“Decibel” Likes Pig Destroyer As Much As We Do

Somehow we doubt this one’s gonna inspire as much comments box back-and-forth as yesterday’s Paste bomb, but our 2007 year-end analysis continues thanks to always awesome extreme-metal mag Decibel‘s Top 40 Albums Of The Year list hitting the Web. The full-list is after the jump, but first our cursory impressions.

THE GOOD: Pig Destroyer’s grindcore masterpiece rightfully (which doesn’t mean it won’t be hotly contested by those in the know) in the No. 1 spot, followed by a solid Top 40 that includes nearly a dozen records that made my own personal faves of ’07 list.
THE BAD: Even as someone who’s up to his neck in Necrofrost CD-R’s, I’m not about to start debating what should have made list/where certain albums should have placed, though I’d like to have seen some love for a few sentimental, possibly indefensible faves (Darkthrone’s wicked, near satirical F.O.A.D., for instance). It’s also kind of a bummer that I’ll never have enough free time to devote as much study to modern metal as everyone should. And Pelican are boring as hell.
THE WHAAA?: Not bad “whaa?” but it’s nice to see some less traditionally “metal” heavy music littering the list (Pissed Jeans, the poppiest Melt Banana record yet), reflecting Decibel‘s unpretentiously wide-ranging listening habits.

40 – Grave In The Sky – Cutlery Hits China: English For The Hearing Impaired
39 – Trap Them – Sleepwell Deconstructer
38 – Darkest Hour – Deliver Us
37 – Year of No Light – Nord
36 – Pissed Jeans – Hope For Men
35 – Alcest – Souvenirs d’un Autre Monde
34 – Torche – In Return
33 – Between the Buried and Me – Colors
32 – Evoken – A Caress Of The Void
31 – Destroyer Destroyer – Littered With Arrows
30 – Down – III: Over The Under
29 – Engineer – The Dregs
28 – Rwake – Voice Of Omens
27 – Architect – All Is Not Lost
26 – Obliteration – Perpetual Decay
25 – Dax Riggs – We Sing Of Only Blood Or Love
24 – Big Business – Here Come The Waterworks
23 – Rosetta – Wake/Lift
22 – Magrudergrind – Rehashed
21 – Machine Head – The Blackening
20 – Caina – Mourner
19 – Electric Wizard – Witchcult Today
18 – The End – Elementary
17 – Melt-Banana – Bambi’s Dilemma
16 – Graf Orlock – Destination Time Tomorrow
15 – Bergraven – Dodsvisioner
14 – Moonsorrow – Viides Luku/Havitetty
13 – Pelican – City Of Echoes
12 – The Red Chord – Prey For Eyes
11 – Deathspell Omega – Fas-ite Maledicti In Ignem Aeternum
10 – A Life Once Lost – Iron Gag
09 – High on Fire – Death Is This Communion
08 – Portal – Outre
07 – Witchcraft – The Alchemist
06 – Neurosis – Given To The Rising
05 – Baroness – The Red Album
04 – Jesu – Conqueror
03 – The Dillinger Escape Plan – Ire Works
02 – Watain – Sworn To The Dark
01 – Pig Destroyer – Phantom Limb

Decibel Albums Of The Year 2007 [trailofgybe]