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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2016.
Day | Artist | Album |
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7 | Autograph | Louder (EP)[86] |
8 | Cauldron | In Ruin[87] |
Exmortus | Ride Forth[88] | |
Jeff Hughell | Trinidad Scorpion Hallucinations[89] | |
15 | Aborted | Termination Redux (EP)[90] |
Axel Rudi Pell | Game of Sins[91] | |
Rhapsody of Fire | Into the Legend[92] | |
Witchcraft | Nucleus[93] | |
20 | Black Sabbath | The End (EP)[94][95] |
22 | Abbath | Abbath[96] |
Borknagar | Winter Thrice[97] | |
Megadeth | Dystopia[98] | |
Rage | My Way (EP)[99] | |
The Resistance | Coup de Grâce[100] | |
29 | Amoral | In Sequence[101] |
Avantasia | Ghostlights[102] | |
Black Tusk | Pillars of Ash[103] | |
Bury Tomorrow | Earthbound[104] | |
Conan | Revengeance[105] | |
Dream Theater | The Astonishing[106] | |
Exumer | The Raging Tides[107] | |
Master | An Epiphany of Hate[108] | |
Primal Fear | Rulebreaker[109][110] | |
Prong | X (No Absolutes)[111] | |
Serenity | Codex Atlanticus[112] |
Day | Artist | Album |
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5 | The Cult | Hidden City[113][114] |
Drowning Pool | Hellelujah[115] | |
Fleshgod Apocalypse | King[116] | |
Obscura | Akróasis[117] | |
Textures | Phenotype[118] | |
12 | Holy Grail | Times of Pride and Peril[119] |
Magrudergrind | II[120] | |
Rotting Christ | Rituals[121] | |
Urgehal | Aeons in Sodom[122] | |
19 | Adept | Sleepless[123] |
After the Burial | Dig Deep[124] | |
Cirith Gorgor | Visions of Exalted Lucifer[125] | |
Delain | Lunar Prelude (EP)[126] | |
Hypno5e | Shores of the Abstract Line[127] | |
Karybdis | Samsara[128] | |
Last in Line | Heavy Crown[129] | |
Myrath | Legacy[130] | |
Raubtier | Bärsärkagång[131] | |
26 | Anthrax | For All Kings[132] |
Anvil | Anvil Is Anvil[133] | |
Black Cobra | Imperium Simulacra[134] | |
Deströyer 666 | Wildfire[135] | |
Entombed A.D. | Dead Dawn[136] | |
Headspace | All That You Fear Is Gone[137] | |
Omnium Gatherum | Grey Heavens[138] | |
Redemption | The Art of Loss[139] | |
Sinbreed | Master Creator[140] | |
The Unguided | Lust and Loathing[141] | |
Voivod | Post Society (EP)[142] | |
Wisdom | Rise of the Wise[143] |
Day | Artist | Album |
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4 | Hacktivist | Outside the Box[144] |
Reckless Love | InVader[145] | |
11 | Criminal | Fear Itself[146] |
Killswitch Engage | Incarnate[147] | |
Van Canto | Voices of Fire[148] | |
15 | Pyrrhon | Running Out of Skin (EP)[149] |
18 | Blaze Bayley | Infinite Entanglement[150] |
Circus Maximus | Havoc[151] | |
Convulse | Cycle of Revenge[152] | |
Human Fortress | Thieves of the Night[153] | |
Mob Rules | Tales from Beyond[154] | |
Mystic Prophecy | War Brigade[155] | |
Spiritual Beggars | Sunrise to Sundown[156] | |
The Word Alive | Dark Matter[157] | |
25 | American Head Charge | Tango Umbrella[158] |
Amon Amarth | Jomsviking[159] | |
Artillery | Penalty by Perception[160] | |
Asking Alexandria | The Black[161] | |
Blood Ceremony | Lord of Misrule[162] | |
Caliban | Gravity[163] | |
Dayglo Abortions | Armageddon Survival Guide[164] | |
Izegrim | The Ferryman's End[165] | |
Lody Kong | Dreams and Visions[166] | |
Metal Church | XI[167] | |
Rotten Sound | Abuse to Suffer[168] | |
Ragnarok | Psychopathology[169] | |
Walls of Jericho | No One Can Save You from Yourself[170] |
Day | Artist | Album |
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6 | Vektor | Terminal Redux[204] |
10 | Femme Fatale | One More for the Road[205] |
13 | Avatar | Feathers & Flesh[206] |
Destruction | Under Attack[207] | |
DevilDriver | Trust No One[208] | |
Gorguts | Pleiades' Dust (EP)[209] | |
Grand Magus | Sword Songs[210] | |
Hatebreed | The Concrete Confessional[211] | |
Kvelertak | Nattesferd[212] | |
20 | Dead by Wednesday | The Darkest of Angels[213] |
Flotsam and Jetsam | Flotsam and Jetsam[214] | |
Iron Savior | Titancraft[215] | |
Katatonia | The Fall of Hearts[216] | |
Suidakra | Realms of Odoric[217] | |
Vardis | Red Eye[218] | |
24 | Binary Code | Moonsblood[219] |
27 | Architects | All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us[220] |
Behexen | The Poisonous Path[221] | |
