This is my Top-20 list of the albums I listened to obsessively this year. Apart from #1 the rest are in no particular order. Feel free to comment.

Other albums that I enjoyed a lot, but didn't make the list: Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper, Satyricon - Deep Calleth Upon Deep, The Ominous Circle - Appalling Ascension, Vallenfyre - Fear Those Who Fear Him, Loss (USA) - Horizonless, Iced Earth - Incorruptible, Havok - Conformicide, Full Of Hell - Trumpeting Ecstasy, River Of Souls - The Well Of Urd, Aetherian - The Untamed Wilderness, Below - Upon A Pale Horse, Midnight - Sweet Death And Ecstasy, Immolation - Atonement, Yellow Eyes - Immersion Trench Reverie, Sorcerer - The Crowning Of The Fire King, Converge - The Dusk In Us, Ophis - The Dismal Circle, Inconcessus Lux Lucis - The Crowning Quietus, Temple Of Void - Lords Of Death, Persefone - Aathma, Necrot - Blood Offerings.

1.Wormwood - Ghostlands - Wounds From A Bleeding Earth

2.Venenum - Trance Of Death

3.Sun Of The Sleepless - To The Elements

4.Paradise Lost - Medusa

5.Kreator - Gods Of Violence

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Tough year. Some amazing stuff but I feel that a couple of previous years have been a lot stronger.

1.Grift - Arvet

2.Major Parkinson - Blackbox

3.Kreator - Gods Of Violence

4.Wintersun - The Forest Seasons

5.Vintersorg - Till Fjälls Del II

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1.Ne Obliviscaris - Urn

2.Kreator - Gods Of Violence

3.Voyager - Ghost Mile

4.Kardashev - The Almanac

5.Pain Of Salvation - In The Passing Light Of Day

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1.Warbringer - Woe To The Vanquished

2.The Faceless - In Becoming A Ghost

3.The Black Dahlia Murder - Nightbringers

4.Trivium - The Sin And The Sentence

5.Goatwhore - Vengeful Ascension

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1.Akercocke - Renaissance In Extremis

2.Leprous - Malina

3.Decapitated - Anticult

4.Archspire - Relentless Mutation

5.Wolves In The Throne Room - Thrice Woven

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1.Ne Obliviscaris - Urn

2.Wintersun - The Forest Seasons

3.Persefone - Aathma

4.Septicflesh - Codex Omega

5.Soen - Lykaia

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1.Septicflesh - Codex Omega

2.Zornheym - Where Hatred Dwells And Darkness Reigns

3.Havukruunu - Kelle Surut Soi

4.Deadwood Lake - Forest Of Whispers

5.Stone Sour - Hydrograd

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1.Memoriam - For The Fallen

2.Necrot - Blood Offerings

3.Power Trip - Nightmare Logic

4.Attic - Sanctimonious

5.Havok - Conformicide

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Favourite albums of 2017 (including only those which I would rate 7+)

1.The Contortionist - Clairvoyant

2.Archspire - Relentless Mutation

3.Heretoir - The Circle

4.Converge - The Dusk In Us

5.Ulver - The Assassination Of Julius Caesar

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This is NOT by any means a "best of" list, but a collection of the albums that I have grown to love over the past 6 months. This list consists of albums that were released between the dates of January 1st and July 1st. The albums in this list are ordered in chronological order of release. If you have any suggestions on albums I missed, comment and let me know.

1.Code Orange - Forever

2.Aversions Crown - Xenocide

3.Kreator - Gods Of Violence

4.Soen - Lykaia

5.Persefone - Aathma

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Some black coffee, some milky atmosphere, some folk syrup and some sweet death.

No special order.

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1.Wolfheart - Tyhjyys

2.Kauan - Kaiho

3.Kreator - Gods Of Violence

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1.Mr. Big - Defying Gravity

2.Kreator - Gods Of Violence

3.The Omnific - Kismet

4.Adrenaline Mob - We The People

5.Memoriam - For The Fallen

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Most interesting albums in 2017 as for my opinion \m/

1.Azarath - In Extremis

2.Beheaded - Beast Incarnate

3.Benighted - Necrobreed

4.Condemned - His Divine Shadow

5.Cut Up - Wherever They May Rot

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1.Power Trip - Nightmare Logic

2.Analepsy - Atrocities From Beyond

3.Kreator - Gods Of Violence

4.Ulver - The Assassination Of Julius Caesar

5.Mors Principium Est - Embers Of A Dying World

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1.Soen - Lykaia

2.Dopelord - Children Of The Haze

3.Spaceslug - Time Travel Dilemma

4.Ordos - House Of The Dead

5.Mechina - As Embers Turn To Dust

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