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: 25th 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.

 

BEST TV OF 2007:

 

1. Moonlight

2. Fallen

3. Ninja Warrior

4. Heroes

5. Headbanger’s Ball 

6. Ugly Betty 

7. Who Wants To Be A Superhero 

8. Robin Hood

9. Hex

10. Chuck

11. Bionic Woman

12. Ghost Whisperer

13. Ghost Hunters 

14. Las Vegas 

15. NCIS

16. Criss Angel’s Mindfreak

17. Phenomenon

18. Life

19. Criminal Minds

20. CSI Miami

 

Honorable mention: CSI New York, Dr. Who, Dresden Files, Numb3rs, Grey’s Anatomy, Pirate Master, Cheats, Attack of the Show, X Play.

 

BEST BOOKS OF 2007:

 

1. Preston & Child – Wheel of Darkness

2. Michael Laimo – Dead Souls

3. Hideyuki Kikuchi – Vampire Hunter D 6: Pilgrimage of the Sacred and the Profane

4. Hideyuki Kikuchi – Vampire Hunter D 7 & 8: Mysterious Journey to the North Sea

5. Hideyuki Kikuchi – Vampire Hunter D 9: The Rose Princess

6.Hideyuki Kikuchi – Vampire Hunter D: The Manga

7. Darren Shan – Bec

8. Mike Carey – The Devil You Know

9. Stephen Laws - Ferocity

10. Brad Meltzer – The Book of Fate

11. Ian Rankin – The Naming Of The Dead

12. J.F. Gonzalez - Beloved

13.Tim Waggoner – Darkness Wakes

14. Justin Somper – Vampirates

15. Edward Lee – House Infernal

16. Marjorie M. Liu – Eye of Heaven

17. John Francome – Dead Weight

18. Stephanie Meyer – Eclipse

19. Marjorie M. Liu – Soul Song

20. Flip Flippen – The Flip Side

 


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