Essentially a sequel to my 2015 Rituals list, assuming I take the time to keep up with it this time.

Here are the albums from this year, metal or otherwise, that've most taken me on those deep,…

1.Trench Devils - The Signal

2.Nonsun - Black Snow Desert

3.Atom Made Earth - Morning Glory

4.Serpent Dream - Serpent Dream

5.Manunkind - Manunkind

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Welcome to my 2016 list. Most of you are aware how lists on MS work :- If the album appears at the top it's amazing (imo) and highly recommend you give it a listen... if it's featured at the…

1.Whispered - Metsutan - Songs Of The Void

2.Mesarthim - Pillars

3.Equilibrium - Armageddon

4.Omnium Gatherum - Grey Heavens

5.Twilight Force - Heroes Of Mighty Magic

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My favorites of the year as they come. No order.

1.Krallice - Hyperion

2.The Black Queen - Fever Daydream

3.Deströyer 666 - Wildfire

4.After The Burial - Dig Deep

5.Abbath - Abbath

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For me more than you, as the sheer amount of music in the world has turned me into a goldfish as far as remembering what I've listened to and what I thought of it. However, if you find something cool…

1.Cult Of Luna - Mariner [Collaboration]

2.Fallujah - Dreamless

3.Moonsorrow - Jumalten Aika

4.Death Grips - The Bottomless Pit

5.Iamthemorning - Lighthouse

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1.Ulcerate - Shrines Of Paralysis

2.The Dillinger Escape Plan - Dissociation

3.Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

4.Katatonia - The Fall Of Hearts

5.Vektor - Terminal Redux

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★★★★★ - Masterpiece!
★★★★½ - Excellent!
★★★★☆ - Great!
★★★½☆ - Very Good!
★★★☆☆ - Enjoyable!
★★½☆☆ - OK, Nothing Special...
★★☆☆☆ - Mediocre/Poor
★½☆☆☆ - Don't Touch
★☆☆☆☆ - I Want My Money Back…

1.Cloudscape - Voice Of Reason

2.Adam Wakeman & Damian Wilson - Weir Keeper's Tale

3.Fifth To Infinity - Omnipotent Transdimensional Soulfire

4.Dissona - Paleopneumatic

5.Bloodiest - Bloodiest

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mostly prog metal, some black n prog rock, n related genres updated 26.2.16…

1.23-Infinity - XXIII-8

2.Abbath - Abbath

3.Abounding - Residual (ep)

4.Abysee - I Am The Wolf

5.Abyssic - A Winter's Tale

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1.Borknagar - Winter Thrice

2.Fates Warning - Theories Of Flight

3.Obscura - Akróasis

4.Witherscape - The Northern Sanctuary

5.Dark Tranquillity - Atoma

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SEXY stuff from 2016. Lots of prog.

Rating:

5 - Perfect
4,5 - Excellent
4 - Great
3,5 - Very good
3 - Good
2,5 - OK, but nothing special…

1.Haken - Affinity

2.Fates Warning - Theories Of Flight

3.Be'lakor - Vessels

4.Witherscape - The Northern Sanctuary

5.Devin Townsend - Transcendence

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1.Borknagar - Winter Thrice

2.Ulver - ATGCLVLSSCAP

3.Ihsahn - Arktis.

4.Katatonia - The Fall Of Hearts

5.Opeth - Sorceress

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1.Leprous - Live At Rockefeller Music Hall

2.Meshuggah - The Violent Sleep Of Reason

3.Dark Tranquillity - Atoma

4.Textures - Phenotype

5.Haken - Affinity

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1.Cult Of Luna - Mariner [Collaboration]

2.Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä

3.Mistur - In Memoriam

4.Thy Catafalque - Meta

5.In The Woods... - Pure

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This is my Best of 2016. Obviously a work in progress. Still tons more new metal to be released this year. Right now I am going back to the early releases and making sure nothing fell through the cracks.

1.Swans - The Glowing Man

2.Sumac - What One Becomes

3.Wormed - Krighsu

4.Katatonia - The Fall Of Hearts

5.Internal Suffering - Cyclonic Void Of Power

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Some black coffee, some milky atmosphere, some folk syrup and some sweet death.

No special order.

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1.Moonsorrow - Jumalten Aika

2.Myrkgrav - Takk Og Farvel Tida Er Blitt Ei Annen

3.

4.Noctem - Haeresis

5.Belenos - Kornôg

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All albums of 2016 I've listened to, ordered from the best to the worst.

1.The Foreshadowing - Seven Heads, Ten Horns

2.Heavenwood - The Tarot Of The Bohemians

3.Moonsorrow - Jumalten Aika

4.Borknagar - Winter Thrice

5.Novembre - URSA

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