1. Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao


2. Nile – Ithyphallic


3. Symphony X - Paradise Lost


4. High on Fire – Death is This Communion



5. Machine Head – The Blackening


6. Down – III – Over the Under


7. Primordial – To The Nameless Dead


8. Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet


9. Rush - Snakes & Arrows


10. Pig Destroyer – Phantom Limb

11. Candlemass - King of the Grey Islands
12. Between the Buried and Me – Colors
13. Behemoth – The Apostasy
14. Sigh - Hangman's Hymn
15. Rotting Christ – Theogonia
16. Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
17. Moonsorrow - V: Havitetty
18. Iced Earth - Framing Armageddon
19. Clutch – From Beale Street to Oblivion

20. King Diamond - Give Me Your Soul Please
21. Ulver – Shadows Of The Sun
22. Akercocke – Antichrist
23. Immolation - Shadows In The Light
24. Arch Enemy - Rise Of The Tyrant
25. Municipal Waste - The Art of Partying
26. Melechesh – Emissaries
27. Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli
28. Therion - Gothic Kabbalah
29. Amorphis - Silent Waters

30. Helloween – Gambling With The Devil
31. Dark Tranquillity – Fiction
32. Marduk - Rom 5:12
33. Alcest – Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde
34. Shining - V Halmstad
35. Ensiferum - Victory Songs
36. Megadeth - United Abominations
37. Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
38. Circus Maximus- Isolate
39. Devin Townsend - Ziltoid the Omniscient

40. Finntroll - Ur Jordens Djup
41. Type O Negative- Dead Again
42. Novembers Doom - The Novella Reservoir
43. Cage - Hell Destroyer
44. Opeth - The Roundhouse Tapes
45. Swallow The Sun – Hope
46. Heaven and Hell - Live from Radio City
47. Witchcraft – The Alchemist
48. 3 Inches of Blood - Fire Up the Blades
49. Ministry - The Last Sucker

50. Watain - Sworn to the Dark
51. Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today
52. Vintersorg - Solens Rotter
53. Radiohead – In Rainbows
54. Trouble - Simple Mind Condition
55. Agua De Annique – Air
56. Deathspell Omega - Fans - Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum
57. Darkthrone - F.O.A.D
58. Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
59. Dethklok - The Deth album

60. Dodheimsgard - Supervillain Outcast
61. Doomsword - My Name Will Live On
62. Bad Religion-- New Maps of Hell
63. Antimatter – Leaving Eden
64. Slough Feg – Hardworlder
65. Paradise Lost - In Requiem
66. Månegarm – Vargstenen
67. Atlantean Kodex - The Pnakotic Demos
68. Scorpions - Humanity Hour
69. Skeletonwitch - Beyond the Permafrost

70. Dying Fetus - War of Attrition
71. Naglfar – Harvest
72. Sebastian Bach - Angel Down
73. Exodus - The Atrocity Exhibition - Exhibit A
74. Neurosis – Given to the Rising
75. Blackfield - Blackfield II
76. Within Temptation - The Heart of Everything
77. Wolves in the Throne Room-- Two Hunters
78. Nightingale - White Darkness
79. Worship – Dooom

80. Korpiklaani – Tervaskanto
81. Obituary - Xecutioners Return
82. Annihilator – Metal
83. Sixx AM - The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack
84. Anaal Nathrakh- Hell Is Empty, And All The Devils Are Here
85. Aborted - Slaughter & Apparatus
86. Alabama Thunderpussy - On Fire
87. Dax Riggs – We Sing of Only Blood or Love
88. Against the Plagues - The Architecture of Oppression
89. Redemption - The Origins of Ruin

90. Novembre- The Blue
91. Blotted Science - Machinations of Dementia
92. Cephalic Carnage – Xenosapien
93. Monstrosity - Spiritual Apocalypse
94. Mithras - Behind The Shadows Lie Madness
95. Vital Remains - Icons of Evil
96. Threshold - Dead Reckoning
97. Aeon - Rise To Dominate
98. Legion of The Damned- Sons of Jackal
99. Cobalt – Eater Of Birds
100. The Black Dahlia Murder – Nocturnal

Eh, surprising indeed. NEVER thought these 2 would top the poll, especially considering some people around here were a bit deceived by that Nile disc.

