My Favorite Albums 2020

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My Favorite Albums 2020

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Vellichor
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December 27, 2023
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Had an enormous amount of free time for the holidays so decided to do something I’ve been wanting to do. I like lists and rankings, if you’re looking at this, you probably do too. This is a work in progress as I sort through my catalogue.
103.
1.
The Ocean - Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic / Cenozoic
🇩🇪 9 (Post-Metal)
103.
2.
Rina Sawayama - Sawayama
🇬🇧 🇯🇵 9 (Pop, Rock)
103.
3.
Gonin-ish - 死人賛歌
🇯🇵 9 (Avant-Garde, Extreme Progressive)
103.
4.
Respire - Black Line
🇫🇷 8.5 (Atmospheric Black Metal, Screamo, Post-Rock, Post-Hardcore)
103.
5.
Crippled Black Phoenix - Ellengæst
🇬🇧 8.5 (Progressive Rock, Post-Rock)
103.
6.
Ulver - Flowers Of Evil
🇳🇴 8.5 (Synthpop)
103.
7.
O'Brother - You And I
🇺🇸 8.5 (Atmospheric Rock)
103.
8.
Caligula's Horse - Rise Radiant
🇦🇺 8.5 (Alternative, Progressive)
103.
9.
Rezn - Chaotic Divine
🇺🇸 8.5 (Stoner)
103.
10.
Hail Spirit Noir - Eden In Reverse
🇬🇷 8.5 (Progressive Stoner)
103.
11.
Iress - Flaw
🇺🇸 8 (Doom, Shoegaze)
103.
12.
Grayceon - Mothers Weavers Vultures
🇺🇸 8 (Progressive)
103.
13.
Poppy - I Disagree
🇺🇸 8 (Alternative, Electropop)
103.
14.
Déhà - A Fleur De Peau - III - A Fire That Does Not Burn
🇧🇪 8 (Depressive Black)
103.
15.
Gaupa - Feberdröm
🇸🇪 8 (Stoner)
103.
16.
Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
🇺🇸 8 (Art Pop)
103.
17.
Khruangbin - Mordechai
🇺🇸 8 (Psychedelic Rock)
103.
18.
Rope Sect - The Great Flood
🇩🇪 8 (Gothic Rock, Post-Punk)
103.
19.
Svalbard - When I Die, Will I Get Better?
🇬🇧 8 (Post-Hardcore)
103.
20.
To Athena - Aquatic Ballet
🇨🇭 8 (Art Pop)
103.
21.
Cult Of Fire - Nirvana
🇨🇿 8 (Black)
103.
22.
Ebonivory - The Long Dream I
🇦🇺 7.5 (Djent, Progressive)
103.
23.
Briqueville - Quelle
🇧🇪 7.5 (Post-Metal)
103.
24.
Sordid Pink - Sordid Pink
🇷🇸 7.5 (Djent, Alternative)
103.
25.
Shedfromthebody - A Dead And Aimless Hum
🇫🇮 7.5 (Doomgaze, Atmospheric Doom)
103.
26.
Couch Slut - Take A Chance On Rock 'n' Roll
🇺🇸 7.5 (Sludge, Noise)
103.
27.
Slift - Ummon
🇫🇷 7.5 (Heavy Psych)
103.
28.
Conspiracy Of Zero - M.I.A.
🇬🇷 7.5 (Progressive Death)
103.
29.
Ada Rook - 2020 Knives
🇨🇦 7.5 (Concrete)
103.
30.
Kvelertak - Splid
🇳🇴 7.5 (Hardcore, Black)
103.
31.
Future Palace - Escape
🇩🇪 7.5 (Post-Hardcore)
103.
32.
Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon III: The Chosen
🇺🇸 7.5 (Hip Hop)
103.
33.
Froglord - Amphibian Ascending
🇬🇧 7.5 (Sludge)
103.
34.
Thomas Azier - Love, Disorderly
🇳🇱 7.5 (Pop)
103.
35.
Purity Ring - Womb
🇨🇦 7.5 (Witch House)
103.
36.
Katatonia - City Burials
