Too Soon? Axl’s Best of 2017… So Far

2017 is half over, and Darkest Hour’s Godless Prophets and the Migrant Flora is still the album to beat. Which is not to say that there hasn’t been some other great shit! Shit such as (in alphabetical order by band)…

Bison – You Are Not the Ocean You are the Patient (Pelagic)
Body Count – Bloodlust (Century Media)
Code Orange – Forever (Roadrunner)
Darkest Hour – Godless Prophets and the Migrant Flora (Southern Lord)
Dead Cross – Dead Cross (Ipecac)
Decapitated – Anticult (Nuclear Blast)
Full of Hell – Trumpeting Ecstasy (Profound Lore)
Goatwhore – Vengeful Ascension (Metal Blade)
Igorrr – Savage Sinusoid (Metal Blade)
Havok – Conformicide (Century Media)
Mord’A’Stigmata – Hope (Pagan)
Mutoid Man – War Moans (Sargent House)
Oxbow – Thin Black Duke (Hydra Head)
Phobia – Lifeless God (Willowtip)
Power Trip – Nightmare Logic (Southern Lord)
Völur – Ancestors (Prophecy Productions)

What am I missing? Shout it out in the comments section below!