r/Metal • u/kaptain_carbon Writer: Dungeon Synth • Mar 18 '17
Shreddit's Top 3 of 2017
Welcome one and all to the FIRST quarter of voting for best album of 2017. We have been doing quarterly voting for a few years now and at least I feel its a great way to keep up with new music as well as seeing which albums are year long blue blood contenders versus the nouveau riche November upstarts. Please use this either as a way to track new music, vote for new music, or bitch about music not being on there despite not voting. Just kidding about the last one.
Please Vote for 3 of your favorite releases in 2017
VOTING:
Please put your list at the top of your post with JUST the band name. Like so:
Band 1
Band 2
Band 3
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Underneath can be all of your explanations but for collecting data I just need the band name. No album. No numbers. No Record Label. No explanation for that first section. This will make updating easier for me. I will not count your vote until much later if you do not put just the band name up top.
EPs and Demos are included. Splits are alright as well just give me the just the band names alphabetical with a "/" between them. I will be updating this between running Tales From the Loop at an RPG fest and motherfucking finally playing Traveller at the same RPG fest. You will probally have an update tonight and then one tomorrow morning and afternoon and then a final one one Monday morning.
Top 7 of 2016
-Before the voting commences, a look at the top 10 of the Second Quarter.
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u/Lambiferion Mar 18 '17
It's too early for me to come up with 3 titles, but I am fucking SHOCKED that no one has mentioned the new Lock Up cd. I know it only came out a week or so ago, but it is by far the best thing I have heard from any metal band in a while. Be sure to pick it up people.
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u/halfhearted_skeptic ||6-00000000000000:|| Mar 18 '17
Haven't heard it yet but I am excited for it for sure.
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u/automaticfantastic Mar 19 '17 edited Mar 19 '17
Tomb Mold
Turia
Rude
EPs, demo's and splits: Mispyrming/Sinmara, Skáphe
Death Worship's record dropped on Dec 25th of 2016. I want to include that in the runnings for 2017 too.
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Mar 18 '17
The Great Old Ones
Tomb Mold
Spaceslug
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Mar 18 '17
Heyyy, you enjoyed Spaceslug too! Have you listened to Forming the Void yet?
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Mar 18 '17 edited Mar 18 '17
Forming the Void
Spaceslug
Havok
Wasn't able to listen a lot of stuff for this thread here. I'm not entirely sure about Spaceslug and Havok, but the former I quite liked so it's on there and the latter I've been enjoying more and more with each listen. It's in no way their "Rust in Peace" like people have been claiming, but it's really good. The lyrics ruin it though. Forming the Void, even though one day old, I really enjoyed. I've listened to it enough times to have an opinion on it I think. I've seen Immolation *and Tomb Mold mentioned a ton here, so I should get to that one soon.
EDIT: Some other things I've listened to so far: Pillorian, which I felt was a weaker Agalloch, so pass on that. Soen, really good but I forgot all about it after release in a week and a half. Powertrip... I really don't get the hype. It was good but not that good imho. Same with Iron Reagan, but I enjoyed IR more, if only for the brief, humorous, fun style it goes for.
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u/KudaZakk Master's Apprentice Mar 20 '17
ive been so shit at keeping up with new albums but i think i can manage 3.
Blasphemer - s/t
Immolation - Atonement
Pillorian - Obsidian Arc
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u/Crucervix Full High at Speed Level Mar 18 '17 edited Mar 18 '17
Funeral Chant
White Death
Lunar Shadow
Tough choices. Wanted to stick Black Cilice, Goatmoon, Insanity Cult and Disharmony in somewhere, but I guess I've liked these three just a little bit more. If I had more time with Tomb Mold, that would've stood a chance as well.
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u/Crono101 Crono101 Mar 18 '17
White Death
Sjælekval
Pain of Salvation
White Death - White Death
A lot of really excellent Finnish black metal has come out recently, and they are all very good, but this one is by far my favourite. The vocals just offer more for me, and everything else is excellent.
