Metal Reviews

Most of the 2007 releases I've heard I've been rather lukewarm too, or in a couple cases, thoroughly unimpressed with. The highlights for me so far (in no particular order):

Nest - Trail Of the Unwary
Forgotten Tomb - Negative Megalomania (still not that crazy about this one, but it did grow on me)
John Zorn - Six Litanies for Heliogabalus
Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb (grind isn't really my thing, but this is good)

I was also kind of surprised with the new Rush and Tristania albums, maybe not highlights, but pleasant surprises at least. ... Still lots of stuff I'm waiting to hear or to get released (Nokturnal Mortum, Limbonic Art...)

-Tyrion

LImbonic Art has a new album coming out? Has anyone heard it yet?

No order:

Symphony X- Paradise Lost
Manticora- The Black Circus II
Saxon- The Inner Sanctum
Rush - Snakes and Arrows
Bywar- Twelve Devils' Graveyard
W.A.S.P.- Dominator
Kamelot- Ghost Opera
Ensiferum- Victory Songs
Dekapitator- The Storm Before the Calm (I heard this at my friend's place- if anyone has the torrent, I'd appreciate it)

Edit: never mind, found it

Looking forward to:

Torture Squad- Hellbound
Overkill
Iced Earth- Something Wicked Part I
Exodus?

No. Something called Legacy of Evil press release can be found on the net but I'm doubtful it's the real thing. I'll just wait until it is out. Supposed to be in September.

Nile-Ithyphallic
Pig Destroyer-Phantom Limb
Behemoth-The Apostasy
Graveland-Will Stronger Than Death
Odius Mortem-Cryptic Implosion
Illogicist-The Insight EYe
Municipal Waste -The Art Of Partying
Mayhem-Ordo Ad Chao
Drudkh-Anti-urbanEP

no order:

Kamelot - ghost opera
allen lande - the revenge
w.a.s.p - dominator
Candlemass - King of the Grey Islands
Finntroll - Ur Jordens Djup

My God, this record is beyond awesome, I just turned it on!

Shoegaze innit? I knew you'd like it. It's good but I liked the EP beter.

1. Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
2. Dark Tranquillity - Fiction
3. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
4. Novembers Doom - The Novella Reservoir
5. Paradise - Lost In Requiem
6. Kamelot - Ghost Opera
7. Tristania - Illumination
8. Symphony X - Paradise Lost
9. Within Temptation - The Heart of Everything
10. Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist

Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde -Alcest
Xenosapien -Cephalic Carnage
Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum -Deathspell Omega
My Love Is Higher Than Your Assessment Of What My Love Could Be -Harvey Milk
Ghost Opera -Kamelot
Given To The Rising -Neurosis
Phantom Limb -Pig Destroyer
Fear Of A Blank Planet -Porcupine Tree
Halmstad -Shining

Did you get the torrent, if not I can get it for you. But damn man you need to buy. Be a real thrasher.

My list in no particular order:
Bywar - Twelve Devils Playground
Dekapitator - The Storm Before the Calm
Nile - Ithyphalic
Obituary - Executioners Return
Saxon - The Inner Sanctum

Waiting for:
Judas Priest an 07 release?
Overkill
Iced Earth
Exodus

EDIT: Oh shit, new Vendetta has been out for 11 days now. I must hear this.

As usual I've heard far too little to make a fair judgement, but I'll give it a shot then. I mean there's always great stuff you'll miss, but I've heard a total of like 20 new albums this year.

1. Machine Head - The Blackening (far and away, nothing comes close. Best album ever.)
2. Symphony X - Paradise Lost (dig it far more than their earlier stuff due to an absolutely killer guitar tone and riffwork that reminds me of vintage Annihilator)
3. Threshold - Dead Reckoning (still going strong, few surprises but extremely solid still)
4. 3 Inches of Blood - Fire Up the Blades (not the gimmicky parody stuff I expected)
5. Candlemass - King of the Grey Islands (almost as good as the classics, and I think I actually prefer the new vocalist)
6. Morgana Lefay - Aberrations of the Mind (solid thrashy power metal, makes me want to check into their earlier stuff)
7. Kamelot - Ghost Opera (a considerable step down from The Black Halo, my 2005 album of the year, but very good still)
8. Dark Moor - Tarot (not quite Olden Dreams/Oblivion level, but much better than the last two)
9. Saxon - The Inner Sanctum (best since Unleash the Beast)
10. Within Temptation - The Heart of Everything (not a fan of the style really, but good. Including it in my top ten shows how little '07 stuff I've actually heard, though)

EDIT: oh yeah I'd absolutely LOVE to include The Dogma here, seeing as their debut was my #2 favorite album of '06, but their new album immensely disappoints me I'm afraid.

Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde
Cephalic Carnage - Xenosapien
Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum
Harvey Milk - My Love Is Higher Than Your Assessment Of What My Love Could Be
Kamelot - Ghost Opera
Neurosis - Given To The Rising
Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb
Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet
Shining - Halmstad

Are you pleased, Prince Noodles?

Air - Pocket Symphony
dream theater - systematic chaos
the absence- riders of the plague
watain - sworn to the dark
Obituary - Xecutioners Return
Logistics- Medical History (NHSDL09)
Justice- †
heed- demo 2007
divine heresy- bleed the fifth

yeah new Dekapitator is basically ownage

1. DHG - Supervillian Outcast
2. Laethora- March of the Parasites
3. Pig Destroyer- Phantom Limb
4. Man Must Die- The Human Condition
5. Behemoth- The Apostasy

I can't wait till the new Elvenking!!!!!!

Receiving End of Sirens's and Middian's albums also kick ass. I wish I'd listen to the Middian sooner because I had it for like 3 months before finally giving it a good listen

How about now?