Best Of 2017- Sound & Films [2017-12-22]It’s that time of year again- best of the year lists- below you’ll find lists of releases that made 2017 special for our writers. And in keeping with our sites focus they span a large and varied selection of different musical & non-musical genres. On a few lists you’ll see the addition of a film list, and this is in-line with us featuring more film reviews on the site…. And in 2018 we hope to expand this even more.
Roger Batty (Site owner & editor)
1:Geisst - Unstable Spirits [Altar Of Waste]
2:Carrion Black Pit - Cupio Dissolvi [Ominous Records]
3:Bobuck - Nineteen-Sixty-Nine [Klanggalerie]
4:Circle - Terminal [Southern Lord]
5:Prostitutes Of The 19th Century - The Dawn Of Sleaze [Geraeuschmanufaktur]
6:Francisco López - Untitled (2012-2014) [Purple Soil]
7:Clive Henry - Perpetual Endtimes [Palinopsia Recordings]
8:The Residents - The Ghost Of Hope [Cherry Red/ MVD]
9:Anonymous Masturbaudioum - Nylon Encasement [Ominous Recordings]
10:Second Hand - Death May Be Your Santa Claus [Esoteric Recordings/ Cherry Red]
11: Marc Namblard- F.Guyana| [Gruenrekorder]
12: Various Artists - Too Slow to Disco, Vol 3 [How Do You Are?]
13: Vomir - Cloîtrez Et Tuez Vous Tous [Decimation Sociale/Narcolepsia/4iB Records]
14: Ulver - The Assassination of Julius Caesar [House Of Mythology]
15: Principal Edwards Magic Theatre - The Works 1969-1971 [Cherry Red Records]
16: Black Matter Phantasm - Ter Ack [Self Release]
17: Train Cemetry - All Alone [Reason Art Records]
18: Robert Rich & Markus Reuter –: Lift A Feather To The Flood [Soundscape]
19: The Residents- 80 Aching Orphans[Cherry Red/MVD]
20: Art Abscons - The Seperate Republic [Fronte Nordico]
21: Melaine Dalibert - Ressac [Another Timber]
22: The Rita- Toe Cleavage[
23: Nightbringer - Terra Damnata [Season of Mist
24: Steve Roach - Spiral Revelation [Projekt Records]
25: Necrotik Fissure - Hypnopompik Visions [The Level Of Vulnerability]
26: Laster - Ons Vrije Fatum [Dunkelheit Produktionen]
27:Bill and Phil - Songs of Darkness and Despair [Housecore Records]
28: TenHornedBeast - Death Has No Companion [Cold Spring Records
29: Naughty/She Walks Crooked - Self Titled [Ominous Recordings]
30: Acid Witch - Evil Sound Screamers [Hells Headbangers]
Films, etc
1:Train To Busan(DVD) [Studiocanal]
2:The Autopsy of Jane Doe(Blu Ray) [Lions Gate Home Entertainment]
3:Suffer Little Children(DVD) [Intervision/Severin Films]
4:Dunkirk [Warner Bros. Pictures]
5:Borbetomagus - Borbetomagus-A Pollock Of Sound (DVD) [MVD Visual]
6:Creepozoids(Blu Ray) [Full Moon Features]
7:The Untamed(DVD/Blu Ray) [Arrow Academy]
8:Kill Baby, Kill( DVD/ Blu Ray) [Arrow Video]
9:Logan[Marvel Entertainment]
10:Phenomena(blu ray + CD) [Arrow Video]
11:It[New Line]
12:Prime Evil/ Lurkers (Blu Ray/DVD) [Vinegar Syndrome]
13:Life[Columbia Pictures]
14: Just Before Dawn(Blu Ray)[88 films]
15: Beyond The Darkness(Blu Ray +CD)[Severin Films]
Paul Casey
1:Gary Numan - Savage (Songs From a Broken World) [BMG]
2:Suffocation - ...Of the Dark Light [Nuclear Blast]
3:Asmus Tietchens - Eisgang [Klanggalerie]
4:BardSpec - Hydrogen [By Norse]
5:Common Eider, King Eider - Shrines for the Unwanted, Respite for the Cast Aside [Cold Spring]
6:Dedekind Cut - The Expanding Domain [Hallow Ground]
7:Dissecting Table - Zigoku [Nihilist] (reissue)
8:Eggs of Gomorrh - Rot Prophet [Vault of Dried Bones]
9:Henrik Nordvargr Björkk / Margaux Renaud - Anima Nostra [Cold Spring]
10:Karamazov - EP 23:28. [Karamazov]
11:Khost - Governance [Cold Spring]
12:LCC - Bastet [Editions Mego]
13:Replacire - Do Not Deviate [Seasons of Mist]
14:Shakatak - Invitations [Secret Records] (reissue)
15:Shift - Abandon [Cold Spring Records]
16:Skelethal - Of The Depths... [Hells Headbangers]
17:Skullflower - The Spirals of Great Harm [Cold Spring]
18:Svartsinn - Mørkets Variabler [Cyclic Law]
19:Various Artists - Too Slow to Disco, Vol 3 [How Do You Are?]
