The Best Metal Albums of 2016

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Rank	Artist / Album	Release date	Rating	Votes	Reviews
1	Vektor Terminal Redux	May 6, 2016	93.6	155	8
2	Insomnium Winter's Gate	Sep 23, 2016	94.4	72	3
3	Fleshgod Apocalypse King	Feb 5, 2016	91.3	68	2
4	Dark Tranquillity Atoma	Nov 4, 2016	91.7	52	3
5	Rhapsody of Fire Into the Legend	Jan 15, 2016	92.5	42	4
6	First Fragment Dasein	May 20, 2016	97.8	11	0
7	Obscura Akróasis	Feb 5, 2016	93	33	3
8	Theocracy Ghost Ship	Oct 28, 2016	92.2	33	1
9	Megadeth Dystopia	Jan 22, 2016	87.1	81	3
10	Anaal Nathrakh The Whole of the Law	Oct 28, 2016	91.7	28	1
11	Animals as Leaders The Madness of Many	Nov 11, 2016	94.6	14	0
12	Be'lakor Vessels	Jun 24, 2016	91.9	25	0
13	Twilight Force Heroes of Mighty Magic	Aug 26, 2016	89.4	37	5
14	Virvum Illuminance	Sep 16, 2016	100	3	0
15	Sunburst Fragments of Creation	Feb 24, 2016	92.9	14	1
16	Gojira Magma	Jun 17, 2016	91.3	20	2
17	Luca Turilli's Rhapsody Cinematic and Live [Live]	Dec 9, 2016	93.3	11	2
18	Omnium Gatherum Grey Heavens	Feb 19, 2016	87.2	44	2
19	Ecchymosis Aberrant Amusement in Cadaveric Vomitplay	Aug 31, 2016	97.5	4	0
20	Epica The Holographic Principle	Sep 30, 2016	88.2	34	1
21	Dark Oath When Fire Engulfs the Earth	Apr 15, 2016	92.5	12	0
22	מזמור Yodh	Aug 12, 2016	89.7	22	2
23	Oranssi Pazuzu Värähtelijä	Feb 26, 2016	93.1	10	0
24	Convulsing Errata	Nov 26, 2016	98.3	3	0
25	Chthe'ilist Le Dernier Crépuscule	Jan 29, 2016	95	6	0
26	Devin Townsend Project Transcendence	Sep 2, 2016	92	12	0
27	Dreams Of Nature Magic Transcendence	May 3, 2016	95	6	0
28	Almanac Tsar	Mar 18, 2016	92.5	10	0
29	Remnants of the Fallen Shadow Walk	Oct 18, 2016	88	27	1
30	Aephanemer Memento Mori	Sep 16, 2016	91.7	11	0
31	Blood Incantation Starspawn	Aug 18, 2016	90	16	0
32	Meshuggah The Violent Sleep of Reason	Oct 7, 2016	88.6	22	0
33	Inquisition Bloodshed Across the Empyrean Altar Beyond the Celestial Zenith	Aug 26, 2016	95	5	1
34	Polyphia Renaissance	Mar 11, 2016	94.2	6	0
35	Sithu Aye Set Course for Andromeda	May 4, 2016	92.9	7	0
36	Almah E.V.O	Sep 23, 2016	91.7	9	0
37	Mesarthim The Great Filter [EP]	Dec 10, 2016	91.7	9	0
38	Allegaeon Proponent for Sentience	Sep 23, 2016	90	13	0
39	Aborted Retrogore	Apr 22, 2016	93.3	6	0
40	Mystic Prophecy War Brigade	Mar 18, 2016	95	4	0
41	Psychonaut 4 Neurasthenia	Oct 7, 2016	95	4	0
42	Trees of Eternity Hour of the Nightingale	Nov 11, 2016	90	12	1
43	Ihsahn Arktis.	Apr 8, 2016	89.2	14	0
44	Infant Annihilator The Elysian Grandeval Galèriarch	Jul 29, 2016	88.3	17	1
45	Trick or Treat Rabbits' Hill Pt. 2	Jul 8, 2016	91.3	8	1
46	Periphery Periphery III: Select Difficulty	Jul 22, 2016	88.2	16	0
47	DGM The Passage	Aug 26, 2016	89.1	13	0
48	Wormrot Voices	Oct 14, 2016	88.2	16	1
49	Mesarthim .- -... ... . -. -.-. .	Aug 28, 2016	87.1	19	0
50	Blasphemy Desecration of São Paulo - Live in Brazilian Ritual Third Attack [Live]	Nov 3, 2016	91.4	7	1

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