Best Of 2016
Best Of 2016
Roger Batty (Site owner, Editor, reviewer & article writer)
1: Fouke/Vomir/Dead Body Collection/Sacred Climax - Monolithic Interference [Geräuschmanufaktur]
2: The HNW Quartet - Self Titled [Hallucination Tapes]
3: Various Artists - Close To The Noise Floor [Cherry Red Records]
4: Cradle Of Filth - Dusk…And Her Embrace- The Original Sin [Cacophonous]
5: Lustmord - Dark Matter [Touch ]
6: Contact- Zero Moment [Temporary Residence Limited]
7:Steeleyed Span - Ten Man Mop, or Mr. Reservoir Butler Rides Again [Talking Elephant Records]
8:Death Scenes - VHS [Unbelievable Black Magic ]
9:Small Hours - Whisper, I love You [Lurker Bias/ Neon Wall Series]
10 Morton Feldman - Patterns in a Chromatic Field [MDG Scene]
11:Celer - Akagi [Two Acorns]
12: Vomir / Pudern - Vomir / Pudern [Geräuschmanufaktur]
13: Tiny Tim - The Complete Singles Collection 1966-1970 [Now Sounds/ Cherry Red]
14:Rodolphe Alexis - The Glittering Thing On The Mountain [Gruenrekorder]
15: Chier - Cabaret Du Neant [Self Release]
16: Jethro Tull - Aqualung(40th Anniversary Adapted Edition) [Chrysalis]
17:Bryn Harrison - Receiving The Approaching Memory [Another Timbre]
18: Dosis Letalis - Mass Media [Reason Art Records]
19: Black Leather Jesus - Every Male Alphabetically By Sin [L-White]
20:Necronautical - The Endurance At Night [Cacophonous]
21:Vagrant - Canal [Moral Defeat]
22: Anita Ker, Rod McKuen & The San Sebastia - The Sea, The Sky, The Earth [El/Cherry Red]
23: The Rhein Strom - Von Der Rheinquelle Bis Hafen Karlsruhe [Gruenrekorder]
24:Black Matter Phantasm - Spiritual Retreat To The Holy Mountain [Hallucination Tapes]
25: Merzbow - Life Performance [Cold Spring]
26: Various - Wake You Up! The Rise and Fall of Nigerian Rock 1 [Now-Again Records]
27:Steve Hauschildt - Strands [Kranky]
28: Charles Bobuck - Bobuck Plays The Residents [Klanggalerie]
29: Phurpa - Chöd [Zoharum ]
30: Harry Bertoia- Complete Sonambient Collection[Important Records]
Films/ etc
1:Dangerous Men -DVD + Blu-ray[Drafthouse Films]
2:When Black Birds Fly-DVD/ Blu Ray [Bag Monster]
3:The Residents - Theory Of Obscurity: A Film About The Residents [Film Movement]
4:The Burning- DVD/ Blu ray [Arrow Video]
5:Lake Nowhere-DVD/Blu-ray- [Brink Entertaiment]
6:American Horror Project Vol 1( film boxset) [Arrow Video]
7: Sausage Party-[Columbia Pictures]
8: David Brent: Life on the Road- ( Entertainment one]
9: The Boy [STX Entertainment]
10: The Invitation [ DVD/ Blu –ray] [Drafthouse Films]
Josh Landry (review & article writer)
1. Neurosis - Fires Within Fires [Neurot Recordings]
2. Ulcerate - Shrines of Paralysis [Relapse Records]
3. Aglaia - Leaves & Thunderstorms [Hic Sunt Leones]
4. Steve Roach & Robert Logan - Biosonic [Projekt]
5. Dave Ball & Jon Savage - Photosynthesis [Cold Spring]
6. Wolfram - X [Monotype Records]
7. School of Crystal Healing - Lightworkers Delight [Troll N' Roll Records]
8. Stereofeld - Soul Mirror [Sun Station Records]
9. Sirod - Another World [Pureuphoria Records]
10. Lunecell - Cylon Lounge EP [Psyde Effect Records]
11. Shivattva - The Tales of Harvia [Treetrolla Records]
12. San and Tac - Chasing Urmahlullu EP [Sangoma Records]
13. Sionnach - Hyper Blaster EP [Ektoplazm]
14. Liink - To the Future [O.V.N.I Records]
15. N.Gin - Hyperball EP [O.V.N.I Records]
16. Omnom - Virtual Plastic EP [Unalome Records]
17. VA [Bowlba Records] - Qube
18. VA [Drumlore] - Hive Mind Volume One
19. VA [Futterwacken Productions] - Dream Manipulation Therapy
