BEST OF 2017 – THE BEST RELEASES OF THE YEAR

Here’s the result of our BEST OF 2017 readers poll (thanks again to all those of you who sent in their lists).
The winner of the Voices From The Darkside logo shirt is: Andreas Menz from Holle, Germany! Congratulations!

01. IMMOLATION – Atonement
02. SPECTRAL VOICE – Eroded Corridors Of Unbeing
03. PHRENELITH – Desolate Endscape
04. VENENUM – Trance Of Death
05. INCANTATION – Profane Nexus
06. UNAUSSPRECHLICHEN KULTEN – Keziah Lilith Medea (Chapter X)
07. DEGIAL – Predator Reign
08. MORBID ANGEL – Kingdoms Disdained
09. NECROT – Blood Offerings
10. ASCENDED DEAD – Abhorrent Manifestation

…and in case you’re curious to find out what the VOICES FROM THE DARKSIDE staff and a couple of musicians enjoyed the most this year, check out the lists below…

Alfonso Perez
BLOOD – Inferno
ENGULFED – Engulfed In Obscurity
EXHUMED – Death Revenge
IMMOLATION – Atonement
IMPETUOUS RITUAL – Blight Upon Martyred Sentience
PARADISE LOST – Medusa
PHRENELITH – Desolate Endscape
POWER TRIP – Nightmare Logic
PROCESSION – Doom Decimation
THE LURKING FEAR – Out Of The Voiceless Grave

Anders P. Jørgensen
ENSLAVED – E
ORM – Orm
PHRENELITH – Desolate Endscape
UNDERGANG – Misantropologi
OBITUARY – Obituary
BLAZE OF PERDITION – Conscious Darkness
AOSOTH – V: The Inside Scriptures
THE OBSSESSED – Sacred
DØDSENGEL – Interequinox
GODS FORSAKEN – In A Pitchblack Grave

Carsten Lomme
DESULTORY – Through Aching Aeons
GRACELESS – Shadowlands
IMPLORE – Subjugate
PHRENELITH – Desolate Endscape
SARCASM – Within The Sphere Of Ethereal Minds
STAR OF MADNESS – The Truth Beneath
TEMPLE OF VOID – Lords Of Death
THE SPIRIT – Sounds From The Vortex
UNDERGANG – Misantropologi
WODE – Servants Of The Countercosmos

Dávid László
BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION – IV
BLACKFINGER – When Colors Fade Away
DECEMBERANCE – Conceiving Hell
KXM – Scatterbrain
MEMORIAM – For the Fallen
MORBID ANGEL – Kingdoms Disdained
SONS OF APOLLO – Psychotic Symphony
SYNAPTIK – Justify & Reason
VIRULENT DEPRAVITY – Fruit Of The Poisoned Tree
VULTURE – The Guillotine

David Lucido
AUTOPSY – Puncturing The Grotesque
DOEDSVANGR – Satan Ov Suns
EXECRATION – Return To The Void
GOREPHILIA – Severed Monolith
IMMOLATION – Atonement
INCANTATION – Profane Nexus
NECROWRETCH – Satanic Slavery
THE LURKING FEAR – Out Of The Voiceless Grave
THE OMINOUS CIRCLE – Appalling Ascension
VENENUM – Trance Of Death

Frank Stöver
DEGIAL – Predator Reign
ENGULFED – Engulfed In Obscurity
IMMOLATION – Atonement
INCANTATION – Profane Nexus
INFAMOVS – Under The Seals Of Death
MORBID ANGEL – Kingdoms Disdained
THE SPIRIT – Sounds From The Vortex
UNAUSSPRECHLICHEN KULTEN – Keziah Lilith Medea (Chapter X)
UNDER THE CHURCH – Supernatural Punishment
UNDERGANG – Misantropologi

Hacker
DIABOLICAL MESSIAH – Demonic Weapons Against The Sacred
ENGULFED – Engulfed In Obscurity
EXCOMMUNION – Thronosis
HELLWITCH – At Rest
HEXX – Wrath Of The Reaper
IMMOLATION – Atonement
INFERNÄL MÄJESTY – No God
POISONOUS – Coronation
RITUALIZATION – Sacraments To The Sons Of The Abyss
UNAUSSPRECHLICHEN KULTEN – Keziah Lilith Medea (Chapter X)

