The Metal Evangelist – Top 40 Metal Albums of 2016
I sifted through more than 200 albums in 2016 and I’m pleased to present my favorites.
Ignis Gehenna – Baleful Scarlet Star
Baleful Scarlet Star is a violent entity released from oblivion and come to utterly destroy.
Spectral Apparition – Manifestation
Someday, you’ll be able to say you were one of the few who knew about this project when it was still completely underground. This level of quality won’t stay there long.
Hayduke’s Top 50 of 2016
Hayduke’s favorite 50 albums of 2016. Mostly metal, but the number one spot is taken by anarcho-folk project Rail Yard Ghosts.
SONG OF THE WEEK: Dawnbringer – North by North
At once, both classic and modern, both dark and light, both melancholy and transcendent.
Epitaph – Sinner Waketh
There are nine full songs across the album’s ten tracks that pivot between blast, groove and doom and keep the vocal carousel spinning throughout.
Panzerfaust – The Lucifer Principle
The void calls. There is no escape. As a whole, The Lucifer Principle is haunting and ominous, dark as blackest sin, and utterly feral.
Pain of Salvation – The Passing Light of Day
In the Passing Light of Day simply overflows with music of astounding color and textural variety.
George’s Best of 2016!
“List” season is definitely my favorite season when it comes to music
SONG OF THE WEEK: Mayhem – Life Eternal
Though their past is rife with violence, murder, suicide, Nazism, and more, they are undoubtedly one of the creators of the sound we now call black metal.