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.Vektor - Terminal Redux

2.Plini - Handmade Cities

3.Alcest - Kodama

4.The Dillinger Escape Plan - Dissociation

5.Thank You Scientist - Stranger Heads Prevail

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No preference order except the Top 5 (see the stars)…

1.SubRosa - For This We Fought The Battle Of Ages

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

3.Throane - Derrière-Nous, La Lumière

4.Oathbreaker - Rheia

5.Darkher - Realms

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Order is sorted by album repeat.

1.Meshuggah - The Violent Sleep Of Reason

2.Vale Of Pnath - II

3.Dark Tranquillity - Atoma

4.Fallujah - Dreamless

5.Be'lakor - Vessels

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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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1.Agalloch - Pale Folklore

2.Agalloch - The Mantle

3.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

4.Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea

5.Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God

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"CALENDAR MADE OF METAL"
May = Math Metal
Listening to as many albums as possible in said genre during said month and listing them here as I go. Suggestions welcome.

1.The Dillinger Escape Plan - Under The Running Board

2.Car Bomb - Centralia

3.Meshuggah - Meshuggah (Psykisk Testbild)

4.Meshuggah - None

5.Candiria - The Process Of Self Development

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Very late starting on this one, been rather unable to keep up with releases over the summer so will try to catch up on as many cool releases as possible in the last couple of months of the year. Be prepared…

1.Ortega - Sacred States

2.Riverside - Eye Of The Soundscape

3.Oathbreaker - Rheia

4.Devin Townsend - Transcendence

5.Allegaeon - Proponent For Sentience

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1.Insomnium - Winter's Gate

2.Dark Tranquillity - Atoma

3.Meshuggah - The Violent Sleep Of Reason

4.Opeth - Sorceress

5.Devin Townsend - Transcendence

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1.Testament - Brotherhood Of The Snake

2.Artillery - Penalty By Perception

3.Vektor - Terminal Redux

4.Desaster - The Oath Of An Iron Ritual

5.Exumer - The Raging Tides

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1.Abbath - Abbath

2.Exumer - The Raging Tides

3.Rotting Christ - Rituals

4.Deströyer 666 - Wildfire

5.Fleshgod Apocalypse - King

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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.Twelve Foot Ninja - Outlier

2.Riverside - Eye Of The Soundscape

3.Swallow The Sun - Songs From The North I, II & III

4.Opeth - Sorceress

5.Ihsahn - Arktis.

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1.Mantar - Ode To The Flame

2.Temple Of Gnosis - De Secretis Naturae Alchymica

3.Uada - Devoid Of Light

4.Vanhelgd - Temple Of Phobos

5.Witherscape - The Northern Sanctuary

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