20. VA [MoDem Records] - MoDem Festival Vol. 4
21. VA [Insectik Records] - Zima
22. VA [Omveda Records] - Horizon Shift
23. VA [Purple Hexagon Records] - Deep Purple
24. VA [Purple Hexagon Records] - GaggalacktXVibes 2
25. VA [Ruffbeatz] - Ruffbeatz: Get Mushy 2
26. VA [Sangoma Records] - GaggalacktiXVibes 1
27. VA [Sangoma Records] - Stop Wars II: The Empire Hikes Back
28. VA [Sonic Chakras Records] - Sonic Quagmire
29. VA [Triponacci Records] - Borealis
30. VA [Zenon Records] - Permutations Vol. 4
Martin P(review & article writer)
1:Autechre - Elseq 1-5 (Warp Records)
2:Bastard Noise/Sickness - Death's Door (Relapse)
3:Bee Spit - Gold Codes (Neon Wall Series/Lurker Bias)
4: Belle Confusion - Ewe (Hallucination Tapes)
5: Bertoia – Sonambient (Complete Collection) (Important Records)
6:Cannibal Meat Holocaust/Ataraxy - Split (Vomit Bucket Productions)
7: Con-Dom – How Welcome Is Death To I Who Have Nothing More To Do But Die (Tesco Organisation)
8: Convextion – 2845 (a.r.t.less)
9:Danny Brown – Atrocity Exhibition (Warp Records)
10: Dosis Feralis/Dosis Letalis - Constant Conflict (Nahàsh Atrym Productions)
11: La Monte Young/Marian Zazeela - The Theatre Of Eternal Music – Dream House 78'17" (Aguirre Records)
12: Marek Poliks - Hull Treader (Another Timbre)
13:Matmos - Ultimate Care II (Thrill Jockey)
14: Morte Cammina - Tales of the Scissor Killer (Required Rate of Return Records)
15:Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä (Svart Records)
16: Prognostic Circle - Origin/Topic of the Veil (Geräuschmanufaktur)
17: Richard Ramirez – Catullus 16 (Deadline Recordings)
18: Richard Ramirez & Julien Skrobek - Doriana Bridge (Hallucination Tapes)
19:Schammasch - Triangle (Prosthetic Records)
20: Sumbru – Afterlife Signal (Grey Matter Productions)
21: The Ebony Tower - Salamander (Lurker Bias/Neon Wall Series)
22: The Girl on the Bridge - Lilya (Palinopsia Recordings)
23: Tobias Preisig & Stefan Rusconi - Levitation (Qilin Records)
24: Total Abuse – Excluded (Deranged Records)
25: Tuning Circuits – No Compassion (Totally Freaked Out Power Electronics)
26: Urfaust - Empty Space Meditation (Ván Records)
27: Various - Epicurean Escapism III (Silken Tofu)
28: Various – Monolithic Interference (Geräuschmanufaktur) 29: Vince Staples – Prima Donna (Def Jam Recordings)
30: Wound Man - Perimeter (Painkiller Records)
Paul Casey(review & article writer)
1:Wormrot - Voices [Earache]
2:Gorguts - Pleiades' Dust [Season of Mist]
3:God's America - Merge With the Infinite [Deep Six]
4:Brujeria - Pocho Aztlan [Nuclear Blast]
5:Allseits - Chimäre [Cyclic Law]
6:Aube - Fling [Iris Light]
7:Common Eider, King Eider - Extinction [Cold Spring Records]
8:Contact - Zero Moment [Temporary Residence Limited]
9:Controlled Bleeding - Distress Signals I [Artoffact]
10:Embalmer - Emanations From the Crypt [Hells Headbangers]
11: Ghoul - Dungeon Bastards [Tankcrimes]
12: Gruesome - Dimensions of Horror [Relapse Records]
13: H.P. Lovecraft - Pickman's Model [Cadabra Records]
14: Khost [Deconstructed and Reconstructed B - Needles Into the Ground [Cold Spring Records]
15: Necro Deathmort - The Capsule [Rocket]
16:Surgikill - Sanguinary Revelation [Hells Headbangers]
17: Sutcliffe Jugend - Offal [Cold Spring Records]
18: The Wakedead Gathering - Fuscus: Strings of the Black Lyre [I, Voidhanger]
19:Troum - Acouasme [Cold Spring Records]
20: Various Artists - The Ladies of Too Slow to Disco [How Do You Are?]
