Here's a partial lise of non-metal albums I considered for my top 10. Albums listen in (pretty much) alphabetical order.

2017, what a dumpster fire of a year. It wasn't all bad though. The Wonder Woman movie was amazing despite being a part of the assy mcbutt DC extended universe, Thor: Ragnarok dug itself out of its WHY SO SERIOUS and ended up being absolutely hilarious, there was a new season of Stranger Things, and of course there were a lot of great albums released this year. 

Starting off my annual Listy McListerson with the albums that did not quite make the cut this year.

Happy Xmas y'all! Before I get into the big 2017 Listy McListerson, here are a few albums I didn't get to until after the new year. 

In this post I'd like to briefly highlight the best albums from bay area bands.  I'm not going to rank them this time, and I'm going to skip Fallujah and Cyborg Octopus since I covered them in my Best 16 albums of 2016 list.  I'm also going to be skipping some of the obvious ones like Death Angel, Testament, Autopsy, Neurosis, and some small band that rhymes with ShmeShmallica (I don't want to get sued by some guy that rhymes with Shmars Shmulrich). Without further ado, here they are in no particular order.