2016 Metal Album Releases

2016

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Nov 18

Metallica - Hardwired...To Self-Destruct

Hardwired...To Self-Destruct

69

critic score

(29)

62

user score

(443)

Apr 8

Deftones - Gore

75

critic score

(27)

70

user score

(372)

Jun 17

82

critic score

(13)

78

user score

(304)

Jun 17

Nails - You Will Never Be One of Us

You Will Never Be One of Us

85

critic score

(12)

78

user score

(266)

Sep 30

Alcest - Kodama

80

critic score

(5)

79

user score

(169)

Jan 22

Megadeth - Dystopia

66

critic score

(13)

61

user score

(148)

May 6

Vektor - Terminal Redux

83

critic score

(8)

80

user score

(146)

Oct 28

Avenged Sevenfold - The Stage

Avenged Sevenfold

74

critic score

(9)

71

user score

(135)

May 27

Architects - All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us

All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us

79

critic score

(6)

80

user score

(133)

Oct 21

Korn - The Serenity of Suffering

The Serenity of Suffering

61

critic score

(13)

59

user score

(122)

Apr 1

BABYMETAL - Metal Resistance

Metal Resistance

78

critic score

(12)

62

user score

(97)

Sep 28

Mick Gordon - Doom: Original Game Soundtrack

Doom: Original Game Soundtrack

90

critic score

(1)

83

user score

(97)

Aug 5

Russian Circles - Guidance

Russian Circles

81

critic score

(14)

75

user score

(96)

Apr 15

Zeal and Ardor - Devil Is Fine

73

critic score

(4)

74

user score

(90)

Mar 18

The Body - No One Deserves Happiness

No One Deserves Happiness

76

critic score

(11)

71

user score

(88)

Feb 26

Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä

78

critic score

(5)

77

user score

(81)

Jan 29

Dream Theater - The Astonishing

The Astonishing

81

critic score

(6)

46

user score

(79)

Sep 16

Knocked Loose - Laugh Tracks

70

critic score

(3)

75

user score

(77)

Sep 30

Oathbreaker - Rheia

70

critic score

(8)

75

user score

(76)

Apr 8

Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas - Mariner

Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas

77

critic score

(4)

81

user score

(71)

Aug 19

Blood Incantation - Starspawn

Blood Incantation

85

critic score

(3)

79

user score

(70)

Oct 7

Meshuggah - The Violent Sleep Of Reason

The Violent Sleep Of Reason

80

critic score

(7)

74

user score

(69)

Mar 25

Asking Alexandria - The Black

Asking Alexandria

80

critic score

(1)

62

user score

(64)

Sep 23

Neurosis - Fires Within Fires

Fires Within Fires

81

critic score

(9)

72

user score

(56)

Feb 26

Anthrax - For All Kings

72

critic score

(13)

66

user score

(55)

Sep 23

Every Time I Die - Low Teens

Every Time I Die

77

critic score

(6)

76

user score

(53)

Jul 22

Periphery - Periphery III: Select Difficulty

Periphery III: Select Difficulty

69

critic score

(4)

75

user score

(52)

Apr 29

Haken - Affinity

79

critic score

(4)

81

user score

(47)

Mar 25

Cobalt - Slow Forever

87

critic score

(6)

77

user score

(46)

Sep 2

Devin Townsend Project - Transcendence

Devin Townsend Project

78

critic score

(9)

74

user score

(44)

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Mar 11

Killswitch Engage - Incarnate

Killswitch Engage

76

critic score

(7)

64

user score

(43)

Jun 3

Beartooth - Aggressive

78

critic score

(4)

60

user score

(43)

Mar 18

Boris & Merzbow - Gensho

Boris & Merzbow

71

critic score

(7)

71

user score

(42)

May 20

Katatonia - The Fall of Hearts

The Fall of Hearts

74

critic score

(5)

77

user score

(42)

Nov 11

In Flames - Battles

57

critic score

(3)

54

user score

(42)

Nov 11

Animals As Leaders - The Madness of Many

Animals As Leaders

The Madness of Many

73

critic score

(7)

71

user score

(42)

Sep 23

Insomnium - Winter's Gate

75

critic score

(4)

78

user score

(41)

Oct 28

Car Bomb - Meta

77

user score

(38)

May 13

Gorguts - Pleiades' Dust

86

critic score

(8)

79

user score

(37)

Mar 25

Amon Amarth - Jomsviking

78

critic score

(7)

70

user score

(35)

Jul 8

Chevelle - The North Corridor

The North Corridor

81

critic score

(2)

68

user score

(35)

Jul 8

Inter Arma - Paradise Gallows

Paradise Gallows

85

critic score

(7)

73

user score

(35)

Aug 19

Sabaton - The Last Stand

56

user score

(35)

Aug 19

Bad Omens - Bad Omens

80

critic score

(2)

76

user score

(35)

Jun 10

Astronoid - Air

90

critic score

(1)

74

user score

(34)

Oct 28

Anaal Nathrakh - The Whole of the Law

The Whole of the Law

85

critic score

(2)

81

user score

(34)

Jan 1

Krallice - Hyperion

78

critic score

(3)

71

user score

(32)

Jan 15

73

critic score

(5)

70

user score

(32)

Jun 10

Sumac - What One Becomes

What One Becomes

75

critic score

(9)

75

user score

(32)

Oct 28

Testament - Brotherhood of the Snake

Brotherhood of the Snake

77

critic score

(5)

74

user score

(32)

Nov 11

Saor - Guardians

76

user score

(32)

Mar 11

Polyphia - Renaissance

66

user score

(31)

Jul 29

Infant Annihilator - The Elysian Grandeval Galèriarch

Infant Annihilator

The Elysian Grandeval Galèriarch

44

critic score

(1)

72

user score

(31)

Sep 2

Of Mice & Men - Cold World

65

critic score

(4)

49

user score

(30)

Oct 14

Darkthrone - Arctic Thunder

73

critic score

(5)

67

user score

(30)

Oct 28

Ulcerate - Shrines of Paralysis

Shrines of Paralysis

82

critic score

(4)

78

user score

(30)

Apr 29

Rob Zombie - The Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser

The Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser

67

critic score

(8)

63

user score

(29)

Oct 7

Thy Catafalque - Meta

80

critic score

(1)

78

user score

(28)

Apr 1

Moonsorrow - Jumalten Aika

80

critic score

(1)

73

user score

(27)

Sep 9

Norma Jean - Polar Similar

81

critic score

(4)

79

user score

(27)

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