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rushfan4 
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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. Edited by rushfan4 - 22 Nov 2017 at 1:05pm |
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adg211288
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Posted: 11 Nov 2017 at 3:19pm |
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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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Posted: 11 Nov 2017 at 3:10pm |
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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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Posted: 11 Nov 2017 at 2:45pm |
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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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Posted: 11 Nov 2017 at 2:36pm |
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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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Posted: 11 Nov 2017 at 1:12pm |
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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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Posted: 10 Nov 2017 at 12:00pm |
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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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Posted: 30 Oct 2017 at 9:50am |
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Very nice list! I need to listen to some of those albums before the year ends.
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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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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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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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I've never been much of a Trivium fan, but this song is so damn amazing! This is what I call heavy fuckin' metal. This is one of the best songs I've heard this year.
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If I say fuck two more times that's forty-six fucks in this fucked up rhyme
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Love this album myself and like you didn't buy it because of the ridiculous shipping cost.
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I just went to youtube and listened to that Madrost posted above ^^.
Not bad at all, very thrashy & progressive, but it didn't quite catch my attention like the Vektor album did. Still, I might have to pick it up one of these days. Thanks for the post mentioning it  Edited by Jbird - 07 Oct 2017 at 9:49am |
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I know it may compilcate matters but maybe MR could be allowed if the artist has previously released metal albums? It felt a bit wrong last year to bar Opeth from the vote. Only disallow them if the artist is solely here as MR/Non-Metal.
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That's why I'm suggesting having where someone could give a single MR recommendation outside of the main list similar to what was done in 2014. That way an MR/Non-metal album doesn't get in the top of the year albums, but gets a little attention. I'm not that attached to if MR is included or not, just a suggestion I had for if there is anyone who wants some attention given to an MR album. (There is one non-metal album that I really enjoyed, it has a good amount of hard rock, but not enough for the new rules.)
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There are likely to be a few tweaks to the normal rules to be decided closer to the time. I'm considering allowing MR in the main list but not Non-Metal. Mostly because last year disallowing MR nearly screwed the entirely result when albums that were in Metal subs or even Hard Rock were voted into the top 100 then got moved to MR after the event or even during the result compile. Though I would also like to avoid another 2013 situation where people felt the winning album was barely relevant to be on a metal site's top album list. One change that may happen this year is a scoring overall that rewards people's top album more points.
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Is it going to be set up the same as last year, where everyone's top album gets a mention if it doesn't make the list? Also, I think it would be a good idea to let people have a MR recommendation outside of the main list if anyone has one.
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We're in the last quarter of the year now and I have to say I think it's been a very good one so far!
I try to be more reserved with giving out five star ratings than I used to be, but I've had no less than nine albums this year where I couldn't justify anything less (and did try to in some cases). Quite a few 4.5's as well. Of course this is only counting reviewed albums. I've been reviewing steadily this year but not done as many as some years and have been picking and choosing mostly the albums I feel most positive about, especially those I'm purchased for myself. Promo reviewing interests me little these days. I currently stand at 58 2017 reviews. I think I'm going to try to aim for at least 70 before the year is out. It's also been a funny year for someone who keeps saying how burned out he is on prog metal, with three albums in my top 5 being prog albums. Anyhow, here's how my current top 10 stands, a couple of them actually being very recent reviews:  http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/album/progenie-terrestre-pura/oltreluna I can't see this one being unseated from my number one spot now. These guys incorporate many unusual elements into their black metal sound and it still blows me away every time I stick it on.  http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/album/mindmaze/resolve  http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/album/ayreon/the-source  http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/album/anubis-gate/covered-in-black  http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/album/ruby-the-hatchet/planetary-space-child  http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/album/esoctrilihum/mystic-echo-from-a-funeral-dimension  http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/album/locust-leaves/a-subtler-kind-of-light  http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/album/madrost/the-essence-of-time-matches-no-flesh This one is the only one of these I don't physically own, mostly because it's a self-released CD and the postage is excessive to the UK. I still say it's better than Terminal Redux though.   http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/album/fen/winter  http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/album/iced-earth/incorruptible The only 4.5 review here. There's a few other 4.5's that could get swapped into this position yet though, so long as a 10th 5.0 doesn't appear that is. One last note while I'm here, I will opening MMA's best of year list for everyone to take part in this year - not just site collaborators - so if you're a regular in this thread start thinking of your lists and watch for a submission thread come the year's end.
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I just got the Seven Spires - Solveig album, holy Toledo, that's a very good album
I think my top 3 albums of 2017 so far are Threshold - Legends Of The Shires, MindMaze - Resolve, and that Seven Spires - Solveig. The new Iced Earth is great too, best album with Stu. And the Unleash The Archers is great. |
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