This year went by quick; lots of great albums, movies, games, etc came out. The staff at Kill The Music have posted their individual lists which is compiled here. Hopefully our lists encourage some of you to check out something that you might've overlooked! 

Jordan Mohler (Editor-in-Chief)

A playlist featuring songs from all these albums can be found on Spotify.

1. My Ticket Home - unReal
2. Avenged Sevenfold - The Stage
3. Lorde - Melodrama
4. Glassjaw - Material Control
5. Paramore - After Laughter
6. Eighteen Visions - XVIII
7. Japanese Breakfast - Soft Sounds from Another Planet
8. Halsey - hopeless fountain kingdom
9. Washed Out - Mister Mellow
10. Shadow of Intent - Reclaimer
11. PVRIS - All We Know of Heaven, All We Need of Hell
12. Veil of Maya - False Idol
13. John Mayer - The Search for Everything
14. Rise Against - Wolves
15. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN
16. In Her Own Words - Unfamiliar
17. Hippie Sabotage - Drifter
18. To Speak of Wolves - Dead In The Shadow
19. Volumes - Different Animals
20. The xx - I See You
21. Nothing More - The Stories We Tell Ourselves
22. Within The Ruins - Halfway Human
23. August Burns Red - Phantom Anthem
24. Lights - Skin&Earth
25. Lorna Shore - Flesh Coffin
26. Sound of Ceres - The Twin
27. Drake - More Life
28. Logic - Everybody
29. Fallen Captive - Fallen Captive
30. Ocean Grove - The Rhapsody Tapes
31. Currents - The Place I Feel Safest
32. Born of Osiris - The Eternal Reign
33. Emmure - Look at Yourself
34. Motionless In White - Graveyard Shift
35. The Black Dahlia Murder - Nightbringers
36. Wage War - Deadweight
37. Bjork - Utopia
38. Darkest Hour - Godless Prophets and the Migrant Flora
39. Baths - Romaplasm
40. Circa Survive - The Amulet

Best EPs of 2017

1. Hollow Prophet - Hellhole
2. Buried Crosses - Reject
3. Limbs - Sleep
4. Hail The Sun - Secret Wars
5 Sufferer - War on Life

Sam Reed (Managing Editor)

A playlist featuring songs from all these albums can be found on Spotify!

1. The Maine - Lovely Little Lonely
2. Paramore – After Laughter
3. Halsey – hopeless fountain kingdom
4. Harry Styles – Harry Styles  
5. Dozer TX – Centerpiece  
6. Demi Lovato – Tell Me You Love Me
7. Nominee – Drag Me Out  
8. PVRIS - All We Know of Heaven, All We Need of Hell
9. Movements – Feel Something  
10. A Will Away – Here Again
11. Julien Baker – Turn the Lights Out
12. Neck Deep – The Peace and The Panic
13. Seaway – Vacation
14. Lights – Skin&Earth  
15. Counterparts – You're Not You Anymore
16. Can't Swim – Fail You Again
17. Foo Fighters – Concrete and Gold
18. LANY – LANY
19. Kesha – Rainbow
20. Incendiary – Thousand Mile Stare
21. Head North – The Last Living Man Ever in the History of the World
22. Ed Sheeran – Divide
23. Kendrick Lamar – DAMN
24.  Turnover – Good Nature
25. Tigers Jaw – spin  

