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|| January 2017 Metal Album Releases
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/// Note: the genres come from Encyclopedia Metallum when available. Genre classifications are not always accurate. ///
Black, Pagan, Folk, Viking
Carbon Colossal - The Disassembly of Earth [EP] - 1/1/2017 (Black Metal)
Elegiac - Rise from the Ashes - 1/1/2017 (Black Metal)
Eskapism - Tales of Elder Forest - 1/1/2017 (Atmospheric Black Metal)
Moongates Guardian - Let Horse Be Bridled, Horn Be Sounded! - 1/1/2017 (Epic/Atmospheric Black Metal)
Aeolith - Remnants of a Future Past - 1/1/2017 (Black Metal)
Belzec - Triumph of Germania - 1/1/2017 (Black Metal)
Subterranean Birthright - Violent Expulsion [EP] - 1/1/2017 (Black Metal)
Warloghe - Lucifer Ascends [EP] - 1/1/2017 (Black Metal)
SWraith - Intentions - 1/1/2017 (Black Metal)
Voidcraeft - Dogma [EP] - 1/1/2017 (Black Metal)
Bersereast - Bersereast - 1/2/2017 (Experimental Black Metal)
Deafest - Ephemeral [EP] - 1/2/2017 (Black Metal)
Dumal - The Lesser God - 1/2/2017 (Black Metal)
Fegefeuer Anilmathiel - Spacescapes [EP] - 1/2/2017 (Atmospheric Black Metal)
Scourge Lair - Abominable Entities [EP] - 1/2/2017 (Death/Black Metal)
Ulg - Windark - 1/2/2017 (Atmospheric Black Metal)
Mons Absconditus - Two Hands in Grief [EP] - 1/3/2017 (Atmospheric/Progressive Black Metal)
Circle - Mist and Ruin - 1/3/2017 (Black Metal)
Ûlh - Preludium of the Seven Seals - 1/3/2017 (Black Metal)
Nosturaack - Ilsomr - 1/3/2017 (Melodic Death/Black Metal)
Legbah - Legbah - 1/3/2017 (Black/Death Metal)
Wolfkrieg - Fire of Ragnarök - 1/4/2017 (Pagan Black/Death Metal)
Final Snow - The Violet Dawn - 1/4/2017 (Depressive Black Metal)
Golden Dawn - Early Obscurity... part 1 [EP] - 1/5/2017 (Melodic Black/Gothic Metal)
Demon Goat - Sons of Gods [EP] - 1/5/2017 (Black/Doom Metal)
Urskumug - The Throne for My Ego [EP] - 1/5/2017 (Black Metal)
Svangur Kvöl - Wreck of the World - 1/5/2017 (Black Metal)
Viranesir - Supports Flag Burning And Female Raping - 1/5/2017 (Black Metal/Ambient)
Ethereal Terrorblast - Die eiserne Wehr - 1/5/2017 (Black Metal)
Mordskog - XIII - 1/6/2017 (Black Metal)
Funeral Demon - Obliterate Mankind - 1/6/2017 (Depressive Black Metal)
Blizzard - Hateful Hymns of an Endless Winter - 1/7/2016 (Black Metal)
Ande - Het gebeente - 1/7/2017 (Atmospheric Black Metal)
Wraithe - Alone and Unloved - 1/7/2017 (Depressive Black Metal)
Imperium Infernalis - Imago Dei - 1/9/2017 (Black Metal)
Khaos-Dei - Opus II: Catechism - 1/9/2017 (Black Metal)
Laster - Ons vrije fatum - 1/9/2017 (Atmospheric Black Metal)
Succorbenoth - The Spiral into Uncertainty - 1/9/2017 (Black/Death Metal)
Vrag - Exile - 1/9/2017 (Black Metal)
Altú Págánach - Under the Ground - 1/13/2017 (Folk Black Metal)
