Deathwish's Best of 2007 List.

This is basically The Best Of... Deathwish's Best of 2007 List. The previous list on Deathwish's website was way too long, so I just kept all the people Farmhouse dug in the past and present and put them on this list. The cream of the crop if you will.


Name: Dan Yemin
Claim to fame: Paint It Black, Kid Dynamite, Lifetime

01. Career Suicide “Attempted Suicide” (Deranged) (I know technically this is a 2006 release, but I slept on it until ‘07, so deal with it)
02. Ceremony - live
03. El-P “I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead” ( DefJux)
04. Aesop Rock “None Shall Pass” (Def Jux)
05. Jay Reatard “Blood Visions” (In The Red)
06. Talk Is Poison “Condensed Humanity – the Prank EP’s” (Prank)
07. Last R.A.M.B.O. Show – Starlight Ballroom, Philadelphia, PA
08. The FEST VI in Gainesville, FL
09. Paint It Black / Blacklisted California mini-tour
10. Ceremony – “Scared People” 7” (Bridge 9)


Name: Dwid Hellion
Claim to fame: exiled expatriate, Integrity, Irons

01. Stephen Kasner works: 1993-2006
02. Pulling Teeth "Martyr Immortal"
03. T committing holy matrimony
04. nbfpc.com ichat ban for the duration of the summer
05. Amadeus, Gent
06. The timeless question: Will Vegas being released in the US . . .
07. Endless sea of merch companies
08. Garageband 3
09. TBO's european vacation
10. Super8.nl in Rotterdam


Name: J. Bannon
Claim to fame: Professional Dog walker, Converge, Irons, etc

00. Janelle because she is everything to me
00. My young friends: Abby & Caleb
00. Construction/Destruction
00. Animal friends for always being excited to see me
00. Travelling the world w/ great people
00. Making music and art w/ great people (Kurt, Nate, Ben, Stephen, Dwid)
00. Anthony for all of his hard work this year
00. Tru and Linas believing in us
00. All things Deathwish/Malfunction
00. Wezz Winship
00. PJ Harvey "White Chalk"
00. Ryan Parker for talking me off the ledge, all the time
00. Blacklisted for being Blacklisted
00. Turbulent times in MMA
00. Trivikrama
00. The History Channel
00. Danzig "The Lost Tracks..." CD Collection

Other music that moved me: 108, Rise And Fall, Jesu, Deathspell Omega, Ulver, Neurosis, Mind Eraser, Entombed, Sigh, Centurions Ghost, Earth, Fucked Up, Ringworm, Drudkh, Ceremony, Omega Massif, Monarch!, and Reaper Records.


Name: Travis/Rob/Stafford
Claim to fame: Rockett Clothing

01. XO Skeletons - Bored with heaven.
02. Baroness - Red album.
03. Battles - Mirrored.
04. Hopesfall - Magnetic North
05. Pulling Teeth - Martyr Immortal.
06. Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb.
07. Pissed Jeans - Hope for men.
08. Saves the Day - Under the boards.
09. Tiger Army - Music from regions beyond.
10. Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works.


Name: Matt Pike
Claim to Fame: Office Mate of Deathwish Inc

00. The Birth of my son
01. Jesu “Conqueror” + “Lifeline ep” + “Eluvium Split”
02. Between The Buried and Me “Colors”
03. Eddie Vedder “Into the Wild”
04. 7L & Esoteric “Present Mc Esoteric: Egoclapper”
05. Ulver “Shadows of The Sun”
06. Kanye West “Graduation”
07. Battles “Mirrors”
08. Ryan Parker’s armbar on Johnny Catarino
09. Band Of Horses “Cease to Begin”
10. Deathspell Omega “Fas - Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum”



Name: Nate Newton
Claim to fame: idiot from converge, doomriders, old man gloom, skateboard park fundraiser extraordinaire

01. Iceland with the Wifey.
02. Cajun seasoned Tuna Steaks at Legal Seafoods
03. Arboretum - Rites of Uncovering
04. PJ Harvey - White Chalk
05. Torche - the people, the music, the live experience
06. Grindline finally getting the contract to design and build the Boston Skatepark, and raising money for the east boston skatepark
07. Tim Barry - Live
08. The yearly pilgrimage to skateboard the mecca that is the Pacific Northwest.
09. Surfing and Bev making me hard charge it again.
10. Disfear.....the people, the music, the live experience.

honorable mentions to...... Fish Tacos, Mind Eraser, Vince ( little waffle), Jp (frog waffle), Cedric (youre lucky this isnt jail) , Bjorn (zombie arm hole) Brewster (for putting icy hot in his ass), Neurosis in France, Rope swing madness, meeting Danzig, Wishbone Ash, Australia, Australian Mexican food, empty pools, Tadashi, Japan, Levis vintage collection 1947 reproduction Big E 501's, sb dunk mids, POOL COPING.......


Name: Rick Barnhart
Claim to fame: Ferret Music

01. The Gaslight Anthem - Sink or Swim
02. Nora - Save Yourself
03. Lifetime - s/t
04. Explosions In The Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
05. Jimmy Eat World - Chase This Light
06. Comeback Kid - Broadcasting...
07. Interpol - Our Love To Admire
08. Grails - Burning Off Impurities
09. Down III: Over The Under
10. Joe Lauzon


Name: TOMAS LINDBERG
Claim to fame: TOMAS LINDBERG (hehe) / At The Gates

01. XASTHUR - DEFECTIVE EPITATH
02. TRAP THEM - SEANCE PRIME
03. JESU - CONQUEROR
04. ALCEST - SOUVENIRS DÚN AUTRE MONDE
05. PIG DESTROYER - PHANTOM LIMB
06. WATAIN - SWORN TO THE DARK
07. MUNICIPAL WASTE - THE ART OF PARTYING
08. ICARUS LINE - BLACK LIVES AT THE GOLDEN COAST
09. LIFETIME - LIFETIME
10. DEATHSPELL OMEGA - FAS ITE MALEDICTI IN IGNEM AETERNUM


Name: Wesley Eisold
Claim to fame: Heartworm Press & Ex-musician (American Nightmare, Some Girls, Head Wound City, XO Skeletons)

Top 10 of 2007 (in no particular order)

1) Meg Baird - Dear Companion (Drag City)
2) Blank Dogs - Yellow Mice Sleep (Hozac)
3) Sally Shapiro - Disco Romance (Diskokaine)
4) Clockcleaner - Babylon Rules (Load)
5) Crime Desire - In Lucifer's Grip (Life's A Rape)
6) Mika Miko/Deerhunter - 10/20/07 Live at Princeton Uni for 100 drunk/weird Ivy Leaguers
7) Indestructible Wolves of the Apocalypse Junkyard, by Max G. Morton (Heartworm)
8) Violent Students - Towelhead (WFOT)
9) Los Llamarada - The Exploding Now (S-S Records)
10) Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation live in London and Brooklyn