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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.

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Because some of our readers may, in fact, be so full of vitriol that the combination of Justin Timberlake and Paxil just isn't doin' it for them anymore, we bring you our bimonthly metal column, "Angry Music for Angry People," written by MetalSucks' Axl Rosenberg, a.k.a. Matthew Goldenberg. In this installment, he's caught between the intellectual and face-smashing impulses of grindcore giants Pig Destroyer: More »

I've actually spent the whole afternoon listening to Matthew Sweet's Girlfriend, but Maura said I could post whatever "completely inaccessible music" I wanted today. So here's Pig Destroyer's newish single "Loathsome," which is actually fairly accessible as far as grindcore goes. If you care at all about metal, you should already own this year's Phantom Limb, and if you don't care at all about metal, well, what's your damage? (You know, thinking about it I can't believe I didn't use a "pig destroyer" pun in an OiNK headline today.)

Pig Destroyer - "Loathsome" [YouTube]