TECHNICAL MUSIC REVIEW

TMR was founded and started in 2018 which means there’s a bit of catching up to do.  I personally believe there were lots of great releases in 2017 so I won’t be limiting my lists. Here are the best full lengths and EP’S of 2017 in alphabetic order.

Best Full Length Albums of 2017

1. Al Joseph- All Of Creation
2. Alluvial- The Deep Longing For Annihilation
3. Analepsy- Atrocities From Beyond
4. Angel Vivaldi- Synapse
5. Arcadea- Arcadea
6. Arch Echo- Arch Echo
7. Archspire- Relentless Mutation
8. Arkaik- Nemethia
9. Between The Planets- Of Inner Sight
10. Black Dahlia Murder- Nightbringers
11. Broken Hope- Mutilated And Assimilated
12. Chon- Homey
13. Contortionist- Clairvoyant
14. Cytotoxin- Gammageddon
15. Dario Lorina- Death Grip Tribulations
16. Dark Matter Secret- Perfect World Creation
17. Decrepit Birth- Axis Mundi
18. Divinex- Create. Affect. Repeat
19. Dying Fetus- Wrong One To Fuck With
20. Dyscarnate- With All Their Might
21. Echopraxia- Candle Cove
22. Enslaved- E
23. Felix Martin- Mechanical Nations
24. Fractal Universe- Engram Of Decline
25. Galactic Empire- Galactic Empire
26. Hideous Divinity- Adveniens
27. Immolation- Atonement
28. Inanimate Existence- Underneath A Melting Sky
29. Incantation- Profane Nexus
30. Intervals- The Way Forward
31. Kennedy Veil- Imperium
32. Last Of Lucy- Ashvattha
33. Marty Friedman- Wall Of Sound
34. Mastodon- Emperor Of Sand
35. Mendel- Oblivion
36. Ne Obliviscaris- Urn
37. Nova Collective- The Further Side
38. NYN- Entropy: Of Chaos And Salt
39. Oblivion- The Path Towards
40. Organectomy- Domain Of The Wretched
41. Pain Of Salvation- In The Passing Light Of Day
42. Parasitic Ejaculation- Isolation
43. Persefone- Aathma
44. Sarah Longfield- Collapse Expand
45. Scale The Summit- In A World Of Fear
46. Squatch- Jafar’s Calamari Safari
47. Steven Wilson- To The Bone
48. Suffocation- Of The Dark Light
49. Vinsta- Wiads
50. Virulent Depravity- Fruit Of The Poisoned Tree
51. Wintersun- The Forest Seasons

Best EP’S Of 2017

1. Aborted- Bathos
2. Among The Sleep- Casket
3. Cognizance- Ether Of The Void, The Foreboding Impasse (released separately as singles)
4. Coma Cluster Void- Thoughts From A Stone
5. Constructs- Shapes
6. Echopraxia- Pumpkin Palace
7. Eximpertus- W2246-0526
8. Ichika- Forn
9. Incipience- Bloom
10. Mastodon- Cold Dark Place
11. Others By No One- Book 1: Dr. Breacher
12. Scour- Red

Honorable Mentions

1. Decapitated- Anticult
2. Act Of Defiance- Old Scars, New Wounds
3. Fleshkiler- Awaken
4. Gruesome- Fragments Of Psyche
5. Narcotic Wasteland- Delirium Tremens
6. Neck Of The Woods- Passenger
7. Pestilence- Hadeon
8. Sons Of Apollo- Psychotic Symphony
9. The Surrealist- Echo End, Lux, Origami (singles released separately)

2018 Albums To Look Forward To

1. Obscura
2. Beyond Creation
3. Fire Garden
4. Turning Virtue
5. Forever In Transit
6. Between The Buried And Me (technically 2 EP’S)
7. Alterbeast
8. Augury
9. Kataklysm
10. Ingested
11. Kamelot
12. Memoriam
13. Napalm Death
14. Rivers Of Nihil
15. Inferi

As you can see there’s lots of albums I truly enjoyed of many facets this past year.  Way too many solid releases to make a top 30, let alone a top 50 list!  Lots of good extreme metal releases as well. There’s plenty that I’m looking forward to as well that I know of so far to be released in 2018.  Leave your comments, opinions or voices of despair.  Even any releases in 2017 that were great that I did not know of feel free to link anything. Thanks for reading!
As the mighty Archspire says…

STAY TECH!

Dave