Top 10 Metal Albums of 2016

[Vegard Pompey]

Haven't kept up with 2016 at all but I'll listen to this entire top 10. Maybe I'll tell you what I thought afterwards.

Listening to Post Society right now and, holy fuck. I knew this EP was acclaimed but I think I'm liking it a lot more than most. It maintains a melancholic mood in a way that classic Voivod is often too disjointed and weird to and it's really getting to me. It's like listening to a whole album of "Into My Hypercubes" and "Angel Rats". I fucking love it and I didn't think they had an album like this in them.

 

[no country for old wainds]

^yeah it's pretty amazing, i semi-regret not having it top 10. i really hope they bring out an LP in that style.

yeah sorry @Baroque, i counted all 15 picks as unordered. for the record, if i'd counted them as ordered vektor would've scraped first and megadeth would've dropped to 4th haha. if that's how you intended them to be counted then i may edit the results to reflect that if i ever make a master thread for these lists.

 

[The Ozzman]

No no, you dense fat spastic Trumpvestite homo with jiggling moobs

Triggered. You did say it's brutal death/grind in the thread but okay. I'll concede.

 

[CiG]

Triggered. You did say it's brutal death/grind in the thread but okay. I'll concede.

Why would you concede if you're right?

Edit:

Because it's brutal grind/death but not 100% what this topic is about.

That's what I said. Notice the placement of the word brutal and the context, I meant it as a description, rather than the subgenre.

 

[Draehl]

Surprised to see EC win. It, like Vektor do a good job of pulling in fans from other sub-genres so I shouldn't be too surprised...

I like the album, but it seems a bit frontloaded and definitely has some filler tracks.

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

Not remotely in the convo for the best of last year IMO, but in all honesty I only listened twice I think. I'll have to go back to it.

 

[CiG]

Which?

 

[no country for old wainds]

eternal champ i think

 

[paul545]

My updated Top 10 2016:

Obscura - Akroasis
Megadeth - Dystopia
Ripper - Experiment of Existence
Vektor - Terminal Redux
Chthe'ilist - Le Dernier Crépuscule
Blood Incantation - Starspawn
Witch Vomit - A Scream from the Tomb Below
Eternal Champion - The Armor of Ire
Sacramental Blood - Ternion Demonarchy
Abnormality - Mechanisms of Omiscience


Other good shit:

Sol Sistere - Unfading Incorporeal Vacuum
Wo Fat - Midnight Cometh
Mare Cognitum - Luminiferous Aether
Asphyx
...blah tired of typing

 

[EternalMetal]

The Vektor album was good, but it is kind of overlong and had too much filler. Concept albums tend to end up like that, especially when they try to tell a story, and this was no exception. Albums like this tend to get shelved by me once I give it a couple listens and digest the concept.

Im also surprised at the relative love that Dystopia is getting. I dont even think I got through the entire album in one sitting yet, very boring and run of the mill thrash with shitty modern production, too much chug, not enough riffs, and too much unnecessary soloing.

The best thing ive heard from 2016 was probably Eternal Champion, but overall most of what I heard wasnt that impressive. Chthe'ilist deserves a mention though, even if it is slightly derivative at times.

 

[Warxull]

My top 20 Metal cds of 2016:
1. Ihsahn - Arktis. cd
2. Avatar - Feathers & Flesh cd
3. Otep - Generation Doom cd
4. Theocracy - Ghost Ship cd...
5. The Vision Bleak - The Unknown cd
6. Darkend - The Canticle of Shadows cd
7. Metallica - Hardwired... to Self-Destruct cd
8. Van Canto - Voices of Fire cd
9. Saor - Guardians cd
10. Sig:Ar:Tyr - Northen cd
11. Devildriver - Trust No One cd
12. Vektor - Terminal Redux cd
13. Pellek - A Marvelous Method of Reclusion cd
14. Pain - Coming Home cd
15. Sabaton - The Last Stand cd
16. Volbeat - Seal the Deal & Let's Boogie cd
17. Hellyeah - Unden!able cd
18. Entombed A.D. - Dead Dawn cd
19. King 810 - La Petite Mort Or A Conversation With God cd
20. Funeris - Nocturnes for Grim Orchestra cd & Ghostly, Gloomy Notes cd

 

[Talking Backwards]

This is the only metal album from 2016 that I wanted to listen to daily. Although it also arrived closer to the year's end too.

