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Top Metal Albums Each Year I Have Been Alive 2020

A little list series where I list my top 20 favorite metal albums every year starting from the year I was born in.

2020 was something, obviously a lot of horrible shit that happened, but at least there was some great metal that carried me throughout that bleak year, especially in Black metal and Gothic metal witch was fitting.

This is the last list of this series, since I already made a list of my favorite albums of 2021 last year. It was fun doing this journey and going through old memories and revisiting classics, thanks for reading and sharing your favorites and lists, metal for life 🤘🎸.


My favorite non metal albums

1. Brave Faces Everyone
By Spanish Love Songs (Emo, Pop punk)


2. Visions of Bodies Being Burned
By clipping. (Horrorcore, Experimental Hip Hop)


3. Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
By Perfume Genius (Art pop, Baroque Pop)


4. Heaven To A Tortured Mind
By Yves Tumor (Neo-Psychedelia, Art Rock, Glam Rock)


5. RTJ4
By Run the Jewels (Hardcore Hip Hop, Experimental Hip Hop)



My favorite movie from 2020


1.Draconian - Under A Godless Veil
2.Paradise Lost - Obsidian
3.Havukruunu - Uinuos Syömein Sota
4.Lovebites - Electric Pentagram
5.Mooncitadel - Night's Scarlet Symphonies

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Created by Handala on 23.01.2023



Artwork: Folk Metal Albums

This is a list of (celtic/medieval/extreme) folk metal albums (in alphabetical order) based on their artwork. It includes iconic cover art from classic albums as well as fascinating work from more recent releases.
There is a saying that "you should not judge a book by its cover", which is of course also true in the case of music albums. However, the artwork can complement the production and give a visual introduction to the musical theme and atmosphere. More than for any other kind of music, this may be true for metal.

(Updated 19.02.2023)

1.Arkona - Гой, Роде, Гой!
2.Brymir - Voices In The Sky
3.Cnoc An Tursa - The Giants Of Auld
4.Eluveitie - Helvetios
5.Eluveitie - Slania

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Created by Plattner on 29.10.2022



TOP 100 (2020)

1.Anaal Nathrakh - Endarkenment
2.Orbit Culture - Nija
3.Make Them Die Slowly - The Bodycount Continues
4.Within The Ruins - Black Heart
5.Code Orange - Underneath

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Created by Killian on 30.01.2022



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My Top 50 Albums Of 2020

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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Created by JHK on 17.01.2022



Top 20 Folk Metal Albums Of The 10's

1.Vintersorg - Till Fjälls Del II
2.Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud
3.Myrath - Tales Of The Sands
4.Finsterforst - Zerfall
5.Eluveitie - Ategnatos

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Created by Mrtvozornik on 25.08.2021



Top 20 Albums Of 2020

Very hard to sort this one. A different year with albums from all sorts of genres. Not the best year but also far from the worst. Mörk Gryning was the pleasant surprise of the year with their best album since "Tusen år har gått..."

Turmion Kätilöt released the catchiest song of all time, "Revi Minut Auki".

1.Anaal Nathrakh - Endarkenment
2.Mörk Gryning - Hinsides Vrede
3.Dark Tranquillity - Moment
4.Haken - Virus
5.Lustre - The Ashes Of Light

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Created by Warman on 23.08.2021



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MSA 2020 All Write-ins

All write-in votes from Metal Storm Awards 2020

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2.
3.Amaranthe - Manifest
4.Avatar - Hunter Gatherer
5.El Lobo En Tu Puerta - Santana Bendita

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Created by Maxder on 01.03.2021



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Best Of 2020!

First 18 in a order as I think its best. Yes in order so my best 18 albums what I can say were best. Really best from all!
Rest in order, just because I am selfish I wanna know what I have listen.

I dont know how to put suxer albums A-Z or Z-A what sucks more, I chose A-Z system so from 369 all was bad, biggest led down is 369 then what I thought was let down but not so bad as that band.

