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The best of 2020 - reduced down to 25, which was no easy feat. This is still somewhat a work in progress, but far closer to a finished product.

Created by: Chobo_jokeR | 23.04.2020


1. Ulcerate - Stare Into Death And Be Still
Atmospheric Post Death
2. Enslaved - Utgard
Vertebrae + E = Utgard or if I was in charge of names... VertebraE
3. Of Feather And Bone - Sulfuric Disintegration
Nasty Death
4. Vassafor - To The Death
Black because that's what the band says they are!
5. 〇 - Entity
DS Icelandic Black with tinges of doom (Andavald like vocals)
6. Selbst - Relatos De Angustia
More of that quality Mgla Black sound
7. Aversio Humanitatis - Behold The Silent Dwellers
Is this really not Schammasch? Black
8. Lamp Of Murmuur - Heir Of Ecliptical Romanticism
Lo-fi Immortal Black
9. Gaerea - Limbo
When There Isn't a New Mgla This Year Black
10. Heretical Sect - Rapturous Flesh Consumed
Blackened Doom
11. Temple Nightside - Pillars Of Damnation
Cavernous Death
12. Black Curse - Endless Wound
Doomy Black Death
13. Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin Kynsi
Psychedelic Black
14. Panzerfaust - The Suns Of Perdition - Chapter II: Render Unto Eden
Atmospheric / Lightly Dissonant Black
15. Wayfarer - A Romance With Violence
Western Infused Black
16. Hwwauoch - Protest Against Sanity
Psychedelic Black
17. Protest The Hero - Palimpsest
Progressive Metalcore
18. VoidCeremony - Entropic Reflections Continuum: Dimensional Unravel
Cosmogenesis-era Obscura Progressive Death
19. Caustic Wound - Death Posture
Deathgrind
20. Wake - Devouring Ruin
Dissonant Blackened Death w/ dashes of grind and sludge
21. Skáphe - Skáphe³
Psychedelic Black
22. Pharmakeia - Ternary Curse
Black
23. Mahr - Maelstrom
Black
24. Atramentus - Stygian
If Skepticism and Evoken had a baby and that baby liked to listen to Mournful Congregation and infuse it with glacial paced Inquisition type croaks
25. Necrot - Mortal
Catchy AF Death


Disclaimer: All top lists are unofficial and do not represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
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26.04.2020 - 10:55
RaduP
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Staff
Top notch picks.

I think you'll like the new Fange
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03.05.2020 - 05:21
Chobo_jokeR
Written by RaduP on 26.04.2020 at 10:55

Top notch picks.

I think you'll like the new Fange

Thanks! I finally got around to listening to the new Fange. I think I preferred Punir over their new one. The new one had more industrial than I was anticipating. I'll have to give it another go though.
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25.09.2020 - 10:56
Koen Smits
Great list with a lot of albums I gave a high score too. (Ulcerate, Vassafor, Temple Nightside, Black Curse, Panzerfaust...) A bit underwhelmed by Skeleton though.
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27.09.2020 - 05:00
Chobo_jokeR
Written by Koen Smits on 25.09.2020 at 10:56

Great list with a lot of albums I gave a high score too. (Ulcerate, Vassafor, Temple Nightside, Black Curse, Panzerfaust...) A bit underwhelmed by Skeleton though.

Thanks! Those are some of the albums I've repeatedly gone back to this year. All excellent releases. It's been awhile since I've listened to the Skeleton album with everything that's been coming out in the recent weeks. It was fairly catchy from what I recall but not necessarily memorable. I'm a big fan of most 20 buck releases so i keep tabs on most of their stuff. I'm not much for industrial so I skipped their two most recent ones.
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