Top 10 Metal Albums of 2016

[no country for old wainds]

- first place in your rankings gets 10 points, 2nd gets 9, etcetc, 10th gets 1.
- feel free to post more than 10, but only the top 10 will get points.
- feel free to post less than 10, the same scoring will apply.
- feel free not to rank your picks, in which case all ten picks will get 5.5 points.
- if you're so much of a dick that you have to post more than 10 unranked picks, i'll work out the mathS. basically there's no way you can sabotage this so fuck you!
- these threads are always more interesting/useful if you give some kind of reason for/description of your choices, so feel free to do that also!

i'll tally up the votes on... let's say new year's day, maybe a bit later if someone requests an extension. you can edit your lists up to that point.

i may start doing these for past years too if people are interested, have a master-thread of GMD consensus yearly lists, a bit like the hall of fame.

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

No rank:

Wandering Wind
Mare Cognitum
Mithras
Schammasch
Astronoid
Crystal Palace
Ultar
Chthe'ilist
An Abstract Illusion
Vex


This was really hard...

 

[The Ozzman]

Could we extend this to like end of January? I bought 47 new releases and need time to absorb them all still

 

[Krow]

Will post a list later. One and two will be simple enough but after that not sure really.

 

[Phylactery]

I haven't even listened to 10 releases from this year so this thread will be useful for me.

 

[Elric of Melniboné]

I need to think about it, but I know my top two albums already.

 

[EspaDa]

Dont want to see any Hardwired here

 

[no country for old wainds]

Could we extend this to like end of January? I bought 47 new releases and need time to absorb them all still

that would suit me royally tbh

 

[The Ozzman]

that would suit me royally tbh

Thanks. I won't have all 47 thoroughly listened to obviously but it'll get me time to listen to 10-15 of them so I can GET a Top 10 formulated heh.

There are 4-5 that will already be in my list, but I don't know about the others.

 

[Slayed Necros]

I can only manage a top five at the moment. I need to spend more time with a bunch of other stuff. Doubt this will change, though.

1. Panphage - Drengskapr
2. Panphage / Þul - Ginnheilagr
3. Mortem - Deinós Nekrómantis
4. Blood Incantation - Starspawn
5. Dead Congregation - Sombre Doom

 

[EspaDa]

5. Dead Congregation - Sombre Doom

Love this one but it's even too short for an ep

 

[Baroque]

Thanks. I won't have all 47 thoroughly listened to obviously but it'll get me time to listen to 10-15 of them so I can GET a Top 10 formulated heh.

There are 4-5 that will already be in my list, but I don't know about the others.

I'd like to know which 47 you bought but you probably don't want to type all that out. Maybe a photo?

 

[no country for old wainds]

btw i didn't cover this but yeah i don't mind if people wanna pick EPs or demos or splits or whatever.

 

[Baroque]

btw i didn't cover this but yeah i don't mind if people wanna pick EPs or demos or splits or whatever.

I'll copy and paste my list from the 2016 thread here then, I spent the better part of a day digging through my listening for the year to make it. It's in order too, Vektor being best:

Vektor - Terminal Redux
Exmortus - Ride Forth
Counter-World Experience - Pulsar
Paradox - Pangaea
Warfect - Scavengers
Droids Attack - Sci-Fi Or Die
Watchtower - Concepts of Math
Hemotoxin - Biological Enslavement
Riftwalker - Green & Black
Condition Critical - Extermination Plan
Megadeth - Dystopia
Veiled in Sorrow - s/t
Artillery - Penalty by Perception
Ripper - Experiment of Existence
Allegaeon - Proponent for Sentience

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX61tYO3oEFekzi6OUxbW1_6oBxEJn-z6

 

[dwellerINTHEdark]

I'm gonna immerse myself in albums from this year. Hope to have a list by the weekend

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

The Dead Congregation is great as usual but definitely not a top 5 of the year record. It's just an EP.

 

[The Ozzman]

I'd like to know which 47 you bought but you probably don't want to type all that out. Maybe a photo?

I made an Excel spreadsheet at work today. I'll post it tmw.

2 were local releases, 1 was an EP, one a compilation and then a reissue so really 42 releases from well knowns.

 

[SweptbackFlame]

1. Brymir - Slayer of Gods (If anyone wants, check this album out. Finnish Melodic Death Metal with some Black Metal Influence mixed in, there are some killer riffs I must say. I had this shit on repeat pretty much ever since I heard the album in it's entirety.)
2. Periphery - III: Select Difficulty
3. Amon Amarth - Jomsviking
4. Primal Fear - Rulebreaker
5. Megadeth - Dystopia
6. Rhapsody of Fire - Into the Legend
7. Suidakra - Realms of Odoric
8. Veiled in Sorrow - Veiled in Sorrow
9. Whispered - Metsutan: Songs of the Void
10. Whitechapel - Mark of the Blade

 

[The Ozzman]

I made an Excel spreadsheet at work today. I'll post it tmw.

2 were local releases, 1 was an EP, one a compilation and then a reissue so really 42 releases from well knowns.

Actually, if you go to my RYM you can search by year and figure it out that way if you don't want to wait

 

[LuminousAether]

I just got a ton of albums from all the top lists different publications are listing so I need some time to digest them. So far, a tentative list would probably include Ihsahn, Bloodiest, Harakiri for the Sky, Thrawsunblat, Khemmis, Schammasch, Thranenkind, The Vision Bleak, Saor, and Alcest but that could entirely change.