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METALSUCKS “BEST ALBUMS OF 2007″ RACE HEATS UP

Monday, December 3rd, 2007 at 12:44pm by

As the year 2007 winds down we’ll be rolling out some year end features, among them our Top 10 lists and our very own Awards, “The Suckies,” in which you, our loyal readers, will get to vote. You guys are in for a real treat with that one. But starting next week, we’ll roll out our Top 10 lists — Vince and Axl will cover their favorite releases of ’07 while Kip Wingerschmidt will do his with a Kipian twist, the “Top 10 Favorite Albums I discovered in ’07.”

What are your favorite releases of 2007? Make sure we haven’t forgotten anything in our pool of nominees. After the jump, a full list in no particular order, as best as we could compile, of all major metal releases to hit the shelves in 2007.

sixx a.m.

Ziltoid – Devin Townsend

Foo Fighters

the bled

Down

velvet revolver

bloodjinn

megadeth

thrice

avenged sevenfold

at all cost

between the buried and me

nuclear blast all-stars

machinehead

emanuel

(hed) p.e.

chimaira

sikth

raintime

shadows fall

soilwork

clutch

arch enemy

HIM

devildriver

darkest hour

smashing pumpkins

type o negative

chevelle

dream theater

pig destroyer

ozzy

manson

omnium gatherum

sanctity

dimmu borgir

NIN

rwake

sevendust

dir en grey

finger eleven

daath

skindred

nonpoint

dillinger escape plan

  • Seth

    I liked the new Every Time I Die album. Also, I know its not metal, but if you can put finger eleven and chevelle on here, why not include Circa Survive (despite the ludicrously high pitched voice, they make great music).

  • DeathMetalDave

    Didn’t the new Nile come out this year as well?

  • Wayne

    Don’t forget Baroness’ “The Red Album”

  • http://www.thedeciblog.com nick

    So psyched for the Top 10 lists, dudes. Bring it!

  • http://www.coreymitchell.com Liquidman666

    Bergraven…Bergraven…Bergraven

  • Tag

    Coheed and Cambria! and even though it’s not as good as coheed…The Black Dahlia Murder!

  • barfman

    Machine Head’s The Blackening should win hands down….

  • http://last.fm/user/cooperaa Aaron Cooper

    Here are the metal(ish) albums of 2007 that I’ve rated 4 or 5 stars:

    Mors Principium Est – Liberation
    Fear My Thoughts – Vulcanus
    Feast for the Crows – When All Seems to Be Buried
    Beneath the Massacre – Mechanics of Dysfunction
    Dark Tranquillity – Fiction
    Pelican – City of Echoes
    Hatesphere – Serpent Smiles and Killer Eyes
    Nightrage – A New Disease Is Born
    Burden of Grief – Death End Road
    Carnal Forge – Testify for My Victims
    Paradise Lost – In Requiem
    Before the Dawn – Deadlight
    Misericordiam – Unanimity and the Cessation of Hostility
    Godless Crusade – Dawn of the Last Day
    Darkest Hour – Deliver Us
    August Burns Red – Messengers
    With Passion – What We See When We Shut Our Eyes
    Amorphis – Silent Waters
    Neaera – Armamentarium
    The Absence – Riders of the Plague
    Himsa – Summon in Thunder
    As I Lay Dying – An Ocean Between Us
    Bloodjinn – This Machine Runs on Empty (thanks for the tip!)
    Dethklok – The Dethalbum
    The Black Dahlia Murder – Nocturnal
    Memfis – The Wind-Up (might’ve been originally released in 2006)
    Soilwork – Sworn to a Great Divide
    DevilDriver – The Last Kind Words
    Exodus – The Atrocity Exhibition… Exhibit A
    Hacksaw to the Throat – Wastelands
    The Pax Cecilia – Blessed Are the Bonds
    Dimension Zero – He Who Shall Not Bleed
    Arise and Ruin – The Final Dawn

  • TJ

    You guys going to include the Dethklok record?

