Best Metal Albums of 2016

This seething black cauldron of suck that is 2016 is almost over. A lot of bad things happened this year, and we lost a seemingly staggering amount of people this year. But lots of good things happened as well. There was also a mountain of killer albums this year, so let us take solace in the great metal releases of 2016. Below is the METALHEADS combined list based on the lists of all those who participated in the year-end podcast episode. Once again, John has taken all of our lists and crunched the numbers based on how often an album showed up on people's lists and where it was ranked on their list. Below that are all the individual lists for everyone. Let us hope that 2017 is a better year, and one equally rich in metal releases. Cheers! - George