My favourite albums from 2016

1. 50

   Broken Lines

   Giraffe Tongue Orchestra

   

   

   Alternative metal

   Tracks:

   1. Adapt or Die
   2. Crucifixion
   3. No-one Is Innocent
   4. Blood Moon ●
   5. Fragments & Ashes
   6. Back to the Light
   7. All We Have Is Now
   8. Everyone Gets Everything They Really Want
   9. Thieves and Whores
   10. Broken Lines

2. 49

   Akróasis

   Obscura

   

   

   Technical death metal | Progressive metal

   Tracks:

   1. Sermon of the Seven Suns
   2. The Monist ●
   3. Akróasis
   4. Ten Sepiroth
   5. Ode to the Sun
   6. Fractal Dimension
   7. Perpetual Infinity
   8. Weltseele

3. 48

   Hellfriends

   Demon Bitch

   

   

   Power metal | Speed metal

   Tracks:

   1. Warning from the Skies
   2. Devil Love ●
   3. A Passage to the Other Side
   4. Beneath the Ice Caves
   5. Hellfriends
   6. Fortunes Told
   7. The Microdome

4. 47

   Grain of Soul

   Zodiac

   

   

   Hard rock | Blues rock

   Tracks:

   1. Rebirth by Fire
   2. Animal
   3. Follow You ●
   4. Down
   5. Faithless
   6. Crow
   7. Ain't Coming Back
   8. Get out
   9. Like the Sun
   10. Sinner
   11. Grain of Soul

5. 46

   Head Carrier

   Pixies

   

   

   Alternative rock | Noise rock

   Tracks:

   1. Head Carrier ●
   2. Classic Masher
   3. Baal's Back
   4. Might as Well Be Gone
   5. Oona
   6. Talent
   7. Tenement Song
   8. Bel Esprit
   9. All I Think About Now
   10. Um Chagga Lagga
   11. Plaster of Paris
   12. All the Saints

6. 45

   Hurt & the Merciless

   The Heavy

   

   

   Indie rock | Funk rock

   Tracks:

   1. Since You Been Gone
   2. What Happened to the Love?
   3. Not the One
   4. The Apology
   5. Nobody's Hero
   6. Miss California ●
   7. Turn up
   8. A Ghost You Can't Forget
   9. Last Confession
   10. Mean Ol' Man
   11. Slave to Your Love
   12. Goodbye Baby

7. 44

   Brotherhood of the Snake

   Testament

   

   

   Thrash metal

   Tracks:

   1. Brotherhood of the Snake ●
   2. The Pale King
   3. Stronghold
   4. Seven Seals
   5. Born in a Rut
   6. Centuries of Suffering
   7. Black Jack
   8. Neptune's Spear
   9. Canna-Business
   10. The NUmber Game

8. 43

   Lady in Gold

   Blues Pills

   

   

   Heavy psych | Blues rock

   Tracks:

   1. Lady in Gold
   2. Little Boy Preacher ●
   3. Burned out
   4. I Felt a Change
   5. Gone So Long
   6. Bad Talkers
   7. You Gotta Try
   8. Won't Go Back
   9. Rejection
   10. Elements and Things

9. 42

   IV

   Black Mountain

   

   

   Progressive rock | Psychedelic rock

   Tracks:

   1. Mothers of the Sun
   2. Florian Saucer Attack
   3. Defector ●
   4. You Can Dream
   5. Constellations
   6. Line Them All up
   7. Cemetery Breeding
   8. (Over & Over) the Chain
   9. Crucify Me
   10. Space to Bakersfield

10. 41

    The Violent Sleep of Reason

    Meshuggah

    

    

    Progressive metal | Progressive death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Clockworks
    2. Born in Dissonance
    3. Monstrocity
    4. By the Ton
    5. Violent Sleep of Reason ●
    6. Ivory Tower
    7. Stifled
    8. Nostrum
    9. Our Rage Won't Die
    10. Into Decay

11. 40

    Mariner

    Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas

    

    

    Post-metal | Atmospheric sludge metal

    Tracks:

    1. A Greater Call
    2. Chevron
    3. The Wreck of S.S. Needle ●
    4. Approaching Transition
    5. Cygnus

12. 39

    By Default

    Band of Skulls

    

    

    Alternative rock | Garage rock revival

    Tracks:

    1. Black Magic
    2. Back of Beyond
    3. Killer ●
    4. Bodies
    5. Tropical Disease
    6. So Good
    7. This Is My Fix
    8. Little Mama
    9. Embers
    10. In Love by Default
    11. Bounds
    12. Something

