As promised, here is my Top 50 releases from 2016. If you are a loyal reader, you may notice that sometimes the order doesn’t make sense with previously given ratings. This list, and ratings given in a review, are snapshots in how I feel about an album at a given time, and that changes sometimes. I’ve tried to include only newly released material (sorry Cloud Rat Discography), but don’t differentiate between length of release or genre. Without further ado (and without further commentary), here is my list:
1. Rail Yard Ghosts – Hiræth
2. Anagnorisis – Peripeteia
3. Unyielding Love – The Sweat of Agony
4. Graves at Sea – The Curse That Is
5. Morrow – Covenant of Teeth
6. Oranssi Pazuzu – Varahtelija
7. Surgeon – Beast of Light
8. SubRosa – For This We Fought the Battle of Ages
9. Khaos-Dei – Opus II: Catechism
10. Due to continued research into labels that support racist and/or NSBM values, I have discovered that this is a choice I can no longer support.
11. Calligram – Demimonde
12. Neurosis – Fires Within Fires
13. Die Choking – III
14. Cara Neir/Wildspeaker – Guilt and His Reflection
15. Due to continued research into labels that support racist and/or NSBM values, I have discovered that this is a choice I can no longer support.
16. Rudra – Enemy of Duality
17. Death Angel – The Evil Divide
18. Due to continued research into labels that support racist and/or NSBM values, I have discovered that this is a choice I can no longer support.
19. Cara Neir – Perpetual Disdain is the Human Condition
20. Due to continued research into labels that support racist and/or NSBM values, I have discovered that this is a choice I can no longer support.
21. Due to continued research into labels that support racist and/or NSBM values, I have discovered that this is a choice I can no longer support.
22. Cryfemal – D6s6nti6rro
23. Myrkur – Mausoleum
24. Thrawsunblat – Metachthonia
25. Oozing Wound – Whatever Forever
26. Somnium Nox – Apocrypha
27. Minenwerfer/1914 – Ich hatt einen Kameraden
28. Vrtra – My Bones Hold A Stillness
29. Mantar – Ode to the Flame
30. Liber Null – I, The Serpent
31. Russian Circles – Guidance
32. Pyramido – Vatten
33. Soothsayer – At This Great Depth
34. Due to continued research into labels that support racist and/or NSBM values, I have discovered that this is a choice I can no longer support.
35. The Body and Full of Hell – One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache
36. Horseback – Dead Ringers
37. Grossty – Crocopter
38. Ilemauzar – The Ascension
39. Eggs of Gomorrh – Rot Prophet
40. Aenaon – Hypnosophy
41. Feral Light – A Sound of Moving Shields
42. Khemmis – Hunted
43. Due to continued research into labels that support racist and/or NSBM values, I have discovered that this is a choice I can no longer support.
44. Cobalt – Slow Forever
45. Suffer Yourself – Ectoplasm
46. Vermin Womb – Decline
47. Siaskel – Haruwen Airen
48. Destroying the Devoid – Paramnesia
49. Dahkma – Suna Culto
50. Due to continued research into labels that support racist and/or NSBM values, I have discovered that this is a choice I can no longer support.
