My favourite albums from 2017

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Enslaved
Progressive metal | Viking metal
1. Storm Son ●
2. The River's Mouth
3. Sacred Horse
4. Axis of the Worlds
5. Feathers of Eoth
6. Hindsight
49

Wick

Royal Thunder
Alternative rock | Heavy psych
1. Burning Tree
2. April Showers ●
3. Tied
4. We Slipped
5. The Sinking Chair
6. Plans
7. Anchor
8. Wick
9. Push
10. Turnaround
11. The Well
12. We Never Fell Asleep
48

The Long Way Back to the Moon

Galactic Cowboys
Alternative metal | Progressive metal
1. In the Clouds
2. Internal Masquerade
3. Blood in My Eyes
4. Next Joke
5. Zombies
6. Drama
7. Amisarewas ●
8. Hate Me
9. Losing Ourselves
10. Agenda
11. Long Way Back to the Moon
47

Hydrograd

Stone Sour
Alternative metal | Hard rock
1. Ysif
2. Taipei Person / Allah Tea
3. Knievel Has Landed
4. Hydrograd
5. Song #3 ●
6. Fabuless
7. The Witness Trees
8. Rose Red Violent Blue (This Song Is Dumb & So Am I)
9. Thanks God It's Over
10. St. Marie
11. Mercy
12. Whiplash Pants
13. Friday Knights
14. SOmebody Stole My Eyes
15. When the Fever Broke
46

Maneuvers

Sasquatch
Stoner rock | Stoner metal
1. Rational Woman
2. More Than You'll Ever Be
3. Destroyer ●
4. Bringing Me Down
5. Just Coudn't Stand the Weather
6. Drown All the Evidence
7. Anyway
8. Lude
9. Window Pain
45

Walk the Earth

Europe
Hard rock | Progressive rock
1. Walk the Earth ●
2. The Siege
3. Kingdom United
4. Pictures
5. Election Day
6. Wolves
7. GTO
8. Haze
9. Whenever You're Ready
10. Turn the Dust
44

America, Location 12

Dispatch
Jam rock | Folk rock
1. Be Gone ●
2. Only the Wild Ones
3. Curse + Crush
4. Painted Yellow Lines
5. Skin the Rabbit
6. Midnight Lorry
7. Begin Again
8. Rice Water
9. WindyLike
10. Ghost Town
11. Atticus Cobain
43

Barefoot in the Head

Chris Robinson Brotherhood
Southern rock | Jam rock
1. Behold the Seer
2. She Shares My Blanket
3. Hank, the Herald Hermit Speaks ●
4. Blonde Light of Morning
5. Dog Eat Sun
6. Blue Star Woman
7. High Is Not the Top
8. If You Had a Heart to Break
9. Glow
10. Good to Know
42

Arcadea

Arcadea
Progressive rock | Neo-psychedelia
1. Army of Electrons
2. Gas Giant
3. Rings of Saturn
4. Neptune Moons
5. Infinite End ●
6. Electromagnetic
7. Motion of Planets
8. The Pull of Invisible Strings
9. Worlds Can Go on
10. Magnificent Façade
41

Nightbringers

The Black Dahlia Murder
Melodic death metal
1. Widowmaker
2. Of God and Serpent, of Spectre and Snake
3. Matriarch
4. Nightbringers ●
5. Jaes
6. Kings of the Nightworld
7. Catacomb Hecatomb
8. As Good as Dead
9. The Lonely Deceased
40

Hiss Spun

Chelsea Wolfe
Ethereal wave | Doom metal
1. Spun
2. 16 Psyche ●
3. Vex
4. Strain
5. The Culling
6. Particle Flux
7. Twin Fawn
8. Offering
9. Static Hum
10. Welt
11. Two Spirit
12. Scrape
39

Kelle Surut Soi

Havukruunu
Pagan metal
1. Jo näkyvi pohjan portit
2. Vainovalkeat ●
3. Noidanhauta
4. Vainajain valo
5. Vaeltaja
6. Myrskynkutsuja
7. Verikuu
8. Kelle surut soi
38

Berdreyminn

Sólstafir
Post-rock | Post-metal
1. Silfur-Refur
2. Ísafold
3. Hula
4. Nárós
5. Hvit Sæng
6. Dýrafjörður
7. Ambátt
8. Bláfjall ●
37

