My favourite albums from 2007

1. 50

   Witchcult Today

   Electric Wizard

   

   

   Doom metal | Stoner metal

   Tracks:

   1. Witchcult Today
   2. Dunwich
   3. Satanic Rites of Drugula ●
   4. Raptus
   5. The Chosen Few
   6. Torquemada 71
   7. Black Magic Rituals & Perversions
   8. Saturnine

2. 49

   The Alchemist

   Witchcraft

   

   

   Stoner rock | Occult rock

   Tracks:

   1. Walk Between the Lines
   2. If Crimson Was Your Colour
   3. Leva
   4. Hey Doctor ●
   5. Saamaritan Burden
   6. Remembered
   7. The Alchemist (Parts 1, 2 & 3)

3. 48

   King of the Grey Islands

   Candlemass

   

   

   Epic doom metal

   Tracks:

   1. Prologue
   2. Emperor of the Void
   3. Devil Seed
   4. Of Stars and Smoke ●
   5. Demonia 6
   6. Destroyer
   7. Man of Shadows
   8. Clearsight
   9. The Opal City
   10. Embracing the Styx

4. 47

   Precambrian

   The Ocean

   

   

   Atmospheric sludge metal | Progressive metal

   Tracks:

   1. Hadean / The Long March of the Yes-Men
   2. Eoarchaean / The Great Void
   3. Paleoarchaean / Man and the Sea
   4. Mesoarchaean / Legions of Winged Octopi
   5. Neoarchaean / To Burn the Duck of Doubt
   6. Siderian
   7. Rhyacian / Untimely Meditations ●
   8. Orosirian / For the Great Blue Cold Now Reigns
   9. Statherian
   10. Calymmian / Lake Disappointment
   11. Ectasian / De Profundis
   12. Stenian / Mount Sorrow
   13. Tonian / Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
   14. Cryogenian

5. 46

   Death Is This Communion

   High on Fire

   

   

   Stoner metal | Sludge metal

   Tracks:

   1. Fury Whip
   2. Waste of Tiamat
   3. Death Is this Communion ●
   4. Khanrad's Wall
   5. Turk
   6. Rumours of War
   7. DII
   8. Cyclopian Space
   9. Ethereal
   10. Return to NOD

6. 45

   The Varangian Way

   Turisas

   

   

   Folk metal | Symphonic metal

   Tracks:

   1. To Holmgard and Beyond ●
   2. A Portage to the Unknown
   3. Cursed Be Iron
   4. Fields of Gold
   5. In the Court of Jarisleif
   6. Five Hundred and One
   7. The Dnieper Rapids
   8. Miklagard Overture

7. 44

   Paradise Lost

   Symphony X

   

   

   Progressive metal | Symphonic metal

   Tracks:

   1. Oculus Ex Inferni
   2. Set the World on Fire (The Lie of Lies) ●
   3. Domination
   4. The Serpent's Kiss
   5. Paradise Lost
   6. Eve of Seduction
   7. The Walls of Babylon
   8. Seven
   9. The Sacrifice
   10. Revelation (Divus Pannae Ex Tragoedia)

8. 43

   Nocturnal

   Black Dahlia Murder

   

   

   Melodic death metal

   Tracks:

   1. Everything Went Black
   2. What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse
   3. Virally Yours
   4. I Worship Only What You Bleed
   5. Nocturnal ●
   6. Deathmask Divine
   7. Of Darkness Spawned
   8. Climactic Degradation
   9. To a Breathless Oblivion
   10. Warborn

9. 42

   Systematic Chaos

   Dream Theater

   

   

   Progressive metal

   Tracks:

   1. In the Presence of Enemies, Pt. 1
   2. Forsaken
   3. Constant Motion
   4. The Dark Eternal Night ●
   5. Repentance
   6. Prophets of War
   7. The Ministry of Lost Souls
   8. In the Presence of Enemies, Pt. 2

10. 41

    The Latter Rain

    In Vain

    

    