Black Anvil - As Was - 1/13/2017 (Black/Thrash Metal)
Fides Inversa - Rite of Inverse Incarnation - 1/13/2017 (Black Metal)
Highborne - The Dusk of Solitude - 1/13/2017 (Atmospheric Black Metal)
Spectral - Arctic Sunrise - 1/13/2017 (Black/Thrash/Viking/Power Metal)
Wolfchant - Bloodwinter - 1/13/2017 (Pagan/Folk Metal)
Heavens Fall - For In Darkness We Are Never Alone - 1/14/2017 (Black Metal)
Aborym - Shifting.Negative - 1/15/2017 (Industrial Black Metal)
Ghostmourn - Vocans Tenebris [EP] - 1/15/2017 (Black Metal)
Wulkanaz - Paralys - 1/19/2017 (Black Metal)
Black Invocation - Chaos - Triumph - A New Beginning - 1/20/2017 (Black Metal)
Emptiness - Not for Music - 1/20/2017 (Black/Death Metal)
Endalok - Úr draumheimi viðurstyggðar [EP] - 1/20/2017 (Black Metal)
Helheim - landawarijaR - 1/20/2017 (Viking/Black Metal)
Infernal Angels - Ars Goetia - 1/20/2017 (Melodic Black Metal)
Mosaic - Old Man's Wyntar - 1/20/2017 (Black Metal)
Tenebree - Infinito honor de existencia - 1/21/2017 (Black Metal)
Au Champ des Morts - Dans la joie - 1/27/2017 (Black Metal)
Empyrean Throne - Chaosborne - 1/27/2016 (Technical Black/Death Metal)
Horn - Turm am Hang - 1/27/2017 (Black Metal)
Mustan Kuun Lapset - Saatto - 1/27/2017 (Dark Metal)
Crurifragium - Beasts of the Temple of Satan - 1/30/2017 (Black/Death Metal)
Darkened Spawn - The Rise of the Occult [EP] - 1/30/2017 (Black Metal)
Ululatum Tollunt - Quantum Noose of Usurpation [EP] - 1/30/2017 (Black Metal)
Patria - Magna Adversia - 1/31/2017 (Black Metal)
Death
Daemoniac - Spawn of the Fallen - 1/1/2017 (Death Metal)
Gourmand - The Inquisitionist - 1/1/2017 (Death Metal)
Kav - Chattering Medicine [EP] - 1/1/2017 (Black/Death Metal)
Mechina - As Embers Turn to Dust - 1/1/2017 (Symphonic/Industrial Death Metal)
Morgon - Evoking Eternity - 1/1/2017 (Melodic Death/Black Metal)
Mortifica - Atrocious Autopsy - 1/1/2017 (Technical Death Metal)
Self Inflikted - L'Échec [EP] - 1/1/2017 (Melodic Death Metal)
Slamophiliac - Perihelion - 1/1/2017 (Brutal Death Metal)
Tol Sirion - The Ashes of a Dark Heart - 1/1/2017 (Death Metal)
Vlad - Abysshaman - 1/1/2017 (Death Metal)
Tribünal - Age of Iron [EP] - 1/2/2017 (Death Metal/Crust)
Ytivarg - Wardenclyffe - 1/2/2017 (Death/Black Metal)
Necrofili - The End of Everything - 1/2/2017 (Death Metal)
Aversion to Mankind - Aversion & Hopelessness - 1/3/2017 (Atmospheric/Depressive Black Metal)
Mastitis - Damnodorum Multitudo [EP] - 1/3/2017 (Death Metal)
Blasphemer - Blasphemer - 1/4/2017 (Death Metal)
The Project Hate MCMXCIX - Of Chaos and Carnal Pleasures - 1/4/2017 (Industrial Death Metal)
Bullcreek - Osschaert - 1/4/2017 (Death Metal)
Vile Retribution - Global Chaos - 1/4/2017 (Blackened Death Metal)
Primordius - Genetic Devastation - 1/6/2017 (Death Metal)
Exophage - Cosmic Key - 1/6/2017 (Melodic Death Metal)
