2020 has been nothing short of a horrific year. The music industry was quite possibly changed forever due to the pandemic, we saw tours and festivals canceled, and as of now, live shows seem to be a thing…

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

2.Cryptic Shift - Visitations From Enceladus

3.Psychotic Waltz - The God-Shaped Void

4.Akhlys - Melinoë

5.Ulcerate - Stare Into Death And Be Still

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It's closing in on the end of 2021, so revisiting the year of the lockdown…

1.Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin Kynsi

2.Akhlys - Melinoë

3.Black Curse - Endless Wound

4.Cryptic Shift - Visitations From Enceladus

5.Draconian - Under A Godless Veil

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By far the worst year for me... Period!

However, throughout the chaos that has happened in my country, I never stopped listening to new music that comes out this year, and have found some cool gems that…

1.Draconian - Under A Godless Veil

2.Lucid Planet - Lucid Planet II

3.Paradise Lost - Obsidian

4.Urantia - Vermis

5.Autumn's Dawn - Dying Ember

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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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1.Emyn Muil - Afar Angathfark

2.Imperial Triumphant - Alphaville

3.Atramentus - Stygian

4.Havukruunu - Uinuos Syömein Sota

5.Akhlys - Melinoë

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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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1.Draconian - Under A Godless Veil

2.The Ocean - Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic / Cenozoic

3.Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin Kynsi

4.Anaal Nathrakh - Endarkenment

5.Lunatic Soul - Through Shaded Woods

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1.Konvent - Puritan Masochism

2.Paradise Lost - Obsidian

3.Incantation - Sect Of Vile Divinities

4.Anaal Nathrakh - Endarkenment

5.Imperial Triumphant - Alphaville

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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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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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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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1.The Ocean - Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic / Cenozoic

2.Ulcerate - Stare Into Death And Be Still

3.Haken - Virus

4.Caligula's Horse - Rise Radiant

5.Protest The Hero - Palimpsest

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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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My Top 10 Non Symphonic Black Metal Albums Of All Time…

1.Akhlys - Melinoë

2.Aoratos - Gods Without Name

3.Nightbringer - Terra Damnata

4.Nehëmah - Requiem Tenebrae

5.Marduk - Nightwing

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

2.The Ruins Of Beverast - Almyrkvi / The Ruins Of Beverast

3.Regarde Les Hommes Tomber - Ascension

4.Odraza - Rzeczom

5.Akhlys - Melinoë

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