In Forgotten Sleep

Lör
Progressive metal | Folk metal
1. Dusk
2. Dark Cloud
3. Requiem
4. The Forest
5. Visions of Awakening
6. SOng for the Lost
7. Aura
8. Eidolon ●
9. Spectrum
10. In Forgotten Sleep
36

Villains

Queens of the Stone Age
Alternative rock | Garage rock revival
1. Feet Don't Fail Me
2. The Way You Used to Do ●
3. Domesticated Animals
4. Fortress
5. Head Like a Haunted House
6. Un-Born Again
7. Hideaway
8. The Evil Has Landed
9. Villains of Circumstance
35

Evocation II: Pantheon

Eluveitie
Folk rock | Celtic rock
1. Dvreððv
2. Epona
3. Svcellos II
4. Nantosvelta
5. Tovtatis
6. Lvgvs ●
7. Grannos
8. Cernvnnos
9. Catrvix
10. Artio
11. Aventia
12. Ogmios
13. Esvs
14. Antvmnos
15. Tarvos II
16. Belenos
17. Taranis
18. Nemeton
34

Malina

Leprous
Progressive rock | Progressive metal
1. Bonneville ●
2. Stuck
3. From the Flame
4. Captive
5. Illuminate
6. Leashes
7. Mirage
8. Malina
9. Coma
10. The Weight of Disaster
11. The Last Milestone
33

Gargoyle

Mark Lanegan Band
Alternative rock | Post-punk
1. Deaths Head Tattoo
2. Nocturne ●
3. Blue Blue Sea
4. Beehive
5. Sister
6. Emperor
7. Goodbye to Beauty
8. Drunk on Destruction
9. First Day of Winter
10. Old Swan
32

Psychosis

Cavalera Conspiracy
Thrash metal | Death metal
1. Insane
2. Terror Tactics
3. Impalement Execution
4. Spectral War ●
5. Crom
6. Hellfire
7. Judas Pariah
8. Psychosis
9. Excruciating
31

Paranormal

Alice Cooper
Hard rock
1. Paranormal
2. Dead Flies
3. Fireball ●
4. Paranoiac Personality
5. Fallen in Love
6. Dynamite Road
7. Private Public Breakdown
8. Holy Water
9. Rats
10. The Sound of A
30

Apex

Unleash the Archers
Power metal | Heavy metal
1. Awakening
2. Shadow Guide ●
3. The Matriarch
4. Cleanse the Bloodlines
5. The Coward's Way
6. False Walls
7. Ten Thousand Against One
8. Earth and Ashes
9. Call Me Immortal
10. Apex
29

Mareridt

Myrkur
Black metal | Dark folk
1. Mareridt
2. Måneblôt
3. The Serpent ●
4. Crown
5. Elleskudt
6. De tre piker
7. Funeral
8. Ulvinde
9. Gladiatrix
10. Kætteren
11. Børnehjem
28

To the Bone

Steven Wilson
Progressive rock | Progressive pop
1. To the Bone
2. Nowhere Now
3. Pariah ●
4. The Same Asylum as Before
5. Refuge
6. Permanating
7. Blank Tapes
8. People Who Eat Darkness
9. Song of I
10. Detonation
11. Song of Unborn
27

War Moans

Mutoid Man
Speed metal | Hardcore punk
1. Melt Your Mind ●
2. Bone Chain
3. Micro Aggression
4. Kiss of Death
5. Date with the Devil
6. Headrush
7. Irons in the Fire
8. War Moans
9. Wreck adn Survive
10. Afterlife
11. Open Flame
12. Bandages
26

In the Passing Light of Day

Pain of Salvation
Progressive metal | Avant-garde rock
1. On a Tuesday
2. Tongue of God
3. Meaningless
4. Silent Gold
5. Full Throttle Tribe ●
6. Reasons
7. Angels of Broken Things
8. The Taming of a Beast
9. If This Is the End
10. The Passing Light of Day
25

Echolocation

Gone Is Gone
Progressive metal | Alternative metal
1. Sentient
2. Gift
3. Resurge
4. Dublin
5. Ornament
6. Pawns
7. Colourfade
8. Roads
9. Slow Awakening
10. Fast Awakening
11. Resolve
12. Echolocation ●
24

Heartless

Pallbearer
Doom metal
1. I Saw the End ●
2. Thorns
3. Lie of Survival
4. Dancing in Madness
5. Cruel Road
6. Heartless
7. A Plea for Understanding
23

