My favourite albums from 2007

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Witchcult Today

Electric Wizard
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
- Doom metal
- Stoner metal
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The Alchemist

Witchcraft
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)
- Stoner rock
- Occult rock
48

King of the Grey Islands

Candlemass
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
- Epic doom metal
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Precambrian

The Ocean
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
- Atmospheric sludge metal
- Progressive metal
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Death Is This Communion

High on Fire
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
- Stoner metal
- Sludge metal
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The Varangian Way

Turisas
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
- Folk metal
- Symphonic metal
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Paradise Lost

Symphony X
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)
- Progressive metal
- Symphonic metal
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Nocturnal

Black Dahlia Murder
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
- Melodic death metal
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Systematic Chaos

Dream Theater
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
- Progressive metal
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The Latter Rain

In Vain
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
- Progressive death metal
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Two Hunters

Wolves in the Throne Room
1. Dea Artio
2. Vastness and Sorrow ●
3. Cleansing
4. I Will Lay Down My Bones Among the Rocks and Roots
- Atmospheric black metal
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Theogonia

Rotting Christ
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
- Melodic black metal
- Folk metal
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The Art of Partying

Municipal Waste
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
- Crossover thrash
- Thrash metal
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The Heart of Everything

Within Temptation
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
- Gothic metal
- Symphonic metal
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Hope

Swallow the Sun
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
- Death-doom
- Melodic death metal
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Hardworlder

Slough Feg
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
- Heavy metal
- US power metal
34

Antichrist

Akercocke
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
- Death metal
- Progressive metal
33

Scarsick

Pain of Salvation
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
- Progressive metal
32

Sloe Gin

Joe Bonamassa
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
- Blues
- Blues rock
31

Victory Songs

Ensiferum
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
- Folk metal
- Melodic death metal
30

Fiction

Dark Tranquility
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
- Melodic death metal
29

V: Hävitetty

Moonsorrow
1. Jäästä syntynyt/Varjojen virta ●
2. Tuleen ajettu maa
- Folk metal
- Progressive black metal
28

Boxer

The National
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
- Baroque pop
- Post-punk
27

The Besnard Lakes Are the Dark Horse

The Besnard Lakes
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
- Post-rock
- Shoegaze
26

Over the Under

Down
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) ●
- Sludge metal
- Southern metal
25

The Atrocity Exhibition ... Exhibition A

Exodus
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
- Thrash metal
24

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

Coheed and Cambria
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
- Progressive metal
- Progressive rock
23

Killing Peace

Onslaught
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
- Thrash metal
22

Beyond

Dinosaur Jr.
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
- Noise rock
- ALternative rock
21

Era Vulgaris

Queens of the Stone Age
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
- Alternative rock
- Stoner rock
20

Given to Rising

Neurosis
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
- Atmospheric sludge metal
- Post-metal
19

Red Album

Baroness
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
- Progressive metal
- Sludge metal
18

Carry on

Chris Cornell
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
- Alternative rock
17

To the Nameless Dead

Primordial
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
- Folk metal
- Pagan black metal
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Dominator

W.A.S.P.
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
- Heavy metal
15

The End Is Begun

3
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
- Progressive rock
- Progressive metal
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Silent Waters

Amorphis
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
- Progressive metal
- Folk metal
13

Beyond the Permafrost

Skeletonwitch
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
- Blackened thrash metal
12

Elect the Dead

Serj Tankian
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
- Alternative metal
11

Ziltoid the Omniscient

Devin Townsend
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
- Progressive metal
- Avant-garde metal
10

Colors

Between the Buried and Me
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
- Progressive metal
- Technical death metal
9

The Blackening

Machine Head
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
- Groove metal
- thrash metal
8

Fear of a Blank Planet

Porcupine Tree
1. Fear of a Blank Planet
2. My Ashes
3. Anesthetize ●
4. Sentimental
5. Way out of Here
6. Sleep Together
- Progressive rock
- progressive metal
7

Blackbird

Alter Bridge
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
- Alternative metal
- progressive metal
6

Le Fol

Audrey Horne
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
- Hard rock
- progressive metal
5

United Abominations

Megadeth
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 ●
- Thrash metal
- heavy metal
4

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

Fair to Midland
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
- Alternative metal
- Progressive rock
3

In Requiem

Paradise Lost
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
- Gothic metal
- doom metal
2

From Beale Street to Oblivion

Clutch
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
- Blues rock
- stoner rock
1

Dark Passion Play

Nightwish
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
- Symphonic metal
- power metal

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The Alchemist

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King of the Grey Islands

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Precambrian

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Death Is This Communion

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The Varangian Way

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Paradise Lost

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Nocturnal

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Systematic Chaos

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The Latter Rain

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Two Hunters

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Theogonia

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The Art of Partying

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The Heart of Everything

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Hope

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Hardworlder

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Antichrist

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Scarsick

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Sloe Gin

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Fiction

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Over the Under

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The Atrocity Exhibition ... Exhibition A

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