GMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 2017

[no country for old wainds]

RYM album chart
RYM EP chart

please submit your lists by 11pm UTC on JANUARY 5th.

(reminder of the rules:
- please submit at least 5 releases.
- first place in your rankings gets 10 points, 2nd gets 9, etcetc, 10th gets 1.
- feel free to post more than 10, but only the top 10 will get points.
- feel free to post less than 10, the same scoring will apply.
- feel free not to rank your picks, in which case all ten picks will get 5.5 points.
- if you're so much of a dick that you have to post more than 10 unranked picks, i'll work out the mathS. basically there's no way you can sabotage this so fuck you!)

 

[The Ozzman]

I'll get up to 10 later. Obituary and Decrepit Birth will probably be in the Top 5

1) Trivium - The Sin and the Sentence
2) Power Trip - Nightmare Logic
3) Entrails - World Inferno
4) Obituary - Obituary
5) Resurgency - No Worlds...Nor Gods Beyond
6) Cannibal Corpse - Red Before Black
7) Morbid Angel - Kingdoms Disdained
8) Decrepit Birth - Axis Mundi
9) Artificial Brain - Infrared Horizon
10) Dying Fetus - Wrong One to Fuck With


Disappointments:
Kreator - Gods Of Violence
Memoriam - For The Fallen

Everything else:
The Contortionist - Clairvoyant
Mindmaze - Resolve
Narcotic Wasteland - Delirium Tremens
Goatwhore - Vengeful Ascension
Act Of Defiance - Old Scars, New Wounds
Scale The Summit - In A World Of Fear
Immolation - Atonement
Suffocation - ...Of The Dark Light
Origin - Unparalleled Universe
Hour Of Penance - Cast The First Stone
Beheaded - Beast Incarnate
Ne Obliviscaris - Urn

 

[Omni]

1. Malokarpatan - Nordkarpatenland

I'll figure out the rest after additional listening.

 

[Slayed Necros]

I have a feeling I won't be able to get my hands on Communion's At the Announcement before the deadline so basically fuck this shit.

 

[CiG]

Buy the album digitally on Bandcamp for $1 if you feel you should own it before listing it.

 

[Slayed Necros]

Yeah I've done that twice already, only one track is available.

 

[CiG]

Wait, when you buy the digital album you only get what's free and available anyway, not the whole thing?

 

[Slayed Necros]

Yep.

 

[CiG]

That's fucked up.

 

[Krow]

Yeah you only get what’s uploaded. What about their other album The Communion @Slayed Necros

 

[Omni]

The Bandcamp page for Communion is a mess because it hasn't been updated since the album was first teased. Contact Hells Headbangers because they're in control of the page.

That said, I'm buying those albums. If they actually ship on December 29th (big here) and arrive before the 5th of January, I'll gladly send you a ripped copy if they haven't resolved the issue by that time.

Besides, GoD is unlikely to actually end this thread on time.

 

[rms]

this should be a very helpful thread for me, not sure if i've listened to anything strictly new this year. Malokarpatan sounds nice though, gonna play that one out.

 

[Slayed Necros]

Yeah you only get what’s uploaded. What about their other album The Communion @Slayed Necros

Yeah, I should just buy the physical of that already. I guess I'm more eager for At the Announcement because most of the songs will be new to me, and the preview track fucking kills. I've had their s/t EP for a few years now and at least a few of those songs are on The Communion.

 

[Draehl]

Here's my top 30 albums overall (metal & otherwise) on RYM with pretty pictures.

1. The Ruins of Beverast - Exuvia
2. Dvne - Asheran
3. Wolves in the Throne Room - Thrice Woven
4. Progenie Terrestre Pura - oltreLuna
5. Nokturnal Mortum - Verity
6. Venenum - Trance of Death
7. Desolate Shrine - Deliverance From the Godless Void
8. Scáth na Déithe - Pledge Nothing But Flesh
9. Malokarpatan - Nordkarpatenland
10. Fellwarden - Oathbearer

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Just a list of stuff i've enjoyed from this year ... i'll rank them later.

Warbringer - Woe to the Vanquished
Midnight - Sweet Death and Ecstasy
Gorod - Kiss the Freak
Inanimate Existence - Underneath a Melting Sky
Suffocation - ...Of the Dark Light
Origin - Unparalleled Universe
Violator - The Hidden Face of Death
Immolation - Atonement
Obituary - Obituary
Exhumed - Death Revenge
Decapitated - Anticult
Kreator - Gods of Violence
Game Over - Claiming Supremacy
Power Trip - Nightmare Logic
Morbid Angel - Kingdoms Disdained
Overkill - The Grinding Wheel
The Faceless - In Becoming a Ghost
Decrepit Birth - Axis Mundi

 

[Draehl]

@TechnicalBarbarity @The Ozzman Guess I'll need to check out Gorod & Scale The Summit then. Didn't realize those two had new releases. Two bands outside my atmoblack/stoner/folk bubble that have impressed in the past!

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Gorod actually go thrash on that EP, so be prepared. They even thrashed out one of my all time favorite songs from them

 

[Dak]

1. Power Trip - Nightmare Logic
2. Warbringer - Woe to the Vanquished
3. Terrifier - Weapons of Thrash Destruction
4. Trivium - The Sin and the Sentence
5. Ram - Rod
6. Pallbearer - Heartless
7. Decapitated - Anticult
8. Hour of Penance - Cast the First Stone
9. Vampire - With Primeval Force
10. Harlott - Extinction



List subject to change.

 

[EspaDa]

This list is subject to changes.

So far:

1. Power Trip - Nightmare Logic
2. Converge - The Dusk in Us
3. Immolation - Atonement
4. Attic - Sanctimonious
5. Paradise Lost - Medusa
6. Evil Invaders - Feed Me Violence
7. Suffocation - ...Of the Dark Light
8. Dying Fetus - Wrong One to Fuck With
9. Satyricon - Deep Calleth Upon Deep
10. Trivium - The Sin and the Sentence


I still have to check out:

The Ruins of Beverast - Exuvia
Amenra - Mass VI
Enslaved - E
Tchornobog
Godflesh - Post Self
Septicflesh - Codex Omega
Krallice - Go Be Forgotten and Loum
Malokarpatan - Nordkarpatenland
The Black Dahlia Murder - Nightbringers
Cytotoxin - Gammageddon
Lock Up - Demonization
Mors Principium Est - Embers of a Dying World
Hour of Penance - Cast the First Stone
Altarage - Endinghent
Cannibal Corpse - Red Before Black
Dread Sovereign - For Doom the Bell Tolls
The Chasm - The Instrumental Album
Morbid Angel - Kingdoms Disdained
Incantation - Profane Nexus
Warbringer - Woe to the Vanquished

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

epic song about the Battle of Verdun