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Definitely looking like 2017 belongs to doom metal based on the current 2017 chart on RYM. I need to give that Ruins of Beverast album some more listens. Spectral Voice review is lined up next. 

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The Ruins of Beverast is a real grower. When I reviewed it I was initially going to give it a 3 and ended up with a 5.
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I've done a little bit of re-ordering within rating tiers and I may adjust a few scores to realign with my rating system before the year's end, but I present my 70 album review list (four reviews still waiting to be posted publicly - will put one up this evening or tomorrow morning). 

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Sisslith Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 30 Oct 2017 at 9:50am
Very nice list! I need to listen to some of those albums before the year ends.
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I'm pretty bad at rating the new stuff I've heard, but I'm spent a bit of time today going through and cataloguing everything in prearation for the best of year vote.

In no order except for star rating groupings and I can't be sure that I haven't left something off.

Current top album:

Spectral Voice - Eroded Corridors of Unbeing

5.0

Lovebites - Awakening from Abyss
Wode - Servants of the Countercosmos
Paradise Lost - Medusa
Progenie Terrestre Pura - oltreLuna
Ayreon - The Source
White Ward - Futility Report
Pure Wrath - Ascetic Eventide

4.5

Todesstoß - Ebne Graun
Wolves in the Thron Room - Thrice Woven
Tchornobog - Tchornobog
Iced Earth - Incorruptible
Fen - Winter
Locust Leaves - A Subtler Kind of Light
Hour of Penance - Cast The First Stone
Falls of Rauros - Vigilance Perennial
Unleash the Archers - Apex
Rage - Seasons of the Black
Ruby the Hatchet - Plantary Space Child
Esoctrilihum -  Mystic Echo From A Funeral Dimension
Havukruunu - Kelle Surut Soi
Pillorian - Obsidian Arc
Hideous Divinity - Adveniens
Devil Electric - Devil Electric
The Doomsday Kingdom - The Doomsday Kingdom
Anubis Gate - Covered in Black
Threshold - Legends of the Shires
MindMaze - Resolve

4.0

Enslaved - E
Belphegor - Totenritual
Cnoc An Tursa - The Forty Five
Black Anvil - As Was
Carach Angren - Dance and Laugh Amongst the Rotten
Kalmankantaja - Demonwoods
Sun of the Sleepless - To the Elements
Fellwarden - Fellwarden
Severoth - Forestpaths
Au-Dessus - End of Chapter
Wiegedood -  De doden hebben het goed II
The Great Old Ones - EOD: A Tale of Dark Legacy
Highland - Loyal to the Nightsky
Asagraum - Potestas Magicum Diaboli
Diaspora - Cormorant
Bezmir - Void
Fell Ruin - To the Concrete Drifts
Wormwood - Ghostlands: Wounds From a Bleeding Earth
Horn - Turm Am Hang
Lorn - Arrayed Claws
Saille - Gnosis
Archspire - Relentless Mutation
Dark Matter Secret - Perfect World Creation
Ulsect - Ulsect
Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun
Myrkur - Mareridt
The Ruins of Beverast - Exuvia
Bathsheba - Servus
Argus - From Fields of Fire
Orden Ogan - Gunmen
Vandroya - Beyond the Human Mind
DragonForce - Reaching Into Infinity
Seven Kingdoms - Decennium
Anthriel - Transcendence
Galactic Empire - Galactic Empire
Hair of the Dog - This World Turns
Black Country Communion - BCCIV
Avatarium - Hurricanes and Halos
Madrost - The Essence of Time Matches No Flesh
Droid - Terrestrial Mutations
Overkill - The Grinding Wheel

3.5

Blut Aus Nord - Deus Salutis Meæ
Arch Enemy - Will to Power
Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
Kalmankantaja - Routamaa
Vature - Misery's to Regret
Time Lurker - Time Lurker
Veldes - The Bitterness Prophecy
Death Fortress - Triumph of the Undying
Nephilim's Howl - Through the Marrow of Human Suffering
Black Cilice - Banished from Time
Laster - Ons vrije fatum
Anakim - Monuments to Departed Worlds
Wintersun - The Forest Seasons
Artificial Brain - Infrared Horizon
Ex Deo -  The Immortal Wars
Sunless - Urraca
Exocrine - Ascension
Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper
Trivium - The Sin and the Sentence
Accept - The Rise of Chaos
Adrenaline Mob - We Are the People
Kobra and the Lotus - Prevail I
Crystal Viper - Queen of the Witches
Grave Digger - Healed by Metal
Pyramaze - Contingent
Mastodon - Emperor of Sand
Royal Blood - How Did We Get So Dark?
Power Trip - Nightmare Logic

3.0

Satyricon - Deep Calleth upon Deep
Eskapism - Tales of Elder Forest
Au Champs Des Morts - Dans la joie
Weregoat - Pestilential Rites Of Infernal Fornification
Royal Thunder - Wick
Annihilator - For the Demented
Wreche - Wreche
Jute Gyte - Oviri

2.5

Ex Eye - Ex Eye

2.0

Vattnet - Vattnet

1.5

Lonely Star - My Personal Heaven

1.0

Ghost Bath - Starmourner

0.5

If I Could Kill Myself - Ballad of the Broken
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote adg211288 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 Nov 2017 at 1:12pm
Nice list Ashley, there's a few there I still want to check out. 

