[ Top "10s" 2017 ]

(Thus far...)

Never too soon (or too late) to start thinking about year-end best of lists! Here are some of the 2017 releases we’re pretty sure about being likely year-end-best-of-listers so far. Of course, we're still kind of working on our 2016 lists too... No rush, right?

Allan

Arms Of Tripoli Daughters (Fluttery)
Black Magick SS Kaleidoscope Dreams (Infinite Wisdom Productions)
Circle Terminal (Southern Lord)
Crystal Fairy s/t (Ipecac)
Fleurety The White Death (Peaceville)
Horisont About Time (Century Media)
Ifriqiyya Electrique Rûwâhîne (Glitterbeat)
Impure Wilhemina Radiation (Season Of Mist)
JoDöden Sittandes I Sjön Med Vatten Över Huvudet (Nordvis)
Legendry Dungeon Crawler (Non Nobis Productions)
Mindkult Lucifer's Dream (Transcending Obscurity)
The Obsessed Sacred (Relapse)
Orchestra Of The Upper Atmosphere Theta Three (Discus)
Orthodox Supreme (Utech)
Pagan Altar The Room Of Shadows (Temple Of Mystery)
Psudoku Deep Space Psudokument (Selfmadegod/Drid Machine/Behind The Mountain)
Ranseur Obsidian Throne and/or Goblin Music (Path Of Silence)
Rope Sect Personae Ingratae//Proselytes (Caligari)
Scattered Purgatory Sua-Hiam-Zun (Utech)
Stillborn Nocturnals (Black Lodge)
Tetragrammacide Primal Incinerators Of Moral Matrix (Iron Bonehead)
This Is The Kit Moonshine Freeze (Rough Trade)
Troubled Horse Revolution On Repeat (Rise Above)
Venenum Trance Of Death (Sepulchral Voice/The Ajna Offensive)
Werewolf Diskdrive Werewolf Diskdrive (self-released)
Yowie Synchromysticism (Skin Graft)
YPY 2020 (Where To Now?)

reissues and suchlike:
Black Death Black Death (Hell's Headbangers)
German Oak Down In The Bunker (Now-Again Reserve)
Fleurety Inquietum (Aesthetic Death)
Minami Deutsch Minami Deutsch (Sulatron)
Luis Pérez ‎Ipan In Xiktli Metzli, México Mágico Cósmico, En El Ombligo De La Luna (Mr. Bongo)
Oiling Boiling Two Faces (Svart)
Pauline Anna Strom Trans-Millenia Music (RVNG)
Yasuo Sugibayashi The Mask Of The Imperial Family (Lullabies For Insomniacs)
Midori Takada Through The Looking Glass (We Release Whatever The Fuck We Want)
Ut Ut & Confidential (Out Records)
v/a Diggin In The Carts: A Collection Of Pioneering Japanese Video Game Music (Hyperdub)
v/a "8, 9, 10" And "9, 10, 11" From Gung Ho 1, 2, 3D (EM Records)
v/a Outro Tempo (Electronic And Contemporary Music From Brazil 1978-1992) (Music From Memory)
v/a Warfaring Strangers: Acid Nightmares (Numero Group)

Andee

Altarage Endinghent (Season Of Mist)
Aosoth V: The Inside Scriptures (Agonia)
Bagarre Générale TOHO-BOHU (Music Fear Satan)
Chavez Cockfighters 12” (Matador)
Cryptic Fog Staring Through The Veil (Blood Harvest)
Dauþuz Die Grubenmähre (Naturmacht Productions)
Dodecahedron Kwintessens (Season Of Mist)
Dolly Spartans Time Sides With No One (Blue And Lucky)
Gigan Undulating Waves of Rainbiotic Iridescence (Willowtip)
In The Nursery 1961 (INT Corporation)
JoDöden Sittandes I Sjön Med Vatten Över Huvudet (Nordvis)
The Judge Tell It To The Judge (Ripple)
Melkbelly Nothing Valley (Wax Nine)
Mork Eremittens Dal (Peaceville)
Mutoid Man War Moans (Sargent House)
Phurpa Gyer Ro (Cyclic Law)
Satan's Hallow s/t (Underground Power)
Septicflesh Codex Omega (Season Of Mist)
Verst David Slain (Cream Cloud)
01101111011101100110111001101001 S/2004S3 (Pathologically Explicit)