Top metal albums 2020
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to compensate for my natural inclination, this year it feels okay to just go with the flow a bit. 10 Metal & Hardcore Records That Shocked & Surprised In 2020 10. As you can likely guess if you’ve ever read Decibel and Revolver, there is some overlap, but not much. My taste is certainly showing in my list, I'll admit, and while in other years I might have tried to control for that by deliberately including some more industrial, black metal, crust, etc. Hot on the heels of Decibel revealing their list of 2020’s 40 best metal albums, Revolver have now unveiled their list of 2020’s 25 best metal albums. Still, there was, as always, an embarrassment of riches, so many good records that, aside from a few I could finger right now as appearing on my proper end-of-year list, the rest is basically plucked from a whim. In the midst of all of this, heavy metal was still happening, even as releases slowed or got pushed way, way back to compensate.
Top metal albums 2020 plus#
The Australian wildfires feel like they were a year ago or more, but in truth were only a few months, while the entirety of COVID-19/quarantine era plus the most recent (and absolutely righteous and long-deserved) round of Black Lives Matter protests have swept up the world. Here are the 50 best albums of a year unlike any we can remember.
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It's never easy to pick a clean ten for a mid-year list, but 2020 had a harder go at it than most.