13. 38

    Fires Within Fires

    Neurosis

    

    

    Post-metal | Atmospheric sludge metal

    Tracks:

    1. Bending Light ●
    2. A Shadow Memory
    3. Fire Is the End Lesson
    4. Broken Ground
    5. Reach

14. 37

    Transcendence

    Devin Townsend Project

    

    

    Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Truth
    2. Stormbending ●
    3. Failure
    4. Secret Sciences
    5. Higher
    6. Stars
    7. Transcendence
    8. Offer Your Light
    9. From the Heart
    10. Transdermal Celebration

15. 36

    Marked for Death

    Emma Ruth Rundle

    

    

    Ethereal wave | Shoegaze

    Tracks:

    1. Marked for Death
    2. Protection
    3. Medusa
    4. Hand of God
    5. Heaven
    6. So, Come
    7. Furious Angel ●
    8. Real Big Sky

16. 35

    Värähtelijä

    Oranssi Pazuzu

    

    

    Psychedelic metal | Avant-garde metal

    Tracks:

    1. Saturaatio
    2. Lahja
    3. Värähtelijä ●
    4. Hypnotisoitu viharukous
    5. Vasemman käden hierarkia
    6. Havuluu
    7. Valveavaruus

17. 34

    Plastic House on Base of Sky

    Kayo Dot

    

    

    Avant-garde rock | Gothic rock

    Tracks:

    1. Amalia's Theme
    2. All the Pain in All the Wide World ●
    3. Magnetism
    4. Rings of Earth
    5. Brittle Urchin

18. 33

    Jumalten aika

    Moonsorrow

    

    

    Folk metal | Pagan metal

    Tracks:

    1. Jumalten aika
    2. Ruttolehto sis. Päivättömän päivän kansa
    3. Suden tunti
    4. Mimisbrunn ●
    5. Ihmisen aika (Kumarrus pimeyteen)

19. 32

    The Last Hero

    Alter Bridge

    

    

    Alternative metal | Hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. Show Me a Leader
    2. The Writing on the Wall
    3. The Other Side
    4. My Champion
    5. Poison in Your Veins
    6. Cradle to the Grave
    7. Losing Patience
    8. This Side of Fate
    9. You Will Be Remembered
    10. Crows on a Wire
    11. Twilight
    12. Island of Fools
    13. The Last Hero ●

20. 31

    A/B

    Kaleo

    

    

    Blues rock

    Tracks:

    1. No Good
    2. Way Down We Go
    3. Broken Bones
    4. Glass House
    5. Hot Blood
    6. All the Pretty Girls
    7. Automobile
    8. Vor í Vaglaskógi ●
    9. Save Yourself
    10. I Can Go on Without You

21. 30

    Arktis.

    Ihsahn

    

    

    Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Disassembled ●
    2. Mass Darkness
    3. My Heart Is of the North
    4. South Winds
    5. In the Vaults
    6. Until I Too Dissolve
    7. Pressure
    8. Frail
    9. Crooked Red Line
    10. Celestial Violence

22. 29

    Devoid of Light

    Uada

    

    

    Melodic black metal

    Tracks:

    1. Natus Eclipsim
    2. Devoid of Light
    3. S.N.M.
    4. Our Pale Departure ●
    5. Black Autumn, White Spring

23. 28

    Jomsviking

    Amon Amarth

    

    

    Melodic death metal | Viking metal

    Tracks:

    1. First Kill
    2. Wanderer
    3. On a Sea of Blood
    4. One Against All
    5. Raise Your Horns
    6. The Way of Vikings ●
    7. At Dawn's First Light
    8. One Thousand Burning Arrows
    9. A Dream That Cannot Be
    10. Back on the Northern Shores

24. 27

    Audio Noir

    Bossk

    

    

    Post-metal | Sludge metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Reverie
    2. Helipause
    3. Relancer
    4. Kobe ●
    5. Atom Smasher
    6. Nadir
    7. The Reverie II

25. 26

    Universal Monsters

    The 69 Eyes

    

    

    Gothic rock | Glam metal

    Tracks:

    1. Dolce Vita
    2. Jet Fighter Plane
    3. Blackbird Pie ●
    4. Lady Darkness
    5. Miss Pastis
    6. Shallow Graves
    7. Jerusalem
    8. Stiv & Johnny
    9. Never
    10. Blue
    11. Rock'n'Roll Junkie

26. 25

    Divides

    The Virginmarys

    

    

    Alternative rock | Garage rock

    Tracks:

