2016 Reviews

Delain – Moonbathers

 

 

 

 

Arcade Messiah – III

 

 

 

A Sense Of Gravity – Atrament

 

 

 

Devilment – Devilment II: The Mephisto Waltzes

 

 

 

Maschine – Naturalis

 

 

 

Brutai – Born

 

 

 

False Coda – Secrets and Sins

 

 

 

Pretty Maids – Kingmaker

 

 

 

In Flames – Battles

 

 

 

The Neal Morse Band – The Similitude Of A Dream

 

 

Memoreve – Insignia

 

 

 

Enbound – The Blackened Heart

 

 

 

Blind Ego – Liquid

 

 

 

Dark Tranquillity – Atoma

 

 

 

Hammerfall – Built To Last

 

 

 

Testament – Brotherhood Of The Snake

 

 

 

Crippled Black Phoenix – Bronze

 

 

 

Riverside – Eye Of The Soundscape

 

 

 

Hanging Garden – Hereafter

 

 

 

Theocracy – Ghost Ship

 

 

 

Arkona – Lunaris

 

 

 

Oddland – Origin

 

 

Sonata Arctica – The Ninth Hour

 

 

Edensong – Years In The Garden of Years

 

 

 

Meshuggah – The Violent Sleep Of Reason

 

 

 

Alcest – Kodama

 

 

 

Opeth – Sorceress

 

 

 

Negura Bunget – ZI

 

 

 

Epica – The Holographic Principle

 

 

 

Amaranthe – Maximalism

 

 

 

Eye Of Solitude – Cenotaph

 

 

Seven Impale – Contrapasso

 

 

Insomnium – Winter’s Gate

 

 

 

DGM – The Passage

 

 

 

Pressure Points – False Lights

 

 

 

In The Woods – Pure

 

 

 

Devin Townsend – Transcendence

 

 

 

The Pineapple Thief – Your Wilderness

 

 

Evergrey – The Storm Within

 

 

 

Dream The Electric Sleep – Beneath The Dark Wide Sky

 

 

 

Periphery – ‘Periphery III: Select Difficulty’

 

 

 

Karmakanic – Dot

 

 

 

Novena – Secondary Genesis

 

 

 

Witherscape – The Northern Sanctuary

 

 

 

Eric Gillette – The Great Unknown

 

 

 

Tilt – Hinterland

 

 

 

Cosmograf – The Unreasonable Silence

 

 

Fates Warning – Theories Of Flight

 

 

Wolverine – Machina Viva

 

 

Be’lakor – Vessels

 

 

Lacuna Coil – Delirium

 

 

Big Big Train – Folklore

 

 

Airbag – Disconnected

 

 

Katatonia – The Fall Of Hearts

 

 

Frost* – Falling Satellites

 

 

Glorior Belli – Sundown (The Flock That Welcomes)

 

 

Habu – Infinite

 

 

Grand Magus ‘Sword Songs’

 

 

Messenger – Threnodies

 

 

Svoid – Storming Voices Of Inner Devotion

 

 

Fallujah – Dreamless

 

 

In Mourning – Afterglow

 

 

Haken – Affinity

 

 

Long Distance Calling – Trips

 

 

October Tide – Winged Waltz

 

 

Odd Logic – Penny For Your Thoughts

 

 

Iron Mountain – Unum

 

 

Knifeworld – Bottled Out Of Eden

 

 

Novembre – Ursa

 

 

Beholder – Reflections

 

 

Neverworld – Dreamsnatcher

 

 

Universal Mind Project – The Jaguar Priest

 

 

Thunderstone – Apocalypse Again

 

 

InnerWish – Innerwish

 

 

Mob Rules – Tales From Beyond

 

 

Ghost Bath – Moonlover

 

 

Spiritual Beggars – Sunrise To Sundown

 

 

Oceans Of Slumber – Winter

 

 

Rikard Zander – I Can Do Without Love

 

 

Redemption – The Art Of Loss

 

 

Headspace – All That You Fear Is Gone

 

 

Chris Quirarte – Mending Broken Bridges

 

 

Sunburst – Fragments Of Creation

 

 

Inglorious – Inglorious

 

 

Omnium Gatherum – Grey Heavens

 

 

Structural Disorder – Distance

 

 

Votum – Ktonik

 

 

Fleshgod Apocalypse – King

 

 

Rikard Sjoblom – The Unbendable Sleep

 

 

Textures – Phenotype

 

 

Serenity – Codex Atlanticus

 

 

Borknagar – Winter Thrice

 

 

The Mute Gods – Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me

 

 

Brainstorm – Scary Creatures