59 – AOTY 2016 Deliberations, Part 1: Vape In

So we’re doing a two-part series on picking the podcast’s official albums of the year 2016. We start with the blog’s list of 400+ albums that are worth consideration this year, whittle it down to 86 albums we care about, and then start cutting them. The objective is to get to a ranked list of 10 items and an overall list of 20 albums. We get down to about 45 this week until the cuts really start to hurt. This was real fun to do, so I hope you all enjoy too! The lists will be posted below.

59 – AOTY 2016 Deliberations, Part 1: Vape In

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The 86 albums we considered:

65daysofstatic – No Man’s Sky: Music For An Infinite Universe

Aenaon – Hypnosophy

Alcest – Kodama

Aliases – Derangeable

Anaal Nathrakh – The Whole Of The Law

Anciients – Voice of the Void

A Sense Of Gravity – Atrament

Astronoid – Air

Babymetal – Metal Resistance

Borknagar – Winter Thrice

Car Bomb – Meta

Clipping – Splendor and Misery

Coldworld – Autumn

Coma Cluster Void – Mind Cemeteries

Cyborg Octopus – Learning to Breathe

Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas – Mariner

Dark Tranquillity – Atoma

David Bowie – Blackstar

Defeated Sanity – Disposal of the Dead // Dharmata

Disillusion – Alea

Eths – Ankaa

Fallujah – Dreamless

First Fragment – Dasein

Fountainhead – Reverse Engineering

Fractal Cypher- The Human Paradox

GoGo Penguin – Man Made Object

Gojira – Magma

Hannes Grossmann – The Crypts of Sleep

Haken – Affinity

Hollow Earth – Dead Planet

Ihsahn – Arktis

Imperium Dekadenz – Dis Manibvs

Infant Annihilator – The Elysian Grandeval Galeriarch

Insomnium – Winter’s Gate

Inter Arma – Paradise Gallows

Ion Dissonance – Cast the First Stone

Ivar Bjornson & Einar Selvik – Skuggsja

Katatonia – The Fall of Hearts

Keep of Kalessin – Heaven of Sin

Khonsu – The Xun Protectorate

Krallice – Hyperion

Latitudes – Old Sunlight

Leander Kills – Tulelo

Mammoth – Deviations

Meshuggah – The Violent Sleep of Reason

Metallica – Hardwired…To Self-Destruct

Mick Gordon – DOOM OST

Mithras – On Strange Loops

Mouth of the Architect – Path of Eight

Myrkur – Mausoleum

Oathbreaker – Rheia

Oak Pantheon – In Pieces

Obscura – Akroasis

Oddland – Origin

Oracles – Miserycorde

Oranssi Pazuzu – Värähtelijä

Painted in Exile – The Ordeal

Perturbator – The Uncanny Valley

Pitts Minnemann Project – The Psychic Planetarium

Plebeian Grandstand – False Highs, True Lows

Plini – Handmade Cities

Protest the Hero – Pacific Myth

Riverside – Eye of the Soundscape

Rorcal – Creon

Schammasch – Triangle

Saor – Guardians

Shadow of Intent – Primordial

Shokran – Exodus

Slice the Cake – Odyssey to the Gallows/West

Solange – A Seat At The Table

Spellcaster – Night Hides The World

SubRosa – For This We Fought The Battle of Ages

TABPxDSME – The World is a Colder Place Now

Textures – Phenotype

Thank You Scientist – Stranger Heads Prevail

The Fall of Troy – OK

Thrawsunblat – Metacthonia

Thy Catafalque – Meta

Travis Orbin – Projects II

Ulcerate – Shrines of Paralysis

Ulver – ATGCLVLSSCAP

Vektor – Terminal Redux

Vipassi – Sunyata

Virvum – Illuminance

Wormed – Krighsu

Yndi Halda – Under Summer

Zeal and Ardor – Devil Is Fine

The unordered list of 45 we ended up with this week:

1. 65daysofstatic – No Man’s Sky: Music For An Infinite Universe
2. Aenaon – Hypnosophy
3. Aliases – Derangeable
4. Anaal Nathrakh – The Whole Of The Law
5. Anciients – Voice of the Void
6. A Sense Of Gravity – Atrament
7. Astronoid – Air
8. Babymetal – Metal Resistance
9. Borknagar – Winter Thrice
10. Car Bomb – Meta
11. Clipping – Splendor and Misery
12. Cyborg Octopus – Learning to Breathe
13. Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas – Mariner
14. Dark Tranquillity – Atoma
15. David Bowie – Blackstar
16. Fallujah – Dreamless
17. First Fragment – Dasein
18. Fountainhead – Reverse Engineering
19. Fractal Cypher– The Human Paradox
20. Hannes Grossmann – The Crypts of Sleep
21. Ihsahn – Arktis
22. Inter Arma – Paradise Gallows
23. Katatonia – The Fall of Hearts
24. Latitudes – Old Sunlight
25. Leander Kills – Tulelo
26. Metallica – Hardwired…To Self-Destruct
27. Mick Gordon – DOOM OST
28. Mithras – On Strange Loops
29. Mouth of the Architect – Path of Eight
30. Oathbreaker – Rheia
31. Obscura – Akroasis
32. Pitts Minnemann Project – The Psychic Planetarium
33. Plini – Handmade Cities
34. Riverside – Eye of the Soundscape
35. Schammasch – Triangle
36. Shokran – Exodus
37. Spellcaster – Night Hides The World
38. SubRosa – For This We Fought The Battle of Ages
39. TABPxDSME – The World is a Colder Place Now
40. Textures – Phenotype
41. Thank You Scientist – Stranger Heads Prevail
42. The Fall of Troy – OK
43. Thrawsunblat – Metacthonia
44. Vektor – Terminal Redux
45. Yndi Halda – Under Summer

-NT