What Was The Best Rock & Metal Album Of 1996?

24-7 Spyz – Heavy Metal Soul by the Pound

Accept – Predator

Acid Bath – Paegan Terrorism Tactics

Alice in Chains – Unplugged

Amon Amarth – Sorrow Throughout the Nine Worlds

Amorphis – Elegy

Anal Cunt – 40 More Reasons To Hate Us

Anathema – Eternity

Angelcorpse – Hammer of Gods

Angra – Holy Land

Anvil – Plugged in Permanent

Apocalyptica – Plays Metallica by Four Cellos

Arch Enemy – Black Earth

Arcturus – Aspera Hiems Symfonia

Asphyx – Embrace the Death

Asphyx – God Cries

Ayreon – Actual Fantasy

Bathory – Blood on Ice

Behemoth – Grom

Bethlehem – Dictius Te Necare

Biohazard – Mata Leão

Bloodlet – Entheogen

Bolt Thrower – Mercenary

Borknagar – Borknagar

Bruce Dickinson – Skunkworks

Brutal Truth – Kill Trend Suicide

Brutality – In Mourning

Cannibal Corpse – Vile

Carcass – Swansong

Cathedral – Supernatural Birth Machine

Converge – Petitioning the Empty Sky

Corrosion of Conformity – Wiseblood

Cradle of Filth – Dusk… and Her Embrace

Crisis – Deathshead Extermination

Crowbar – Broken Glass

Cryptopsy – None So Vile

Danzig – Danzig 5: Blackacidevil

Dark Funeral – The Secrets of the Black Arts

Darkthrone – Total Death

Dawn – Sorgh på Svarte Vingar Fløgh

Deeds Of Flesh – Trading Pieces

Deep Purple – Purpendicular

Def Leppard – Slang

Deicide – Serpents of the Light

Depressive Age – Electric Scum

Desultory – Swallow the Snake

DGeneration – No Lunch

Dimmu Borgir – Stormblåst

Dio – Angry Machines

Downset. – Do We Speak a Dead Language?

Dying Fetus – Purification Through Violence

Earth Crisis – Gomorrah's Season Ends

Edge of Sanity – Crimson

Enslaved – Frost

Eyehategod – Dopesick

Forbidden – Green

Freak Kitchen – Spanking Hour

Fu Manchu – In Search of…

Godflesh – Songs of Love and Hate

Gorefest – Soul Survivor

Gorgoroth – Antichrist

Grave – Hating Life

Harvey Milk – Courtesy and Good Will Toward Men

Helloween – The Time of the Oath

His Hero Is Gone – Fifteen Counts of Arson

Hypocrisy – Abducted

Iced Earth – The Dark Saga

Immolation – Here in After

In Flames – The Jester Race

Integrity – Humanity is the Devil

Kataklysm – Temple of Knowledge

Katatonia – Brave Murder Day

King Diamond – The Graveyard

KMFDM – Xtort

Korn – Life Is Peachy

Kreator – Outcast

Kvist – For Kunsten Maa Vi Evig Vike

L.A. Guns – American Hardcore

Madball – Demonstrating My Style

Manowar – Louder Than Hell

Marduk – Heaven Shall Burn… When We Are Gathered

Marilyn Manson – Antichrist Superstar

Mercyful Fate – Into the Unknown

Metal Church – Hanging in the Balance

Metallica – Load

Ministry – Filth Pig

Monstrosity – Millennium

Moonspell – Irreligious

Morgana Lefay – Maleficium

Morgoth – Feel Sorry for the Fanatic

Mortician – Hacked Up for Barbecue

Mortification – EnVision EvAngelene

Motörhead – Overnight Sensation

Mushroomhead – Superbuick

My Dying Bride – Like Gods of the Sun

Napalm Death – Diatribes

Necrophobic – Spawned by Evil

Neurosis – Through Silver in Blood

Nevermore – The Politics of Ecstasy

Old Man's Child – Born of the Flickering

Oomph! – Wunschkind

Opeth – Morningrise

Orange 9mm – Tragic

Overkill – The Killing Kind

P.O.D. – Brown

Pan.Thy.Monium – Khaooohs and Kon-Fus-Ion

Pantera – The Great Southern Trendkill

Pitchshifter – Infotainment?

Pro-Pain – Contents Under Pressure

Prong – Rude Awakening

Quo Vadis – Forever…

Rage – End of All Days

Rage – Lingua Mortis

Rage Against the Machine – Evil Empire

Refused – Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent

Rotting Christ – Triarchy of the Lost Lovers

Rush – Test for Echo

Sacred Reich – Heal

Samael – Passage

Satyricon – Nemesis Divina

Saxon – Dogs of War

Scorpions – Pure Instinct

Sentenced – Down

Sepultura – Roots

Slayer – Undisputed Attitude

Slipknot – Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat.

Snapcase – Progression Through Unlearning

Soundgarden – Down on the Upside

Spiritual Beggars – Another Way to Shine

Staind – Tormented

Steve Vai – Fire Garden

Stone Temple Pilots – Tiny Music… Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop

Stratovarius – Episode

Stuck Mojo – Pigwalk

Summoning – Dol Guldur

The 3rd and the Mortal – Painting on Glass

The Cult – High Octane Cult

The Hellacopters – Supershitty to the Max!

Theatre of Tragedy – Velvet Darkness They Fear

Therion – Theli

Thorr's Hammer – Dommedagsnatt

Tool – Ænima

Type O Negative – October Rust

Vader – Future of the Past

Van Halen – Best Of – Volume I

Vinterland – Welcome My Last Chapter

Vision of Disorder – Vision of Disorder

Warrant – Belly to Belly

Xentrix – Scourge

Zakk Wylde – Book of Shadows