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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.
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]
Comments
And Pelican are boring as hell.
Yes and yes again.
Municipal Waste should be on that damn list!
Down III should be much higher.
@Whigged: Then again, I just found out that Snake Sabo manages them - which alone is worthy of a dozen spot drop.
That Dax Riggs record really isn't as good as some people seem to think it is.
Where the f' is OM? Pilgremage is a weird, fantastic record that show's OM going to new levels.
Bands on this list that I've heard of: 2.
Even though they were a joke band- I wouldn't mind seeing the Dethklok cd in there somewhere.
Can't complain too much about their choices, though I don't think I would have the new DEP anywhere near my top ten.
Album's not that good, guys. Not even the best Pig Destroyer album.
So much trippage on that record this year.
@WhineyPTW: The interview with Matthew Barney is totally gratuitous. Why is it so exceptional that artistes like extreme music?
Watain and Deathspell Omega?
SIKKKKK, FVKKING KVLT, etc.
Love that Down album, too.
Om definitely belongs on there, though.
The sleeper on this list is that Rwake album, which probably would've placed higher had it not come out so long ago.
@musicquizking: I voted for them.
@WhineyPTW: I prefer the last one, but I don't know. I still like it quite a bit. Neurosis was my fave.
The Rwake album definitely should have placed higher, and where the fuck is the Minsk album, Ritual Fires Of Abandonment? And I'm already on record thinking that Pig Destroyer peaked (to date, anyway) with Terrifyer.
Ditto on the Down III record. Phil and Pepper, the new metal BFF's.
That Baroness record is pretty good, but not better than the new Neurosis. I think the new Torche is on there just because people wanted it to be good, which it isn't. Don't believe me? Go listen to the first album or the last Floor album.
Agreeing with you guys on the Rwake record, that shit is the best...and how in the world did the super hyped Wolves in the Throne Room not make this list?
Slough Feg's Hardworlder gets my vote as best album of the year.
I also need to say that the new Down record is mediocre. A definite disappointment to my ears.
I'm glad the Darkest Hour record made it on there. The High on Fire is really good too. I'm disappointed that 3 Inches of Blood didn't make the list though because that's by far my favorite from this year.
That Alcest record is dope.
JESU, FTW.
Jesu's Conqueror was a Catherine Wheel 7 inch played at half speed (that would be 33, ELO Kiddies)
@Captain Wrong: With all due respect to Justin Broadrick, Jesu has to be the weakest entrant on this list.
@Paperboy 2000: I think the Baroness record IS better than the Neurosis one, but why argue over that when both of them are better than Pig Destroyer's Phantom Limb?
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