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The Best Metal Albums of 2016 by User Score
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1
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Mick Gordon - Doom: Original Game Soundtrack
September 28th, 2016
Industrial Metal
,
Dark Ambient
USER SCORE
85
321 ratings
Amazon
2
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Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas - Mariner
April 8th, 2016
Atmospheric Sludge Metal
,
Post-Metal
USER SCORE
83
118 ratings
Amazon
Music
Spotify
3
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Anaal Nathrakh - The Whole of the Law
October 28th, 2016
Black Metal
,
Grindcore
USER SCORE
83
62 ratings
Amazon
Music
Spotify
4
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Thank You Scientist - Stranger Heads Prevail
July 29th, 2016
Progressive Rock
,
Progressive Metal
,
Jazz Fusion
USER SCORE
82
120 ratings
Amazon
Music
Spotify
5
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Vektor - Terminal Redux
May 6th, 2016
Technical Thrash Metal
USER SCORE
82
257 ratings
Amazon
Music
Spotify
6
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Fleshgod Apocalypse - King
February 5th, 2016
Death Metal
,
Symphonic Metal
USER SCORE
82
73 ratings
Amazon
Music
Spotify
7
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Architects - All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us
May 27th, 2016
Djent
,
Progressive Metalcore
USER SCORE
82
423 ratings
Amazon
Music
Spotify
8
.
Haken - Affinity
April 29th, 2016
Progressive Metal
USER SCORE
82
124 ratings
Amazon
Music
Spotify
9
.
Gorguts - Pleiades' Dust
May 13th, 2016
Technical Death Metal
USER SCORE
80
73 ratings
Amazon
Music
Spotify
10
.
Insomnium - Winter's Gate
September 23rd, 2016
Melodic Death Metal
USER SCORE
80
78 ratings
Amazon
Music
Spotify
11
.
Gojira - Magma
June 17th, 2016
Progressive Metal
,
Groove Metal
USER SCORE
80
814 ratings
Amazon
Music
Spotify
12
.
Blood Incantation - Starspawn
August 19th, 2016
Death Metal
,
Progressive Metal
USER SCORE
80
149 ratings
Amazon
Music
Spotify
13
.
Knocked Loose - Laugh Tracks
September 16th, 2016
Metalcore
,
Beatdown Hardcore
USER SCORE
80
312 ratings
Amazon
Music
Spotify
14
.
Alcest - Kodama
September 30th, 2016
Blackgaze
,
Post-Black Metal
,
Post-Metal
USER SCORE
79
299 ratings
Amazon
Music
Spotify
15
.
Norma Jean - Polar Similar
September 9th, 2016
Metalcore
USER SCORE
79
50 ratings
Amazon
Music
Spotify
16
.
Plini - Handmade Cities
August 26th, 2016
Progressive Metal
,
Progressive Rock
USER SCORE
79
74 ratings
Amazon
17
.
Silent Planet - Everything Was Sound
July 1st, 2016
Metalcore
USER SCORE
79
51 ratings
Amazon
18
.
Every Time I Die - Low Teens
September 23rd, 2016
Metalcore
USER SCORE
79
106 ratings
Amazon
Music
Spotify
19
.
Car Bomb - Meta
October 28th, 2016
Mathcore
,
Djent
USER SCORE
79
94 ratings
Amazon
20
.
Show Me the Body - Body War
June 17th, 2016
Post-Hardcore
,
Noise Rock
,
Sludge Metal
,
Rap Rock
USER SCORE
78
205 ratings
Amazon
Music
Spotify
21
.
Deathspell Omega - The Synarchy of Molten Bones
November 8th, 2016
Black Metal
,
Avant-Garde Metal
USER SCORE
78
51 ratings
Amazon
22
.
Katatonia - The Fall of Hearts
May 20th, 2016
Alternative Metal
,
Progressive Metal
,
Progressive Rock
USER SCORE
78
78 ratings
Amazon
Music
Spotify
23
.
Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä
February 26th, 2016
Psychedelic Rock
,
Black Metal
,
Heavy Psych
,
Atmospheric Black Metal
,
Avant-Garde Metal
USER SCORE
78
119 ratings
Amazon
Music
Spotify
24
.
Cobalt - Slow Forever
March 25th, 2016
Sludge Metal
USER SCORE
77
55 ratings
Amazon
Music
Spotify
25
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Periphery - Periphery III: Select Difficulty
July 22nd, 2016
Progressive Metal
,
Djent
USER SCORE
77
150 ratings
Amazon
Music
Spotify
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