2017 Journey And Anticipated Records

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2017 Journey And Anticipated Records

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A list by
robpal
Created
November 07, 2016
Entries
273
Endorsements
15
My HIGH ENERGY 2017 list.
Lots of prog.

No rating=haven't heard yet/not enough spins

★★★★★ - Masterpiece!
★★★★½ - Excellent!
★★★★☆ - Great!
★★★½☆ - Very Good!
★★★☆☆ - Enjoyable!
★★½☆☆ - OK, Nothing Special
★★☆☆☆ - Mediocre
★½☆☆☆ - Poor
★☆☆☆☆ - Don't Touch
½☆☆☆☆ - I Want My Money Back
273.
1.
This Social Coil - Pictures
January 1 (Post)
273.
2.
Gone Is Gone - Echolocation
★★★½☆ January 6 (Progressive Rock)
273.
3.
Hibernal - The Dark Of The City
★★★½☆ January 12 (Immersive Prog)
273.
4.
Gotthard - Silver
★★★☆☆ January 13 (Hard Rock)
273.
5.
Pain Of Salvation - In The Passing Light Of Day
★★★★☆ January 13 (Progressive)
273.
6.
Lancer - Mastery
★★★☆☆ January 13 (Power)
273.
7.
Shaarimoth - Temple Of The Adversarial Fire
★★★½☆ January 13 (Death)
273.
8.
Attacker - Sins Of The World
January 14 (Power)
273.
9.
This Winter Machine - The Man Who Never Was
January 16 ★★★½☆ (Progressive Rock)
273.
10.
Odd Logic - Effigy
★★★½☆ January 17 (Progressive)
273.
11.
Need - Hegaiamas​: A Song For Freedom
★★★½☆ January 17 (Progressive)
273.
12.
Firewind - Immortals
★★★½☆ January 20 (Heavy)
273.
13.
Marillion - Marbles In The Park
★★★★☆ January 20 (Progressive Rock)
273.
14.
Ancestral - Master Of Fate
★★★½☆ January 20 (Power)
273.
15.
Blackfield - Blackfield V
★★★½☆ January 20 (Progressive Rock)
273.
16.
Dark Rites - Dark Rites
★★★☆☆ January 23 (Melodic Death)
273.
17.
Mors Principium Est - Embers Of A Dying World
★★★½☆ January 25 (Melodic Death)
273.
18.
Undrask - Battle Through Time
★★★½☆ January 27 (Melodic Death)
273.
19.
Kreator - Gods Of Violence
★★★★☆ January 27 (Thrash)
273.
20.
Set And Setting - Reflectionless
★★★½☆ January 27 (Post Rock)
273.
21.
Borealis - World Of Silence MMXVII
★★★½☆ January 27 (Power)
273.
22.
Seven Kingdoms - Decennium
January 30 (Power)
273.
23.
Soen - Lykaia
★★★★½ February 3 (Progressive)
273.
24.
Overkill - The Grinding Wheel
★★★½☆ February 10 (Thrash)
273.
25.
Witherfall - Nocturnes And Requiems
★★★★☆ February 10 (Power)
273.
26.
Kepler Ten - Delta-V
★★★½☆ February 10 (Progressive Rock)
273.
27.
Thunder - Rip It Up
★★★☆☆ February 10 (Hard Rock)
273.
28.
Black Sites - In Monochrome
★★★½☆ February 17 (Metal)
273.
29.
Dool - Here Now, There Then
February 17 (Rock)
273.
30.
Tim Bowness - Lost In The Ghost Light
★★★½☆ February 17 (Progressive Rock)
273.
31.
Power Trip - Nightmare Logic
February 22 (Thrash)
273.
32.
Cellador - Off The Grid
★★★½☆ February 22 (Power)
273.
33.
Persefone - Aathma
★★★★☆ February 24 (Progressive Death)
273.
34.
Gold - Optimist
★★★½☆ February 24 (Post Rock)
273.
35.
Bathsheba - Servus
February 24 (Doom)
273.
36.
Siberian - Through Ages Of Sleep
★★★½☆ February 24 (Post)
273.
37.
Ex Deo - The Immortal Wars
★★★½☆ February 24 (Symphonic Death)
273.
