DutchMetalManiac’s end of the year lists! m/

This year is coming to an end, so it’s time for lists!

But, before I post the lists of top albums released in 2016 chosen by our writers, I want to thank some people.

I want to thank the readers of DutchMetalManiac for reading and sharing our stuff, our writers Julia, Joost, Glenn, Alessandro, Martijn, Henric, Nikola, Don and all former writers for contributing to DutchMetalManiac, and the metalscene for keeping the metal alive, because without metal there wouldn’t be DutchMetalManiac.

Below are our lists! \m/

Have a great last week of 2016 and have a heavy New Year’s Eve!

\m/

Tim van Velthuysen

Our lists:

Julia Obenauer:

1. Be’Lakor – Vessels
2. Omnium Gatherum – Grey Heavens
3. Amon Amarth – Jomsviking
4. Insomnium – Winter’s Gate
5. Across the Burning Sky – The End is Near
6. Dark Tranquillity – Atoma
7. Gojira – Magma
8. Nothing Lies Beyond – Fragile Reality
9. Aborted – Retrogore
10. Destruction – Under Attack

Joost van der Leij:

1. Black Mountain – IV
2. Car Bomb – Meta
3. Red Hot Chili Peppers – The Getaway
4. Inter Arma – Paradise Gallows
5. Periphery – The Price Is Wrong
6. Gojira – Magma
7. Lost Society – Braindead
8. Devin Townsend Project – Transcendance
9. Death Angel – The Evil Divide
10. Alcest – Kodama

Glenn van der Heijden:

1. Delain – Moonbathers
2. Nightwish – Vehicle of spirit
3. Ayreon – The Theater Equation
4. The Gathering – TG25: Live In Doornroosje
5. Epica – The Holographic Principle
6. Delain – Lucidity 10th anniversary edition

Non metal from metallers:

1. Marcela Bovio – Unprecedented
2. Anneke van Giersbergen & Árstíðir – Verloren Verleden

Alessandro:

1. Primal Fear – Rulebreaker
2. Pretty Maids – Kingmaker
3. The Curse Within – Seeking Vengeance
4. Megadeth – Dystopia
5. Metallica – Hardwired…To Self Destruct
6. Andi the Wicked – Freak on Frets
7. Pikes Edge – All Of Our Beauty
8. Anvil – Anvil is Anvil
9. Rob Zombie – The Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser
10. Dog n Style – Pubs Calling

Martijn Bakker:

1. Sig Ar Tyr – Northen
2. Madder Mortem – Red in Tooth and Claw
3. Whelm – A Gaze Blank and Pitiless as the Sun
4. Ayreon – The Theatre Equinox
5. Textures – Phenotype
6. Epica – The Holographic Principle
7. Nine Inch Nails – Not the Actual Events (EP)

Henric van Essen:

1. Grotesque Orchestra – Delusions of Grandeur
2. Abbath – Abbath
3. Sirenia – Dim Days of Dolor
4. Totenmond – Der letzte Mond vor dem Beil
5. Christian Epidemic – Destiny Search
6. Wolfhorde – Towards the Gate of North
7. Neoheresy – Potop
8. Yeti On Horseback – The Great Dying
9. Reliquiae – Winter
10. Mourning Beloveth – Rust & Bone

Special mention:

1. Ghost Of Mary – Oblivaeon

Nikola Milošević:

1. Brain Drill – Boundless Obscenety
2. Aborted – Retrogore
3. Obscura – Akroasis
4. Rotting Christ – Rituals
5. Amon Amarth – Jomsviking
6. Vektor – Termination Redux
7. Darkthrone – Arctic Thunder
8. Fleshgod Apocalypse – King
9. Rotten Sound – Abuse to Suffer
10. Abbath – Abbath

Don Anelli:

1. Inquisition – Bloodshed Across the Empyrean Altar Beyond the Celestial Zenith
2. Wormed – Krighsu
3. Maze of Terror – Ready to Kill
4. Untimely Demise – Black Widow
5. Decimated Humans – Dismantling the Decomposed Entities
6. Surgikill – Sanguinary Revelations
7. Blood Red Throne – Union of Flesh and Machine
8. Elderblood – Messiah
9. Paradox – Pangea
10. Demon Bitch – Hellfriends

Tim van Velthuysen:

1. Varg – Das Ende aller Lügen
2. Lody Kong – Dreams And Visions
3. Chiral – Gazing Light Eternity
4. In Extremo – Quid Pro Quo
5. Trap Them – Crown Feral
6. Delain – Moonbathers
7. Korn – The Serenity Of Suffering
8. Izegrim – The Ferryman’s End
9. Vulvodynia – Psychosadistic Design
10. Sirenia – Dim Days Of Dolor