This year, I will be posting far more thoroughly than I have in the last two years or so. The list below is ranked in order from best to worst, but I'll likely end up cutting some albums in the end. I will also be temporarily evaluating albums I have not yet heard based on one or two songs, denoting these albums with *. Using the list, I can then come back to them later in the year. Feel free to give me any 2017 recommendations you might have. Cheers!

LAST UPDATED: June 10th, 2017

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Diverge | 15.01.2017

1.	Combat Astronomy - Symmetry Through Collapse (Avant-garde metal [9.0/10.0] - http://tinyurl.com/hvlur6j Potential AOTY)
2.	Fen - Winter (Atmospheric black metal [9.0/10.0] - http://tinyurl.com/h9gg5vp)
3.	Oceanic - Trappist (Instrumental progressive/ambient metal; djent [9.0/10.0] - https://tinyurl.com/yamlsl5k)
4.	Hubris - Apocryphal Gravity (Instrumental post metal [8.9/10.0] - https://tinyurl.com/ybgl82y4)
5.	The Ominous Circle - Appalling Ascension (Death metal [8.7/10.0] - http://tinyurl.com/gtn68gl)
6.	David Maxim Micic - Who Bit The Moon (Instrumental prog; djent [8.7/10.0] - http://tinyurl.com/glr5rpu)
7.	The Death Of Money - Ghost Pains (Heavy noise rock/shoegaze [8.7/10.0] - http://tinyurl.com/jjrwcmk)
8.	Persefone - Aathma (Progressive death metal [8.5/10.0] - http://tinyurl.com/zdcrt8c)
9.	Cryptic Ruse - Pineal Algebra (Experimental djent; microtonal [8.3/10.0] - http://tinyurl.com/gp7evrv)
10.	Disperse - Foreword (Djent; alternative metal [8.3/10.0] - http://tinyurl.com/jg353er)
11.	Bathsheba - Servus (Doom metal [8.3/10.0] - http://tinyurl.com/zmkjjj2)
12.	Dora The Destroyer - Dependent Secondary [EP] (Djent; instrumental prog metal [8.3/10.0] - http://tinyurl.com/z4gwodc)
13.	God's Empire - God's Empire [EP] (Alternative metal; post-metal [8.2/10.0] http://tinyurl.com/zwqon2q)
14.	Bonjour Tristesse - Par Un Sourire (Black metal [8.0/10] * - http://tinyurl.com/h3zdy8r)
15.	Amniac - Matriarch (Post metal; sludge metal [8.0/10.0] - http://tinyurl.com/jthec8k)
16.	Increate - Void (Instrumental prog metal [8.0/10.0] * - http://tinyurl.com/hp7at6p)
17.	Pregnant Whale Pain - Blank [EP] (Avant-garde; progressive metal [7.5/10] - http://tinyurl.com/j9adllq)
18.	Sawsoer - Unceasing Growth (Instrumental djent; post metal [7.4/10.0] - http://tinyurl.com/h5ftsj6)
19.	Soen - Lykaia (Alternative metal [7.3/10.0] - http://tinyurl.com/heuvxfc)
20.	Nostril Caverns - Spatial Lacerations (Death grind [7.1/10.0] - http://tinyurl.com/jsx68tt)
21.	Paper Shirt - Fragmented Body (Instrumental prog metal [7.1/10.0] - http://tinyurl.com/jsg8v98)