Notrap's 2020
2020 was a rather challenging year for all of us due to the pandemic, but despite all the setbacks it didn't fail to deliver some good music. These are my highlights. The individual rankings aren't just based solely on the technical factor. |
100 |  | Ozzy Osbourne Ordinary Man
DISAPPOINTMENT OF THE YEAR
Ozzy Osbourne - Ordinary Man
Annihilator - Ballistic, Sadistic
Carcass - Despicable
Kataklysm – Unconquered
Havok - V |
99 |  | Batushka Raskol
BEST EP 2020
Batushka - Raskol
Wake - Confluence
Dragged Into Sunlight - Terminal Aggressor II
Serpent Column - Endless Detainment
Tombs - Monarchy of Shadows |
98 |  | The Ruins Of Beverast / Almyrkvi Almyrkvi / The Ruins Of Beverast (Split)
BEST SPLIT 2020
The Ruins Of Beverast / Almyrkvi
Mortiferum / Hyperdontia |
97 |  | Black Curse Endless Wound
BEST RIFF 2020
Black Curse - Finality I Behold (4:45 – ending riff)
Ulcerate - Exhale the Ash (main riff)
Old Man Gloom – EMF (1:07 | 2:13)
Wake – Torchbearer (2:35)
Ulthar - Cudgel (0:56) |
96 |  | Deep Purple Whoosh!
BEST SOLO 2020
Throw My Bones - Steve Morse |
95 |  | Oranssi Pazuzu Mestarin Kynsi
BEST VIDEO 2020
Oranssi Pazuzu - Uusi teknokratia
Unleash The Archers – Abyss
Cytotoxin – Dominus |
94 |  | Black Curse Endless Wound
BEST VOCALS 2020
Eli Wendler - Black Curse
Will Smith - Afterbirth
Grimo - Cytotoxin
Brittney Slayes - Unleash the Archers
Anders Engberg - Sorcerer |
93 |  | John Petrucci Terminal Velocity
BEST GUITARIST 2020
John Petrucci - John Petrucci
Steve Morse - Deep Purple
Simone Mularoni - DGM
Kristian Niemann and Peter Hallgren – Sorcerer
Andreas Kisser - Sepultura |
92 |  | Nero di Marte Immoto
BEST BASSIST 2020
Andrea Burgio - Nero di Marte
Ontto - Oranssi Pazuzu
MartÃn Méndez - White Stones
Paul Kelland - Ulcerate
Shane Embury - Napalm Death |
91 |  | Cadaver Edder and Bile
BEST DRUMMER 2020
Dirk Verbeuren – Cadaver
Jamie Saint Merat - Ulcerate
Danny Herrera - Napalm Death
Lille Gruber - Defeated Sanity
Stephan Stockburger – Cytotoxin |
90 |  | Oranssi Pazuzu Mestarin Kynsi
BEST KEYBOARDIST 2020
Ville Leppilahti - Oranssi Pazuzu
Don Airey – Deep Purple
Haris and Sakis Bandis - Hail Spirit Noir
Trollhorn - Finntroll
Emanuele Casali – DGM |
89 |  | Gaerea Limbo
BEST ARTWORK 2020
Gaerea - Limbo, Eliran Kantor
Akhlys Melinoë, Denis Forkas Kostromitin.
Aeternam - Al Qassam, Eliran Kantor
Napalm Death Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism, Frode Sylthe
Black Curse - Endless Wound, Denis Forkas Kostromitin |
88 |  | Black Curse Endless Wound
BEST DEBUT ALBUM 2020
Black Curse - Endless Wound
Marrasmieli - Between Land And Sky
Undeath - Lesions of a Different Kind
Proscription - Conduit
Caustic Wound - Death Posture |
87 |  | Skeletal Remains The Entombment of Chaos
BEST COVER SONG 2020
Stench of Paradise Burning (Disincarnate cover) |
86 |  | Oranssi Pazuzu Mestarin Kynsi
BEST SONGS 2020
Oranssi Pazuzu - Uusi teknokratia
Anaal Nathrakh - Libidinous (A Pig with Cocks in Its Eyes)
Akhlys - Incubatio
Anaal Nathrakh - The Age of Starlight Ends
Cytotoxin - Dominus
Hail Spirit Noir - Automata 1980
Mystic Prophecy - Curse of the Slayer
Unleash The Archers - Abyss
Black Curse - Finality I Behold
Akhlys – Ephialtes
Mors Principium Est - Lost in a Starless Aeon
Ulcerate - Exhale the Ash
Sorcerer - Institoris
Wolfheart – The Hammer
Haken – The Strain
Aeternam – The Bringer of Rain
Convocation – The Absence of Grief
Dark Fortress – Pazuzu
Napalm Death - Zero Gravitas Chamber
Nightmare (FRA) – Aeternam
Old Man Gloom – EMF
Sons of Apollo – Desolate July
Wake – Torchbearer
Blaze of Perdition - Transmutation of Sins
Deep Purple – Throw My Bones |
85 |  | Kvelertak Splid
BEST ALBUMS 2020 (TOP 85)
