Metal Reviews

I was just curious about everyone's favorite songs of 2007. It would be too broad for a ranking system but possibly interesting to see the different tracks everyone picks out of the albums we've all listened to. Also maybe I'd see non-metal tracks that I haven't listened to. It also is an outlet for the many lists I make.

Some of my favorite tracks have been:

Akercocke - Dark Inside, My Apterous Angel, Axiom
Behemoth - Inner Sanctom, Christgrinding Avenue
Slough Feg - Tiger Tiger
Candlemass - Embracing the Styx
Skeleton Witch - Baptized in Flames
Anaal Nathrakh - Der Holle Rache Kacht ... rotten crotch or whatever
Ziltoidia Attax!!
Symphony X - Paradise Lost
Dream Theater - Constant Motion
Megadeth - Burnt Ice
Throwdown - Holy Roller, Americana
Nile - As He Creates So He Destroys
Schoolyard Heroes - Plastic Surgery Hall of Fame

Symphony X--Domination
Between the Buried and Me--Prequel to the Sequel
Coheed and Cambria--No World for Tomorrow
The Black Dahlia Murder--What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse
Dream Theater--The Dark Eternal Night

That's it

Oh so many.. I'll try to pick just one per album

Nightwish - Master Passion Greed
Threshold - Pilot In The Sky of Dreams
3 Inches of Blood - God of The Cold White Silence
King Diamond - Give Me Your Soul
Helloween - Final Fortune
Iced Earth - Framing Armageddon
Rush - Far Cry
Saga - 10,000 Days
Galahad - I Could Be God
Funeral - This Barren Skin
Spellblast - Glory To The Gem
Dark Moor - The Emperor
Sieges Even - When Alpha And Omega Collide
Avantasia - The Story Ain't Over

So many others..

Overkill - Devil's in the Mist

One per album, I guess, I'll just have to listen to Primordial's more 'til I can come up with a consensus for that.

Aesop Rock -- Citronella
Dir en grey -- Clever Sleazoid
Neurosis -- Origin
Between The Buried And Me -- White Walls
Devin Townsend -- By Your Command

There is merely one. The only. The Art of Partying.

Machine Head - Aesthetics of Hate
Nile - As He Creates... (nice choice traptunderice)
3 Inches of Blood - Night Marauders
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Horse Hunter
Turisas - A Portage to the Unknown (monster chorus!) and In the Court of Jarisleif
Dark Moor - The Fool
Symphony X - Eve of Seduction

mind you i've heard maybe 9 albums from this year, so i'm almost picking a track from each. i didn't mention any Municipal Waste because the album's very solid from start to finish and Kamelot because it was a generally disappointing album.

Symphony X-Domination
Dream Theater-Constant Motion
Coheed And Cambria-Gravemakers and Gunslingers
Porcupine Tree-Anesthetize

None of my favorite song this year have been metal, so i won't bore you guys with them. Unless you can include things that weren't released this year but i only listened to this year, in that case there would be plenty of metal

Ayreon - Age of Shadows

All I could think of.

These are the top rated songs I listened to most this year, rather than go with what came out this year, it was more about what I listened to because I discovered a lot of stuff that came out earlier.


persuader - twisted eyes
threshold - slipstream
threshold - elusive
age of nemesis - the land of light
Serenity - Reduced To Nothingness
Nocturnal Rites - Call Out to the world
wizard - pale rider
wizard - the witch of the enchanted forest
dreamland - spread your wings
dreamland - reverse deny
majesty - sons of a new millenium
nocturnal rites - fools never die
akercocke - verdelet
vision divine - now that you've gone
vision divine - rising sun
vision divine - first day of a never ending day
shadow gallery - the andromeda strain
tribuzy - agressive
hammerfall - the templar flame
hammerfall - born to rule
hammerfall - blood bound
vision divine - identities
vision divine - we are, we are not
vision divine - versions of the same
vision divine - the fallen feather
vision divine - colours of my world
vision divine - the secret of life
sonata arctica - misplaced [live]
sonata arctica - broken [live]
tarot - pyre of gods
stratovarius - the kiss of judas
testament - down for life

