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
ggrriinnddd |
| 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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