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	93.7	157	7
2	Insomnium Winter's Gate	Sep 23, 2016	94	76	3
3	Fleshgod Apocalypse King	Feb 5, 2016	91.3	74	2
4	Dark Tranquillity Atoma	Nov 4, 2016	91.4	54	3
5	Rhapsody of Fire Into the Legend	Jan 15, 2016	92.3	43	4
6	Obscura Akróasis	Feb 5, 2016	93.3	33	3
7	Theocracy Ghost Ship	Oct 28, 2016	92.5	34	1
8	First Fragment Dasein	May 20, 2016	97.2	11	0
9	Animals as Leaders The Madness of Many	Nov 11, 2016	94.6	15	0
10	Virvum Illuminance	Sep 16, 2016	100	4	0
11	Megadeth Dystopia	Jan 22, 2016	86.9	81	4
12	Anaal Nathrakh The Whole of the Law	Oct 28, 2016	91	30	1
13	Be'lakor Vessels	Jun 24, 2016	91.4	26	0
14	Twilight Force Heroes of Mighty Magic	Aug 26, 2016	89.4	37	5
15	Sunburst Fragments of Creation	Feb 24, 2016	92.3	15	2
16	Gojira Magma	Jun 17, 2016	90.6	21	2
17	Epica The Holographic Principle	Sep 30, 2016	88.1	37	2
18	Luca Turilli's Rhapsody Cinematic and Live [Live]	Dec 9, 2016	93.3	11	2
19	Omnium Gatherum Grey Heavens	Feb 19, 2016	87.2	44	2
20	Polyphia Renaissance	Mar 11, 2016	94.4	8	1
21	מזמור Yodh	Aug 12, 2016	89.7	22	2
22	Oranssi Pazuzu Värähtelijä	Feb 26, 2016	93.1	10	0
23	Convulsing Errata	Nov 26, 2016	98.3	3	0
24	Chthe'ilist Le Dernier Crépuscule	Jan 29, 2016	96	5	0
25	Remnants of the Fallen Shadow Walk	Oct 18, 2016	88.5	28	1
26	Dark Oath When Fire Engulfs the Earth	Apr 15, 2016	91.8	13	1
27	Devin Townsend Project Transcendence	Sep 2, 2016	92	12	0
28	Psychonaut 4 Neurasthenia	Oct 7, 2016	95	6	0
29	Almanac Tsar	Mar 18, 2016	92.5	10	0
30	Aephanemer Memento Mori	Sep 16, 2016	91.7	11	0
31	Inquisition Bloodshed Across the Empyrean Altar Beyond the Celestial Zenith	Aug 26, 2016	95	5	1
32	Ecchymosis Aberrant Amusement in Cadaveric Vomitplay	Aug 31, 2016	95	5	0
33	Blood Incantation Starspawn	Aug 18, 2016	89.4	18	0
34	Meshuggah The Violent Sleep of Reason	Oct 7, 2016	88.2	23	0
35	Sithu Aye Set Course for Andromeda	May 4, 2016	92.9	7	0
36	Dreams Of Nature Magic Transcendence	May 3, 2016	92.9	7	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	DGM The Passage	Aug 26, 2016	89.6	14	0
41	Mystic Prophecy War Brigade	Mar 18, 2016	95	4	0
42	Fates Warning Theories of Flight	Jul 1, 2016	95	4	0
43	An Abstract Illusion Illuminate the Path	Jul 27, 2016	95	4	0
44	Infant Annihilator The Elysian Grandeval Galèriarch	Jul 29, 2016	88.4	18	1
45	Ihsahn Arktis.	Apr 8, 2016	89.2	14	0
46	Trees of Eternity Hour of the Nightingale	Nov 11, 2016	89.5	13	1
47	Almah E.V.O	Sep 23, 2016	90.6	10	1
48	Periphery Periphery III: Select Difficulty	Jul 22, 2016	88.2	16	0
49	Wormrot Voices	Oct 14, 2016	88.2	16	1
50	Trick or Treat Rabbits' Hill Pt. 2	Jul 8, 2016	90.6	9	2

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