Top 30 Albums of 2007

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