You know the drill. Thousands of album each year, but only so many can be listened to, and only so many can be in a top of the year list. I personally listened to nearly 90, and I made a top 30 out of it. I still had many to hear, but I put in a large dent. Here’s what we all thought for 2017!

 

Marcus Miller, Top 30:

  1. The Faceless – In Becoming a Ghost
    2. Powerman 5000 – New Wave
    3. Arch Enemy – Will to Power
    4. Cavalera Conspiracy – Psychosis
    5. Sepultura – Machine Messiah
    6. Soen – Lykaia
    7. Once Human – Evolution
    8. Thy Art is Murder – Dear Desolation
    9. Winds of Plague – Blood of My Enemy
    10. The Modern Age Slavery – Stygian
    11. Rex Brown – Smoke On This
    12. August Burns Red – Phantom Anthem
    13. Decapitated – Anticult
    14. Within the Ruins – Halfway Human
    15. Venom Inc. – Ave
    16. Witherfall – Nocturnes and Requiems
    17. Veil of Maya – False Idols
    18. War of Ages – Alpha
    19. Ne Obliviscaris – Urn
    20. Steven Wilson – To The Bone
    21. God Dethroned – The World Ablaze
    22. A Killer’s Confession – Unbroken
    23. Chelsea Wolfe – Hiss Spun
    24. Sons of Apollo – Psychotic Symphony
    25. Myrkur – Mareridt
    26. Without Waves – Lunar
    27. Lana Del Rey – Lust for Life
    28. Dreamcar – Dreamcar
    29. Eighteen Visions – XVIII
    30. Marilyn Manson – Heaven Upside Down

 

 

Steven Jeffries, Top 25:

25. Cannibal Corpse – Orange is the New Black (aka Red Before Black)
24. Archspire – Relentless Mutation
23. Ne Obliviscaris – Urn
22. Obituary – Obituary
21. Shadow of Intent – Reclaimer
20.Through The Eyes of The Dead – Disomus
19. 36 Crazyfists – Lanterns
18. Thy Art is Murder – Dear Desolation
17. Wage War – Deadweight
16. Goatwhore – Vengeful Ascension
15. Slaughter To Prevail – Misery Sermon
14. Creature of Exile – Age of Annihilation
13. Northlane – Mesmer
12. Darkest Hour – Godless Prophets
11. Within The Ruins – Halfway Human
10. August Burns Red – Phantom Anthem
9. A Scarlet Gospel – A Speaker of Damnation
8. Septic Flesh – Codex Omega
7. Tetrarch – Freak
6. Avanti – Convictions
5. Lorna Shore – Flesh Coffin
4. Fit For an Autopsy – The Great Collapse
3. Glassworld – Wrecked
2. The Black Dahlia Murder – Nightbringers
1. Trivium – The Sin and The Sentence

 

 

Mitchell DeWitt, Top 15 (in no order):

Bodysnatcher – Death of Me
Black Dahlia Murder – Nightbringers
Extortionist – The Decline
Slaughter To Prevail – Misery Sermon
Stick To Your Guns – True View
Easy Money – Rules Of The Game
Code Orange – Forever
Spite – Nothing Is Beautiful
A Wake In Providence – Insidious: Phase II
G Eazy – The Beautiful & Damned
Fit For An Autopsy – The Great Collapse
Lorna Shore – Flesh Coffin
Thy Art Is Murder – Dear Desolation
Oceano – Revelation
Wage War – Deadweight

 

 

Leo Adkins, Top 10:

1. Kendrick Lamar – DAMN
2. Brand New – Science Fiction
3. Brockhampton – Saturation I, II, III, and Demos
4. Seether – Poison the Parish
5. Rebecca Sugar, Tom Scharpling, Zack Callison, Estelle, Deedee Magno Hall, Michaela Dietz, Shelby Rabara, Susan Egan, Erica Luttrell, Charlyne Yi, Eric Bauza, Grace Rolek, Olivia Olson, AJ Michalka, and Patti LuPone – Steven Universe Vol. 1
6. Citizen – As You Please
7. 10 Years – (How to Live) As Ghosts
8. Nothing More – The Stories We Tell Ourselves
9. Tyler, The Creator – Scum Fuck Flower Boy
10. Hopsin – No Shame

 

 

Bryan Bardes, Top 20 (in no order):

Marilyn Manson- Heaven Upside Down
Nickelback – Feed the Machine
Mutiny Within – Origins
Sons of Apollo- Psychotic Symphony
Marty Friedman- Wall of Sound
Soen – Lykaia
Riverdogs- California
Quicksand- Interiors
Paradise Lost – Medusa
Once Human – Evolution
Nothing More – Stories We Tell Ourselves
KXM – Scatterbrain
Magpie Salute – Magpie Salute
LA Guns- The Missing Peace
The Haxans – Party Monsters
Fozzy – Judas
Eric Johnson – Collage
DGM – Passing Stages: Live in Milan & Atlanta
Code Orange – Forever
Body Count – Bloodlust