Tierlist 2016 Albums

Top tier
1. Anaal Nathrakh - The Whole of the Law (Grindcore, Black Metal,
Indsutrial)
2. Blood Incantation - Starspawn (Death Metal)
3. Blzer Hero (Black/Death Metal?)
4. Car Bomb - Meta (Mathcore)
5. Chthe'ilist - Le dernier crpuscule (Death metal)
6. Cobalt - Slow Forever (Black, Sludge)
7. Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas - Mariner (Atmospheric Sludge)
8. Cyborg Octopus - Learning to Breathe (Progressive Metal)
9. David Bowie - Blackstar (Art Rock)
10.
Death Grips - Bottomless Pit (Industrial Hip-hop)
11.
Deathspell Omega - The Synarchy of Molten Bones (Black
Metal)
12.
Demon bitch - Hellfriends (Heavy Metal)
13.
Destroyer 666 - Wildfire (Black Thrash)
14.
Fates Warning - Theories of Flight (Progressive Metal)
15.
First Fragment - Dasein (Technical Death Metal)
16. Gorguts - Pleiades' Dust (Technical Death Metal) (EP)
17. Haken - Affinity (Progessive Metal)
18. Howls Of Ebb - Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows (Black/Death)
19. Ihsahn - Arktis (Progessive Metal)
20. Mutant - Pleiades (Progessive Groove Metal)
21.
Obscura - Akrasis (Technical Death Metal)
22.
Obscure Sphinx - Epitaphs (Sludge Metal)
23.
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool (Alt Rock)
24.
Swans - The Glowing Man (Experimental rock)
25.
Thank You Scientist - Stranger Heads Prevail (Progressive
Rock)
26.
Vektor - Terminal Redux (Technical Thrash, Progressive Metal)
27.
Witchcraft - Nucleus (Stoner Rock, Doom Metal)
28.
Witherscape - The Northern Sanctuary (Melodic Death,
Progressive Metal)

S Tier
1. Aenaon - Hypnosophy (Prog Black) R
2. Allegaeon - Proponent For Sentience (Tech Death) R
3. Animals as Leaders The Madness of Many (Prog Metal, Djent)
4. Astronoid - Air (Shoegaze/Metal)R
5. Borknagar - Winter Thrice (Folk Prog M)
6. Coma cluster void - Mind Cemeteries (Mathcore)
7. Eternity Ends - The Fire Within (Prog Power)
8. Furia - Ksiyc milczy luty (Black Metal)
9. Gevurah - Hallelujah! (Black Metal)
10.
Hail Spirit Noir - Mayhem in Blue (Prog Black)
11.
Head of the Demon - Sathanas Trismegistos (Doom)
12.
Insomnium - Winter's Gate (Melodeath)
13.
Meshuggah - The Violent Sleep of Reason (Math Metal)
14.
Mithras - On Strange Loops (Tech Death)
15.
Neurosis - Fires Within Fires (Sludge)
16.
Oranssi Pazuzu - Vrhtelij (Black Metal/Psychodelic)
17.
Perturbator - The Uncanny Valley (Synthwave)
18.
Ripper - Experiment of Existence (Death Thrash)
19.
Schammasch - Triangle (Black, Prog M)
20.
Shadow of intent - Primordial (Deathcore, Prog M)
21.
Shokran - Exodus (Prog Metal)
22.
Slice The Cake - Odyssey to the West (Deathcore, Prog M)
23.
The Dear Hunter - Act V: Hymns With The Devil In
Confessional (Prog Rock)
24.
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Dissossiation (Mathcore)
25.
Ulcerate - Shrines of Paralysis (Tech Death/ Sludge)
26.
Watchtower - Concepts of Math: Book One (Prog Metal) (ep)
27.
Wormrot - Voices (Grindcore)
28.
Zealotry - The Last Witness (Death
29.
Zhrine - Unortheta (Black/Death)

+A tier
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Be'lakor Vessels (Melodeath).

Darkher - Darkher (Gothic Rock/Doom)
Deftones Gore (Alternative Metal)
Fallujah - Dreamless (Tech Death)
Forteresse - Thmes Pour La Rbellion (Black Metal)
Inquisition - Bloodshed Across The Empyrean Altar Beyond The
Celestial Zenith (Black Metal)
7. Inter Arama - Paradise Gallows (Sludge Metal)
8. Katalepsy - Gravenous Hour (Brutal Death) .

