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Top Metal Albums Each Year I Have Been Alive 2016

A little list series where I list my top 20 favorite metal albums every year starting from the year I was born in.

2016 was pretty solid year for metal, a couple of masterpieces in melodic death metal and power metal, black metal keep going strong and some old acts returning stronger than ever.


My favorite non metal albums of 2016

1. ★
By David Bowie (Art rock)


2. Atrocity Exhibition
By Danny Brown (Experimental Hip Hop, Hardcore Hip Hop)


3. Runaljod – Ragnarok
By Wardruna (Dark Folk, Neo-Pagan Folk)


4.Blonde
By Frank Ocean (R&B, Neo-Soul, Ambient Pop)


5. Act V: Hymns With the Devil in Confessional
By The Dear Hunter (Progressive Rock, Rock Opera)



My favorite movie from 2016


1.Insomnium - Winter's Gate
2.Eternal Champion - The Armor of Ire
3.Trees Of Eternity - Hour Of The Nightingale
4.La Torture Des Ténèbres - Civilization Is The Tomb Of Our Noble Gods
5.Demon Bitch - Hellfriends

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Created by Handala on 25.12.2022



M0rkeleb's Overall Favorites - 8s

I feel like my overall favorites list is getting too long. I'm splitting it up by rating.

1.Thy Catafalque - Meta
2.Sepulcros - Vazio
3.Kassad - Faces Turn Away
4.Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings
5.Xanthochroid - Of Erthe And Axen: Act I

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Created by M0rkeleb on 04.12.2022



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Favorite Metal Albums Of All Time

1 album per band per subgenre
work in progress, updating as I go through the song-by-song ratings on RateYourMusic.com
I will typically update my black metal faves - https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=6924
and my death metal faves - https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=6298
prior to updating this one

1.Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime
2.King Diamond - Abigail
3.Voivod - Dimension Hatröss
4.Mastodon - Crack The Skye
5.Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris

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Created by sgtrobo on 14.07.2022



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My Top 50 Albums Of 2016

1.Insomnium - Winter's Gate
2.Moonsorrow - Jumalten Aika
3.Witherscape - The Northern Sanctuary
4.Ihsahn - Arktis.
5.Alcest - Kodama

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Created by JHK on 26.02.2022



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Fave BM (and BM-adjacent) Albums

* Updating this as I get around to doing song-by-song on RYM.
* 1 album per band
* limiting this to actual black metal releases, as opposed to releases by bands that were, at one time, black metal.
>> Some bands really do incorporate a lot of both death metal or doom (or avant garde or folk, etc) and black metal in their albums, so I consider them to be 'black metal adjacent' even if it might not be 'purely black metal'

1.Weakling - Dead As Dreams
2.Caladan Brood - Echoes Of Battle
3.Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum
4.Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin Kynsi
5.Altar Of Plagues - Teethed Glory & Injury

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Created by sgtrobo on 26.11.2021



666 Albums To Die For

Be Patient dudes, This List is under Construction

1.Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone
2.Mgła - Exercises In Futility
3.Hail Spirit Noir - Mayhem In Blue
4.Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
5.Fires In The Distance - Echoes From Deep November

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Created by christslave on 03.03.2021



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150 Albums To Become An Adult To: 2010-2019

I began this decade in my final year of high school, in the early phases of my metal journey (Mastodon, Machine Head, Dream Theater, Pantera and Avenged Sevenfold were still recent discoveries). One Masters degree and one PhD later, I'm now a tax-paying Londonian, and have ploughed through what must be comfortably over 2000 new releases during the previous ten years. To commemorate the end of a turbulent decade, I've put together a list of the albums that have stuck with me throughout this decade - I wouldn't consider this to be a 'best albums' list, as there have been some truly ingenious works released in more avant-garde territories, but ultimately these are the albums that have ended up dominating my listening habits, or otherwise making a sufficient impression to make this list.

1.Sylosis - Monolith
2.Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth
3.Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud
4.Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone
5.Cult Of Luna - Vertikal

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Created by musclassia on 27.12.2019



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Mz's Favorite Records Of Drone And Related Genres

Still not finished, as I need to rearrange, check the links and also go through the genres again. I might have forgotten many good records. In addition, my knowledge of early industrial movement is very limited, so the list is lacking on that front. Many albums on the list might also not be considered drone in a traditional sense of the word, but they need the same sort of aesthetic appreciation I guess, so I included them. The most important criteria is that the albums should rely extensively on texturing, buildup, and musical landscapes rather that being riff based.

