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My Top 25 Albums of 2020
I am going to make a thread here and it will probably take me a few days.
The key is to relive the music and have some fun doing it.
I am going to make a thread here and it will probably take me a few days.
The key is to relive the music and have some fun doing it.
25. Mora Prokaza - By Chance
Hearing this album for the first time feels as natural as sticking your dick in a tub of ice cream with glass shards; but like all depraved sexual practices, it starts to feel ok after a while and can actually grow on you. Awesome fuckin' weirdos!
Hearing this album for the first time feels as natural as sticking your dick in a tub of ice cream with glass shards; but like all depraved sexual practices, it starts to feel ok after a while and can actually grow on you. Awesome fuckin' weirdos!
24. Ataúdes - Merecemos la Extinción
With all the dumb shit we going on in 2020, these guys make a point here. Kick-ass, old-school death metal from Argentina with a guitarist with an awesome sense for.harmonizimg while keeping things brutal.
With all the dumb shit we going on in 2020, these guys make a point here. Kick-ass, old-school death metal from Argentina with a guitarist with an awesome sense for.harmonizimg while keeping things brutal.
23. Bedsores - Hypnagogic Hallucinations
I would like to imagine that these guys got bedsores (and hence their name) from being too zonked out on drugs to get up from bed. Near group that takes (blackened) death to new, psychedelic realms.
I would like to imagine that these guys got bedsores (and hence their name) from being too zonked out on drugs to get up from bed. Near group that takes (blackened) death to new, psychedelic realms.
Lord Almighty - Wither
Original and hard to define (progressive black metal sounds like an oxymoron to me), this guys one up with killer riff after killer riff and take songs into some pleasantly unexpected directions.
Original and hard to define (progressive black metal sounds like an oxymoron to me), this guys one up with killer riff after killer riff and take songs into some pleasantly unexpected directions.
21. Gloosh - Timewheel
Russia just keeps turning out awesome black metal. For a one-man project, the interplay between the instruments on Timewheel is intricate and brutal. Moreover, I am always a sucker for a concept album.
Russia just keeps turning out awesome black metal. For a one-man project, the interplay between the instruments on Timewheel is intricate and brutal. Moreover, I am always a sucker for a concept album.
20. Cryptic Shift - Visitations from Enceladus
What isn't awesome about a tech death, science fiction concept album about aliens that opens up with a 26-minute monolithic masterpiece divided up into sections with the most obtuse names ever? I think I answered my own question.
What isn't awesome about a tech death, science fiction concept album about aliens that opens up with a 26-minute monolithic masterpiece divided up into sections with the most obtuse names ever? I think I answered my own question.
Wayfarer - A Romance with Violence
As a fan of Panopticon, it was natural extension to move from southern US black metal folklore out into cowboy territory. Sonically engaging. Now we just need one of those folky black bands for the Maritimes (no, wait, Thrawsunblat!)
As a fan of Panopticon, it was natural extension to move from southern US black metal folklore out into cowboy territory. Sonically engaging. Now we just need one of those folky black bands for the Maritimes (no, wait, Thrawsunblat!)
Drown - Subaqueous
18. 2020 was a great year to be doing a one man metal project and also to feel the crushing weight of existence, and the Ukraine's Markov Soroka does not disappoint in either. Not everyone loves funeral doom, but I do.
18. 2020 was a great year to be doing a one man metal project and also to feel the crushing weight of existence, and the Ukraine's Markov Soroka does not disappoint in either. Not everyone loves funeral doom, but I do.
17. Serment - Chante Ô Flamme de la Liberté!
Viva Quebec! I enjoy the ton of black metal and blackened punk that comes out of there. Serment is majestic and cinematic without losing the brutality of black metal. They even make up an hymn to their own country!
Viva Quebec! I enjoy the ton of black metal and blackened punk that comes out of there. Serment is majestic and cinematic without losing the brutality of black metal. They even make up an hymn to their own country!
16. Izthmi - The Arrows of Our Ways
Killer debut album for this Seattle band that's going places. Much more than a black gaze band, they incorporate a ton of great and original riffs and some nice acoustic parts. The songwriting is fantastic.
Killer debut album for this Seattle band that's going places. Much more than a black gaze band, they incorporate a ton of great and original riffs and some nice acoustic parts. The songwriting is fantastic.
