Nikki's Best of 2017

   Band                Country    Album
1 Hour of Penance  ITA   Cast the First Stone
2 Antropomorphia  NLD   Sermon ov Wrath
3 Mortör             CAN   Burn Up the Dead
4 Archspire     CAN   Relentless Mutation
5 Monster             GER   Bload Soaked Restart
6 Discreation     GER   End of Days
7 Cannibal Corpse  USA   Red Before Black
8 Acephalix     USA   Decreation
9 Broken Hope     USA   Mutilated and Assimilated
10 Cytotoxin     GER   Gammageddon
11 Sinister             NLD   Syncretism
12 Dyscarnate     GBR   With All Their Might
13 Skullmace     CAN   Rise Above Blood
14 Daemusinem     ITA   The Ungodly Defiance
15 Oblivion             USA   The Path Towards...
16 Betalmand     GER   Wüstenplanet
17 Bloodphemy     NLD   Bloodline
18 Maat             GER   Monuments will Enslave
19 Scordatura     GBR   Self-Created Abyss
20 Morta Skuld     USA   Wounds Deeper than Time
21 Deserted Fear     GER   Death Shores Rising
22 Saprobiontic     GER   Science of War
23 Kalopsia             USA   Angelplague
24 Neocaesar     NLD   11:11
25 Hideous Divinity ITA   Adveniens
26 Soulrot             CHL   Nameless Hideous Manifestations
27 John Frum     USA   A Stirring in the Noos
28 Ulvedharr     ITA   Total War
29 Phidion             SWE   The Throes of Scourge
30 Suicidal Causticity ITA   The Human Touch
31 Dying Fetus     USA   Wrong One to Fuck With
32 Whore of Bethlehem  USA   Extinguish the Light
33 Sectesy             CZR   In the Secretion of the Upcoming Days
34 Paganizer     SWE   Land of Weeping Souls
35 Maximum Carnage     ZAF   Blackened Sun
36 Massive Assault  NLD   Mortor
37 Nervecell     UAE   Past, Present…Torture
38 Incertain             GER   Rats in Palaces
39 Verminous Mind RUS   Dusk of Humanity
40 Scolopendra     FRA   The Alienation Spread
41 Deathcrush     ITA   Hell
42 Graceless     NLD   Shadowlands
43 Overoth             GBR   The Forgotten Tome
44 Karnar             ITA   Take Their Heads
45 Akephalos     USA   Headless Demon Angel
46 Lifeless             GER   The Occult Mastery
47 Verthebral     PAR   Regeneration
48 Perkulatory     SWE   Chronic Caffeine Dependence
49 Throne of Heresy SWE   Decameron
50 Narthraal              ICE   Screaming from the Grave

Nikki's Best of 2016

Death Metal

Top 100 (in order from 1 to 100)

