Tons of brutal/technical death metal this year and a lot of it was very good. Obscura, Wormed, Deviant Process, all had great albums and this was a tough call, but Gravenous Hour was the finest moment in 2016 for death metal to my ears. The brutality on display here is crushing, but amidst the requisite palm-muting majesty are some of the best guitar leads to come out of the genre since, well... the last Katalepsy record. What can I say, this band has never disappointed. Many will disagree and I'll readily admit Wormed was more brutal, Obscura more technical, but Katalepsy does both absurdly well and that takes a hell of a lot of talent and devotion to something inherently very ugly. Who needs sugar and shine when you can make ears bleed and necks break.
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