The Top Metal Albums of 2007
In terms of quality metal, 2007 has been a pretty diverse. There were the psych metallers, the black metallers (and unfortunately a few meddlers), the avant-garde experimenters, stoner rockers and even a small thrash revival. Strangely there weren't any really good hardcore/metal crossover acts (I will not admit to liking metalcore) like Converge, but the records that were good were great.
Jesu got top honors on this list mostly because of the strength of the title cut. Justin Broadrick's beautiful, non-metal croon seems as though it was coming from another plane. After that, there are some differences in ranking on this list from my general music list, mostly because I think about metal differently than I think about general metal—although if you're mincing where Obliteration falls versus Mayhem, then you're a metalhead after my own cockled heart.
- Jesu, Conqueror
- Mayhem, Ordo Ad Chao
- Obliteration, Perpetual Decay
- Neurosis, Given to the Rising
- Watain, Sworn to the Dark
- Byla/Jarboe, Viscera
- Wolves in the Throne Room, Two Hunters
- Dekapitator, Storm Before the Calm
- Big Business, Here Come the Waterworks
- Deathspell Omega, Fas - Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum
- Obituary, Xecutioner's Return
- Nadja, Radiance of Shadows
- Baroness, Red Album
- High on Fire, Death Is This Communion
- Bergraven, Dödsvisioner
- Gallhammer, Ill Innocence
- Dälek, Absence
- Hacavitz, Katun
- Clockcleaner, Babylon Rules
- Rotting Christ, Theogonia
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