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Highest Rated Metal Albums of 2016
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Cobalt - Slow Forever
March 25, 2016
Sludge Metal
Score
84
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2
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Krallice - Hyperion
January 1, 2016
Black Metal
Score
83
Source →
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Music
Spotify
3
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Black Tusk - Pillars of Ash
January 29, 2016
Sludge Metal
Score
82
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
4
.
Vektor - Terminal Redux
May 6, 2016
Technical Thrash Metal
Score
82
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Amazon
Music
Spotify
5
.
SubRosa - For This We Fought the Battle of Ages
August 26, 2016
Doom Metal
Score
82
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
6
.
Sumerlands - Sumerlands
September 16, 2016
Heavy Metal
Score
80
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
7
.
Inter Arma - Paradise Gallows
July 8, 2016
Sludge Metal
Score
80
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
8
.
Lycus - Chasms
January 15, 2016
Doom Metal
Score
80
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
9
.
Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä
February 26, 2016
Psychedelic Rock
,
Black Metal
,
Heavy Psych
,
Atmospheric Black Metal
,
Avant-Garde Metal
Score
79
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
10
.
Krallice - Prelapsarian
December 21, 2016
Black Metal
Score
79
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
11
.
Tombs - All Empires Fall
April 1, 2016
Black Metal
Score
78
Source →
Amazon
Music
12
.
Deftones - Gore
April 8, 2016
Alternative Metal
,
Alternative Rock
Score
78
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
13
.
Hammers of Misfortune - Dead Revolution
July 22, 2016
Progressive Metal
Score
78
Source →
Amazon
Music
14
.
Oathbreaker - Rheia
September 30, 2016
Black Metal
,
Blackgaze
Score
78
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
15
.
Sumac - What One Becomes
June 10, 2016
Sludge Metal
Score
78
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
16
.
The Body - No One Deserves Happiness
March 18, 2016
Drone Metal
,
Avant-Garde Metal
,
Sludge Metal
Score
77
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
17
.
Khemmis - Hunted
October 21, 2016
Epic Doom Metal
,
Doom Metal
Score
76
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
18
.
Gojira - Magma
June 17, 2016
Progressive Metal
,
Groove Metal
Score
76
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
19
.
Big Business - Command Your Weather
July 8, 2016
Stoner Metal
Score
76
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
20
.
Cough - Still They Pray
June 3, 2016
Doom Metal
,
Sludge Metal
Score
76
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
21
.
The Body & Full of Hell - One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache
March 25, 2016
Noise
,
Avant-Garde Metal
,
Post-Industrial
Score
76
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
22
.
Russian Circles - Guidance
August 5, 2016
Post-Rock
,
Post-Metal
Score
75
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
23
.
Gatecreeper - Sonoran Depravation
October 7, 2016
Death Metal
Score
75
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
24
.
Pallbearer - Fear & Fury
August 10, 2016
Doom Metal
Score
74
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
25
.
Eight Bells - Landless
February 12, 2016
Post-Rock
,
Doom Metal
Score
74
Source →
Amazon
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This is not a year end list. This list is ordered by the ratings awarded albums throughout 2016.
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