No doubt there were many amazing releases I didn’t get to listen to. But from those I did hear, the ones in this list hit a special chord. In no particular order….
Therion – Beloved Antichrist
Royal Hunt – Cast In Stone
Orphaned Land – Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs
Mike LePond’s Silent Assassins – Pawn & Prophecy
Witchsorrow – Hexenhammer
Michael Romeo – War Of The Worlds Part 1
Solstice – White Horse Hill
Satan – Cruel Magic
Obscura – Diluvium
VoiVod – The Wake
On Thorns I Lay – Aegean Snow
The Night Flight Orchestra – Sometimes The World Ain’t Enough
Deicide – Overtures Of Blasphemy
Virgin Black – Requiem: Pianissimo
Primordial – Exile Amongst The Ruins
Cruachan – Nine Years Of Blood
Haken – Vector
Clouds – Dor
Circles – The Last One
Jason Becker – Triumphant Hearts
Into Eternity – The Sirens
Sadist – Spellbound
Bands I heard for the first time and which, although their releases might not be in the ‘Best Albums’ list, impressed me a great deal.
Medic (Egypt)
The Chapter (Portugal)
Motor Militia (Bahrain)
Very few gigs and almost zero festivals attended in 2017. But things were not that bad…
Chris Tsangarides memorial – 7th October – Ashford (England)
Satan + Airforce + Primitai + Toledo Steel – 14th November – London (England)
Albert Bell’s Sacro Sanctus – Liber III: Codex Templarum
The Chapter – Angels And Demons
Yob – Our Raw Heart
Amorphis – Queen Of Time
The Moor “Lead The Difference”
Skáld “Rún”
Attending more gigs and festivals. And new albums from: More, Airforce, Blind Saviour, Vision Divine, The Deep (amongst others).
This is a Pandora’s Box best left unanswered.
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