Maze of Sothoth - Soul Demise - 1/9/2017 (Death Metal)
Feasting on Darkness - The Black Cloud - 1/12/2017 (Progressive/Death Metal)
Ambivalence - Hyena's Breath - 1/13/2017 (Death Metal)
Brutal Unrest - Trinitas - 1/13/2017 (Death Metal)
Devation - Giants - 1/13/2017 (Melodic Death Metal)
Devoured Flesh - Welcome to Camp Blood - 1/13/2017 (Death Metal)
Drearyym - Precursions - 1/13/2017 (Melodic Death Metal)
Ethmebb - La quête du Saint Grind - 1/13/2017 (Epic/Progressive Death Metal)
Hellcraft - Apotheosis of War - 1/13/2017 (Death Metal)
Shaarimoth - Temple of the Adversarial Fire - 1/13/2017 (Death Metal)
Son in Curse - Trivnviratvm - 1/13/2017 (Death Metal)
Balfor - Black Serpent Rising - 1/15/2017 (Melodic Black/Death Metal)
Trigger - Old School - 1/15/2017 (Death Metal)
Analepsy - Atrocities from Beyond - 1/17/2017 (Brutal Death Metal)
Heisenberg - The Empire Business - 1/20/2017 (Brutal Death Metal)
Once Human - Evolution - 1/20/2017 (Melodic Death Metal)
Rude - Remnants... - 1/20/2017 (Death/Thrash Metal)
Wound - Engrained - 1/20/2017 (Death Metal)
Undrask - Battle Through Time - 1/22/2017 (Melodic Death Metal)
Ekpyrosis - Asphyxiating Devotion - 1/23/2017 (Death Metal)
Decrepit Cadaver - Vórtice a lo macabro - 1/25/2017 (Brutal Death Metal)
Acranius - Reign of Terror - 1/27/2017 (Brutal Death Metal, Hardcore)
Beheaded - Beast Incarnate - 1/27/2017 (Brutal Death Metal)
Deserted Fear - Dead Shores Rising - 1/27/2017 (Death Metal)
Hour of Penance - Cast the First Stone - 1/27/2017 (Technical/Brutal Death Metal)
Obsolete Incarnation - Eradication of Society [EP] - 1/27/2017 (Brutal Death Metal)
Sulphurous - Abomination Temple [EP] - 1/30/2017 (Death Metal)
Exocrine - Ascension - 1/31/2017 (Progressive/Technical Death Metal)
Thrash, Groove, Speed
Bastärd - Bastärd - 1/1/2017 (Black/Speed Metal)
Insulters - Metal Still Means Danger - 1/1/2017 (Black/Thrash Metal)
Prediction - Hell Strikes Back - 1/2/2017 (Black/Thrash Metal)
Casket Raider - Dead Moths [EP] - 1/3/2017 (Blackened Death/Thrash Metal)
Wargasm - Suicide Squad / Power of the Hunter [EP] - 1/6/2017 (Thrash Metal)
Constant Threat - The Dismal Order - 1/6/2017 (Death/Thrash Metal)
Swarm of Eyes - We Go to War with the Weapons We Have - 1/6/2017 (Death/Thrash Metal)
Inferno - Genética humana - 1/12/2017 (Thrash Metal)
Blood Feast - The Future State of Wicked - 1/13/2017 (Thrash Metal)
Sepultura - Machine Messiah - 1/13/2017 (Groove/Thrash Metal, Nu-Metal)
Suppressive Fire - Nature of War - 1/13/2017 (Black/Thrash Metal)
Warpath - Bullets for a Desert Session - 1/13/2017 (Thrash Metal)
Impalers - Styx Demon: The Master of Death [EP] - 1/16/2017 (Thrash Metal)
Sicada - Excursion [EP] - 1/17/2017 (Progressive Thrash/Death Metal)
Enemy Remains - No Faith in Humanity - 1/20/2017 (Groove Metal, Rock)
Terrifier - Weapons of Thrash Destruction - 1/20/2017 (Thrash Metal)
