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The Music 2016 Writers' Poll: Rod Whitfield

Rod Whitfield

album of the year

  1. Devin Townsend - Transcendence
  2. Fallujah - Dreamless
  3. Periphery - Periphery III: Select Difficulty
  4. Plini - Handmade Cities
  5. Twelve Foot Ninja - Outlier
  6. Haken - Affinity
  7. Superheist - Ghosts Of The Social Dead
  8. Engine Three Seven - Metasiah
  9. Be'lakor - Vessels
  10. Lacuna Coil - Delirium

song of the year

  1. Devin Townsend - Higher
  2. Periphery - Flatline
  3. Plini - Handmade Cities
  4. Superheist - Fearing Nothing
  5. Figures - Emoticonic

artist of the year

  1. Devin Townsend
  2. Plini
  3. Periphery
  4. Superheist
  5. Twelve Foot Ninja

international artist performance

  1. Black Sabbath
  2. Nightwish
  3. Spyro Gyra
  4. Steven Wilson
  5. Queensryche

australian artist performance

  1. Dead Letter Circus
  2. Plini
  3. Jericco
  4. Cog
  5. Superheist

top tv show

  1. Stranger Things
  2. The Fall
  3. Mr Robot

top movie

  1. Room
  2. The Accountant
  3. Nocturnal Animals

top website

  1. Facebook
  2. Metal Obsession
  3. The Music

2016 highlight of the year

Completing work on my very first novel, Reverse Assassin.

prediction for 2017

I am also working on the creation of a brand new superhero. The project has high level representation in Hollywood, and will be pitched to Marvel, DC Comics, Disney, Warner Bros etc in 2017, so watch out for Element Man!