The end of every year goes together with media publishing lists of their albums of the year and whatnot. We don’t escape this, and as such we gathered the opinions of our team to compile what we want to put forward as some of the best releases of the year. It gives us a list with a nice diversity in genres and bands (from “big ones” to “underground”) and hopefully covers most of the releases that are worth spending some time on listening to. While this year was rather fucked up, the quality of music was up there really. So without further-ado… here is GRIMM’s list of albums of the year 2020!
A top 10 of course leaves out a whole lot of albums. And while they didn’t make it into that list of select few, all the releases put forward in our team members choices are definitely worth checking out still. So here are the runner-ups of 2020 :
| Anaal Natrakh – Endarkenment (full review) |
| Pearl Jam – Gigaton |
| Svalbard – When I Die, Will I Get Better? |
| Corey Taylor – CMFT |
| Grey Daze – Amends |
| Bell Witch/Aerial Ruin – Stygian Bough: Vol.1 |
| Clutch – Monsters, Machines and Mythological Beasts |
| Ensiferum – Thalassic (full review) |
| Gorephilia – In the Eye of Nothing (full review) |
| Imperial Triumphant – Alphaville |
| Methwitch – INDWELL |
| Necrophobic – Dawn of the Damned (full review) |
| Nothing – The Great Dismal |
| Orbit Culture – Nija |
| Parkway Drive – Viva the Underdogs |
| Puscifer – Existential Reckoning |
| Brutus – Live in Ghent |
| Bütcher – 666 Goats Carry My Chariot (full review) |
| Cabal – Drag Me Down |
| Dark Tranquillity – Moment (full review) |
| Draconian – Under a Godless Veil |
| Druon Antigon – Desontstijging (full review) |
| Eskimo Callboy – MMXX EP (full review) |
| Fluisteraars – Bloem (full review) |
| Heathen – Empire of the Blind |
| King Dude – Full Virgo Moon (full review) |
| Konvent – Puritan Masochism (full review) |
| Nero Di Marte – Immoto (full review) |
| Static-X – Project Regeneration vol. 1 |
| All Time Low – Wake Up Sunshine |
| Balance Breach – Dead End Diaries (full review) |
| Brothers of Metal – Emblas Saga |
| Concede – Indoctrinate |
| Deathwhite – Grave Image |
| Faceless Burial – Speciation (full review) |
| Fleddy Melculy – Sabbath Fleddy Sabbath |
| Havukruunu – Uinuos Syömein Sota (full review) |
| Igorrr – Spirituality And Distortion |
| myGRAIN – V (full review) |
| Myrkur – Folkesange |
| Polaris – The Death Of Me |
| All Them Witches – Nothing As The Ideal |
| Amaranthe – Manifest (full review) |
| Dawn of Solace – Waves (full review) |
| Horna – Kuoleman kirjo (full review) |
| Killer Be Killed – Reluctant Hero |
| Lamb of God – Lamb of God (full review) |
| Lord Vigo – Danse De Noir |
| Lorna Shore – Immortal (full review) |
| Marilyn Manson – We are Chaos |
| Mastodon – Medium Rarities |
| My Dying Bride – The Ghost of Orion |
| Realize – Machine Violence |
| Seether – Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum (full review) |
| The Night Flight Orchestra – Aeromantic (full review) |
| The Ocean – Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic / Cenozoic |
| Ammyt – New Perspectives |
| Greg Puciato – Child Soldier: Creator of God |
| In this Moment – Mother |
| Jupiterian – Protosapien (full review) |
| Protest the Hero – Palimpsest |
| Sons Of A Wanted Man – Kenoma |
| Stoned Jesus – Communion |
| Thanatos – Violent death rituals (full review) |
| Thy Catafalque – Naiv |
| Ulver – Flowers Of Evil |
| Unreqvited – Mosaic II: La Détresse |
| Akhlys – Melinoë (full review) |
| Árstíðir Lífsins – Er hin gullna stjarna skýjar slóðar rennr rauð (full review) |
| Bring Me The Horizon – Post Human Survival |
| Dark Buddha Rising – Mathreyata |
| Irdorath – The Final Sin |
| Morta Skuld – Suffer for Nothing (full review) |
| Mushroomhead – A Wonderful Life (full review) |
| NINA – Synthian |
| Panzerfaust – The Suns of Perdition – Chapter II: Render unto Eden (full review) |
| Powerwolf – Best of the Blessed (full review) |
| The Black Dahlia Murder – Verminous (full review) |
| Wayfarer – A Romance with Violence (full review) |
| White Stones – Kuarahy |
| Armored Saint – Punching The Sky |
| Asking Alexandria – Like A House on Fire |
| Bark – I’m a Wreck |
| Bury Tomorrow – Cannibal |
| Code Orange – Underneath |
| Katatonia – City Burials |
| Messiah – Fracmont |
| Priest – Cyberhead |
| Proscription – Conduit (full review) |
| Scaphoid – Absent Passages |
| Serpent Column – Kathodos |
| The Acacia Strain – Slow Decay |
| Alestorm – Curse of the Crystal Coconut (full review) |
| Aversions Crown – Hell Will Come For Us All (full review) |
| Body Count – Carnivore (full review) |
| Celestial Season – The Secret Teachings (full review) |
| Havok – V |
| Kvelertak – Splid |
| Ozzy Osbourne – Ordinary Man |
| Sodom – Genesis XIX (full review) |
| Suicide Silence – Become the Hunter |
| Terminal Nation – Holocene Extinction |
| Afsky – Ofte jeg drømmer mig død |
| Beneath the Massacre – Fearmonger (full review) |
| Crossfaith – Species EP |
| Gama Bomb – Sea Savage |
| Humavoid – Lidless |
| I Prevail – Post Traumatic |
| Napalm Death – Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism (full review) |
| Oceans Of Slumber – Oceans Of Slumber |
| Sentre – Sentre |
| Undergang – Aldrig I livet (full review) |
| Urfaust – Teufelsgeist (full review) |
| Black Curse – Endless Wound (full review) |
| Halestorm – Re-Imagined |
| Leeched – To Dull the Blades of Your Abuse |
| Make Them Suffer – How To Survive A Funeral (full review) |
| Midnight – Rebirth By Blasphemy |
| Nightwish – Human :II: Nature (full review) |
| Slackjaw – Ritual of Dissonance |
| Sólstafir – Endless Twilight of Codependent Love |
| Stone Temple Pilots – Perdida |
| Triptykon – Requiem (full review) |
| Undeath – Lesions Of A Different Kind (full review) |
To listen to our choices of 2020’s best, hit up our Spotify playlist here:
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