Revel in Flesh (GER) - Emissary of Plagues

Formaline (RUS) – Corpiscience

Impenitence (BUL) - Monuments of Contempt

Prevail (DEN) - War Will Reign

My Darkest Hate (GER) - Anger Temple

Volturyon (SWE) - Cleansed by Carnage

Severed Limbs (SWE) - Collector of Limbs

Nihilism (FRA) - Beyond Redemption

Amputate (SWI) - Tortura Macabra

Fatalist (USA) - The Bitter End

Post Mortem (FRA) – God with Horns

Homicide (CHI) - The Sosh Guar 

Lacerated and Carbonized (BRA) - Narcohell

Aborted (BEL) – Retrogore

Wormhole (USA) – Genesis

Human (ITA) - Cerebral Inwardness

Banisher (POL) – Oniric Delusions

Gutted (HUN) - Martyr Creation

Illdisposed (DEN) –  Grey Sky Over Black Town

Infecting the Swarm (GER) – Abyss

Auticed (INDO) – Arise

GxSxD (JAP) - The Adversary

Cyphonism (GER) - Obsidian Nothingness

Big End Bolt (RUS) - Killstruments & Deathods

Combustion (GER) - Warhead

Altered Shade (FRA) - The Path of Souls

Omnicide (SWI) - Constants and Variables

Lectern (ITA) - Percept of Delator

Cromlech (COL) - Mental

Among Disaster (VEN) - Eclesiastical Damnation

Imprecator (SWE) - Imprecator

Rogash (GER) - Malevolence

Mortuary (FRA) - Nothingless than Nothingness

Blood Red Throne (NOR) - Union of Flesh and Machine

Refusal (FIN) - We Rot Within

Ulcer (POL) - Heading Below

Brutality (USA) - Sea of Ignorance

Miasmal (SWE) - Tides of Omniscience

Gohrgone (FRA) - Finis Ixion

Epitaph (SWE) - Sinner Waketh

Scalpture (GER) - Panzerdoktrin

Hellseek (COL) - Human, Enemy of All

Third Sovereign (IND) - Perversion Swallowing Sanity

Gutter Instinct (SWE) - Age of the Fanatics

Open Surgery (SWE) - Post Mortem Mutilation

Inhuman Rage (GRE) - Made by His Image...Killing to His Name

Crucificator (BRA) - Sunrise in the Suicide Front

Profanal (ITA) - Supreme Fire

Horror Chamber (BRA) - Eternal Torment

Shed the Skin (USA) - Harrowing Faith

Purgatory (GER) - Omega Void Tribvnal

Ashen Divinity (CRO) - Digital Sysiphus

Hellcrust (INDO) - Kalamaut

God Syndrome (Russia) - Controverse

Bloodbeat (GER) - Murderous Art

Blood Incantation (USA) - Starspawn

Angerseed (HUN) - The Proclamation

Bombs of Hades (SWE) -  Death Mask Replica

Ribspreader (SWE) - Suicide Gates - A Bridge To Death

Covulse (FIN) - Cycle of Revenge

Artretic Intestine (FIN) - Trail of Entrails

Embedded (GER) - Bloodgeoning

Warfater (USA) - The Grey Eminence

Introvert (INDO) - Intimidasi Perisai Dosa

Slaughterday (GER) - Laws of the Occult

Ashcloud (INT) - Children of the Chainsaw

Osseltion (ITA) - Digital/Primordial

Fragore (ITA) - Asylum

Harm (GER) - The Evil

Imperium (UK) - Titanomachy

Age of Agony (HUN) - For the Forgotten

Evil Reborn (VEN) - Throne of Insanity

Incremate (GER) - Prospect of Death

Blood Ages (FRA) - Godless Sandborn

Splatta Fish (USA) - Celestial Plague (FV)

Epigrafi (ITA) - Sublime and Vain

Nocturnal Hollow (VEN) - Deathless and Fleshless

Ascent (RUS) - Don't Stop When You Walk Through the Hell
The Scarlet Claw (NL) - Divulger
Grond (RUS) - Worship the Kraken
Centinex (SWE) - Doomsday Rituals
Scolopendra (FRA) - Cycles
Rectifier (POL) - Wormwood
Hellspawn (POL) - There Has Never Been A Son Of Me
A Place fot Murder (ITA) - Swallowed by the Ocean
Carnal Tomb (GER) - Rotten Remains
Laconist (BRA) - Anticosmic Trance
Invader (INDO) - Begins to Wrath
Koprotopsy (FRA) - Eternal Extinction
Sinphobia (ITA) - Awaken
Temple of Night side (AUS) - The Hecatomb
Estigma (PER) - Revenge
Bloodshed (GER) - Rising
Panoptikon (NL) - Sunken City
D.M.R. (USA) - Death Metal Rednecks
Avenger of Blood (USA) - On Slaying Grounds
Trubel (POL) - Holy Freedom
Megascavenger (SWE) - As Dystopia Becons
Deacidified (GRE) - Deceitful Wisdom
Dethrone (SWE) - Incinerate All

