Post your top 10 CD's of 2007..

[Ayestrain]

So the year's not quite over yet, but I'm going ahead and posting my top ten..

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1 - Year Zero / Nine Inch Nails

Reznor seemingly grows up, but doesn't outgrow the noise. Year Zero isn't a perfect album. It could be a little more diverse lyrically (Trent still seems stuck on his themes of the "down on your knees" variety). It is an album, however, that can be spun and appreciated more and more every time. I like records with a unifying vision, and while Year Zero isn't The Wall, the cycle of songs on here are powerful and anarchic. This is a very well-realized post-GW Bush, post-9/11, post-Iraq album. Reznor here also finally regains the majesty and power his music had in the The Downward Spiral days, finally finding the perfect balance between pop, industrial, avant rock, noise and knob-twiddling.




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2 - Tio Bitar / Dungen

Dungen just seem to go from strength to strength. This record is jammier than their last, 2004's psych song-feast Tat De Lught. It's still the best-produced and best-sounding album of the year. Frontman Gustav Ejstes sings in Swedish, so I don't understand a whit of the lyrics, but it's so great to get swept away in tracks like "Familj" and "C Visar Vagan", and I defy you to not bang your head to "Mon Amour". Bonus: Ejstes' side project "Life On Earth!" came out this year and is also really kick-ass.





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3 - Drums & Guns / Low

No album got more under my skin this year. The songs of Low will never be everyone's cup of tea, nor will their lyrics (first line: "All the soldiers / they're all gonna die", and later "our bodies break / and the blood just spills and spills"). Musically, they adopt ghostly electronics and drum loops, but there is little actual emphasis on such sonic garnishing, they're just used to color the songs. And the songs? Some of Low's bleakest in years, which somehow fits our traumatized, blood-soaked times.





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4 - In Rainbows / Radiohead

I was fully prepared to not like this album. As a longtime 'Head fan, I was less than impressed by their last LP "Hail To The Thief" and the accompanying tour. Snippets I was hearing seemed to signal that this would be a return to form for the fivesome, and it turns out, it is. The band keeps it trim at 10 songs, and what results is a satisfying record that rewards continual listening. After years of abstract electronica and genre experimenting, as well many promised returns to the "rock" sound of olde (which is still only glimpsed sporadically here) Radiohead finally get back to what they did best, which is win you over with their bizarre vision.




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5 - White Chalk / PJ Harvey

PJ Harvey makes lots of critics year-end best list with just about all of her records. This is her first since 1998's Is This Desire? that actually deserves it. Not content to keep penning the same tried and true distorted blues rock and scorned woman style songs that's she does so well, Harvey strips her tunes down to just her rudimentary piano playing and higher than usual singing. What sounds like a disaster on first listen will eventually make it's home in your subconcious, as Harvey finally makes good on all that foreboding and dread always hanging around the edges of her music. Like Trent Reznor and Radiohead alike, Harvey seems to have learned how to morph her musical idenity while still making a well balanced and fully-realized album. In other words, these 3 have learned how to exist and survive, AND still remain relevant, in a musical environment that is increasingly disposable and hostile to originality.



6 - Autumn Of The Seraphs - Pinback
7 - Liars - Liars
8 - Era Vulgaris - Queens Of The Stone Age
9 - Mirrored - Battles
10 - Planet Of Ice - Minus The Bear

[therealjohng]

I agree, Year Zero is the best album of the year.

I don't have a top ten yet, but I have a top 3 probably.


1. Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
2. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
3. Feist - The Reminder



Those 3 albums have been at the top ever since I first heard them. All three are phenomenal efforts.

[Brando @$$ Fat]

Haha, I don't even think I've listened to 10 CDs from this year. My favorite from this year was the new Ryan Adams. He has my forgiveness for that Gap ad he did a while back.

[Frank the Tank]

1. Between The Buried And Me - Colors
2. Jesu - Conquerer
3. Battles - Mirrored
4. Akercocke - Antichrist
5. Kanye West - Graduation
6. Dethklok - Dethalbum
7. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
8. M.I.A. - Kala
9. Melt Banana - Bambi's Dilemma
10. High On Fire - Death Is The Communion

[thedudeman69]

Nine Inch Nails, Year Zero
Say Anything, In Defense of The Genre
Radiohead, In Rainbows
Queens of The Stone Age, Era Vugaris
Kanye West, Graduation
LCD Soundsystem, Sounds of Silver
Serj Tankian, Elect The Dead

[The Postmaster General]

No order...

Battles - Mirrored
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga
The Bad Plus - Prog
Bjork - Volta
The Field - From Here We Go To Sublime
The National - Boxer
Grinderman
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Trans Am - Sex Change
LCD Soundsystem - The Sound of Silver

[Cermond]

Devin Townsend - Ziltoid The Omniscient
Moonsorrow - Chapter V: Ravaged
Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao
Nile - Ithyphallic
Nightwish - Dark Passion Play
Reverend Bizarre - III: So Long Suckers
King Diamond - Give Me Your Soul.. Please

[Squid Vicious]

1) Radiohead - In Rainbows
2) Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
3) Matthew Good - Hospital Music
4) Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
5) Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
6) Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
7) Serj Tankian - Elect the Dead

[The Heart Collector]

1. Stars of the Lid, “And Their Refinement of the Decline”
2. The National, “Boxer”
3. Radiohead, “In Rainbows”
4. Sir Richard Bishop, “While My Guitar Violently Bleeds”
5. Blonde Redhead, “23″
6. Bill Callahan, “Woke on a Whaleheart”
7. Woods, “At Rear House”
8. James Blackshaw, “The Cloud of Unknowing”
9. Cass McCombs, “Dropping the Writ”
10. Eluvium, “Copia”
11. Panda Bear - “Person Pitch”
12. Animal Collective - “Strawberry Jam”

[chinton]

Was Muse this year cause I really loved Black Holes and Revelations.

[Ayestrain]

^ I believe it was.

A little Muse goes a long way for me. But the first song on that record, "Take A Bow", is completely fucking amazing.

[Kevin Smith fan]

1.) "New Wave"- Against Me
2.) "A Natural Death"- Horse the Band
3.) "Neon Bible"- Arcade Fire
4.) "Colors"- Between the Buried and Me
5.) "Ickey Thump"- White Stripes
6.) "Juggernaut"- Knights of the Abyss
7.) "Somewhere in the Between"- Streetlight Manifesto
8.) "Genuine Sense of Outrage"- The Warriors
9.) "Living with the Living"- Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
10.) "Cassadega"- Bright Eyes

[kcvoorhees]

Muse was last year


1.Arcade Fire-Neon Bible

2.Nine Inch Nails-Year Zero

3.Radiohead-In Rainbows

4.Porcupine Tree-Fear Of A Blank Planet

5.Grinderman-Grinderman

6.White Stripes-Icky Thump

7.Stateless-Stateless

8.Norah Jones-Not too Late

9.Patrick Wolf-The Magic Position

10.The Shins-Wincing the Night Away

[therealjohng]

Was Muse this year cause I really loved Black Holes and Revelations.

Sorry it was 2006. But yes, that album is great.

[killuminati003]

In no order

White Stripes-Icky Thump
Kanye West- Graduation
Talib Kweli- Ear Drum
Seether-Finding Beauty in Negative spaces
NIN- Year Zero
Eagles- Long Road Out of Eden
Korn-Untitled
Foo Fighters-Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace
Maroon 5-It won't be soon before long
Alicia Keys-As I Am

those last two are HUGE guilty pleasures. This list will probably change because these are the more mainstream releases that I like and over the next little bit I will probably start getting into the lesser known albums of the year.


J Dilla- Ruff Draft- if this wasn't a re-release it would have easily made my top ten.


Oh and I almost forgot, Souljah Boys new album...top spot for sure...

[echo_bravo]

1. Radiohead- In Rainbows
2. Queens of the Stone Age- Era Vulgaris
3. The White Stripes- Icky Thump
4. The Beastie Boys- The Mix-Up
5. The Good, The Bad & The Queen
6. Wilco- Sky Blue Sky
7. Interpol- Our Love to Admire
8. Devendra Banhart- Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon
9. Caribou- Andorra
10. Jay-Z- American Gangster

[bowieee]

1. Stars of the Lid, “And Their Refinement of the Decline”
2. The National, “Boxer”
3. Radiohead, “In Rainbows”
4. Sir Richard Bishop, “While My Guitar Violently Bleeds”
5. Blonde Redhead, “23″
6. Bill Callahan, “Woke on a Whaleheart”
7. Woods, “At Rear House”
8. James Blackshaw, “The Cloud of Unknowing”
9. Cass McCombs, “Dropping the Writ”
10. Eluvium, “Copia”
11. Panda Bear - “Person Pitch”
12. Animal Collective - “Strawberry Jam”


I salute this list.

