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

2.Napalm Death - Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism

3.Wayfarer - A Romance With Violence

4.Havukruunu - Uinuos Syömein Sota

5.Fires In The Distance - Echoes From Deep November

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Subjective list | Top albums of 2020

1.Mare Cognitum - Wanderers: Astrology Of The Nine [Collaboration]

2.Countless Skies - Glow

3.Caligula's Horse - Rise Radiant

4.Bell Witch - Stygian Bough: Volume I [Collaboration]

5.Katatonia - City Burials

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All write-in votes from Metal Storm Awards 2020

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3.Amaranthe - Manifest

4.Avatar - Hunter Gatherer

5.El Lobo En Tu Puerta - Santana Bendita

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1.Napalm Death - Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism

2.Dark Fortress - Spectres From The Old World

3.Primitive Man - Immersion

4.Enslaved - Utgard

5.Solothus - Realm Of Ash And Blood

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2020 is the year of positivity!!!! Or so I thought, when the year started. "This year I'm gonna stay positive and get shit done!" - and then personal crisis after personal crisis, with horrible election cycles, catastrophies and now a literal pandemic killing hundreds of thousands and dooming us all to stay inside. Weightlifting had another massive outing with rigged competitions on top of the already well known doping, and the US police force kills more than ever.

1.Afterbirth - Four Dimensional Flesh

2.The Ocean - Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic / Cenozoic

3.M.S.W. - Obliviosus

4.Drown - Subaqueous

5.Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin Kynsi

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Ask and you shall receive. Let's see if I manage to keep up with it this time.

This list follows in the vein of the previous ones I did for 2015, 16, and 18. Here I'm chronicling my discoveries of albums from this year that generate that mystical lulling, hypnotizing, and all around otherwordly feeling I so insatiably lust for. Inevitably drone, ambient, and psychedelic music will be the most featured here, but if anything considerably sends me "into the zone" as it were, it's up for inclusion.

1.Tortuga - Deities

2.Dragged Into Sunlight - Terminal Aggressor II

3.Lotus Thief - Oresteia

4.Staurophagia - Sidereal Sacraments

5.Garganjua - Toward The Sun

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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. Whole number ratings out of 10 and my personal opinions included.

NOTE: I am no longer updating this list. 2020 was a great year for music despite being not a great year in general but I am onto a 2021 list. You can check it out here: http://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=6525

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.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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To keep track of albums i've listened to this year.

1.Pallbearer - Forgotten Days

2.Malokarpatan - Krupinské Ohne

3.Sweven - The Eternal Resonance

4.Elder - Omens

5.Aerial Ruin - Stygian Bough: Volume I [Collaboration]

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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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If it ain't broke, don't fix it. And I'm not broke yet.

Character limit maxed in mid-May (lockdown increased my music intake too much), so needed to cut down some entries.

I also gave up listing all the potential MSA candidates I ploughed through in late December

1.Psychonaut - Unfold The God Man

2.Elder - Omens

3.Regarde Les Hommes Tomber - Ascension

4.Pure Reason Revolution - Eupnea

5.Barishi - Old Smoke

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