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Henchman of Santa
Aug 21, 2010
Standouts for me so far are mostly metal albums (and RTJ3):

Beheaded - Beast Incarnate
Apostate Viaticum - Before the Gates of Gomorrah
Black Anvil - As Was
Power Trip - Nightmare Logic (could sneak onto some big sites' general AOTY lists)
Pallbearer - Heartless (will definitely appear on big sites' general AOTY lists)


The early favorite for critical consensus is the Mount Eerie album, which is exactly as devastating as everybody says it is.

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Henchman of Santa
Aug 21, 2010

Rageaholic Monkey posted:

RTJ3 would be my favorite album of 2017 too but it came out on Christmas of 2016 so it's not a 2017 album.

Counterpoint: gently caress that, everybody's lists come out before Christmas and it was a surprise early release of an album teased for 2017. :colbert:

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