Rather than treating this as an objective look at the best albums that came out in 2017, compiling these lists is more of a meditative exercise for me. When you listen to as much music as I do, the events of your life become intrinsically tied to whatever you were listening to at that time.
B.G.M. ranks all best heaviness of 2015. Literally every metal album that came out this year that is good is here and if its not then don't listen to it.
Bell Witch's latest album Four Phantoms is the most emotionally draining, monolithic, & daunting masterpiece of doom metal that Dustin has ever encountered.