What a year 2016 was! I mean that in the best and the worst ways possible. However, when it came to music, 2016 did not slack in the least. I’ll admit my tastes have been all over the place but DAMN the world of metal has delivered.
These are the releases I listened to and enjoyed the most during that time:
Top 20 Albums
20. Circle Of Contempt – Structures for Creation
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19. Car Bomb – Meta
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18. Virvum – Illuminance
17. Cartoon Theory – Planet Geisha
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16. Textures – Phenotype
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15. Départe – Failure, Subside
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14. Ihsahn – Arktis
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13. Plini – Handmade Cities
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12. Ulcerate – Shrines of Paralysis
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11. Deftones – Gore
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10. Animals As Leaders – The Madness of Many
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9. Devin Townsend – Transcendence
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8. Gojira – Magma
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7. Anciients – Voice of the Void
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6. Meshuggah – The Violent Sleep of Reason
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5. Plebeian Grandstand – False Highs, True Lows
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4. Periphery – Periphery III: Select Difficulty
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3. Vektor – Terminal Redux
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2. Slice The Cake – Odyssey to the West
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1. Fallujah – Dreamless
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Top 11 EPs
11. Niverlare – Roots
10. The Arbitrary – Entropy
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9. ToY – Crab Deconstruction
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8. Echo Spiral – Dark Mirror
7. StarSystems – StarSystems III
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6. Redshift Pilots – Lurker
5. Boreworm – Entomophobia
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4. ORO – Tusen Kroppar
3. Voidspawn – Pyrrhic
2. The Surrealist – Naked Awareness
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1. Gorguts – Pleiades’ Dust
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The Many Honorable Mentions (In No Particular Order)
Albums
Eternity’s End – The Fire Within
First Fragment – Dasein
Infinite Density – Recollapse of the Universe
After The Burial – Dig Deep
DOOM Soundtrack
Twelve Foot Ninja – Outlier
Testament – Brotherhood of the Snake
Black Crown Initiate – Selves We Cannot Forgive
Serpentine Dominion – Self-Titled
Toothgrinder – Nocturnal Masquerade
Cyborg Octopus – Learning to Breathe
Killswitch Engage – Incarnate
Architects – All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us
Oranssi Pazuzu – Värähtelijä
Itzamna – CHASCADE
Cœur – Horizons
Enthean – Priests of Annihilation
The Jackals – Devisee
Joel Lindfors – Shift
Mammoth – Deviations
Monolith – Nexus
Minarchist – In Absence
Xenomorphic Contamination – Colonized from the Inside
Tactus – Bending Light
The Exiled Martyr – Stagnant Waters Breed Life
Invocation – Atlas
With Ink Instead Of Blood – Ars Goetia/Godless Apparitions
Manhattan Project – Engineering Chaos
Desolate Dreams – Inevitability
Heresy Denied – Innerception
Koronal – Flicker Away
Zao – The Well-Intentioned Virus
Orbit Culture – Rasen
Coma Cluster Void – Mind Cemeteries
Vipassi – Śūnyatā
Polyphia – Renaissance
Metallica – Hardwired… to Self-Destruct
Wormhole – Genesis
Obscura – Akróasis
Brain Drill – Boundless Obscenity
Anthrax – For All Kings
Entheos – The Infinite Nothing
Wormed – Krighsu
The Zenith Passage – Solipsist
Vale Of Pnath – The Prodigal Empire
Allegaeon – Proponent for Sentience
Revocation – Great Is Our Sin
Neurosis – Fires Within Fires
Opeth – Sorceress
The Dillinger Escape Plan – Dissociation
ERRA – Drift
Every Time I Die – Low Teens
Hyperion – Seraphical Euphony
Infant Annihilator – The Elysian Grandeval Galèriarch
Mare Cognitum – Luminiferous Aether
Abnormality – Mechanisms of Omniscience
Aborted – Retrogore
Anaal Nathrakh – The Whole of the Law
Nails – You Will Never Be One Of Us
Unfathomable Ruination – Finitude
Gatecreeper – Sonoran Depravation
Downfall Of Gaia – Atrophy
EPs
Voivod – Post Society
Burial In The Sky – Persistence of Thought
Slaughter To Prevail – Chapters Of Misery (Reissue)
Pestilent Reign – The Zealot
Nonsense – On Earth
Avenge The Sin – Atonement
Construct Paradise – Suspended Animation
Zeolite – Self-Titled
Daedalvs – Apotheosis
Haamoja – Pure Love
The Queen Bled Acid – Stareater
Shokran – Dmitry Demyanenko – Insomnia
