 AM

Odious Mortem - Cryptic Implosions
I'll second this. Tech death done right, and with a little Ron Jarzombek for added spice.

2muchket!

11-16-2007, 11:26 AM

Architects - Ruin
Type O Negative - Dead Again
The Black Dahlia Murder - Nocturnal
Devil Sold His Soul - A Fragile Hope

All excellent.

guitrguy

11-16-2007, 11:27 AM

masscows

11-16-2007, 11:35 AM

Sigh - Hangman's Hymn
The End - Elementary
Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters
The Red Chord - Prey for Eyes
Monstrosity - Spiritual Apocalypse

should be a good start
This+Immolation-Shadows in the Light

and Rotting Christ-Theogonia

Invicta_Veritas

11-16-2007, 11:52 AM

Luc214

11-16-2007, 12:06 PM

Rotting Christ - Theogonia

Primordial - To The Nameless Dead

planewreck

11-16-2007, 12:10 PM

Oh yes Primordial rules.

pate

11-16-2007, 12:28 PM

I have to put special emphasis on someone's mention of Rotting Christ. By far their best album yet.

Agreed. I guess I forgot to put it on my list.

Invicta_Veritas

11-16-2007, 12:30 PM

Agreed. I guess I forgot to put it on my list.

Yea, so how about you take that disgrace/dissappointment of a Type O Negative album off the list and throw RC on there. :p

i am the robots

11-16-2007, 12:30 PM

I'll second this. Tech death done right, and with a little Ron Jarzombek for added spice.

I really DON'T like Odious Mortem.

Meatplow

11-16-2007, 12:31 PM

man, i am so lacking in modern metal it's not funny....

give me some black sabbath or dio anyday

i am the robots

11-16-2007, 12:32 PM

HOLY DIVER

pate

11-16-2007, 12:34 PM

SOUL SURVIVOR

Meatplow

11-16-2007, 12:35 PM

gotta get away...........

seriously. the guy rules!

i am the robots

11-16-2007, 12:36 PM

Dio does indeed rule.

Invicta_Veritas

11-16-2007, 12:38 PM

You're all on crack.

pate

11-16-2007, 01:05 PM

Dio eats you for a mid-morning snack with his bran waffles.

guitrguy

11-16-2007, 01:09 PM

You're all on crack.

And you call yourself metal?

naboo

11-16-2007, 05:23 PM

Symphony X - Paradise Lost
Dark Tranquillity - Fiction
Devin Townsend - Ziltoid (this one was a big grower)

repcak

11-16-2007, 05:31 PM

Symphony X - Paradise Lost
Dark Tranquillity - Fiction
Devin Townsend - Ziltoid (this one was a big grower)

omg, i forgot about SX ... so true!

bringonthebreakdown

11-16-2007, 05:56 PM

The New Swallow the sun record, the new btbam record, and the new abr record. :)

Shred Danson

11-16-2007, 05:59 PM

With Faith or Flames - Heir to The Viking Throne

FatalEnergy

11-16-2007, 06:00 PM

Sigh - Hangman's Hymn is my favorite of 2007

pate

11-16-2007, 06:17 PM

With Faith or Flames - Heir to The Viking Throne

Heir to the hXc Throne

rid

11-16-2007, 07:17 PM

not been out long, but The Ocean's Precambrian is without a doubt my favorite of the year (so far?)

Men Eater - Hellstone

all I can think of atm

encmetalhead

11-16-2007, 07:38 PM

From Graves Of Valor - Famine
The Red Chord - Prey for Eyes
Between the Buried and Me - Colors
Dark Tranquillity - Fiction
Also new The Autumn Offering, Knives Exchanging Hands, debut Ghost of A Fallen Age, and Debut The Hottness

i am the robots

11-16-2007, 08:47 PM

Heir to the hXc Throne

Heir To The Strippercore Throne

Txus

11-16-2007, 09:14 PM

Baroness - The Red Album
High on Fire - Death is this Communion
Neurosis - Given to the Rising
Viaje a 800 - Estampida de Trombones
Dødheimsgard - Supervillain Outcast
Rosetta - Wake/Lift
The Ocean - Precambrian
Today is the Day - Axis Of Eden
Minsk - The Ritual Fires of Abandonment

Some of my favorites which have not been mentioned already (I think).

jrowa001

11-16-2007, 09:22 PM

i am predicting that the new Evoken album will be among my favorites as soon as i get it in the mail

Hbp

11-16-2007, 09:25 PM

Pelican - City Of Echoes
Sigh - Hangman's Hymn
The Red Chord - Prey For Eyes
Neurosis - Given To The Rising

Shattered_Future

11-16-2007, 09:35 PM

How you can say that Gothic Kabbalah is nothing special is beyond me. That's definately their most interesting album by far.

Txus

11-16-2007, 09:36 PM

HAHA, not at all Mike.

Shattered_Future

11-16-2007, 09:37 PM

Which one do you think is more interesting?

Gothic Kabbalah is certainly their most unique, then.

Permanent Solution

11-16-2007, 09:37 PM

Also new The Autumn Offering, Knives Exchanging Hands, debut Ghost of A Fallen Age, and Debut The Hottness

You would love my radio show.

Txus

11-16-2007, 09:41 PM

Which one do you think is more interesting?

Gothic Kabbalah is certainly their most unique, then.
Hmm, maybe unique in some way but I think Lemuria, Theli and even Vovin are much more interesting.

pate

11-16-2007, 10:17 PM

Lemuria's my favorite.

staticaxe

11-16-2007, 10:17 PM

korn - untitled

metallica - st anger

naboo

11-16-2007, 10:52 PM

Pelican - City Of Echoes

I just got this one the other day. It's different from their last in an odd way but I think it will be a contender very soon.

