Metal albums 2016

Vintage thrashers, modern mathletes and more: The year in heavy. Top 2albums requires at least 2votes, with only studio albums featured. Top albums of the year, Top albums by styles, Bottom albums , Live albums and DVDs require votes.

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Each week seemed to rip something cherished or someone influential away from us forever. And for those of us whose tastes lean towards all that is . An abundance of bands stretching the boundaries of the genre showed that there are still new musical planets to explore, while an equal abundance of groups stuck to tried-and-true methods to show that sometimes great metal is . This year, we experienced a solid wave of creative output from our bands. See which music tops the charts, read reviews, and rate albums.

Browse through and check out what music our editors have been listening to this year. Alternately echoing the idiosyncrasy of classic albums Dimension Hatross and Nothingface and the d- beat .

Lotus Thief mix post-rock, psych, black metal and prog to create something, well… entirely different and beautiful. My favorite Metal sub-genres: Heavy, Power, Thrash, Progressive, Death, Speed. Sub-genres I dislike most of the time: Atmo.

Sludge, Depressive Black, Blackgaze, Brutal . This is the first of what we hope to be many year end lists at Heavy Music Headquarters. And does anyone really want to relive memories of Rachel Dolezal, Cecil the Lion or Kim Davis? Music charts were weighed down with the heavy vibes of metal this year. But we want to know what album rocked . Metal is becoming less centralize and more sprawling of a genre. I will not pretend that I listened to every single metal release this year and can somehow tell you what the best records are.

As January comes to an en there still remain months in the year, each likely having several great metal albums. These are a few that I am looking forward to checking out . Last week Treble observed its annual mid-year survey, the best albums of the year so far. Perennial Void Traverse is an album that Autopsy would write if they took the Obliteration stylized OSDM revival technique. Plenty of face-melting riffs, savage vocals that resemble inhumane outcries and drumming and speed . While Death Fortress is still a young band , they have already made .

By Joseph Schafer December 2. Without further ado, here are my top fifteen metal albums from last year with two-to-three García- Marquez-style sentences (only in length, not in substance) that . We regret to inform you that the regularly scheduled The Ten Best Metal Albums of the Year will be replaced with a special presentation for.