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adg211288
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Metal Music Archives Collaborator's Top Albums of 2016 #50 - #26
#25 (57 points) Winterhorde - Maestro Melodic Black Metal
#24 (59 points) Anthrax - For All Kings Thrash Metal
#23 (64 points) Vektor - Terminal Redux Thrash Metal
#21 (65 points) Oathbreaker - Rheia Atmospheric Black Metal
#21 (65 points) Artillery - Penalty by Perception Thrash Metal
#20 (66 points) Obscura - Akróasis Technical Death Metal
#19 (67 points) Watchtower - Concepts of Math: Book One Progressive Metal
#18 (68 points) Testament - Brotherhood of the Snake Thrash Metal
#16 (71 points) Insomnium - Winter's Gate Melodic Death Metal
#16 (71 points) Haken - Affinity Progressive Metal
#15 (73 points) Meshuggah - The Violent Sleep of Reason Progressive Metal
#14 (80 points) Mare Cognitum - Luminiferous Aether Atmospheric Black Metal
#13 (87 points) Eternity's End - The Fire Within Power Metal
#12 (89 points) Myrath - Legacy Folk Metal
#11 (91 points) Lascaille's Shroud - The Roads Leading North Progressive Metal
#10 (92 points) Nervosa - Agony Thrash Metal
#9 (100 points) Enthean - Priests of Annihilation Technical Death Metal
#8 (107 points) Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä Black Metal
#7 (113 points) Megadeth - Dystopia Thrash Metal
#6 (114 points) Blood Ceremony - Lord of Misrule Hard Rock
#5 (116 points) Metallica - Hardwired... To Self-Destruct Heavy Metal
#4 (134 points) Hail Spirit Noir - Mayhem in Blue Black Metal
#3 (142 points) Dream Theater - The Astonishing Progressive Metal
#2 (170 points) Epica - The Holographic Principle Symphonic Metal
#1 (179 points) Fates Warning - Theories of Flight Progressive Metal
How many of these have you heard? Try our our list challenge featuring this top 50 and the rest of the top 100 (101 albums due to a tie): http://www.listchallenges.com/metal-music-archives-collaborators-top-albums2016 Honourable Mentions These albums did not make the MMA Top 50 for the year, but there were the favourite of a partiuclar collaborator who took part in the voting. We present them here now with some words from those who voted for them. Freedom Call - Master of Light Power Metal
Chevelle - The North Corridor Alternative Metal
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Dissociation Mathcore
Wormrot - Voices Grindcore
Tiles - Pretending 2 Run Hard Rock
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Nightfly
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Once again you've done a great job Adam. The lay out looks great! As usual, a few there for me to check out that have so far eluded me.
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Great job Adam! I have posted a link on PA for the proggers to come and check it out.
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I'm in shook over Dream Theater getting so high but pretty good list overall. My #1 got to 4th place which is pretty good considering its surrounded by much more well known bands. Nice to see Enthean made it so high too.
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Unitron
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Good work compiling the list, although I can't say I'm very happy with the results if I'm being honest. I just feel like it kills the site's credibility to have an album with 2.31 as #3. At least a good amount of my favorites got in, I'm glad to see Nervosa (my 3rd favorite) at #10 and Helstar (My 4th favorite) on the list.
Chevelle and Red Wizard (My two favorites) didn't get on there because I'm the only one who seems to care about Chevelle and stoner metal on this site.
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If I say fuck two more times that's forty-six fucks in this fucked up rhyme
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DippoMagoo
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Honestly, the thing is with an album like The Astonishing, because Dream Theater is such a well known band, a metal site like this is obviously going to attract both people like their music and hate their music, and because they're so famous, their albums will get far more attention than lesser known bands, and so that's why even if the average rating is low, there's still so many people here who voted the album up.
Basically: A more well known album is going to get lots of attention, so it just makes sense that even out of a group where the overall consensus isn't positive, there will be enough fans in there to help propel it towards the top. Same goes for new Metallica, though in that case the overall consensus was more neutral than anything. At the end of the day, because this is a metal site, it wouldn't make any sense at all to disqualify albums from big name bands like that, so it's just a kinda tricky situation, I guess. I'm perfectly happy with the list overall, and I got 42% on the list challenge (same score as Adam, lol!) Edited by DippoMagoo - 02 Feb 2017 at 2:10pm |
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Bosh66
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Superb job, Adam! My number one favourite release bombed though - little love for DEP here :-)
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adg211288
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Yeah a lot of people's top album got left out due to them being the only one that voted for it.
Perhaps we should extend the presentation a little with the individual number one's that didn't make it. Also maybe next year we'll come up with a new scoring system that rewards winners more, like they did in Formula One when they changed the winner's points from 10 to 25.
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Great job!
I'm surprised that Vektor album didn't place higher. Not my cup of tea, but I know it's generally well regarded on just about every metal site I visit, including this one.
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Yeah, great job, Adam! Love the layout. One little mistake. You have two 47's and 49's instead of 48 and 50 :)
I'm more surprised about Metallica myself. I'm thoroughly bored by their new album and doesn't even make my top 100 :P Overall great list though. Excellent choices
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It's not a mistake. Those positions are tied.
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siLLy puPPy
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^ ah, never mind me. i just woke up. I completely forgot about that interesting feature
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Comparing 2016 to 2015 it seems that 2015's top list was more in keeping with my own choices. when I added it up however I had 10 from the top 35 in 2015 and 11 from the top 50 in 2016 so pretty close really. I did have more of my choices higher up on the list last time though.
I think the top 50 format is a good choice over last years top 35 by the way.
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^ I usually base the write-up number on how neatly it works out. This year 50 worked out nicely as there were exactly 50 albums with no ties on the 50th place. Last year that wasn't true so a 35 write-up was neater.
Watch the presentation though everyone even if you've already viewed, there's some extra content coming.
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Looks really good! Interesting results, but then 2016 was a year for those, if the US elections and Brexit vote were anything to go by. It's good having the YouTube vids there so we can actually check out the names we've heard so much about.
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Disagree entirely. I love anomalies. It shows the people have spoken, and stops things being too predictable. It would be a lot worse if this site manipulated the results. Perhaps it just means the reviewers are out of touch with metal fans in general? Or perhaps said album was a love-it-or-hate-it release with little middle ground? |
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Yes, it would be much, much worse if the results were manipulated. It does seem to mostly be a love/hate album, but it's mostly on the hate side I've seen from metal fans.
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If I say fuck two more times that's forty-six fucks in this fucked up rhyme
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There is now a Spotify playlist containing a track from almost all the top 50 albums, bar two whose music was absent from the site: Lascaille's Shroud and Mare Cognitum.
https://play.spotify.com/user/adg211288/playlist/3vIQWskTOmmfTbqWxLQ0KX
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Bloody great idea. Good stuff!
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Well, I can't think of a good album of 2016 ATM, but, I can think of one that really stunk...It was Devilment's last album...I am still a Dani Filth fan, but, this album I am speaking of just was not very good in my eyes...I give it a raspberry!!! 8-]]
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moody metal maiden
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