Saturday, December 31, 2016

The Amplifier Altar's Top 10 Abums of 2016

Okay, I half-assed it this year. Unlike in years past, I didn't come up with a list of 50 albums I loved, and a long-ass write-up/review on each one. The truth is, I probably didn't even listen to 50 new albums this year. Usually, the number of records I hear would be in the hundreds, about one every day or two, and sometimes a whole bunch all at once. And the ones I really liked I'd try to listen to a few times each. I'm pretty systematic about it. This year, I dunno... life got in the way I guess. Even some of the albums I really liked I only listened to once or twice.

Anyways, without futher ado, here's the records that did keep me coming back time and time again this year.

1. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
2. Eternal Champion - The Armor Of Ire
3. Darkthrone - Arctic Thunder
4. Heron Oblivion - Heron Oblivion
5. Sumerlands - Sumerlands
6. Vektor - Terminal Redux
7. Horse Lords - Interventions
8. Black Mountain - IV
9. Nap - Villa
10. Neurosis - Fires Within Fires

Honourable Mentions
40 Watt Sun - Wider Than The Sky, A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service, Abbath - Abbath, Anthrax - For All Kings, Black Tusk - Pillars Of Ash, Black Wizard - New Waste, Blood Ceremony - Lords Of Misrule, Blood Incantation - Starspawn, The Body - No One Deserves Happiness, Causa Sui - Return To Sky, Cobalt - Slow Forever, Crowbar - The Serpent Only Lies, David Bowie - Blackstar, Dinosaur Jr. - Give A Glimpse Of What Yer Not, Elephant Tree - Elephant Tree, Gatecreeper - Sonoran Deprevation, Geezer - Geezer, Goat - Requiem, Gojira - Magma, Gorguts - Pleiades' Dust, Graves At Sea - The Curse That Is, Harrow - Fallow Fields, High Spirits - Motivator, Inter Arma - Paradise Gallows, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity, Krallice - Hyperion, Kvelertak - Nattesferd, Megadeth - Dystopia, Oozing Wound - Whatever Forever, Opeth - Sorceress, Oranssi Pazuzu - Varahtelija, Pallbearer - Fear & Fury, Purling Hiss - High Bias, Russian Circles - Guidance, Sheer Mag - III, Thee Oh Sees - A Weird Exits, Thee Oh Sees - An Odd Entrances, Sumac - What One Becomes, Tim Hecker - Love Streams, Tombs - All Empires Fall, Tyvek - Origin Of What, Void Omnium - Dying Light, Witchcoven - Witchcoven, Wo Fat - Midnight Cometh, Wode - Wode, Wreck & Reference - Indifferent Rivers Romance End, Wretch - Wretch, The Zolas - Swooner