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Best Metal Songs: 2020 Handpicked 12 of the best.
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#Kvaen - Revenge by Fire
Echoing the likes of Sacramentum, Dissection and Dawn - yeah, you get it. Melodic baptism of fire!!
Echoing the likes of Sacramentum, Dissection and Dawn - yeah, you get it. Melodic baptism of fire!!
#MegatonSword - Songs of Victory
Hook-laden return to heavy metal at its finest. Driving rhythms, soaring choruses. Triumphant!!
Hook-laden return to heavy metal at its finest. Driving rhythms, soaring choruses. Triumphant!!
#SpiritAdrift - Reunited in the Void
DOOOM! While the whole LP bounces along paying tribute to the likes of Trouble, this closer ends on a melancholic note, in that same space as Khemmis, Warning and While Heaven Wept. HAIL!
DOOOM! While the whole LP bounces along paying tribute to the likes of Trouble, this closer ends on a melancholic note, in that same space as Khemmis, Warning and While Heaven Wept. HAIL!
#Spell - Deceiver
While paying homage to 70s middle partings, bell bottoms and handlebar ‘staches, there’s still a modern edge here that makes this song the jewel in the crown.
While paying homage to 70s middle partings, bell bottoms and handlebar ‘staches, there’s still a modern edge here that makes this song the jewel in the crown.
#Bütcher - 666 Goats Carry My Chariot
Wearing their love of 1st Wave of Black Metal on their iron spiked sleeves, this centerpiece is about as epic as it gets. FFO: Hammerheart-era Bathory, Venom, etc. This shit’ll paint your skull red!
Wearing their love of 1st Wave of Black Metal on their iron spiked sleeves, this centerpiece is about as epic as it gets. FFO: Hammerheart-era Bathory, Venom, etc. This shit’ll paint your skull red!
#CurseTheSon - Phoenix Risin’
Just swaggering, swinging riffs, and those vocals. THOSE DAMN VOX!! Stoner rock ingredients at their finest. Ripple Music continuing to deliver the goods, the sure bet that label’s now become.
Just swaggering, swinging riffs, and those vocals. THOSE DAMN VOX!! Stoner rock ingredients at their finest. Ripple Music continuing to deliver the goods, the sure bet that label’s now become.
#DarkQuarterer - Forever
The closer to a massive concept album, telling the story of Pompeii and its destruction under Mt Vesuvius — this song stands out in particular thanks to the GREATEST GUITAR SOLO of the year!! Crank this!!
The closer to a massive concept album, telling the story of Pompeii and its destruction under Mt Vesuvius — this song stands out in particular thanks to the GREATEST GUITAR SOLO of the year!! Crank this!!
#Autonoesis - Horrors of Nothing
A band that came out of nowhere, turning heads in an instant. Here’s THE song that won me over. Song composition is something to behold: well crafted, undulating styles, baroque “song within a song” guitar solo. Stellar!
A band that came out of nowhere, turning heads in an instant. Here’s THE song that won me over. Song composition is something to behold: well crafted, undulating styles, baroque “song within a song” guitar solo. Stellar!
#YuriGagarin - The Outskirts of Reality
It’s real simple. You’re driving at night under neon stars, and this is the soundtrack blasting from your car dashboard stereo. Galactic.
It’s real simple. You’re driving at night under neon stars, and this is the soundtrack blasting from your car dashboard stereo. Galactic.
#EternalChampion - Ravening Iron
Arthur Rizk channeling his inner Vivian Campbell and Jake E Lee, the guitar work is as exemplary as you’d expect, and thank goat traditional metal bands are remembering how to write an actual song. Killer stuff.
Arthur Rizk channeling his inner Vivian Campbell and Jake E Lee, the guitar work is as exemplary as you’d expect, and thank goat traditional metal bands are remembering how to write an actual song. Killer stuff.
#Loviatar - Silica
It’s a shame all the big name melancholic / dark metal bands got all the attention this year, because Loviatar beat them all IMO. This song in particular was pretty much played on loop since the day I heard it.
It’s a shame all the big name melancholic / dark metal bands got all the attention this year, because Loviatar beat them all IMO. This song in particular was pretty much played on loop since the day I heard it.
#WhiteCrone - 18 Rabbit
According to my Spotify Wrapped roundup, this was my most played song of the year and I still can’t get enough of it. Sits in that overlap between “Powerslave” and “Stargazer”. I bought the CD and I don’t even own a CD player.
According to my Spotify Wrapped roundup, this was my most played song of the year and I still can’t get enough of it. Sits in that overlap between “Powerslave” and “Stargazer”. I bought the CD and I don’t even own a CD player.
That’s it.
That wraps up 2020.
There were many, many more songs from albums that ranked high in my year end list - but at the end of the day, these were the dozen that made up my 2020 playlist.
As a year, 2020 sucked but metal was the gift that kept on giving.
PEACE.
That wraps up 2020.
There were many, many more songs from albums that ranked high in my year end list - but at the end of the day, these were the dozen that made up my 2020 playlist.
As a year, 2020 sucked but metal was the gift that kept on giving.
PEACE.
