Awesome!

Thanks for taking this over. I'm happy it can continue.

So.... Alvvays didn't rank?


Cheers dude... and to your buddy. Thanks.

My list again since this is the thread that gets archived...


Huge thanks to deathstalker for taking over this year. This has become a tradition for me that I enjoy more and more each year. Cheers.

1. ScepticFlesh - Codex Omega
2. Aether Realm - Tarot
3. The Night Flight Orchestra - Amber Galactic
4. Beast in Black - Berserker
5. Ne Obliviscaris - Urn
6. Fen - Winter
7. Becomes Astral - Paleblood Sky
8. Power Trip - Nightmare Logic
9. Wormwood - Ghostlands - Wounds From a Bleeding Earth
10. Heretoir - The Circle
11. The Great Old Ones - EOD: A Tale of Dark Legacy
12. Antichrist - Sinful Birth
13. Xanthochroid - Of Erthe and Axen
14. Alestorm - No Grave But the Sea
15. Kreator- Gods of Violence


High Level Honorable Mentions
Anathema - The Optimist
Archspire - Relentless Mutilation
Axxis - Retrolution
Ayreon - The Source
Cannibal Corpse - Red Before Black
Cloak - The Venomous Depths
Cradle of Filth – The Seductiveness of Decay
Dying Fetus - Wrong One to Fuck With
Enslaved - E
Firespawn - The Reprobate
Helheim - Landawarjar
Lock Up – Demonization
Nightbringer Terra Damnata
Novembers Doom – Hamartia
Pain of Salvation - In the Passing Light of Day
Persefone – Aathma
Samael - Hegemony
Soen - Lykaia
Thromos - Vergessene Tiefen
Tokyo Motor Fist - Tokyo Motor Fist
Violet Cold - Anomie
Wolfheart - Tyhiyys


Regular Level Honorable Mentions
Aeternam - Ruins of Empires
Angelwings - The Edge of Innocence
Anubis Gate - Covered in Black
Arthemis - Undead
Benighted - Necrobreed
Black Anvil - As Was
Blazon Stone - Down in the Dark
Epica - The Solace System
Exhumed - Death Revenge
Firewind - Immortals
Frailty - Ways of the Dead
Grave Digger - Healed by Metal
Havok - Conformicide
Immolation - Atonement
Lunar Shadow - Far From Light
Mastodon - Emperor of Sand
Mors Principium Est - Embers of a Dying Word
Municipal Waste - Slime and Punishment
Nocturnal Rights - Phoenix
Oppressus - Humanidad in Vitro
Overkill - The Grinding Wheel
Pallbearer - Heartless
Sons of Omega - Reign
Steel Panther - Lower the Bar
Striker - Striker
The Doomsday Kingdom - The Doomsday Kingdom
Threshhold - The Legend of the Shires
Ulver - The Assassination of…
Xandria - Theater of Dimensions

Didn't jive with me but surely did with others
Aborym - Shiftin Negativ
Annihilator - For the Demented
Bathsheba - Servus
Battle Beast - Bringer of Pain
Below the Sun - Alien World
Bloodbound - War of Dragons
Cellador - Off the Grid
Crystal Viper - Queen of the Witches
Danzig - Black Laden Crown
Destructor - Decibel Casualties
Dragonforce - Reaching Into Infinity
Ember Falls - Welcome to Ember Falls
Eruption - Cloaks of Oblivion
Evolcation - The Shadow Archtype
Hallatar - No Stars Upon the Bridge
Iced Earth - Incorruptible
Kauan - Kaiho
LionsSoul - Welcome Storm
Lonewolf - Raised on Metal
Loss - Horizonless
Memoriam - For the Fallen
Moonspell - 1755
Nailed to Obscurity - King Delusion
Once Human - Evolution
Pagan Altar - The Room of Shadows
Paradise Lost - Medusa
Unearthly Trance - Stalking the Ghost
Wizard - Fallen Kings

Thanks for this.

Placed 4 in the top 10 and only 5 that DNP....not too shabby considering that I had a hard time coming up with 15 from this year.



Holo

Interesting list. The top 10 is pretty mainstream but there's lots of underground death and black metal throughout the rest.
Thanks deathstalker, and thanks to your friend...it's much appreciated.

