This is my Best of 2016. Obviously a work in progress. Still tons more new metal to be released this year. Right now I am going back to the early releases and making sure nothing fell through the cracks.

1.Swans - The Glowing Man

2.Sumac - What One Becomes

3.Wormed - Krighsu

4.Katatonia - The Fall Of Hearts

5.Internal Suffering - Cyclonic Void Of Power

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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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1.Vektor - Terminal Redux

2.Plini - Handmade Cities

3.Alcest - Kodama

4.The Dillinger Escape Plan - Dissociation

5.Thank You Scientist - Stranger Heads Prevail

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1.Ulcerate - Shrines Of Paralysis

2.The Dillinger Escape Plan - Dissociation

3.Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

4.Katatonia - The Fall Of Hearts

5.Vektor - Terminal Redux

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My personal favorite studio albums of 2016

1.Devin Townsend - Transcendence

2.Trees Of Eternity - Hour Of The Nightingale

3.Avenged Sevenfold - The Stage

4.Metallica - Hardwired...To Self-Destruct

5.Epica - The Holographic Principle

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let's go!

1.Band-Maid - Brand New Maid

2.Thrawsunblat - Metachthonia

3.Enchiridion - The Realm Of Blackened Perdition

4.pg.lost - Versus

5.Myrath - Legacy

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1.Alcest - Kodama

2.Myrath - Legacy

3.Fallujah - Dreamless

4.Krampus - Counter//Current

5.Rotting Christ - Rituals

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Some black coffee, some milky atmosphere, some folk syrup and some sweet death.

No special order.

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1.Moonsorrow - Jumalten Aika

2.Myrkgrav - Takk Og Farvel Tida Er Blitt Ei Annen

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4.Noctem - Haeresis

5.Belenos - Kornôg

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1.Amon Amarth - Jomsviking

2.Dark Tranquillity - Atoma

3.Omnium Gatherum - Grey Heavens

4.Equilibrium - Armageddon

5.Be'lakor - Vessels

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My favorite to least favorite from 2016. I will be adding and moving albums as the year goes on.

1.Epica - The Holographic Principle

2.Testament - Brotherhood Of The Snake

3.Avantasia - Ghostlights

4.Allegaeon - Proponent For Sentience

5.Brymir - Slayer Of Gods

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My Fav Album In 2016 From Best to Worst

1.Dark Funeral - Where Shadows Forever Reign

2.Qaf - Muthalath Al A'asarem

3.Gojira - Magma

4.Denouncement Pyre - Black Sun Unbound

5.Schammasch - Triangle

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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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2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2011, 2010

1.Be'lakor - Vessels

2.Rotting Christ - Rituals

3.If These Trees Could Talk - The Bones of a Dying World

4.Gojira - Magma

5.Russian Circles - Guidance

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SEXY stuff from 2016. Lots of prog.

Rating:

5 - Perfect
4,5 - Excellent
4 - Great
3,5 - Very good
3 - Good
2,5 - OK, but nothing special

1.Haken - Affinity

2.Fates Warning - Theories Of Flight

3.Be'lakor - Vessels

4.Witherscape - The Northern Sanctuary

5.Devin Townsend - Transcendence

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Work in Progress.
Top 30 favorite albums of the year. #31 onwards have not been sorted yet.

1.The Hotelier - Goodness

2.Thank You Scientist - Stranger Heads Prevail

3.Astronoid - Air

4.Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost

5.O'Brother - Endless Light

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