2017 was a great year for metal and the first time that all three top spots have been filled by metal albums. Nightmare Logic is an exemplary Thrash record that proves the genre is still alive and well. Timewell (Cloakroom's first album for Relapse) toes the line between stoner metal, heavy shoegaze, & emo. Mirror Reaper pushes doom into a beautiful new dimension.
- Power Trip - NIGHTMARE LOGIC
- Cloakroom - TIMEWELL
- Bell Witch - MIRROR REAPER
- Bully - LOSING
- Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile - LOTTA SEA LICE
- Ragana - YOU TAKE NOTHING
- Diet Cig - SWEAT I'M GOOD AT THIS
- Sneaks - IT'S A MYTH
- War on Drugs - A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING
- Worriers - SURVIVAL POP
- Sannhet - SO NUMB
- Mac Demarco - THIS OLD DOG
- Ty Segall - TY SEGALL
- Washed Out - MISTER MELLOW
- Japandroids - NEAR TO THE WILD HEART OF LIFE
- Ratboys - GN
- Run The Jewels - RUN THE JEWELS III
- Marker - MARKER
- XX - I SEE YOU
- Pallbearer - HEARTLESS
- Craig Finn - WE ALL WANT THE SAME THINGS
- Loincloth - PSALM OF THE MORBID WHORE
- New Pornographers - WHITEOUT CONDITIONS
- Cloud Nothings - LIFE WITHOUT SOUND
- Big Brave - ARDOR
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