17 for 2017
List isn't ranked nor a best of 2017 list. Just a couple of releases I enjoyed this year and who aren't on everybody's radar/list. (so no Elder, Venenum etc.) Haven't been paying too much attention to this years musical output and I hate describing shit, but oh well here we go... |
| 1 |  | Maggot Heart
City Girls
4 track ep from Linnéa Olsson's (ex-The Oath, Ex-Grave Pleasures) new project (with the rhythm section of In Solitude) . I hate genre tags I guess dark gritty rock with a bit post punk and heavy metal, would be a semi-decent description.
https://maggotheart.bandcamp.com/ |
| 2 |  | Rope Sect
Personae Ingratae
great post punk.
https://ropesect.bandcamp.com/releases |
| 3 |  | Gold
Optimist
So far the runner up in my aoty race. started out as okay retro rock band. nowadays they are playing a kind of post-everything stuff. (post-rock, post-punk(hate this term) and some riffs have a black metal feel to them.) wave after wave of melancholia hitting you sometimes gentle sometimes heavier.
https://gold-vanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/optimist |
| 4 |  | Dool
Here Now, There Then
well executed mixture of classical rock with psychedelic and darkness.a good dark rock album.
https://dool-nl.bandcamp.com/album/here-now-there-then |
| 5 |  | Show of Bedlam
Transfiguration
a bit of 90’s noise rock mixed with doom and sludge in the vein of neurosis. vocals are fittingly demented. needs some time to sink in but it hits hard.
http://showofbedlam.com/album/transfiguration |
| 6 |  | Fange
Pourrissoir
french noisy sludge doom with a bit of hardcore
https://fange.bandcamp.com/album/pourrissoir |
| 7 |  | Oxbow
Thin Black Duke
Oxbow don't release bad albums. Great Stuff as usual.
https://oxbowofficial.bandcamp.com/album/thin-black-duke |
| 8 |  | Occvlta
Night Without End
https://occvlta.bandcamp.com/album/night-without-end
old school bm.Hellhammer/Celtic Frost worship with a bit of Hellhammer/Celtic Frost worshipping band Darkthrone as another Influence. It's a bit like a reversed Panzerfaust album. |
| 9 |  | Holy Money
The Language Machine
nasty sludge metal with former members of bands like Hatred Surge Mammoth Grinder and P.L.F
https://theundesirable.bandcamp.com/album/holy-money-the-language-machine-undesirable-013 |
| 10 |  | Common Eider, King Eider
Shrines for the Unwanted, Respite for the Cast Asi
folky dark ambient/drone stuff
https://commoneiderkingeider.bandcamp.com/album/shrines-for-the-unwanted-respite-for-the-cast-aside |
| 11 |  | Basmu
Black Sorcery From Within Arcane Caverns
one man project from canada. raw and hypnotic black metal
https://basmu.bandcamp.com/album/black-sorcery-from-within-arcane-caverns |
| 12 |  | Samsara Blues Experiment
One with the Universe
quality stoner/psychedelic rock
https://samsarabluesexperiment.bandcamp.com/album/one-with-the-universe |
| 13 |  | CIORAN
Bestiale Battito Divino
Italian black metal punk
https://caligarirecords.bandcamp.com/album/bestiale-battito-divino |
| 14 |  | Grinning Death's Head
Blood War
another bm/punk hybrid
https://youthattack.bandcamp.com/album/blood-war |
| 15 |  | Tarkin Turfer
Glade Keeper
dungeon synth and more dungeon synth
https://tarkinturfer.bandcamp.com/
other Dungeon synth 2017 :
https://baraktor.bandcamp.com/album/march-of-the-triumphator
https://oldenhelm.bandcamp.com/album/ruins-and-reverence
https://ranseur.bandcamp.com/album/goblin-music
https://trogool.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-the-river-skai
https://faeryring.bandcamp.com/album/leech-and-wort
https://voormithadreth.bandcamp.com/album/the-quest-of-iranon
https://urghun.bandcamp.com/releases |
| 16 |  | King Woman
Created In The Image Of Suffering
mumble shoegaze doom. not fully convinced by it but I guess I like it
https://kingwoman.bandcamp.com/ |
| 17 |  | The Ruins Of Beverast
Exuvia
https://theruinsofbeverast.bandcamp.com/album/exuvia
Meilenwald delivers again. my aoty so far |
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