2020 #51-151
So this is pretty much going to close out my 2020. Naturally, there's going to be a lot left on the cutting room floor and there's enough leftover to make another 100 list easy. But I'll probably not do that. If I come across some stuff in my bookmarks I'm just going to add it to my top 50 since there's room on that. |
| 1 |  | Draconian
Under a Godless Veil
#51
This is really really good, glad I have it at least here. |
| 2 |  | Bather
Phantom Guilt
#52
Just heard this last night, but it's a puncher. Here's a link to the Bandcamp so you all can here it. It's 17 minutes. Let's go get heavy.
https://bather.bandcamp.com/album/phantom-guilt |
| 3 |  | Aronious
Perspicacity
#53
Weakest part for me is Self Induced Affliction and The Digital Age. |
| 4 |  | Svart Crown
Wolves Among The Ashes
#54
Impressive, to say the least. First time listener of the band. |
| 5 |  | Dearth
To Crown All Befoulment
#55
This was actually rather high up on my first Top 50 list, but some newer additions made me sacrifice the good spots, and I suppose one could say this is a little derivative but it still brings some good riffs, tones, and melodies a lá Dearth from Deathspell's Paracletus. Just with more of the emphasis on groove rather than frenetic puncturing. |
| 6 |  | Sumac
Two Beasts
#56
[EP] |
| 7 |  | Exgenesis
Solve et Coagula
#57
"Doom me." |
| 8 |  | Haunt (USA-CA)
Mind Freeze
#58
One of two full length releases last year, and this turned me on to his back catalog, but I did not like the other one that had come out last year, Flashback. This might be a little high here but it is enjoyable |
| 9 |  | Deftones
Ohms
#59 |
| 10 |  | Omegavortex
Black Abomination Spawn
#60 |
| 11 |  | Night Crowned
Impius Viam
#61
Surprisingly intense. |
| 12 |  | Benighted
Obscene Repressed
#62 |
| 13 |  | Decoherence
Unitarity
#63 |
| 14 |  | Jesu
Terminus
#64 |
| 15 |  | Edenic Past
Red Amarcord
#65 |
| 16 |  | Deluge
Æther
#66 |
| 17 |  | Blaze of Perdition
The Harrowing of Hearts
#67 |
| 18 |  | Bedsore
Hypnagogic Hallucinations
#68
Funnily, not the only album to come out with this title last year. |
| 19 |  | Batushka
Raskol
#69 |
| 20 |  | Killer Be Killed
Reluctant Hero
#70
A real thrill |
| 21 |  | Unurnment
Self-Immolation Suite
#71 |
| 22 |  | Void Rot
Descending Pillars
#72 |
| 23 |  | Ergodic
Ergodic
#73
[EP]
It's pretty standard but I still dig it. |
| 24 |  | Amnutseba
Emanatism
#74 |
| 25 |  | Stomb
From Nihil
#75
Instrumental djent that isn't all that bad even though it conforms too closely to the genre. |
| 26 |  | Lamentari
Missa Pro Defunctis
#76
I think I have the only vote on this, so check it out for some quick 20 minute orchestral BM. |
| 27 |  | Deathwhite
Grave Image
#77
Slipped under the radar I think but this has some great moody tracks on here. I have been meaning to come back to this and listen to it some more. |
| 28 |  | Primitive Man
Immersion
#78 |
| 29 |  | Urantia
Vermis
#79 |
| 30 |  | Esoctrilihum
Eternity Of Shaog
#80 |
| 31 |  | Krosis
A Memoir of Free Will
#81 |
| 32 |  | Cult of Lilith
Mara
#82 |
| 33 |  | Afterbirth
Four Dimensional Flesh
#83 |
| 34 |  | Thaetas
Shrines to Absurdity
#84 |
| 35 |  | Disavowed
Revocation of the Fallen
#85 |
| 36 |  | Miasmatic Necrosis
Apex Profane
#86 |
| 37 |  | Old Man Gloom
Seminar IX: Darkness of Being
#87 |
| 38 |  | Zolfo
Delusion of Negation
#88
Some pretty dark, mental stuff. |
| 39 |  | Exhalants
Atonement
#89 |
| 40 |  | Spectrum of Delusion
Neoconception
#90
The bass in this is so good and what drives everything here, and it sounds like it's lifted straight off of Prehistoricisms. |
| 41 |  | Dahlian
Moonlit
#91 |
| 42 |  | Eye Flys
Tub Of Lard
#92 |
| 43 |  | Trivium