  • Ryd1ZZ

    This sounds interesting…

  • http://gnosent.blogspot.com gnosys

    1. Velvet Revolver – Libertad
    2. Smashing Pumpkins – Zeitgeist
    3. Lacuna Coil – Karmacode (2006, but released in the US this year)
    4. Nine Inch Nails – Year Zero
    5. Foo Fighters
    6. Clutch – From Beale St to Oblivion
    7. Megadeth

  • http://josephlovesit.blogspot.com Joseph

    Here are a few that I think you missed:

    Becoming The Archetype – The Physics of Fire
    Boris – Rainbow (not really metal anymore, but it’s damn good. I mean you are including the Foos)
    Deathspell Omega – Fas Ite Maledicti..
    Despised Icon – The Ills of Modern Man
    Electric Wizard – Witchcult Today
    Graf Orlock – Destination Time Tomorrow
    High On Fire – Death Is This Communion
    Horse The Band – A Natural Death
    Ion Dissonance – Minus the Herd
    Jesu – Conqueror, Lifeline, Pale Sketches & Sundown/Sunrise
    Om – Pilgrimage
    The Red Chord – Prey for Eyes
    Slavia – Strength and Vision
    Sunn O))) – Oracle
    Through The Eyes Of The Dead – Malice
    Throwdown – Venom & Tears
    Watain – Sworn to the Dark
    Wolves In The Throne Room – Two Hunters

  • TedTedPoleyPoley

    you guys missed ANGEL DOWN!!! :-P

  • http://myspace.com/greenhellpoland Paul

    You missed High On Fire – Death Is This Communion !!!

  • Jon

    Another vote for the new Coheed record!

  • http://www.57design.co.uk steve57

    Witchcraft – The Alchemist. Surely.

  • jason

    five finger death punch

  • jason

    Behemoth nile

  • ERiK

    #1 – Dethklok

  • Karel (Belgium)

    Malice (TTEOTD) is my favourite metal-release. Maybe include Elect The Dead from Serj Tankian? It’s not really metal, i know, but still…

  • Iceman

    BTBAM – colors, hands down best album of the year, my favorite of all time

  • Deeb

    Dark Tranquility
    Turisas
    Wolves in the Throne Room
    Mayhem

    these should all be included

  • Kip Wingerschmidt

    Rwake – Voices of Omens
    Intronaut – The Challenger
    Vaginaville – Skull Fuck To The Future

  • pchcowboy

    Slough Feg: Hardworlder
    The Wildhearts: The Wildhearts

  • Amanda

    The Black Dahlia Murder
    Dethklok
    Dir en Grey :].

  • Thom

    How about Orange Goblin’s Healing Through Fire?
    That album blew me away.

  • http://www.hibernum.net Hibernum

    you forgot Mithras.

  • Sheila Nemesis

    As I Lay Dying owns all. Them and Machine Head.

    I win, now go away.

  • noah skape

    Type O Negative ‘Dead Again’ & QOTSA ‘era vulgaris’ are my two picks.

  • Abyssal Creation

    Dudes you forgot about Born Of Osiris’s cd The New Reign 2nd only to Colors in my opinion for best cd of 07.

  • http://josephlovesit.blogspot.com Joseph

    You also forgot
    Neurosis – Given to the Rising
    an album which I have still yet to hear

  • http://sci-inv.blogspot.com Martijn ter Haar

    My top 10 for 2007 All Genres:
    1. Future of the Left – Curses
    2. Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat – An Interlude to the Outermost
    3. Grinderman – Grinderman
    4. Dillinger Escape Plan – Ire Works
    5. Every Time I Die – The Big Dirty
    6. Terror Visions – World of Shit
    7. Lightning Dust – Lightning Dust
    8. Dollhouse – Royal Rendez-Vous
    9. Black Francis – Bluefinger
    10. Earthless – Rhythms from a Cosmic Sky

    Metal Only:
    1. Dillinger Escape Plan – Ire Works
    2. Every Time I Die – The Big Dirty
    3. Terror Visions – World of Shit
    4. Earthless – Rhythms from a Cosmic Sky
    5. Down – Over the Under
    6. High On Fire – Death Is This Communion
    7. Paradise Lost – Requiem
    8. Obituary – Xecutioner’s Return
    9. Trelldom – Til Minne…
    10. Dodsferd – Fucking Your Creation

    But I haven’t checked out Witchcraft’s and Electric Wizard’s new albums, which apparently both kick major ass.

