Haven't made one of these in awhile. Damn life. But I love to share music and have quality discussions on it
List is IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER
Suggestions more than Welcome. Let's listen.

1.Dyssidia - Costly Signals

2.Paradise Lost - Obsidian

3.Testament - Titans Of Creation

4.Katatonia - City Burials

5.Heaven Shall Burn - Of Truth & Sacrifice

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My top to bottom list of everything from 2020 I've spent time with and have also purchased either physically or digitally (which is why most of them have high ratings). Releases featured on MS only. Whole number ratings out of 10 and my personal opinions included.

NOTE: I am no longer updating this list. 2020 was a great year for music despite being not a great year in general but I am onto a 2021 list. You can check it out here: http://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=6525

1.Psychonaut - Unfold The God Man

2.Caligula's Horse - Rise Radiant

3.Sojourner - Premonitions

4.On Thorns I Lay - Threnos

5.Elder - Omens

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1.Emyn Muil - Afar Angathfark

2.Imperial Triumphant - Alphaville

3.Atramentus - Stygian

4.Havukruunu - Uinuos Syömein Sota

5.Akhlys - Melinoë

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1.The Ocean - Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic / Cenozoic

2.Katatonia - City Burials

3.Svalbard - When I Die, Will I Get Better?

4.Pallbearer - Forgotten Days

5.Lorna Shore - Immortal

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1.Draconian - Under A Godless Veil

2.The Ocean - Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic / Cenozoic

3.Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin Kynsi

4.Anaal Nathrakh - Endarkenment

5.Lunatic Soul - Through Shaded Woods

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My Top-15 list for 2020. Great year despite the f***ing virus shutting everything down.

1.Sacred Outcry - Damned For All Time

2.Cirith Ungol - Forever Black

3.Eternal Champion - Ravening Iron

4.Armored Saint - Punching The Sky

5.Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin Kynsi

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Maybe this is a top, but those albumes are just the ones that I will listen recurrently.

1.Imperial Triumphant - Alphaville

2.Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin Kynsi

3.Draconian - Under A Godless Veil

4.Afterbirth - Four Dimensional Flesh

5.Igorrr - Spirituality And Distortion

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1.Konvent - Puritan Masochism

2.Paradise Lost - Obsidian

3.Incantation - Sect Of Vile Divinities

4.Anaal Nathrakh - Endarkenment

5.Imperial Triumphant - Alphaville

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Top albums of this year (2020)

1.Alestorm - Curse Of The Crystal Coconut

2.Chronus - Idols

3.Draconian - Under A Godless Veil

4.Dynazty - The Dark Delight

5.Ensiferum - Thalassic

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Keeping track of what I heard and liked in 2020

1.Protest The Hero - Palimpsest

2.The Ocean - Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic / Cenozoic

3.Orbit Culture - Nija

4.Eternal Champion - Ravening Iron

5.Necrophobic - Dawn Of The Damned

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1.The Ocean - Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic / Cenozoic

2.Ulcerate - Stare Into Death And Be Still

3.Haken - Virus

4.Caligula's Horse - Rise Radiant

5.Protest The Hero - Palimpsest

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These are my favourite albums from the year 2020, ranked in order from my most favourite at number 1 to my least favourite.

1.Psychonaut - Unfold The God Man

2.Enslaved - Utgard

3.The Ocean - Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic / Cenozoic

4.Elder - Omens

5.Garganjua - Toward The Sun

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TOP 50 ALBUMS OF 2020 3 YEARS LATER

1.Code Orange - Underneath

2.Napalm Death - Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism

3.AC/DC - Power Up

4.Anaal Nathrakh - Endarkenment

5.Polaris - The Death Of Me

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I feel like my overall favorites list is getting too long. I'm splitting it up by rating.

1.Thy Catafalque - Meta

2.Sepulcros - Vazio

3.Kassad - Faces Turn Away

4.Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings

5.Xanthochroid - Of Erthe And Axen: Act I

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My very subjective ranking of all heard metal and metal-adjacent albums 2020.

1.Imperial Triumphant - Alphaville

2.Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin Kynsi

3.Mamaleek - Come & See

4.Sweven - The Eternal Resonance

5.Afterbirth - Four Dimensional Flesh

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