20:Xordox - Neospection [Editions Mego]
21:Z'ev - Eleven Mirrors to the Light [Cold Spring]
Darren Charles
1:English Heretic – Wish You Were Heretic.
2:Mortlake Bookclub – Mysteriorum Libri Quinque
3:Electric Wizard – Wizard Bloody Wizard
4:Kemper Norton – Hungan
5:Pall Bearer – Heartless
6:Mount Eerie – A Crow Looked at Me
7:Bathsheba – Servus
8:Psychedelic Witchcraft – Magick Rites and Spells
9: Devil’s Witches – Velvet Magic
10: Havok – Conformicide
11:Arthemis – Blood Fury Domination
12:Saturn – Beyond Spectra
13: Attic – Sanctimonious
14:Bell Witch – Mirror Reaper
15:Chelsea Wolfe – Hiss Spun
16:Myrkur – Mareridt
17:Weed Priest – Consumate Darkness
18:Wolves in the Throne Room – Thrice Woven
19:Richard Dawson – Peasant
20:Walpyrgus – Walpyrgus Nights
21:Bjork – Utopia
22: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Flying Microtonal Banana
23:Elder – Reflections of a Floating World
24:Enslaved – E
25:Martin Green – Flit
26:Agitation Free - Last, Fragments and Live 74
27: Expo 70 – Solar Drifting
28: Expo 70 – Solar Drifting
29:Laster – Ons Vriie Fatum
30:Circle – Terminal
Bluray/DVD/Film
1:The Thing (Arrow)
2:Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh (Shameless)
3:The Old Dark House (Cohen Media)
4:Witchhammer (Second Run)
5:Twin Peaks: A Limited Event Series (Universal)
6:All the Colours of the Dark (Shameless)
7:Don’t Torture A Duckling (Arrow)
8:Kill Baby Kill (Arrow)
9:Red Queen Kills Seven Times (Arrow)
11:The Church (Shameless)
12:A Dark Song
13:Ash Vs Evil Dead Season Two
14:Suspiria (Synapse)
15:Blade Runner 2049
Adam Sykes
1:Lost Horizons - Ojala
2:Collosloth - Heathen Needles(Cold Spring records)
3:Lowly - Heba
4:Morrissey - Low In High School
5:Gary Numan - Savage
6:In The Nursery - 1961
7:Dave Ball + Jon Savage - Photosynthesis
8:Tunnels of ah - Corridors
9:Merzbow - Audron
10:Art Abscons - The Seperate Republic
11:Zu - Jhator
12:Trepaneringsritualen - Kainskult
13:Ab Intra - Henosis I - V
14:Depeche Mode - Spirit
15:Laibach - Also Sprach Zarathustra
16:Aldous Harding - Party
17:Tenhornedbeast - Death Has No Companion(Cold Spring records)
18:Godflesh - Post Self
19:Slowdive - Slowdive
20:Ride - Weather diaries
Ducan Simpson
1:Gnod - Just Say No To The Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine (Rocket Recordings)
2:The Necks – Unfold (Ideologic Organ)
3:Anjou – Epithymía (Kranky)
4:Kelly Lee Owens – S/T (Smalltown Supersound)
5:The Bug Vs Earth - Concrete Desert (Ninja Tune)
6:Forest Swords – Compassion (Ninja Tune)
7:Felicia Atkinson – Hand in hand (Shelter Press)
8:Electric Sewer Age – Moon’s Milk in Final Phase (Soleilmoon Recordings)
9:Pinkcourtesyphone – Indelicate Slices (Room 40)
10:Cremation Lily - The Processes Αnd Instruments Οf Normal People; Trying Αnd 11:Failing, Falling Αnd Water Running (Strange Rules)
12:BJ Nilsen - Massif Trophies (Editions Mego)
13:Burial - Pre Dawn / Indoors (Non-Plus Records)
14:The Golden Filter - End of Times (Optimo Music)
15:Lussuria - Standstill (Hospital Productions)
16:Chino Amobi - Paradiso (NON)
17:Bambooman - Whispers (Accidental Jnr)
18:Drab Majesty - The Demonstration (Dais Records)
19:John Maus - Screen Memories (Ribbon Music)
20:Martial Canterel - Lost at Sea (Dais Records)
21:Alessandro Cortini - AVANTI (The Point of Departure Recording Company)
22:The Inward Circles - And Right Lines Limit and Close All Bodies (Corbel Stone Press)
23:Johnny Jewel - Windswept (Italians do it Better)
24:Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Ambient Black Magic (Hospital Productions)
25:Prurient - Rainbow Mirror (Hospital Productions)
26:Pact Infernal - Infernality (Horo)
27:Sleaford Mods - English Tapas (Rough Trade)
28:Toi Toi Toi - Im Hag (Ghost Box)
29:Ancestral Voices - Divination (Horo)
30:Ulver - The Assassination of Julius Caesar (House of Mythology)