    Progressive death metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Latter Rain
    2. In the Midnight Hour ●
    3. Det Rakner!
    4. October's Monody
    5. Their Spirits Ride with the Wind
    6. I Total Triumf
    7. The Titan
    8. As I Wither
    9. Morning Sun
    10. Sorgenfri

11. 40

    Two Hunters

    Wolves in the Throne Room

    

    

    Atmospheric black metal

    Tracks:

    1. Dea Artio
    2. Vastness and Sorrow ●
    3. Cleansing
    4. I Will Lay Down My Bones Among the Rocks and Roots

12. 39

    Theogonia

    Rotting Christ

    

    

    Melodic black metal | Folk metal

    Tracks:

    1. Χάος Γένετο ●
    2. Keravnos Kivernitos
    3. Nemecic
    4. Enuma Elish
    5. Phobos' Synagogue
    6. Gaia Tellus
    7. Rege Diabolicus
    8. He, the Aethyr
    9. Helios Hyperion
    10. Threnody

13. 38

    The Art of Partying

    Municipal Waste

    

    

    Crossover thrash | Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Pre-Game
    2. The Art of Partying
    3. Headbanger Face Rip ●
    4. Mental Shock (Deathripper Part II)
    5. A.D.D. (Attention Deficit Disorder)
    6. The Inebriator
    7. Lunch Hall Food Brawl
    8. Beer Pressure
    9. Chemically Altered
    10. Sadistic Magician
    11. Open Your Mind
    12. Radioactive Force
    13. Septic Detonation
    14. Rigorous Vengeance
    15. Born to Party

14. 37

    The Heart of Everything

    Within Temptation

    

    

    Gothic metal | Symphonic metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Howling ●
    2. What Have You Done
    3. Frozen
    4. Our Solemn Hour
    5. The Heart of Everything
    6. Hand of Sorrow
    7. The Cross
    8. Final Destination
    9. All I Need
    10. The Truth Beneath the Rose
    11. Forgiven

15. 36

    Hope

    Swallow the Sun

    

    

    Death-doom | Melodic death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Hope
    2. These Hours of Despair
    3. The Justice of Suffering
    4. Don't Fall Asleep (Horror Pt. 2)
    5. Too Cold for Tears ●
    6. The Empty Skies
    7. No Light, No Hope
    8. Doomed to Walk the Earth

16. 35

    Hardworlder

    Slough Feg

    

    

    Heavy metal | US power metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Return of Dr. Universe
    2. Tiger! Tiger!
    3. The Sea Wolf
    4. Hardworlder ●
    5. The Spoils
    6. Frankfurt-Hahn Airport Blues
    7. Galactic Nomad
    8. Dearg Doom
    9. Insomnia
    10. Poisoned Treasures
    11. Karma-Kazee
    12. Whirling Vortex
    13. Street Jammer

17. 34

    Antichrist

    Akercocke

    

    

    Death metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Black Messiah
    2. Summon the Antichrist
    3. Axiom
    4. The Promise
    5. My Apterous Angel
    6. Distant Fires Reflect in the Eyes of Satan
    7. Man Without Faith or Trust
    8. The Dark Inside ●
    9. Footsteps Resound in an Empty Chapel
    10. Epode

18. 33

    Scarsick

    Pain of Salvation

    

    

    Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Scarsick
    2. Spitfall
    3. Cribcaged ●
    4. America
    5. Disco Queen
    6. Kingdom of Loss
    7. Mrs. Modern Mother Mary
    8. Idiocracy
    9. Flame to the Moth
    10. Enter Rain

19. 32

    Sloe Gin

    Joe Bonamassa

    

    

    Blues | Blues rock

    Tracks:

    1. Bell Peen Hammer
    2. One of These Days
    3. Seagull
    4. Dirt in My pocket
    5. Sloe Gin ●
    6. Another Kind of Love
    7. Around the Bend
    8. Black Night
    9. Jelly Roll
    10. Richmond
    11. India

20. 31

    Victory Songs

    Ensiferum

    

    

    Folk metal | Melodic death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Ad Victoriam
    2. Blood Is the Price of Glory ●
    3. Deathbringer from the Sky
    4. Ahti
    5. One More Magic Potion
    6. Wanderer
    7. Raised by the Sword
    8. The New Dawn
    9. Victory Song