Death Angel | The Evil Divide[222][223] | |
Illdisposed | Grey Sky Over Black Town[224] | |
Katalepsy | Gravenous Hour[225] | |
Lacuna Coil | Delirium[226] | |
Motörhead | Clean Your Clock (live album)[227][228] | |
Omen | Hammer Damage[229] | |
Six Feet Under | Graveyard Classics IV: The Number of the Priest (covers album)[230] | |
Suicidal Angels | Division of Blood[231] | |
Withered | Grief Relic[232] |
Day | Artist | Album |
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1 | Yngwie Malmsteen | World on Fire[233] |
3 | Beartooth | Aggressive[234] |
Candlemass | Death Thy Lover (EP)[235] | |
Dark Funeral | Where Shadows Forever Reign[236] | |
Dark Suns | Everchild[237] | |
Hellyeah | Unden!able[238] | |
Paradox | Pangea[239] | |
Poverty's No Crime | Spiral of Fear[240] | |
Volbeat | Seal the Deal & Let's Boogie[241] | |
10 | D.R.I. | But Wait... There's More! (EP)[242] |
Rage | The Devil Strikes Again[243] | |
Scorpion Child | Acid Roulette[244] | |
Sumac | What One Becomes[245] | |
17 | Ayreon | The Theater Equation (live album)[246] |
Gojira | Magma[247] | |
Hammercult | Legends Never Die (EP)[248] | |
Nails | You Will Never Be One of Us[249] | |
Unlocking the Truth | Chaos[250] | |
24 | Be'lakor | Vessels[251] |
The Browning | Isolation[252] | |
Highlord | Hic Sunt Leones[253] | |
Kayo Dot | Plastic House on Base of Sky[254] | |
Stuck Mojo | Here Come the Infidels[255] | |
Whitechapel | Mark of the Blade[256] |
Day | Artist | Album |
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1 | Chelsea Grin | Self Inflicted[257] |
Fates Warning | Theories of Flight[258] | |
Oracles | Miserycorde[259] | |
Wolf Hoffmann | Headbangers Symphony[260] | |
2 | Brain Drill | Boundless Obscenity[261] |
8 | Centinex | Doomsday Rituals[262] |
Chevelle | The North Corridor[263] | |
Deadlock | Hybris[264] | |
Nonpoint | The Poison Red[265] | |
Trick or Treat | Rabbits' Hill, Pt. 2[266] | |
Wolverine | Machina Viva[267] | |
15 | 16 | Lifespan of a Moth[268] |
Raging Speedhorn | Lost Ritual[269] | |
22 | Black Crown Initiate | Selves We Cannot Forgive[270] |
Despised Icon | Beast[271][272] | |
Despite | Synergi[273] | |
Hammers of Misfortune | Dead Revolution[274] | |
Periphery | Periphery III: Select Difficulty[275] | |
Revocation | Great Is Our Sin[276] | |
Twisted Sister | Metal Meltdown (live album)[277] | |
Witherscape | The Northern Sanctuary[278] | |
29 | Ghoul | Dungeon Bastards[279] |
Infant Annihilator | The Elysian Grandeval Galèriarch[280] | |
Ringworm | Snake Church[281] | |
Sinsaenum | Echoes of the Tortured[9] |
Day | Artist | Album |
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5 | Bloody Hammers | Lovely Sort of Death[282] |
Carnifex | Slow Death[283] | |
Islander | Power Under Control[284] | |
Jackyl | Rowyco[285] | |
Skillet | Unleashed[286] | |
Tarja | The Shadow Self[287] | |
12 | The Amity Affliction | This Could Be Heartbreak[288] |
Equilibrium | Armageddon[289] | |
Lacrimas Profundere | Hope Is Here[290] | |
19 | Blood Incantation | Starspawn[291] |
Gemini Syndrome | Memento Mori[292] | |
Myrkur | Mausoleum (live album)[293] | |
Sabaton | The Last Stand[294] | |
Skeletonwitch | The Apothic Gloom (EP)[295] | |
20 | Throes of Dawn | Our Voices Shall Remain[296] |
26 | Ablaze My Sorrow | Black[297] |
Any Given Day | Everlasting[298] | |
Delain | Moonbathers[299] | |
DGM | The Passage[300] | |
Helstar | Vampiro[301] | |
Inquisition | Bloodshed Across the Empyrean Altar Beyond the Celestial Zenith[302] | |
Michael Sweet | One Sided War[303] | |
Prophets of Rage | The Party's Over (EP)[304] | |
Running Wild | Rapid Foray[305] | |
Sodom | Decision Day[306] | |
Solution .45 | Nightmares in the Waking State: Part II[307] | |
Twelve Foot Ninja | Outlier[308] | |
Vicious Rumors | Concussion Protocol[309] |
Day | Artist | Album |
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2 | Enuff Z'Nuff | Clowns Lounge[436] |
9 | Babymetal | Live at Wembley (live album)[437] |
Destroy the Runner | Void (EP)[438] | |
Those Who Fear | State of Mind[439] | |
Zao | The Well-Intentioned Virus[440] | |
16 | Machinae Supremacy | Into the Night World[441] |
17 | Rudra | Enemy of Duality[442] |
23 | Nine Inch Nails | Not the Actual Events (EP)[443] |
30 | Sister | Stand Up, Forward, March!<[444] |