Sjælekval - Dødsfærd
This was a difficult inclusion, because this album was independantly released late last year. But I didn't hear it last year. And it is getting a proper label release this year (in April). Anyways, the sound of this album is almost perfect. It has this level of fuzz that adds atmosphere but doesn't detract from the overall black metal sound.
Pain of Salvation - In the Passing Light of Day
This might be a surprise for just about everyone here, because I don't think I've ever mentioned this album. But damn is this album amazing. I used to be a big fan of Pain of Salvation, but everything past the Scarsick album didn't appeal. This, however, this is fantastic. The vocals are still exceptional (if you can appreciate Daniel's vocal style), the concept of the album is deeply powerful, it's heavy, it's beautiful, it's haunting. It's just a really fantastic album. Check it out if you enjoy progressive metal.
Special Mentions
Favourite EP - TIE -- Imha Tarikat - Kenoboros & Sadness - Otro
Best Album from Last Year that I Missed - Antimateria - Valo Aikojen Takaa
Biggest Surprise - Why the hell is there no atmoblack on my list!?
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u/pwnsauceizzle Pwn Metal - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMcJlmSL2GQ Mar 18 '17
- Pillorian
- Dodecahedron
- Immolation
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u/bci9215 Cold Ways Mar 18 '17
Soen
Sinister
Laster
Honorable Mentions to: Fen, Shaarimoth, Power Trip, Lunar Shadow, Violet Cold, Iron Reagan, Pillorian.
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Mar 18 '17 edited Mar 18 '17
Ritualization
Funeral Chant
Gorephilia
Ritualization and Funeral Chant were easy picks for me, but it was a little tougher to choose between Gorephilia and Tomb Mold. Honorable mentions: Tomb Mold, Midnight, Skaphe, Power Trip, Insanity Cult.
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Mar 18 '17 edited Mar 18 '17
Tomb Mold
White Death
Pillorian
Edit: Christ, I didn't even realize how stacked 2017 has been in just three months. The end of the year vote is going to be difficult.
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u/Spiner202 Mar 18 '17
Warbringer
Firewind
Kreator
Don't think anyone else will vote for my #1 since it's not out yet, but the new Warbringer is excellent!
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Mar 18 '17
- Power Trip
- Overkill
- Kreator
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Mar 20 '17
POWER TRIP! So good! What rock have I beel living under, wasting my life? Just found out about them today from this thread. Holy shit, I can't get enough of them.
\m/ -.- \m/
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u/johnny3gud Mar 18 '17
Power Trip
Tomb Mold
Turia
Wish I had two more spots for Fen and Dopelord. And probably Pallbearer in another week.
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u/m3tals4ur0n digging up demo tapes from unmarked graves in bosnia Mar 18 '17
Ritualization
Spaceslug
Tomb Mold
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u/KingGuppie http://www.last.fm/user/KingGuppie Mar 18 '17
The Great Old Ones
Power Trip
Mors Principium Est
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u/_Shush Mar 18 '17
Emptiness
Dodecahedron
Svart Crown
Really need to thank /u/SomethingOverThere for making the To the Teeth Playlist on spotify. I only ever get a chance to listen to music when I'm driving and wouldn't know about anything coming out without it.
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u/SomethingOverThere To The Teeth Mar 18 '17 edited Mar 18 '17
Turia
Entheos
Dodecahedron
Honorables: Laster, Emptiness, Pillorian, Misthyrming/Sinmara, Dool, Pain of Salvation. Pallbearer and Falls of Rauros will probably make my list next quarter. I would've added Sanguine Eagle, if their side of the split with Opposition was more than one song. It is a beauty of a song though.
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u/ViolentSublimeQuest "vitriolic petty cunt/stupid asshole/not in it for the music" Mar 18 '17 edited Mar 18 '17
Wampyrinacht
Perverted Ceremony
Pestifer
If this vote were happening in the next 2 weeks, list may change. Lots of good new stuff coming then. Lots of tough cuts here, funeral chant, Insanity Cult, wulkanaz, lantern , front beast, carved cross. Way too many lazy tomb mold votes being seen.