That Lovebites album may be about to dethrone oltreLune on my 2017 list. Been writing a review on and off for a day or two now, piecing bits together, listening to it over and over. I thought it was going to settle on a 4.5, but then I cracked up the volume for my current listen which has sealed the deal on a 5.0. 
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It's a really good one. Surprised me completely considering the Japanese all female scene has a bit of a reputation for being influenced by j-pop.
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^ Which they kind of look like they're going to be playing from the promo pictures (I even googled all girl j-pop groups to make sure I wouldn't out of line pointing this out in my upcoming review and lo and behold their picture came up). In a way though that gives the album all the more impact when you realise that they're pretty far removed from everything else that's come before them in that growing scene. 
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I finally reached 100 albums on my RYM list, which is probably going to be my goal for future lists at this point, since I'm listening to music a lot less than I was in the past few years. Here's an updated list of my metal/rock albums rated for this year, now with a revised rating system:

5.0:
Ayreon - The Source
Serenity - Lionheart
Ensiferum - Two Paths
Lovebites - Awakening from Abyss
Brothers of Metal - Prophecy of Ragnarok
Mindmaze - Resolve

4.5:
Wind Rose - Stonehymn
Bloodbound - War of Dragons
Xandria - Theater of Dimensions
Palantir - Lost Between Dimensions
Progenie Terrestre Pura -oltreLuna
Carach Angren - Dance and Laugh Amongst the Rotten
Elvenking - Secrets of the Magick Grimoire
Anthriel - Transcendence
Mindmaze - Beyond the Human Mind
Beast in Black - Berserker
Atlas Pain - What the Oak Left 
Keldian - Darkness and Light
Alestorm - No Grave but the Sea
Persefone - Aathma
Rage - Seasons of the Black
Cryonic Temple - Into the Glorious Battle

4.0:
Dragonforce - Reaching Into Infinity
Victorius - Heart of the Phoenix
Metalite - Heroes in Time
Madrost - The Essence of Time Matches No Flesh
Bare Infinity - The Butterfly Raiser
Galderia - Return of the Cosmic Men
Majesty - Rebels
Altair - Descending: A Devilish Comedy
Power Quest - Sixth Dimension
Dragonfly - Genesis
Ignea - The Sign of Faith
Noumena - Myrrys
Iced Earth - Incorruptible
Kingfisher Sky - To Turn the Tables
Angel Nation - Aeon
Exit Eden - Rhapsodies in Black
Harlott - Extinction
Fen - Winter
Kaledon - Carnagus - Emperor of the Darkness
Crimfall - Amain
Dragony - Lords of the Hunt
Hell in the Club - See You on the Dark Side
Firewind - Immortals
Stamina - System of Power
Overkill - The Grinding Wheel
Mechina - As Embers Turn to Dust
Unleash the Archers - Apex
Battle Beast - Bringer of Pain
Solaris - Reunion
Crimson Sun - The Spirit of Unchainable
Kreator - Gods of Violence

3.5:
Sons of Apollo - Psychotic Symphony
Eagleheart - Reverse
Orden Ogan - Gunmen
Anubis Gate - Covered in Black
Signum Regis - Decennium Primium
Adagio - Life
Mutiny Within - Origins
Secret Sphere - The Nature of Time
Aldaria - Land of Light
Grave Digger - Healed by Metal
Saille - Gnosis
Cellador - Off the Grid
Trivium - The Sin and the Sentence
Seven Kingdoms - Decennium
Ancestral - Master of Fate
Witherfall - Nocturnes and Requiems
Stormhammer - Welcome to the End
Wolfchant - Bloodwinter
Pyramaze - Contingent
Wolfpakk - Wolves Reign
Avatarium - Hurricanes and Halos
Blaze Bayley - Endure and Survive (Infinite Entanglement Part II)
The Murder of My Sweet - Echoes of the Aftermath
Edenbridge - The Great Momentum
Soen - Lykaia
Blood Stain Child - Tri Odyssey

3.0:
Amberian Dawn - Darkness of Eternity
Masterplan - Pumpkings
Fogalord - Masters of War
Lancer - Mastery
Nocturnal Rise - Phoenix
Stone Sour - Hydrograde
Need - Hegaiamas: A Song for Freedom
John Frum - A Stirring in the Noos
Crystal Viper - Queen of the Witches

2.5: 
Insatia - Phoenix Aflame
Next to None - Phases
Annihilator - For the Demented
Mastercastle - Wine of Heaven
SikTh - The Future in Whose Eyes?
Astral Doors - Black Eyed Children

1.5:
Arthemis - Blood Fury Domination

1.0: 
Pain of Salvation - In the Passing Light of Day

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I'm on 154 total heard with 73 reviewed. Had 80 reviewed for last year, but a handful of those have come after the event, so I'm expecting this to be my best year in a while if I can keep the pace up, since 2015 was the year of the burnout. It's probably past the time I add unreviewed 2016 releases into my main list to be honest: I have a few unranked that I've actually got the CD of even. 
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Here is a preliminary list of nonprog albums from my records at ProgFreak.  Not all metal and doesn't include the prog metal albums, but when I tried delineating by "metal" it listed all of my albums from 2017.



  I don't know why the formula won't sort out only the metal albums.  ???  I would like to have included prog metal albums too.


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