2016

Broken Lines

Giraffe Tongue Orchestra

• Label: Party Smasher
• Released: 5 February 2016

• Alternative metal

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

Akróasis

Obscura

• Label: Relapse
• Released: 5 February 2016

• Technical death metal
• Progressive metal

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

Hellfriends

Demon Bitch

• Label: Skol
• Released: 17 June 2016

• Power metal
• Speed metal

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

Grain of Soul

Zodiac

• Label: Napalm
• Released: 29 July 2016

• Hard rock
• Blues rock

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

Head Carrier

Pixies

• Label: Pixiesmusic
• Released: 30 September 2016

• Alternative rock
• Noise rock

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

Hurt & the Merciless

The Heavy

• Label: Couriter
• Released: 1 April 2016

• Indie rock
• Funk rock

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

Brotherhood of the Snake

Testament

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 27 April 2016

• Thrash metal

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

Lady in Gold

Blues Pills

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 5 August 2016

• Heavy psych
• Blues rock

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

IV

Black Mountain

• Label: Jagjaguwar
• Released: 1 April 2016

• Progressive rock
• Psychedelic rock

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

The Violent Sleep of Reason

Meshuggah

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 7 October 2016

• Progressive metal
• Progressive death metal

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

Mariner

Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas

• Label: Indie
• Released: 8 April 2016

• Post-metal
• Atmospheric sludge metal

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

By Default

Band of Skulls

• Label: BMG
• Released: 27 May 2016

• Alternative rock
• Garage rock revival

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

Fires Within Fires

Neurosis

• Label: Neurot
• Released: 23 September 2016

• Post-metal
• Atmospheric sludge metal

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

Transcendence

Devin Townsend Project

• Label: HeavyDevy
• Released: 9 September 2016

• Progressive metal

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

Marked for Death

Emma Ruth Rundle

• Label: Sargent House
• Released: 30 September 2016

• Ethereal wave
• Shoegaze

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

Värähtelijä

Oranssi Pazuzu

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 2016

• Psychedelic metal
• Avant-garde metal

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

Plastic House on Base of Sky

Kayo Dot

• Label: The Flenser
• Released: 24 June 2016

• Avant-garde rock
• Gothic rock

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

Jumalten aika

Moonsorrow

• Label: Century Media
• Released: 1 April 2016

• Folk metal
• Pagan metal

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

The Last Hero

Alter Bridge

• Label: Napalm
• Released: 7 October 2016

• Alternative metal
• Hard rock

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

A/B

Kaleo

• Label: Elektra
• Released: 10 June 2016

• Blues rock

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

Arktis.

Ihsahn

• Label: Candlelight
• Released: 8 April 2016

• Progressive metal

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

Devoid of Light

Uada

• Label: Eisenwald
• Released: 8 April 2016

• Melodic black metal

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

Jomsviking

Amon Amarth

• Label: Metal Blade
• Released: 25 March 2016

• Melodic death metal
• Viking metal

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

Audio Noir

Bossk

• Label: Deathwish Inc.
• Released: 1 April 2016

• Post-metal
• Sludge metal

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

Universal Monsters

The 69 Eyes

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 22 April 2016

• Gothic rock
• Glam metal

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

Divides

The Virginmarys

• Label: Cooking Vinyl
• Released: 6 May 2016

• Alternative rock
• Garage rock

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

Kodama

Alcest

• Label: Prophecy Productions
• Released: 30 September 2016

• Blackgaze
• Post-black metal

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

Winter's Gate

Insomnium

• Label: Century Media
• Released: 23 September 2016

• Melodic death metal
• Progressive metal

1. Winter's Gate

Affinity

Haken

• Label: Inside Out Music
• Released: 29 April 2016

• Progressive metal
• Progressive rock

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

Rheia

Oathbreaker

• Label: Deathwish
• Released: 30 September 2016

• Blackgaze
• Post-metal

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

Meta

Thy Catafalque

• Label: Season of Mist
• Released: 16 September 2016

• Avant-garde metal
• Progressive metal

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

Lord of Misrule

Blood Ceremony

• Label: Metal Blade
• Released: 2016

• Occult rock
• Heavy psych

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

The Year Is One

Spiritus Mortis

• Label: Svart
• Released: 11 November 2016

• Doom metal
• Heavy metal

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

For All Kings

Anthrax

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 2016

• Thrash metal
• Heavy metal

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

Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not

Dinosaur Jr.

• Label: Jagjauwar
• Released: 5 August 2016

• Alternative rock
• Noise rock

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

Winter Thrice

Borknagar

• Label: Century Media
• Released: 22 January 2016

• Progressive metal
• Melodic death metal

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

Theories of Flight

Fates Warning

• Label: Inside Out Mussic
• Released: 1 July 2016

• Progressive metal

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

Sittin' Heavy

Monster Truck

• Label: Dine Alone
• Released: 19 February 2016

• Southern rock
• Blues rock

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

Weekend Man

Royal Republic

• Label: Capitol
• Released: 26 February 2016

• Garage rock

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

Seal the Deal & Let's Boogie

Volbeat

• Label: Vertigo
• Released: 3 June 2016

• Alternative metal
• Rockabilly

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

Terminal Redux

Vektor

• Label: Earache
• Released: 6 May 2016

• Technical thrash metal
• Progressive death metal

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

Dystopia

Megadeth

• Label: Universal
• Released: 22 January 2016

• Thrash metal

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

Magma

Gojira

• Label: Roadrunner
• Released: 17 June 2016

• Progressive metal
• Groove metal

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

Gone Is Gone

Gone Is Gone

• Label: Rise
• Released: 8 July 2016

• Avant-garde metal
• Progressive metal

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

Rise Above the Meadow

Greenleaf

• Label: Napalm Records
• Released: 26 February 2016

• Stoner rock
• Blues rock

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

Voice of the Void

Anciients

• Label: Season of Mist
• Released: 14 October 2016

• Sludge metal
• Progressive metal

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

Repeat Until Death

Bombus

• Label: Century Media
• Released: 26 February 2016

• Stoner metal
• Heavy metal

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

Prayers for the Damned

Sixx:A.M.

• Label: Eleven Seven Music
• Released: 29 April 2016

• Hard rock
• Alternative metal

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

Sorceress

Opeth

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 30 September 2016

• Progressive rock
• Progressive metal

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

The Fall of Hearts

Katatonia

• Label: Peaceville
• Released: 20 May 2016

• Progressive rock
• Progressive metal

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