My favourite albums from 2017

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

Wick

Royal Thunder
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
- Alternative rock
- Heavy psych
48

The Long Way Back to the Moon

Galactic Cowboys
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
- Alternative metal
- Progressive metal
47

Hydrograd

Stone Sour
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
- Alternative metal
- Hard rock
46

Maneuvers

Sasquatch
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
- Stoner rock
- Stoner metal
45

Walk the Earth

Europe
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
- Hard rock
- Progressive rock
44

America, Location 12

Dispatch
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
- Jam rock
- Folk rock
43

Barefoot in the Head

Chris Robinson Brotherhood
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
- Southern rock
- Jam rock
42

Arcadea

Arcadea
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
- Progressive rock
- Neo-psychedelia
41

Nightbringers

The Black Dahlia Murder
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
- Melodic death metal
40

Hiss Spun

Chelsea Wolfe
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
- Ethereal wave
- Doom metal
39

Kelle Surut Soi

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

Berdreyminn

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

In Forgotten Sleep

Lör
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
- Progressive metal
- Folk metal
36

Villains

Queens of the Stone Age
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
- Alternative rock
- Garage rock revival
35

Evocation II: Pantheon

Eluveitie
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
- Folk rock
- Celtic rock
34

Malina

Leprous
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
- Progressive rock
- Progressive metal
33

Gargoyle

Mark Lanegan Band
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
- Alternative rock
- Post-punk
32

Psychosis

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

Paranormal

Alice Cooper
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
- Hard rock
30

Apex

Unleash the Archers
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
- Power metal
- Heavy metal
29

Mareridt

Myrkur
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
- Black metal
- Dark folk
28

To the Bone

Steven Wilson
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
- Progressive rock
- Progressive pop
27

War Moans

Mutoid Man
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
- Speed metal
- Hardcore punk
26

In the Passing Light of Day

Pain of Salvation
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
- Progressive metal
- Avant-garde rock
25

Echolocation

Gone Is Gone
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 ●
- Progressive metal
- Alternative metal
24

Heartless

Pallbearer
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
- Doom metal
23

Nuclear Soul

Lionize
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
- Blues rock
- Soul 'n' roll
22

inFinite

Deep Purple
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
- Hard rock
- Progressive rock
21

The Phoenix

CKY
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
- Alternative metal
- Stoner rock
20

Nightmare Logic

Power Trip
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
- Thrash metal
- Crossover thrash
19

The Dusk in Us

Converge
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
- Metalcore
- Sludge metal
- Post-hardcore
18

The Further Side

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

The Sin and the Sentence

Trivium
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
- Heavy metal
- Metalcore
16

Bloodlust

Body Count
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
- Thrash metal
- Groove metal
15

Machine Messiah

Sepultura
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
- Thrash metal
- Groove metal
14

Sleep Well Beast

The National
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
- Indie rock
- art rock
13

Five

Hollywood Undead
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
- Rap rock
12

Wolves

Rise Against
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
- Melodic hardcore
- Punk rock
11

The Observer

Artificial Language
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 ●
- Progressive metal
- Neoclassical metal
10

Lykaia

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

American Fall

Anti-Flag
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
- Punk rock
8

Prophets of Rage

Prophets of Rage
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
- Rap rock
- Hard rock
7

Emperor of Sand

Mastodon
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 ●
- Progressive metal
- Sludge metal
6

Rough Times

Kadavar
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
- Blues rock
- Psychedelic rock
5

Light It up

Hot Water Music
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
- Alternative rock
- Melodic hardcore
4

Death Song

The Black Angels
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
- Psychedelic rock
3

Eternal Rituals for the Accretion of Light

Junius
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 ●
- Post-metal
- progressive metal
2

Gods of Violence

Kreator
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
- Thrash metal
1

Medusa

Paradise Lost
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
- Gothic metal
- doom metal

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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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In Forgotten Sleep

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Gargoyle

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Psychosis

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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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