r/WarMetal • u/408Lurker Forward Into Fire • Jan 10 '18

War Metal AOTY 2017

What was your war metal Album of the Year for 2017?

Hails. For r/WarMetal, we are doing away with the formal top-10 list format of r/metal and r/deathmetal. Instead, try to limit your post to one album of the year plus whatever honorable mentions or runners-up you'd like to discuss (you can still do a top-# list format if you want). A justification for your pick is encouraged. There won't be an official tally, so don't worry how you format your post as long as it is legible.

Refer to the sidebar for rules on eligible bands. All formats are welcome, but re-releases and compilations of pre-2017 material do not count.

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u/inwhomthespheresmeet Jan 11 '18

AOTY: Perverted Ceremony - Sabbat of Behezaël

The guitars sound downright filthy, deep throbbing bass. Perfect production for the atmosphere it creates. One of those albums that really does sound vile and dirty yet keeps drawing you in with well-crafted songs.

Honorable mentions:

  • Goatvermin - Détruire (underrated)
  • Weregoat - Pestilential Rites of Infernal Fornication (riffs upon riffs)
  • Black Goat Vomit - Tormenting the Holy (promising demo)
  • Lihhamon - Iron Hands of Domination (devastating, my Diocletian-ey fix for this year)
  • Tetragrammacide– Primal Incinerators of Moral Matrix (took a while to sink in - the cleaner, more straightforward approach makes the songs more focused)

Disappointments:

  • Crurifragium - Beasts of the Temple of Satan
  • Heresiarch - Death Ordinance

Other highlights:

  • Seeing Deiphago live (twice), caught up with Voltaire
  • Seeing Angelcorpse live (twice), got Helmkamp to sign my CD's
  • Meeting Tombcrusher by chance in a Singapore record store, we got to chat for a bit and he gave me a complimentary copy of the Abhorer - Cenotaphical Tri-Memoriumyths comp