38.
The Mute Gods - ...tardigrades will inherit the earth
★★★½☆ February 24 (Progressive Rock)
273.
39.
Striker - Striker
★★★★☆ February 24 (Heavy)
273.
40.
Disperse - Foreword
★★★★☆ February 24 (Progressive)
273.
41.
Hark - Machinations
★★★½☆ February 24 (Stoner)
273.
42.
Place Vendome - Close To The Sun
★★★☆☆ February 24 (Hard Rock)
273.
43.
Immolation - Atonement
★★★☆☆ February 24 (Death)
273.
44.
Arduini/Balich - Dawn Of Ages
February 24 (Doom/Prog)
273.
45.
Palmer - Surrounding The Void
★★★½☆ February 24 (Sludge)
273.
46.
Bloodbound - War Of Dragons
★★★½☆ February 24 (Power)
273.
47.
Sevsons - Ad Infinitum
★★★½☆ February 24 (Progressive)
273.
48.
O.R.k. - Soul Of An Octopus
★★★★☆ February 24 (Progressive Rock)
273.
49.
Majesty - Rebels
★★★½☆ March 3 (Heavy/Power)
273.
50.
Wolfheart - Tyhjyys
★★★½☆ March 3 (Melodic Death)
273.
51.
Rozamov - This Mortal Road
March 3 (Post/Doom)
273.
52.
Combat Astronomy - Symmetry Through Collapse
March 3 (Doom/Heavy)
273.
53.
Junius - Eternal Rituals For The Accretion Of Light
★★★½☆ March 3 (Post Rock)
273.
54.
Richard Barbieri - Planets+Persona
★★★★☆ March 3 (Progressive)
273.
55.
Wretch (USA) - The Hunt
★★★☆☆ March 10 (Power/Thrash)
273.
56.
Havok - Conformicide
★★★★☆ March 10 (Thrash)
273.
57.
Synaptik - Justify & Reason
★★★★☆ March 10 (Progressive Thrash)
273.
58.
Pillorian - Obsidian Arc
March 10 (Atmospheric Black)
273.
59.
Holy Martyr - Darkness Shall Prevail
March 10 (Heavy)
273.
60.
The Silent Wedding - Enigma Eternal
★★★☆☆ March 10 (Heavy)
273.
61.
Nova Collective - The Further Side
March 10 (Instrumental Fusion)
273.
62.
Obituary - Obituary
March 17 (Death)
273.
63.
Steel Seal - The Lion's Den
March 17 (Power)
273.
64.
Vangough - Warpaint
★★★½☆ March 17 (Progressive)
273.
65.
Steve Hackett - The Night Siren
★★★½☆ March 24 (Hard Rock)
273.
66.
Me And That Man - Songs Of Love And Death
★★★½☆ March 24 (Folk/Blues)
273.
67.
Aldaria - Land Of Light
★★★☆☆ March 24 (Power)
273.
68.
House Of Lords - Saint Of The Lost Souls
March 24 (Hard Rock)
273.
69.
The Vicious Head Society - Abject Tomorrow
March 24 (Progressive)
273.
70.
Pallbearer - Heartless
★★★½☆ March 24 (Doom)
273.
71.
Damnations Day - A World Awakens
★★★½☆ March 24 (Progressive)
273.
72.
Sinner - Tequila Suicide
March 31 (Heavy)
273.
73.
Mastodon - Emperor Of Sand
★★★★☆ March 31 (Progressive/Sludge)
273.
74.
Sleepmakeswaves - Made Of Breath Only
March 31 (Progressive/Alternative)
273.
75.
The Doomsday Kingdom - The Doomsday Kingdom
★★★★☆ March 31 (Doom)
273.
76.
Ulver - The Assassination Of Julius Caesar
★★★★☆ April 7 (Experimental Electronic)
273.
77.
Carptree - Emerger
April 7 (Progressive Rock)
273.
78.
The Obsessed - Sacred
★★★½☆ April 7 (Doom)
273.
79.
Royal Thunder - WICK
★★★½☆ April 7 (Heavy/Stoner)
273.
80.
Trial - Motherless
April 7 (Heavy)
273.
81.
