Top 20 albums
1. Immolation – Atonement
2. Broken Hope – Mutilated and Assimilated
3. Hellcannon – Return to the Wasteland
4. Memoriam – For the Fallen
5. Sinister – Syncretism
6. Incantation – Profane Nexus
7. Cannibal Corpse – Red Before Black
8. Morbid Angel – Kingdoms Disdained
9. Obituary – Obituary
10. Exhumed – Death Revenge
11. Morta Skuld – Wounds Deeper Than Time
12. Father Befouled – Desolate Gods
13. Entrails – World Inferno
14. Prong – Zero Days
15. Overkill – The Grinding Wheel
16. Ascended Dead – Abhorrent Manifestation
17. Gorephilia – Severed Monolith
18. Undergang – Misantropologi
19. Suffocation – Of the Dark Light
20. Deserter – Coils of the Lesser Serpent
Best EP
Ectoplasma – Skeletal Lifeforms
Best Live Album
Rotting Spiritual Embodiment – Incantation
Best Concert
Hartford DeathFest – Obituary, Gruesome, Cryptopsy, Decrepit Birth – The Webster in Hartford, CT
Best New Band
Memoriam
Favorite Discovery of 2017
Skeletal Remains
Best Comeback
Morbid Angel
Best Local Band
Outer Heaven
Best Covers Album
Under Cover – Motorhead
Hopes for 2018
- New Morpheus Descends album and tour
- New Cancer album
- New Pestilence album
- New Deicide album
- Fire for Effect album
- Ozzy world tour
- King Diamond ABIGAIL Blu ray
