1.I am Noah - The Verdict

2.Insomnium - Winter's Gate

3.Trees Of Eternity - Hour Of The Nightingale

4.Avantasia - Ghostlights

5.Fleshgod Apocalypse - King

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1.Metallica - Hardwired?To Self-Destruct

2.Devilment - II: The Mephisto Waltzes

3.Diabulus In Musica - Dirge For The Archons

4.Trees Of Eternity - Hour Of The Nightingale

5.Dark Tranquillity - Atoma

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2016 - What An amazing year for Metal!

End of the year list for the bands & albums I heard this year - sorted In alphabetical order. List is WIP.

1.Abbath - Abbath

2.Alcest - Kodama

3.Ancient - Back To The Land Of The Dead

4.Antimatter - Welcome To The Machine

5.Borknagar - Winter Thrice

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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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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 for pithy reviews

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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My Favorite Albums Of The Year \m/

1.Onmyo-Za - 迦陵頻伽

2.Dream Theater - The Astonishing

3.Epica - The Holographic Principle

4.Insomnium - Winter's Gate

5.Opeth - Sorceress

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1.Cult Of Luna - Mariner [Collaboration]

2.Insomnium - Winter's Gate

3.Trees Of Eternity - Hour Of The Nightingale

4.Ihsahn - Arktis.

5.Haken - Affinity

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Here we go again. This time around though I probably won't end up listening to as many albums as previous years. Time will tell.

1.Trees Of Eternity - Hour Of The Nightingale

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

3.La Torture Des Ténèbres - Civilization Is The Tomb Of Our Noble Gods

4.Fvnerals - Wounds

5.Cult Of Luna - Mariner [Collaboration]

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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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My personal favorite studio albums of 2016

1.Devin Townsend - Transcendence

2.Trees Of Eternity - Hour Of The Nightingale

3.Avenged Sevenfold - The Stage

4.Metallica - Hardwired...To Self-Destruct

5.Epica - The Holographic Principle

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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.Amon Amarth - Jomsviking

2.Dark Tranquillity - Atoma

3.Omnium Gatherum - Grey Heavens

4.Equilibrium - Armageddon

5.Be'lakor - Vessels

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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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1.Omnium Gatherum - Grey Heavens

2.Trees Of Eternity - Hour Of The Nightingale

3.Fallujah - Dreamless

4.Fleshgod Apocalypse - King

5.Epica - The Holographic Principle

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1.Trees Of Eternity - Hour Of The Nightingale

2.Epica - The Holographic Principle

3.Insomnium - Winter's Gate

4.Delain - Moonbathers

5.Cradle Of Filth - Dusk... And Her Embrace: The Original Sin

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