Soup - Remedies
★★★★☆ April 7 (Progressive Rock)
273.
82.
Deep Purple - Infinite
★★★½☆ April 7 (Hard Rock)
273.
83.
Althea - Memories Have No Name
April 7 (Progressive Rock)
273.
84.
Novembers Doom - Hamartia
★★★½☆ April 14 (Death/Doom)
273.
85.
Infernäl Mäjesty - No God
★★★★☆ April 14 (Thrash)
273.
86.
Lich King - The Omniclasm
★★★½☆ April 14 (Thrash)
273.
87.
Uneven Structure - La Partition
April 21 (Djent)
273.
88.
Cryonic Temple - Into The Glorious Battle
★★★☆☆ April 21 (Power)
273.
89.
Night Demon - Darkness Remains
★★★½☆ April 21 (Heavy)
273.
90.
Vampire - With Primeval Force
★★★½☆ April 21 (Death)
273.
91.
Foreseen - Grave Danger
April 21 (Thrash)
273.
92.
Cloven Hoof - Who Mourns For The Morning Star
April 21 (Heavy)
273.
93.
Animations - Without The Sun
★★★☆☆ April 21 (Progressive/Deathcore)
273.
94.
Disbelief - The Symbol Of Death
★★★½☆ April 21 (Death/Sludge)
273.
95.
Labyrinth - Architecture Of A God
★★★½☆ April 21 (Progressive Power)
273.
96.
Enslaved - Roadburn Live
April 22 (Progressive Black)
273.
97.
Krimh - Gedankenkarussell
April 26 (Progressive Death)
273.
98.
Ayreon - The Source
★★★★☆ April 28 (Progressive)
273.
99.
Noumena - Myrrys
April 28 (Melodic Death)
273.
100.
Fates Warning - Awaken The Guardian Live
April 28 (Progressive)
273.
101.
Until Rain - Inure
April 28 (Progressive)
273.
102.
Astral Doors - Black Eyed Children
★★★☆☆ April 28 (Power)
273.
103.
Condor - Unstoppable Power
April 28 (Thrash)
273.
104.
MindMaze - Resolve
★★★½☆ April 28 (Progressive)
273.
105.
Big Big Train - Grimspound
★★★½☆ April 28 (Prog Rock)
273.
106.
Pyramaze - Contingent
★★★★☆ April 28 (Progressive Power)
273.
107.
Lonely Robot - The Big Dream
★★★½☆ April 28 (Progressive)
273.
108.
Skyclad - Forward Into The Past
April 28 (Folk)
273.
109.
Eruption - Cloaks Of Oblivion
May 2 (Power/Thrash)
273.
110.
The Unity - The Unity
★★★☆☆ May 5 (Power)
273.
111.
Jesu - 30 Seconds To The Decline Of Planet Earth [Collaboration]
May 5 (Post, gaze, drone)
273.
112.
Helker - Firesoul
May 5 (Power)
273.
113.
Oxbow - Thin Black Duke
May 5 (Stoner)
273.
114.
Diana Krall - Turn Up The Quiet
May 5 (Jazz)
273.
115.
Vanden Plas - The Seraphic Live Works
May 12 (Progressive)
273.
116.
Inglorious - Inglorious II
May 12 (Hard Rock)
273.
117.
Ulsect - Ulsect
May 12 (Technical Death)
273.
118.
Sacred Oath - Twelve Bells
May 12 (Power)
273.
119.
Voyager - Ghost Mile
★★★★½ May 12 (Progressive)
273.
120.
Galahad - Quiet Storms
★★★½☆ May 15 (Progressive Rock)
273.
121.
Gungfly - On Her Journey To The Sun
★★★½☆ May 19 (Prog Rock)
273.
122.
Harvestman - Music For Megaliths
May 19 (Neofolk)
273.
123.
Below - Upon A Pale Horse
★★★½☆ May 19 (Heavy/Doom)
273.
124.
The Night Flight Orchestra - Amber Galactic
★★★★☆ May 19 (Hard Rock)
273.
125.
Scale The Summit - In A World Of Fear
★★★½☆ May 19 (Instrumental Progressive)
273.
126.
