My own top 230 essential metal albums sorted in alphabetical order by band name.

1.1349 - Beyond The Apocalypse

2.1349 - The Infernal Pathway

3.Acid Witch - Witchtanic Hellucinations

4.Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea

5.Amon Amarth - Once Sent From The Golden Hall

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2016 was... well... oh oh... oh oh... well... what the fuck!

Anyhow, here is my top 50 ranking of albums I scored 8+

Album count: 126
Average rating: 7.1…

1.Alcest - Kodama

2.Khemmis - Hunted

3.Insomnium - Winter's Gate

4.Trees Of Eternity - Hour Of The Nightingale

5.Skuggsjá - A Piece For Mind & Mirror

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Mind map:

Blue = win
Undead = win
Hell = win
Blue = win
Nature ft. Water = win
Color eyegasm = win
Grim reaper = win
Boys being boys = win
Badly done CGI = win
Blue = win
Blue = win
Orthodox…

1.Emperor - Reverence

2.Wintersun - Wintersun

3.The Ruins Of Beverast - Rain Upon The Impure

4.Dissection - Live Legacy

5.Ozzy Osbourne - Diary Of A Madman

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This is a list of black metal (and blackened metal) albums based on their artwork (in reverse alphabetical order). It includes iconic cover art from classic albums as well as fascinating work from more…

1.Zeal & Ardor - Zeal & Ardor

2.Yoth Iria - As The Flame Withers

3.Watain - Lawless Darkness

4.Vreid - Lifehunger

5.Venom - Black Metal

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I like to create playlists for fun when I'm not busy. Usually, though, I abandon them soon after. I want this playlist to be a bit different - perhaps not infinitely useful, but I associate all these…

1.Dream Theater - Awake

2.Immolation - Close To A World Below

3.Vader - Impressions In Blood

4.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane

5.Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse

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1.Dream Theater - Images And Words

2.Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja

3.Wintersun - Wintersun

4.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane

5.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

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My favourite black metal albums listed and ranked, all varieties within the black metal genre.

1.Summoning - Oath Bound

2.Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter

3.Primordial - To The Nameless Dead

4.Bathory - Hammerheart

5.Mgła - Exercises In Futility

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This list is meant to be an extensive, but by no means exhaustive, collection of the greatest (modern) metal albums and eps. Running the gamut from avant-garde to trve norweigan black metal. *As someone…

1.D.C. Cooper - D.C. Cooper

2.Dali's Dilemma - Manifesto For Futurism

3.Damim - The Difference Engine

4.Dämmerfarben - Im Abendrot

5.Damned Spirits' Dance - Weird Constellations

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I have never attempted to create a complete end of the year list so far, but here it is. It consists of the albums that I have either purchased myself throughout the year (most of them), or that I still…

1.Forteresse - Thèmes Pour La Rébellion

2.Mare Cognitum - Luminiferous Aether

3.Schammasch - Triangle

4.Inquisition - Bloodshed Across The Empyrean Altar Beyond The Celestial Zenith

5.Anaal Nathrakh - The Whole Of The Law

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1.Moonsorrow - Jumalten Aika

2.Kawir - Πάτερ 'Ηλιε Μήτερ Σελάνα

3.Scum - Garden of Shadows

4.Thy Catafalque - Meta

5.Forteresse - Thèmes Pour La Rébellion

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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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1.Gojira - Magma

2.Scorpion Child - Acid Roulette

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4.Hatebreed - The Concrete Confessional

5.Volbeat - Seal The Deal & Let's Boogie

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1.Meshuggah - The Violent Sleep Of Reason

2.Schammasch - Triangle

3.Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä

4.Bethlehem - Bethlehem

5.Ulcerate - Shrines Of Paralysis

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My Fav Album In 2016 From Best to Worst…

1.Dark Funeral - Where Shadows Forever Reign

2.Qaf - Muthalath Al A'asarem

3.Gojira - Magma

4.Denouncement Pyre - Black Sun Unbound

5.Schammasch - Triangle

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1.Anthrax - For All Kings

2.Fleshgod Apocalypse - King

3.Cauldron - In Ruin

4.Abbath - Abbath

5.Metallica - Hardwired... To Self-Destruct

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