2016 Reviews

On this page you can find all articles I wrote in 2016 organized on one page. The articles are organized counter chronologically. Click on the cover to read the article. Or use the searchform below to search for a specific release from 2016 by name.

Album of the Year 2016 – Number 1

Album of the Year 2016 – Number 2

Album of the Year 2016 – Number 3

Album of the Year 2016 – Number 4

Album of the Year 2016 – Number 5

Album of the Year 2016 – Number 6

Album of the Year 2016 – Number 7

Album of the Year 2016 – Number 8

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Album of the Year 2016 – Number 10

Album of the Year 2016 – Number 11

Album of the Year 2016 – Number 12

Album of the Year 2016 – Number 13

Album of the Year 2016 – Number 14

Album of the Year 2016 – Number 15

Album of the Year 2016 – Number 16

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Album of the Year 2016 – Number 18

Album of the Year 2016 – Number 19

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Album of the Year 2016 – Number 23

Album of the Year 2016 – Number 24

Album of the Year 2016 – Number 25

Album of the Year 2016 – Number 26

Album of the Year 2016 – Number 27

Album of the Year 2016 – Number 28

Album of the Year 2016 – Number 29

Album of the Year 2016 – Number 30

Delain – Moonbathers – Album Review

Arcade Messiah – III – Album Review

A Sense Of Gravity – Atrament – Album Review

Live gig review: Delain, Evergrey, Kobra And The Lotus – Norwich Waterfront 15/11/16

Devilment – Devilment II: The Mephisto Waltzes – Album Review

Maschine – Naturalis – Album Review

Brutai – Born – Album Review

False Coda – Secrets And Sins – Album Review

Pretty Maids – Kingmaker – Album Review

In Flames – Battles – Album Review

The Neal Morse Band – The Similitude Of A Dream – Album Review

Memoreve – Insignia – EP Review

Enbound – The Blackened Heart – Album Review

Blind Ego – Liquid – Album Review

Dark Tranquillity – Atoma – Album Review

Hammerfall – Built To Last – Album Review

Testament – Brotherhood Of The Snake – Album Review

Crippled Black Phoenix – Bronze – Album Review

Riverside – Eye Of The Soundscape – Album Review

Hanging Garden – Hereafter – EP Review

Theocracy – Ghost Ship – Album Review

Arkona – Lunaris – Album Review

Oddland – Origin – Album Review

Sonata Arctica – The Ninth Hour – Album Review

Edensong – Years In The Garden Of Years – Album Review

Meshuggah – The Violent Sleep Of Reason – Album Review

Alcest – Kodama – Album Review

Opeth – Sorceress – Album Review

Negură Bunget – ZI – Album Review

Epica – The Holographic Principle – Album Review

Amaranthe – Maximalism – Album Review

Eye Of Solitude – Cenotaph – Album Review

Insomnium – Winter’s Gate – Album Review

Seven Impale – Contrapasso – Album Review

DGM – The Passage – Album Review

Pressure Points – False Lights – Album Review

In The Woods – Pure – Album Review

Devin Townsend Project – Transcendence – Album Review

The Pineapple Thief – Your Wilderness – Album Review

Evergrey – Interview 2016 Part 2 – ‘We’d make fools of ourselves if we tried to write ‘Hymns For The Broken 2’

Evergrey – Interview 2016 – “We’re getting stronger and stronger, every day”

