My favourite albums from 2016

1. 50

   Broken Lines

   Giraffe Tongue Orchestra

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Alternative metal

2. 49

   Akróasis

   Obscura

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Technical death metal
   • Progressive metal

3. 48

   Hellfriends

   Demon Bitch

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Power metal
   • Speed metal

4. 47

   Grain of Soul

   Zodiac

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Hard rock
   • Blues rock

5. 46

   Head Carrier

   Pixies

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Alternative rock
   • Noise rock

6. 45

   Hurt & the Merciless

   The Heavy

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Indie rock
   • Funk rock

7. 44

   Brotherhood of the Snake

   Testament

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Thrash metal

8. 43

   Lady in Gold

   Blues Pills

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Heavy psych
   • Blues rock

9. 42

   IV

   Black Mountain

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Progressive rock
   • Psychedelic rock

10. 41

    The Violent Sleep of Reason

    Meshuggah

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • Progressive death metal

11. 40

    Mariner

    Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas

    
    

    Tracklist

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

    Genres

    • Post-metal
    • Atmospheric sludge metal

12. 39

    By Default

    Band of Skulls

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Alternative rock
    • Garage rock revival

13. 38

    Fires Within Fires

    Neurosis

    
    

    Tracklist

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

    Genres

    • Post-metal
    • Atmospheric sludge metal

14. 37

    Transcendence

    Devin Townsend Project

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Progressive metal

15. 36

    Marked for Death

    Emma Ruth Rundle

    
    

    Tracklist

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

    Genres

    • Ethereal wave
    • Shoegaze

16. 35

    Värähtelijä

    Oranssi Pazuzu

    
    

    Tracklist

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

    Genres

    • Psychedelic metal
    • Avant-garde metal

17. 34

    Plastic House on Base of Sky

    Kayo Dot

    
    

    Tracklist

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

    Genres

    • Avant-garde rock
    • Gothic rock

18. 33

    Jumalten aika

    Moonsorrow

    
    

    Tracklist

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

    Genres

    • Folk metal
    • Pagan metal

19. 32

    The Last Hero

    Alter Bridge

    
    

    Tracklist

    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 ●

    Genres

    • Alternative metal
    • Hard rock

20. 31

    A/B

    Kaleo

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Blues rock

21. 30

    Arktis.

    Ihsahn

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Progressive metal

22. 29

    Devoid of Light

    Uada

    
    

    Tracklist

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

    Genres

    • Melodic black metal

23. 28

    Jomsviking

    Amon Amarth

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Melodic death metal
    • Viking metal

24. 27

    Audio Noir

    Bossk

    
    

    Tracklist

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

    Genres

    • Post-metal
    • Sludge metal

25. 26

    Universal Monsters

    The 69 Eyes

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Gothic rock
    • Glam metal

26. 25

    Divides

    The Virginmarys

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Alternative rock
    • Garage rock

27. 24

    Kodama

    Alcest

    
    

    Tracklist

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

    Genres

    • Blackgaze
    • Post-black metal

28. 23

    Winter's Gate

    Insomnium

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Winter's Gate ●

    Genres

    • Melodic death metal
    • Progressive metal

29. 22

    Affinity

    Haken

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • Progressive rock

30. 21

    Rheia

    Oathbreaker

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Blackgaze
    • Post-metal

31. 20

    Meta

    Thy Catafalque

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Avant-garde metal
    • Progressive metal

32. 19

    Lord of Misrule

    Blood Ceremony

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Occult rock
    • Heavy psych

33. 18

    The Year Is One

    Spiritus Mortis

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Doom metal
    • Heavy metal

34. 17

    For All Kings

    Anthrax

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Thrash metal
    • Heavy metal

35. 16

    Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not

    Dinosaur Jr.

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Alternative rock
    • Noise rock

36. 15

    Winter Thrice

    Borknagar

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • Melodic death metal

37. 14

    Theories of Flight

    Fates Warning

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Progressive metal

38. 13

    Sittin' Heavy

    Monster Truck

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Southern rock
    • Blues rock

39. 12

    Weekend Man

    Royal Republic

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Garage rock

40. 11

    Seal the Deal & Let's Boogie

    Volbeat

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Alternative metal
    • Rockabilly

41. 10

    Terminal Redux

    Vektor

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Technical thrash metal
    • Progressive death metal

42. 9

    Dystopia

    Megadeth

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Thrash metal

43. 8

    Magma

    Gojira

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • Groove metal

44. 7

    Gone Is Gone

    Gone Is Gone

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Avant-garde metal
    • Progressive metal

45. 6

    Rise Above the Meadow

    Greenleaf

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Stoner rock
    • Blues rock

46. 5

    Voice of the Void

    Anciients

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Sludge metal
    • Progressive metal

47. 4

    Repeat Until Death

    Bombus

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Stoner metal
    • Heavy metal

48. 3

    Prayers for the Damned

    Sixx:A.M.

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Hard rock
    • Alternative metal

49. 2

    Sorceress

    Opeth

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Progressive rock
    • Progressive metal

50. 1

    The Fall of Hearts

    Katatonia

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Progressive rock
    • Progressive metal