Special mention to (in no particular order)
Embloodyment (SPA) - The One Before the Last
Dethmor (POR) - Monuments to Extinction
The Dead Goats (POL) - All of Them Witches
Valgrind (ITA) - Speech of the Flame
Etherius (POL) - Following the Ancient Path
Cortege (POL) - Touching the Void
Gatecreeper (USA) - Sonorian Depravation
Rotting Repugnancy (UK) - Harbingers of the Last Judgement
Machine Kill (UK) - Dead Hand Initiative
The Dyatlov Discovery (USA) - The Human Condition
Darkrypt (IND) - Delirious Excursion
Inferior (SWE) - The Red Beast
Soulburn (NL) - Earthless Pagan Spirit
Dawn of Demise (DEN) - The Suffering
Mercyless (FRA) - Pathetic Divinity
Sysmo (SPA) - RxDxCx
Bulletsize (SWE) - Pansar
Vocifera (BRA) - Evil Thoughts
Interment (SWE) - Scent of the Buried
Humanity Delete (SWE) - Fuck Off Forever
Neverlight Horizon (BEL) - Dead God Effigies
Omophagia (SWI) - In the Name of Chaos
Throne of Heresy (SWE) - Antioch
Abnormal Inhumane (GRE) - Consuming the Infinity
Black Mad Lice (POL) –  Divine Touch
Auticed (INDO) – Arise
Derogatory (RUS) – Graveyard Lovers
Kaluman (INDO) – The Anthem of Blasphemy
Chamber of Malice (GER) – Crime City Slam
Brutally Deceased (CZR) – Satanic Corpse
Genocide (INDO) – Resurrection
Ade (ITA) – Carthago Delenda Est
Necromind (MEX) – Carnicero de la Muerte
Human Vivisection (BEL) – The Perpetual Gap
Sin of God (HUN) – Aenigmata
Abnormality (USA) – Mechanisms of Omniscience (FV)
Entheos (USA) – The infinite Nothing (FV)
Grace Disgraced (RUS) – Lasting Afterdeaths (FV)
Hysteria (FRA) - Flesh, Humiliation And Irreligious Deviance
Toke (USA) – Fifty Ton Nug
Insision (SWE) – Terminal Reckoning
1917 (ARG) – Implacable Utopia
Deceptionist (ITA) - Initializing Irreversible Process
Alibi for Murder (GER) – Pieces
Panic Disorder (INDO) – Daimonion
Cumbeast (FIN) - Initializing Irreversible Process
Enemy Crucifixion (RUS) – Core of Humanity
Atoll (USA) – The Gathering Swarm
Within Destruction (SLO) – Void
Sacramental Blood (SER) – Ternion Demoanrchy
Womb of Maggots (GRE) – Decay of Humanity
Defiled (JAP) – Towards Inevitable Ruins
Oncology (UK) – Infinite Regress
Critical Disaster (INDO) - Brutality of Human Cannibalism
Katalepsy (RUS) – Gravenous Hour
Body Core (SWE) – Human Ferox
Darkrise (SWI) - Fear, Hate and Corruption
Cicatrix (POL) – Suffocated Faith
Hypochondriac (INDO) – Disobedient
Slaves of Suffering (MEX) – Advent of Despair
Dawn of Disease (GER) - Worship the Grave

EP's (best of 2016)
in no particular order
Exumation (UK) - Sin of Skin
Armorgod (INDO) - Aggression ov Hypocrisy
Cruscifire (BRA) - Helspawn
Horror Department (ITA) - Horror Department
Nest of Plagues (HUN) - Nest of Plagues
Omifariam (PUR) - Vitiate
Dminhate (ITA) - Emissaries of Morning
Gruesome (USA) - Dimensions of Horror
Octopurath (FRA) - Octopurath
Dauthuz (NL) - Dauthuz
Paganizer (SWE) - On the Outskirts of Hades
Dead Nexus (USA) - Bound by Flesh
Bizarre (SPA) - Inner Necropolis
Sisters of Suffocation (NL) - Brutal Queen
Cesspool of Corruption (USA) - Eradication of the Subservient
Binaural Drama (UKR) - Digital Slavery