Mathcore Index’s Best of 2017

Christian:

After various delays, complications, and delinquent submissions, we decided to finally bring you our 2017 year end lists in article form, despite the fact it’s absurdly late. Better late than never though, right?

Full-lengths:

10) Worry – “A Celebration of Suffering”

Ex-The Great Redneck Hope members illustrating just how much Colorado knows heavy.

Brooklyn’s best angular death metallars give the plethora of other Gorguts acolytes a run for their money.

Czar are keeping the lost art of jazzcore alive.

8) Czar – “Life Is Way No Way to Treat an Animal”

An absolutely expansive masterpiece that took a long time to truly digest, given the sheer magnitude and ambition of the song writing.

Those of you complaining about Cult Leader’s stylistic change after Gaza should immediately investigate this highly aggressive album.

Speaking of expansion, Yowie’s latest mind-expanding release is their magnum opus, and is as challenging as it is infectious.

Columbia brings one of the most inspired yet conversely under-recognized hardcore albums this year, with a seamless darkened tinge that could be compared to Plebeian Grandstand.

One of Holy Roar’s best sig nings ever, Helpless appear on Mathcore Index: Volume 1 , and show with this effort that they can deliver a masterful full-length performance that is filled with earwig riffs and Gaza-laced evil passages.

2)– “The Dusk In Us”

Big surprise, right? Not even being lazy here, just genuinely jammed this a ton, according to both Last.fm and Spotify.

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1) The Heads Are Zeros – “The Heads Are Zeros”

The Heads Are Zeros’ self-titled full-length is both their magnum opus and their swan song, and bands like this are the reason I started “writing” about music.