Jarne Brauns
BLAZE OF PERDITION – Conscious Darkness
BLOOD MOON – Through The Scarlet Veil
DERAIS – Of Angels Seed And Devils Harvest
LIHHAMON – Doctrine
MALAKHIM – Demo 1
PIG’S BLOOD – Pig’s Blood
SACROSCUM – Drugs and Death
THE SPIRIT – Sound From The Vortex
ULTRA SILVAM – Ultra Silvam
WERIAN – Lunar Cult Society

Julian Nuñez
HADES ARCHER – Temple Of The Impure
IMMOLATION – Atonement
LANTERN – II: Morphosis
POSSESSION – Exorkizein
REMAINS – Through The Eyes Of Death
THE CHASM – A Conscious Creation From The Isolated Domain – Phase I
UNDER THE CHURCH – Supernatural Punishment
UNDERGANG – Misanthropologi
URN – The Burning
VENENUM – Trance Of Death

Kat “Shevil” Gillham
BLACK ANVIL – As Was
DEGIAL – Predator Reign
DEMON HEAD – Thunder On The Fields
MEMORIAM – For The Fallen
NECROT – Blood Offerings
PROCESSION – Doom Decimation
STILLBORN – Nocturnals
THE LURKING FEAR – Out Of The Voiceless Grave
WARWOUND – Burning The Blindfolds Of Bigots
WOLFBRIGADE – Run With The Hunted

Marco Stebich
ANTICHRIST – Sinful Birth
BEASTIALITY – Worshippers Of Unearthly Perversions
DEGIAL – Predator Reign
EXIT ORDER – Seed Of Hysteria
HAGZISSA – Promo 2017
HORISONT – About Time
MORBID ANGEL – Kingdoms Disdained
RAM – Rod
SPECTRAL VOICE – Eroded Corridors Of Unbeing
VIOLATOR – The Hidden Faces Of Death

Michael Kujawska
DESULTORY – Through Aching Aeons
ENGULFED – Engulfed In Obscurity
KREATOR – Gods Of Violence
LIFELESS – The Occult Mastery
MORGON – Evoking Eternity
NAZGHOR – Infernal Aphorism
NECROT – Blood Offerings
ORDER TO RUIN – Lunar Asylum
PARADISE LOST – Medusa
THE SPIRIT – Sounds From The Vortex

Michael Oelschlegel
ANASARCA – Survival Mode
IMMOLATION – Atonement
INCANTATION – Profane Nexus
LIFELESS – The Occult Mastery
MORBID FLESH – Rites Of The Mangled
PAGANIZER – Land Of Weeping Souls
PHRENELITH – Desolate Endscape
UNDER THE CHURCH – Supernatural Punishment
UNDERGANG – Misantropologi
VACIVUS – Temple Of The Abyss

Michael Tak
ACRIMONIUS – Eleven Dragons
CONDOR – Unstoppable Power
ENSNARED – Dysangelium
IMMOLATION – Atonement
OFERMOD – Sol Nox
PHRENELITH – Desolate Endscape
TEMPLE OF VOID – Lords Of Death
VACIVUS – Temple Of The Abyss
VENENUM – Trance Of Death
WODE – Servants Of The Countercosmos

Miguel Negrón
ASCENDED DEAD – Abhorrent Manifestation
CENOTAFIO – La Fatídica Excrecencia De La Subtierra
DROID – Terrestrial Mutations
EKPYROSIS – Asphyxiating Devotion
HEREZA – I Become Death
HORRIFYING –  Altered States Fermentation
PHRENELITH – Desolate Endscaperegards
SORTILEGIA – Sulphurous Temple
SPECTRAL VOICE – Eroded Corridors Of Unbeing
TOMB MOLD – Primordial Malignity

Mirco Szymyslik
ANASARCA – Survival Mode
BLAMES GOD – Christianity In Flames
CANNIBAL CORPSE – Red Before Black
CRYPTIC BROOD – Brain Eater
EKPYROSIS – Asphyxiating Devotion
ENDSEEKER – Flesh Hammer Prophecy
GODS FORSAKEN – In A Pitchblack Grave
KREATOR – Gods Of Violence
MORBID ANGEL – Kingdoms Disdained
THE SPIRIT – Sounds From The Vortex

