The Music 2017 Writers' Poll: Chris Maric

27 December 2017 | 12:14 pm | Chris Maric

album of the year

  1. Devil Electric — Devil Electric
  2. Solstafir — Berdreyminn
  3. Myrkur — Mareridt
  4. Alice Cooper — Paranormal
  5. Caligula's Horse — In Contact
  6. YLVA — Meta
  7. Akercocke — Renaissance In Extremis
  8. Burden Man — Shadows Of The Dying
  9. Deadspace — The Liquid Sky
  10. Ne Obliviscaris — Urn

song of the year

  1. Devil Electric — Lady Velvet
  2. Devil Electric — Hypnotica
  3. Hypergiant — Colossi
  4. Deadspace — Reflux
  5. Sweet Anarchy — Broken

artist of the year

  1. Devil Electric
  2. Caligula's Horse
  3. Wardruna
  4. Aimee Francis
  5. Taylor Swift

international artist performance

  1. MGLA
  2. Meshuggah
  3. Devin Townsend
  4. Alice Coooper
  5. Glenn Hughes

australian artist performance

  1. Caligula's Horse
  2. Devil Electric
  3. The Lockhearts
  4. Darkcell
  5. Burden Man

top tv show

  1. Stranger Things
  2. Designated Survivor
  3. Ozarks

top movie

  1. Blade Runner 2049
  2. Thor: Ragnarok
  3. Wonder Woman

highlight of 2017

My European trek once again — riding 300km on a push bike from London to the Download Fest with my Heavy Metal Truant family, Hellfest in France, and the whole month of June in general.

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prediction for 2018

Trump somehow keeps dodging bullets. Aliens tell us to stop being idiots — but that's been my prediction for years and never comes true!