With the year already halfway over (HOW HAPPEN SO FAST), here are just a few of my favorite albums of the year so far (in no particular order).
DER METARS:
- Body Count - Bloodlust
- Origin - Unparalleled Universe
- Igorrr - Savage Sinusoid
- Ayreon - The Source
- The Nova Collective - The Further Side
- Ghost Bath - Starmourner
- Pain of Salvation - In the Passing Light of Day
- Exist - So True, So Bound
- Zeal & Ardor - Devil is Fine (shutup it counts as 2017)
- Carach Angren - Dance and Laugh Amongst the Rotten
NON METARS:
- Scandroid - Dreams of Neo Tokyo
- Bela Fleck - Juno Concerto
- Master Boot Record - C:\>COPY *.* A: /V
- Thundercat - Drunk
- Ronald Bruner Jr. - Triumph
- Cameron Graves - Planetary Prince
- Miles Mosley - Uprising (that West Coast Get Down amirite?)
- The Mark Arroyo Trio - Two Sides to a Promise (shout out to my homey)
- Dance with the Dead - B-Sides Vol. 1
- Seven)Suns - For the Hearts Still Beating
EP:
- Waveshaper - Velocity
- Theory in Practice - Crescendo Dezign
- The Algorithm - Brute Force: Source Code
- Amiensus - All Paths Lead to Death
- Makeup and Vanity Set - Chrome
LIVE:
- King Crimson - Radical Action to Unseat the Hold of Monkey Mind
- Dimmu Borgir - Forces of the Northern Light
- Gary Clark Jr. - Live North America 2016
- Enslaved - Roadburn Live
- Cult of Luna - Live at La Gaite Lyrique: Paris
CONCERTS:
- Hammers of Misfortune
- Free Salamander Exhibit
- Miles Mosley
- King Crimson
- Tool (WHERE'S THAT NEW ALBUM)