So about 20 days into the new year, I've managed to compile a list of albums I really liked from last year that I'm perfectly happy with and will be for about 2 months before discovering something from last year that's like 40 million times better or some shit. Like before, if I missed something or you just have something to say about this list, just say so in the comments section.

10. Orkan - Vintersorg

9. Pneuma - Hail Spirit Noir

8. Lure Of The Occult - Backyard Mortuary

7. Bury The Light - Pharaoh

6. Tales Of The…

Kind of like my 2007 list, but hopefully not as nooby haha

But knowing me, I'm probably missing some big essential album that everybody jizzed their pants to - speak up if that's the case, and tell me what it is. Most likely, I probably didn't listen to it. You may notice that I've listed mostly power/progressive albums. It's not that I've grown cynical with extreme metal; I just liked the power/progressive albums more than the extreme metal ones.

10. ...Grey Heaven Fall - Grey Heaven Fall

9. By The Hands Of The Devil - Satan's Host

8. Heavenly Ecstasy…

…I seriously considered these the top 10 best albums of 2007 as far as metal's concerned. Oh my fucking god… ahhahahahaahahah

10. The Way Of The Fist - Five Finger Death Punch Pretty good Groove Metal, though the lyrics are kind of bad and cliche (I mean, the ending of one of the songs ends with the vocallist saying fuck like 4 times). Oh well, it's a kickass debut by a new Groove Metal band. The guitar work is at least a lot like the Groove Metal formular Pantera left behind before splitting up, mixed with the formular Machine Head…

DON'T take my comments about women being in Metal seriously. I just felt the need to point it out. But dont take me to be a sexist fool, I'm not.

Top 10 Albums released in 2007:

10. The Way of the Fist - Five Finger Death Punch
Pretty good Groove Metal, though the lyrics are kind of bad and cliche (I mean, the ending of one of the songs ends with the vocallist saying fuck like 4 times). Oh well, it's a kickass debut by a new Groove Metal band. The guitar work is at least a lot like the…

First, name the top 10 artists on your Last.fm:

1. Iron Maiden
2. Pantera
3. Death
4. Savatage
5. System of a Down
6. Slayer
7. Testament
8. Firewind
9. Cannibal Corpse
10. Machine Head

Now answer the questions according to the numbers:

what was the first song you ever heard by 6?:
Point

what is your favourite album of 2?:
Either Cowboys From Hell or Vulgar Display Of Power

what is your favourite lyric that 5 has sung?:
No idea…I'll just say:

Chop Suey - System of a Down
(We're rolling suicide)
Wake up, (Wake up)
Grab a brush…

Parkway Drive - Killing With A Smile - The Review.

Tracklist:
1. Gimme A D
2. Anasasis (Xenophontis)
3. Pandora
4. Romance Is Dead
5. Guns For Show, Knives For A Pro
6. Blackout
7. Picture Perfect, Pathetic
8. It's Hard To Speak Without A Tongue
9. Mutiny
10. Smoke Em If Ya Got Em
11. A Cold Day In Hell

Score: 7.25/10

Summary: A great debut album for one of the less noticed metalcore bands. Some songs are crap, some songs are bloody brilliant, but all in all, you have yourself an album that sounds like Generic Metalcore at…

Oh…so very bored…

I found this last.fm extension site about Recommended Artist Clouds in someboy else's journal, and I thought I'd give it a shot. Check it!

Take the 50 top artists in your musical profile, and create a cloud of the similar artists that are not in your top 50. The result is a collection of highly recommended artists for your personal profile. You can generate your own cloud (in BBCode) at http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/recommend.php

My recommendations are:
Amorphis
Annihilator
Arch Enemy
Atheist
Bathory
Blind Guardian
Bolt Thrower
Candlemass
Carcass
Celtic Frost
Cradle of Filth
Darkthrone
Decapitated
Deicide
Destruction
Dimmu Borgir…

Took this from someone else's journal. Got bored and decided to do this.

1. Iron Maiden
Fell In Love With: Run To The Hills
Favourite Now: To Tame A Land

2. Death
Fell In Love With: Crystal Mountain
Favourite Now: Crystal Mountain

3. System of a Down
Fell In Love With: Chop Suey
Favourite Now: Forest

4. Savatage
Fell In Love Now: Sirens
Favourite Now: Hmm…hard to choose. They're all equally badass. Well, I guess Jesus Saves or Hall Of The Mountain King

5. Pantera
Fell In Love With: Walk
Favourite Now: Cemetary Gates

6. Testament
Fell In Love With:…

Got bored. Decided to compile a list. Most might disagree, but who cares, right?

15. Kai Hansen (Gamma Ray, ex-Helloween)
14. Gus G (Firewind, ex-Dream Evil)
13. Adrian Smith (Iron Maiden)
12. Yngwie J. Malmsteen Yngwie Malmsteen)
11. Alex Skolnick (Testament)
10. Criss Oliva (Savatage)
9. Jari Mäenpää (Wintersun, ex-Ensiferum)
8. Rob Barrett (Cannibal Corpse, Malevolent Creation)
7. John Petrucci (Dream Theater)
6. Mikael Akerfeldt (Opeth, Bloodbath)
5. Muhammed Suiçmez (Necrophagist)…

Take your top 20 artists. For each of these artists, collect the top 5 similar artists. The resulting number of unique artists is your eclectic score. If the score is small (extreme = 5) your musical preferences are very limited, and if it is large (larger than 80, extreme = 100), then you have an eclectic musical preference. You can compute your own score at http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/eclectic.php

My eclectic score is currently

64/100

The 64 related artists for my profile are Amon Amarth, Arch Enemy (2), Atheist, Avantasia (2), Axenstar, Ayreon, Behemoth, Black Sabbath,…