My First Half of 2020 List
The top three are my most surprised and satisfied listens from new bands, then it just my 4's and 3.5's of the year. |
1 | | VoidCeremony Entropic Reflections Continuum: Dimensional...
The Gold Medal honorable mention.
Recommended Track: Solemn Reflections of the Void, but the 11 minuter is good too. |
2 | | Commando (SWE) Rites of Damnation
Silver medal mention
Recommended Track: Any of the first three, but if I had to say go with the opener The Sacrament. |
3 | | Thaetas Shrines to Absurdity
Idk man. Thick slabs of heavy earth.
Gets the Bronze. |
4 | | Hum Inlet
This is too good. WaveswavesWaves |
5 | | Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still
It's Ulcerate. |
6 | | Pilori (FRA) À Nos Morts
Can't really recommend a track, they're all under 3 minutes, and actually there's a good bit of variation in each one. |
7 | | Protest the Hero Palimpsest
Rody is as Rody does |
8 | | Blighted (USA-TN) Silhouette of the Sun
My first listen of 2020. I liked their self-titled a lot. |
9 | | Cosmic Putrefaction The Horizons Towards Which Splendour Withers
Back to back yearly releases, yesss |
10 | | Skeletal Bitterness and Burning Hatred
Their previous album Dreadful Life was real decent too. |
11 | | Dragged Into Sunlight Terminal Aggressor II |
12 | | Somniate The Meyrinkian Slumber |
13 | | Yoth Iria Under His Sway
3 tracks, but the last two are where it's at. |
14 | | Esoctrilihum Eternity Of Shaog
"a trip to Mars, in a Ray Bradbury black-metal spaceship, and complete with encounters with vampires." |
15 | | Ulthar Providence |
16 | | Death Courier Necrotic Verses |
17 | | Haunt (USA-CA) Mind Freeze
Checked the whole band's material and am very satisfied. |
18 | | Karmacipher Introspectrum |
19 | | Light Dweller Hominal |
20 | | Azziard Exégèse |
21 | | Regarde Les Hommes Tomber Ascension
I'd rec this for sure |
22 | | Crematory Stench Shrouds In The Mist |
23 | | Wake Devouring Ruin |
24 | | Horresque Chasms Pt. I - Avarice And Retribution |
25 | | Old Man Gloom Seminar IX: Darkness of Being |
26 | | Sallow Moth The Larval Hope |
27 | | Lychgate Also Sprach Futura |
28 | | Malokarpatan Krupinské Ohne |
29 | | Khemmis Doomed Heavy Metal |
30 | | Nawaharjan Lokabrenna |
31 | | Ritual Contrition Ritual Contrition
I think the album title is Hang the Moon? |
32 | | Escuela Grind Indoctrination
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33 | | Snorlax II |
34 | | Changeling III |
35 | | Rotting Kingdom A Deeper Shade of Sorrow |
36 | | Necropsy Exitus |
37 | | Sanctifying Ritual Sanctifying Ritual |
38 | | Ormskrik Ormskrik
Recommended Track: March of the Dead |
39 | | Black Curse Endless Wound
Recommended Track: Enraptured by Decay |
40 | | Golden Light Sacred Colour of the Source of Light
Recommended Track: Dawn of History (instru) or Sacred Colour of the Source of Life |
41 | | Live Burial Unending Futility |
42 | | Acherontas Psychic Death - The Shattering of Perceptions
Recommended Track: Coiled Splendor |
43 | | An Autumn For Crippled Children All fell silent, everything went quiet |
44 | | Hyperdontia Excreted From The Flesh
Spotify also has a 2020 release titled Excavations but it's not on their bandcamp. |
45 | | Konvent Puritan Masochism |
46 | | Caustic Wound Death Posture |
47 | | Dzo-nga Thunder In the Mountains |
48 | | Patrons Of The Rotting Gate Bathed In Ash |
49 | | Abysmal Dawn Phylogenesis |
50 | | Aversions Crown Hell Will Come For Us All |
51 | | Serpent Column Endless Detainment |
52 | | Necrowretch The Ones From Hell |
53 | | Perdition Temple Sacraments of Descension |
54 | | Solothus Realm Of Ash And Blood |
55 | | Wardaemonic Acts of Repentance |
56 | | Thecodontion Supercontinent |
57 | | Voodus Open the Otherness
I really enjoyed their 2018 release Into the Wild |
58 | | Plague (GR) Portraits of Mind |
59 | | Fornicus Sulphuric Omnipotence |
60 | | Vampire Rex |
61 | | Xenobiotic Mordrake |
62 | | Desolation (SWE) Where Darkness Dwells |
63 | | Zatyr Ornament of Proposition
I'm guessing this was in 2019? But dropping it here cause I like the unique style. |
64 | | Garroted Garroted / Calcemia |
65 | | Dozethrone Coronavirus
Title track song of the year?? Nah, but it is a catchy little 10min stoner-rocky instrumental brawler. |
66 | | Aksumite Miserable Mentor |
67 | | Boneflower Armour |
68 | | Helfro Helfró (2020 Reissue) |
69 | | Kvaen The Funeral Pyre |
70 | | Hell Gate Par-Delà l'Existence |
71 | | Cult of Fire Moksha |
72 | | Cult of Fire Nirvana |
73 | | Earth Rot Black Tides of Obscurity |
74 | | Krosis A Memoir of Free Will |
75 | | Ovid's Withering Terraphage |
76 | | Malist To Mantle the Rising Sun |
77 | | Ergodic Ergodic |
78 | | Shards of Humanity Cold Logic |
79 | | Aerial Ruin Forgotten Songs |
80 | | Incremate Mortal Domain |
81 | | Defiled Infinite Regress |
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