Bjorn Riis - Forever Comes To An End
★★★★☆ May 19 (Progressive Rock)
273.
127.
Sollertia - Light
May 19 (Extreme Progressive)
273.
128.
Anubis (AUS) - The Second Hand
★★★½☆ May 23 (Progressive Rock)
273.
129.
Soulspell - The Second Big Bang
★★★☆☆ May 25 (Power)
273.
130.
Avatarium - Hurricanes And Halos
★★★½☆ May 26 (Doom)
273.
131.
Danzig - Black Laden Crown
May 26 (Hard Rock)
273.
132.
Below The Sun - Alien World
May 26 (Doom)
273.
133.
Tytan - Justice:Served!
May 26 (Heavy)
273.
134.
Wind Rose - Stonehymn
May 26 (Progressive Power)
273.
135.
Ravage - Return Of The Spectral Rider
May 26 (Heavy)
273.
136.
Dream Evil - SIX
★★★☆☆ May 26 (Power)
273.
137.
Sólstafir - Berdreyminn
★★★★☆ May 26 (Post)
273.
138.
Cold Insight - Further Nowhere
★★★½☆ May 28 (Melodic Death)
273.
139.
Vallenfyre - Fear Those Who Fear Him
★★★½☆ June 2 (Death)
273.
140.
Adrenaline Mob - We The People
★★★½☆ June 2 (Heavy)
273.
141.
The Ferrymen - The Ferrymen
June 2 (Power)
273.
142.
Secret Sphere - The Nature Of Time
★★★½☆ June 2 (Power)
273.
143.
Jorn - Life On Death Road
June 2 (Heavy)
273.
144.
SikTh - The Future In Whose Eyes?
★★★½☆ June 2 (Prog Math)
273.
145.
Elder - Reflections Of A Floating World
June 2 (Stoner)
273.
146.
Roger Waters - Is This The Life We Really Want?
June 2 (Rock)
273.
147.
Mutoid Man - War Moans
★★★½☆ June 2 (Groove/Stoner/Prog)
273.
148.
Anathema - The Optimist
★★★★☆ June 9 (Atmospheric Rock)
273.
149.
Exist - So True, So Bound
June 9 (Technical Death)
273.
150.
EZoo - Feeding The Beast
June 9 (Hard Rock)
273.
151.
Anthriel - Transcendence
★★★★½ June 15 (Progresssive Power)
273.
152.
Iced Earth - Incorruptible
★★★★☆ June 16 (Power)
273.
153.
Arcadea - Arcadea
★★★½☆ June 16 (weird shit)
273.
154.
Bison B.C. - You Are Not The Ocean You Are The Patient
June 23 (Sludge)
273.
155.
Bardspec - Hydrogen
June 23 (Ambient)
273.
156.
Soul Enema - Of Clans And Clones And Clowns
June 23 (Progressive)
273.
157.
Bent Knee - Land Animal
★★★★☆ June 23 (Experimental Rock)
273.
158.
Big Big Train - The Second Brightest Star
June 23 (Progressive Rock)
273.
159.
Resistance - Metal Machine
June 27 (Power/Thrash)
273.
160.
Tuesday The Sky - Drift
June 30 (Ambient)
273.
161.
Manilla Road - To Kill A King
June 30 (Heavy)
273.
162.
Jacobs Dream - Sea Of Destiny
July 1 (Power)
273.
163.
Ten - Gothica
July 7 (Progressive Rock)
273.
164.
Mr. Big - Defying Gravity
July 7 (Hard Rock)
273.
165.
Blind Guardian - Live Beyond The Spheres
July 7 (Power)
273.
166.
Excalion - Dream Alive
July 7 (Power)
273.
167.
Cosmograf - The Hay-Man Dreams
July 10 (Progressive Rock)
273.
168.
Prospekt - The Illuminated Sky
July 21 (Progressive)
273.
169.
Wintersun - The Forest Seasons
July 21 (Extreme Power)
273.
170.
The Tangent - The Slow Rust Of Forgotten Machinery
July 21 (Progressive Rock)
273.
171.
Necromandus - Necromandus
★★★½☆ July 21 (Heavy)
273.
172.
Adagio - Life
★★★★☆ July 26 (Progressive Power)
273.
