I'd like to offer a shout-out to last year's deserved runaway winners Oranssi Pazuzu, who released a 2-track EP that's definitely too short to nominate here, but which contains one of the best metal SONGS of the year, Värimyrsky. Keep it up you crazy spacemen
― your meat, my veg (imago), Monday, 11 December 2017 21:21 (six years ago) link
I totally overlooked that, I often ignore EPs for some reason. Virus had one out too this year as well that I haven't heard.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Monday, 11 December 2017 21:24 (six years ago) link
oh shit cool
― your meat, my veg (imago), Monday, 11 December 2017 21:24 (six years ago) link
fuckit
Oranssi Pazuzu - FarmakologinenVirus - Investigator
― ultros ultros-ghali, Monday, 11 December 2017 21:25 (six years ago) link
fyi Farmakologinen is a rerelease of their first EP and I was thinking of Kevät/Värimyrsky
― your meat, my veg (imago), Monday, 11 December 2017 21:26 (six years ago) link
But yeah, if people could talk about their favourite metal albums that would be delightful cheers
― your meat, my veg (imago), Monday, 11 December 2017 21:29 (six years ago) link
xp oooops good catch
― ultros ultros-ghali, Monday, 11 December 2017 21:31 (six years ago) link
aye i hate waiting for voting thread to hear about what to listen to, sell me on good albums now so they have time to sink in, i cant do that lj thing of hearing the album of the year on first listen, lol. Not criticising him btw, its just not something i do usually.
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Monday, 11 December 2017 21:36 (six years ago) link
Have listened to my own #1 metal choice maaaaaybe twenty times over the last five days fyi. and already recommended it to you :P
let others have the floor
― your meat, my veg (imago), Monday, 11 December 2017 21:44 (six years ago) link
Mostly EP's, splits etc:
Abigor / Nightbringer / Thy Darkened Shade / Mortuus - SplitDeath Like Mass - Jak zabija DiabełDrudkh / Paysage d'Hiver - Somewhere Sadness Wanders / Schnee (IV)Thantifaxath - Void Masquerading As MatterVanum - Burning ArrowSinmara - Within The Weaves Of InfinityWearg - Hæðen War MetalExtremety - Extremely Fucking DeadImindain - The Enemy Of Fetters And The Dweller In The WoodsÁrstíðir Lifsins - HeljarkviðaWarloghe - Lucifer AscendsWederganger / Urfaust - SplitColdWorld - Wolves And SheepFides Inversa - Rite of Inverse IncarnationSinmara / Misþyrming - SplitOranssi Pazuzu - Kevät / VärimyrskyOranssi Pazuzu - FarmakologinenMesarthim - PresenceTomb Mold - Cryptic Transmissions
And the year wouldn't be complete without
Goatpenis - Anesthetic Vapor
― Siegbran, Monday, 11 December 2017 22:06 (six years ago) link
Trying to think of something I haven't mentioned throughout the year... well I know some people round here like quasi-prog OSDM (name subject to change) so I'll boost the Execration - Return to the Void, it's a lot leaner than their previous album and maybe a sharper attack, in any case it's got those space monster vibes and great big dirty riffs that everyone should love.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Monday, 11 December 2017 22:19 (six years ago) link
That Mesarthim EP is really lovely as usual
― Cardi ACS (imago), Monday, 11 December 2017 22:21 (six years ago) link
Yellow Eyes released my favourite "straight" black metal album this year, those riffs are USBM perfection.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Monday, 11 December 2017 22:23 (six years ago) link
Corpse Garden have taken death metal to new Costa Rican levels with their weirdly-titled and utterly kickass IAO 269
― Cardi ACS (imago), Monday, 11 December 2017 22:28 (six years ago) link
Grav - Tomb Of AgonyGrav - Fordærvet DjævelskabSadness - OtroDélétère - Per Aspera Ad PestilentiamExquirla - Para quienes aún vivenÁrstíðir Lifsins - Heljarkviða
― Siegbran, Monday, 11 December 2017 22:37 (six years ago) link
Arkhon Infaustus - Passing The Nekromanteion
― Siegbran, Monday, 11 December 2017 22:41 (six years ago) link
Oranssi Pazuzu - Farmakologinen
This was a rerelease, right?
― Simon H., Tuesday, 12 December 2017 01:25 (six years ago) link
Heavydeath - Sarcophagus in the Sky
― The Fortnightly Intruder (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 01:53 (six years ago) link
Folks, we're at almost 300 nominees, so please check the spreadsheet or ctrl-f the thread to avoid adding duplicates. One week left to nominate!
― Simon H., Tuesday, 12 December 2017 10:48 (six years ago) link
Nupraptor - The Heresiarch
― The Fortnightly Intruder (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 12:23 (six years ago) link
oops that should've been bold
― The Fortnightly Intruder (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 12:24 (six years ago) link
hey guys check thishttps://www.instagram.com/p/BcKqJHFAdQj/
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 12:37 (six years ago) link
surely any baby conveyance labelled with Pantera should be one of those massive obnoxious fucking battle-carriages people insist on bringing onto buses
― Cardi Acs (imago), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 12:44 (six years ago) link
Why did I wait so long to listen to the Oxbow album?
― ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 17:35 (six years ago) link
thanks for nominating the Tomb Mold EP Siegbran, didn't want to split votes there, but I'll happily vote for both
― Dominique, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 17:37 (six years ago) link
lots of good and new-to-me stuff in the stereogum liststereogum.com/1975088/the-best-metal-albums-of-2017/franchises/2017-in-review%3famp=1
― Simon H., Tuesday, 12 December 2017 20:57 (six years ago) link
now that is more fuckin like it
― Cardi Acs (imago), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 20:59 (six years ago) link
Telekinetic Yeti - AbominableMara Balls - Elävä kiviImajinary Friends - The Imajinary FriendsThe Cosmic Dead - Psych is DeadSundays & Cybele - Chaos & SystemsAcid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Wandering The Outer SpaceDesmadrados Soldados De Ventura - The Grand Celestial PurgeLiquidarlo Celuloide - SuperfriccionDeep Space Destructors - PsychedologyFeral Ohms - Feral OhmsKorto - Korto
― the underground is pass-agg (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 21:58 (six years ago) link
^now that's less like it!
― the underground is pass-agg (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 22:21 (six years ago) link
Before I forget:
Cloud Rat / Disrotted - Split LP
― Simon H., Tuesday, 12 December 2017 23:29 (six years ago) link
Spirit Adrift – Curse Of Conception Purple Hill Witch – Celestial Cemetry The Doomsday Kingdom – The Doomsday Kingdom Demon Eye – Prophecies And Lies With The Dead – Love From With The Dead Monolord – Rust Beastmaker – Inside The Skull Night Viper – Exterminator Ironflame – Lightning Strikes The CrownSorcerer – The Crowning Of The Fire King Venomous Maximus – No WarningAngus Black – Angus Black Clouds Taste Satanic – The Glitter Of Infinite HellCardinals Folly – Deranged Pagan Sons Endon – Through The Mirror Astral Mass – Astral Mass Squalus – The Great Fish Flight Of Sleipnir – Skadi Usnea – Portals Into Futility Unleash The Archers – Apex Vokonis – The Sunken Djinn Midnight – Sweet Death And Ecstasy Akercocke – Renaissance In Extremis Portrait – Burn The World Kal-El – Astrodoomeda The Lurking Fear – Out Of The Voiceless Grave Legionairre – Dawn Of Genesis Caronte – YONI Devil – To The Gallows Olde – Temple Hela – Death May Die Wormwitch – Strike Mortal Soul Cities Of Mars – Temporal Rifts Sunrot – Sunnata Manilla Road – To Kill A King Walpyrgus – Walpyrgus NightsAlunah – Solennial Dread Sovereign – For Doom The Bell Tolls Obituary – Obituary Ayreon – The Source Destroyer Of Light – Chamber Of Horrors The Contortionist – Clairvoyant Possessor – The Ripper Cloak – To Venomous Depths Pain Of Salvation – In The Passing Light Of Day Kreator – Gods Of Violence Perhihelion Ship – To Paint A Bird Of Fire Procession – Doom Decimation Olde – Temple Monarch! – Never Forever Shroud Eater – Strike The Sun Integrity – Howling, For The Nightmare Shall Consume Dirty Grave – Evil Desire Green Druid – Ashen Blood Kobra And The Lotus – Prevail I Below – Upon A Pale Horse OHHMS – The Fool Night Demon – Darkness Remains Threshold – Legends Of The Shires Night – Raft Of The World Mausoleum Gate – Into A Dark Divinity (Cruz Del Sur)Wounded Giant – Vae Victis I Klatus – Nagual Sun Horrific – Your Worst Nightmare
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 13 December 2017 18:54 (six years ago) link
Kerrang EOY list