    1. Push the Pedal
    2. For You My Love
    3. Halo in Her Silhouette
    4. Free to Do Whatever They Say
    5. I Wanna Take You Home
    6. Walk in My Shoes
    7. Kill the Messenger
    8. Into Dust
    9. Moths to a Flame ●
    10. Falling Down
    11. Motherless Land
    12. Living in My Peace

27. 24

    Kodama

    Alcest

    

    

    Blackgaze | Post-black metal

    Tracks:

    1. Kodama ●
    2. Éclosion
    3. Je suis d'ailleurs
    4. Untouched
    5. Oiseaux de proie
    6. Onyx

28. 23

    Winter's Gate

    Insomnium

    

    

    Melodic death metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Winter's Gate ●

29. 22

    Affinity

    Haken

    

    

    Progressive metal | Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. affinity.exe
    2. Initiate ●
    3. 1985
    4. Lapse
    5. The Architect
    6. Earthrise
    7. Red Giant
    8. The Endless Knot
    9. Bound by Gravity

30. 21

    Rheia

    Oathbreaker

    

    

    Blackgaze | Post-metal

    Tracks:

    1. 10:56
    2. Second Son of R.
    3. Being Able to Feel Nothing ●
    4. Stay Here / Accroche-moi
    5. Needles in Your Skin
    6. Immortals
    7. I'm Sorry, This Is
    8. Where I Live
    9. Where I Leave
    10. Begeerte

31. 20

    Meta

    Thy Catafalque

    

    

    Avant-garde metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Uránia
    2. Sirály ●
    3. 10⁻²⁰ Ångström
    4. Ixión Düün
    5. Ősszel otthon
    6. Malmok járnak
    7. Vonatút az éjszakában (Ady Endre Intercity)
    8. Mezolit
    9. Fehérvasárnap

32. 19

    Lord of Misrule

    Blood Ceremony

    

    

    Occult rock | Heavy psych

    Tracks:

    1. The Devil's Widow
    2. Loreley
    3. The Rogue's Lot
    4. Lord of Misrule ●
    5. Half Moon Street
    6. Thee Weird of Finistère
    7. Flower Phantoms
    8. Old Fires
    9. Things Present, Things Past

33. 18

    The Year Is One

    Spiritus Mortis

    

    

    Doom metal | Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Robe of Ectoplasm ●
    2. I Am a Name on Your Funeral Wreath
    3. Babalon Working
    4. Jesus Christ, Son of Satan
    5. Holiday in the Cemetery
    6. She Died a Virgin
    7. Black Magic, White Powder
    8. World of No Light

34. 17

    For All Kings

    Anthrax

    

    

    Thrash metal | Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Impaled
    2. You Gotta Believe
    3. Monster at the End
    4. For All Kings
    5. Breathing Lightning
    6. Breathing out
    7. Suzerain
    8. Evil Town
    9. Blood Eagle Wings ●
    10. Defend/Avenge
    11. All of Them Thieves
    12. This Battle Chose Us!
    13. Zero Tolerance

35. 16

    Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not

    Dinosaur Jr.

    

    

    Alternative rock | Noise rock

    Tracks:

    1. Goin Down
    2. Tiny
    3. Be a Part
    4. I Told Everyone
    5. Love Is ... ●
    6. Good to Know
    7. I Walk for Miles
    8. Lost All Day
    9. Knocked Around
    10. Mirror
    11. Left/Right

36. 15

    Winter Thrice

    Borknagar

    

    

    Progressive metal | Melodic death metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Rhymes of the Mountain
    2. Winter Thrice ●
    3. Cold Runs the River
    4. Panorama
    5. When Chaos Calls
    6. Erodent
    7. Noctilucent
    8. Terminus

37. 14

    Theories of Flight

    Fates Warning

    

    

    Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. From the Rooftops
    2. Seven Stars
    3. SOS
    4. The Light and Shade of Things ●
    5. White Flag
    6. Like Stars Our Eyes Have Seen
    7. The Ghosts of Home
    8. Theories of Flight

38. 13

    Sittin' Heavy

    Monster Truck

    

    

    Southern rock | Blues rock

    Tracks:

    1. Why Are You Not Rocking?
    2. Don't Tell Me How to Live ●
    3. She's a Witch
    4. For the People
    5. Black Forest
    6. Another Man's Shoes
    7. Things Get Better
    8. The Enforcer
    9. To the Flame
    10. New Soul
    11. Enjoy the Time

39. 12

    Weekend Man

    Royal Republic

    

    

    Garage rock

    Tracks:

