UPDATED 12/8
"So we are going to try something new, since there was a lot of negative views on the way our AOTY voting works. In the past years, it seemed to work, but we had a smaller audience then. Now with over 60k members, we have a little bit more of a community, and not everyone is into the same popular bands.
So with this new AOTY voting, ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS COMMENT YOUR FAVORITE RELEASE(S). If you can put them in order, that would make our final counts more accurate, and less work for us at the end of the month. During the first week of January the staff will make a tally of every single album voted for AOTY, and the album with the most votes will win (along with a 2nd and 3rd place).
The Below images are no longer the list you have to choose from"
The time has come to reflect on the year. The highs, the lows, the ups and downs; but most importantly: the Album of the Year.
So, it's up to YOU to choose the winner of the 2016 Album of the Year! After you have voted, let us know your top 10 in the comments!
Thanks to our amazing @@Billy Mays for his awesome work on these images! If you see him around the site, congratulate him on all his hard work!
2016 Album of the Year Candidates
Album of the Month:
January (Anticipated): Panic! at the Disco - Death Of A Bachelor
February (Anicipated): Hands Like Houses - Dissonants
March: Asking Alexandria - The Black
April: Erra - Drift
May: Architects - All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us
June: Beartooth - Aggressive
July: blink-182 - California
August: The Amity Affliction - This Could Be Heartbreak
September: A Day to Remember - Bad Vibrations
October: Dance Gavin Dance - Mothership
November: The Weeknd - Starboy
Album of the Month Runner Ups:
May: Issues - Headspace
June: I See Stars - Treehouse
August: Moose Blood - Blush
September: Everytime I Die - Low Teens
October: Avenged Sevenfold - The Stage
Staff Picks:
Darke Complex - Point Oblivion
The Devil Wears Prada - Transit Blues
Too Close to Touch - Haven't Been Myself
Pierce the Veil - Misadventures
Jon Bellion - The Human Condition
Bastille - Wild World
Kingdom Leaks Staff - Top 3 AOTY List
Lord Kingdom
1. Lee DeWyze - Oil & Water
2. I See Stars - Treehouse
3. Hotel Books - Run Wild, Stay Alive
mR12
1. KYTES - Heads and Tales
2. Roosevelt - Roosevelt
3. PAPA - Kick at the Dust
HyperDose
1. Every Time I Die - Low Teens
2. Vanna - All Hell
3. Panic! at the Disco - Death of a Bachelor
The Rotten King
1. Bad Omens - Bad Omens
2. Atlas Uncharted - Almost and Always
3. Hands Like Houses - Dissonants
Feeshmon
1. Dayseeker - Origin (Deluxe Edition)
2. Too Close To Touch - Haven't Been Myself
3. NF - Therapy Session
Crash Bandicoot
1. Invent, Animate - Stillworld
2. Architects - All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us
3. Silent Planet - Everything Was Sound
SuicidalDemon
1. Every Time I Die - Low Teens
2. Metallica - Hardwired.. To Self-Destruct
3. Knocked Loose - Laugh Tracks
dorozco
1. Carnifex - Slow Death
2. Architects - All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us
3. Travis Scott - Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight