All the other 2016 lists are total garbage.

1.Schammasch - Triangle

2.Mortichnia - Heir To Scoria And Ash

3.Départe - Failure, Subside

4.SubRosa - For This We Fought The Battle Of Ages

5.Ustalost - The Spoor Of Vipers

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Picked my top 25. Should be good.
12/25/16

1.Mouth Of The Architect - Path Of Eight

2.Départe - Failure, Subside

3.Klimt 1918 - Sentimentale Jugend

4.Alder - Sun Worshipper

5.Numenorean - Home

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A list of the albums of 2016 that I have heard so far and enjoyed. Ratings and mini-reviews to come.

1.Abbath - Abbath

2.Atrament - Eternal Downfall

3.Beseech - My Darkness, Darkness

4.Bifröst - Mana Ewah

5.Black Tusk - Pillars Of Ash

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For me more than you, as the sheer amount of music in the world has turned me into a goldfish as far as remembering what I've listened to and what I thought of it. However, if you find something cool from here, more power you my friend!

1.Cult Of Luna - Mariner [Collaboration]

2.Fallujah - Dreamless

3.Moonsorrow - Jumalten Aika

4.Death Grips - The Bottomless Pit

5.Iamthemorning - Lighthouse

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In order, to keep track of them. Simple.

1.Forteresse - Thèmes Pour La Rébellion

2.Vektor - Terminal Redux

3.Blood Ceremony - Lord Of Misrule

4.Latitudes - Old Sunlight

5.Cult Of Luna - Mariner [Collaboration]

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All albums of 2016 I've listened to, ordered from the best to the worst.

1.The Foreshadowing - Seven Heads, Ten Horns

2.Heavenwood - The Tarot Of The Bohemians

3.Moonsorrow - Jumalten Aika

4.Borknagar - Winter Thrice

5.Novembre - URSA

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A 2016 list about ugly metal, cute pop and weird music.

I was trying to do something sorted alphabetically, but I realized it makes more sense if I sort them in the order I discover/listen to. So, the closer to the top, the later I found about the release. Older entries to the bottom.

Antecipated albums are sorted in release date.

1.El Ahrairah - St

2.Mega - St

3.Crayon Pop - Evolution Pop Vol I

4.Xenon Maiden - Enigma

5.Kodemari Koruri - Lunatic Butterfly

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As is the case with my other lists, this is for my own organizational purposes and is designed purely to help me keep track of all the many black metal bands and albums that I enjoy, since I can't keep all of this information in my head. It has no other benefit whatsoever and will likely result in tantrums should anyone else see it. I'm aware that I haven't listened to every black metal album that I should have. I only went down to the 6s on this list, so it's possible that I have listened to your favorite black metal album that you desperately need to suggest and I thought it was terrible. There are a lot of heinously incompetent black metal bands out there.

On the off-chance that you've found this and actually care about what I think (you shouldn't), be advised that my favorites come first. Some are favorites in the general sense; some are favorites within black metal. The first few of those are in some order and not so much after that.

Because this is for my own purposes and not intended to be a definitive list of pure black metal, there are some black metal-adjacent bands, or albums by black metal bands that may not themselves be black metal. That's why you'll find so much Sigh clogging up the top of the list. I prefer to keep whole discographies together on one list. I used to include Primordial, Forefather, and other such bands, but a while back I created a list for folk and I decided that those artists would fit better there.

I update these lists very infrequently. This was last updated December 7, 2022.

1.Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape

2.Sigh - Graveward

3.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane

4.Sigh - Heir To Despair

5.The Meads Of Asphodel - The Murder Of Jesus The Jew

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