The Top 20 of 2017 Year-End Poll is Now Open!
The Obelisk’s Top 20 of 2017 Year-End Poll is open! Cast your votes now for up to 20 of your favorite releases from the year and find out which ones make the final list on Jan. 1, 2018!
I say this every year — I know I do — but I feel like I’m especially curious to see what comes out on top when it comes to everybody’s picks this year. There was just so much, and all of it so varied. It was like an onslaught happening all the time from every angle. It never stopped — it’s December and it’s still going on! — and it seemed like no matter what kind of sound you were into, each week brought some highlight offering that could rightly be considered among the year’s best.
Nonetheless, it’s challenge time. Get your list together, dig out those favorite picks, and make sure you’ve got them in the right order because the Year-End Poll only comes around once a year. As ever, we’ll be using a system wherein a 1-4 ranking is worth five points, 5-8 worth four, 9-12 worth three, 13-16 worth two and 17-20 worth one. Raw votes are of course also counted, and the results from both counts will be posted on New Year’s Day, along with all the lists contributed.
I’ll be getting my list together and adding it as well, but whatever hit a nerve with you, whether it was an album, EP, split, single — anything — toss it in and see where it ends up. At very least it’ll be represented when your list is published on Jan. 1!
Maximum participation and sharing is encouraged and deeply appreciated.
Let’s have some fun:
[This poll is now closed. Thanks to all who entered.]
As ever, I can’t thank Slevin enough for helping to put this all together, and thanks to you for reading and taking part in this ongoing experiment. I can’t wait to see how this one will turn out.
Look for the results and lists on Jan. 1, 2018!
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Far from easy this year. I’ve been preparing for a while and went ahead and submitted my entries. Can’t wait to see everyones list. Cheers
At first I kind of thought 2017 wasn’t quite as good compared to last year until I started going through my stuff. Quickly realized it WAS a good year and now I’m having a problem narrowing down just 20! There are easily 20 more that I feel I’m doing a disservice to by excluding them!! What can you do…….
Tough year. to rate My 20th album is almost as good as my #1
I haven’t listened to enough heavy rock this year and need to catch up. What are the obvious front runners? thanks
I had these in my spreadsheet last month. I might move a couple around. Still digesting the new Spectral Haze. But nothing will touch the new Demon Head. That’s been a beacon of perfection all year for me.
1 Demon Head Thunder On The Fields
2 Colour Haze In Her Garden
3 Samsara Blues Experiment One With The Universe
4 Hällas Excerpts From The Future Past
5 Doublestone Devil’s Own
6 Kadavar Rough Times
7 Stone From The Sky Fuck The Sun
8 Atavismo Inerte
9 All Them Witches Sleeping Through The War
10 Horisont About Time
11 Geezer Psychoriffadelia
12 Pagan Altar The Room of Shadows
13 Causa Sui Vibraciones Doradas
14 Atragon I, Necromancer
15 Pallbearer Heartless
16 Cities of Mars Temporal Rifts
17 Telekinetic Yeti Abominable
18 Young Hunter Dayhiker
19 Monolord Rust
20 Radio Moscow New Beginnings
…And I had just unsubbed 666MrDoom who uploaded a lot of the gems from your list. But he just spams so much, flooding my subscription list! IDK how to keep up with all the stuff, so much is happening daily.
I don’t know what I’d do without JJ & Doom Charts. I’ve got 3 kids that I homeschool every day. The days of having the time to full-on explore what’s out there are behind me – at least until they graduate. I lean on the JJ’s of the world to help point me in the right direction. I owe him a year or 2’s supply of killer homemade pesto as thanks.
Rough year. Too much good stuff. Totally forgot to put Monolord on my list, and punched myself in the face.
Hope nobody slept on that Junius album from earlier this year
totally forgot Horisont,Geezer,Year of the Cobra,Demon Head,Duel & Deadsmoke.I Really need a list of everything that came out.
this is what i went with.