21. 30

    Fiction

    Dark Tranquility

    

    

    Melodic death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Nothing to No One
    2. The Lesser Faith
    3. Terminus (Where Death Is Most Alive) ●
    4. Blind at Heart
    5. Icipher
    6. Inside the Particle Storm
    7. Empty Me
    8. Misery's Crown
    9. Focus Shift
    10. The Mundane and the Magic

22. 29

    V: Hävitetty

    Moonsorrow

    

    

    Folk metal | Progressive black metal

    Tracks:

    1. Jäästä syntynyt/Varjojen virta ●
    2. Tuleen ajettu maa

23. 28

    Boxer

    The National

    

    

    Baroque pop | Post-punk

    Tracks:

    1. Fake Empire ●
    2. Mistaken for Strangers
    3. Brainy
    4. Squalor Victoria
    5. Green Gloves
    6. Slow Show
    7. Apartment Story
    8. Start a War
    9. Guest Room
    10. Racing Like a Pro
    11. Ada
    12. Gospel

24. 27

    The Besnard Lakes Are the Dark Horse

    The Besnard Lakes

    

    

    Post-rock | Shoegaze

    Tracks:

    1. Disaster
    2. For Agent 13
    3. And You Lied to Me
    4. Devastation ●
    5. Because Tonight
    6. Ride the Rails
    7. On Bedford and Grand
    8. Cedric's War

25. 26

    Over the Under

    Down

    

    

    Sludge metal | Southern metal

    Tracks:

    1. Three Suns and One Star
    2. The Path
    3. N.O.D.
    4. I Scream
    5. On March the Saints
    6. Never Try
    7. Mourn
    8. Beneath the Tides
    9. His Majesty the Desert
    10. Pillamyd
    11. In the Thrall of It All
    12. Nothing in Return (Walk Away) ●

26. 25

    The Atrocity Exhibition ... Exhibition A

    Exodus

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Call to Arms
    2. Riot Act
    3. Funeral Hymn
    4. Children of a Worthless God ●
    5. As It Was, as It Soon Shall Be
    6. The Atrocity Exhibition
    7. Iconoclasm
    8. The Garden of Bleeding
    9. Bedlam 1-2-3

27. 24

    Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow

    Coheed and Cambria

    

    

    Progressive metal | Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. The Reaping
    2. No World for Tomorrow ●
    3. The Hound (of Blood and Rank)
    4. Feathers
    5. The Running Free
    6. Mother Superior
    7. Gravemakers & Gunslingers
    8. Justice in Murder
    9. The End Complete I: The Fall of House Atlantic
    10. The End Complete II: Radio Bye Bye
    11. The End Complete III: The End Commplete
    12. The End Complete IV: The Road and the Damned
    13. The End Complete V: On the Brink

28. 23

    Killing Peace

    Onslaught

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Burn
    2. Killing Peace
    3. Destroyer of the World ●
    4. Pain
    5. Prayer for the Dead
    6. Tested to Destruction
    7. Twisted Jesus
    8. Planting Seeds of Hate
    9. Shock 'n' Awe

29. 22

    Beyond

    Dinosaur Jr.

    

    

    Noise rock | ALternative rock

    Tracks:

    1. Almost Ready
    2. Crumble
    3. Pick Me up ●
    4. Back to Your Heart
    5. This Is All I Came to Do
    6. Been There All the Time
    7. It's Me
    8. We're Not Alone
    9. I Got Lost
    10. Lightning Bulb
    11. What If I Knew

30. 21

    Era Vulgaris

    Queens of the Stone Age

    

    

    Alternative rock | Stoner rock

    Tracks:

    1. Turnin' on the Screw
    2. Sick, Sick, Sick
    3. I'm a Designer
    4. Into the Hollow
    5. Misfot Love
    6. Battery Acid
    7. Make It wit Chu ●
    8. 3's & 7's
    9. Suture up Your Future
    10. River in the Road
    11. Run, Pig, Run

31. 20

    Given to Rising

    Neurosis

    