Nuclear Soul

Lionize
Blues rock | Soul 'n' roll
1. Darkest Timeline
2. Face of Mars
3. Fire in Athena
4. Power Grid Blues ●
5. Ain't It a Shame
6. Election YEar
7. March of the Clones
8. Let You Down
9. The Mad Scientist of Sunshine
10. Nuclear Soul
11. Blindness to Danger
22

inFinite

Deep Purple
Hard rock | Progressive rock
1. Time for Bedlam
2. Hip Boots
3. All I Got Is You ●
4. One Night in Vegas
5. Get Me Outta Here
6. The Surprising
7. Johnny's Band
8. On Top of the World
9. Birds of Prey
10. Roadhouse Blues
21

The Phoenix

CKY
Alternative metal | Stoner rock
1. Replaceable ●
2. Days of Self-Destruction
3. Unknown Enemy
4. Head for a Breakdown
5. The Other Ones
6. Wiping off the Dead
7. Lies from You
8. Better Than Get Even
20

Nightmare Logic

Power Trip
Thrash metal | Crossover thrash
1. Soul Sacrifice
2. Executioner's Tax (Swing of the Axe)
3. Firing Squad ●
4. Nightmare Logic
5. Waiting Around to Die
6. Ruination
7. If Not Us Then Who
8. Crucifixion
19

The Dusk in Us

Converge
Metalcore | Sludge metal | Post-hardcore
1. A Single Tear
2. Eye of the Quarrel
3. Under Duress
4. Arkhipov Calm
5. I Can Tell You About Pain
6. The Dusk in Us ●
7. Wildlife
8. Murk & Marrow
9. Trigger
10. Broken by Light
11. Cannibals
12. Thousands of Miles Between Us
13. Reptilian
18

The Further Side

Nova Collective
Progressive metal | Jazz rock
1. Dancing Machines ●
2. Cascades
3. Air
4. State of Flux
5. Ripped Apart and Reassembled
6. The Further Side
17

The Sin and the Sentence

Trivium
Heavy metal | Metalcore
1. The Sin and the Sentence
2. Beyond Oblivion
3. Other Worlds
4. The Heart from Your Hate
5. Betrayer
6. The Wretchedness Inside
7. Endless Night
8. Sever the Hand
9. Beauty in the Sorrow
10. The Revanchist ●
11. Thrown into the Fire
16

Bloodlust

Body Count
Thrash metal | Groove metal
1. Civil War
2. The Ski Mask Way
3. This Is Why We Ride
4. All Love Is Lost
5. Raining blood / Postmortem 2017
6. God, Please Believe Me
7. Walk with Me ... ●
8. Here I Go Again
9. No Lives Matter
10. Bloodlist
11. Black Hoodie
15

Machine Messiah

Sepultura
Thrash metal | Groove metal
1. Machine Messiah ●
2. I Am the Enemy
3. Phantom Self
4. Alethea
5. Iceberg Dances
6. Sworn Oath
7. Resistant Parasites
8. Silent Violence
9. Vandals Nest
10. Cyber God
14

Sleep Well Beast

The National
Indie rock | art rock
1. Nobody Else Will Be There
2. Day I Die
3. The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness ●
4. Born to Beg
5. Turtleneck
6. Empire Line
7. I'll Still Destroy You
8. Guilty Party
9. Carin at the Liquor Store
10. Dark Side of the Gym
11. Sleep Well Beast
13

Five

Hollywood Undead
Rap rock
1. California Dreaming
2. Whatever It Takes
3. Bad Moon
4. Ghost Beach
5. Broken Record
6. Nobody's Watching
7. Renegade
8. Black Cadillac ●
9. Pray (Put 'Em in the Dirt)
10. Cashed out
11. Riot
12. We Own the Night
13. Bang Bang
14. Your Life
12

Wolves

Rise Against
Melodic hardcore | Punk rock
1. Wolves
2. House on Fire
3. The Violence
4. Welcome to the Breakdown
5. Far from Perfect
6. Bullshit
7. Politics of Love
8. Parts per Million
9. Mourning in Amerika
10. How Many Walls ●
11. Miracle
11

