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Top Ten Albums of 2017

#1: Midnight - Sweet Death and Ecstasy.

Midnight plays blackened speed metal that's a coked-up cross between Venom and Motörhead, with an extra side of Satan and a manic, gleefully blasphemous feel that's all their own.

This album is par-for-the-course for Midnight: rabid vocals and bluesy, blitzkreig solos over a stripped-down, high-speed/low-drag rhythm section, the pace driven hard by relentless rock-style drumming.
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Top Ten Albums of 2017

#2: Power Trip - Nightmare Logic.

Neck-snapping, slightly dirty-sounding old-school thrash from Texas.

Crushing monster riffs punctuated by the occasional blistering lead and hoarse, deep, shouted hardcoresque vocals that remind me a lot of the first two Black Breath LPs.
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Top Ten Albums of 2017

#3: Phrenelith - Desolate Endscape.

This is the first full-length release from these Danish dealers in death metal, and I think that I would be hard-pressed to distinguish between this and Dead Congregation in a blind taste-test,

as the material, timbre and production are so similar (this is not a bad thing). Song structures generally use alternately blasty and doomy sections to create and resolve tension, and there are plenty of Swedeath-style tremolo-picked passages that have their own internal tension
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Top Ten Albums of 2017

#4: Cannibal Corpse - Red Before Black.

This beefy slab of technical/brutal death metal is my favorite of the last three Cannibal Corpse albums.

CC has been nothing if not consistent over the last decade, but there are a few albums that stick out from among the rest, and this is one of them. Red Before Black has it all, everything that CC has to offer,
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Top Ten Albums of 2017

#5: Paganizer - Land of Weeping Souls.

This is Rogga Johansson doing what he does best- thrashy death metal with a full, low-end-heavy production that harks back to the Big Four of Swedish Death Metal

(though there is a bit more filth in the sound). Cavernous yet semi-intelligible vocals drift above the chainsaw-timbred melee like an ill-omened mist over a fell mire filled with hidden death and the corpses of the fallen.