I think High on Fires new album was really underrated on a lot of lists (including my own hahaha). Revolver did the album justice! Nice to see Baroness at the top and Neurosis close behind (which should be on top of this list by the ways).

Digging: Ulcerate - Of Fracture and Failure

lol the blackening

Digging: Tegan and Sara - Sainthood

2. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
- This is too high on the list for my liking

3. High on Fire - Death is the Communion
- Havn't heard but i've heard good things about them

4. Down - Down III: Over the Under
- Great Album

5. Machine Head - The Blackening
- havn't heard yet

7. Serj Tankian - Elect the Dead
- should be ranked a little lower

8. Atreyu - Lead Sails Paper Anchor
- WHAT THE HELL?!?!?!?!??!!?!? This is top 50 only

10. Behemoth - The Apostasy
- pretty good

11. Coheed and Cambria - No World For Tomorrow
- Metal?

15. Hellyeah - Hellyeah
- overrated

17. Chiodos - Bone Palace Ballet
- Metal?

20. The Red Chord - Prey for Eyes
- Pretty Good and should be ranked higher (15th or so)

Mike, the Blackening is a really good album.

And its nice to see Everytime I Die ALOT lower than last year. Oooooh, hardcore and rock & roll, impressive.....but not really.

Hellyeah - Hellyeah- overrated

Pretty awful list. Ire Works is a 3/5 on a good day, I'm considering taking my rating down even...

Baroness is pretty good, definitely top 10 material, but where the hell is Colors!?!?!?

Digging: Circle Takes The Square - As The Roots Undo

They put on Hellyeah but didnt put on Between the Buried and Me, bull. And Id be hesitant to call Co&Ca metal, but thats a great album.

Digging: Between The Buried And Me - The Great Misdirect

Yeah I saw this in the magazine. I was surprised they didn't list them in reverse order, but then again the suspense wouldn't have killed anyone anyway. I don't understand all the love Baroness are getting.

Digging: Natasha Bedingfield - Pocketful of Sunshine

They're probably getting more praise than they deserve, but The Red Album was still pretty stellar. BTBAM, Symphony X, and The Red Chord definitely own up on that album this year though.

Magazine lists blow.

Digging: Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein

Hahahahah so true Zoo, but they have a broad reader base that they have to cater to. It doesnt surprise me why alot of people, especially Sputnik users, hate magazine lists. Still, at least this list covers many different types of metal and I found it better than Metal Edge's shat list!

Chiodos... metal? List has been disregarded.

Digging: Vanna - A New Hope

1. Baroness - Red Album
-haven't heard it yet.

2. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
-good choice but a bit high and it's a stretch calling them metal.

3. High on Fire - Death is the Communion
-pretty good, but a little high.

4. Down - Down III: Over the Under
-Perfect.

5. Machine Head - The Blackening
-Overrated


7. Serj Tankian - Elect the Dead
-Not metal or good

8. Atreyu - Lead Sails Paper Anchor
-Waaaayyyy too high, and I'm pretty sure they jumped out the metal scene with this album.


10. Behemoth - The Apostasy
-Amazing album, Top 10 is good.

11. Coheed and Cambria - No World For Tomorrow
-Great album but not metal.


15. Hellyeah - Hellyeah
-No, just no.

16. Skeletonwitch - Beyond the Permafrost
-Good choice.

17. Chiodos - Bone Palace Ballet
-Not metal.

18. Everytime I Die - The Big Dirty
-Strecth calling them metal too but it's a damn good album.

20. The Red Chord - Prey for Eyes
-Meh.

What they left out:
Amorphis-Silent Waters
Between The Buried and Me-Colors
Porcupine Tree-Fear Of A Blank Planet
Pig Destroyer-Phantom Limb

Digging: Burnt By the Sun - Soundtrack to the Personal Revolution

Album Rating: 1

20 is good, 10 is ok, 14 is supposed to be good, but the rest are just ugh.

Digging: Leviathan - Tentacles of Whorror

lol, Grinderman on a metal list.

I totally agree with 1, I would just put it a couple lower. 6 and 9 are worthy, I spose. Shit list otherwise.

wow worst list ever

Bad list.

Digging: Between The Buried And Me - The Great Misdirect

I liked Ire Works, but overall this is a bad list.