Highlights: Rogaland, Bråtebrann |
84 |  | Thy Catafalque Naiv
Highlights: Napút, Vető |
83 |  | Snorlax II
Highlights: Infernal Devourment |
82 |  | Paradise Lost Obsidian
Highlights: Fall from Grace, Ghosts |
81 |  | Old Man Gloom Seminar VIII: Light Of Meaning
Highlights: EMF |
80 |  | Lantern (FIN) Dimensions
Highlights: Strange Nebula |
79 |  | Serment Chante, O Flamme de la Liberte
Highlights: Sonne, le glas funèbre |
78 |  | Pyrrhon Abscess Time
Highlights: Another Day in Paradise, Down at Liberty Ashes |
77 |  | Defeated Sanity The Sanguinary Impetus
Highlights: Propelled Into Sacrilege |
76 |  | Imperial Triumphant Alphaville
Highlights: Rotted Futures |
75 |  | Ingested Where Only Gods May Tread
Highlights: Impending Dominance |
74 |  | Lik Misanthropic Breed
Highlights: Decay, Funeral Anthem |
73 |  | White Stones Kuarahy
Highlights: Drowned in Time, Rusty Shell |
72 |  | Sorcerer Lamenting of the Innocent
Highlights: Institoris, Lamenting of the Innocent, Path to Perdition |
71 |  | Necrophobic Dawn of the Damned
Highlights: Mirror Black, Tartarian Winds |
70 |  | Katalepsy Terra Mortuus Est
Highlights: Closer than Flesh, The God of Grave, Kings of the Underground |
69 |  | Void Rot Descending Pillars
Highlights: Descending Pillars, Monolith (Descending Pillars, Pt. II) |
68 |  | Warbringer Weapons Of Tomorrow
Highlights: The Black Hand Reaches Out, Defiance of Fate, Heart of Darkness |
67 |  | Benighted Obscene Repressed
Benighted Obscene Repressed
Highlights: Brutus, Implore the Negative |
66 |  | Vader Solitude in Madness
Highlights: Into Oblivion, And Satan Wept |
65 |  | Gaerea Limbo
Highlights: Glare, Mare |
64 |  | Necrot Mortal
Highlights: Your Hell |
63 |  | Sodom Genesis XIX
Highlights: Sodom & Gomorrah, Nicht mehr mein Land, Dehumanized |
62 |  | Of Feather and Bone Sulfuric Disintegration
Highlights: Sulfuric Sodomy (Disintegration of Christ) |
61 |  | Mystic Prophecy Metal Division
Highlights: Curse of the Slayer, Here Comes the Winter, Eye to Eye |
60 |  | Zifir Demoniac Ethics
Highlights: Still Reigning |
59 |  | Ars Veneficium Usurpation of the Seven
Highlights: Devour the Light |
58 |  | Viscera (UK) Obsidian
Highlights: Obsidian |
57 |  | Igorrr Spirituality and Distortion
Highlights: Parpaing |
56 |  | Testament Titans of Creation
Highlights: Night of the Witch, Children of the Next Level, Dream Deceiver, Curse of Osiris |
55 |  | Wolfheart Wolves of Karelia
Highlights: The Hammer, Hail of Steel |
54 |  | Shards of Humanity Cold Logic
Highlights: Cosmic Shield, Cold Logic |
53 |  | Ripped to Shreds 亂 (Luan)
Highlights: Righteous Fist to the Teeth of the Wicked, Opening Salvo |
52 |  | Unmerciful Wrath Encompassed
Highlights: The Incineration, Predator to Prey |
51 |  | Katatonia City Burials
Highlights: Heart Set to Divide |
50 |  | Barishi Old Smoke
Highlights: Entombed in Gold Forever, Blood Aurora |
49 |  | Winterfylleth The Reckoning Dawn
Highlights: Absolved in Fire, Yielding the March Law |
48 |  | Sinister Deformation of the Holy Realm
Highlights: Unique Death Experience, Oasis of Peace - Blood from the Chalice |
47 |  | Carach Angren Franckensteina Strataemontanus
Highlights: Franckensteina Strataemontanus, Sewn for Solitude |
46 |  | Fornicus Sulphuric Omnipotence
Highlights: Perdition's Guiding Wings, Tempetuous Flames |
45 |  | Haken Virus
Highlights: Prosthetic, The Strain |
44 |  | Spirit Possession Spirit Possession
Highlights: Spirit Possession |
43 |  | Arsebreed Butoh
Highlights: Tether, Equilibrate |
42 |  | Black Crown Initiate Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape
Highlights: Invitation, Years in Frigid Light |
41 |  | Eoront Gods Have No Home
Highlights: The Midday Herbs |
