Posts from — February 2008

I like music. I like making lists. At the end of each year, I like reading lists of the music that ruled from the past 12 months. Because I like all of those things, here are my top 30 albums of 2007.

I know it’s a little late – but there was lots of good stuff sneaking in as the year ended. So my ear’s needed some time to digest everything. I expect everyone to buy all of these.

1. Baroness - Red Album
2. Buried at Sea – Ghost
3. Minsk - The Ritual Fires of Abandonment
4. Machine Head - The Blackening
5. Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
6. Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb
7. The White Stripes - Icky Thump
8. Rosetta - Wake/Lift
9. Grave in the Sky - Cutlery Hits China: English for the Hearing Impaired
10. Neurosis - Given to the Rising
11. Deathspell Omega - Fas-Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum
12. Municipal Waste - The Art of Partying
13. Exodus - The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit A
14. Earthless - Rhythms from a Cosmic Sky
15. Dax Riggs - We Sing of Only Blood or Love
16. Zozobra - Harmonic Tremors
17. Fu Manchu - We Must Obey
18. High on Fire - Death is the Communion
19. Weedeater - God Luck and Good Speed
20. Nadja – Touched
21. Black Cobra – Feather and Stone
22. Watain – Sworn to the Darkness
23. Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
24. Torche – In Return
25. Big Business - Here Come the Waterworks
26. Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
27. Clutch - From Beale Street to Oblivion
28. Om – Pilgrimage
29. Coliseum – No Salvation
30. Witchcraft - The Alchemist