🇸🇪 7.5 (Alternative Rock)
103.
37.
Kalandra - The Line
🇳🇴 7.5 (Folk Rock)
103.
38.
Loathe - I Let It In And It Took Everything
🇬🇧 7.5 (Metalcore)
103.
39.
Gavran - Still Unavailing
🇳🇱 7.5 (Sludge, Doom, Post-Metal)
103.
40.
Caelestra - Black Widow Nebula
🇬🇧 7.5 (Post-Metal, Blackgaze)
103.
41.
Mountain Caller - Chronicle 1: The Truthseeker
🇬🇧 7.5 (Post-Metal)
103.
42.
Bright Eyes - Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was
🇺🇸 7.5 (Indie Rock, Emo)
103.
43.
Dark Tranquillity - Moment
🇸🇪 7.5 (Melodic Death, Gothenburg)
103.
44.
Polymoon - Caterpillars of Creation
🇫🇮 7.5 (Psychedelic Rock)
103.
45.
Déhà - A Fleur De Peau - I - There Is No Home
🇧🇪 7.5 (Atmospheric Doom)
103.
46.
Arian Saleh - Exoskeleton
🇺🇸 7 (Singer-Sonwriter)
103.
47.
Kyros - Celexa Dreams
🇬🇧 7 (Neo-Progressive)
103.
48.
IDLES - Ultra Mono
🇬🇧 7 (Post-Punk)
103.
49.
Nightwish - Human. :II: Nature.
🇫🇮 7 (Symphonic Rock)
103.
50.
Katie Gately - Loom
🇺🇸 7 (Avant-Garde Pop)
103.
51.
Sylosis - Cycle Of Suffering
🇬🇧 7 (Progressive Thrash)
103.
52.
Phoxjaw - Royal Swan
🇬🇧 7 (Post-Hardcore, Britpop)
103.
53.
Lady Ehepr - Gloatre
🇺🇸 7 (Horrorcore)
103.
54.
Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin Kynsi
🇫🇮 7 (Psychedelic Black)
103.
55.
Imperial Triumphant - Alphaville
🇺🇸 7 (Avant-Garde Black, Technical Death)
103.
56.
Wytch Hazel - III: Pentecost
🇬🇧 7 (Heavy)
103.
57.
PVRIS - Use Me
🇺🇸 7 (Alternative Pop)
103.
58.
Demons & Wizards - III
🇺🇸 7 (Progressive Power)
103.
59.
Pearl Jam - Gigaton
🇺🇸 7 (Alternative Rock)
103.
60.
The Birthday Massacre - Diamonds
🇨🇦 7 (Synthpop)
103.
61.
Death Valley Girls - Under the Spell of Joy
🇺🇸 7 (Alternative Rock)
103.
62.
The Lightbringer Of Sweden - Rise Of The Beast
🇸🇪 7 (Power)
103.
63.
Cult Of Fire - Moksha
🇨🇿 7 (Black)
103.
64.
Jorge Elbrecht - Presentable Corpse...
🇳🇴 7 (Synthpop)
103.
65.
Ulthar - Providence
🇺🇸 7 (Blackened Death)
103.
66.
Killer Be Killed - Reluctant Hero
🇺🇸 7 (Alternative)
103.
67.
The Pineapple Thief - Versions of the Truth
🇬🇧 7 (Progressive Rock)
103.
68.
Health - Disco4 :: PART I
🇺🇸 7 (Industrial Rock)
103.
69.
Midwife - Forever
🇺🇸 7 (Trip Hop, Shoegaze, Noise)
103.
70.
Dwaal - Gospel Of The Vile
🇳🇴 7 (Post-Metal, Atmospheric Sludge)
103.
71.
Halsey - Manic
🇺🇸 7 (Pop)
103.
72.
Lorna Shore - Immortal
🇺🇸 7 (Symphonic Deathcore)
103.
73.
A.A. Williams - Forever Blue
🇬🇧 6.5 (Alternative Rock, Post-Rock)
103.
74.
The Killers - Imploding the Mirage
🇺🇸 6.5 (New Wave)
103.
75.
Blues Pills - Holy Moly!
🇸🇪 6.5 (Psychedelic Blues Rock)
103.
76.
Unleash The Archers - Abyss
🇨🇦 6.5 (Power)
103.
77.
Valentine Wolfe - Only Gossamer My Gown
🇺🇸 6.5 (Gothic)
103.
78.
Meg Washington - Batflowers
🇦🇺 6.5 (Singer-Songwriter)
103.
79.
Pons - Intellect
🇬🇧 6.5 (Noise Rock)
103.
80.
