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2020 Album Ranking Seems like there's a limit on how many albums this site accepts on one list. Gonna have to cut out the last ones while adding new albums for the rest of the year.
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Created by Anghellic67
on 03.01.2020
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2020: Jul-Dec Just about finished the first half of the year without losing too much to the character limit; I have learnt to make these list descriptions increasingly pithy
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Created by musclassia
on 01.07.2020
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MSA 2020 All Write-ins All write-in votes from Metal Storm Awards 2020
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Created by Maxder
on 01.03.2021
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Land Of Metal And Heavy: Portland Do you know this feeling when you stumble across a random word, and then suddenly that name pops up just about everywhere? That specific term haunting yours truly has long been "Portland, Oregon". It seems to me that every new discovery was founded in Portland, apparently every other album was mastered at Brad Boatright's Audiosiege Studio in Portland, and every single of my favorite bands had, at some point, performed on a stage somewhere in Portland.
In the 1980s, LA was undeniably the world's glam metal capital, alongside with San Francisco Bay Area thrash metal as a counter development. Then we witnessed the death metal boom of the early 90s, with Tampa, Florida as its global hotspot. Not to forget the New York punk and hardcore scene (NYHC), the rise of sludge metal from the swamps of New Orleans during the late 80s, grunge from Seattle gaining mainstream prominence in the early 90s... Apparently, there has always been a tendency in the US towards rapidly developing, locally restricted music scenes, in whose environment a completely new style or genre could develop in order to have a lasting impact on the global musical landscape within a few years. So I just had to find out if my mind was playing tricks on me or if Portland really is the current capital of the US for heavy music and extreme metal - hence this list. Inclusion criteria: featured on Metal Strom and established in Portland or a long-term creative phase in Portland or still active and currently based in Portland (that's why Leviathan is here but Lurker Of Chalice isn't) Only one album (preferably the most recent full-length album) per band. By the way, according to this article, Portland harbors the highest amount of active metal bands per capita in the US. Quite a surprise, isn't it? While we are at it, what's your favorite Portland band?
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Created by Starvynth
on 13.08.2021
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Tominator's 2020... Best To Worst Another end to a year, another list to make.
Like always I've added the specific genre/subgenre so you can easily pick out the albums that might be of interest to you. I know some of you like statistics, so I put in a bit of extra effort to add some numbers: - 317 albums - Total points given: 2366,1 - Average Score: 7,46/10 - Albums with a score of 7 or above: 79,11% - Albums with a score of 8 or above: 36,39% - Albums with a score of 9 or above: 1,27% - Albums with a score below 5: 2,53% - Nationalities: 35 - USA: 73 - (23,10%) - Germany: 31 - (9,81%) - Sweden: 28 - (8,86%) - UK: 25 - (7,91%) - Finland: 18 - (5,70%) - Greece: 18 - (5,70%) - Brazil: 10 - (3,16%) - France: 10 - (3,16%) - Poland: 10 - (3,16%) - Italy: 9 - (2,85%) - Spain: 9 - (2,85%) - Canada: 8 - (2,53%) - Belgium: 6 - (1,90%) - Norway: 6 - (1,90%) - Russia: 6 - (1,90%) - The Netherlands: 6 - (1,90%) - Australia: 5 - (1,58%) - Denmark: 5 - (1,58%) - Czech Republic: 4 - (1,27%) - Mexico: 4 - (1,27%) - Colombia: 3 - (0,95%) - Switzerland: 3 - (0,95%) - Argentina: 2 - (0,63%) - Austria: 2 - (0,63%) - Chile: 2 - (0,63%) - Japan: 2 - (0,63%) - Portugal: 2 - (0,63%) - Puerto Rico: 2 - (0,63%) - Slovakia: 2 - (0,63%) - Costa Rica: 1 - (0,32%) - Egypt: 1 - (0,32%) - Estonia: 1 - (0,32%) - Ethiopia: 1 - (0,32%) - Israel: 1 - (0,32%) - Peru: 1 - (0,32%)
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Created by tominator
on 31.12.2020
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2020 Amusia's Recommendations Manuel Castillo (Amusia) is a Mexican youtuber/reviewer specialized in heavy metal, who makes reviews without pression from the labels or distros. His passion and knowledge are the best tools he has and is followed by almost 70,000 people from the Spanish-speaking community. His partner, Carlos, also make reviews but of underground bands.
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Created by ChapuLviz
on 16.06.2020
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2020
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Created by Marc-Antoine
on 24.01.2020
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The Best Metal Albums* From A To # (U-V) This list is meant to be an extensive, but by no means exhaustive, collection of the greatest (modern) metal albums and eps. Running the gamut from avant-garde to trve norweigan black metal. *As someone who is young in age, my tastes tend to revolve around the period of the 80s to the present.* Although certain metal albums from before will certainly be featured, the period of the 60s-70s will be under-represented. I refer you to this excellent list to gain a better appreciation for some of the best metal from that period: https://rateyourmusic.com/list/freis/martin_popoffs_the_top_500_heavy_metal_albums_of_all_time/
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Created by Uxküll
on 04.03.2021
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2020 Picks 2019 was meh for me... Almost absent death metal, only borderline decent oldschool heavy.... A few good surprise along the way though, and mainly female fronted doom/noise/rock bands. But overall 2019 wasn't as generous as 2018. What about 2020 now?
(notice this year's color palette is shaded green and red)
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Created by Ansercanagicus
on 10.01.2020
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My Mostly Metal Playlist - Top 100 Of 2020 updated, but still more bands to consider
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Created by prnzokoshiroltra
on 13.12.2020
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2020: A Year in Review 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
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Created by ProgVet
on 27.01.2020
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Dvatisícedvacet (MMXX)
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Created by cerny_vi
on 19.01.2020
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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.
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Created by Bad English
on 22.02.2021
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Best Of 2020 My Top-15 list for 2020. Great year despite the f***ing virus shutting everything down.
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Created by NecroL
on 15.01.2021
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Metal Album 2020 Top 200 - (my Favorites)
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Created by Alexbridger
on 15.12.2020
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