updated, but still more bands to consider…

1.Spectral Lore - Wanderers: Astrology Of The Nine [Collaboration]

2.Lunatic Soul - Through Shaded Woods

3.Abigor - Totschläger (A Saintslayer's Songbook)

4.Enslaved - Utgard

5.Mr. Bungle - The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny Demo

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This year it was hard to make the list but here it is, with 3 bonuses…

1.Gaerea - Limbo

2.Black Crown Initiate - Violent Portraits Of Doomed Escape

3.Mors Principium Est - Seven

4.Demons & Wizards - III

5....And Oceans - Cosmic World Mother

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1.Afsky - Ofte Jeg Drømmer Mig Død

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

3.Wayfarer - A Romance With Violence

4.Spirit Adrift - Enlightened In Eternity

5.Armagedda - Svindeldjup Ättestup

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Some of the highlights for me this year: Anaal Nathrakh, Cult Of Fire, Enslaved, Necrophobic, Paradise Lost, Testament....Some are pre orders but I'm sure the new Dark Tranquillity, Sodom, and Uada…

1.Abysmal Dawn - Phylogenesis

2.Anaal Nathrakh - Endarkenment

3.Azarath - Saint Desecration

4.Benediction - Scriptures

5.Cadaver - Edder & Bile

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1.Necrophobic - Dawn Of The Damned

2.Havukruunu - Uinuos Syömein Sota

3.Finntroll - Vredesvävd

4.Wayfarer - A Romance With Violence

5.Anaal Nathrakh - Endarkenment

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Adding albums for my recollection.

1.Pain Of Salvation - Panther

2.Godthrymm - Reflections

3.Crippled Black Phoenix - Ellengæst

4.Countless Skies - Glow

5.Takatak - Acrophase

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Just about finished the first half of the year without losing too much to the character limit; I have learnt to make these list descriptions increasingly pithy…

1.Enslaved - Utgard

2.Wills Dissolve - Echoes

3.Wayfarer - A Romance With Violence

4.Aversio Humanitatis - Behold The Silent Dwellers

5.Lucid Planet - Lucid Planet II

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Manuel Castillo (Amusia) is a Mexican youtuber/reviewer specialized in heavy metal, who makes reviews without pression from the labels or distros. His passion and knowledge are the best tools he has and…

1.Haunt - Mind Freeze

2.Annihilator - Ballistic, Sadistic

3.Mystic Prophecy - Metal Division

4.Lorna Shore - Immortal

5.God Dethroned - Illuminati

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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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1.Kvaen - The Funeral Pyre

2.Odraza - Rzeczom

3.Vredehammer - Viperous

4.Bütcher - 666 Goats Carry My Chariot

5.Crépuscule D'Hiver - Par-Delà Noireglaces Et Brumes-Sinistres

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working title…

1.Uada - Djinn

2.Long Distance Calling - How Do We Want To Live?

3.The Ocean - Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic / Cenozoic

4.White Stones - Kuarahy

5.Sorcerer - Lamenting Of The Innocent

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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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Albums with 8+ only.

1.Mesarthim - The Degenerate Era

2.Cytotoxin - Nuklearth

3.Show Me A Dinosaur - Plantgazer

4.Akhlys - Melinoë

5.Paradise Lost - Obsidian

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1.Vile Creature - Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm!

2.Fuck The Facts - Pleine Noirceur

3.Duma - Duma

4.Thou - May Our Chambers Be Full [Collaboration]

5.Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin Kynsi

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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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