 

[EspaDa]

I remember @Baroque submitted this band to one of the mixtape games.

 

[Draehl]

I gotta say of all things from last year Ihsahn and D666 have grown on me the most. I don't know if they would be in the top 10 but would be serious contenders for the 6-10 spots.

 

[Baroque]

I remember @Baroque submitted this band to one of the mixtape games.

Yeah and earlier in this thread too. wasn't too crazy about the 2016 album but maybe I should give it another chance.

 

[CiG]

Nekro Drunkz - Lavatory Carnage
Blood Incantation - Starspawn
Smut - Slop
Barrow Wight - Kings In Sauron's Service
Legendry - Mists Of Time
Angel Sword - Rebels Beyond The Pale
Eternal Champion - The Armor Of Ire
Witch Vomit - A Scream From The Tomb Below
Demon Bitch - Hellfriends
Church Of Disgust - Veneration Of Filth

If I had heard much more at the time I did this list, it would've looked like this:

1. Nekro Drunkz - Lavatory Carnage
2. Wytch Hazel - Prelude
3. Hammers of Misfortune - Dead Revolution
4. Spiritus Mortis - The Year Is One
5. Lord Vicar - Gates of Flesh
6. Fates Warning - Theories of Flight
7. Angel Sword - Rebels Beyond the Pale
8. Demon Bitch - Hellfriends
9. Barrow Wight - Kings in Sauron's Service
10. Holyarrow - Oath of Allegiance

Spoiler: Honourable mentions

Dark Forest - Beyond the Veil
Darkthrone - Arctic Thunder
Eternal Champion - The Armor of Ire
Ravensire - The Cycle Never Ends
Blizaro - Cornucopia della Morte
Infant Death - Violent Rites
Gehennah - Too Loud to Live, Too Drunk to Die
Moros Nyx - Revolution Street
Reptilian - Perennial Void Traverse
Legendry - Mists of Time
Smut - Slop
High Spirits - Motivator
Witch Vomit - A Scream from the Tomb Below
Ancient Empire - Other World
Hellbringer - Awakened from the Abyss
Savage Master - With Whips and Chains
HammerFall - Built to Last
Blood Incantation - Starspawn
Quicksand Dream - Beheading Tyrants
Embalmer - Emanations From the Crypt
Whipstriker - Only Filth Will Prevail
Church Of Disgust - Veneration of Filth
Sumerlands - Sumerlands
Blazon Stone - War of the Roses
Running Wild - Rapid Foray
Grand Magus - Sword Songs
Attacker - Sins of the World
Blaze Bayley - Infinite Entanglement
Denouncement Pyre - Black Sun Unbound
Profanatica - The Curling Flame of Blasphemy
Rotör - Musta Käsi
Nuke - Nuke

 

[no country for old wainds]

the one you quoted wasn't actually your finalised list iirc, it was this:

1. Quicksand Dream - Beheading Tyrants
2. Lord Vicar - Gates Of Flesh
3. Demon Bitch - Hellfriends
4. Infant Death - Violent Rites
5. Spiritus Mortis - The Year Is One
6. Angel Sword - Rebels Beyond The Pale
7. Eternal Champion - The Armor Of Ire
8. Blood Incantation - Starspawn
9. Wytch Hazel - Prelude
10. Darkthrone - Arctic Thunder

 

[CiG]

This is a fun thread to read back through. Love this gem:

I'd listen to a new Korn-style band if it was any good.

> Korn-style band
> if it was any good

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I like how you had no response to my argument a year ago but pretend that quoting a fragment of it today somehow proves you right.

 

[CiG]

Your argument that Korn is good because it had influence or impact on other bands? The problem here might be that you thought you had a better point than you actually did. Korn fucking suck.