Too Soon? Axl’s Best of 2016… So Far

I already feel like I’m forgetting at least one album.

Fuck.

ANYWAY, in alphabetical order:

Abbath – Abbath (Season of Mist)
Agoraphobic Nosebleed – Arc (Relapse)
Asphalt Graves – The New Primitive (Vitriol)
Babymetal – Metal Resistance (Sony)
Cobalt – Slow Forever (Profound Lore)
Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas – Mariner (Indie)
The Erkonauts – I Did Something Bad (Kaotoxin)
Eternal Sleep – The Emptiness Of… (Closed Casket Activities)
Exmortus – Ride Forth (Prosthetic)
Fallujah – Dreamless (Nuclear Blast)
Gojira – Magma (Roadrunner)
Gorguts – Pleiades‘ Dust (Season of Mist)
Graf Orlock – Crimetraveler (Vitriol)
Holy Grail – Times of Pride and Peril (Prosthetic)
Lacuna Coil – Delirium (Century Media)
Magrudergrind – II (Relapse)
Mantar – Ode to the Flame (Nuclear Blast)
Nails – You Will Never Be One of Us (Nuclear Blast)
Nucleus – Sentient (Unspeakable Grave/Me Saco Un Ojo)
Primitive Weapons – The Future of Death (Party Smasher)
Rotten Sound – Abuse to Suffer (Relapse)
Rotting Christ – Rituals (Season of Mist)
Textures – Phenotype (Nuclear Blast)
Weekend Nachos – Apology (Relapse)
Withered – Grief Relic (Season of Mist)