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Metal Top 10 for 2007

Posted about 1 year ago
Exclaim! magazine has printed its top 10 albums in its "Aggressive Tendencies" (metal and metal-ish) category. It's getting hard to tell the difference between metal and hardcore - not that I feel the need to.They are:Baroness - Red AlbumMunicipal Waste - The Art of PartyingThe Locust - New ErectionsThe Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire WorksBetween the Buried and Me - ColorsEvery Time I Die - The Big DirtyPig Destroyer - Phantom LimbGraf Orlock - Destination Time TomorrowTorche - In ReturnJesu - ConquerorI couldn't imagine that a new year could surpass the end of 06 when Mastodon, Killswitch Engage, Shadows Fall and Lamb of God all had new albums.I took a long breather from metal and am now happy to return. Thanks to Moggers Robin H and River Lethe for helping me back into the metal fold!
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Comments (14)

  1. ROCKNROLLPIMP
    ROCKNROLLPIMP says Baroness - Red Album Jesu - Conqueror Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb oh YEAH a metal head? woooooo
    Permalink posted 12/12/2007
  2. Marigold
    Marigold says I just bought the 10" vinyl release for In Return from Torche. I should have it any day. I got the clear one with the black "planats" on it. I am so excited! Jesu's - Conqueror is pretty good as well and worth checking out.
    Permalink posted 12/12/2007
  3. darmuzz
    darmuzz says Pimpy, I am an ex-metalhead from the 80s and a wannabe new one. Marigold, wow, impressive! Can't wait to hear more stuff from this list.
    Permalink posted 12/12/2007
  4. Marigold
    Marigold says Torche: http://www.myspace.com/torche I saw them open for Mogwai about 2 years ago. They blew the lid off the joint.
    Permalink posted 12/12/2007
  5. ROCKNROLLPIMP
    ROCKNROLLPIMP says hahahah SO AM I? WOOOOO Motorbreath Its how I live my life I can't take it any other way Motorbreath The sign of living fast It is going to take Your breath away
    Permalink posted 12/12/2007
  6. River Lethe
    River Lethe says Ah, glad to finally have some more company on MOG! Yeah, that's a pretty solid list. Most of those are on mine so far. Marigold, that's an awesome vinyl set! Metal and hardcore is one of the genres that seems to release a lot of current albums on vinyl these days. I may have to get a turntable soon.
    Permalink posted 12/12/2007
  7. River Lethe
    River Lethe says By the way, don't forget dj ivi, who has eclectic tastes, but often MOGs on some heavier fare.
    Permalink posted 12/12/2007
  8. Augusts1
    Augusts1 says Erm, that's some pretty obvious "snake" symbolism in that photo you posted. Feeling phallic Dar? ahahahahahah
    Permalink posted 12/13/2007
  9. Alien8n
    Alien8n says How can you be an ex-metalhead? lol I've been a metalhead since the 80's myself, but continued right through the 90's and past 2000. Still listening to all my Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath, but mellowed out with some new style punk and rock. Love Killswitch Engage, Dragonforce and the like but I have to admit I only recognise 1 band on the Top 10 list...
    Permalink posted 12/13/2007
  10. darmuzz
    darmuzz says River Lethe & Marigold, yeah, I don't buy new vinyl but I still have old stuff (like a DiAnno picture disc, LOL!) August, ha, those guys have phallic wrapped around themselves, how's that for homo-erotic! Alien8n, good point, I did not stop liking old-school metal like Maiden, Priest and Metallica, but did not discover much new metal for a while. Generally like "hard" music - metal, hardcore, punk.
    Permalink posted 12/13/2007
  11. River Lethe
    River Lethe says Below is Decibel's list, and Revolver hasn't named an album of the year yet, but I bet it'll be Dillinger Escape Plan. The Decibel list has a ton of stuff on it I haven't even heard. Keep in mind I have another, non-metal list too, lest I be called closed-minded: http://mog.com/River_Lethe/blog_post/124317 From decibelmagazine.com: http://www.decibelmagazine.com/features/jan2008/top40.aspx Where nobody gives a flying fuck about In Rainbows This is my third year of watching Albert run around the office with printouts of the writers’ Top 40 lists, agonizing over what belongs where in the Dechelon and why. He puts what could be considered an unhealthy deal of thought and care into assembling this thing, but fuck all that. My favorite part is when he finally shows me his tentative Top 40, which he’s holding like the missing Grail Diary pages in Last Crusade, and I get to say shit like, “Oh, so Rosetta are thirteen albums better than Trap Them. SUPER,” loud enough to deeply annoy the Rosetta fans sitting beside me. (My second favorite part is making fun of the writers’ “left-field” choices, particularly the ones best fit for Decibot consumption.) All of which is, obviously, the sort of thing you’ll be doing as soon as you finish reading this. I don’t think this year’s slate will be remotely embarrassing five years down the road, and looking back to the 2005 list, I can still get behind everything (except number 6 and 25; yikes). So, on your marks, get set, bitch. It’s the Top 40 Records of 2007. 1.Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb 2.Watain - Sworn to the Dark 3.The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works 4.Jesu - Conqueror 5.Baroness - The Red Album 6. Neurosis - Given to the Rising 7. Witchcraft - The Alchemist 8. Portal - Outré 9. High on Fire - Death is this Communion 10. A Life Once Lost - Iron Gag 11. Deathspell Omega - Fas—Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum 12. The Red Chord - Prey for Eyes 13. Pelican - City of Echoes 14. Moonsorrow - Viides Luku: Hävitetty 15. Bergraven - Dödsvisioner 16. Graf Orlock - Destination Time Tomorrow EP 17. Melt-Banana - Bambi's Dilemma 18. The End - Elementary 19. Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today 20. Caina - Mourner 21. Machine Head - The Blackening 22. Magrudergrind - Rehashed 23. Rosetta - Wake/Lift 24. Big Business - Here Come the Waterworks 25. Dax Riggs - We Sing of Only Blood or Love 26. Obliteration - Perpetual Decay 27. Architect - All is Not Lost 28. Rwake - Voice of Omens 29. Engineer - The Dregs 30. Down - III: Over the Under 31. Destroyer Destroyer - Littered With Arrows 32. Evoken - A Caress of the Void 33. Between the Buried and Me - Colors 34. Torche - In Return EP 35. Alcest - Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde 36. Pissed Jeans - Hope for Men 37. Year of No Light - Nord 38. Darkest Hour - Deliver Us 39. Trap Them - Sleepwell Deconstructor 40. Grave in the Sky - Cutlery Hits China: Engllish for the Hearing Impaired
    Permalink posted 12/13/2007
  12. darmuzz
    darmuzz says Nice list! I could have seen The End this year but I didn't know who they were at the time. Damn!
    Permalink posted 12/13/2007
  13. FastRMacR
    FastRMacR says EARS CHARGED (tyvm) ! .. consider me a part of 80s metalheads still listening .. (boots on)
    Permalink posted 12/15/2007
  14. punkhearted666
    punkhearted666 says Hey, nice page =]
    Permalink posted 12/20/2007

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