My Top 50 of 2016

[MelbCro]

1. Haken - Affinity
2. Fates Warning - Theories of Flight
3. Mithras - On Strange Loops
4. Marillion - F.E.A.R
5. Dark Suns - Everchild
6. iamthemorning - Lighthouse
7. Bent Knee - Say So
8. Katatonia - Fall of Hearts
9. Port Noir - Any Way the Wind Carries
10. Cyborg Octopus - Learning to Breathe
=10. Car Bomb - Meta

 

[The Fiddler]

19. Striker- Stand in the Fire: Take everything I said about Spellcaster and magnify it times ten for this disc. The disc is even further elevated as they also crank it up into traditional Power (perhaps a bit of NWoBHM?) as well with some galloping riffs & sky high vocals. This makes me proud to be a child of the 80’s.

I've had this CD a week and absolutely love it!!! Glad to see they have a substantial US and world tour coming up. They are playing in East Atlanta (The Earl) on February 7. I wonder if The Harvester will there doing some recon?

http://www.striker-metal.com/

 

[Cnaiür urs Skiötha]

Thanks everybody for posting all this great Music. I know most of the stuff I am interested in but there have been 2 or 3 which were new to me.

Some records that deserve a mention as well in my opinion:

Wardrum - Awakening
Lanfear - The Code Inherited
Thornbridge - What will Prevail
Enbound - The Blackened Heart
Charred Walls of the Damned - Creatures Watching over the Dead