The Observer

Artificial Language
Progressive metal | Neoclassical metal
1. Observer
2. The Grand Skeptic
3. These Aren't Mirages
4. Unself Portrait
5. The Silver Cord
6. Change
7. Playing the River
8. Dirty Hands
9. Fortune Teller
10. Mazes
11. Turn off the Pictures ●
10

Lykaia

Soen
Progressive metal | Progressive rock
1. Sectarian ●
2. Orison
3. Lucidity
4. Opal
5. Jinn
6. Sister
7. Stray
8. Paragon
9

American Fall

Anti-Flag
Punk rock
1. American Attraction
2. The Criminals
3. When the Wall Falls
4. Trouble Follows Me
5. Finish What We Started
6. Liar
7. Digital Blackout ●
8. I Came. I Saw. I Believed.
9. Racists
10. Throw It Away
11. Casualty
8

Prophets of Rage

Prophets of Rage
Rap rock | Hard rock
1. Radical Eyes
2. Unfuck the World ●
3. Legalize Me
4. Living on the 110
5. The Counteroffensive
6. Hail to the Chief
7. Take Me Higher
8. Strength in Numbers
9. Fired a Shot
10. Who Owns Who
11. Hands up
12. Smashit
7

Emperor of Sand

Mastodon
Progressive metal | Sludge metal
1. Sultan's Curse
2. Show Yourself
3. Precious Stones
4. Steambreather
5. Roots Remain
6. Word to the Wise
7. Ancient Kingdom
8. Clandestiny
9. Andromeda
10. Scorpion Breath
11. Jaguar God ●
6

Rough Times

Kadavar
Blues rock | Psychedelic rock
1. Rough Times
2. Into the Wormhole
3. Skeleton Blues
4. Die Baby Die ●
5. Vampires
6. Tribulation Nation
7. Words of Evil
8. The Lost Child
9. You Foiund the Best in Me
10. A L'Ombre du Temps
5

Light It up

Hot Water Music
Alternative rock | Melodic hardcore
1. Complicated
2. Light It up
3. Show Your Face
4. Never Going Back
5. Rabbit Key
6. Sympathizer ●
7. Vultures
8. Bury Your Idols
9. Overload
10. High Class Catastrophe
11. Hold out
12. Take You Away
4

Death Song

The Black Angels
Psychedelic rock
1. Currency ●
2. I'd Kill for Her
3. Half Believing
4. Comanche Moon
5. Hunt Me Down
6. Grab As Much (As You Can)
7. Estimate
8. I Dreamt
9. Medicine
10. Death March
11. Life Song
3

Eternal Rituals for the Accretion of Light

Junius
Post-metal | progressive metal
1. March of the Samsara
2. Beyond the Pale Society
3. A Mass for the Metaphysicians
4. Clean the Beast
5. All That Is, Is of the One
6. The Queen's Constellation
7. Telepaths & Pyramids
8. Masquerade in Veils
9. Heresy of the Free Spirit
10. Black Sarcophagus ●
2

Gods of Violence

Kreator
Thrash metal
1. Apocalypticon
2. World War Now
3. Satan Is Real ●
4. Totalitarian Terror
5. Gods of Violence
6. Army of Storms
7. Hail to the Hordes
8. Lion with Eagle Wings
9. Fallen Brother
10. Side by Side
11. Death Becomes My Light
1

Medusa

Paradise Lost
Gothic metal | doom metal
1. Fearless Sky
2. Gods of Ancient
3. From the Gallows
4. The Longest Winter ●
5. Medusa
6. No Passage for the Dead
7. Blood and Chaos
8. Until the Grave
9. Shrines
10. Symbolic Virtue

My favourite albums from 2017

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Wick

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The Long Way Back to the Moon

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Hydrograd

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Maneuvers

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Walk the Earth

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America, Location 12

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Barefoot in the Head

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Arcadea

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Nightbringers

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Hiss Spun

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Kelle Surut Soi

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Berdreyminn

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In Forgotten Sleep

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Villains

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Evocation II: Pantheon

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Malina

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Gargoyle

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Psychosis

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Paranormal

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Apex

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Mareridt

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To the Bone

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War Moans

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In the Passing Light of Day

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Echolocation

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Heartless

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Nuclear Soul

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inFinite

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The Phoenix

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Nightmare Logic

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The Dusk in Us

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The Further Side

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The Sin and the Sentence

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Bloodlust

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Machine Messiah

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Sleep Well Beast

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Five

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Wolves

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The Observer