- Baroness – Purple (Abraxan Hyms)
- Beach Slang – The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us (Polyvinyl)
- Between The Buried – Coma Ecliptic (Metal Blade)
- Chelsea Wolfe – Abyss (Sargent House)
- Deafheaven – New Bermuda (Anti-)
- Faith No More – Sol Invictus (Ipecac)
- Frank Turner – Positive Songs For Negative People (Polyvinyl)
- Ghost – Meliora (Loma Vista)
- High On Fire – Luminiferous (E1 Music)
- InAeona – Force Rise The Sun (Prosthetic)
- Iron Maiden – The Book Of Souls (BMG)
- Jeff Rosenstock – We Cool? (Side One Dummy)
- Lucifer – Lucifer I (Rise Above)
- Mutoid Man – Bleeder (Sargent House)
- Night Birds – Mutiny At Muscle Beach (Fat Wreck Chords)
- Refused – Freedom (Epitaph)
- Strung Out – Transmissions.Alpha.Delta (Fat Wreck Chords)
- Teenage Bottlerocket – Tales From Wyoming (Rise)
- Worriers – Imaginary Life (Don Giovanni)
- Hop Along – Painted Shut (Saddle Creek)
Top 20 Bands I Saw Live
- Faith No More (on 4/20 in SF, Epic!)
- Pears (Thee Parkside is too small to contain the insanity… also somehow saw them 3 times this year)
- Clutch (Southern Comfort at it’s best)
- Ghost (Even the 7 year old girl on her dad’s shoulders was throwing up horns and headbanging)
- Jeff Rosenstock (The BEST Dude!)
- Pup (Beastie Boys cover with Jeff Rosenstock.. yes please!)
- High On Fire (Sober Matt Pike > Drunk Matt Pike.. Keep it up man!!)
- Night Birds (I done messed up by not seeing thier secret show at Fest this year)
- Converge (I will mosh and rage forever for these guys)
- Chumped (Farewell Show at Fest… Also the Saddest show ever seen)
- Refused (The best dance moves a frontman has ever done)
- Murder City Devils (Somehow, rain is the most complementary weather)
- Turbo Negro (stupid sexy songs)
- Sleep (Almost didn’t make the list because they didn’t play Dopesmoker.. remember when I did though?)
- Napalm Death (Barney and Jello on stage singing Nazi Punks F*** Off!)
- Insomnium (Hands down the best Melodic Death Metal band out there)
- Lucifer (Hypnotic, They even slept on my couch!)
- Beans & Toast (Who needs electricity to play a show)
- Beach Slang (Where Morrisey fans meet Jawbreaker and Replacements fans)
- Andrew WK (Literally Party)
Top 5 Anticipated Releases for 2016 (All Aboard the Hype Train!)
- Pup
- Gojira
- Tool
- Russian Circles
- Crusades