I made this list. Pretty bad. I only read Metal Hammer, BW BK, and Hammer. Fuck Edge and Revolver.

Digging: Deep-Pression/Exethersis - Train Exeter To D.P. State

18. Everytime I Die - The Big Dirty
-Strecth calling them metal too but it's a damn good album.

7, 11, 17*

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Digging: Every Time I Die - New Junk Aesthetic

I would have included Porcupine Tree on this list because of their incorporation of metal in their progressive rock.

grinderman pwn but what the hell are they doing on this list!? are they metal through sheer virtue of having fairly dirty-sounding guitars in their music?

hell yeah!

It's a pretty loose definition but probably a good reminder that music doesn't have to have growling or mad sweeps to be called metal.

You can't get metal hammer here, all we have is Metal Maniacs, Metal Edge, Revolver, and some Core magazine called Outburn.

i hate metal magazines

Digging: Slipknot - Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)

Well said Spat Out Sexy Men!

Needs Colors and Phantom Limb.

That is ACTUALLY the worst list ever.

Digging: The Black Dahlia Murder - Deflorate

LOL, #15 makes this list invalid, wow, same with #8!

Digging: Between The Buried And Me - The Great Misdirect

With the exception of Deathspell Omega and maybe Behemoth this list is the epitome of suckage.

Digging: Drudkh - Blood In Our Wells

Serj's album is mediocre at best. I also believe Hellyeah is pretty overrated. Chiodos doesn't belong there at all. It's nice to see Atreyu actually getting some recognition for their new album, although I wouldn't rate it one of the top metal releases of 07. But it's nice to hear change nonetheless. The rest of the bands I haven't really had an interest to check out.

oh yea and...what's the big fucking deal with behemoth anyway??? It's loud, heavy, fast giberish. The exact makings of black metal, so what makes them so fucking special? are they the loudestfastestheaviestgibberishgarbling band out there or is it just because of their costumes?? What kind of name is Nergal anyway? isn't that the name of the demon kid from Billy and Mandy that everyone picks on because he's a nerdy, demon dufus? Wth man. Wth. Better luck with 2008 I hope.

Come on, Down III wasn't that good, it was alright at the most. I was hoping for a big sludge of pissed off metal from New Orleans and all we got was "Hey, Katrina didn't steal our happiness!!! Go Team!"

And Hellyeah are pure Nu crap, the only reason they are selling albums is because of dumb kids seeing it and saying "Lark OMG!!!111 That's Dimebags brudda's band11111!!! It must be well goooooooddlolol!!!111"

NO BTBAM?! my gosh...

Cool to see Behemoth on there.

oh yea and...what's the big ****ing deal with behemoth anyway??? It's loud, heavy, fast giberish. The exact makings of black metal, so what makes them so ****ing special? are they the loudestfastestheaviestgibberishgarbling band out there or is it just because of their costumes?? What kind of name is Nergal anyway? isn't that the name of the demon kid from Billy and Mandy that everyone picks on because he's a nerdy, demon dufus? Wth man. Wth. Better luck with 2008 I hope.

Why do you know current cartoon characters other than Family Guy? That's kind of gay, especially that one.
Maybe it's just me, cartoons just aren't good anymore. Nonetheless, Behemoth have been around for a while now, so I'm sure he had that name before the cartoon. Besides, it's a Polish thing I'm sure, so attacking it makes you look stupid.

Baroness- a very good album, no way at the top. No mention of Primordial's TTND , Shining's V Halmstad, Nightingale's White Darkness, Amorphis Silent Waters, Wolves in the Throneroom Two Hunters? C'mon, these lists are always horrible. Coheed and Cambria isn't even metal, their prog/rock/emo. With a singer who sounds like a 12 yr old kid! Absolutely cringe-worthy.

Nergal is actually a polish folklore god. Of what, I cannot remember, and I'm too lazy to check wikipedia.

Digging: Vordr - I

i actually just created an account only to voice my opinion on baroness. im always after new good music, them being at the top of the list and praised by so many of you, i thought id download some, check em out, and see what theyre all about. Im sorry i wasted my time and wonder how they found themselves at the top. At best, theyre boring, uneventfull and would do better to put me to sleep then move me like metal music should. Societys definition of metal has become rather pathetic.