1.
2.Boris - Amplifier Worship
3.Earth - Earth 2: Special Low Frequency version
4.Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull
5.

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Created by mz on 19.10.2017



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Top Albums 2016

Well, here I put my personal top with which to me have been the best albums of 2016. They are not all they are, but if they all are.

1.Altarage - NIHL
2.Mistur - In Memoriam
3.Fallujah - Dreamless
4.Anciients - Voice Of The Void
5.Black Crown Initiate - Selves We Cannot Forgive

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Created by kam1kaze on 01.03.2017



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Top Releases Of 2016, Now With Eggs Benedict!

Here are my favourite releases (8+ ratings) from 2016! This year, my preferences are ranked in order of how I'd rate them. I didn't manage to listen to an exceptional amount of new music this year, so please feel free to recommend and share some releases I may not have gotten to.

Impression about 2016: A terrible year for prog and alternative metal, if I had to be honest, mostly because my expectations were sky-high for releases from Headspace, Haken, Third Ion and Dissona. On the other hand, Vektor revitalized the stagnant genre of thrash with an incredible release. It was a decent year for post-metal or post-influenced things (Départe, Moanaa, Bossk, Blindead), but it was tough to top some of the gems from 2015 (mainly, Sunpocrisy's Eyegasm, Hallelujah! album). Finally, the combination of krautrock with metal in 2016 tantalized me frequently earlier in the year (exemplified by the music of ZÖN and Vaults of Zin).

1.Départe - Failure, Subside
2.40 Watt Sun - Wider Than The Sky
3.Gorguts - Pleiades' Dust
4.Aluk Todolo - Voix
5.Vektor - Terminal Redux

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Created by Diverge on 27.12.2016



Metal Top 150 - (myFavorites 2016)

1.Mantar - Ode To The Flame
2.Temple Of Gnosis - De Secretis Naturae Alchymica
3.Uada - Devoid Of Light
4.Vanhelgd - Temple Of Phobos
5.Witherscape - The Northern Sanctuary

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Created by Alexbridger on 26.12.2016



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My Favorites Of 2016...so Far

I have never attempted to create a complete end of the year list so far, but here it is. It consists of the albums that I have either purchased myself throughout the year (most of them), or that I still spent enough time listening to to get a more or less complete impression (a few). I know that there are countless albums out there that I haven't paid any attention to so far and I might change the list a bit in the coming months because of that. Since I am mostly listening to Black Metal, expect to see a lot from that genre in my list.

1.Forteresse - Thèmes Pour La Rébellion
2.Mare Cognitum - Luminiferous Aether
3.Schammasch - Triangle
4.Inquisition - Bloodshed Across The Empyrean Altar Beyond The Celestial Zenith
5.Anaal Nathrakh - The Whole Of The Law

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Created by Isalith on 07.12.2016



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2016 - Dub Be Good For Me

Garbage dump for my sake of keeping track what I've liked this year. thought I's do this since it would be a decent idea to make as my hardrive last year thought that life wasn't worth living anymore, including my collective musical memory on there. ¬_¬ Better to evolve then die off I say. ^_^

1.Aluk Todolo - Voix
2.Anagnorisis - Peripeteia
3.Boris - 現象 Gensho [Collaboration]
4.Death Fetishist - Whorifice
5.Deathspell Omega - The Synarchy Of Molten Bones

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Created by Alakazam on 09.11.2016



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2016: The Bests

I did not spend much time searching for/listening to music in 2016, so recommendations are more than welcomed. Some of the stuff towards the end of the list are likely to be deleted.

1.Schammasch - Triangle
2.Aluk Todolo - Voix
3.Skáphe - Skáphe²
4.Terra Tenebrosa - The Reverses
5.Départe - Failure, Subside

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Created by mz on 19.06.2016



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Albums Of 2016

https://fullblackreviews.blogspot.com
My blog if you want to read some reviews.

1.Meshuggah - The Violent Sleep Of Reason
2.Schammasch - Triangle
3.Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä
4.Bethlehem - Bethlehem
5.Ulcerate - Shrines Of Paralysis

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Created by deswesher on 29.05.2016