    1. Here I Come (There You Go) ●
    2. Walk!
    3. When I See You Dance with Another
    4. People Say I'm Over the Top
    5. Kung Fu Lovin'
    6. Weekend-Man
    7. My Way
    8. Follow the Sun
    9. Uh Huh
    10. Any Given Sunday
    11. Baby
    12. High Times!
    13. American Dream

40. 11

    Seal the Deal & Let's Boogie

    Volbeat

    

    

    Alternative metal | Rockabilly

    Tracks:

    1. The Devil's Bleeding Crown
    2. Marie Laveau ●
    3. For Evigt
    4. The Gates of Babylon
    5. Let It Burn
    6. Black Rose
    7. Rebound
    8. Mary Jane Kelly
    9. Goodbye Forever
    10. Seal the Deal
    11. Battleship Chains
    12. You Will Know
    13. The Loa's Crossroad

41. 10

    Terminal Redux

    Vektor

    

    

    Technical thrash metal | Progressive death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Charging the Void
    2. Cygnus Terminal ●
    3. LCD (Liquid Crystal Disease)
    4. Mountains Above the Sun
    5. Ultimate Artificer
    6. Pteropticon
    7. Psychotropia
    8. Pillars of Sand
    9. Collapse
    10. Recharging the Void

42. 9

    Dystopia

    Megadeth

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Threat Is Real
    2. Dystopia
    3. Fatal Illusion
    4. Death from within
    5. Bullet to the Brain
    6. Post-American World ●
    7. Poisonous Shadows
    8. Conquer or Die!
    9. Lying in State
    10. The Emperor
    11. Foreign Policy

43. 8

    Magma

    Gojira

    

    

    Progressive metal | Groove metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Shooting Star
    2. Silvera
    3. The Cell
    4. Stranded ●
    5. Yellow Stone
    6. Magma
    7. Pray
    8. Only Pain
    9. Low Lands
    10. Liberation

44. 7

    Gone Is Gone

    Gone Is Gone

    

    

    Avant-garde metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Violescent
    2. Starlight ●
    3. Stolen from Me
    4. Character
    5. One Divided
    6. Praying from the Danger
    7. Recede and Enter
    8. This Chapter

45. 6

    Rise Above the Meadow

    Greenleaf

    

    

    Stoner rock | Blues rock

    Tracks:

    1. A Million Fireflies
    2. Funeral Pyre
    3. Howl ●
    4. Golden Throne
    5. Carry out the Ribbons
    6. Levitate and Bow (Pt. 1 & 2)
    7. You're Gonna Be My Ruin
    8. Tyrants Tongue
    9. Pilgrims

46. 5

    Voice of the Void

    Anciients

    

    

    Sludge metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Following the Voice
    2. Buried in the Sand
    3. Worshipper
    4. Pentacle
    5. Descending
    6. Ibex Eye
    7. My Home, My Gallows
    8. Serpents
    9. Incantations

47. 4

    Repeat Until Death

    Bombus

    

    

    Stoner metal | Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Eyes on the Price
    2. Rust ●
    3. Deadweight
    4. Horde of Flies
    5. I Call You over (Hairy Teeth, Pt. II)
    6. Repeat Until Death
    7. Shake Them for What They're Worth
    8. You the Man
    9. Get Your Cuts

48. 3

    Prayers for the Damned

    Sixx:A.M.

    

    

    Hard rock | Alternative metal

    Tracks:

    1. Rise
    2. You Have Come to the Right Place
    3. I'm Sick
    4. Better Man
    5. Can't Stop
    6. When We Were Gods
    7. Belly of the Beast ●
    8. Everything Went to Hell
    9. The Last Time (My Heart Will Hit the Ground)
    10. Rise of the Melancholy Empire

49. 2

    Sorceress

    Opeth

    

    

    Progressive rock | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Persephone
    2. Sorceress
    3. The Wilde Flowers
    4. Will o the Wisp
    5. Chrysalis
    6. Sorceress 2
    7. The Seventh Sojourn
    8. Strange Brew
    9. A Fleeting Glance
    10. Era ●
    11. Persephone (Slight Return)
    12. The Ward
    13. Spring MCMLXXIV

50. 1

    The Fall of Hearts

    Katatonia

    

    

    Progressive rock | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Takeover
    2. Serein ●
    3. Old Heart Falls
    4. Decima
    5. Sanction
    6. Residual
    7. Serac
    8. Last Song Before the Fade
    9. Shifts
    10. The Night Subscriber
    11. Pale Flag
    12. Passer