21: Various Artists - Pyre [Cold Spring Records]
22: Vortex - Moloch [Cyclic Law]
Duncan Simpson (review & article writer)
1:Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch (Sacred Bones)
2:Perturbator - The Uncanny Valley (Blood Music)
3:Kuedo - Slow Knife (Planet Mu)
4:Pye Corner Audio - Stasis (Ghost Box)
5:Roly Porter - Third Law (Tri Angle)
6:Kerridge - Fatal Light Attraction (Downwards)
7:Dalhous - The Composite Moods Collection Vol 1: House Number 44 (Blackest Ever Black)
8:Tongues of Light - Channelled Messages at the end of History (Pre-Cert Home Entertainment)
9:Valerio Tricoli - Clonic Earth (PAN)
10:Venetian Snares - Traditional Synthesiser Music (Timesig)
11:Yves Tumor - Serpent Music (PAN)
12: Fis - From Patterns to Details (Subtext)
13:Solar Bears - Advancement (Sunday Best)
14:Ulver - Atgclvlsscap (House of Mythology)
15:Hypnopazuzu - Creat Christ Sailor Boy (House of Mythology)
16:Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool (XL)
17:Anohni - Hopelessness (Rough Trade)
18:Katatonia - The Fall of Hearts (Peaceville)
19:Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani - FRKWYS Vol. 13: Sunergy (RVNG International)
20:Equiknoxx - Bird Sound Power (DDS)
21:Marisa Nadler - Strangers (Sacred Bones / Bella Union)
22:Roger Doyle - Frail Things in Eternal Places (Silverdoor)
23:Supersilent - 13 (Smalltown Supersound)
24: Burial - Nightmarket/Young Death (Hyperdub)
25:Puce Mary - The Spiral (Posh Isolation)
26:Carla dal Forno - You Know What it's Like (Blackest Ever Black)
27:Biosphere - Departed Glories (Smalltown Supersound)
28:Johann Johannsson - Orphee (Deutsche Grammophon)
29:Lustmord - Dark Matter (Touch)
30:Nils Petter Molvaer - Buoyancy (Sula Records)
Darren Charles( reviewer)
1:Shirley Collins – Lodestar[Domino]
2:David Bowie – Blackstar[ISO/ RCA/ Columbia/ Sony]
3:Rusalnaia – Time Takes Away[Cambrian Records ]
4:Testament – Brotherhood of the Snake[Nuclear Blast]
5:Opeth - Sorceress[Nuclear Blast]
6:Mortlake Bookclub – Exquisite Corpse[Reverb Worship]
7:Anna Von Hausswolf – The Miraculous[City Slang/ Pomperipossa Records]
8:Kate Bush – Before the Dawn [Fish People/ Concord Records]
9:Blood Ceremony – Lord of Misrule[Rise Above Records]
10:Sunn O))) – Kannon[Southern Lord]
11:Martin Green – Flit[Reveal Records]
12:Jenny Hval – Blood Bitch[Sacred Bones Records]
13:Witchcraft – Nucleus[Nuclear Blast]
14:Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker[Columbia Records]
15:Anthrax – For All King[Nuclear Blast]
16:Stone Tapes – Avalon[Reverb Worship]
17:Kurt Stenzel – Jodorowsky’s Dune OST[Cinewax]
18:Nick Cave – Skeleton Key[Bad Seed Ltd]
19:Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein – Stranger Things OST[Lakeshore Records]
20:Swans – The Glowing Man[Mute/ Young God]
21:Death Angel – The Evil Divide[Nuclear Blast]
22:Megadeth – Dystopia[Tradecraft/Universal]
23:Cliff Martinez – Neon Demon OST[Milan]
24:John Carpenter – Lost Themes II[Sacred Bones]
25:Luciferian Light Orchestra – Black EP[Svart Records]
26:Goat – Requiem[Rocket Records]