173.
Masterplan - PumpKings
July 28 (Power)
273.
174.
Rage - Seasons Of The Black
★★★½☆ July 28 (Heavy)
273.
175.
Dvne - Asheran
★★★★☆ July 28 (Sludge)
273.
176.
Absolva - Defiance
July 28 (Heavy)
273.
177.
Soul Secret - Babel
July 28 (Progressive)
273.
178.
Divinity Compromised - Terminal
★★★½☆ July 28 (Progressive)
273.
179.
Byzantine - The Cicada Tree
★★★½☆ July 28 (Progressive Thrash)
273.
180.
Marco Minnemann - Borrego
★★★½☆ July 31 (Minnemann Solo)
273.
181.
Falloch - Prospice
July 31 (Progressive Rock)
273.
182.
Lifesigns - Cardington
August (Progressive Rock)
273.
183.
Clouds - Destin
August 1 (Death/Doom)
273.
184.
Circus Maximus - Havoc In Oslo
August 4 (Progressive)
273.
185.
Accept - The Rise Of Chaos
★★★☆☆ August 4 (Heavy)
273.
186.
Cormorant - Diaspora
August 11 (Progressive Death)
273.
187.
Lör - In Forgotten Sleep
August 11 (Folk/Power Metal)
273.
188.
The Lurking Fear - Out Of The Voiceless Grave
August 11 (Death)
273.
189.
Steven Wilson - To The Bone
★★★★☆ August 18 (Progressive Rock)
273.
190.
Eagleheart - Reverse
August 18 (Power)
273.
191.
Pagan Altar - The Room Of Shadows
August 24 (Doom)
273.
192.
Portrait - Burn The World
August 25 (Heavy)
273.
193.
Leprous - Malina
★★★★☆ August 25 (Progressive)
273.
194.
The Haunted - Strength In Numbers
August 25 (Thrash)
273.
195.
Eloy - Jeanne d'Arc
August 25 (Progressive Rock)
273.
196.
Serious Black - Magic
★★★☆☆ August 25 (Power)
273.
197.
Akercocke - Renaissance In Extremis
August 25 (Death)
273.
198.
Jack Starr's Burning Starr - Stand Your Ground
August 25 (Heavy)
273.
199.
Absinthiana - Structural
August 28 (Progressive)
273.
200.
Rosetta - Utopioid
September 1 (Post/Sludge)
273.
201.
Anubis Gate - Covered In Black
★★★★☆ September 1 (Progressive)
273.
202.
Paradise Lost - Medusa
★★★★☆ September 1 (Gothic Doom)
273.
203.
White Moth Black Butterfly - Atone
September 1 (Prog/Djent)
273.
204.
Subterranean Masquerade - Vagabond
★★★★☆ September 1 (Progressive)
273.
205.
Septicflesh - Codex Omega
★★★½☆ September 1 (Symphonic Death)
273.
206.
Argus - From Fields Of Fire
September 8 (Doom/Heavy)
273.
207.
Atrox - Monocle
September 8 (Progressive Gothic)
273.
208.
Threshold - Legends Of The Shires
★★★★½ September 8 (Progressive)
273.
209.
Unreal City - Frammenti Notturni
September 10 (Progressive)
273.
210.
The D/A Method - The Desert Road
September 14 (Progressive Rock)
273.
211.
My Soliloquy - Engines Of Gravity
September 14 (Progressive)
273.
212.
Caligula's Horse - In Contact
September 15 (Progressive)
273.
213.
The Contortionist - Clairvoyant
September 15 (Progressive)
273.
214.
Myrkur - Mareridt
Septrember 15 (Folk)
273.
215.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Luciferian Towers
September 22 (Post Rock)
273.
216.
Lonewolf - Raised On Metal
September 22 (Heavy)
273.
217.
Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun
September 22 (Neofolk)
273.
218.
Process Of Guilt - Black Earth
September 22 (Doom/Sludge)
273.
219.
ColdSpell - A New World Arise
September 22 (Heavy)
273.
220.
Black Country Communion - BCCIV
September 22 (Hard Rock)
273.
221.
Kaipa - Children Of The Sounds
September 22 (Progressive Rock)
273.
222.