James Shearman
1. Alocasia Garden - Colony (Crow Versus Crow)
2. Amethyst - False Paradise (Male Activity)
3. She Walks Crooked - Pink Foot Bondage Volume 1 (Ominous Recordings)
4. Coldmoon - Ténèbres Des Marais (Reason Art Records)
5. Knifedoutofexistence - Inhibitors (Outsider Art/Illegal Activity)
6. GRVD - Rituals of Shame (Grey Matter Productions)
7. Dawn Ray'd - The Unlawful Assembly (Halo Of Flies/Feast of Tentacles/Action Now!)
8. Frataxin / Garbage Mask - Split (Contradiction Tapes)
9. Mahria - Analemma (self-release)
10. V/A - STATIK - The Ultimate Collection of Static Sounds Made Of Field Recordings (Szara Reneta)
11. Ratteknaeghen - Heerschappij Van Weinigen (Fall Into Void Recs)
12. Pan Daijing - Lack (Pan)
13. Bad Algorithm - dead whale parts (self-release)
14. V/A - The Glamour Of Strangeness (Perfect Aesthetics)
15. I Am A Lake Of Burning Orchids - Hieromartyrology (self-release)
16. Malheurr - Purge Fluids (Causerie Sur Le Temps) (Void Worship)
17. Zen Zsigo - Windowpane, Acid (Strange Rules)
18. SP - Under the Needle (ShchYL-Records)
19. Trans/Human - Trans/Human (Vanity Pill)
20. Shurayuki-hime - U R A STAR (Grey Matter Productions)
21. Age Eternal - Das Meer (Instruments of Discipline)
22. Visitation - Everything Is On The Point Of Decline (self-release)
23. Basic House - I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have To Be Destroyed By Me (Opal Tapes)
24. bluedistance. - ＳＣＰＨ－１００ｘ (Ｉｍａｇｅ Ｉｎｆｉｎｉｔｅ)
25. Old Tower - The Rise of the Specter (Shadow Kingdom)
26. Death Kneel - Cowards Die Many Times (Total Black)
27. German Army - Pacific Plastic (Seagrave)
28. The Body & Full of Hell - Ascending a Mountain of Heavy Light (Thrill Jockey)
29. Geisst - Unstable Spirits (Altar of Waste)
30. Asleep In The Lake - Shroud of Ferns (Dancing Shadows)
Martin P
1:Cannibal Meat Holocaust – Return To The Island Of Cannibals (Reason Art Records)
2:Carrion Black Pit - Cupio Dissolvi (Ominous Recordings)
3:Code Neda – The Death Of Neda (Unsound Recordings)
4:Cosey Fanni Tutti - Time to Tell (Conspiracy International)
5:Daniel Bennett – Roil (Organized Music From Thessaloniki)
6: Dizzee Rascal – Raskit (Dirtee Stank Recordings/Island Records)
7:Escape-Ism - Introduction to Escape-Ism (Merge Records)
8: Friendship - Hatred (Southern Lord)
9:Impalers - Cellar Dweller (Static Shock Records)
10:Jaap Vink - Jaap Vink (Recollection GRM/Editions Mego)
11:JK Flesh - Suicide Estate (Hospital Records)
12:Koufar – Lebanon For Lebanese (Fusty Cunt/Unrest Productions)
13:Naxal Protocol – Anatomo-Pathology Of An Aborted Civilization (Old Europa Cafe/Luce Sia)
14:Necrotik Fissure/Sumbru – Necrotik Fissure/Sumbru (The Level Of Vulnerability) 15:Phil Julian – Relay (Entr'acte)
16:Pissed Jeans - Why Love Now (Sub Pop)
17:Prmitive Man - Caustic (Relapse)
18:Richard Ramirez – Daffodil (Hallucination Tapes)
19 Roland Kayn - A Little Electronic Milky Way Of Sound (Frozen Reeds)
20:Shift – Abandon (Unrest Productions)
21:Skepta – Konnichiwa (Boy Better Know)
22: S.S. Electronics – GRID (Room 2A)
23:Stormzy – Gang Signs & Prayer (#Merky Records)
24:Trou – Abdijruis (The Level Of Vulnerability)
25:Various – Noise War (Audio Dissection/Industrial Recollections)
26:Various Artists - RAR100 (Reason Art Records)
27:Voivod - Rrröööaaarrr (Noise)
28:Voivod - Killing Technology (Noise)
29:Voivod - Dimension Hatröss (Noise)
30:Wiley - Godfather (CTA Records
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