DDM's Best of 2016

Top 10 Overall

1. Virvum - Illuminance
2. Crator - The Ones Who Create : The Ones Who Destroy
3. Chthe'ilist - Le Dernier Crépuscule
4. First Fragment - Dasein
5. Afterburner - Tomb of Kings
6. Unfathomable Ruination - Finitude
7. Deviant Process - Paroxysm
8. Vektor - Terminal Redux
9. Cortexiphan - Iniquitous
10. Dehumanized - Beyond The Mind

Top 15 Technical (Brutal) Death Metal

Polyptych - Defying the Metastasis
Katalepsy - Gravenous Hour
Vale of Pnath - II
Orphalis - The Birth of Infinity
Nucleus - Sentient
Onomasy - Ashes And Dust
Towering Abomination - Towering Abomination
Xenomorphic Contamination - Colonized from the Inside
Infinite Density - Recollapse of the Universe
Wormed - Krigshu
Duality - Elektron
Banisher - Oniric Delusions
Fractured Insanity - Man Made Hell
Murder Made God - Enslaved
Spawning Abhorrence - The Sleepless One

Top 5 Progressive Death Metal/ Thrash

Gomorrah - The Haruspex
Ulcerate - Shrines of Paralysis
Ripper - Experiment of Existence
Mithras - On Strange Loops
Inanimate Existence - Calling From A Dream

Top 25 Death Metal

Neurogenic - Ouroboric Stagnation
Omophagia - In The Name Of Chaos
Oncology - Infinite Regress
Internal Suffering - Cyclonic Void of Power
God Enslavement - Consuming The Divine
Face Of Oblivion - Cataclysmic Desolation
Dehuman Reign - Ascending from Below
Dawn of Demise - The Suffering
Dawn of Disease - Worship the Grave
Blood Incantation - Starspawn
Blasphemer - Ritual Theophagy
Abhorrent Aggression - You Only Die Once
Sinsaenum - Echoes of the Tortured
Hellspawn - There Has Never Been a Son of Me
Sin of God - Aenigmata
Deceptionist - Initializing Irreversible Process
Age Of Agony - For The Forgotten
Angerseed - The Proclamation
Gatecreeper - Sonoran Depravation
Panic Disorder - Daimonion
Rebaelliun - The Hell's Decrees
Volturyon - Cleansed By Carnage
Carnophage - Monument
Shed The Skin - Harrowing Faith
Omnihility - Dominion of Misery

Top 5 Black/ Death Metal

Gloria Morti - Kuebiko
Ragnarok - Psychopathology
Noctem - Haeresis
Auroch - Mute Books
Denouncement Pyre - Black Sun Unbound

Top 5 Grind/ Death Metal

Asphalt Graves - The New Primitive
Embalmer - Emanations from the Crypt
Wormrot - Voices
Captain Cleanoff - Rising Terror
Gadget - The Great Destroyer