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1
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Sharptooth - Clever Girl
October 27, 2017
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
2
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Wear Your Wounds - WYW
April 7, 2017
Post-Rock
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
3
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Yellow Eyes - Immersion Trench Reverie
October 20, 2017
Atmospheric Black Metal
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
4
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The Black Dahlia Murder - Nightbringers
October 6, 2017
Melodic Death Metal
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
5
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Igorrr - Savage Sinusoid
June 16, 2017
Avant-Garde Metal
,
Breakcore
,
Experimental
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
6
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Monarch - Never Forever
September 22, 2017
Drone Metal
,
Doom Metal
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
7
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Havok - Conformicide
March 10, 2017
Thrash Metal
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
8
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Kreator - Gods of Violence
January 27, 2017
Thrash Metal
Score
95
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
9
.
Enslaved - E
October 13, 2017
Progressive Metal
Score
95
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
10
.
Tombs - The Grand Annihilation
June 16, 2017
Sludge Metal
,
Black Metal
Score
95
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
11
.
Akercocke - Renaissance In Extremis
August 25, 2017
Progressive Metal
Score
95
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
12
.
Darkest Hour - Godless Prophets & the Migrant Flora
March 10, 2017
Melodic Death Metal
,
Metalcore
Score
95
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
13
.
Obituary - Obituary
March 17, 2017
Death Metal
Score
95
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
14
.
Iron Reagan - Crossover Ministry
February 3, 2017
Crossover Thrash
Score
95
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
15
.
The Ominous Circle - Appalling Ascension
January 27, 2017
Score
95
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
16
.
Carach Angren - Dance and Laugh Amongst the Rotten
June 16, 2017
Melodic Black Metal
,
Symphonic Black Metal
Score
95
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
17
.
White Ward - Futility Report
May 12, 2017
Blackgaze
,
Avant-Garde Metal
Score
95
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
18
.
Pallbearer - Heartless
March 24, 2017
Doom Metal
Score
95
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
19
.
Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
June 2, 2017
Stoner Rock
,
Heavy Psych
,
Stoner Metal
Score
95
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
20
.
Cavalera Conspiracy - Psychosis
November 17, 2017
Thrash Metal
Score
95
Source →
Amazon
Music
21
.
The Faceless - In Becoming a Ghost
December 1, 2017
Progressive Metal
,
Technical Death Metal
Score
95
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
22
.
Morbid Angel - Kingdoms Disdained
December 1, 2017
Death Metal
Score
95
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
23
.
Nik Nocturnal - Undying Shadow
December 29, 2017
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
24
.
Ten Ton Slug - Blood and Slime
October 31, 2017
Sludge Metal
,
Groove Metal
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
25
.
Year Of The Cobra - Burn Your Dead
October 26, 2017
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
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This is not a year end list. This list is ordered by the ratings Metal Injection awarded albums throughout 2017.
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