Sleepy

11-16-2007, 11:03 PM

Benighted - Icon

NP and it's wonderful.

Also:

Between the Buried & Me - Colors

Another fantastic album.

Hbp

11-16-2007, 11:04 PM

I just got this one the other day. It's different from their last in an odd way but I think it will be a contender very soon.

It's very, very, very criminally underrated.

bringonthebreakdown

11-16-2007, 11:28 PM

metallica - st anger

lol wtf, how is that a 2007 album?

rid

11-16-2007, 11:52 PM

lol wtf, how is that a 2007 album?

and how can it be called a highlight?

Invicta_Veritas

11-17-2007, 12:14 AM

Usually when it's that obvious, it's someone trolling. Ignore it; holy crap.

i am the robots

11-17-2007, 01:00 AM

Waking The Cadaver - Perverse Recollections Of A Necromongler

Riva

11-17-2007, 01:12 AM

How you can say that Gothic Kabbalah is nothing special is beyond me. That's definately their most interesting album by far.

*Jason crashes through ceiling*

Gothic Kabbalah is good, but not Therion's best by a long-shot!

masterchaos

11-17-2007, 03:59 AM

Skeletonwitch - Beyond the Permafrost
TBDM - Nocturnal
The Absense - Riders of he Plague
High on Fire- Death is the Communion

i am the robots

11-17-2007, 04:01 AM

I forgot to mention Endstille's Reich and Odinist: The Destruction Of Reason By Illumination.

encmetalhead

11-17-2007, 08:09 AM

The Absense - Riders of he Plague
FORGOT THAT ALBUM! I must listen to it after i finish this Grateful Dead album
You would love my radio show.
If i was up that late or u podcasted it, yes :p :chug:

masscows

11-17-2007, 08:17 AM

Waking The Cadaver - Perverse Recollections Of A Necromongler

NOT FUNNY

rid

11-17-2007, 08:24 AM

NOT FUNNY

a little bit funny

Shattered_Future

11-17-2007, 09:51 AM

*Jason crashes through ceiling*

Gothic Kabbalah is good, but not Therion's best by a long-shot!

Lmao fanboy to the rescue!

Eh, I think it's their best. It's certainly the most unique, and it's very well written.

2muchket!

11-17-2007, 10:59 AM

Waking The Cadaver - Perverse Recollections Of A Necromongler

WHEEEEEEEEEET WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET Shreddded WHEAAAAATTTTTTTT !!!1

DJTeeLay

11-17-2007, 11:04 AM

Between the Buried & Me - Colors

Another fantastic album.

Indeed.
My favorite album of 07 so far.

masscows

11-17-2007, 12:30 PM

WHEEEEEEEEEET WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET Shreddded WHEAAAAATTTTTTTT !!!1

The new songs they put out use more of an upper-throat inhale gurgle vocal style mixed with some growls and bree's here and there. They're actually alot like Devourment now.

masterchaos

11-17-2007, 12:35 PM

Man I dont know how this happened, but I totally forgot Dark Tranquility's Fiction

good stuff

UpperDecker

11-17-2007, 04:42 PM

Machine Head - The Blackening
The Red Chord - Prey For Eyes
BTBAM - Colors

2muchket!

11-17-2007, 05:23 PM

The new songs they put out use more of an upper-throat inhale gurgle vocal style mixed with some growls and bree's here and there. They're actually alot like Devourment now.

I still think the vocals are awful. Plus the instrumentation is the most simple generic stuff I've ever heard .

masscows

11-17-2007, 07:10 PM

I still think the vocals are awful. Plus the instrumentation is the most simple generic stuff I've ever heard .

I think the vocals are ridiculous in a good way, but they aren't hard to do at all & get boring quick.

And yeah, as a band they really suck. The drummer's gravity blasts are really ****ing uneven and most of their songs are dominated by 3 or 4 chord slam riffs.

EightMilesHigh

11-17-2007, 07:52 PM

It's not coming out for a couple weeks, but the new Grim Tr00 Forests Of The Northern Black Moon record is supposed to be amazing.

fuzzyhair

11-17-2007, 09:20 PM

The Black Dahlia Murder: Nocturnal (amazing)
Job For A Cowboy: Genesis (a few good songs)

Angmar

11-17-2007, 09:22 PM

You need to listen to more metal clearly if that is all you can think of. :p

fuzzyhair

11-17-2007, 09:26 PM

You need to listen to more metal clearly if that is all you can think of. :p

A lot of bands have been listed already. I added TBDM because I really like them and encourage everyone to listen to them. I threw in JFAC since it hasn't been listed yet (I think).

I don't listen to many metal bands, but the ones I do listen to I listen to a lot.

fuzzyhair

11-17-2007, 10:28 PM

Oh and the Deus Invicus EP. They are so good.

They are writing a pure death metal album, then a progressive metal album back to back.

BobJoHankins

11-17-2007, 10:33 PM

has anyone had first-hand experience with Neurosis's 2007 album?
Is it any good?

pate

11-17-2007, 10:34 PM

It's excellent.

planewreck

11-17-2007, 11:49 PM

It's good.

Txus

11-17-2007, 11:57 PM

It's very good.

2muchket!

11-18-2007, 07:41 AM

A lot of bands have been listed already. I added TBDM because I really like them and encourage everyone to listen to them. I threw in JFAC since it hasn't been listed yet (I think).

I don't listen to many metal bands, but the ones I do listen to I listen to a lot.

JFAC's first full length is pretty good.

TBDM is one of my favourite albums at present. Can't stop listening to it.