Ak'chamel, The Giver of Illness - The Totemist
🇺🇸 6.5 (Neofolk)
103.
81.
Lucifer - Lucifer III
🇸🇪 6.5 (Doom, Hard Rock)
103.
82.
Currents - The Way It Ends
🇺🇸 6 (Djent, Metalcore)
103.
83.
Death & Legacy - Inf3rno
🇪🇸 6 (Death)
103.
84.
An Autumn for Crippled Children - All Fell Silent, Everything Went Quiet
🇳🇱 6 (Blackgaze)
103.
85.
Vishal Naidu - Circadian
🇮🇳 6 (Folk)
103.
86.
Bloody Fortress - Guignol
🇺🇸 6 (Crypt Hop, Dungeons Synth, Black Metal)
103.
87.
Leaves' Eyes - The Last Viking
🇳🇱 6 (Symphonic)
103.
88.
Saturnalia Temple - Gravity
🇸🇪 5.5 (Stoner)
103.
89.
An Axis Of Perdition - Effluvia
🇬🇧 5.5 (Soundscape, Dark Ambient)
103.
90.
Mamaleek - Come & See
🇺🇸 5.5 (Experimental Rock)
103.
91.
Sumbuck - Oh Sweet Cafe Racer
🇺🇸 5.5 (Folk)
103.
92.
Black Nail Cabaret - Gods Verging on Sanity
🇭🇺 5 (Darkwave, Gothic Rock)
103.
93.
In This Moment - Mother
🇺🇸 5 (Alternative)
103.
94.
Charli XCX - how I’m feeling now
🇺🇸 4.5 (Synthpop, Hyperpop)
103.
95.
AViVA - Volume I
🇦🇺 4.5 (Synthpop)
103.
96.
—— EPs and Splits ——
103.
97.
Bloody Fortress - Isolation
🇺🇸 8 (Darkwave, Noise, Raw Black)
103.
98.
Sleepmakeswaves - These Are Not Your Dreams
🇦🇺 7.5 (Post-Rock)
103.
99.
Blighted Eye - Wretched
🇺🇸 7.5 (Progressive Death)
103.
100.
Le Butcherettes - Don’t Bleed
🇲🇽 7 (Punk Rock)
103.
101.
Death Comes Crawling - In My Memories, Old
🇦🇺 7 (Darkwave)
103.
102.
Jenny Owen Youngs - Night Shift
🇺🇸 7 (Indie Pop)
103.
103.
Midwife - In / Heaven
🇺🇸 5 (Soundscape, Ambient)
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I must have missed out on a great deal of releases in 2020 because there is very few here I recall listening to. I look forward to seeing this list grow and might check a few out myself along the way

Here's a few of my personal favorites from 2020:

Panzerfaust - The Suns Of Perdition - Chapter II: Render Unto Eden

Regarde Les Hommes Tomber - Ascension

Wayfarer - A Romance With Violence

Hellripper - The Affair Of The Poisons

Necrophobic - Dawn Of The Damned
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Written by AndyMetalFreak on 27.12.2023 at 07:09

I must have missed out on a great deal of releases in 2020 because there is very few here I recall listening to. I look forward to seeing this list grow and might check a few out myself along the way

Here's a few of my personal favorites from 2020:

Panzerfaust - The Suns Of Perdition - Chapter II: Render Unto Eden

Regarde Les Hommes Tomber - Ascension

Wayfarer - A Romance With Violence

Hellripper - The Affair Of The Poisons

Necrophobic - Dawn Of The Damned

Thanks! I know I listened to those Hellripper and Wayfarer releases but I’m adding on as I listen again so this is a perfect time to revisit! I will check out the others for sure!
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