1.Katavasia - Magnus Venator
2.Marko Hietala - Pyre Of The Black Heart
3.Yoth Iria - Under His Sway
4.Trident - Nord
5.Ivanhoe - Blood And Gold

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Created by Bad English on 22.02.2021



Top Albums 2020

Well, here I put my personal top with which to me have been the best albums of 2020. They are not all they are, but if they all are.

1.Chronicle - Demonology
2.Finntroll - Vredesvävd
3.Omnivortex - Diagrams Of Consciousness
4.Black Crown Initiate - Violent Portraits Of Doomed Escape
5.Cytotoxin - Nuklearth

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Created by kam1kaze on 05.01.2021



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Embers Of The Dying Night: Top Metal Albums Of 2020

It is interesting to see how the passing of time affects taste, preferences, and lists of this type. I'm writing these lists as a means to share the music I like, and by now it has become a tradition, albeit one which very few people read on a regular basis, if at all, but one which I have no intention of giving up. I published my first yearly list back in 2007. At first, I would publish them on last.FM and myspace (yes, I am that old), then I moved to Facebook, migrated to Tumblr, think I even tried Instagram, but I was never satisfied with any of those as a platform to share my annual and other lists and scribblings with others. Some years ago I started sharing my lists on the metal storm, thanks to their quite useful tool called lists, which is made for exactly that reason. When I added my lists to the metal storm, I reworked them and expanded a bit, adding some sort of a template, from my old lists that I still had saved up at various places. Besides a top ten and honorable mentions, there are few other sub-categories, which are basically just my way of telling people that I really loved that album, and that they should really fuckin'listen to it. The fact that I think that anyone besides myself is actually that much interested in my annual top lists or best (mostly) metal albums speaks more about me, I guess.

1.Havukruunu - Uinuos Syömein Sota
2.Myrkur - Folkesange
3.Ensiferum - Thalassic
4.Thy Catafalque - Naiv
5.Sojourner - Premonitions

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Created by RhaegarTargaryen on 03.01.2021



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2020 Albums That I've Spinned Over 3 Times

No particular order.

1.Dark Tranquillity - Moment
2.Draconian - Under A Godless Veil
3.Havukruunu - Uinuos Syömein Sota
4.Wolfheart - Wolves Of Karelia
5.Sylosis - Cycle Of Suffering

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Created by Mortal Share on 01.01.2021



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2020 Interesting Picks

Me: What a filthy year.
2021: Could be worse.
Me: How?
2021: Could be raining.

Non Metalstorm Bands

Myth Of I: https://mythofi.bandcamp.com/album/myth-of-i
Aesculeta: https://aesculeta.bandcamp.com

Best Covers Artwork

Eye of Nix - Ligeia https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2521976461_10.jpg
Xenobiotic - Mordrake https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2471456487_10.jpg

1.Exgenesis - Solve Et Coagula
2.Blaze Of Perdition - The Harrowing Of Hearts
3.Blaze Of Sorrow - Absentia
4.Myth Of I - Myth Of I
5.October Falls - A Fall Of An Epoch

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Created by Rot Teufel on 01.01.2021



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Metal Album 2020 Top 200 - (my Favorites)

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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Created by Alexbridger on 15.12.2020



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My Mostly Metal Playlist - Top 100 Of 2020

updated, but still more bands to consider

1.Spectral Lore - Wanderers: Astrology Of The Nine [Collaboration]
2.Lunatic Soul - Through Shaded Woods
3.Abigor - Totschläger (A Saintslayer's Songbook)
4.Enslaved - Utgard
5.Mr. Bungle - The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny Demo

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Created by prnzokoshiroltra on 13.12.2020



TOP 10 Of 2020

This year it was hard to make the list but here it is, with 3 bonuses

1.Gaerea - Limbo
2.Black Crown Initiate - Violent Portraits Of Doomed Escape
3.Mors Principium Est - Seven
4.Demons & Wizards - III
5....And Oceans - Cosmic World Mother

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Created by Maglor on 10.12.2020