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
- Al Joseph- All Of Creation
- Alluvial- The Deep Longing For Annihilation
- Analepsy- Atrocities From Beyond
- Angel Vivaldi- Synapse
- Arcadea- Arcadea
- Arch Echo- Arch Echo
- Archspire- Relentless Mutation
- Arkaik- Nemethia
- Between The Planets- Of Inner Sight
- Black Dahlia Murder- Nightbringers
- Broken Hope- Mutilated And Assimilated
- Chon- Homey
- Contortionist- Clairvoyant
- Cytotoxin- Gammageddon
- Dario Lorina- Death Grip Tribulations
- Dark Matter Secret- Perfect World Creation
- Decrepit Birth- Axis Mundi
- Divinex- Create. Affect. Repeat
- Dying Fetus- Wrong One To Fuck With
- Dyscarnate- With All Their Might
- Echopraxia- Candle Cove
- Enslaved- E
- Felix Martin- Mechanical Nations
- Fractal Universe- Engram Of Decline
- Galactic Empire- Galactic Empire
- Hideous Divinity- Adveniens
- Immolation- Atonement
- Inanimate Existence- Underneath A Melting Sky
- Incantation- Profane Nexus
- Intervals- The Way Forward
- Kennedy Veil- Imperium
- Last Of Lucy- Ashvattha
- Marty Friedman- Wall Of Sound
- Mastodon- Emperor Of Sand
- Mendel- Oblivion
- Ne Obliviscaris- Urn
- Nova Collective- The Further Side
- NYN- Entropy: Of Chaos And Salt
- Oblivion- The Path Towards
- Organectomy- Domain Of The Wretched
- Pain Of Salvation- In The Passing Light Of Day
- Parasitic Ejaculation- Isolation
- Persefone- Aathma
- Sarah Longfield- Collapse Expand
- Scale The Summit- In A World Of Fear
- Squatch- Jafar’s Calamari Safari
- Steven Wilson- To The Bone
- Suffocation- Of The Dark Light
- Vinsta- Wiads
- Virulent Depravity- Fruit Of The Poisoned Tree
- Wintersun- The Forest Seasons
Best EP’S Of 2017
- Aborted- Bathos
- Among The Sleep- Casket
- Cognizance- Ether Of The Void, The Foreboding Impasse (released separately as singles)
- Coma Cluster Void- Thoughts From A Stone
- Constructs- Shapes
- Echopraxia- Pumpkin Palace
- Eximpertus- W2246-0526
- Ichika- Forn
- Incipience- Bloom
- Mastodon- Cold Dark Place
- Others By No One- Book 1: Dr. Breacher
- Scour- Red
Honorable Mentions
- Decapitated- Anticult
- Act Of Defiance- Old Scars, New Wounds
- Fleshkiler- Awaken
- Gruesome- Fragments Of Psyche
- Narcotic Wasteland- Delirium Tremens
- Neck Of The Woods- Passenger
- Pestilence- Hadeon
- Sons Of Apollo- Psychotic Symphony
- The Surrealist- Echo End, Lux, Origami (singles released separately)
2018 Albums To Look Forward To
- Obscura
- Beyond Creation
- Fire Garden
- Turning Virtue
- Forever In Transit
- Between The Buried And Me (technically 2 EP’S)
- Alterbeast
- Augury
- Kataklysm
- Ingested
- Kamelot
- Memoriam
- Napalm Death
- Rivers Of Nihil
- 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
Originally published on Technical Music Review. Republished with permission.
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