Selbi
100+ Head-Fier
So which metal album of 2016 gave you the most emotional experience?
Difficult question to answer, depending on what one describes as emotional. If you mean emotional in the sense of "most emotionally fun album" it would easily be Heroes of Mighty Magic by Twilight Force. Cheesy power metal to the max and the album itself couldn't quite live up to the hype, but it's still an amazing party metal album.
If you go for "most anticipated album" we can probably answer that Metallica's Hardwired at the very least scraped that rank. Eight years without an album, so naturally the hype is out of this world. Still a solid piece in its own regard.
For "most emotionally touching" album I cannot really make a call because to be touching at all it needs to either be a ballad or an atmospheric black metal album, both of which are things I gracefully touch at best.