Favorites so far:
Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun
Wolves in the Throne Room - Thrice Woven
Monolord - Rust
Pallbearer - Heartless
Celeste - Infidèle(s)
The National - Sleep Well Beast
Integrity - Howling, For The Nightmare Shall Consume
Usnea - Portals Into Futility
Mark Lanegan - Gargoyle
Venom Inc. - Avé
ORM - Selftitled
Mastodon - Emperor of Sand
Mastodon - Cold Dark Place
Dopelord - Children Of The Haze
Solbrud - Vemod
King Woman - Created in the Image of Suffering
Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
Oxbow - Thin Black Duke
Cannabis Corpse - Left Hand Pass
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Luciferian Towers
Power Trip - Nightmare Logic
Queens of the Stone Age - Villains
Incantation - Profane Nexus
Grave Pleasures - Motherblood
Wear Your Wounds - WYW
Paradise Lost - Medusa
Unearthly Trance - Stalking the Ghost
With the Dead - Love From With The Dead
Code Orange - Forever
This is shaping up to be one of the best years, for great albums, in a looong time.
Ah man, I really haven't been keeping good track of what I've listened to this year, for some reason.
I think Mastodon and Brand New are currently fighting it out for my top spot right now.
It's been a great year for music, especially this autumn it seems like every friday there's at least one new release that i'm into. There's still many albums i haven't really sat down with yet, like the new Chelsea Wolfe for example.
These are some of my favorites so far:
Grails- Chalice Hymnal
Hymn - Perish
Chad VanGaalen - Light Information
Motorpsycho - The Tower
Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
Code Orange - Forever
Tønes - Sesong Fire
Susanne Sundfør - Music for People in Trouble
Torgeir Waldemar - No Offending Borders
Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up
(Sandy) Alex G - Rocket
Mac Demarco - This Old Dog
Queens of the Stone Age - Villains
Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me
Metz - Stranger Peace
Norska - Too many winters
TOP 40!
1 pallbearer - heartless
2 monolord - rust
3 grave pleasures - motherblood
4 oxbow - thin black duke
5 integrity - howling, for the nightmare shall consume
6 power trip - nightmare logic
7 chelsea wolfe - hiss spun
8 all pigs must die - hostage animal
9 tombs - the great annihilation
10 dopelord - children of the haze
11 solbrud - vemod
12 wolves in the throne room - thrice woven
13 mutoid man - war moans
14 electric wizard - wizard bloody wizard
15 mastodon - emperor of sand
16 full of hell - trumpeting ecstasy
17 converge - the dusk in us
18 celeste - infidéle(s)
19 amenra - mass vi
20 bell witch - mirror reaper
21 primitive man - caustic
22 code orange - forever
23 unearthly trance - stalking the ghost
24 mark lanegan - gargoyle
25 orm - orm
26 the black dahlia murder - nightbringers
27 king woman - created in the image of suffering
28 cannibal corpse - red before black
29 usnea - portals into futility
30 with the dead - love from with the dead
31 dead cross - dead cross
32 melvins - a walk with love and death
33 elder - reflections of a floating world
34 god mother - vilseledd
35 exhumed - death revenge
36 queens of the stone age - villains
37 kellermensch - goliath
38 godspeed you! black emperor - luciferian towers
39 the obsessed - sacred
40 paradise lost - medusa
This has been a pretty underwhelming year in music for me personally, but I did get some great albums from these four legendary acts.
Converge - The Dusk in Us
Glassjaw - Material Control
Slowdive - Slowdive
Mew - Visuals
I hadn't heard the Oxbow album yet. Checking it out now. Sounds great!
Quote from: Crazylegs on Dec 14, 2017, 03:02 PM
I hadn't heard the Oxbow album yet. Checking it out now. Sounds great!
I saw them live earlier this year. One of the most insane and weird(awesome) things i've witnessed.
that crazyness is one of the reasons why i stayed away from them before, but this one kept popping up on people's best of the year lists, so i had to check it out. It's not so challenging as some of their other stuff it seems. A good release for oxbow noobs i guess.
Yeah, I've always been hesitant about them too. New album is great though. As you said, good start for newcomers.
10. Terror 'The Walls Will Fall'
09. First Blood 'Rules'
08. Comeback Kid 'Outsider'
07. Trapped Under Ice 'Heatwave'
06. Rancid 'Trouble Maker'
05. Life Of Agony 'A Place Where There's No More Pain'
04. Code Orange 'Forever'
03. Converge 'The Dusk In Us'
02. At The Drive-In 'In•ter a•li•a'
01. Glassjaw 'Material Control'
1. Eminem 'Revival'
2. KXNG Crooked 'Good Vs. Evil 2: The Red Empire'
3. Wu Tang - 'The Saga Continues'
4. Jay-Z '4:44'
5. Kendrick Lamar 'DAMN'
6. Onyx & Dope D.O.D. - 'Shotgunz in hell'
7. The Underachievers 'Renaissance.'
8. Big Sean 'I Decided'
9. Hopsin 'NO SHAME'
10. Joey Bada$$ 'All-Amerikkkan Badass'
Get Your Gun - Doubt Is My Rope Back To You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMZ9nOi4PrA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMZ9nOi4PrA)
Hope Im not too late:
Godflesh - PostSelf
Jesu/Sun Kil Moon - 30 Seconds to the Decline of Planet Earth
JK Flesh - Suicide Estate
Nadja - Stripped
The Bug Vs. Earth - Concrete Desert
Boris - Dear
Amantra - As It Should Have Been
Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me
Wear Your Wounds - S/T
Converge - The Dusk In Us
Planning for Burial - Below the House
Prurient - Rainbow Mirror
Pharmakon - Contact
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Async
Goldfrapp - Silver Eye
Kendrick Lamar - Damn.
Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory