[Redcarmoose]

Been into Kreator for 10 years, and I think they are actually getting better. This is maybe top 2017 material, going in my top 2017 ten or even top five, if the rest of the album sounds like the pre-release stuff.

 

[markm1]

Phantom Antichrist remains one of my favorite recent thrash albums. It's so good.

 

[Redcarmoose]

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Phantom Antichrist remains one of my favorite recent thrash albums. It's so good.

It really is great.

 

[Music Alchemist]

Been into Kreator for 10 years, and I think they are actually getting better. This is maybe top 2017 material, going in my top 2017 ten or even top five, if the rest of the album sounds like the pre-release stuff.

 
Kreator is one of the better well-known thrash bands, but I much prefer wilder thrash like Vektor.
 
Did you hear the new Immolation I posted? I think it's way better than most of their post-millennial material.

 

[Redcarmoose]

Kreator is one of the better well-known thrash bands, but I much prefer wilder thrash like Vektor.

Did you hear the new Immolation I posted? I think it's way better than most of their post-millennial material.

The two bands ( Kreator VS Vektor ) are completely different and not comparable in any form.

Liked Immolations 2013 release. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3vhbsH28jeI

 

[Music Alchemist]

The two bands ( Kreator VS Vektor ) are completely different and not comparable in any form.

 
Which is perhaps why I like the latter far more, as I tend to favor more extreme thrash. But they're both still thrash.

 

[ColonelBucket8]

 

[bavinck]

Which is perhaps why I like the latter far more, as I tend to favor more extreme thrash. But they're both still thrash.

I like vhol and viovod too.

 

[Music Alchemist]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_in_heavy_metal_music
 
Absu, Akercocke, Arch Enemy, Behemoth, Cannibal Corpse, Cradle Of Filth, Deicide, Demon Hunter, Dimmu Borgir, Dragonlord, Enslaved, Fear Factory, Immolation, Kreator, Marilyn Manson, Mastodon, Morbid Angel, Motograter, Nightrage, Pain Of Salvation, Papa Roach, Samael, Satyricon, Sepultura, Slayer, System Of A Down, Today Is The Day, Tool, and many more...
 
2017 is already shaping up to be a blast!
 
@monsterzero
Older bands also have new material in production. Accept, Alice In Chains, Black Sabbath, Danzig, Deep Purple, Iced Earth, Judas Priest, King Diamond, Metal Church, Queensrÿche, etc.
 
And click here to see a list of confirmed 2017 albums on Metal Archives. (192 so far.)

 

[emptymt]

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_in_heavy_metal_music
 
Absu, Akercocke, Arch Enemy, Behemoth, Cannibal Corpse, Cradle Of Filth, Deicide, Demon Hunter, Dimmu Borgir, Dragonlord, Enslaved, Fear Factory, Immolation, Kreator, Marilyn Manson, Mastodon, Morbid Angel, Motograter, Nightrage, Pain Of Salvation, Papa Roach, Samael, Satyricon, Sepultura, Slayer, System Of A Down, Today Is The Day, Tool, and many more...
 
2017 is already shaping up to be a blast!
 
@monsterzero
Older bands also have new material in production. Accept, Alice In Chains, Black Sabbath, Danzig, Deep Purple, Iced Earth, Judas Priest, King Diamond, Metal Church, Queensrÿche, etc.
 
And click here to see a list of confirmed 2017 albums on Metal Archives. (192 so far.)

ughh.. Papa Roach

 

[bavinck]

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_in_heavy_metal_music
 
Absu, Akercocke, Arch Enemy, Behemoth, Cannibal Corpse, Cradle Of Filth, Deicide, Demon Hunter, Dimmu Borgir, Dragonlord, Enslaved, Fear Factory, Immolation, Kreator, Marilyn Manson, Mastodon, Morbid Angel, Motograter, Nightrage, Pain Of Salvation, Papa Roach, Samael, Satyricon, Sepultura, Slayer, System Of A Down, Today Is The Day, Tool, and many more...
 
2017 is already shaping up to be a blast!
 
@monsterzero
Older bands also have new material in production. Accept, Alice In Chains, Black Sabbath, Danzig, Deep Purple, Iced Earth, Judas Priest, King Diamond, Metal Church, Queensrÿche, etc.
 
And click here to see a list of confirmed 2017 albums on Metal Archives. (192 so far.)

Accept's latest was great, I thought.

 

[Monsterzero]

   
2017 is already shaping up to be a blast!
 
@monsterzero
Older bands also have new material in production. Accept, Alice In Chains, Black Sabbath, Danzig, Deep Purple, Iced Earth, Judas Priest, King Diamond, Metal Church, Queensrÿche, etc.
 
And click here to see a list of confirmed 2017 albums on Metal Archives. (192 so far.)

Thanks for the link...

Most of the bands like AIC,Deep Purple,Queensryche,Danzig are either not metal IMO,and/or their best days are long gone.

Metal church I was never a fan of,even though I know Mike Howe and his wife very well.(and are very cool folks)

Accept,Priest...of course anything they do I will look forward to.

There are plenty of new bands doing classic metal,that are young,hungry and talented to keep filling up my harddrives.







 

 

[Music Alchemist]

  ughh.. Papa Roach

 

 

 

[markm1]

This is kind of a cross post from Metalfi, but list is expanding.
 