Randolph Whateley
CONDOR – Unstoppable Power
DARCROVEN – Apoptosis
DEGIAL – Predator Reign
HÄLLAS – Excerpts From A Future Past
HAMVAK – I
MORK – Eremittens Dal
PHRENELITH – Desolate Endscape
POSSESSION – Exorkizein
SPEEDCLAW –  Beast In The Mist
VENENUM – Trance Of Death

Ricardo Campos
ARGUS – From Fields Of Fire
AUTOPSY – Puncturing The Grotesque
BLOODLUST – At The Devil’s Left Hand
BUNKER 66 – Chained Down In Dirt
DEMON’S GATE – Pekelnou Bránu Otevírají
GÖKBÖRI – Erlik
LJOSAZABOJSTWA – Sychod¸annie
PAGAN ALTAR – The Room Of Shadows
PORTRAIT – Burn The World
SORCERER – The Crowning Of The Fire King

Rodrigo Jiménez
DESULTORY – Through Aching Aeons
ENTOMBED – Clandestine – Live In Mälmo
MAIM – Ornaments Of severity
MORBID ANGEL – Kingdoms Disdained
MYRKUR – Mareridt
SOULROT – Nameless Hideous Manifestations
TAAKE – Kong Vinter
TEMPESTATIS – Cognitio Mythos Sophia
UNAUSSPRECHLICHEN KULTEN – Keziah Lilith Medea (Chapter X)
WORSHIP DEATH – Arise From The Cemetary

Spitzl
ASCENDED DEAD – Abhorrent Manifestation
AUTHOR – Lopun Alku
DEATHCULT – Cult Of The Goat
DRAUGSÓL – Volaða Land
LEVIATHAN – The First Sublevel Of Suicide
PHRENELITH – Desolate Endscape
SPECTRAL VOICE – Eroded Corridors Of Unbeing
THROANE – Plus Une Main À Mordre
TRIUMVIR FOUL – Spiritual Bloodshed
UNGFELL – Tôtbringære

Steven Willems
DEAD HEAD – Swine Plague
GRAVE PLEASURES – Motherblood
LANA DEL REY – Lust For Life
MYRKUR – Mareridt
OBITUARY – Obituary
PARADISE LOST – Medusa
POSSESSION – Exorkizein
SATYRICON – Deep Calleth Upon Deep
SLOWDIVE – Slowdive
VENENUM – Trance Of Death

Thomas Meyer
ATTIC – Sanctimonious
CRYPTIC BROOD – Brain Eater
DRÅP – Roten Till Allt Ont
INCANTATION – Profane Nexus
INTO COFFIN – The Majestic Supremacy Of Cosmic Chaos
IRON MAIDEN – The Book Of Souls: Live Chapter
OPHIS – The Dismal Circle
REPUGNIZER – Face Melting Apocalypse
UNAUSSPRECHLICHEN KULTEN – Keziah Lilith Medea
VENENUM – Trance Of Death

Thomas Reitmayer
DÄLEK – Endangered Philosophies
ENDALOK – Úr Draumheimi Viðurstyggðar
HAUNTER / SOVEREIGN – Split
INTEGRITY – Howling, For The Nightmare Shall Consume
LIFE’S BLOOD – Hardcore A.D. 1988
MALAKHIM – Demo I
MOENEN OF XEZBETH – Dawn Of Morbid Sorcery
OCCVLTA – Night Without End
SHAARIMOTH – Temple Of The Adversarial Fire
SORTILEGIA – Sulphurous Temple

Alex Rocha (POISONOUS)
ANATOMIA – Cranial Obsession
CEMETERY URN – Cemetery Urn
CRUCIAMENTUM – Paradise Envenomed
EJECUTOR – Muerte… El Orgasmo De La Vida
EMINENT SHADOW – Perverted Liturgy
FATHER BEFOULED – Desolate Gods
GODLESS – Omega Omnipotens
INCANTATION – Profane Nexus
MORBID PERVERSION – Rites Of Lust And Blasphemy
UNAUSSPRECHLICHEN KULTEN – Keziah Lilith Medea (Chapter X)

