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2016 Masterlist (Part I)

All (most of) the stuff worth spinning if you like what I like. Happy worst year ever
1Aesop Rock
The Impossible Kid

hip-hop/rap 3.5
2Agoraphobic Nosebleed
Arc

sludge/grind 3.5
3Alcest
Kodama

post-rock/post-black metal 3.5
4Aluk Todolo
Voix

improv? instrumental black metal 3.5
5Anaal Nathrakh
The Whole of the Law

industrial black metal 3.8
6Anciients
Voice of the Void

progressive death metal 3.8
7ANCST
Moloch

blackened hardcore 3.5
8Anemone Tube
Golden Temple

noise/power electronics/ambient 4.0
9Angel Du$t
Rock The Fuck On Forever

punk 4.0
10Arabrot
The Gospel

goth/post-punk 3.5
11Arca
Entranas

electronic 3.5
12Azooma
The Act of Eye

tech death 3.5
13Badr Vogu
Wroth

death metal/metalcore 3.8
14Beastwars
The Death of All Things

sludge/rawk 3.5
15Begrime Exemious
The Enslavement Conquest

death metal 3.8
16Blood Incantation
Starspawn

death metal 4.1
17Bloodiest
Bloodiest

metal-ish 3.5
18Blue October
Home

babymaking music 3.6
19The Body
No One Deserves Happiness

dubby shrieky noise 3.7
20Bon Iver
22, A Million

Justin Vernon merging with the machine 3.8
21Brujeria
Pocho Aztlan

death mex 3.8
22Cobalt
Slow Forever

thrash-tinged black metal with old-school overtones 4.1
23Cognizant
Cognizant

grind 3.7
24Coldworld
Autumn

cold cold world 3.9
25Controlled Bleeding
Larva Lumps and Baby Bumps

noise rock 3.7
26Cough
Still They Pray

less-stoned more-satanic Electric Wizard 4.1
27Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas
Mariner

post-metal 3.7
28Cultes Des Ghoules
Coven

grimy occult black metal 4.6
29Dance Gavin Dance
Mothership

only DGD album I've ever heard but it's good 3.2
30Danny Brown
Atrocity Exhibition

hard-ass nasally-ass rap boi 4.3
31Darkthrone
Arctic Thunder

old school doomy black metal 3.7
32Death Kneel
Under The Roman Clamour

noise/ambient 3.6
33Deathspell Omega
The Synarchy of Molten Bones

avant-black metal 3.9
34Despised Icon
Beast

sweet breakdown nostalgia 3.4
35Destroyer 666
Wildfire

blackthrash 3.8
36The Dillinger Escape Plan
Dissociation

mad mathcore magicians 4.0
37Dorisburg
Irrbloss

sp00ky tribal beatz 3.8
38Entropia (PL)
Ufonaut

weird black metal 3.9
39Esperanza Spalding
Emily's D+Evolution

funky bass jazz 3.6
40Flatbush Zombies
3001: A Laced Odyssey

rippity-rap 3.6
41Fuath
I

Andy Marshall's decent side project for the year 3.7
42Future of the Left
The Peace and Truce of

welsh noise-punk 3.6
43Fyrnask
Fórn

infernal black metal 4.2
44The Gerogerigegege
Moenai Hai

uneven and straight up offensive man 3.4
45Ghold
PYR

mountain sludge 3.9
46Gnaw Their Tongues
Hymns For the Broken, Swollen and Silent

blacknoise 3.7
47Gold Panda
Good Luck And Do Your Best

electronic 3.8
48Graf Orlock
Crime Traveler

history-core 3.6
49Graves at Sea
The Curse That Is

long-form sludge/doom 3.8
50Hail Spirit Noir
Mayhem In Blue

occulto-circus black metal 4.0
51Haken
Affinity

prog rock 3.6
52Helen Money
Become Zero

cello metal 3.7
53Howls of Ebb
Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows

odd death metal 3.9
54Ichiko Aoba
マホロボシヤ

acoustic wonderment 3.7
55Inverloch
Distance | Collapsed

I still miss diSEMBOWELMENT 4.1
56Jeff Rosenstock
Worry.

pop (your bubble) punk 3.8
57The Julie Ruin
Hit Reset

grrl punk 3.6
58Jute Gyte
Perdurance

tonally challenging black metal 3.8
59Kamaiyah
A Good Night in the Ghetto

hip-hop 3.5
60Kaytranada
99.9%

(mostly) instrumental hip-hop 3.8
61Kevin Morby
Singing Saw

folksy rock 3.7
62Korn
The Serenity of Suffering

unfathomably acceptable 3.5
63Lost Salt Blood Purges
Only the Youngest Grave

snoxcore 4.0
64Magrudergrind
II

grudery-grind 3.6
65Martyrdod
List

crust punk 3.8
66Messa
Belfry

trad doom 3.8
67Mithras
On Strange Loops

tech death 4.0
68Moon Tooth
Chromaparagon

avant-math rock, edges on metallic at points 3.6
69Moonsorrow
Jumalten Aika

folk black metal 3.8
70Nadja
The Stone Is Not Hit By The Sun, Nor Carved With A

doomgaze 3.7
71Narcosatanicos
Body Cults

psych-jazz-rock 3.6
72Neurosis
Fires Within Fires

post-metal 3.8
73Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Skeleton Tree

continuance 4.3
74Nicolas Jaar
Sirens

electronic 3.9
75Niechec
Niechec

mod-jazz 3.7
76Norma Jean
Polar Similar

above-average metalcore 3.7
77Oozing Wound
Whatever Forever

crossover thrash/noise rock 3.6
78Oranssi Pazuzu
Värähtelijä

slightly off-kilter black metal 3.75
79Palace of Worms
The Ladder

ladder-themed black metal 3.8
80The Poisoned Glass
10 Swords

psych-drone/noise 3.6
81Prurient
Unknown Rains

cold noise 3.7
82Puce Mary
The Spiral

pe lite 3.6
83PUP
The Dream Is Over

punk 3.8
84Roly Porter
Third Law

space drone 3.5
85Rorcal
Creon

Sophocles-themed blacky crusty sludge
86Saor
Guardians

if Panopticon was more consistently great 4.0
87Schammasch
Triangle

2 discs of Behemoth worship 3.5 1 disc of appalling good ritual/dark ambient 4.1
88Seputus
Man Does Not Give

crusty death metal 3.9
89serpentwithfeet
blisters

soul(full) 3.6
90Solmania
Kill

noise that will [title] you 3.7
91Street Sects
End Position

noisy industrial-core 3.?
92SubRosa
For This We Fought the Battle of Ages

doom 3.7
93SUMAC
What One Becomes

supermassive post-metal 4.2
94Suuns
Hold/Still

post-electro 3.6
95Swarms
Red Temple Rain

chillstep 3.7
96Thrice
To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere

post-hardcore/alt. rock 3.8
97Thy Catafalque
Meta

blackened progressive death metal 3.8
98Titaan
Kadingir

ritual raw black-death 3.8
99A Tribe Called Quest
We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service

hip-hop 3.9
100Ulcerate
Shrines of Paralysis

cavernous death metal, somewhat unmemorable this time around 3.7
101Ulver
ATGCLVLSSCAP

atmosphere sounds 4.1
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