But overall very nice list! Thanks LOAF....

Megadeth is right where it should be on that list. You hear that BWBK?

Was it the same for the Nile? Or was this one on more list but lower in the rankings?

Very solid list. Disappointed at the lack of Vrolok and Middian, but whatever.

Cobalt seems to be the only Profound Lore disc that made the cut, that is a damn shame.

not quite. i mean, it is on the list.

What the fuck are you talking about, Megadeth is ON the list, something's wrong, obviously.

I mean, I love the band, I love Shawn and Glen (EIDOLON!!!!!), but this is really not Megadeth's best.

EDIT: mandy beat me to it.

Ah come on the new Megadeth was a pretty good CD. Not their best by any stretch but I found it worthy. The Mayhem being #1 is what's surprising.

probably my highest proportion of bands from my list on this one than any other year.

dissappointed in the lack of love for the new impaled and blood duster, but what else is to be expected?

Well according to my tastes I agree, I think it's a pile of generic and forced pseudo-thrash with dumb lyrics and zero replay value, but some people liked that one go figure. At least #36 sounds more realistic than #1.

Malefic: Alcest score 33.

Well done LOAF, as usual. I totally slacked on my list this year... just figuring out in the nick of time that I had yet to submit it. I usually put a lot of work into my list, but this year it didn't happen, and I posted it right in the nick of time. I blame it on the wealth of quality releases this year, but it probably has to with my own laziness.

Well, there were those 6 threads in 10 minutes around its release...

thankfully you reminded me at the last minute anyways...

can;t wait to fucking see them!!!

Profound Lore only did the US version of it, so that really didn't count for me.

Interesting list this year. Thanks LOAF for all you hard work!


No Baroness or Middian.

Baroness would have been on mine had I heard them before I made it. Oh well.

I'm glad to see so much of what I enjoy on the list. I own half of the top ten alone.

Great stuff. Thanks LOAF!

Thanks LOAF, this is a pretty cool thing you do here.

My 2007 list in comparison to the remainder of the board:

1. Nightingale - White Darkness (78)
2. Paradise Lost - In Requiem (65)
3. Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos (37)
4. Antimatter - Leaving Eden (63)
5. Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet (8)
6. Dark Tranquillity - Fiction (31)
7. Demiurg - Breath Of The Demiurg (>100)
8. Moonsorrow - Viides Luku: Hävitetty (17)
9. Down - III: Over The Under (6)
10. Novembers Doom - The Novella Reservoir (42)
11. Shining - V: Halmstad (34)
12. Threshold - Dead Reckoning (96)
13. Devin Townsend - Ziltoid The Omniscient (39)
14. Nahemah - The Second Philosophy (>100)
15. Watain - Sworn To The Dark (50)

Maybe I'm weird but I fail to see how Cobalt only score #99....hell if a release blew me away this year it was Cobalt...That and Ire Works are the most interesting pieces of heavy music I heard all year.

But then I don't think that many people around here heard it anyway.

I'm pretty sure Cobalt was the only PL release I didn't pick up this year-- something about the sample I heard didn't hook me...

1. Agua De Annique - Air (55)
2. Tulus - Biography Obscene (>100)
3. Shining - V: Halmstad (34)
4. Anaal Nathrakh - Hell Is Empty And All The Devils Are Here (84)
5. Melt-Banana - Bambi's Dilemma (>100)
6. Watain - Sworn To The Dark (50)
7. Red Harvest - A Greater Darkness (>100)
8. Melechesh - Emissaries (26)
9. High On Fire - Death Is This Communion (5)
10. Clutch - From Beale Street To Oblivion (19)
11. Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao (1)
12. Within Temptation - The Heart Of Everything (76)
13. Nile - Ithyphallic (2)
14. Cephalic Carnage - Xenosapien (>100)
15. KMFDM - Hau Ruck (>100)

My list, BB list in parentheses.

Sodom didn't even crack the top 100?! And why is Emissaries right beside the disappointingly sterile In Sorte Diaboli?!

I'm surprised Dimmu even made the 100. That album sucks.