9. Kayo Dot - Plastic House on Base of Sky (Rock)

10.
Mantar - Ode to the Flame (Sludge).
11.
Moonsorrow - Jumalten aika (Folk/Black)
12.
Morrow - Covenant Of Teeth (Atm Sludge/Crust)
13.
Nails - You Will Never Be One of Us (grind, powerviolence)
14.
Plebeian Grandstand - False Highs, True Lows (Mathcore,
Black Metal) .
15.
Sindrome - Resurrection: The Complete Collection
(Death/Thrash) (Compilation)
16.
Subrosa - For This We Fought The Battle Of Ages (Doom)
17.
Testament - Brotherhood Of The Snake (Thrash)
18.
The Mercury Tree Permutations (Prog Rock)
19.
Uada - Devoid of Light (Black Metal)
20.
Unfathomable Ruination - Finitude (Brutal Tech Death).
21.
Vale Of Pnath II (Tech Death)
22.
Virvum Illuminance (Tech Death)
23.
Wormed - Kingshu (Brutal Tech Death)
A Tier
1. Architects - All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us (Metalcore)
2. Azooma - The Act Of Eye (Tech prog death)
3. Brain Tentacles - Brain Tentacles (Avant Garde Metal/jazz)
4. Candiria - While They Were Sleeping (Metalcore, Progressive Metal)
5. Dark Tranquillity - Atoma (Melodeath)
6. Death Angel - The Evil Divide(Thrash Metal)
7. Desaster - The Oath of an Iron Ritual (Black/Thrash)
8. Deviant Process - Paroxysm (Tech Death)
9. Ellende Todbringer (Black Metal)
10.
In the Woods - Pure (Prog Metal)
11.
Krypts - Remnants of Expansion (Death/Doom)
12.
Ordinance - The Ides of March (Technical Death, Metalcore)
13.
Messa - Belfry (Doom)
14.
Profanatica - The Curling Flame Of Blasphemy (Black/Death)
15.
Saor - Guardians (Black Metal)
16.
Thy Worshiper Klechdy (Folk, Ambient)
17.
Vader - The Empire (Death/Thrash)
18.
Whispered - Metsutan - Songs of the Void (Melodic Death
B Tier
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6.

Aborted - Retrogore (Death) X

After the Burial - Dig Deep (Djent)
Autechre - elseq 15 (IDM) *
Brutality - Sea of ignorance (Death Metal)
CB Murdoc - Here Be Dragons (Math Metal)
Entropia - Ufonaut (Black)

7. Hobbs Angel of Death - Heaven Bled

8. Inverloch - Distance | Collapsed (Death, Doom) *
9. Koronal - Flicker Away (Djent)
10.
Kurushimi - Kurushimi (Prog M, Avant, Jazz) R
11.
Nara - Allir Vegir Til Gltunar (Black)
12.
Nordjevel - Nordjevel (Black)
13.
Protector - Cursed and Coronated (Death/Thrash)
14.
Setentia - Darkness Transcend (Tech Death)
15.
Sig:Ar:Tyr - Northern (Black/Folk)
16.
Skphe - Skphe (Black Metal) *
17.
Sumac - What One Becomes (Atm Sludge) *
18.
Temisto - Temisto (Death) x
19.
The body - No One Deserves Happiness (Drone Doom) *
20.
The Zenith Passage - Solipsist (Tech Death)
21.
Vainaja - Varenvalaja (death doom)
22.
Voivod - Post Society (Prog Metal) (ep)

Top 100 Metal

1. Ad Nauseam - Nihil Quam Vacuitas Ordinatum Est (2015)

2. Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops (1994)
3. Agalloch - The Mantle (2002)
4. Alcest - Ecailles De Lune (2010)
5. Anacrusis - Screams And Whispers (1993)
6. Anathema - Alternative 4 (1998)
7. Animals as Leaders - The Joy of Motion (2014)
8. Artillery - By Inheritance (1990)
9. Atheist - Unquestionable Presence (1991)
10.
Augury - Concealed (2004)
11.
Between the Buried and Me Colors (2007)
12.
Black Sabbath Paranoid (1970)
13.
Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side (1995)
14.
Born of Osiris - The Discovery (2011)
15.
Botch - We Are the Romans (1999)
16.
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus (1986)
17.
Cattle Decapitation - Monolith Of Inhumanity (2012)
18.
Celtic Frost - To mega therion (1985)
19.
Converge - Axe to fall (2009)
20.
Coroner - Mental Vortex (1991)
21.
Crimson Glory - Trascendence (1988)
22.
Cynic Focus (1993)
23.
Cult of Luna Vertikal (2013)
24.
Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery (1995)
25.
Death - Individual Thought Patterns (1993)

