Top Albums of 2016, Midyear

[PhlegethonVeins]

Refresh for the 2016 year, sooo
What is this gorgeous lot rocking from this year so far?



No specific order here for me thus far

Blut Aus Nord / Ævangelist split
Muscle & Marrow - Love
Cough - Still They Pray
Fire! Orchestra - Ritual
Perturbator - The Uncanny Valley
Aesop Rock - The Impossible Kid
Niechec - s/t
Casa Sui - Return to Sky
Imperial Triumphant- Inceste
Howls of Ebb - Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows
The Body & Full of Hell - One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache
Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression
Cobalt - Slow Forever
Inverloch - Distance | Collapsed
Deströyer 666 - Wildfire
The Body - Nobody Deserves Happiness
David Bowie - Blackstar
Ulver - ATGCCVLSSCAP
Rïcïnn - Lïan
Nails - You Will Never Be One of Us
Swans - The Glowing Man
Death Grips - Bottomless Pit
Melvins - Basses Loaded
Bloodmist - Sheen
Laniakea - A Pot of Powdered Nettles
Roly Porter - Third Law
Michael Arthur Holloway - Guilt Noir
Chelsea Wolfe- Hypnos / Flame
OLDDWVRMS - Ritae
Vektor - Terminal Redux
Oranssi Pazuzu - varahtejia
Chthe'llist - Le Dernier Crepuscule
Grave Miasma - Endless Pilgrimage

 

[MadTinus]

Not many highlights so far, except Katatonia and Fifth to Infinity (officially a 2015 release though). Thenighttimeproject is nice, but not AOTY material.

Disappointments (more or less):
- October Tide
- Megadeth
- In Mourning

Still looking forward to/curious about Witherscape, Vanhelgd, Opeth, Metallica? Dark Tranquillity.

 

[stefan86]

Top 10 is something like this:

Katatonia - The Fall of Hearts
Deftones - Gore
Thenighttimeproject - Thenighttimeproject
Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas - Mariner
Ray LaMontagne - Ouroboros
Mourning Beloveth - Rust & Bone
Daughter - Not to Disappear
The Foreshadowing - Seven Heads, Ten Horns
Wray - Hypatia
Damien Jurado - Visions of Us in the Land

way better year than last year, despite Katatonia and Deftones being flawed yet still sexy

 

[winters epilogue]

Plenty of good stuff out this year and I haven't spent enough time to know what's gonna stand out for me, so this is almost just a list of what I've picked up.

EP
Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Arc
Cecil Otter - Dear Echo
Chelsea Wolfe - Hypnos/Flame
Gorguts - Pleiades' Dust
Imperial Triumphant - Inceste
Krallice - Hyperion
Massive Attack - Ritual Spirit

LP
Aluk Todolo - Voix
Astronautalis - Cut the Body Loose
Bhavachakra – Bhavachakra
The Black Queen - Fever Daydream
Bloodmist - Sheen
The Body - No One Deserves Happiness
Buñuel - A Resting Place for Strangers
Cobalt - Slow Forever
David Bowie - Blackstar
Eight Bells - Landless
Forndom - Dauðra Dura
Howls of Ebb - Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows
Ihsahn - Arktis
Inverloch - Distance | Collapsed
Jute Gyte - Perdurance
Mamiffer - The World Unseen
Muscle & Marrow - Love
Nails - You Will Never Be One of Us
Palace of Worms - The Ladder
Pogavranjen - Jedva Čekam Da Nikad Ne Umrem
Plateau Sigma - Rituals
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
Rïcïnn - Lïan
Skáphe - Skáphe²
Swans - The Glowing Man
Vektor - Terminal Redux
Withered - Grief Relic
Yugen - Death by Water

Rotten Sound, Wake, and Weekend Nachos all have solid albums, but grind tends to take a bit longer to sink in. Also, I haven't revisited Katatonia since my first listen—I know that one is going to take some time.

Looking forward to hearing (including albums that are out that I haven't listened to yet): Blut Aus Nord/Ævangelist; A Dead Forest Index; Dysrhythmia; Inter Arma; Kayo Dot; Mütterlein; Opeth; Sumac; Throane; Wreck and Reference; Wrekmeister Harmonies

 

[(The bass player)]

Pretty good year so far.

Abbath - ST
Amon Amarth - Jomsviking
Behexen - The poisonous path
Dark Funeral - Where shadows forever reign
Desaster - The oath of an iron ritual
Destructor - back in bondage
Deströyer 666 - Wildfire
Grand Magus - Sword songs
Infestdead - Satanic Serenades (re-release but still awesome!)
Rotting Christ - Rituals

 

[DustyP]

Rotting Christ - Rituals
Moonsorrow - Jumalten Aika
Thrawsunblat - Metachthonia
Ashbringer - Yugen
David Bowie - Blackstar
Ex Mortus - Ride Forth
Abbath - Abbath
Metal Church - XI
Destruction - Under Attack
Behexen - Poisonous Path
Candlemass - Death Thy Lover EP
Dark Funeral - Where Shadows Forever Reign
Sojourner - Empires of Ash

I'm probably forgetting some. I didn't really like a lot of the big releases that people seem to lose shit over, like Gojira or whatever.