Crowgrrrl's Perch 12-30-07

CROWGRRL’S PERCH 12-30-07

By Athena Schaffer aka The Crowgrrl

The Crowgrrl Wishes Everyone Safe and Wonderful New Year’s!

SPECIAL BEST-OF 2007 EDITION! (Narrowing down the choices was tough because 2007 was an awesome year for Music, Movies and More!)

BEST CD’S OF 2007!

1. Dimmu Borgir – In Sorte Diaboli (Nuclear Blast)

2. Amon Amarth – With Oden On Our Side (Metal Blade)

3. Danzig – The Lost Tracks of Danzig (Evilive)

4. Behemoth – The Apostacy (Century Media)

5. Samael – Solar Soul (Nuclear Blast)

6. Arch Enemy – Rise of the Tyrant (Century Media)

7. Rob Zombie – Zombie Live (Geffen)

8. Static X – Cannibal (Reprise)

9. In This Moment – Beautiful Tragedy (Century Media)

10. W.A.S.P. – Dominator (Demolition)

11. Svartsot – Ravnenes Saga (Napalm)

12. Nox Arcana – In The Shadow of the Raven (Monolith Graphics)

13. Intense – As Our Army Grows (Napalm)

14. Sonata Arctica – Unia (Nuclear Blast)

15. Sonic Syndicate – Only Inhuman (Nuclear Blast)

16. Iron Fire – Blade of Triumph (Napalm)

17. Dublin Death Patrol – DDP 4 Life (Self)

18. The Showdown – Temptation Come My Way (Mono Vs. Stereo)

19. Crescent Shield – The Last Of My Kind (Cruz Del Sur)

20. One Man Army & The Undead Quartet – Error In Evolution (Nuclear Blast)

HONORABLE MENTION – Thor “Into The Noise” (the album is not officially out until January 9, 2008, but it kicks serious ass. I predict it will be in the 2008 Best Of!). Lucan Wolf “Outlaw” (he ventures from his Vampire music into a new CountryRock direction, and Country Rock’s not my cup of tea – but this does Rock, and the lyrics are still darkly supernatural). Christian Death – American Inquisition, Zombeast – Zombeast, Enthroned – Tetra Karcist, Malevolent Creation- Doomsday X, Amorphis – Silent Waters, Finntroll – Ur Jordens Djup, Battlelore – Evernight, and of course the remixed, remastered Dark Funeral classics: The Secrets of the Black Arts, Diabolus Interium, and Vobisucum Satanas.

BEST VIDEO CLIPS OF 2007!

1. Thor – Evil Twin

2. Dimmu Borgir – The Serpentine Offering

3. Amon Amarth – Runes To My Memory

4. Amon Amarth – Cry of the Blackbirds

5. Iced Earth – 10,000 Strong

6. Arch Enemy- Revolution Begins

7. Nikki Sixx – Life Is Beautiful

8. Finntroll – Nedgang

9. Samael – Slavocracy

10. Kamelot – Ghost Opera

11. Sonic Syndicate – Denied

12. Sirenia – The Other Side

13. Himsa – Big Timber

14. In This Moment – Beautiful Tragedy

15. Exodus – Riot Act

16. Black Tide – Shockwave

17. Nile- Papyrus

18. Immolation – World Agony

19. Battlelore – House of Heroes

20. Nazz – Baby Godzilla

BEST LONG FORM MUSIC DVD’S OF 2007:

1. Metalocalypse (Complete First Season)

2. Dark Funeral – Attera Orbis Terrarium

3. Iron Maiden – Death on the Road

4. Unholy Alliance Chapter II (Slayer, Lamb of God, Mastodon, Children of Bodom, Thine Eyes Bleed)

5. Amon Amarth – Wrath of the Norsemen

6. Blue Oyster Cult Live

7. Metal Blade: 25^th Anniversary

8. The Ramones – Videobiography

9. The Ramones – It’s Alive 1974 - 1996

10. KISS – KISSology vol. 3

11. Sentenced – Buried Alive

12. Phil Varone – Wake Up Dead

13. Vader: And Blood Was Shed In Warsaw

14. Candlemass – 20th Anniversary

15. Dokken – Unchain the Night

16. T. Rex – Up Close & Personal

17. Metal Church – Dynamo Classic Concerts 1991

18. Asia – Fantasia Live In Tokyo

19. Seven Witches – Years of the Witch

20. Overkill – Wrecking Everything

BEST MOVIES/DVD’S OF 2007:

1. Azumi

2. National Treasure 2 – Book of Secrets

3. Rob Zombie’s Halloween

4. 300

5. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

6. Nomad: The Warrior

7. 30 Days of Night

8. I Am Legend

9. Robin of Sherwood – Set 1

10. Harry Potter & The Order of the Phoenix

11. Spiderman 3

12. Underdog

13. Eragon

14. Pan’s Labyrinth

15. Pathfinder

16. Live Free and Die Hard

17. The Illusionist

18. Apocalypto

19. Primeval

20. Water Horse: Legend of the Deep

Honorable Mentions: Bourne Ultimatum, Wrong Turn 2 – Dead End, Beowulf, Transformers, The Prestige, Blood & Chocolate, Robin of Sherwood Set 2, The Raven, Hollywoodland, Flicka.