Metal Asylum's Top Albums Of 2016

Rich Catino:

1. Megadeth – Dystopia
2. Flotsam And Jetsam - Flotsam And Jetsam
3. Anthrax – For All Kings
4. Testament – Brotherhood of the Snake
5. Metallica – Hardwired
6. Striker - Stand In The Fire
7. Avantasia – Ghostlights
8. Metal Church – XI
9. Michael Sweet - One Sided War
10. Pretty Maids – Kingmaker
11. Primal Fear – Rulebreaker
12. Opeth – Sorceress
13. Almah - E.V.O.
14. Running Wild - Rapid Foray
15. Tank - Valley of Tears
16. Suicidal Angels – Division Of Blood
17. Phantom 5 - Phantom 5
18. Denner / Shermann - Masters of Evil
19. Witchery - In His Infernal Majesty's Service
20. Hammerfall - Built To Last
21. Helstar – Vampiro
22. Resurrection Kings – Resurrection Kings
23. Cauldron – In Ruin
24. Sonata Arctica – The Ninth Hour
25. Lordi – Monstereophonic

Honorable mentions: Sodom - Decision Day, Destruction – Under Attack, Chris Caffery - Your Heaven Is Real, Tygers of Pan Tang - Tygers of Pan Tang.

DVD:
Judas Priest – Battle Cry (DVD/CD)
Extreme – Pornograffitti 25th Anniversary Live (DVD/CD)
"We Are Twisted F***ing Sister!"
Rainbow – Memories In Rock (DVD/CD)

Compilations:
Grave Digger - Let Your Heads Roll -The Very Best Of The Noise Years 1984-1987
Running Wild - Riding The Storm – The Very Best Of The Noise Years 1983-1995
Kreator – Love Us Or Hate Us
Helloween – Ride The Sky – The Very Best of 1985-1998
Kamelot – Where I Reign – The Very Best of the Noise Years 1995-2003
Sinner - No Place In Heaven – The Very Best Of The Noise Years 1984-1987

Book:
Sebastian Bach- 18 and Life and Skid Row
Iron Maiden – The Ultimate Illustrated History Of The Beast
The Complete History of Black Sabbath: What Evil Lurks
To Live Is To Die – the life and death of Metallica’s Cliff Burton
Bon Jovi – The Story

Mark Gromen:

1. Holy Grail - Times Of Pride And Peril
2. Running Wild – Rapid Foray
3. Destruction - Under Attack
4. Primal Fear - Rulebreaker
5. Widow – Carved In Stone
6. Hammerfall – Built To Last
7. When Nothing Remains- In Memoriam
8. Angel Sword - Rebels Beyond The Pale
9. Pretty Maids - Kingmaker (Frontiers)
10. Metal Church - XI
11. Death Angel – The Evil Divide
12. Vicious Rumors – Concussion Protocol
13. Helstar – Vampiro
14. Amon Amarth - Jomsviking
15. Iron Curtain – Guilty As Charged
16. Thornbridge - What Will Prevail
17. Lucifer’s Hammer – Beyond The Omens
18. Gravebreaker – Sacrifice
19. Iron Spell- Electric Conjuring
20. Nowen – Peace With Death

Jack Mangan:

1. Devin Townsend Project - Transcendence
2. Opeth - Sorceress
3. New Keepers of the Water Tower - Infernal Machine
4. Arcana 13 - Danza Macabra
5. Monkey3 - Astra Symmetry
6. Metallica - Hardwired... to Self-Destruct
7. Lacrimas Profundere - Hope is Here
8. Megadeth - Dystopia
9. Kyng - Breathe in the Waterv 10. Droids Attack - Sci-Fi or Die
11. Conan - Revengeance
12. Miss Lava - Sonic Debris
13. Animals as Leaders - Madness of Many
14. Gojira - Magma
15. Wolverine - Machine Viva
16. Meshuggah - The Violent Sleep of Reason
17. It's Not Night, It's Space - Our Birth is But a Sleep and a Forgetting
18. Khemmis - Hunted
19. Steve N' Seagulls - Brothers in Farms
20. Manimal - Trapped in the Shadows