Best Of 2020 Death Metal

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Best Of 2020 Death Metal

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A list by
Jaro
Created
March 06, 2021
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YET another list of my faves in the death metal genre this time in the year of our Lord Satan 2020. Haven't heard all the stuff I'd like yet and I welcome all the recommendations in the comments, cheers!
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1.
Aborted - La Grande Mascarade
Modern Death
85.
2.
Abysmal Dawn - Phylogenesis
Modern Death
85.
3.
Æpoch - The Scryer
Progressive Death
85.
4.
Aeternam - Al Qassam
Melodic Death with MENA influences
85.
5.
Æther Realm - Redneck Vikings From Hell
Melodic Death
85.
6.
Afterbirth - Four Dimensional Flesh
Progressive/Brutal Death
85.
7.
Ahtme - Mephitic
Technical Death
85.
8.
Alustrium - Insurmountable
Progressive/Technical Death
85.
9.
Angerot - The Divine Apostate
Blackened Death
85.
10.
Azarath - Saint Desecration
Black/Death
85.
11.
Azath - Through A Warren Of Shadow
OSDM
85.
12.
Banisher - Degrees Of Isolation
Technical Death/Groove
85.
13.
Benighted - Obscene Repressed
Deathgrind
85.
14.
Black Crown Initiate - Violent Portraits Of Doomed Escape
Progressive/Death
85.
15.
Black Curse - Endless Wound
Death/Black Metal
85.
16.
Blasphemer - The Sixth Hour
Blackened/Brutal Death
85.
17.
Carnation - Where Death Lies
OSDM
85.
18.
Carnosus - Dogma Of The Deceased
Technical Death/Thrash
85.
19.
Contrarian - Only Time Will Tell
Progressive Death
85.
20.
Convocation - Ashes Coalesce
Funereal Death/Doom
85.
21.
Cryptic Shift - Visitations From Enceladus
Technical Thrash/Death
85.
22.
Cult Of Lilith - Mara
Progressive/Technical Death
85.
23.
Cytotoxin - Nuklearth
Brutal/Technical Death
85.
24.
Darkened - Kingdom Of Decay
OSDM
85.
25.
Deeds Of Flesh - Nucleus
Brutal Death
85.
26.
Defeated Sanity - The Sanguinary Impetus
Brutal/Technical Death
85.
27.
Depravity - Grand Malevolence
OSDM/Brutal Death
85.
28.
Desolator - Sermon Of Apathy
Blackened Death
85.
29.
Despised Icon - Purgatory
Deathcore
85.
30.
Draconian - Under A Godless Veil
Gothic/Doom/Death
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31.
Earth Rot - Black Tides Of Obscurity
Blackened Death
85.
32.
Engulfed - Vengeance Of The Fallen
Blackened Death
85.
33.
Exocrine - Maelstrom
Technical Death
85.
34.
Faceless Burial - Speciation
Proggy OSDM
85.
35.
Fornicus - Sulphuric Omnipotence
Black/Death
85.
36.
Foul - Of Serpents
Death/Doom
85.
37.
Gorephilia - In The Eye Of Nothing
OSDM
85.
38.
Heads For The Dead - Into The Red
Swedeath
85.
39.
Hyperdontia - Excreted From The Flesh
OSDM
85.
40.
Incantation - Sect Of Vile Divinities
OG Cavernous Death/Doom
85.
41.
Inferi - Of Sunless Realms
Technical Death
85.
42.
Kataklysm - Unconquered
Melodic Death/Groove
85.
43.
Katalepsy - Terra Mortuus Est
Brutal/Technical Death
85.
44.
Lantern - Dimensions
Caverncore
85.
45.
Lik (SWE) - Misanthropic Breed
Swedeath
85.
46.
Lorna Shore - Immortal
Deathcore
85.
47.
Luna's Call - Void
Extreme Prog/Progressive Death
85.
48.
Macabre - Carnival Of Killers
Circus Death
85.
49.
Madrost - Charring The Rotting Earth
Death/Thrash
85.
50.
Megascavenger - Songs In The Key Of Madness
OSDM
85.
51.
Mercyless - The Mother Of All Plagues
Death/Thrash
85.
52.
Mors Principium Est - Seven
Melodic Death
85.
53.
Napalm Death - Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism
Grindcore/Death
85.
54.
Necrophobic - Dawn Of The Damned
Melodic Black/Death
85.
55.
Necrot - Mortal
OSDM
85.
56.
Of Feather And Bone - Sulfuric Disintegration
Blackened Death
85.
57.
Perdition Temple - Sacraments Of Descension
Black/Death
85.
58.
Pile Of Priests - Pile Of Priests
Progressive OSDM
85.
59.
Plague - Portraits Of Mind
OSDM
85.
60.
Proscription - Conduit
Blackened Death
85.
61.
Putrid Offal - Sicknesses Obsessions
OSDM/Brutal Death
85.
62.
Pyrrhon - Abscess Time
Avantgarde Death
85.
63.
Rannoch - Reflections Upon Darkness
Progressive Death
85.
64.
Ripped To Shreds - 亂 (Luan)
OSDM
85.
65.
Serocs - Vore
Progressive/Technical Death
85.
66.
Sinister - Deformation Of The Holy Realm
OG Death
85.
67.
Skeletal Remains - The Entombment Of Chaos
OSDM
85.
68.
Skelethal - Unveiling The Threshold
Progressive OSDM
85.
69.
Stoned God - Incorporeal
Progressive/Death/Groove
85.
70.
Symbolik - Emergence
Technical Death
85.
71.
Temple Of Void - The World That Was
Progressive Death/Doom
85.
72.
Thanatos - Violent Death Rituals
Death/Thrash
85.
73.
The Black Dahlia Murder - Verminous
Melodic Death
85.
74.
Ulcerate - Stare Into Death And Be Still
Dissonant Technical Death
85.
75.
Ulthar - Providence
Blackened Death
85.
76.
Undeath - Lesions Of A Different Kind
OSDM
85.
77.
Undergang - Aldrig I Livet
OSDM
85.
78.
Vader - Solitude In Madness
OG Death
85.
79.
Vainaja - Kiviristi
Funereal Death/Doom
85.
80.
Vampire - Rex
Death/Thrash
85.
81.
Void Rot - Descending Pillars
Death/Doom
85.
82.
Volturyon - Xenogenesis
Brutal/Swedeath
85.
83.
Vredehammer - Viperous
Black/Death
85.
84.
Wormhole - The Weakest Among Us
Techy Slam
85.
85.
Xenobiotic - Mordrake
Technical Deathcore
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