Best of 2016

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I'm in pretty solid agreement with you guys about the disappointments, save Ihsahn's album which I thought was very good.  But I think to enjoy it you have to drop Ihsahn being thought of as the prog metal master and be willing to accept some pop/heavy metal, as there are a few songs on there which are just bordering on radio metal.  And I don't find anything wrong with that at all cause he does it really well.  At the same time, I could see why it would rub some people the wrong way.

Haven't bought it yet, but I remember enjoying one song in particular out of it which had really classic and cool sounding 80s heavy metal riffing.

If you are not bothered by Ihsahn having pop or heavy metal influences amidst the metal and prog, you should check it out. I didn't like the previous two albums at all, but I do enjoy this quite a lot. It's somewhat different from other albums I own, in a better way than the last two.

Yeah, I actually have listened to it a couple of times from Spotify and been quite intrigued by it. The last two were disappointments to me as well, I didn't even bother to buy Das Seelenbrechen after Eremita. This one has sounded much more interesting, though!