40 |  | Unleash The Archers Abyss
Highlights: Abyss, Legacy, Soulbound |
39 |  | Expander Neuropunk Boostergang
Highlights: Megacorp, Hyper-Flesh Aedificium |
38 |  | Mephistophelian Anotos
Highlights: Flesh Canvas |
37 |  | Vetur Vist
Highlights: Gandreið, Þrá |
36 |  | Serpent Column Kathodos
Highlights: Departure of Splinters |
35 |  | DGM Tragic Separation
Highlights: Flesh and Blood, Stranded |
34 |  | Disavowed Revocation of the Fallen
Highlights: The Process of Comprehension, The Enlightened One |
33 |  | Finntroll Vredesvävd
Highlights: Att döda med en sten, Ormfolk, Vid häxans härd |
32 |  | Tombs Under Sullen Skies
Highlights: The Hunger, Barren |
31 |  | Depravity (AUS) Grand Malevolence
Highlights: Indulging Psychotic Thoughts, Grand Malevolence |
30 |  | Incantation Sect of Vile Divinities
Highlights: Shadow-Blade Masters of Tempest and Maelstrom, Black Fathom's Fire |
29 |  | Proscription Conduit
Highlights: I, the Burning Son, Conduit |
28 |  | Gorephilia In The Eye Of Nothing
Highlights: Ouroboran Labyrinth, Walls of Weeping Eyes, Ark of the Undecipherable |
27 |  | Karmacipher Introspectrum
Highlights: My Spectrum, Revertant |
26 |  | Panzerfaust The Suns of Perdition - Chapter II
Highlights: The Faustian Pact |
25 |  | Undeath Lesions of a Different Kind
Highlights: Lesions of a Different Kind, Acidic Twilight Visions |
24 |  | Skeletal Remains The Entombment of Chaos
Highlights: Illusive Divinity, Tombs of Chaos, Unfurling the Casket |
23 |  | Nero di Marte Immoto
Highlights: Sisyphos, L'arca |
22 |  | Sepultura Quadra
Highlights: Isolation, Guardians of Earth, Agony of Defeat |
21 |  | Blaze of Perdition The Harrowing of Hearts
Highlights: Transmutation of Sins, What Christ Has Kept Apart |
20 |  | ...and Oceans Cosmic World Mother
Highlights: Cosmic World Mother, The Flickering Lights, Vigilance and Atrophy |
19 |  | Afterbirth Four Dimensional Flesh
Highlights: Black Hole Kaleidoscope, Spiritually Transmitted Disease |
18 |  | Convocation Ashes Coalesce
Highlights: The Absence of Grief, Portal Closed |
17 |  | Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still
Highlights: Exhale the Ash |
16 |  | Dark Fortress Spectres from the Old World
Highlights: Pazuzu, Spectres from the Old World, In Deepest Time |
15 |  | Skam Sounds of a Disease
Highlights: When Liquid Is the New Solid, A Stray in the Life |
14 |  | Caustic Wound Death Posture
Highlights: Cataclysmic Gigaton, Death Posture |
13 |  | Napalm Death Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism
Highlights: Backlash Just Because, That Curse of Being in Thrall, Zero Gravitas Chamber |
12 |  | Marrasmieli Between Land And Sky
Highlights: Embrace the Eternal, Those Who Are Long Gone |
11 |  | Ulthar Providence
Highlights: Cudgel, Humanoid Knot |
10 |  | Wake Devouring Ruin
Highlights: Torchbearer, The Procession (Death March to Eternity) |
9 |  | Hail Spirit Noir Eden In Reverse
Highlights: Automata 1980, The First Ape on New Earth |
8 |  | Vredehammer Viperous
Highlights: Aggressor, Viperous |
7 |  | Regarde Les Hommes Tomber Ascension
Highlights: Stellar Cross |
6 |  | Black Curse Endless Wound
Highlights: Finality I Behold, Enraptured by Decay |
5 |  | Aeternam Al Qassam
Highlights: The Bringer of Rain, Lunar Ceremony, Poena Universi |
4 |  | Anaal Nathrakh Endarkenment
Highlights: Libidinous (A Pig with Cocks in Its Eyes), The Age of Starlight Ends |
3 |  | Cytotoxin Nuklearth
Highlights: Dominus, Drown in Havoc |
2 |  | Akhlys Melinoe
Highlights: Ephialtes, Incubatio |
1 |  | Oranssi Pazuzu Mestarin Kynsi
Highlights: Uusi teknokratia, Ilmestys, Kuulen ääniä maan alta |
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