Evergrey – The Storm Within – Album Review

Dream The Electric Sleep – Beneath The Dark Wide Sky – Album Review

Periphery – Periphery III: Select Difficulty – Album Review

Karmakanic – Dot – Album Review

Novena – Secondary Genesis – EP Review

Witherscape – The Northern Sanctuary – Album Review

Essential rock & metal releases still to come in 2016 – Part 3

Eric Gillette – The Great Unknown – Album Review

Essential rock & metal releases still to come in 2016 – Part 2

Essential rock & metal releases still to come in 2016 – Part 1

Tilt – Hinterland – Album Review

Half-Way Through 2016 – The Best So Far – Part 3

Half-Way Through 2016 – The Best So Far – Part 2

Half-Way Through 2016 – The Best So Far – Part 1

Cosmograf – The Unreasonable Silence – Album Review

Fates Warning – Theories Of Flight – Album Review

Wolverine – Machina Viva – Album Review

Be’lakor – Vessels – Album Review

Lacuna Coil – Delirium – Album Review

Live gig review: Haken, Special Providence, Arkentype – Highbury Garage 26/05/16

Big Big Train – Folklore – Album Review

Airbag – Disconnected – Album Review

Katatonia – The Fall Of Hearts – Album Review

Frost* – Falling Satellites – Album Review

Earthside – Interview – “we don’t write something with the idea of making it easy to play live”

Glorior Belli – Sundown (The Flock That Welcomes) – Album Review

Habu – Infinite – Album Review

Grand Magus – Sword Songs – Album Review

Messenger – Threnodies – Album Review

Svoid – Storming Voices Of Inner Devotion – Album Review

Fallujah – Dreamless – Album Review

In Mourning – Afterglow – Album Review

Haken – Affinity – Album Review

Albums that changed my life: Dimmu Borgir – ‘Enthrone, Darkness, Triumphant’

An interview with Brutai – ‘we just go out and play the metal music that we love’

Long Distance Calling – Trips – Album Review

Live gig review: Earthside, Toska, Brutai, Voices from the Fuselage – Camden Barfly 10/04/16

October Tide – Winged Waltz – Album Review

Odd Logic – Penny For Your Thoughts – Album Review

Iron Mountain – Unum – Album Review

Knifeworld – Bottled Out Of Eden – Album Review

Novembre – Ursa – Album Review

Albums that changed my life: Megadeth – ‘Youthanasia’

Beholder – Reflections – Album Review

Albums that changed my life: Cradle Of Filth – ‘Dusk…And Her Embrace’

Albums that changed my life: Cradle Of Filth – ‘Vempire’

Albums that changed my life: Skid Row – ‘Slave To The Grind’

Neverworld – Dreamsnatcher – Album Review

Universal Mind Project – The Jaguar Priest

Thunderstone – Apocalypse Again – Album Review

InnerWish – InnerWish – Album Review

Mob Rules – Tales From Beyond – Album Review

Ghost Bath – Moonlover – Album Review

Spiritual Beggars – Sunrise To Sundown – Album Review

Oceans Of Slumber – Winter – Album Review

Rikard Zander – I Can Do Without Love – Album Review

Redemption – The Art Of Loss – Album Review

Headspace – All That You Fear Is Gone – Album Review

Chris Quirarte – Mending Broken Bridges – Album Review

Sunburst – Fragments Of Creation – Album Review

Inglorious – Inglorious – Album Review

Omnium Gatherum – Grey Heavens – Album Review

Structural Disorder – Distance – Album Review

Votum – Ktonik – Album Review

Fleshgod Apocalypse – King – Album Review

My Top 10 Songs of 2015

Rikard Sjöblom – The Unbendable Sleep – Album Review

Textures – Phenotype – Album Review

Most Anticipated Metal Releases of 2016 – Part 4

Most Anticipated Metal Releases of 2016 – Part 3

Most Anticipated Metal Releases of 2016 – Part 2

Most Anticipated Metal Releases of 2016 – Part 1

Serenity – Codex Atlanticus – Album Review

Live Gig Review: Triaxis – The Portland Arms, Cambridge – 23 Jan 2016

Writing about music is a privilege & should never be abused

Borknagar – Winter Thrice – Album Review

The Mute Gods – Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me – Album Review

Brainstorm – Scary Creatures – Album Review

Album Of The Year 2015 – Number 1

Album Of The Year 2015 – Number 2

Album Of The Year 2015 – Number 3

Album Of The Year 2015 – Number 4

Album Of The Year 2015 – Number 5

Album Of The Year 2015 – Number 6

Album Of The Year 2015 – Number 7