Mastodon - Cold Dark Place
September 22 (Progressive Sludge)
273.
223.
Nocturnal Rites - Phoenix
September 29 (Power)
273.
224.
Act Of Defiance - Old Scars, New Wounds
September 29 (Heavy)
273.
225.
Primus - The Desaturating Seven
September 29 (Rock)
273.
226.
Jag Panzer - The Deviant Chord
September 29 (Power)
273.
227.
Kadavar (GER) - Rough Times
September 29 (Stoner Rock)
273.
228.
Tangerine Dream - Quantum Gate
September 29 (Progressive Rock)
273.
229.
Dave Kerzner - Static
October 1 (Progressive Rock)
273.
230.
Perihelion Ship - To Paint A Bird Of Fire
October 1 (Progressive)
273.
231.
Temnein - White Stained Inferno
October (Melodic Death)
273.
232.
Lunatic Soul - Fractured
October 6 (Progressive Rock)
273.
233.
Panzer - Fatal Command
October 6 (Heavy)
273.
234.
Iris Divine - The Static And The Noise
October 6 (Progressive)
273.
235.
Lo! - Vestigial
October 6 (Post/Slugde)
273.
236.
Power Quest - Sixth Dimension
October 11 (Power)
273.
237.
Hallatar - No Stars Upon The Bridge
October 13 (Doom)
273.
238.
Enslaved - E
October 13 (Progressive Black)
273.
239.
Samael - Hegemony
October 13 (Industrial)
273.
240.
Robert Plant - Carry Fire
October 13 (Rock)
273.
241.
Forsaken - Pentateuch
October 13 (Doom)
273.
242.
Daniel Cavanagh - Monochrome
October 13 (Atmorpheric Rock)
273.
243.
Godsticks - Faced With Rage
October 13 (Progressive)
273.
244.
Amenra - Mass VI
October 20 (Sludge)
273.
245.
Nordic Giants - Amplify Human Vibration
October 20 (Progressive Rock)
273.
246.
Sons Of Apollo - Psychotic Symphony
October 20 (Progressive)
273.
247.
Perturbator - The New Model
October 20 (Synthwave)
273.
248.
CyHra - Letters To Myself
October 20 (Metal)
273.
249.
Night Viper - Exterminator
October 20 (Heavy)
273.
250.
Vuur - In This Moment We Are Free - Cities
October 20 (Folk/Prog)
273.
251.
Special Providence - Will
October 23 (Progressive Rock)
273.
252.
Ne Obliviscaris - Urn
October 27 (Extreme Progressive)
273.
253.
Major Parkinson - Blackbox
October 27 (Progressive Rock)
273.
254.
Communic - Where Echoes Gather
October 27 (Progressive)
273.
255.
Schizofrantik - Ripping Heartaches
October 27 (Progressive Rock)
273.
256.
Scandroid - Monochrome
October 27 (Synthwave)
273.
257.
Keldian - Darkness And Light
October 27 (Power)
273.
258.
Savage Messiah - Hands Of Fate
October 27 (Thrash)
273.
259.
Procession - Doom Decimation
October 31 (Epic Doom)
273.
260.
Moonspell - 1755
November 3 (Gothic)
273.
261.
Ram - Rod
November 3 (Heavy)
273.
262.
Almanac - Kingslayer
November 3 (Symphonic Power)
273.
263.
Toothgrinder - Phantom Amour
November 10 (Progressive)
273.
264.
Lunar - Theogony
November 10 (Progressive)
273.
265.
Dan Terminus - Automated Refrains
November 10 (Synthwave)
273.
266.
The Dark Element - The Dark Element
November 10 (Metal)
273.
267.
Spook The Horses - People Used To Live Here
November 10 (Post)
273.
268.
Lesoir - Latitude
November 17 (Progressive Rock)
273.
269.
Ylva - M E T A
November 17 (Post)
273.
270.
Aetherian - The Untamed Wilderness
November 24 (Melodic Death)
273.
271.
Morbid Angel - Kingdoms Disdained
December 1 (Death)
273.
272.
Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pacifisticuffs
December 8 (Avantgarde)
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273.
Nightingale - Rock Hard Live
December 8 (Progressive Rock)
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