Most anticipated 2016 releases?

Temple of Blood wrote:

I'll be very surprised if DARK ANGEL, TOXIK, or WATCHTOWER comes out in 2016.

Ron hasn't said anything to me about a new release yet.

thejokeriv wrote:

New Killen!!!!!!!!!

But if we get new Killen, then the old classic won't be a tr00 and kvlt! Killer are the true underground!

Megadeth, Dark Angel, BAT, Metal church, and Rocka Rollas and that's all I can think of now.

I need to add Cauldron to my list.

A new Blind Illusion album was due this year (The Medicine Show), featuring Les Claypool and co. They wrote it way back when, but are only now remastering it for release.

Hopefully they'll get around to that this year or next.

Temple of Blood wrote:

I'll be very surprised if DARK ANGEL, TOXIK, or WATCHTOWER comes out in 2016.

I'd be very surprised if you ever said anything optimistic.

metal church and toxik.

hope accept would release new material in 2016.

Avantasia has a new one coming out in January.

I don't know how excited I should be. I haven't even quite figured out what I think of the previous one.

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Temple of Blood wrote:

I'll be very surprised if DARK ANGEL, TOXIK, or WATCHTOWER comes out in 2016.

I'd be very surprised if you ever said anything optimistic.

That BLIND ILLUSION album will be awesome I think.  So will the DARK ANGEL and WATCHTOWER whenever they come out (in a year or two would be my guess).

Witchfinder wrote:

I need to add Cauldron to my list.

I forgot Cauldron!

Yes, and also for me Scythe as well.

Lari wrote:

Avantasia has a new one coming out in January.

I don't know how excited I should be. I haven't even quite figured out what I think of the previous one.

I am in that boat with you, Lari.

Quite a few for me actually!

Gravehill/Mordbrand Split CD
Abbath
Primal Fear
Amon Amarth
Dead Horse
Destroyer 666
Ozzy Osbourne
Exumer
Testament
Asphyx
King Diamonf
Sodom
Kreator
Autopsy
Anvil

Witchcraft - Nucleus
Purson - Desire's Magic Theatre
Steven Wilson - 4 1/2
Big Big Train - Folklore
Big Big Train - Stone And Steel: Live at King's Place London (blu-ray)
Haken - ?
Wobbler - ?

sodom have confirmed a new release? any details?

Most of all, I would like to see Dark Angel and Coroner release something new.

Some other releases:

Testament
Megadeth
Anthrax
Metal Church
Trouble (wishful thinking)

Troublezone wrote:

Trouble (wishful thinking)

The Skull is supposedly entering the studio soon to record a second album so that could be out by the end of the year if all goes well.

Liking the new song from Axel. And I saw a few posts back that Y&T had something coming up?

Lari wrote:

Avantasia has a new one coming out in January.

I don't know how excited I should be. I haven't even quite figured out what I think of the previous one.

Nice! I had no idea they had another in the pipeline.

I'm the same about "The Mystery of Time." It had good moments, but I don't know how it hung together overall. It didn't grab me like the others did (though "Black Orchid" was the dog's bollocks!).

For Avantasia, I think the real joy is in seeing who Tobias gets on the record because he's got a knack for placing singers in songs that really suit them. About the only exception was Alice Cooper. Just seemed like his voice wasn't cut out for a song that had quite so much going on in it.

For my money, 2016 is mostly on my radar for Jethro Tull reissues at this point. There's talk of them doing a PROPER reissue of Aqualung that matches the last few book sets (and corrects the mastering issues on the physical copies in circulation) and Songs from the Wood is finally getting reissued. As something I just about wore out on a homemade cassette in my first car stereo, that's definitely an exciting release.

Corrected stereo flat-transfers of the Aqualung and Thick As A Brick remixes are already available from HDtracks.

The next Tull release wil be Stand Up which was moved ahead of the Songs/Horses/Stormwatch trilogy.

S.D. wrote:

Troublezone wrote:

Trouble (wishful thinking)

The Skull is supposedly entering the studio soon to record a second album so that could be out by the end of the year if all goes well.  

Well, I guess that will have to do... I have the debut and it was decent. But I'm holding out for a new Franklin/Wartell Trouble album.

I don't like the singer Franklin/Wartell are using, so not interested at this juncture.

S.D. wrote:

Corrected stereo flat-transfers of the Aqualung and Thick As A Brick remixes are already available from HDtracks.  

The next Tull release wil be Stand Up which was moved ahead of the Songs/Horses/Stormwatch trilogy.  

Right, forgot about that one. Also a favorite.

As for the HDTracks versions of Aqualung and TAAB, I'm a little leery of picking up a download at almost as great a cost as I paid for the hard copies (which were incorrectly mastered as far as I'm concerned). At least if they DO end up repackaging Aqualung, I can justify the added expense as imposing some standardization on my collection. I did always wish they would have STARTED with those book sets instead of digipacks. Friggin' hate digipacks...

They weren't "incorrectly mastered', they were just mastered by someone whose approach did not gel with what Steven Wilson did with the remixes. They were "unnecessary", not defective.

Lesson learned, contract changed so nobody else but Wilson is allowed to touch them.

I bought the Thick As A Brick download from HDtracks because the stereo layer on the original DVD was unlistenable, sounds great now. I have yet to pick up the Aqualung.

Provided the version offered by Pono is the same as that on HDTracks, I'm more likely to buy there as their base prices are a bit more reasonable to my mind. TAAB will probably need to be picked up that way at some point. Since it was already released in that book form, it's unlikely there will be a "corrected" version released in hard copy.

I need to add these two:

Brimstone Coven - Black Magic



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