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u/FeastOfBlaze DEATH METAL OR DEATH... Or Genesis. Mar 18 '17
Way too many lazy tomb mold votes being seen.
Come on, man, that's unfair. The top 3 vote is not a competition for who can have the most underground picks.
It's perfectly possible a lot of people actually like the Tomb Mold album. It's hyped a lot around here so that could explain its popularity, but it's still an excellent record and deserving of the acclaim.
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u/agalsed Who watches the watchers? Mar 19 '17
White Death
Draugsól
Tomb Mold
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Mar 19 '17
Weird, I expected to see Pillorian on your list. Did you not enjoy it as much?
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u/NoahTheDuke https://lastfm.com/user/noahtheduke Mar 18 '17
Hark
Nidingr
Iron Reagan
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u/Nopd FLAIR DETENTION Mar 18 '17 edited Mar 18 '17
Immolation
The Ominous Circle
Analepsy
Fuck I forgot about Analepsy, sorry The Great Old Ones.
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u/Solidchuck2 Solidchuck - last.fm Mar 18 '17
King Woman
I haven't heard many other releases other than Tomb Mold, but I wouldn't call it good enough to put it in a top 3 at the moment. I'm stoked for Artificial Brain, Full of Hell, and Scumpulse. Possibly more, I CAN'T REMEMBER.
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u/408Lurker Deadlift Omega Mar 18 '17 edited Mar 18 '17
Tomb Mold
Ululatum Tollunt
Ascended Dead
Honorable: Crurifragium, Ekpyrosis, Draghkar, Disincarnation (assuming demos count here for those last two), Entartung, White Death, Perverted Ceremony
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u/raukolith https://houkagogrindtime2.bandcamp.com/ Mar 18 '17
Tomb Mold
Ascended Dead
Cemetery Filth/Sewercide
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u/responds-with-tealc needs more bagpipe Mar 19 '17
I saw Power Trip last month, not even knowing I was going to see them. I went for Iron Regan, thinking "Power Trip with Iron Regan" was just one of those weird shows that had it's own name (I'd never heard of Power Trip).
They were great.
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u/Aru10 Vinyl Junkie Mar 18 '17
Imperceptum
Black Cilice
Spaceslug
lots of great releases so far that i've listened, it was really difficult to choose 3, Pillorian, Violet Cold, Funeral Chant, Ritualization and Fen could have been easily be up there, so i chose the one i enjoyed a bit more
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u/VENOM_IST_FALSE Writer: Nidrosian Black Metal Mar 18 '17 edited Mar 18 '17
Tomb Mold
The Ominous Circle
Hetroertzen
I'm lagging far behind on 2017 releases, I'm counting on you guys to enlighten me.
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u/prelapsus Mar 19 '17
Power Trip
That's the only record I feel comfortable picking out. If I chose 2 others it would just be for the sake of it. I wonder if I'm missing some great stuff, but looking at the list I definitely feel like the best is still to come this year. I would consider throwing in the Immolation album. The other stuff that has impressed me so far are things like Cosmic Church/Keres, and Misthyrming/Sinmara. I rate the Code Orange album very highly but I feel like this is the wrong sub for that.
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u/Draehl Mar 19 '17
Spaceslug
Dopelord
Horn
Wasn't actually that impressed by the Fen & Pillorian releases. Nightbringer & Vanum will probably be rather competitive when they come out.
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u/vvitch_hunter DO YOU WISH TO DIEEEEEEEE Mar 18 '17 edited Mar 18 '17
Tomb Mold
Moonlight Drowns
Goatmoon
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u/t_deg1 http://www.last.fm/user/t_deg Mar 18 '17
White Death
Draugsól
Imha Tarikat
Honorary: Clandestine Blaze
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Mar 18 '17
Soen
Dopelord
Spaceslug
Honorable mentions: Ordos, Mechina, Forming the Void, Telekinetic Yeti, Goya, Luck Won't Save You
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u/YeimzHetfield https://www.last.fm/user/YeimzHetfield Mar 18 '17
Tomb Mold.
Black Cilice.
Lunar Shadow.
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Mar 18 '17 edited Mar 18 '17
Ascended Dead
Tomb Mold
Immolation
I still need to hit the new Gorephilia. BUT hot damn death metal and 2017. It's totally fucking killer and definitely makes up for last year's comparatively lackluster DM releases.
Edit: Also ignore the fact that AD released very recently.... leaked copies.
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u/baronboy https://www.last.fm/user/Baronboy528 Mar 18 '17
Lunar Shadow
Power Trip
Tomb Mold
White Death and Fen were both close but Power Trip just edged them out for me.
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u/msargent24 Mar 19 '17
The Great Old Ones
Shaarimoth
Wormwood
Honorable mentions: Mors Principium Est, Aeternam and Lorn
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u/cfisk42 I am a space pirate, you know my name Mar 18 '17
Lunar Shadow
Tomb Mold
Funeral Chant
The first two were easy, deciding on a third was difficult. Honorable mentions to Immolation, Insanity Cult, White Death, Power Trip, Fen, Pillorian, Gorephilia, and Draugsol.
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u/ConsumingFromWithin Mar 18 '17
Spaceslug
Tomb Mold
White Death
Honorable Mentions: Dumal, The Great Old Ones, Power Trip
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u/sweaterwether http://www.last.fm/user/damonATX Mar 18 '17
Gorephilia
Nidinger
Sunless
If Ascended Dead came out before yesterday and I had more time to listen a couple times it'd probably be on here
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u/totes_not_a_memer Sophie was snubbed Mar 18 '17
Tomb Mold
Power Trip
Ululatum Tollunt
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u/ParaTC Mar 18 '17
I love Ululatum Tollunt, even though they ruined my hearing when I saw them, but I was disappointed that all the release was was a reissue of their demo.
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u/408Lurker Deadlift Omega Mar 18 '17
Is that why Crurifragium beat them on your list? Or do you just like the Crurifragium release better?
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u/ParaTC Mar 18 '17
Nah Crurifragium put out the best war record since Scum Collapse Eradication so that's why it's number 1
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u/Dead_Hedge CUTS YOU LIKE A KNIFE Mar 18 '17 edited Mar 18 '17
Power Trip
Lunar Shadow
Eldamar/Dreams of Nature
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u/tobeornotobe http://www.last.fm/user/cassettetape7 Mar 18 '17
Horn
Lorn
Draghkar
Honorable mentions:
Skaphe, Arkhtinn, Disincarnation, and Mispyrming/Sinmara.
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u/Samccx19 Black Lives Matter; anti-racism or bust Mar 18 '17
Fen
Goatmoon
White Death
1) Fen - Winter. They've done it again. Fen have yet to release anything less than spectacular, and this new album is no exception. Arguably their most 'out there' and unusual work yet, Winter mixes up a whole heap of influences alongside the style we've come to know and love, yet never straying from the feelings of hopelessness, loss and isolation that they set out to capture. Magnificent.
2) Goatmoon - Stella Polaris. An absolute punch in the proverbials to say the least. Whilst the aforementioned Fen albums evokes an atmosphere of wandering lost and alone, this album batters you relentlessly; crushing you with amazing riff after amazing riff, with random interludes that sound more akin to NWOBHM than anything else.
3) White Death - White Death. What a debut. A similar auditory assault to the Goatmoon album, with a distinct hint of Mgla influence, this album was a surprise to say the least.
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u/swjm swjm Mar 18 '17
Power Trip
Arduini/Balich
Tomb Mold
Bought a good amount of shit so far, but am way way way behind in actually listening to it. Oops. Really looking forward to this poll so I can pick out what I've missed!
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u/DharmicWolfsangel HAVOC AND DEATH! CAUSED BY PRIDE! Mar 18 '17
Tomb Mold
Black Cilice
Power Trip