Kreator - Gods of Violence - 1/27/2017 (Thrash Metal)
Silent Circus - Rise and Fall - 1/27/2017 (Groove Metal)
Deathinition - Online - 1/28/2017 (Thrash Metal)
Power, Prog, Symphonic, Gothic
Solarus - Reunion - 1/1/2017 (Power Metal)
Valtikan - Gates to the Underworld - 1/1/2017 (Power Metal)
Burnt City - Resurgence [EP] - 1/1/2017 (Progressive/Power Metal)
Arkeronn - Like a Miracle - 1/2/2017 (Progressive Metal)
Determination - Gelap Menuju Cahaya - 1/4/2017 (Gothic Metal)
Ravenous - Eternal Hunger [EP] - 1/4/2017 (Power Metal)
Arda - Северный крест - 1/5/2017 (Power Metal)
Akoma - Revangels - 1/13/2017 (Symphonic Gothic Metal)
Lancer - Mastery - 1/13/2017 (Power/Speed Metal)
Pain of Salvation - In the Passing Light of Day - 1/13/2017 (Progressive Rock/Metal)
Victorius - Heart of the Phoenix - 1/13/2017 (Power Metal)
Need - Hegaiamas: A Song for Freedom - 1/17/2017 (Progressive Metal)
Ancestral - Master of Fate - 1/20/2017 (Power Metal)
Firewind - Immortals - 1/20/2017 (Heavy/Power Metal)
Sunterra - Reborn [EP] - 1/20/2017 (Gothic Metal)
Avenford - New Beginning - 1/27/2017 (Power Metal)
Borealis - World of Silence MMXVII - 1/27/2017 (Melodic/Power Metal)
The Murder of My Sweet - Echoes of the Aftermath - 1/27/2017 (Gothic Metal)
Xandria - Theater of Dimensions - 1/27/2017 (Symphonic Metal)
Seven Kingdoms - Decennium - 1/30/2017 (Power/Thrash Metal)
Stoner, Doom, Sludge, Drone
Benthic City - Arlington Crt - 1/1/2017 (Experimental Sludge/Doom/Thrash Metal)
Book of Wyrms - Sci-fi/Fantasy - 1/1/17 (Stoner/Doom Metal)
Noctu - Illuminandi - Esoterica illuminazione ermetica - 1/1/2017 (Funeral Doom Metal)
Toke - (Orange) - 1/1/2017 (Sludge/Stoner Metal)
Yhdarl - Antithesis - 1/1/2017 (Drone/Doom/Black Metal)
Vinnum Sabbathi - Gravity Works - 1/3/2017 (Stoner/Drone/Doom Metal)
Jupiterian - URN [EP] - 1/4/2017 (Sludge, Death/Doom Metal)
Destroyer of Man - Descent - 1/5/2017 (Sludge/Doom Metal)
Ephemernia - ....and in the Morning There Was None - 1/5/2017 (Atmospheric Death/Doom Metal)
Endless Floods - II - 1/6/2017 (Sludge/Drone/Doom Metal)
Lizzard Wizzard - Total War Power Bastard - 1/7/2017 (Stoner/Doom/Sludge Metal)
Arkhitekt - Oxidation - 1/9/2017 (Drone/Doom Metal)
Mangog - Mangog Awakens - 1/9/2017 (Doom Metal)
Ruin - Ruin - 1/10/2017 (Melodic Doom/Death Metal)
Condenados - The Tree of Death - 1/13/2017 (Epic Doom Metal)
Demonic Death Judge - Seaweed - 1/13/2017 (Sludge/Stoner/Doom Metal)
Lord Vigo - Blackborne Souls - 1/13/2017 (Epic Doom Metal)
The Flight of Sleipnir - Skadi - 1/20/2017 (Stoner/Doom/Folk Metal)
Lo-Pan - In Tensions [EP] - 1/23/2017 (Stoner Rock/Metal)
Cyclocosmia - Immured [EP] - 1/27/2017 (Symphonic/Doom Metal)
Weltesser - Crestfallen - 1/27/2017 (Doom/Sludge Metal)
Inverted Mind - Broken Mirror - 1/28/2017 (Sludge/Stoner Metal)