27:Demdike Stare – Wonderland[Modern Love]
28:Metallica – Hardwired…To Self-Destruct[Blacked Records]
29:Klaus Morlock – Bethany’s Cradle[self release]
30:Church of Misery – And then there were None[Rise Above Records]
Films/ Etc
1:The Witch [A24Universal Pictures]
2:Rogue One[Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures]
3:Dr Strange[Marvel]
4:High Rise [StudioCanal]
5:Evolution [Potemkine Films]
6:Jodorowsky’s Dune DVD + Blu Ray [Sony Pictures Classics]
7:The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Miss Osbourne DVD[Arrow Video]
8:Quatermass DVD [Network]
9:Deep Red DVD + Blu Ray [Arrow Video]
10:Videodrome DVD + Blu Ray[ Arrow Video]
Adam Sykes(reviewer)
1 Padang Food Tigers & Sigbjørn Apeland - Bumblin' Creed[Northern Spy]
2 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree[Bad Seed Ltd]
3 Lustmord - Dark Matter[Touch]
4 Dave Kirby – Contrails[The White Lab]
5 CJ Mann - Alluvium
6 Tunnels Of Ah - Surgical Fires[ Cold Spring Records]
7 Controlled Bleeding - Larva Lamps & Baby Bumps[Artoffact Records]
8 Hypnopazuzu - Create Christ, Sailor Boy[House of Mythology]
9 Con-Dom - How Welcome Is Death To I Who Have Nothing More To Do But Die[Tesco Organisation]
10 Swans - The Glowing Man[Mute/ Young God]
11 Merzbow/Sun Ra - Strange City[Cold Spring Records]
12 David Bowie - Blackstar[ISO/ RCA/ Columbia/ Sony]
13 Brian Eno - The Ship[Warp Records]
14 Sutcliffe Jugend – Masks[Cold Spring Records]
15 Puce Mary - The Spiral[Posh Isolation]
16 And Also The Trees - Born Into The Waves[ self release]
17 Kristian hersh -wyatt at coyote palace[Omnibus Records]
18 Dave Ball and Jon savage "photosynthesis[Cold Spring]
19 Nurse with Wound - Dark Fat
20 Sian - Setting / Another
Hal Harmon(review & article writer)
1:Xome/Boar - Split (Breaching Static)
2:Desiccant - Self-titled (Breathmint)
3:Hiroshi Hasegawa/Dromez - Split (Slave Unit Tapes)
4:Algae Guck - Delicious Casket (PopNihil)
5:Purgist - Our Temple is on Fire (Triangle Records)
6:Newton - Who & Why (Breathmint)
7:John Carpenter - Lost Themes II (Sacred Bones)
8:Colossloth - Outstretch Your Hand For The Impress Of Truth (Cold Spring)
9:Various Artists - Luke Cage Original Soundtrack (Hollywood)
10:Human Fluid Rot - With You in Mind (Total Filth)
11:Severed+Said - Pyrrhic Fortunes (PopNihil)
12:Fail - Dated Six (Inner Demons)
13:Eucci - Land’s End (Rive/Sunhill)
14:Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks Original Soundtrack Reissue (Death Waltz)
15:Jackie Ransom - Final Exposure (PopNihil)
16:I_LIKE_DOG_FACE - Fermenting Archives (PopNihil)
17:Fishwife/I_LIKE_DOG_FACE - Heavy Water (PopNihil)
18:Pissghost - Self-titled (not on a label)
19:Glass Tongue Trio - Self-titled (not on a label)
20:Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein - Stranger Things, Vol. 1 Soundtrack (Lakeshore)
21:Juice Machine - We Couldn’t Be Better (not on a label)
22:Von Nacht - Of the Night (PopNihil)
23:Puce Mary - The Spiral (Posh Isolation)
24:Debbie Jaffe and Hal McGee - Catapulting Babies (HalTapes)
25:Sloth - 18 Yrs Since Akron (not on a label)