Bob Bagchus (SOULBURN / MINOTAUR HEAD)
AUTOPSY – Puncturing The Grotesque
DEADHEAD – Swine Plague
DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT –  Finisterre
DOHECAHEDRON – Hexahedron-Tilling The Human Soil
DOOL – Here Now There Then
GRACELESS – Shadowlands
HELL – Hell
INCANTATION – Profane Nexus
NOSTRUM – Infernal Tomb
SINISTER – Syncretism

Dave Rotten (AVULSED)
INFERNÄL MÄJESTY – No God
IMMOLATION – Atonement
COFFEINNE – Circle of Time
POWER TRIP – Nightmare Logic
THE WIZARDS – Full Moon in Scorpio
NEOCAESAR – 11:11
PRONG – Zero Days
ERUPTION – Cloaks of Oblivion
VHÄLDEMAR – Against All Kings
SUFFOCATION – …Of the Dark Light

Joseph Curwen (UNAUSSPRECHLICHEN KULTEN)
ASCENDED DEAD – Abhorrent Manifestation
CONDOR – Unstoppable Power
HORRIFYING – Altered States Fermentation
IMMOLATION – Atonement
INCANTATION – Profane Nexus
RITUALIZATION – Sacraments To The Sons Of The Abyss
SPECTRAL VOICE – Erodes Corridors Of Unbeing
SUFFOCATION –  …Of The Dark Light
VASSAFOR – Malediction
VENENUM – Trance Of Death

Mike Browning (NOCTURNUS AD / AFTER DEATH)
ATTIC – Sanctimonious
DECREPIT BIRTH – Axis Mundi
GIGAN – Undulating Waves Of Rainbiotic Indescence
GOREPHILIA – Severed Monolith
IMMOLATION – Atonement
INCANTATION – Profane Nexus
MAAT – Monuments Will Enslave
MORBID ANGEL – Kingdoms Disdain
NYN – Entropy: If Chaos And Salt
SEPTIC FLESH – Codex Omega

Muerte (GOATH)
BANEFUL STORM – Invocations
DEGIAL – Predator Reign
GOLD – Optimist
HELHEIM – Landawarijar
MORK – Eremittens Dal
RITUALIZATION – Sacraments To The Sons Of The Abyss
SACROSCUM – Drugs & Death
ULTRA SILVAM – Demo
URARV – Aurum
VENENUM – Trance Of Death

Serkan Niron (ENGULFED)
AOSOTH – V: The Inside Scriptures
ARKHON INFAUSTUS – Passing The Nekromanteion
AVERSIO HUMANITATIS – Longing For The Untold
AZARATH – In Extremis
ENSNARED – Dysangelium
HATE MANIFESTO – To Those Who Glorified Death
IMMOLATION – Atonement
MORBID ANGEL – Kingdoms Disdained
SPECTRAL VOICE – Eroded Corridors Of Unbeing
VENENUM – Trance Of Death

Stephan Gebédi (THANATOS)

CANNIBAL CORPSE – Red Before Black
DEADHEAD – Swine Plague
DYSCARNATE – With All Their Might
EXHUMED – Death Revenge
IMMOLATION – Atonement
INFERNÄL MÄJESTY – No God
LOCK UP – Demonization
PARADISE LOST – Medusa
SEPTIC FLESH – Codex Omega
WITCHERY – I Am Legion

Terry Butler (OBITUARY)
ACCEPT – The Rise Of Chaos
EXHUMED – Death Revenge
IMMOLATION – Atonement
INCANTATION – Profane Nexus
KING PARROT – Ugly Produce
LOCKUP – Demonization
PATHOLOGY – Pathology
PERSEFONE – Aathma
SUFFOCATION – …Of The Dark Light
VENOM INC. – Avé

Tony Dolan (VENOM INC.)
ACCEPT – The Rise Of Chaos
BODYCOUNT – Bloodlust
BYZANTINE – The Cicada Tree
GOATWHORE – Vengeful Ascension
HAVOK – Conformicide
KREATOR – Gods Of Violence
MUNICIPAL WASTE – Slime & Punishment
OBITUARY – Obituary
TRIVIUM – The Sin And The Sentence
WARBRINGER – Woe To The Vanquished

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