The Top 20 of 2016 Year-End Poll is Now Open!
Welcome to The Obelisk’s Top 20 of 2016 Year-End Poll!
Maximum participation is welcomed and encouraged. By now you know the rules, or if you don’t I’m sure you can guess. Everyone contributes a list of their favorite releases of 2016. I don’t care if it’s an album, EP, single, whatever. Anything that struck your fancy is cool.
All of those picks are rounded up from the form below — it asks for your email just to prove you’re a human being, so please don’t think I’m keeping tabs or selling info or anything like that; I wouldn’t know how even if I wanted to — and will be tabulated at the end of the month. For the last few years, we’ve used a point system wherein a 1-4 ranking is worth five points, 5-8 worth four, 9-12 worth three, 13-16 worth two and 17-20 worth one. Raw votes are of course also counted, and the results from both counts will be posted on New Year’s Day, along with all the lists contributed.
I had a pretty good idea last year what the number one was going to be. What’s 2016’s pick? Not a clue. I’ve got my own list in progress and will be adding it to the poll as well, but I’m dying to see what everyone chooses and what wins out. More than ever it seems there could be multiple options, so if there’s something you feel strongly about, make sure it’s high on your list to get those extra points.
You have my sincere appreciation for contributing your list, and any sharing of the link or commenting or anything else is welcome.
This is meant to be a conversation and a good time, so let’s have at it:
THE POLL IS CLOSED. THANKS TO ALL WHO ENTERED!
Thanks as always to Slevin for his invaluable assistance in putting this poll together, and to you for reading and taking part in this ongoing experiment. Let’s make this the biggest poll yet.
Results out Jan. 1, 2017!
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Tags: Readers Poll, The Obelisk, Top 20 of 2016 Readers Poll, Top 20 of 2016 Year End Poll
Now you only need to know what was released this year. :)
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PALE GREY LORE’s debut came out this year, which JJ graciously reviewed back in September! Listen here: https://palegreylore.bandcamp.com/
Pale Grey Lore made my Top 20, and may just crack my Top 10 by the end of the year. TREMENDOUS album!!!
I did this best-of first time last year and to me, it’s turned out to be the best way to review what the year’s been like. I think we can all agree 2016 sucked ten ways to Tuesday and then some, but making my list of all the awesome albums I’ve heard also makes me remember the awesome things I did when I listened to them (like roadtripping along the French coast with my best friend) and I feel a lot better about 2016 and life in general, so thanks JJ, for doing this and doing the Obelisk!
2016 did Not suck! you must not know where to find good music if you think that.
I think he meant the year itself sucked and the great music was the only saving grace. This year started sucking even before it started when Lemmy died.
Stoner Sludge band BLOODNUT released Blues From The Red Sons this year on bloodnut.bandcamp.com. Give it a listen…maybe it’ll make your list.
Submitted!
I think it was a good year. I thoroughly enjoyed every album/ep on my list. Deepspacepilots was my numero uno.
Mars Red Sky made my top spot. I hate that I chose a Saturday work cookout over driving up to Chicago to see those guys. Outside of them, I can’t heap enough praise on the new ones from Beelzefuzz, Asteroid, Salem’s Pot, Mountain Dust (where did that one come from!?) and Black Rainbows. Great, GREAT year for tunes. Jacked to see your guys’ lists to see what I missed out on. And just because:
1 Mars Red Sky – Apex III
2 Asteroid – III
3 Beelzefuzz – The Righteous Bloom
4 Salem’s Pot – Pronounce This!
5 Mountain Dust – 9 Years
6 Black Rainbows – Stellar Prophecy
7 SubRosa – For This We Fought The Battle Of Ages
8 Greenleaf – Rise Above The Meadow
9 Truckfighters – V
10 Sumerlands – Sumerlands
11 Wretch – Wretch
12 Mondo Drag – The Occulation Of Light
13 Holy Temple – Serpents
14 Howling Giant – Black Hole Space Wizard (part 1)
15 Lord Mountain – Lord Mountain (EP)
16 Cough – Still They Pray
17 Eternal Champion – The Armor of Ire
18 King Buffalo – Orion
19 The Wounded Kings – Visions In Bone
20 Elephant Tree – Elephant Tree
good list.Black Rainbows,Mars Red Sky & Greenleaf are all fightning for the top spot on my list but where’s Deadsmoke,Langfinger,Bus or Slow Season? so many great albums not even on your list.
Nice to see Eternal Champion also.
I dug the Deadsmoke and need to dive into the Bus record some more. I’ve had Slow Season on the ipod since it came out but haven’t explored it. Will definitely fire that one up in the cubicle next week and will check out Langfinger (never heard of them before).