I'll go with the same method as adveser, and according to my iTunes it is:

This was the year i got into Dream Theater so it is alot of them:

DT - Another Day
DT - The spirit carries on
Liquid tension experiment - Acid rain
DT - Overture 1928
Deadend Rackets - Bloodlines Combined
DT - In the presence of enemies - Part I
3 Inches of blood - Fear on the bridge
DT - Beyond this life
Kamelot - Edenecho
Kamelot - The Haunting
Pagan's Mind - Atomic Firelight
Dragonland - Supernova
DT - Learning to live
DT - This dying soul
Pagan's mind - united alliance
Andy Mckee - for my father
Evergrey - The Great Deceiver
Symphony X - Set the world on fire
Threshold - Slipstream
DT - Panic Attack
Symphony X - Paradise lost
Symphony X - Eve of seduction
Kamelot - Up through the ashes
Kamelot - Ghost opera
Kamelot - The edge of paradise
Kamelot - Center of the universe
Allen & Lande - Wish for a miracle

Clenching The Fists Of Dissent by Machine Head.

Hands down, my favorite song of 2007. That fucker just get the hair and goose bumps to rise. Absolutely amazing! And the breakdown, with all the people chanting—goddamn! Too awesome.

Ewww. Ewwwwww. Yuck yuck yuck. No way. Awful. Blah.

My list:
Helloween - The Saints
Gamma Ray - From the Ashes
Devin - Solar Winds
Ensiferum - Deathbringer From the Sky
WASP - Heaven's Hung in Black
Evile - Bathe in Blood
Iced Earth - 10,000 Strong
Metal Law - Metal or Die
Turisas - Miklagard Overture

Candlemass - Of Stars And Smoke
Corpsing - Complex Machine
Darkthrone - These Shores Are Damned
Deathspell Omega - A Chore For The Lost
Iron And Wine - Flightless Bird, American Mouth
Kamelot - Love You To Death
Mayhem - Great Work Of Ages
Moonsorrow - Jddstd Syntynyt/Born Of Ice - Varjojen Virta/Stream Of Shadows
Neurosis - Water Is Not Enough
Radiohead - House Of Cards
Radiohead - Reckoner
Sigh - Inked In Blood

Nile - What Can Be Safely Written
Nile - Eat Of The Dead
Pig Destroyer - Loathsome
Pig Destroyer - The Machete Twins
Coheed And Cambria - The Running Free
Aborted - The Chondrin Enigma
Aborted - Underneath Rorulent Soil
Nightwish - Amaranth
Marduk - The Leveling Dust
Jesu - Medicine
The Smashing Pumpkins - Doomsday Clock
Akercocke - Axiom
Arch Enemy - The Great Darkness
Between The Buried And Me - Ants Of The Sky
Devildriver - Clouds Over California

I'll stick to this years releases for my favorite songs. It's a lot too but these are the songs I gravitated to the most over 2007

