One of my favorite metal bands of all time decided to secretly release another chapter in their flawless discography and it may be their best album yet. Deathspell Omega – The Synarchy of Molten Bones Listen It pays off in heaps as this new album is their best work yet. The Irrepassable Gate sees Ash Borer tinker with their formula a bit, bringing a darker flair to their music than on prior releases. Their long-form approach makes for personal journeys into not only the quartet’s music but into the listeners themselves.
The mysterious Ash Borer arrived in the dying weeks of this year and created a reminder for how the frigid, unforgiving expanses of black metal can be altered to force introspection. The gold standard of United States Black Metal returned in 2016. Thanks for reading! Happy New Year! Here’s to another amazing year of music in 2017. So without further delay here is part two. Our list has a ton of variety and I promise you will find a bunch of albums that aren’t included on other sites and albums that you probably haven’t heard this year.So try not to take our back and forth banter to seriously. We actually have a sense of humor about this type of thing and while we may drop some mild shit-talk on some of these albums that doesn’t mean that we don’t love the music and the people that have made this amazing music.A lot of these albums included on the list have input from a couple of different writers, so you get a couple of different perspectives as to why a certain albums is great.We actually wait until the end of the year to compile our list (not the beginning of December like most sites) so we have actually voted on and included some of the year’s late releases.In case you missed the first segment… There’s a a few things that I want to point out about our list that I think makes it unique from the thousands of year end / best of lists out there. If you don’t know what that is you’ll have to scroll all the way to the bottom to find out. If you noticed in the title that segment only goes to #2 then you haven’t been paying attention and you missed the fact that we already picked our number album. You will not find this kind of variety in an Album of the Year list anywhere else. Also, there’s a ton of diverse albums on here with a huge range of genres and styles. Our top 10 this year may not be as original as it has been in the past, but it is still pretty solid. In case you missed part one (The Best Albums of 2016: 100 to 51) you can catch that here. This is part two of two of our Best Albums of 2016.