  • gimpimusprime

    I’d say Clutch, Devin Townsend, and Dethklok are the three best albums this year. Hands down.

  • Mike

    1. Cephalic Carnage – Xenosapien
    2. 3 Inches of Blood – Fire Up the Blades
    3. The Red Chord – Prey For Eyes
    4. High On Fire – Death Is This Communion
    5. Skeletonwitch – Beyond the Permafrost
    6. Behemoth – The Apostasy
    7. Dying Fetus – War of Attrition
    8. Shadows Fall – Threads of Life
    9. The Absence – The Rider of Plaques
    10. Exodus _ The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit A
    11. Immolation – Shadows In The Light
    12. Job For A Cowboy – Genesis
    13. Odious Mortem – Cryptic Implosion
    14. Monster Magnet – 4-Way Diablo
    15. Vomitory – Terrorize Brutalize Sodomize
    16. Down – III: Over the Under
    17. Devildriver – The Last Kind Words
    18. Through The Eyes Of The Dead – Malice
    19. Demericous – Two: Poverty
    20. Malignancy – Inhuman Grotesqueries
    21. Throwdown – Venom & Tears
    22. Baroness – The Red Album
    23. Clutch – From Beale Street To Oblivion
    24. Pig Destroyer – Phantom Limb
    25. Full Blown Chaos – Heavy Lies the Crown
    26. Aborted – Slaughter & Apparatus – A Methodical Overture
    27. Malevolent Creation – Doomsday X
    28. Nile – Ithyphallic
    29. Beneath The Massacre – Mechanics of Dysfunction
    30. Drawn And Quartered – The Merciless Hammer of Lucifer

    Most over-rated, stay away from, album of the year Machine Head – The Blackening

  • http://www.myspace.com/yourhandsdivine Garry Divine

    Volbeat – Rock The Rebel/Metal The Devil
    The Ocean – Precambrian
    Pelican – City Of Echoes
    Dying Fetus – War Of Attrition
    Japanische Kampfhörspiele – Rauchen und Yoga (see them at Maryland Deathfest!)
    Minsk – The Ritual Fires Of Abandonment
    Monster Magnet – 4-Way Diabolo
    Neurosis – Given To The Rising
    Electric Wizard – Witchcult Today

    I guess that would be my picks…

  • http://www.myspace.com/yourhandsdivine Garry Divine

    Forgot to mention the best of the bunch: Baroness – Red Album

  • http://countshockula.blogspot.com ezra

    witchcraft should be up there as well as xenosapien. that new pelican record sucks though. boring. and i like pelican.

  • http://xhiramx.blogspot.com Hiram

    Same #1 as last year: Anaal Nathrakh (not as good as Eschaton though).
    And don’t forget Earth’s Hibernaculum… gorgeous.

  • Shiv

    The Ocean-Precambrian

    hands down

  • Retrograde

    Witchcraft- The Alchemist
    Om- Pilgrimage
    Electric Wizard- Witchcult Today

  • Tom

    Good calls so far but I believe we’re still missing a few amazing albums

    ENSIFERUM
    MUNICIPAL WASTE
    MOONSORROW

    my personal faves this year in metal were

    EXODUS
    Every Time I Die
    Dillinger Escape Plan
    Machine Head
    Municipal Waste
    Avenged Sevenfold
    Between the Buried and Me
    Despised Icon
    Black Dahlia Murder
    The Ocean Collective

  • ozzyzak

    Personally I liked Benighted’s Icon. Anyone? -sigh-

    Man that album rules.