26.
Deathspell Omega Paracletus (2010)
27.
Deftones - Koi No Yokan (2012)
28.
Deicide Legion (1992)
29.
Demilich Nespithe (1993)
30.
Desultory Into Eternity (1993)
31.
Devin Townsend Infinity (1998)
32.
Dio Holy Diver (1983)
33.
Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane (1995)
34.
Dream Theater - Images and Words (1992)
35.
Enslaved RIITIIR (2012)
36.
Entombed - Left hand Path (1990)
37.
Exodus - Bonded by Blood (1985)
38.
Forbidden Forbidden Evil (1987)
39.
Gojira - From Mars to Sirius (2005)
40.
Gorguts Obscura (1998)
41.
Heathen - Victims of Deception (1991)
42.
Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II
43.
Ihsahn After (2010)
44.
Inquisition - Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical
Macrocosm (2010)
45.
Iron Maiden Powerslave (1984)
46.
Judast Priest Painkiller (1990)
47.
Katatonia - Dance of Decembers Souls
48.
Kreator - Extreme Aggression (1989)
49.
Leprous Bilateral (2011)
50.
Lykathea Aflame Elvenefris (2000)
51.
Machine Head The Blackening (2007)
52.
Master Hammer - The Ritual
53.
Mastodon - Crack the Sky (2009)
54.
maudlin of the Well - Part The Second (2009)
55.
Megadeth - Rust In Piece (1990)
56.
Mercyful Fate - Dont Break The Oath (1984)
57.
Meshuggah Chaosphere (1998)
58.
Metal Church Metal Church (1985)
59.
Metallica - Ride the lighting (1984)
60.
Mgla - Exercises in Futility (2015)
61.
Morbid Angel - Altar of Madness (1989)
62.
Nevermore - Dead Heart In A Dead World (2000)
63.
Neurosis - Souls at Zero (1992)
64.
Nocturnus - The Key (1990)
65.
Obituary - Cause of Death (1990)
66.
Omen Battlecry (1984)
67.
Opeth - Ghost Reveries (2005)
68.
Overkill Feel The Fire (1985)
69.
Pantera Cowboys From Hell (1990)
70.
Pestilence - Testimony of the Ancients

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Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition(2009)

Satan - Court in the Act (1983)
Savatage - Hall Of The Mountain King (1987)
Sepultura Schizophrenia (1987)
Shining - Black Jazz (2010)
Sigh - In Somniphobia (2012)
Sodom - Agent Orange (1989)
Subrosa - More Constant Than the Gods (2013)
Slayer - Season in the Abyss (1990)
System of a Down Toxicity (2001)
Tesseract - One (2011)
Testament - The Legacy (1987)
The Dillinger Escape Plan - One of Us Is the Killer (2013)
The faceless Autotheism (2012)
The Ocean Pelagial (2013)
Tool Aenima (1996)
Toxik - Think This (1989)
Vektor Black Future (2009)
Voivod - The outer Limits (1993)
Vola - Inmazes (2015)
Wormrot Dirge (2011)

Nile, immolation, incantation, suffocation, tribulation, terrorizer,

ulcerate, unanimated, anaal, abigor, behemoth, blut aus, Oranssi
Pazuzu, negura, ulver, godflesh, car bomb

2010
1. Acrania - Fearless (2015)

