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

1.So Hideous - None But A Pure Heart Can Sing

2.Metallica - Re-Load

3.Faetooth - Remnants Of The Vessel

4.Inferi - The End Of An Era

5.Midnight Odyssey - Biolume Part 1 - In Tartarean Chains

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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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All write-in votes from Metal Storm Awards 2020…

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3.Amaranthe - Manifest

4.Avatar - Hunter Gatherer

5.El Lobo En Tu Puerta - Santana Bendita

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I don't think these are necessarily the best 30 albums of this year, but they're the ones that have I guess endured in my psyche and inspiried revisits more than most others. I was tempted to…

1.Psychonaut - Unfold The God Man

2.Elder - Omens

3.Enslaved - Utgard

4.Regarde Les Hommes Tomber - Ascension

5.Pure Reason Revolution - Eupnea

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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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Horrible times. Thank the metal gods for music.

1.A Light In The Dark - Insomnia

2.Ages - Uncrown

3.Ainsoph - Ω - V

4.An Autumn For Crippled Children - All Fell Silent, Everything Went Quiet

5.An Evening With Knives - Sense Of Gravity

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1.Delain - Apocalypse & Chill

2.Lotus Thief - Oresteia

3.Allen/Olzon - Worlds Apart

4.Moonlight Haze - Lunaris

5.Beyond The Black - Hørizøns

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1) Last year, I didn't quite finish with a strong list but I am hoping this year it will be. This time around I'm not sure if I want to do either a Top 50 or 100. It will depend on how much time…

1.Towards - III

2.Kraken Duumvirate - The Stars Below, The Seas Above

3.Circle Of Ouroborus - Viimeinen Juoksu

4.Imha Tarikat - Sternenberster

5.Drown - Subaqueous

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1.Psychonaut - Unfold The God Man

2.Orbit Culture - Nija

3.Havukruunu - Uinuos Syömein Sota

4.Bring Me The Horizon - Post Human: Survival Horror

5.Paradise Lost - Obsidian

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Bury me six feet deep
Cover me in concrete
Turn me into a street…

1.Fluisteraars - Bloem

2.Neptunian Maximalism - Éons

3.Iress - Flaw

4.Drown - Subaqueous

5.Hail Spirit Noir - Eden In Reverse

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Brutally honest take on new albums I have listened and rated/commented in 2020 from best to worst.

My ratings:

✮✮✮✮✮ = "Yippee ki yay, motherfucker!"
✮✮✮✮½ = "If it bleeds, we can…

1.Neptunian Maximalism - Éons

2.Lucid Planet - Lucid Planet II

3.Beherit - Bardo Exist

4.Mors Principium Est - Seven

5.Conception - State Of Deception

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Ask and you shall receive. Let's see if I manage to keep up with it this time.

This list follows in the vein of the previous ones I did for 2015, 16, and 18. Here I'm chronicling my discoveries…

1.Tortuga - Deities

2.Dragged Into Sunlight - Terminal Aggressor II

3.Lotus Thief - Oresteia

4.Staurophagia - Sidereal Sacraments

5.Garganjua - Toward The Sun

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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.

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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2020 Playlist…

1.Paradise Lost - Obsidian

2.Pain Of Salvation - Panther

3.Oceans Of Slumber - Oceans Of Slumber

4.Draconian - Under A Godless Veil

5.On Thorns I Lay - Threnos

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To keep track of albums i've listened to this year.

1.Pallbearer - Forgotten Days

2.Malokarpatan - Krupinské Ohne

3.Sweven - The Eternal Resonance

4.Elder - Omens

5.Aerial Ruin - Stygian Bough: Volume I [Collaboration]

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