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)