We’ve been busier than ever listening to new music in 2017 in the Sentinel Daily office, and the task of compiling a top one hundred list was a mountainous one; As ever, we didn’t rely on our own writers opinions solely but opened the poll out to a worldwide panel of nearly fifty music identities from around the globe, hopefully ensuring that SD editor Scott Adams‘ predilection for anything that sounds like it was recorded in or around 1987 isn’t given an unfair advantage… So, here we are with the first of a four part series running down the albums we and our cohorts decided were the very best that the year in rock and metal had to offer…

100. Septicflesh – Codex Omega (Season of Mist)

99. Fozzy – Judas (Century Media)

98. Iron Monkey – 9-13 (Relapse)

97. The Dark Element – The Dark Element (Frontiers Music)

96. The Darkness – Pinewood Smile (Canary Dwarf/Cooking Vinyl)

95. Witherfall – Nocturnes and Requiems (Own Label)

94. Sifting – Not From Here (Eclipse Music)

93. Sun of the Sleepless – To the Elements (Lupus Lounge)

92. Ne Obliviscaris – Urn (Season of Mist)

91. Ghost Bath – Starmourner (Northern Silence Productions)

90. Evil – Rites of Evil (Nuclear War Now! Productions)

89. Anubis Gate – Covered in Black (Nightmare Records)

88. Vuur – In This Moment We Are Free – Cities (InsideOut Music)

87. Domgård – Ödelagt  (Carnal Records)

86. Blood Feast – The Future State of Wicked (Hells Headbangers)

85. Electric Mountain – Electric Mountain (Own Label)

84. The Contortionist – Clairvoyant (eOne Music)

83. Alunah – Solennial (Svart Records)

82. Bad Bones – Demolition Derby (Sliptrick Records)

81. Vallenfyre – Fear Those Who Fear Him (Century Media)

80. Desecrator – To the Gallows (Dinner For Wolves)

79. Ignea – The Sign of Faith (Own Label)

78. Quicksand – Interiors (Epitaph)

77. Abhorrent Decimation – The Pardoner (Prosthetic Records)

76. Cannibal Corpse – Red Before Black (Metal Blade)