  • Seth

    reading this compilation of band’s vying for best album of the year, I realize how ridiculous metal band names are. I mean, ok Pig Destroyer, Goatwhore, Cattle decapitation–I get it, slandering the good name of cattle is cool…BUT “Vaginaville – Skull Fuck To The Future”…is this really a band? IF so, is it a place? Cuz frankly, Id love to go to Vaginaville anytime soon.

  • Kye

    Dethklok
    BTBAM
    Dark Tranquillity
    Dimmu Borgir
    Arch Enemy
    Machine Head
    A7X
    Dir en Grey

  • Hegster90

    Clutch
    Avenged Sevenfold
    Thrice
    Pig Destroyer
    Dethklok

    what about The Confession?
    ETID??

  • Hegster90

    and Between the Buried and Me

  • Sanfranguns

    The two best albums of the year are not on the list…

    1. The Wildhearts – The Wildhearts
    2. Turbonegro – Retox

    You also forgot The Exies – A modern way

    You’re welcome

  • Anthony

    As I Lay Dying and I don’t care what else.

  • Amanda

    Oh, and I wanna say Arch Enemy too.

  • 4k1v4

    no Turisas?

    no Lyfthrasyr?

  • NuMallCore Pwns YoMama

    Baroness – Red Album
    Between the Buried and Me – Colors
    Nine in Nails – Year Zero
    Megadeth – United Abominations
    Chimaira – Resurrection
    Clutch – Beale Street
    Darkest Hour – Deliver Us
    As I Lay Dying – An Ocean Between Us
    Thrice – Alchemy Index – Fire & Water

    There’s a few others that I’m sure are good, but this is what I bought that deserves a mention.

  • Emily

    Nightwish – Dark Passion Play
    Therion – Gothic Kabbalah
    Virgin Black – Requiem – Mezzo Forte
    Kamelot – Ghost Opera
    Demon Hunter – Storm the Gates of Hell
    Within Temptation – The Heart of Everything
    Sirenia – Nine Destinies and a Downfall
    Tristania – Illumination
    Epica – The Divine Conspiracy
    Symphony X – Paradise Lost

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  • ughhhh

    NOCTURNAL must be in the top 10. Go BDM.

  • http://NYCMetal.com NYCMETAL SAM

    man, I should get you a HUNG CD this weekend, hahaha

  • jay

    You forgot the best metal album of the year/all-time: Hellyeah.

    Just kidding.

  • Jim

    I’m not sure if either of these albums came out in 2007, but I think they did. I’d like to nominate In This Moment and 3 Inches of Blood. Thanks

  • Matt

    Maybe it’s not a “metal” album, but Spoiler NYC’s debut “Grease Fire in Hell’s Kitchen” was pretty good. Don’t know if you guy’s checked it out.

    http://www.spoilernyc.com

  • devilmatic

    [car_bomb]-Centralia on Relapse Records.
    Is my favorite album for 2007!

  • http://noyokono.blogspot.com noyokono

    BIG BUSINESS – HERE COME THE WATERWORKS!!!!!

  • NuMallCore Pwns YoMama

    I already added it, but I have to add another vote for BTBAM’s Colors album. That first song is sick. I love the build up, from a gentle piano to the intense outro. In less than three minutes.

  • NuMallCore Pwns YoMama

    Also, not a metal album, but Rush’s Snakes & Arrows is a great album.

  • Nath

    ummmmm??> ARCH Enemy: Rise of the Tyrant was a sick as cd good guitar leads

  • KillingZoe

    Don’t even dare ignoring this:

    THE OCEAN – PRECAMBRIAN

  • http://kydnet.net Kyd

    The Haunted – The Dead Eye
    Lamb of God – Sacrament
    DevilDriver – Last Kind Words
    SLayer – Christ Illusion
    Exodus – The Atrocity Exhibition