1. Employed to Serve: The Warmth of a Dying Sun2. Enter Shikari: The Spark3. Code Orange: Forever4. Mastodon: Emperor of Sand5. Converge: The Dusk in Us6. Foo Fighters: Concrete and Gold7. Neck Deep: The Peace and the Panic8. Rise Against: Wolves9. The Menzingers: After the Party10. PVRIS: All We Know of Heaven, All We Need of Hell11. Creeper: Eternity, in Your Arms12. Can't Swim: Fail You Again13. AFI: AFI (The Blood Album)14. Pallbearer: Heartless15. Higher Power: Soul Structure16. Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes: Modern Ruin17. Marilyn Manson: Heaven Upside Down18. Chelsea Wolfe: Hiss Spun19. The Bronx: The Bronx20. Royal Blood: How Did We Get So Dark?21. Queens of the Stone Age: Villains22. Nothing But Thieves: Broken Machine23. The Darkness: Pinewood Smile24. Prophets of Rage: Prophets of Rage25. Deaf Havana: All These Countless Nights26. The Used: The Canyon27. Glassjaw: Material Control28. Power Trip: Nightmare Logic29. Electric Wizard: Wizard Bloody Wizard30. Lower Than Atlantis: Safe in Sound31. Arcane Roots: Melancholia Hymns32. Asking Alexandria: Asking Alexandria33. While She Sleeps: You Are We34. Knuckle Punk: Shapeshifter35. Myrkur: Mareridt36. Ohhms: The Fool37. Papa Roach: Crooked Teeth38. Stone Sour: Hydrograd39. At the Drive-in: Interalia40. HO99O9: United States of Horror41. Linkin Park: One More Light42. Manchester Orchestra: A Black Mile to the Surface43. Thy Fart is Murder: Dear Desolation44. Paramore: After Laughter45. ONE OK ROCK: Ambitions46. You Me At Six: Night People47. Grave Pleasures: Motherblood48. All Time Low: Last Young Renegade49. Stray from the Path: Only Death is Real50. Royal Thunder: Wick
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Wednesday, 13 December 2017 20:47 (six years ago) link
I own 8 of them! must be a 21st century record for me
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Wednesday, 13 December 2017 21:00 (six years ago) link
the #1's not bad, sort of streamlined balloucore?
― Simon H., Wednesday, 13 December 2017 21:25 (six years ago) link
― Simon H., Wednesday, December 13, 2017 2:25 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
basically. weird undistinguished record to pick as no. 1 but not horrible
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 13 December 2017 21:59 (six years ago) link
should i be delighted or appalled that enter shikari are still going
― Cardi Acs (imago), Wednesday, 13 December 2017 22:02 (six years ago) link
might go with 'both'
the new album is their first good one. i like it a lot
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 13 December 2017 22:09 (six years ago) link
does the extremely synthy/proggy arcane roots record count, there's at least four minutes of heavy riffage on the record
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 13 December 2017 22:12 (six years ago) link
I've just blurted out "fucking hell they're still going?" about 15 times in 30 seconds gj kerrang
― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, 13 December 2017 22:15 (six years ago) link
I'd like to nominate pretty much every album from the Stereogum list that hasn't been nominated yet, because every album I've sampled so far from that list has been great:
Rope Sect - Personae IngrataeViolet Cold - AnomieNo Faith - Forced SubservienceSabbath Assembly - Rites of PassageHell - HellVerge - The Process of Self-BecomingJassa - Incarnation of the Higher GnosisPsudoku - Deep Space PsudokumentChaos Moon - Eschaton MémoireUnearthly Trance - Stalking the GhostTuria - Dede KondreCondor - Unstoppable PowerHeretoir - The CircleDemonic Death Judge - SeaweedArkhtinn - VAu Dessus - End of ChapterSarcasm - Within the Sphere of Ethereal Minds
Also, the Pillorian album is called Obsidian Arc
― ArchCarrier, Thursday, 14 December 2017 08:18 (six years ago) link
Going through the Stereogum list myself. It's....well aside from the albums I already know and love there's some decent stuff, but nothing to really blow me away. Dodecahedron was threatening to be quite good but didn't hang on. Anyway I'm only a quarter of the way through so who knows
― Cardi Acs (imago), Thursday, 14 December 2017 14:54 (six years ago) link
from the Kerrang list I'm gonna go ahead and add
Creeper - Eternity, In Your Arms (I hesitated at first but honestly it's at least as heavy as Ghost and QOTSA)Arcane Roots - Melancholia HymnsGlassjaw - Material Control
― Simon H., Thursday, 14 December 2017 15:00 (six years ago) link
Just found out that Mesarthim had The Great Filter and Type III released as a single disc by Avantgarde Music. This presents an ethical difficulty for me
― Cardi Acs (imago), Thursday, 14 December 2017 15:10 (six years ago) link
Does it count?
― Cardi Acs (imago), Thursday, 14 December 2017 15:11 (six years ago) link
simon we generally automatically include as nominations anything that gets in Kerrang/Decibel/Terrorizer/Revolver lists
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Thursday, 14 December 2017 15:13 (six years ago) link
ehhh xp
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 14 December 2017 15:15 (six years ago) link
I think maybe it doesn't count, which is a shame. If they'd held off releasing the tracks individually last December it'd be a clear AOTY contender
― Cardi Acs (imago), Thursday, 14 December 2017 15:17 (six years ago) link
i will probably vote for the presence ep
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 14 December 2017 15:17 (six years ago) link
oh me too, the title track is one of the most audacious things ever released under the 'metal' banner
― Cardi Acs (imago), Thursday, 14 December 2017 15:18 (six years ago) link