Best of 2016

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Formed some sort of a list. Really hard to put everything in order so I divided it into 5+1 tiers.

GOD-TIER
- Wojciech Golczewski: "Reality Check"
- Thy Catafalque: "Meta"
- Skyforest: "Unity"
- Moonsorrow: "Jumalten aika"
- Dynatron: "The Rigel Axiom"
- Ihsahn: "Arktis"
- Alcest: "Kodama"
- Neolunar: "Neolunar"
- Devin Townsend Project: "Transcendence"
- Saor: "Guardians"
- Urfaust: "Empty Space Meditation"
- FM-84: "Atlas"
- Dead Astronauts: "Arms of Night"
- Perturbator: "The Uncanny Valley"

THE REALLY GOOD TIER
- Oranssi Pazuzu: "Värähtelijä"
- Jean-Michel Jarre: "Electonica 2"
- KYPCK: "Зеро"
- Volkor X: "This Means War"
- The Vision Bleak: "The Unknown"
- Ulver: "ATGCLVLSSCAP"
- Tamás Kátai: "Slower Structures"
- Les Discrets: "Virée nocturne E.P."
- Borknagar: "Winter Thrice"
- Astronoid: "Air"
- 2814: "Rain Temple"
- Stam1na: "Elokuutio"
- Dance with the Dead: "The Shape"
- Neon Bunny: "Stay Gold"
- Violet Cold: "Magic Night"
- Tycho: "Epoch"

THE PRETTY GOOD TIER
- Wojciech Golczewski: "Tonight She Comes"
- Katla: "Ferđalok"
- Mare Cognitum / Aureole: "Resonance: Crimson Void"
- John Carpenter: "Lost Themes II"
- Drudkh: the two splits from this year
- In the Woods: "Pure"
- a noend of mine: "The Serenity's Eve"
- Tommy '86: "Transhumanism"
- Thrawsunblat: "Metachthonia"
- Sabaton: "The Last Stand"
- Rhapsody of Fire: "Into the Legend"
- Hanging Garden: "Hereafter"
- Grey Aura: "Waerachtighe beschryvinghe van drie seylagien, ter werelt noyt soo vreemt ghehoort"
- GosT: "Non paradisi"
- Volbeat: "Seal the Deal & Let's Boogie"
- Scum: "Garden of Shadows"
- Rïcïnn: "Lïam"
- Vy Pole: "The Woven Trail"
- Whispered: "Metsutan - Songs of the Void"

THE "REALLY ENJOYED BUT IT STILL MISSES SOMETHING" TIER
- Metallica: "Hardwired . . . to Self-Destruct"
- Cocainejesus: "We're Worried About You"
- Kuolemanlaakso: "M. Laakso Vol. 1: The Gothic Tapes"
- Todtgelichter: "Rooms"
- Katatonia: "The Fall of Hearts"
- Sunwølf: "Eve"
- Steve 'n' Seagulls: "Brothers in Farms"
- Ingrain: "Aembers"
- Pensées Nocturnes: "À boire et à manger"
- Fuath: "I"

THE SLIGHTLY OR MORE DISAPPOINTING TIER
- Amon Amarth: "Jomsviking"
- Dream Theater: "The Astonishing"
- Equilibrium: "Armageddon"
- Sonata Arctica: "The Ninth Hour"

THOSE I STILL NEED TO CHECK OUT
- Consciousness Removal Project: "Tides of Blood, pt. II"
- Jean-Michel Jarre: "Oxygene 3"
- Pryapisme: "Repump the Pectine"
+ a helluva lot of others