dumb top 10 of 2016 list
the best stuff i jammed this year didn't come out in 2016 and i spent too much time at the gym bumping Dragonforce and Rhapsody and listening to ska punk i never grew up with in foggy 7am commutes.
Honorable Mentions =
DGD - Mothership
Dear Hunter - Act V
Mick Gordon - DOOM
Thank You Scientist
A Tribe Called Quest |
| 10 |  | The Hotelier
Goodness
If this album was 30 minutes, it may steal the #2 spot easily, sadly its stuffed with repetitive slogs (Sun), filler, and breaking their punk/emo roots, a genre they mastered in less than two releases. Dat midsection though. |
| 9 |  | Devin Townsend Project
Transcendence
Devin on autopilot shouldn't sound this good. Pop-Prog jams like Offer Your Light help this from being forgotten. |
| 8 |  | Vektor
Terminal Redux
riffs, ambition, riffs. The fact i don't want to feed this beast is a testament to just how strong it is. |
| 7 |  | Avantasia
Ghostlights
Like Nightwish but good. |
| 6 |  | Aesop Rock
The Impossible Kid
backpack rap for the invader zim crowd. |
| 5 |  | David Bowie
Blackstar
Probably not as high as it could be because it only contains a fraction of Bowie's genius, and it influences plague the composition. |
| 4 |  | BABYMETAL
Metal Resistance
Datpiff-like hype comes to the damaged metal scene in 2016 and makes every metal-core outfit feel a tad old. |
| 3 |  | The Dillinger Escape Plan
Dissociation
Dillinger close their career by writing an album that nearly touches where they started. |
| 2 |  | Jeff Rosenstock
Worry.
More addicting than the alchohol he can't stop singing about. |
| 1 |  | Fates Warning
Theories of Flight
Mature, masterclass and unlike their contemporaries, not in the slightest overburdened, pretentious or whatever the hell The Astonishing was. |
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