[bowieee]

1. 23 ~ Blonde Redhead
2. None shall pass ~ Aesop Rock
3. Ghosthorse and stillborn ~ Coco Rosie
4. Dethalbum ~ Dethklock
5. Release the Stars ~ Rufus Wainwright
6 Xerrox Vol. 1 ~ Alvo noto
7. Say No! to being Cool Say Yes to being Happy. ~ The Softlightes
8. I shall Exterminate everything around me that keeps me from being my own master ~ The Electric Six
9. Copia ~ Eluvium
10. White CHalk ~ PJ Harvey

[therealjohng]

2. None shall pass ~ Aesop Rock


This will definitely be high on my list. An astonishing album.

[LordSimen]

1. Devin Townsend - Ziltoid the Omniscient
2. Avenged Sevenfold - Avenged Sevenfold
3. Megadeth - United Abominations
4. Between the Buried and Me - Colors
5. Dark Tranquility - Fiction
6. Dethklok - Dethalbum
7. Nile - Ithyphalic
8. Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
9. Obituary - Xecutioner's Return
10. Shadows Fall - Threads of Life

Honorable mention:
3 - The End is Begun
Korn - Untitled
White Stripes - Icky Thump

[athf1980]

I don't think that I bought ten new albums from this year so I'm going to rate the ones I did get which is seven

1. Hairspray soundtrack
2. Rock n Roll Jesus-Kid Rock
3. Magic-Bruce Springsteen
4. Black Rain-Ozzy Osbourne
5. Eagles-Long Road Out of Eden
6. Harry Potter 3 soundtrack
7. POTC 3 soundtrack

[Tayzlor]

01. Panda Bear - "Person Pitch"
02. Animal Collective - "Strawberry Jam"
03. Deerhunter - "Cryptograms"
04. The Field - "From Here We Go Sublime"
05. Of Montreal - "Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?"
06. Liars - "Liars"
07. Dan Deacon - "Spiderman of the Rings"
08. The Fiery Furnaces - "Widow City"
09. Black Dice - "Load Blown"
10. M.I.A. - "Kala"
11. Sally Shapiro - "Disco Romance"
12. Gui Boratto - "Chromophobia"
13. A Sunny Day in Glasgow - "Scribble Mural Comic Journal"
14. Les Savy Fav - "Let's Stay Friends"
15. LCD Soundsystem - "Sound of Silver"

[Pride]

1. Interpol - Our Love To Admire- 9/10
2. Marilyn Manson - Eat Me, Drink Me: 8.5/10
3. Bloc Party - Weekend In The City: 8.5/10
4. She Wants Revenge - This Is Forever: 8/10
5. Brother Ali - The Undisputed Truth: 8/10
6. Kanye West - Graduation: 8/10
7. Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace: 8/10
8. Kings of Leon - Because of the Times: 8/10
9. The White Stripes - Icky Thump: 8/10
10. Velvet Revolver - Libertad: 7.5/10

[Tree0404]

1. Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
2. Minus the Bear - Planet of Ice
3. Hurt - Vol. II
4. Paulson - All at Once (Reissue)



disappointments:
Springsteen - Magic
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

I thought these 2 would make my list....not that they're bad albums, but maybe I was expecting too much.

[therealjohng]

10. Menomena - Friend and Foe
9. The Shins - Winching the Night Away
8. Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
7. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
6. M.I.A. - Kala
5. Saul Williams - The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust!
4. Feist - The Reminder
3. Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
2. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
1. Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero

[KiKrusher99]

1. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
2. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
3. Jens Lekman - Night falls over Kortedala
4. The National - Boxer
5. Radiohead - In Rainbows
6. Battles - Mirrored
7. LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
8. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, are you the destroyer?
9. Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover
10. Caribou - Andorra

[Ex-Hendrix]

I've got 40.

1. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
2. The Poison Control Center - A Collage of Impressions
3. Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover
4. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
5. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
6. Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
7. Les Savy Fav - Let’s Stay Friends
8. Radical Face - Ghost
9. Cloud Cult - The Meaning Of 8
10. The National - Boxer
11. Future of the Left - Curses
12. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
13. Blonde Redhead - 23
14. Dirty Projectors - Rise Above
15. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga
16. The Clientele - God Save The Clientele
17. Black Francis - Bluefinger
18. Caribou - Andorra
19. Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
20. Battles - Mirrored
21. Robert Pollard - Coast to Coast Carpet of Love
22. Paul McCartney - Memory Almost Full
23. Handsome Furs - Plague Park
24. Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals
25. Gruff Rhys - Candylion
26. Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
27. Super Furry Animals - Hey Venus!
28. Parts & Labor - Mapmaker
29. The Apples in Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder
30. White Rainbow - Prism of Eternal Now
31. !!! - Myth Takes
32. King Khan and the Shrines - What Is?!
33. Saul Williams - The Inevitable Rise and Fall of Niggy Tardust
34. Field Music - Tones of Town
35. Kanye West - Graduation
36. Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position
37. Interpol - Our Love to Admire
38. Radiohead - In Rainbows
39. Akron/Family - Love Is Simple
40. Tegan and Sara - The Con

I forgot Frog Eyes, too. Real good album. Elliott Smith would've been top 10, but technically that's a compilation. AWESOME year for music.

[Ayestrain]

I almost listed Smith's "New Moon" in my top ten, but decided not to. Awesome set of songs.

Something else that came out this year is the reissue of Enon's first album "Believo", from 2000. Fantastic record, and much better than their release this year.

Have to also agree that this was a great year for new music, I don't care what anyone says.

[daddiefatsacks]

i haven't heard of 3/4's of these bands, where do you guys find out about them? im intrigued to listen to 'animal collective' and 'panda bear' names that were common

[someguy]

www.metacritic.com has a decent list of stuff on there, but if you really wanna go searching you'd probably have to look at different mp3 blogs/message boards.

[HannibalGuy]

In no order yet:

Rush - Snakes and Arrows
Exodus - The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit A
Down - Over The Under
M.O.D. - Red, White and Screwed
Between the Buried and Me - Colors
Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today
Darkthrone - F.O.A.D.
Witchcraft - The Alechemist
Megadeth - United Abominations
Dethklok - The Dethalbum
Nile - Ithyphalic
Behemoth - The Apostasy
Devin Townsend - Ziltoid the Omniscient
Norah Jones - Not too Late
Ozzy Osbourne - Black Rain
Agnostic Front - Warriors

and I'm cheating cause it's a comp. but Ani DiFranco - Canon

[Frank the Tank]

I loved how you squeaked in a Norah Jones album in middle of all the metal

[The Postmaster General]

4. She Wants Revenge - This Is Forever: 8/10

I dig that album and notice despite me not mentioning it earlier, iTunes lists it as my most played 2007 album.

[Superplasmatron]

1 Strawberry jam by Animal Collective.
2.The Amber Gatherers by aladair roberts
3. at rear house by woods
4. Widow City by The Fiery Furnaces
5.Candylion by Gruff Rhys
6. The Shepherd's Dog by iron and wine
7. trees outside the academy by thurston moore
8. lady bridge by Richard Hawley
9. Person Pitch by Panda Bear
10. woke on a whale heart by Bill Callahan
11. Sex Change by trans am
12. Love Is Simple by Akron/family
13 james and the quite by wooden wand
14. pride by Phosphorescent
15. release the stars by Rufus wainright
16. Girls And Weather by the rumble strips
17. Pilgrimage by Om
18. hey venus by super furry animals
19.the stage names by okkervil river
20.magic bruce springsteen

[HannibalGuy]

I loved how you squeaked in a Norah Jones album in middle of all the metal
Heh, I could have put her right at the bottom of the list but right in between Ozzy and Heavy Devy seemed like a good place.

[Strider]

Sadly, I haven't listened to enough 2007 albums to form a Top 10 list. From all the albums I have listened to, however, The Arcade Fire's brilliant Neon Bible would be my #1 album of this year. It's been awhile since an album has truly mesmerized me. Whether in my car, at home, on the computer, in my iPod, I simply cannot stop listening to the album. And Neon Bible has been in my possession since its release date. Funeral was a terrific album and all, but I believe The Arcade Fire outdid themselves with Neon Bible. It's an outstanding album. I love it to death.

Strider

[wiggleurbigtoe]

My favorite album of the year BY FAR:
Brandi Carlile: The Story
Other ones that I pretty much adored..in no particular order
Tegan & Sara: The Con
Missy Higgins: On A Clear Night
The White Stripes: Icky Thump
Patrick Park: Everyone's in Everyone
Josh Rouse - Country Mouse City House
A Fine Frenzy: One Cell in the Sea
Wilco: Sky Blue Sky
Iron & Wine: The Shepard's Dog
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
KT Tunstall: Drastic Fantastic
_________________

I really want to put some more on there....

