Best Metal Albums of 2016

The Top Ten
1 Terminal Redux - Vektor

You can vote for your Megadeth and your Metallica and your Anthrax all you want, but they are absolutely nothing compared to this.

This album will remain one of the greatest thrash albums in the future

I discovered it only in 2019, am very surprised this album was there all along

This is the best metal album to come out in the last 6 years.

2 Dystopia - Megadeth

Megadeth did a better job than Metallica this year. Megadeth went back to their old roots while Metallica just wanted to go mainstream again with songs like Now that We're Dead and Dream No More. This though will probably be the closest Megadeth ever gets to a thrash album from now on.

3 Hardwired... to Self-Destruct - Metallica

Masterpiece. Just an utter MASTERPIECE! To all those people who said they stopped being good after the Black Album, YOU'RE ALL WRONG! They still got it and they will until they aren't a band anymore.

Best Metallica Album Since AJFA- Thrashy and has a great cover of an iron maiden classic.

4 For All Kings - Anthrax

We aren't even a month into 2016! There are so many albums that haven't been announced yet!

Blood eagle wings

5 Brotherhood of the Snake - Testament

Best thrash metal album of 2016 by far. Megadeth and Metallica's albums we're very good, but Testament's new album felt more like true thrash metal.

6 Akróasis - Obscura

Excellent album

7 Magma - Gojira

Accidentally voted for this album, but Stranded and The Cell are great songs

8 Winter's Gate - Insomnium

One of the best melodic death metal albums

9 The Violent Sleep of Reason - Meshuggah
10 Affinity - Haken

Definitely the Best Prog album to come out this year.

The Contenders
11 The Evil Divide - Death Angel

Should definitely be in the top 10

12 The Stage - Avenged Sevenfold

14th? This world gonna end.

13 Abbath - Abbath
14 Kodama - Alcest
15 Arktis - Ihsahn

This is his best solo album.

16 You Will Never Be One of Us - Nails
17 XI - Metal Church
18 The Astonishing - Dream Theater

Quite a disappointing record.

19 Metal Resistance - Babymetal

This one is pretty underrated. It is more tolerable, as there is less of an annoying J-Pop influence.

20 Incarnate - Killswitch Engage
21 Great is Our Sin - Revocation
22 The Fall of Hearts - Katatonia
23 Theories of Flight - Fates Warning
24 Jomsviking - Amon Amarth

Incredible album like always with Amon Amarth.

25 Ghost Ship - Theocracy
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