Mutoid Man War Moans
Toke (orange)
Ruby The Hatchet Planetary Space Child
Fireball Ministry Remember the Story
Youngblood SuperCult The Great American Death Rattle
Travelin Jack Commencing Countdown
Demon Eye Prophecies and Lies
Freedom Hawk Freedom Hawk (re-release)
Kadavar Rough Times
Egypt Cracks and Lines
Dopelord Children of the Haze
Royalfuzz
Heat Night Trouble
Deep Purple
Alice Cooper
Elder Reflections of a Floating World
The Judge Tell it to the Judge
Mothership High Strangeness
Lo Pan In Tensions
Steak No God to Save
Here’s a list of what I had varying degrees of interest in if it’ll help people with their lists:
Aathma Avesta
All Them Witches Sleeping Through The War
Arcade Fire Everything Now
Arc of Ascent Realm of the Metaphysical
Argus From Fields of Fire
Atavismo Inerte
Atragon I, Necromancer
Attalla Glacial Rule
Beastmaker Inside The Skull
Bees Made Honey In The Vein Tree Medicine
Below Upon A Pale Horse
Black Prism Black Prism
Blues Funeral Awakening
Book of Wyrms Sci-Fi / Fantasy
Causa Sui Vibraciones Doradas
Cities of Mars Temporal Rifts
Cloud Catcher Trails of Kozmik Dust
Clouds Taste Satanic The Infinite Glitter of Hell
Colour Haze In Her Garden
Cromlech Iron Guard
Deadsmoke Mountain Legacy
Dead Witches Ouija
Demon Eye Prophecies And Lies
Demon Head Thunder On The Fields
Dopelord Children of the Haze
Double Horse Double Horse (demo)
Doublestone Devil’s Own
Egypt Cracks And Lines
Elder Reflections Of A Floating World
Electric Moon Stardust Rituals
Galactic Gulag To The Stars By Hard Ways
Geezer Psychoriffadelia
Goya Harvester of Bongloads
Hällas Excerpts From The Future Past
Heavy Temple Chassit
Horisont About Time
Howling Giant Black Hole Space Wizard (part 2)
Immolation Atonement
Kadavar Rough Times
Kingnomad Mapping The Inner Void
Lantern II: Morphosis
Lo-Pan In Tensions (EP)
Manilla Road To Kill A King
Medusa1975 Rising From The Ashes
Memoriam For The Fallen
Mew Visuals
Monolord Rust
Mothership High Strangeness
Nekromant Snakes & Liars
Nokturnal Mortum Verity
Orango The Mules of Nana
Ordos House of The Dead
Pagan Altar The Room of Shadows
Pallbearer Heartless
Portugal. The Man Woodstock
Poseidon Prologue
Procession Doom Decimation
Purple Hill Witch Celestial Cemetery
Queens Of The Stone Age Villains
Radio Moscow New Beginnings
Red Mountains Slow Wander
Rozamov This Mortal Road
Ruby The Hatchet Planetary Space Child
Sahara The Light
Samsara Blues Experiment One With The Universe
Sasquatch Maneuvers
Saturndust RLC
SautruS Anthony Hill
Savanah The Healer
Siena Root A Dream Of Lasting Peace
Skunk Doubleblind
Spacegoat Superstition
Spaceslug Time Travel Dilemma
Space Witch Arcanum
Spectral Haze Turning Electric
Steak No God To Save
Stone From The Sky Fuck The Sun
Sun Blood Stories It Runs Around The Room With Us
Taiga Woods Taiga Woods
Telekinetic Yeti Abominable
The Chasm A Conscious Creation…
The Devil And The Almighty Blues II
The Flying Eyes Burning of the Season
The Midnight Ghost Train Cypress Ave
The Necromancers Servants of the Salem Girl
The Sonic Dawn Into The Long Night
Super Snake Leap of Love
The Obsessed Sacred
The Ossuary Post Mortem Blues
The Wicked Ones The Wicked Ones
Trial Motherless
Tuna de Tierra Tuna de Tierra
Unearthly Trance Stalking The Ghost
Vinnum Sabbathi Gravity Works
Vokonis The Sunken Djinn
With The Dead Love From With The Dead
Wounded Giant Vae Victis
Youngblood Supercult The Great American Death Rattle
Young Hunter Dayhiker
I’m pretty sure that Black Prism debut is from last year.
Looks like you’re right. I guess it came out laaaate 2016. Those damn Dec releases always get the shaft on year end lists.
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Ooof! I totally forgot to put that on my list! Indicative of how solid this year was overall.
whens the final day to vote??? 31st?
Two albums hit me hard this year.. Telekinetic Yeti’s 1st release, ABOMINABLE and.. Low Orbit’s 2nd, SPACECAKE!
I’m amazed that every top so far did not mention Demonic Death Judge “Seaweed”, as it’s far more better than a lot of records out this year…Maybe it’s because it went out in january? Shame that only the Doom Charts put some light on the Finish dudes…
1. The Sleer – Midnight Sister
2. Monolord – Rust
3. Pallbearer – Heartless
4. Mothership – High Strangeness
5. Young Hunter – Day Hiker
6. ………
To be continued…..