1-havukruunu-kelle surut soi-31
2-malokarpatan-nordkarpatenland-22
3-nokturnal mortum-verity-4
4-odroerir-das erbe unserer ahnen-DNP
5-wintersun-forest sessions-60
6-dumal-the lesser god-23
7-solstafir-berdreyminn-70
8-goatmon-stella polaris-86
9-fjoergyn-lvcifer es-DNP
10-white death-st-DNP
11-black magic ss-kaleidoscope dreams-DNP
12-haive-iaton-DNP
13-sawhill sacrifice-pimeyteen ja kuolemaan-DNP
14-limbonic art-spectre abysm-DNP
15-jag panzer-the deviant chord-92

Mine
1. Mastodon - Emperor Of Sand (#11)
2. Full of Hell - Trumpeting Ecstasy (#33)
3. Converge - The Dusk In Us (#20)
4. Code Orange – Forever (DNR)
5. Power Trip - Nightmare Logic (#1)
6. Cannibal Corpse - Red Before Black (#3)
7. Dyscarnate - With All Their Might (DNR)
8. Apes – Lightless (DNR)
9. Demonic Death Judge – Seaweed (DNR)
10.Incendiary - Thousand Mile Stare (DNR)
11.Goatwhore - Vengeful Ascension (#87)
12.Phobia - Lifeless God (#46)
13.All Pigs Must Die - Hostage Animal (DNR)
14.Lock Up – Demonization (#34)
15.The Drip - The Haunting Fear of Inevitability (#74)

16.Wolfbrigade - Run With the Hunted (#41)
17.Get the Shot - Infinite Punishment (DNR)
18.Benighted – Necrobreed (DNR)
19.Sasquatch – Maneuvers (DNR)
20.Cannabis Corpse - Left Hand Pass (DNR)
21.Bison - You Are Not the Ocean You Are the Patient (DNR)
22.Necrot - Blood Offerings (DNR)
23.Vallenfyre - Fear Those Who Fear Him (DNR)
24.Temple of Void - Lords of Death (#8)
25.Amenra - Mass 6 (DNR)
26.Blaze of Perdition - Conscious Darkness (DNR)
27.Exhumed - Death Revenge (#29)
28.Iron Monkey - 9-13 (DNR)
29.SECT - No Cure (DNR)
30.Maat - Monuments Will Enslave (DNR)

Thanks for doing that, dude. Kind of went the way I expected with number one. It was on a lot of lists.

1. ‎MALOKARPATAN - Nordkarpatenland (22)
2. DUMAL - The Lesser God (23)
3. ‎LATANU - Corny manalit (63)
4. ‎JORDABLOD - Upon My Cremation Pyre (24)
5. ‎SUFFERING HOUR - In Passing Ascension (64)
6. ‎TEMPLE OF VOID - Lords of Death (8)
7. ‎IMMOLATION - Atonement (6)
8. ‎NOKTURNAL MORTUM - Verity (4)
9. ‎PHRENELITH - Desolate Endscape (14)
10. ‎LUNAR SHADOW - Far From Light (43)
11. ‎TOMB MOLD - Primordial Malignity (66)
12. ‎MIDNIGHT - Sweet Death and Ecstasy (71)
13. ‎HAÏVE - Iaton (DNP)
14. ‎THE CHASM - A Conscious Creation from the Isolated Domain Phase I - (DNP)
15. ARGUS - From Fields of Fire (17)

82. pillorian, obsidian arc

Ouch

Final, FINAL, version

1. Colter Wall - Colter Wall
2. Angel Vivaldi - Synapse
3. Stallion - From the Dead 67
4. The Obsessed - Sacred 9
5. Blazon Stone - Down in the Dark
6. Vain - Rolling With the Punches
7. Havukruunu - Kelle Surut Soi 31
8. Andy James - Exodus
9. Wolfbrigade - Run With the Hunted 41
10. Satan's Hallow - Satan's Hallow
11. Propagandhi - Victory Lap
12. Oxbow - The Thin Black Duke
13. Municipal Waste - Slime and Punishment 94
14. Cemetery Urn - Cemetery Urn 88
15. Cellador - Off the Grid

16. Morta Skuld - Wounds Deeper Than Time
17. Chainsaw - Filthy Blasphemy
18. Succumb - Succumb
19. Lock Up - Demonization 34
20. Liar's Tongue - Threat of Intellect

21. Jonwayne - Rap Album Two
22. Godflesh - Post Self 91
23. Goatwhore - Vengeful Ascension 87
24. Woman is the Earth - Thaw
25. Varaha - Varaha

Just realized something, there was a band this year that was hyped almost as much as Power Trip
But didn’t seem to make many lists and wasn’t even on the main list.

Nails, nowhere to be found.

Edit: See below

Nails came out last year, didnt release one in 2017. Ibthink it made the 2016 list.

I forgot all about this. I didn't really think too much of it at first but grew to like it a lot. Should've been on my list in the lower half.

posting to remind myself next year:
please format lists from now on as such

1. NAME - ALBUM

as in:
number/period/space/band/space/dash/space/album

lots of slow down cause people did it differently and also spelled albums and band names differently. copy and past from metal archives.

I liked it a lot right off, and it grew on me more each time I heard it. It ended up in my #5 spot. Didn't matter though. Still ended up at 82 overall.

It certainly made my list. Great album

Defiantly something that always irritated me. But as much as you try to enforce a formatting law, its always going to be an issue. At least once a year there would be one I couldn't count because the formatting was so egregious.

1. Kreator Gods Of Violence #2
2. Accept The Rise Of Chaos #10
3. Annihilator For The Demented #49
4. Cannibal Corpse Red Before Black #3
5. Decapitated Anticult DNC
6. Shadowside Shades Of Humanity DNC
7. Novembers Doom Hamartia #57
8. Power Trip Nightmare Logic #1
9. Iced Earth Incorruptible #15
10. Rex Brown Smoke On This DNC
11. Marty Friedman Wall Of Sound DNC
12. God Dethroned The World Ablaze #30
13. Motorhead Under Cover DNC
14. Striker S/T DNC
15. Jag Panzer The Deviant Chord #92
16. Arch Enemy Will To Power #68
17. Satyricon Deep Calleth Unto Deep #52
18. Ex Deo The Immortal Wars #50
19. Overkill The Grinding Wheel #5
20. Alice Cooper Paranormal #21

My honorable mentions for hard rock:

Inglorious II DNC
Black Star Riders Heavy Fire DNC
Black Country Communion BCCIV DNC
Mr. Big Defying Gravity DNC
Queens Of The Stone Age Villains DNC
Warrant Louder Harder Faster DNC
LA Guns The Missing Peace #19
Revolution Saints Light In The Dark DNC
Appice Sinister DNC
U2 Songs Of Experience DNC
Sweet & Lynch Unified DNC

Thanks to deathstalker and his friend for putting this together and taking over from LOAF!

1. Akercocke - Renaissance in Extremis 25
2. Power Trip - Nightmare Logic 1
3. Goatwhore - Vengeful Ascension 87
4. Dumal - The Lesser God 23
5. Mastodon - Emperor of Sand 11
6. Vampire - With Primeval Force DNC
7. Immolation - Atonement 6
8. Lock Up - Demonization 34
9. Sarkrista - Summoners of the Serpents Wrath DNC
10. Phobia - Lifeless God 46
11. The Drip - The Haunting Fear of Inevitability 74
12. Cannibal Corpse - Red Before Black 3
13. Decapitated - Anticult DNC
14. Dying Fetus - Wrong One To Fuck With 45
15. Kreator - Gods of Violence 2

Not a bad turnout.

That's a pretty sweet list, TLP!

Nice work. And great to see these lists are still going.

Thanks, man! I'm pretty happy with this year overall. There were some other releases that I also considered but hadn't had time to sit down with them in the last couple months of the year before the list was compiled. I might do a "releases that may have made your Top 15" thread in a couple months and see what happens.

1. Wormwood - Ghostlands (80)
2. Arch Enemy - Will To Power (68)
3. Cannibal Corpse - Red Before Black (3)
4. Immolation - Atonement (6)
5. Deep Purple - Infinite (12)
6. Kreator - Gods of Violence (2)
7. Red Moon Architect - Return of the Black Butterflies (72)
8. Enslaved - E (27)
9. Paradise Lost - Medusa (7)
10. Dying Fetus - Wrong One to Fuck With (45)
11. Wintersun - The Forest Seasons (60)
12. Power Trip - Nightmare Logic (1)
13. Kaunis Kuolematon - Vapaus (90)
14. Obituary - Obituary (44)
15. Iced Earth - Incorruptible (15)

This is the first year that all 15 of my picks ranked in the top 100. Thanks Deathstalker and friend who compiled the final list. I appreciate these recommendations and the ones in the "deserve attention" thread. It's great to be able to reference Braveboarder recommendations for new albums to check out. Looking forward to a metal 2018!