I get kind of obsessive going through these metal year-end lists. So, I play catch-up in December. I've been on about a week long Metal streaming marathon-on my home system, Spotify and BC in the car, at work and my Ipod in the gym. I think I'm pretty much done.

Here's what I've crammed into my ears:

Batushka-Litourgiya
Harakari for the sky-III Trauma
Mare Cognitum-Luminiferous Aether
Astrnoid -Air
Gatekeeper-Sonoran Depravation
Murg-Gudatall
Mesarthim-some morse code **** Spiritus Mortis-This Year is One
40 Wat Sun-Wider than the Sky
Worm of Ouroborus-What Gracelss Dawn
Wode-S/T
Martrydod-List
Oranssi Pazuzu-Varathelija
Blood Incantation-Bloodspawn
Castle-Welcome to the Graveyard
Summerlands
CHTHE'LIST-la Dernier Crepuscle
Mismor-Yodh
Virus-Memento Collider
Cough-Still they Prey
Anciients-Voice of the Void
Sorcery-Garden of Bones (didn't spend too much time with this one)
Altarage-NIHL
High Spritis-Motivator
Dawnbringer
Hail Spirit Noir-Mayhem in Blue
 
Crap! Now, that's some serious listening.
 
So far, here's what I've bought from that listening:
 
Murg-Gudatall
40 Wat Sun
Worm of Ouroborus-What Gracelss Dawn
Wode-S/T
Blood Incantation-Bloodspawn
Cough-Still they Prey
Anciients-Voice of the Void
Deathsepll Omega-Synchronicity of Broken Bones
Swans-Glowing Man (not metal-but awesome)
 
 
A couple of others to plug. I very much liked Harikari For the Sky-it's a kind of very melodic post black metal, that's not exactly BM, there's some melodeth influence. I know some people have a gut reaction to "post black metal", but this is really good. For the record, I like some post black bands. These guys are not Deafheaven, however. Check them out if you can.
 
Batushka from last year are a great listen, too IMO. very interesting stuff. Chanting and BM-love that.
 
And, I think I'll also pick up Martrydod-there a kind of crust metal band with melodic almost NWOBHM influence. If you like crust, check them out. They're kind of awesome I think.
 
My ears are wringing. Today spending a bit of time comparing some of the dissonant stuff from earlier in the year.
 
From earlier in the year, the bands that I'd like to keep in a list would include in no particular order: Howls of Ebb, Zhrine, Ulcerate, DSO (which I just have listened to once-but think it's brilliant), CUL w/ Julie Christmas (maybe my favorite this year, certainly an early favorite), Sub Rosa, Hammers of Misfortune, Vektor, Inter Arma, Phobocosm, Katatonia, Asphyx, Neurosis, Goatess, Forteresse, Messa and Alcest. Clearly, I'm going to have to clean house especially if I make room for some of the new guys I listed above.
 
Bottom line-there has been a schiit ton of metal this year.
 

 

[Fastnbulbous]

A consistently great hard rock & metal poll held every year is on ILM. The rollout started this weekend and continues tomorrow.
 
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=105029#unread
 

101 Khthoniik Cerviiks - SeroLogiikal Scars (Vertex of Dementiia) 108 4 1
98 Abbath - Abbath 109 3 0
98 Blood Ceremony - Lord Of Misrule 109 3 0
98 Lord Vicar - Gates of Flesh 109 3 0
97 Dawnwalker - In Rooms 109 4 0
95 Madder Mortem - Red In Tooth and Claw 110 4 0
95 Wardruna - Runaljod - Ragnarok 110 4 0
94 Sunwatchers - Sunwatchers 112 3 0
93 Truckfighters - V 116 4 0
92 Atomikylä - Keräily 118 3 0
91 Wo Fat - Midnight Cometh 121 4 0

90 Grand Magus - Sword Songs 122 3 0
89 Rotting Christ - Rituals 123 4 0
88 Wrong - Wrong 124 3 0
87 Melvins - Basses Loaded 126 4 0
86 Batushka - Litourgiya 127 3 0
85 Bloodiest - Bloodiest 128 3 0
84 Wretch - Wretch 128 4 0
83 Urfaust - Empty Space Meditation 128 4 1
82 Mare Cognitum - Luminiferous Aether 128 6 0
81 ColdWorld - Autumn 129 3 0

80 Void Meditation Cult - Utter the Tongue of the Dead 131 4 0
79 Car Bomb - Meta 134 3 0
78 Anciients - Voice of the Void 137 4 0
77 Wormrot - Voices 138 4 0
76 Saor - Guardians 138 6 0
75 Asphyx - Incoming Death 139 3 0
74 The Body, Full of Hell - One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache 139 5 0
73 High Spirits - Motivator 140 4 0
72 Inverloch - Distance | Collapsed 141 4 0

70 Occult Burial - Hideous Obscure 142 4 0
70 Testament - Brotherhood Of The Snake 142 4 0
69 Horse Latitudes - Primal Gnosis 143 4 0
68 Howls of Ebb - Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows 148 5 0
67 Sumerlands - s/t 154 6 0
66 Eight Bells - Landless 156 5 0
65 Anicon - Exegeses 160 4 0
63 Cadaveric Fumes - Dimensions Obscure EP 164 5 0
63 Nails - You Will Never Be One of Us 164 5 0
62 The Body - No One Deserves Happiness 165 6 0
61 Woman is the Earth - Torch of Our Final Night 166 4 1