Smashing Pumpkins: Zeitgeist
Band of Horses: Cease to Begin
Cary Brothers: Who You Are
Okkervil River: The Stage Names
Eskimo Joe: Black Fingernails, Red Wine
Coconut Records: Nighttiming

[paul calf]

babyshambles -shotters nation

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arcade fire-neon bible

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arctic monkeys-favourate worst nightmare

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unkle-war stories

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manic street preachers-send away the tigers

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the view-hats of to the buskers

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ian brown-the world is yours

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reverend and the makers-the state of things

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amy macdonald-this is the life

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travis-the boy with no name

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[MickeyKnox]

1. http://festiforo.blogspot.es/img/nin-year_zero.jpg
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero

2. http://isaacdowning.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/radiohead-in-rainbows.jpg
Radiohead - In Rainbows

3. http://www.rocklouder.co.uk/upload/neonbible300.jpg
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

4. http://slaver.cutenews.ru/images/upload/the_national_-_boxer.jpg
The National - Boxer

5. http://soundcheck.freedomblogging.com/files/2007/10/neilyoung.jpg
Neil Young - Chrome Dreams Ii

6. http://kaninka.net/pallih/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/ddvddnntthwld.jpg
Eddie Vedder - Into The Wild

7. http://soundcheck.freedomblogging.com/files/2007/10/notthere.jpg
I'm Not There Soundtrack

8. http://www.livingcommontree.com/images/uploads/300px-Teganandsara_thecon_cover.jpg
Tegan and Sara - The Con

9. http://alittlefurtherdowntheriver.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/lcdsos.gif
LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver

10. http://thatotherpaper.com/files/blog_adam_spoon.jpg
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

[cupajoe]

in no particular order:

1. black light burns-cruel melody
2. between the buried and me-colors
3. nine inch nails-year zero
4. nellie mckay-obligatory villagers

a slew of others but i cant really remember em all

[Cronos]

1. Year Zero, Nine Inch Nails

Can't even remember what other albums I've listened to from this year

[Sigur509]

In Rainbows by Radiohead
Easy Tiger by Ryan Adams
The Shepard's Dog by Iron and Wine
Cassadaga by Bright Eyes
Our Love to Admire by Interpol
Volta by Bjork
Wincing the Night Away by The Shins
Year Zero by Nine Inch Nails
We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank by Modest Mouse
New Moon by Elliott Smith

[Sonny Corleone]

10. Freeway - Free At Last

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09. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (these guys are from my city!)

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08. Ghostface - The Big Doe Rehab

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07. Black Milk & Bishop Lamont - Caltroit (the closest thing to Dr. Dre this year)

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06. Devin The Dude - Waitin' To Inhale

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05. Pharoahe Monch - Desire

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04. M.I.A. - Kala

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03. Little Brother - Getback

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02. Sean Price - Jesus Price Supastar

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01. Styles P - The Ghost Sessions

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honorable mentions: Smashing Pumkins - Zeitgeist, Kanye West - Graduation, Talib Kweli - Ear Drum, Cunninlynguists - Dirty Acres, Radiohead - In Rainbows, Statik Selektah - Spell My Name Right

[Sidebot]

10. Iced Earth - Framing Armageddon (Something Wicked Part 1)
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9. 3 Inches of Blood - Fire Up The Blades
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8. Dark Moor - Tarot
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7. Spellblast - Horns of Silence
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6. Weeping Willows - Fear & Love
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5. Rush - Snakes & Arrows
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4. Helloween - Gambling With The Devil
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3. Threshold - Dead Reckoning
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2. King Diamond - Give Me Your Soul... Please
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1. Nightwish - Dark Passion Play
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Overall it was an amazing year for music, metal in particular. Almost all of my top 10s are albums I never thought would be there. Iced Earth really made a comeback after their last really shitty album, Nightwish proved that they don't need Tarja, Rush released their best album since 1989's Presto, Threshold surpassed Dream Theater as far as prog metal bands go, Spellblast stepped up to the plate of folkish power metal after Elvenking released a horrid turd of an album, Dark Moor released a collection of some of the most catchiest songs I've ever heard EVER and I've never really gotten into any previous albums by the band.