Way to miss the point of my post.

Am I seeing things or did AC/DC not make this list?

Thought you meant it was the lamest of the Bloodbath catalog. duh.

1. Cynic - Traced In Air (8)
2. Opeth - Watershed (1)
3. Genghis Tron - Board Up the House (39)
4. Meshuggah - obZen (2)
5. Enslaved - Vertebrae (3)
6. Satyricon - The Age of Nero (78)
7. Intronaut - Prehistoricisms (63)
8. Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God (6)
9. Martriden - The Unsettling Dark (-)
10. The Company Band - Sign Here, Here and Here (-)
11. Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle pt.1 (16)
12. Hail of Bullets - ...Of Frost and War (4)
13. The Gates of Slumber - Conqueror (26)
14. Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy (33)
15. The Sword - Gods of the Earth (-)

By quite a bit actually.

HAHA!

I was actually surprised too at how many people put it in there lists.

Also had no idea who Hail of Bullets was. That was my biggest surprise this year.

Nice job LOAF. It's always interesting to see the final rankings.

Great list!!

I would have hoped Forefather was a bit more higher then 31's. I honestly thought it was one of the better releases of the year... oh well

Thanks for doing this again this year!

le sigh

Three off my list didn't make it, but I'm not surprised. Overall its not bad I suppose, even though I completely disagree with it (like everyone else )

Anyway...

Its always cool to see how the combined tastes of the board add up. Nice job.

Boo @ Metallica being on the list, btw

Those were all on my list, and I think for the first time ever, the overall top 2 are the same as my top 2.

If Opeth hadn't hit it out of the park with an eclectic prog-death masterpiece, I would have chosen Meshuggah for sure. obZen slayed -- it's a total jackhammer of a record. Those two releases have jumped high into my all-time list... something that didn't happen with any '07 CD.

Hail of Bullets was originally my 4th pick, then moved down a bit. As amazing as the crushing guitars, powerful drums and stellar songwriting are... those Lemmy-being-anally-raped vocals just kill it for me.

Great to see Bloodbath in the top 10, even though I rated the live record ahead of The Fathomless Mastery. But then... I rated all three of the band's '08 releases high.

Nice to see Nachtmystium get some love... I think that one could be a sleeper that people will appreciate more as the years go on.

The Zimmershole record is the band's best yet. More than a metal comedy record, it's actually a damn fine metal record, period. If it was a touch more serious, I'd say it's what SYL's The New Black should have been.

And Sahg... well, they stole the show for me with the debut in '06. This time around, I found the record slipping farther and farther down my top 15 list as the year went on. A final listen at year's end moved it up a bit. Still, I hope the next one is a bit better.

Good job as always, LoaF!

I always look forward to seeing the year-end results, and this year I was quite surprised!

I think I may now have to check out the Opeth disc. And Hail Of Bullets too... I was already mildly interested in hearing it, but now I think I might just do it sooner rather than later...

Agrred on both counts... altough I am surprised that Assassins didn't end up higher on the list...

As usual, my tates vary from what's at the very top of that list (Opeth and Meshuggah?? zzzzz), but I have a lot more in the Top 50 than usual. Thanks for all the work.

Yeah, how the f did Gn'R make the Top anything? That album is a steaming pile of shitty shitty crap crap.

1. Hate Eternal - Fury & Flames (22)
2. Hour of Penance - The Vile Conception
3. Origin – Antithesis (15)
4. Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery (10)
5. Dismember – Dismember (19)
6. Hank III - Damn Right & Rebel Proud
7. Krisiun - Southern Storm (49)
8. Georgian Skull - Mother Armageddon, Healing Apocalypse
9. Brain Drill - Apocalyptic Feasting
10. Judas Priest – Nostradamus (25)
11. Vader – XXV (95)
12. Kingdom of Sorrow - Kingdom of Sorrow
13. Belphegor - Bondage Goat Zombie (100)

Meh!

Those that made it:
1. Tyr - Land (86)
3. The Monolith Deathcult - Trivmvirate (65)
4. Moonsorrow - Tulimyrsky (54)
5. Equilibrium - Sagas (69)
6. Ihsahn - angL (11)
7. Meshuggah - Obzen (2)
8. Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God (6)
11. Keep Of Kalessin - Kolossus (66)
13. Warbringer - War Without End (83)
15. Eluveitie - Slania (42)

And those that did not:
2. Arkona - Ot Serdca K Nebu (DNR)
9. Behemoth - Ezkaton (DNR)
10. SIG:AR:TYR - Beyond The North Waves (DNR)
12. The Sword - Gods Of The Earth (DNR)
14. Hectic Patterns - Random (DNR)

Not really surprised- I'd hoped to see the Arkona record on the final list, but it made it on to a bunch of 2007 lists because of the Euro release so I don't think many people counted it. Glad to see TMDC, Tyr, and Moonsorrow made a showing.

It's really disappointing to see Opeth get the top spot. They're such a mediocre band now and so is their newest album.

Hey LOAF,,,,,as always, thanks for all your work,,,,,

11 out of 15 were on the list.

And 6 were actually in the top ten

But there are lots of people who've been waiting years for that steaming pile to get plopped, and they knew they were going to love it long before they heard a note from it.

Yeah, but on this board?

You're really that surprised?

With that one? Yeah a bit.

Then again, I didn't read the entire Top 20 thread.

From what I remember, most of people thought that it was either a flaming turd at worst, and at best okay but not worth the over-a-decade-wait. People were expecting it to suck before it came out, anyway.

I'm not surprised at the Metallica, though. The standards for that band were so low people were happy with Death Magnetic.