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Top Albums of 2017 — Bruce Hardt-Valenzuela
… This is my first genre-specific year-end list, which is a bigger headache than you’d think. The enumeration below started out at as 50 entries, but I’m subservient to the constraints of format, so...
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Top Albums of 2017 – Ivan Belcic
… The eruption of the #MeToo movement in response to the allegations against Harvey Weinstein revealed a societal truth that, for women and many others the world over, was far from groundbreaking...
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2017.Cult.Supremacy: The Year In War Metal
… “It makes no difference what men think of war, said the Judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade...
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Top Albums of 2017 – Brian O’Neill
… I spent the better part of two decades writing about music, mostly the metallic stuff, until a few years ago when life got complicated: the music biz started to fall apart, and my personal...
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Top Albums of 2017 – Rhys Williams
… 2017 was another killer year for metal, particularly for established bands staging either comebacks or stellar additions to their extensive catalogs. Such greats as Cannibal Corpse, Dying Fetus,...
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Top Albums of 2017 – Andrew Sacher
… It’s been a shitty year for a lot of reasons but lack of great music was not one of them. There are good new albums every year if you look for them, but 2017 felt especially full of music I...
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Top Albums of 2017 – Jon Rosenthal
… The dreaded year-end list. I believe I lectured the lot of you on the whole “don’t be prolific” thing, which I still hold dear (but I won’t make that same point again. Fine.), so it’s lecture time...
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Top Albums of 2017 — Ian Cory
… Comedian John Mulaney ends his debut album The Top Part with an extended story about subjecting Chicago’s Salt And Pepper Diner to a nearly endless loop of Tom Jones’ “What’s New Pussycat?” (If you...
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Invisible Oranges Staff Top Albums of 2017
… Technically speaking, this isn’t a staff list. Continuing the tradition of head editors past, I asked only that our writers submit personal lists with no intention of compiling them into a single...
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