What the Dead Men Say
#93 |
| 44 |  | Alarum
Circle's End
#94 |
| 45 |  | Omnivortex
Diagrams of Consciousness
#95 |
| 46 |  | Mors Principium Est
Seven
#96 |
| 47 |  | Abyssal Ascendant
Chronicles of the Doomed Worlds - Part II. Deacons
#97 |
| 48 |  | Jupiterian
Protosapien
#98 |
| 49 |  | Yoth Iria
Under His Sway
#99 |
| 50 |  | Vinnum Sabbathi
Of Dimensions and Theories
#100 |
| 51 |  | Ulthar
Providence
#101 |
| 52 |  | Hyperdontia
Excreted From The Flesh
#102
I would include Excavations here if I had the room. |
| 53 |  | Nawaharjan
Lokabrenna
#103 |
| 54 |  | Insect Ark
The Vanishing
#104 |
| 55 |  | Skam
Sounds of a Disease
#105 |
| 56 |  | Drown (US)
Subaqueous
#106 |
| 57 |  | Growth (AUS)
The Smothering Arms Of Mercy
#107
I wasn't huge on this like some, but it seems to be a fan favorite here |
| 58 |  | Earth Rot
Black Tides of Obscurity
#108 |
| 59 |  | Invent Animate
Greyview
#109 |
| 60 |  | Gaerea
Limbo
#110
I do find parts of this annoying, but they're working on another full length atm |
| 61 |  | Liminal Shroud
Through the False Narrows
#111
Something else I added. Just a regular bm release but I did enjoy it and it rides easy. |
| 62 |  | Sunken
Livslede
#112 |
| 63 |  | Necrophobic
Dawn of the Damned
#113 |
| 64 |  | Azziard
Exégèse
#114 |
| 65 |  | Skeletal
Bitterness and Burning Hatred
#115 |
| 66 |  | Azarath
Saint Desecration
#116 |
| 67 |  | Bong Wizard
The Bong Remains the Same
#117 |
| 68 |  | Of Feather and Bone
Sulfuric Disintegration
#118 |
| 69 |  | Pilori (FRA)
À Nos Morts
#119 |
| 70 |  | Karmacipher
Introspectrum
#120 |
| 71 |  | Thecodontion
Supercontinent
#121 |
| 72 |  | Toxaemia
Where Paths Divide
#122 |
| 73 |  | Yashira
Fail To Be
#123 |
| 74 |  | Sumac
May You Be Held
#124 |
| 75 |  | Crematory Stench
Shrouds In The Mist
#125
Two song EP. |
| 76 |  | Katatonia
City Burials
#126 |
| 77 |  | In Chasms Deep
The Wind and Her Lament
#127 |
| 78 |  | Seep
Souvenirs of a Necrosadist
#128 |
| 79 |  | Satyrus
Rites
#129 |
| 80 |  | Patrons Of The Rotting Gate
Bathed In Ash
#130 |
| 81 |  | Kaatayra
Só Quem Viu o Relâmpago à Sua Direita Sabe
#131
I haven't been able to hear their second 2020 release yet. |
| 82 |  | Haunt (USA-CA)
Triumph
#132
This is actually just a comp of two previous releases even though it's listed as an LP here, but it's good. |
| 83 |  | Demoniac (CHL)
So It Goes
#133 |
| 84 |  | In Malice's Wake
The Blindness of Faith
#134 |
| 85 |  | Hallas
Conundrum
#135 |
| 86 |  | Gorephilia
In The Eye Of Nothing
#136 |
| 87 |  | Darkenhold
Arcanes & sortilèges
#137 |
| 88 |  | Karg
Resilienz
#138 |
| 89 |  | Primordial Throne
Possessor
#139
Added this |
| 90 |  | Vassafor
To the Death
#140 |
| 91 |  | Iress
Flaw
#141 |
| 92 |  | The Black Dahlia Murder
Verminous
#142 |
| 93 |  | Dark Tranquillity
Moment
#143 |
| 94 | | Neige et Noirceur
Bach - Preludium Minor
#144
Well, I guess zputnik has a problem identifying between capitalization. The album is under this band heading, but not under Neige Et Noirceur. |
| 95 |  | Bloodswamp
Daylight Illuminates a Miserable World
#145 |
| 96 |  | This Will Destroy You
Vespertine
#146 |
| 97 |  | Telepathy
Burn Embrace
#147 |
| 98 |  | Atramentus
Stygian
#148 |
| 99 |  | Aeternam
Al Qassam
#149 |
| 100 |  | Oranssi Pazuzu
Mestarin Kynsi
#150 |
| 101 |  | Sorgelig
Sørgelig
So if you made it this far, I was going to have Sodom - Genesis XIX close this out, until I gave this nutter of a listen last night. So here's the YouTube link and check this 12 minute seering blister of crazed vocalizings over some black death rippers and let me know what you think.
https://youtu.be/2iakyE_ZT9M |
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