2. Ad Nauseam - Nihil quam vacuitas ordinatum est (2015)

3. Agalloch - Marrow of Spirit (2010)
4. Anathema - Weather Systems (2012)
5. nglagrd - Viljans ga (2012)
6. Alcest - cailles de lune (2010)
7. Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas (2012)
8. Animal as Leaders - The Joy of Motion (2014)
9. Archspire - The Lucid Collective (2014)
10.
Ayreon - The Theory of Everything (2013)
11.
Atlantean Kodex - The White Goddess (A Grammar of Poetic
Myth) (2013)
12.
Batushka - Litourgiya (2015)
13.
Behemoth - The Satanist (2014)
14.
Between the Buried and Me - The Parallax II: Future
Sequence (2012)
15.
Beyond Creation - Earthborn Evolution (2014)
16.
Blind Guardian - At the edge of time (2010)
17.
Blood Incantation - Starspawn (2016)
18.
Born of Osiris - The discovery (2011)
19.
Car Bomb - w^w^^w^w (2012)
20.
Cattle Decapitation - Monolith of Inhumanity (2012)
21.
Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss (2015)
22.
Chthe'ilist - Le dernier crpuscule (2016) (Death metal)
23.
Converge - All we love we leave Behind (2012)
24.
Cult of Luna - Vertikal (2013)
25.
David Bowie - Blackstar (2016)
26.
Dead Can Dance - Anastasis (2012)
27.
Dead Congregation - Promulgation of the Fall (2014)
28.
Deathspell Omega - Paracletus (2010)
29.
Deftones - Koi no yokan (2012)
30.
Destroyer 666 - Wildfire (2016)
31.
Devin Townsend Project - Descontruction (2011), Epicloud
(2012)
32.
Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pandoras Piata (2012)
33.
Domains - Sinister Ceremonies (2014)
34.
Emptiness - Nothing but the Whole (2014)
35.
Enslaved - RIITIIR (2012)
36.
Fates Warning - Theories of Flight (2016)
37.
Flourishing - The Sum of All Fossils (2011)
38.
Ghost - Meliora (2015)
39.
Gorguts - Colored Sands (2013)
40.
Haken - Affinity (2016) The Mountain (2013)
41.
Heathen - The Evolution of Chaos (2010)
42.
Horrendous - Anareta (2015)
43.
Hypnos 69 - Legacy (2010)
44.
Incantation - Vanquish in Vengeance (2012)

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In Solitude - Sister (2013)
46.
Ihsahn - After (2010), Arktis (2016)
47.
Inquisition - Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical
Macrocosm (2010)
48.
Kamasi Washington - The epic (2015)
49.
Kayo Dot - Hubardo (2013)
50.
Kenn Nardi - Dancing With the Past (2014)
51.
Leprous - Bilateral (2011), Coal (2013) - Prog M
52.
Mastodon - (2014)
53.
Meshuggah - The Violent Sleep of Reason (2016) (Math
Metal)
54.
Midnight - Satanic Royalty (2011)
55.
Mgla - Exercises in Futility (2015)
56.
Morbus Chron - Seweven (2014)
57.
Napalm Death - Utilitarian (2012)
58.
Ne Obliviscaris - Portal of I (2012)
59.
Necrophagist Epitaph (2004)
60.
Obscure Sphinx - Void Mother (2013)
61.
Orphaned Land - The Never Ending Way Of Orwarrior (2010)
62.
Overkill - Ironbound (2010)
63.
Paradox - Tales of the weird (2012)
64.
Procession - To Reap Heavens Apart (2013)
65.
Protest the Hero - Volition (2014)
66.
Rush - Clockwork Angels (2012)
67.
Sabbat - Sabbatrinity (2011)
68.
Sarpanitum - Blessed Be My Brothers (2015)
69.
Satan - Life sentence (2013)
70.
Shels - Plains of the Purple Buffalo (2011)
71.
Shining - Blackjazz (2010)
72.
Sigh - In Somniphobia (2012)
73.
Skeletal Remains - Condemned to Misery (2015)
74.
Steven Wilson - The raven that refuse to sing and other
stories (2013), Grace for Drowning (2011)
75.
Subrosa - More Constant Than the Gods (2013)
76.
Swans - The seer (2012), To be king (2014), The glowing Man
(2016)
77.
TesseracT - one (2011)
78.
The Dillinger Escape Plan - One of Us Is the Killer (2013),
Option Paralysis (2010)
79.
The Faceless - Autotheism (2012)
80.
The Ocean - Pelagial (2013)
81.
Tribulation - The Formulas of Death (2013), The Children of
the Night (2015)
82.
Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones (2010), Melana Chasmata
(2014)

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Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Blood Lust (2011)

Unleashed - Odalheim (2012)
Vader - (2011) (2014)
Vektor - Terminal Redux (2016)
Vola - Inmazes (2015)
Weapon - From the Devil's Tomb (2010)
Wormrot - Dirge (2011)