December 28, 2007

{     "Dizzy" Lizzy Rachtman's Top 12 Metal Releases of 2007.     }    

An ordered account of all the metal I heard and loved in the year of our Uberlard 2007.

1. Pig Destroyer "Phantom Limb"
2. Neurosis "Given to the Rising"
3. Black Dahlia Murder "Nocturnal"
4. High on Fire "Death is this Communion"
5. Dillinger Escape Plan "Ire Works"
6. Big Business "Here Come the Waterworks"
7. Baroness "Red Album"
8. Blood Duster "Lyden Na"
9. Death Breath "Let it Stink"
10. Exodus "The Atrocity Exhibition- Exhibit A"
11. Darkest Hour "Deliver Us"
12. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum "In Glorious Times"

A Baker's Dozen of Honorable Mentions:

Jesu "Conquerer"
Watain "Sworn to the Dark"
Opeth "The Roundhouse Tapes"
Municipal Waste "The Art of Partying"
Entombed "Serpent Saints"
Obituary "Xecutioner's Return"
King Diamond "Give me Your Soul Please"
Devin Townsend "Ziltoid the Omniscient"
Nine Inch Nails "Year Zero"
Ministry "The Last Sucker"
Arch Enemy "Rise of the Tyrant"
Skeletonwitch "Beyond the Permafrost"
The Great Deceiver "Life is Wasted on the Living"