Scoring copied from Sword_Chant:

✮✮✮✮✮ - Incredible, possibly Album Of The Year
✮✮✮✮½ - Awesome
✮✮✮✮ - Solid release
✮✮✮½ - Good release
✮✮✮ - Not bad
✮✮ - Disappointing
✮ - Bad / very bad…

1.Be'lakor - Vessels

2.Moonsorrow - Jumalten Aika

3.Borknagar - Winter Thrice

4.Ihsahn - Arktis.

5.Fleshgod Apocalypse - King

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1.Fleshgod Apocalypse - King

2.Aborted - Retrogore

3.Cult Of Luna - Mariner [Collaboration]

4.Anciients - Voice Of The Void

5.Devin Townsend - Transcendence

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1.Fleshgod Apocalypse - King

2.Insomnium - Winter's Gate

3.Orbit Culture - Rasen

4.Mechina - Progenitor

5.Crematory - Monument

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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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Favourite albums of 2016 (including only those which I would rate 7+)…

1.Vektor - Terminal Redux

2.Slice The Cake - Odyssey To The West

3.Animals As Leaders - The Madness Of Many

4.Gardenjia - Arkestral

5.Hypno5e - Shores Of The Abstract Line

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1.Amon Amarth - Jomsviking

2.Fleshgod Apocalypse - King

3.Blind Guardian - Beyond The Red Mirror

4.Fallujah - Dreamless

5.Dimmu Borgir - Abrahadabra

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1.Witherscape - The Northern Sanctuary

2.Vektor - Terminal Redux

3.Insomnium - Winter's Gate

4.Moonsorrow - Jumalten Aika

5.Heavenwood - The Tarot Of The Bohemians: Part 1

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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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let's go!…

1.Band-Maid - Brand New Maid

2.Thrawsunblat - Metachthonia

3.Enchiridion - The Realm Of Blackened Perdition

4.pg.lost - Versus

5.Myrath - Legacy

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1.Alcest - Kodama

2.Myrath - Legacy

3.Fallujah - Dreamless

4.Krampus - Counter//Current

5.Rotting Christ - Rituals

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1.Omnium Gatherum - Grey Heavens

2.Fleshgod Apocalypse - King

3.Rotting Christ - Rituals

4.Amon Amarth - Jomsviking

5.Obscura - Akróasis

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

No special order.

(sorry for German commenting, i reuse the text mostly on my social media later)…

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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1.Fleshgod Apocalypse - King

2.Hypno5e - Shores Of The Abstract Line

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1.Myrath - Legacy

2.Fleshgod Apocalypse - King

3.Anthrax - For All Kings

4.The Cult - Hidden City

5.Omnium Gatherum - Grey Heavens

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My favorite to least favorite from 2016. I will be adding and moving albums as the year goes on.

1.Epica - The Holographic Principle

2.Testament - Brotherhood Of The Snake

3.Avantasia - Ghostlights

4.Allegaeon - Proponent For Sentience

5.Brymir - Slayer Of Gods

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