In an effort to expand my horizons, I listened to one song in every genre in Spotify and The Guardian's 101 Strangest Records on Spotify.  Here is a quick recap of the two music challenges of 2016.  

This was another tough list to put together.  The top 5ish spots are usually pretty easy, and deciding which albums to cut in the last few spots are a struggle.  For the past month I've been going through the bajillions of best of lists. As usual there was a TON of stuff I missed.  I just have to be ok with the face that there's only 24 hours in a day and it's damn near impossible to get to everything.  Last year I made an unsuccesful attempt to catch up everything I missed, but eventually gave up and finalized my list a month or two into the new year.  This year I've drawn the line at the end of the year, and if I missed anything, then so be it.  Onward to my list!

This was a year I had a really hard time narrowing it down to just 10.  I had a pool of over 100 albums to sift through!  I thought I would be so amazing and clever and make it my Top 15 of '15. Unfortunately, it didn't make it any easier to narrow it down.  

This was a tough year to narrow it down to just 10.  This was also the year where I started to make a feeble attempt to listen to more non-metal genres (see Honorable Mentions).  I also hoped for a new Tool album in 2015 (LOL silly me).