    

    Atmospheric sludge metal | Post-metal

    Tracks:

    1. Given to the Rising
    2. Fear and Sickness
    3. To the Wind ●
    4. At the End of the Road
    5. Shadow
    6. Hidden Faces
    7. Water Is Not Enough
    8. Distill (Watching the Swarm)
    9. Nine
    10. Origin

32. 19

    Red Album

    Baroness

    

    

    Progressive metal | Sludge metal

    Tracks:

    1. Rays on Pinion
    2. The Birthing
    3. Isak
    4. Walling Wintry Wind
    5. Cockroach en Fleur
    6. Wanderlust
    7. Aleph ●
    8. Teeth on a Cogwheel
    9. O'Appalachia
    10. Grad

33. 18

    Carry on

    Chris Cornell

    

    

    Alternative rock

    Tracks:

    1. No Such Thing
    2. Poison Eye
    3. Arms Around Your Love
    4. Safe and Souns
    5. She'll Never Be Your Name
    6. Ghosts
    7. Killing Birds
    8. Billie Jean ●
    9. Scar on the Sky
    10. Your Soul Todaay
    11. Finally Forever
    12. Silence the Voices
    13. Disappearing Act
    14. You Know My Name

34. 17

    To the Nameless Dead

    Primordial

    

    

    Folk metal | Pagan black metal

    Tracks:

    1. Empire Falls ●
    2. Gallows Hymn
    3. As Rome Burns
    4. Failures Burden
    5. Heathen Tribes
    6. The Rising Tide
    7. Traitors Gate
    8. No Nation on This Earth

35. 16

    Dominator

    W.A.S.P.

    

    

    Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Mercy
    2. Long, Long Way to Go
    3. Take Me up
    4. The Burning Man
    5. Heaven's Hung in Black ●
    6. Heaven's Blessed
    7. Teacher
    8. Heaven's Hung in Black (Reprise)
    9. Deal with the Devil

36. 15

    The End Is Begun

    3

    

    

    Progressive rock | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. The World Is Born of Flame
    2. The End Is Begun
    3. Battle Cry
    4. All That Remains ●
    5. My Divided Falling
    6. Sepents in Disguise
    7. Been to the Future
    8. Bleeding Me Home
    9. Live Entertainment
    10. Diamond in the Crush
    11. Shadow Play
    12. These Iron Bones
    13. The Last Day

37. 14

    Silent Waters

    Amorphis

    

    

    Progressive metal | Folk metal

    Tracks:

    1. Weaving the Incantation
    2. A Servant
    3. Silent Waters ●
    4. Towards and Against
    5. I of Crimson Blood
    6. Her Alone
    7. Enigma
    8. Shaman
    9. The White Swan
    10. Black River

38. 13

    Beyond the Permafrost

    Skeletonwitch

    

    

    Blackened thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Upon Wings of Black
    2. Beyond the Permafrost
    3. Baptized in Flames
    4. Sacrifice to the Slaughtergod ●
    5. Vengeance Will Be Mine
    6. Limb from Limb
    7. Cast into the Open Sea
    8. Fire from the Sky
    9. Soul Thrashing Black Sorcery
    10. Remains of the Defeated
    11. Feast upon Flesh
    12. Within My Blood

39. 12

    Elect the Dead

    Serj Tankian

    

    

    Alternative metal

    Tracks:

    1. Empty Walls ●
    2. The Unthinking Majority
    3. Money
    4. Feed Us
    5. Saving Us
    6. Sky Is Over
    7. Baby
    8. Honking Antelope
    9. Lie Lie Lie
    10. Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition
    11. Beethoven's Cunt
    12. Elect the Dead

40. 11

    Ziltoid the Omniscient

    Devin Townsend

    

    

    Progressive metal | Avant-garde metal

    Tracks:

    1. ZTO
    2. By Your Command
    3. Ziltoidia Attaxx!!
    4. Solar Winds
    5. Hyperdrive ●
    6. N9
    7. Planet Smasher
    8. Omnidimensional Creator
    9. Color Your World
    10. The Greys
    11. Tall Latte

41. 10

    Colors

    Between the Buried and Me

    

    

    Progressive metal | Technical death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Foam Born (A) the Backtrack
    2. (B) The Decade Statues
    3. Informal Gluttony
    4. Sun of Nothing
    5. Ants of the Sky ●
    6. Prequel to the Sequel
    7. Viridian
    8. White Walls

42. 9

    The Blackening

    Machine Head

    

    

    Groove metal | thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Clenching the Fists of Dissent
    2. Beautiful Mourning
    3. Aesthetics of Hate
    4. Now I Lay Me Down
    5. Slanderous
    6. Halo ●
    7. Wolves
    8. A Farewell to Arms

43. 8

    Fear of a Blank Planet

    Porcupine Tree

    

    

    Progressive rock | progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Fear of a Blank Planet
    2. My Ashes
    3. Anesthetize ●
    4. Sentimental
    5. Way out of Here
    6. Sleep Together

44. 7

    Blackbird

    Alter Bridge

    

    

    Alternative metal | progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Ties That Bind
    2. Come to Life
    3. Brand New Start
    4. Buried Alive
    5. Coming Home
    6. Before Tomorrow Comes
    7. Rise Today
    8. Blackbird ●
    9. One by One
    10. Watch Over You
    11. Break Me Down
    12. White Knuckles
    13. Wayward One
    14. We Don't Care at All

45. 6

    Le Fol

    Audrey Horne

    

    

    Hard rock | progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Last Chance for a Serenade
    2. Jaws
    3. Last Call
    4. Threshold ●
    5. Monster
    6. Afterglow
    7. In the End
    8. Pretty Girls Make Graves
    9. Bright Lights
    10. Hell Hath No Fury
    11. I Wish you Hell
    12. So Long, Euphoria

46. 5

    United Abominations

    Megadeth

    

    

    Thrash metal | heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Sleepwalker
    2. Washington Is Next!
    3. Never Walk Alone ... A Call to Arms
    4. United Abominations
    5. Gears of War
    6. Blessed Are the Dead
    7. Play for Blood
    8. À Tout le Monde
    9. Amerikhastan
    10. You're Dead
    11. Burnt Ice ●

47. 4

    Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times Is True

    Fair to Midland

    

    

    Alternative metal | Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Dance to the Manatee ●
    2. Kyra Cries Cologne
    3. Vice / Versa
    4. The Wife, the Kids, and the White Picket Fence
    5. April Fools and Eggman
    6. A Seafarer's Knot
    7. A Wolf Descends upon the Spanish Sahara
    8. Walls of Jericho
    9. Tall Tales Taste Like Sour Grapes
    10. Upgrade^Brigade
    11. Say When

48. 3

    In Requiem

    Paradise Lost

    

    

    Gothic metal | doom metal

    Tracks:

    1. Never for the Damned
    2. Ash & Debris
    3. The Enemy ●
    4. Praise Lamented Shade
    5. Requiem
    6. Unreachable
    7. Prelude to Descent
    8. Fallen Children
    9. Beneath Blacj Skies
    10. Sedative Gold
    11. Your Own Reality

49. 2

    From Beale Street to Oblivion

    Clutch

    

    

    Blues rock | stoner rock

    Tracks:

    1. You Can't Stop Progress
    2. Power Player
    3. The Devil & Me
    4. White's Ferry
    5. Child of the City
    6. Electric Worry ●
    7. One Eye Dollar
    8. Rapture of Riddley Walker
    9. When Vegans Attack
    10. Opossum Minister
    11. Mr. Shiny Cadillackness

50. 1

    Dark Passion Play

    Nightwish

    

    

    Symphonic metal | power metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Poet and the Pendulum ●
    2. Bye Bye Beautiful
    3. Amaranth
    4. Cadence of Her Last Breath
    5. Master Passion Greed
    6. Eva
    7. Sahara
    8. Whoever Brings the Night
    9. For the Heart I Once Had
    10. The Islander
    11. Last of the Wilds
    12. 7 Days to the Wolves
    13. Meadows of Heaven