Estimated reading time: 4 minute(s)
Jesus fucking christ, guys. You know what kind of year this was. And if somehow you forgot what 2020 was, consider this: over the past 12 months, I have only managed to audition 52 new albums, or 1 per week. That’s something like 40% my usual workload. Do you have albums that I missed? Too fucking bad.
Anyway I did it: I listened to enough extreme music this year, with enough of my wits about me, to actually have a defensible Top Ten List for you. Feast your eyes on this!
- Protest The Hero – Palimpsest
- Code Orange – Underneath
- Intronaut – Fluid Existential Inversions
- Enslaved – Utgard
- Haken – Virus
- The Ocean – Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic
- Black Crown Initiate – Violent Portraits Of Doomed Escape
- Carcass – Despicable
- Caligula’s Horse – Rise Radiant
- Psychonaut – Unfold The God Man
And here are some honorable mentions (all of which scored 3.2 stars in my First Listens):
- The Acacia Strain – Slow Decay
- August Burns Red – Guardians
- The Black Dahlia Murder – Verminous
- Deftones – Ohms
- Good Tiger – Raised In A Doomsday Cult
- Oranssi Pazuzu – Mestarin Kynsi
- Ozzy Osbourne – Ordinary Man
- Sylosis – Cycle Of Suffering
- Testament – Titans Of Creation