1. Nightrage -- Scathing
2. In This Moment -- Prayers + Beautiful Tragedy
3. Dark Tranquillity -- Terminus, Focus Shift, & Nothing To No One
4. Helloween -- Kill It & Bells Of The Seven Hells
5. Arch Enemy -- Blood On Your Hands, Revolution Begins, & I Will Live Again
6. Within Temptation -- The Howling
7. Symphony X -- Domination, Serpent's Kiss, & The Walls Of Babylon
8. 3 Inches Of Blood -- Goatrider's Horde & Trial Of Champions
9. Amorphis -- Silent Waters
10. Megadeth -- United Abominations
11. Anterior -- The Silent Divide
12. DevilDriver -- Not All Who Wander Are Lost
13. Novembers Doom -- Rain, The Novella Reservoir, & Twilight Innocense
14. King Diamond -- Never Ending Hill
15. Exodus -- Riot Act
16. Finntroll -- Korpens Saga
17. Epica -- The Obsessive Devotion & Never Enough
18. Nightwish -- Amaranth & The Poet and The Pendulum
19. Kamelot -- Ghost Opera
20. Scorpions -- Humanity & The Game Of Life
21. Down -- 3 Suns & 1 Star
22. Paradise Lost -- Enemy & Praise Lamented Shade
23. Candlemass -- Of Stars And Smoke
24. Chris Caffery -- Y.G.B. F. K. M.
25. Dream Theater -- Foresaken & The Dark Eternal Night
26. Sirenia -- my Mind's Eye & The Other Side
27. Tarja Turunen -- The Reign & Damned Vampire Gothic Divine
27. Agonist -- Business Suits And Combat Boots
28. Machine Head -- Halo
29. Five Finger Death Punch -- The Bleeding
30. Sixx A.M. -- Life Is Beautiful
31. Trail Of Tears -- Deceptive Mirrors
32. Himsa -- Skinwalkers
33. Daath -- Subterfuge
34. The Black Dahlia Murder -- What a Horrible Night To Have A Curse
35. H.I.M. -- The Kiss Of Dawn
36. Xandria -- Save My Life
37. Iced Earth -- Ten Thousand Strong
38. Imperia -- Mirror
38. Primal Fear -- Every Time It Rains & Sign Of Fear
39. Overkill -- Devils In The Mist
40.Meldrum -- Purge
41. The Donnas -- Don't Wait Up For Me
42. Pagan's Mind -- United Alliance
43. As I Lay Dying -- Foresaken
44. After Forever -- Energize Me, Discord, & Withering Time
45. Primordial -- Empire Falls
46. Otep -- Confrontation
47. Dimmu Borgir -- The Serpentine Offering & The Sacrilegious Scorn
48. DethKlok -- go Into The Water
49. Samael -- Slavocracy & Solar Soul
50. Battlelore -- House Of Heroes
51. Therion -- Path To Arcady, TOF The Trinity, & Gothic Kabbalah

I dunno, it's probably my favorite song from Systematic Chaos. I guess In the Presence of Enemies might have been a better choice.

The chorus is cool but the verse or whatever where the lyrics are kind of chanted just annoys me.

Cage - I am the king
Reverend Bizarre - Anywhere out of this world
Gamma Ray - Opportunity
Slough Feg - Hardworlder
Doomsword - Once Glorious
Candlemass - Embracing The Styx
Overkill - Devils In The Mist
Iced Earth - Ten Thousand Strong
King Diamond - Mirror Mirror
Municipal Waste - The art of Partying
Nightingale - White Darkness
Pnk Cream 69 - Im not afraid
Rush - Far Cry
Mekong Delta - Purification
Saxon - I've Got To Rock (To Stay Alive)
Symphony X - Domination
W.A.S.P. - The Burning Man
Agent Steel - Wormfood

Songs not from 2007:

Desolation Angels - Evil Possessor
Ayreon - Beneath The Waves
Warning - Bridges
Pagan Altar - The Sorcerer
Blind Guardian - Traveller In Time
Carnivore - Male Supremacy
Manilla Road - Dreams Of Eschaton
Cirith Ungol - Master Of The Pit
Sodom - Napalm In The Morning
Overkill - The Wrecking Crew
Running Wild - Treasure Island
Heathen - Prisoners Of Fate
Sabbat - Hossana In Excelsis
Jag Panzer - Warfare
Solomon Kane - The Dread
Legend - The Wizard's Vengeance
Tank - Heavy Artillery
Virgin Steele - Perfect Mansions (Mountains Of The Sun)
deceiver - Iron Sweet
Metal Church - Waiting For The Savior
Heavy Lord - Dope Smoking Daze
Doomraiser - The Age Of Christ
Solstice - Simerian Codex
Iron Sword - Dragons Of The Sea
Jacula - Magister Dixit
Merciless Death - Exumer
Solitude Aeturnus - It Came Upon One Night