Andrew Bastion

1. The Black Dahlia Murder - Nightbringers
2. Signs Of The Swarm - The Disfigurement of Existence
3. Lorna Shore - Flesh Coffin
4. Fit For An Autopsy - The Great Collapse
5. Ne Obliviscaris - Urn
6. Aversions Crown - Xenocide
7. DED - Mis-An-Thropy
8. Rings Of Saturn - Ulla ulta
9. Paramore - After laughter
10. Marilyn Manson - Heaven Upside Down
11. Fire From The Gods - Narrative Untold
12. Emmure - Look at yourself
13. Miss May I- Shadows Inside
14. The Faceless - In Becoming A Ghost
15. Spite - Nothing Is Beautiful
16. Volumes - Different Animals
17. I the Mighty - Where the Mind Wants to Go / Where You Let it Go
18. Oceans Ate Alaska - Hikari
19. Dying Fetus - Wrong One To Fuck With
20. Currents - The Place I Feel Safest
21. Halflives- Empty Rooms
22. Galactic Empire - Galactic Empire
23. Icarus The Owl - Rearm Circuits
24. Motionless In White - Graveyard Shift
25. Northern Ghost - Happy:Sad:Depressed:Suicidal
26. The White Noise - AM/PM
27. Strawberry Girls - Italian Ghosts
28. Shadow Of Intent - Reclaimer
29. Slaughter To Prevqail - Misery Sermon
30. Ed Sheeran -  Divide
31. Wage War - Deadweight
32. While She Sleeps - You are We
33. Stick To Your Guns - True View
34. PVRIS - All We Know of Heaven, All We Need of Hell
35. Palisades - Palisades
36. Make Them Suffer - Worlds Apart
37. Polyphia - The Most Hated
38. Knuckle Puck - Shapeshifter
39. Circa Survive - The Amulet
40. Lights - Skin & Earth
41. The Artificials - Heart
42. In Hearts Wake - Ark
43. Youth In Revolt - The Broken
44. Silverstein - Dead Reflection
45. Veil Of Maya - False Idol
46. Grayscale - Adornment
47. Picturesque - Back To Beautiful
48. P!NK - Beautiful Trauma
49. The Contortionist - Clairvoyant
50. Alestorm - No Grave but the Sea

(Honorable Mention) Seaway - Vacation
(Honorable Mention) Archspire - Relentless Mutation
(Honorable Mention) Winds Of Plague - Blood Of My Enemy
(Honorable Mention) Aminé - Good For You
(Honorable Mention) Eisley - I'm Only Dreaming 

George Archibald

1. Ne Obliviscaris – Urn
2. Through the Eyes of The Dead – Disomus
3. The Black Dahlia Murder – Nightbringers
4. Alluvial – The Deep Longing for Annihilation
5. The Faceless – In Becoming a Ghost
6. Igorrr – Savage Sinusoid
7. Fit For An Autopsy – The Great Collapse
8. Signs of the Swarm – The Disfigurement of Existence
9. Emmure – Take a Look at Yourself
10. Oceano – Revelation
11. Name – You are Mostly Nowhere
12. Lorna Shore – Flesh Coffin
13. Suffocation – Of the Dark Light
14. Decapitated – Anticult
15. Spite – Nothing is Beautiful
16. Code Orange – Forever
17. Dying Fetus – Wrong One to Fuck With
18. Rings of Saturn – Ultu Ulla
19. Bermuda – Nepenthe
20. A Wake in Providence Insidious: Phase 2
21. Coma Cluster Void – Thoughts from a Stone
22. Slaughter to Prevail – Misery Sermon
23. So This is Suffering – Palace of the Pessimist
24. Great American Ghost – Hatred Stems from the Seed
25. The Haunted – Strength in Numbers
26. Berried Alive – Fools Gold
27. Zao – Pyrrhic Victory
28. Thy Art is Murder- Dear Desolation
29. She Must Burn – Grimoire
30. Aversions Crown – Xenocide
31. A Trust Unclean – Parturition
32. Entheos – Dark Future
33. Enterprise Earth – Embodiment
34. The Contortionist – Clairvoyant
35. Kardashev – The Almanac
36. Origin – Unparalleled Universe
37. Extortionist – The Decline
38. Boris The Blade – Warpath
39. Aethere – Adrift
40. Human Error – Upon a Throne of Greed
41. Hideous Divinity – Adveniens
42. Eighteen Visions – XVIII
43. Aborted – Bathos
44. Feared – Svart
45. Bodysnatcher – Death of Me
46. Rendered Helpless – Entities of Transdimensional Emergence
47. The Interbeing – Enigmatic Circuits
48. The Charm The Fury – The Sick, Dumb & Happy
49. Arkaik – Nemethia
50. The Acacia Strain – Gravebloom