It won’t let me revise my list as I jumped the gun and submitted mine on Day 1. But if I could…
1 Spiritus Mortis – The Year Is One
2 Mars Red Sky – Apex III
3 Asteroid – III
4 Beelzefuzz – The Righteous Bloom
5 Greenleaf – Rise Above The Meadow
6 Sumerlands – Sumerlands
7 Hexvessel – When We Are Death
8 SubRosa – For This We Fought The Battle Of Ages
9 Black Rainbows – Stellar Prophecy
10 Salem’s Pot – Pro
11 Mountain Dust – Nine Years
12 Blood Incantation – Starspawn
13 Comet Control – Center Of The Maze
14 Elephant Tree – Elephant Tree
15 SnowChild – SnowChild
16 The Hazytones – The Hazytones
17 Wretch – Wretch
18 Geezer – Geezer
19 Truckfighters – V
20 Eternal Champion – The Armor of Ire
21 Hammers of Misfortune – Dead Revolution
22 Khemmis – Hunted
23 Holy Serpent – Temples
24 Dunbarrow – Dunbarrow
25 Swan Valley Heights – Swan Valley Heights
1) HepaTagua-Worms
1) Hexxus – Tunguska
C’mon people! Dont be so narrow-minded. You should be as eclectic as i am… capable of enjoying death metal from Goteborg as well as death metal from Stockholm… dont bother anyway
Great great release from KHEMMIS and a couple of awesome debut albums from Blues Funeral, Summerlands and Worshipper… Minautor Head also.
Great release from Monkey3. They made a excellent cosmic stoner on their last LP Astrasymmetry.
Greenleaf, wo fat, The shrine, Monster Truck, all gonna make mine.
Lots of good albums released this year: SubRosa, Monkey3, Red Lama and King Buffalo, will top my list!
damn forgot to add holy serpents to mine! yeah holy serpents – temple was an awesome album! Definitely in top 5 of 2016
Great Albums from PYRIOR “Portal” and more space by MONKEY3 with “Astra Symmetry” Double Champs 2016!
Listen to the new album of LOS DISIDENTES DEL SUCIO MOTEL “Human Collapse” !! for me number two of my top list 2016 !! cheers
Lots of great releases but only one KOMATSU – RECIPE FOR MUDER ONE
Guys you forget no1 album of the year:
1000mods – Repeated exposure to…
It’s already in the top of my list!
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https://fallofanempireband.bandcamp.com/
Really surprised this record is not popping up on more lists. I do realize this was a crowded year but man I cannot get enough of this.
It’s fun to check out bands you guys recommend. Fun ’cause it confirms my theory abt “most ppl having shitty taste in music.” And the fact that ppl waste their time listening to boring shit like Fall of an EMpire or whatever. Fuck that! Listen to Elder instead.
I can’t stand weak ass generic boring “stoner rock”, shit I’ve heard bands do for years, it just sounds washed up and used.
I’ve got nothing against gingers, in fact I LOVE ginger, it’s awesome in drinks aso, but this band from kengaroo-land, Bloodnut, sounds just as boring and shitty as most of these “new” stoner rock/doom bands do. Ppl are free to make whatever music they want, obviously, but naming shit bands on a year end best of list, just proves you are FUCKED in the head. SO many good bands release albums every year, it’s hard to know where to look, but bitch please…Educate yourselves, dig deeper.
Here’s my list. I rest my case.
Graves at Sea, The Curse That Is
Death Fortress, Deathless March…
Ripper, Experiment of Existence
Whoredom Rife, The Whorship of Idols..
Infant Death, Violent Rites
Temisto, Temisto
Slabdragger, Rise of the Dawncrusher
Zaum, Eidolon
Hashshashin, nihsahshsaH
Bölzer, Hero
Nuclear Aggressor, Slow Dismemberment
Blood Incantation, Starspawn
Convulsing, Errata
Crematory Stench, Crematory Stench
Black Cobra, Imperium Simulacra
R.I.P. In The Wind
Cough, Still They Pray
Cadaveric Fumes, Dimensions Obscure
Arkaik Excruciation, Cursed Blood of Doom
Gruesome, Dimension Of Horror
Lol wow man.
Your elitist attitude is a cancer.
No kidding, man. This is not a punk site. I renounced that music because of too many dudes like Mr Fuckit. Over here listening to my Cough and Zaum but not being a dick about it.
I don’t even think I have heard 20 new albums this year…if so…I don’t remember most of them. Ugh.