For the end of this year we'll do a SPECIAL about what happened in AVANT-GARDE METAL 2007. For this we'd like to know

your TOP 5 ALBUMS of 2007

Please post them here or send them to us at http://www.avantgarde-metal.com/content/contact.php

There are 4 rankings:
- Top 5 avant-garde metal albums 2007
- Top 5 avant-garde metal newcomers 2007
- Top 5 albums beyond the border 2007
- Top 5 avant-garde metal albums ever

You don't have to name all 4x5=20 albums. Of course you also can send us just one or two of these rankings. If you don't have five top albums you also can send e.g. just your top 3. We're looking forward to hear what impressed you most this year!

Thanks a lot!
Chrystof

in no particular order, and this list may be updated as I think more about it...

Porcupine Tree "Fear of A Blank Planet"
Wolves in the Throne Room "Two Hunters"
Xasthur "Defective Epitaph"
Mayhem "Ordo Ad Chao"
Abigor "Fractal Possession"
Sigh "Hangman's Hymn"

more to come as I my brain settles in and realizes that 2007 is almost over.

Some of them aren't avantgarde.

I think it's absolutely no problem if some entries on a top list are at the very border of avantgarde metal or even beyond. All individual lists will be summed up into one big list in the end. So albums named only by 1 or 2 persons won't get a top ranking anyway. So "non-agm albums" will be filtered out automatically.

On the other hand if albums that the crew considers "not-agm" achieve top-rankings, then probably there is something wrong with the view of the crew - because then these albums are agm by collective definition.

The overall top list is a great tool to destillate our collective definition of what definitely is avantgarde metal! Thanks a lot to everybody who has contributed to it so far! The more people take part in it the higher the value of this ranking will be.



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I don't know, but in my opinion maybe:
Katatonia: July (EP)
Laethora: March of the Parasite
Beneath the Massacre: Mechanics of Dysfunction
Alchemist: Tripsis
Hacride: Amoeba

ALCHEMIST - Tripsis
THE OCEAN - Precambrian
HACRIDE - Amoeba
ABIGOR - Fractal Possession
DEATHSPELL OMEGA - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum

Ulver - Shadows of the Sun
Mayhem - Ordo ad Chao
DHG - Supervillain Outcast
Manes - How the World Come to an End

I hate to place stuff in genres, but i'll give it a try:
2007:
Ulver - shadows under the sun
Björk - Volta (electric-avantgard-ish)
DHG - Supervillain outcast (although i'm not overimpressed..)

some of the best ever (won't put one at the top or bottom since all depends on mood):
Ulver - blood inside
Ulver - themes from william blake's "the marriage of heaven and hell"
DHG - 666 international
Arcturus - La masquerade Infernale
Björk - Medùlla (still think she fits in this genre)
Patton/kaada - Romances
+more

Patton/kaada - Romances is fantastic!!!

best 5 AGM albums of 2007:

-Alchemist - Tripsis
-Manes - How The World Came To An End
-Ulver - Shadows Of The Sun
-Dodheimsgard - Supervillain Outcast
-Deathspell Omega - Fas-Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum

Best newcomers:

-Bergraven - Dodsvisioner
-Abigor - Fractal Possession

Best 5 AGM albums ever:

-Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
-Strapping Young Lad - City
-Alchemist - Spiritech
-Manes - Vilosophe
-Ved Buens Ende - Written In Waters

AGM?:

DHG - Supervillain Outcast
Cephalic Carnage - Xenosapien
Blotted Science - Machinations Of Dementia

Beyond:

Hella - There's No 666 In Outer Space

THE FINAL RESULTS ARE ONLINE NOW!

Thanks a lot to everybody who participated in this survey via email, myspace message or a forum entry here!

Fuck, I forgot bout Unexpect! Still they're 10 so it's cool.

but they were 2006 anyway

The unexpecT album is timeless.