Caeman Amelio

01. Butcher Babies - "Lilith"
02. Papa Roach - "Crooked Teeth"
03. Arch Enemy - "Will To Power"
04. In This Moment - "Ritual"
05. Stone Sour - "Hydrograd"
06. Trivium "The Sin And The Sentence"
07. The Haxans - "Party Monsters"
08. Mastodon - "Emperor Of Sand"
09. Marilyn Manson - "Heaven Upside Down"
10. Cradle Of Filth - "Cryptoriana - The Seductiveness Of Decay"
11. Hollywood Undead - "Five"
12. Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes - "Modern Ruin"
13. The Faceless - "In Becoming A Ghost"
14. Motionless In White - "Graveyard Shift"
15. Code Orange - "Forever"
16. Powerman 5000 - "New Wave"
17. Power Trip - "Nightmare Logic"
18. Deuce - "Invincible"
19. Body Count - "Bloodlust"
20. Cannibal Corpse - "Red Before Black"
21. Emmure - "Look At Yourself"
22. Toothgrinder - "Phantom Amour"
23. Paradise Lost - "Medusa"
24. Kreator - "Gods Of Violence"
25. The Black Dahlia Murder - "Nightbringers"
26. Thy Art Is Murder - "Dear Desolation"
27. Once Human - "Evolution"
28. Foo Fighters - "Concrete And Gold"
29. Queens Of The Stone Age - "Villains"
30. Fit For An Autopsy - "The Great Collapse"
31. Nothing More -  "The Stories We Tell Ourselves"
32. Converge - "The Dusk In Us"
33. Prophets Of Rage - "Prophets Of Rage"
34. Royal Blood - "How Did We Get So Dark?"
35. Seether - "Poison The Parish"
36. Glassjaw - "Material Control"
37. GWAR - "The Blood Of Gods"
38. Fozzy - "Judas"
39. Adelitas Way - "Notorious"
40. Shaman's Harvest - "Red Hands Black Deeds"
41. Doyle - "Doyle II: As We Die"
42. Rex Brown - "Smoke On This..."
43. Josh Todd & The Conflict - "Year Of The Tiger"
44. All That Remains - "Madness"
45. Theory Of A Deadman - "Wake Up Call"
46. Iron Reagan - "Crossover Ministry"
47. Rancid - "Trouble Maker"
48. Alice Cooper - "Paranormal"
49. Linkin Park - "One More Light"
50. Dead Cross - "Dead Cross"

Chapin Patel

1. Citizen - As You Please
2. Coin - How Will You Know If You Never Try
3. Turnover - Good Nature
4. Remo Drive - Greatest Hits
5. The Front Bottoms - Going Grey
6. Southpaw Sonata - Accepting Your Affinity
7. LANY - LANY
8. Hippocampus - Landmark
9. Tigers Jaw - Spin
10. Movements - Feel Something

Xochitl Hansen

1. Neck Deep - The Peace and the Panic
2. Queens Of The Stone Age - Villains
3. Forever Starts Today- Always Hope
4. Paramore- After Laughter
5. Asking Alexandria - Self Titled
6. Citizen - As You Please
7. Tigers Jaw - Spin
8. As It Is - Okay
9. Marilyn Manson - Heaven Upside Down
10. Grayscale - Adornment
11. Julien Baker - Turn Out The Lights
12. Movements - Feel Something
13. Roam - Great Heights & Nosedives
14. New Found Glory - Makes Me Sick
15. Eat Your Heart Out - Mind Games
16. I The Mighty -Where the Mind Wants to Go / Where You Let it Go
17. Sleep On It- Overexposed
18. The Bottom Line - I Still Hate You
19. Creeper - Eternity, In Your Arms
20. Dropkick Murphys - 11 Short Stories of Pain & Glory