Rollingstone.com have named their ‘Top 20 Best Metal Albums Of 2016’. You can find the list with an explanation behind each choice above or just read on below for who they chose:
20. Black Sabbath – “The End” EP
19. 40 Watt Sun – “Wider Than The Sky”
18. Virus – “Memento Collider”
17. Crowbar – “The Serpent Only Lies”
16. Gorguts – “Pleiades’ Dust”
15. Darkthrone – “Arctic Thunder”
14. Frontierer – “Orange Mathematics”
13. Abbath – “Abbath”
12. Nails – “You Will Never Be One Of Us”
11. Khemmis – “Hunted”
10. Whores. – “Gold.”
09. Cult Of Luna & Julie Christmas – “Mariner”
08. Gojira – “Magma”
07. Deftones – “Gore”
06. Megadeth – “Dystopia”
05. Neurosis – “Fires Within Fires”
04. The Dillinger Escape Plan – “Dissociation”
03. SUMAC – “What One Becomes”
02. Meshuggah – “The Violent Sleep Of Reason”
01. Metallica – “Hardwired…To Self-Destruct“