Best Metal Albums of 2016
This seething black cauldron of suck that is 2016 is almost over. A lot of bad things happened this year, and we lost a seemingly staggering amount of people this year. But lots of good things happened as well. There was also a mountain of killer albums this year, so let us take solace in the great metal releases of 2016. Below is the METALHEADS combined list based on the lists of all those who participated in the year-end podcast episode. Once again, John has taken all of our lists and crunched the numbers based on how often an album showed up on people's lists and where it was ranked on their list. Below that are all the individual lists for everyone. Let us hope that 2017 is a better year, and one equally rich in metal releases. Cheers! - George
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George's List:
1. Thrawsunblat - III: Metachthonia
2. Cobalt - Slow Forever
3. Ihsahn - Arktis
4. Fleshgod Apocalypse - King
5. Devin Townsend Project - Transcendence
6. Subrosa - For This We Fought the Battle of Ages
7. Hail Spirit Noir - Mayhem in Blue
8. Perihelion Ship - A Rare Thunderstorm in Spring
9. Gojira - Magma
10. Hyperion - Seraphical Euphony
11. Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas - Mariner
12. Thy Catafalque - Meta
13. Unearthered Elf - Into the Catacomb Abyss
14. Anthrax - For All Kings
15. Borknagar - Winter Thrice
16. Moonsorrow - Jumalten Aika
17. Witchcraft - Nucleus
18. Khemmis - Hunted
19. Anaal Nathrakh - The Whole of the Law
20. Testament - Brotherhood of the Snake
21. Uhtcearu - The Plight of Wanderers
22. Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä
23. Wildernessking - Mystical Future
24. Lotus Thief - Gramarye
25. Darkthrone - Arctic Thunder
Buke's List:
1. Khemmis - Hunted
2. Ihsahn - Arktis
3. Revocation - Great Is Our Sin
4. Opeth - Sorceress
5. Obscura - Arkosis
6. Vektor - Terminal Redux
7. Textures - Phenotype
8. Thrawsunblat - III: Metachthonia
9. In Mourning - Afterglow
10. Borknagar - Winter Thrice
11. Witherscape - The Northern Sanctuary
12. Blood Incantation - Starspawn
13. Harakiri for the Sky - III: Trauma
14. Hyperion - Seraphical Euphony
15. Gojira - Magma
16. Centinex - Doomsday Rituals
17. Dark Tranquility - Atoma
18. Perihelion Ship - A Rare Thunderstorm in Spring
19. Be'Lakor - Vessels
20. Zhrine - Unortheta
21. Hannes Grossman - The Crypts of Sleep
22. Winterfylleth - The Dark Hereafter
23. Nucleus - Sentient
24. Spellcaster - Night Hides the World
25. Allegaeon - Proponent for Sentience
Jay's List:
1. Witchcraft - Nucleus
2. Pelander - Time
3. Kvelertak - Nattesferd
4. Black Fucking Cancer - Black Fucking Cancer
5. Inter Arma - Paradise Gallows
6. Vredehammer - Violator
7. Graves At Sea - The Curse That Is
8. Witchery - In His Infernal Majesty’s Service
9. Trap Them - Crown Feral
10. Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä
11. Hammers of Misfotune - Dead Revolution
12. Rotting Christ - Rituals
13. Big Business - Command Your Weather
14. Anthrax - For All Kings
15. Occult Burial - Hideous Obscure
16. Destoyer 666 - Wildfire
17. Cobalt - Slow Forever
18. Abbath - Abbath
19. Ihsahn - Arktis
20. Moonsorrow -Jumalten Aika
21. Eerie - Eerie
22. Black Tomb - Black Tomb
23. Testament - Brotherhood of the Snake
24. Glenn Hughes - Resonate
25. Thrawsunblat - III: Metachthonia
Will's List:
1. Eerie - Eerie2. Gojira - Magma
3. Centinex - Doomsday Rituals
4. Borracho - Atacama
5. Sililoquium - An Empty Frame
6. Blood Incantation - Starspawn
7. Slomatics - Future Echo Returns
8. Zhrine - Unortheta
9. In Mourning - Afterglow
10. Witchery - In His Infernal Majesty’s Service
11. Revel in Flesh - Emissary of All Plagues
12. Inter Arma - Paradise Gallows
13. Testament - Brotherhood of the Snake
14. Destoyer 666 - Wildfire
15. Church of Misery - And Then There Were None
16. Uhtcearu - The Plight of Wanderers
17. Helgamite - Hypnagogia
18. Khemmis - Hunted
19. Allfather - Bless the Earth With Fire
20. Slabdragger - Rise of the Dawncrusher
21. Dehumanized - Beyond the Mind
22. Troglodyte - Anthropological Curiosities and Archeological Relics
23. Wildernessking - Mystical Future
24. Wayfarer - Old Souls
25. Hellbringer - Awakened From the Abyss
John's List:
1. Fates Warning - Theories of Flight
2. Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä
3. Oak Pantheon - In Pieces
4. Insomnium - Winter's Gate
5. Blood Incantation - Starspawn
6. Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas - Mariner
7. Perihelion Ship - A Rare Thunderstorm in Spring
8. Anciients - Voice of the Void
9. Gojira - Magma
10. Devin Townsend Project - Transcendence
11. Votum - :KTONIK:
12. Counter-World Experience - Pulsar
13. Ihsahn - Arktis
14. Lotus Thief - Gramarye
15. Alcest - Kodama
16. Be'Lakor - Vessels
17. Spotlights - Tidals
18. Wildernessking - Mystical Future
19. Hail Spirit Noir - Mayhem in Blue
20. In Mourning - Afterglow
21. Witherscape - The Northern Sanctuary
22. Thrawsunblat - Metachthonia
23. Hammers of Misfotune - Dead Revolution
24. Unearthered Elf - Into the Catacomb Abyss
25. Vektor- Terminal Redux
Joel's List
1. Moonsorrow - Jumalten Aika2. Opeth - Sorceress
3. Ihsahn - Arktis
4. Forteresse - Thèmes pour la rébellion
5. Alcest - Kodama
6. Wode - Wode
7. Devin Townsend Project - Transcendence
8. Winterfylleth - The Dark Hereafter
9. Amon Amarth - Jomsviking
9. Rome - Coriolan
10. Dark Tranquility - Atoma
Need to Listen to in 2017
Unearthed Elf, Hammers of Misfortune, Wildernessking, Troglodyte, Testament, Witherscape, Hail Spirit Noir, Allfather, Centinex, Lotus Thief, Hyperion, Thy Catafalque, Gojira, In Mourning, Witchery, Perihelion Ship, SubRosa, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Oak Pantheon, Kvelertak, Orannsi Pazuzu, Pelander, Cobalt, Witchcraft, Fates Warning, Eerie, Khemmis