Go and live your passion

Another year has gone by. An apocalyptic one. The year with the pandemic, with the lockdown, with the fatal dates such as 01.01.2020, 02.02.2020. 20.02.2020, 10.10.2020, 11.11.2020 etc...The year when we had to sit back and reflect. To learn the lesson of patience. The metal scene did better than ever though. Thanks to the music, I survived. In 2020 we all witnessed a huge quantity of quality releases. A lot of them are going to stand with the time, I'm sure. That's why it was very difficult to make a cut and just limit my AOTY list to 20 or 50. The below 100 could have been 200 easily too. Many of the albums on the list have been covered in my monthly charts and I was chanting about them through the year. And of course, there are growers. This is how I compiled my AOTY list - the albums I enjoyed the most in 2020, the ones that I spent most of the time with, and made me go through. Of course, lists are valid at the time of publishing, that's why who knows how it might look

2020 was definitely the year of Death Metal , but there were tons of Black Metal albums released too. I enjoyed the particular genre less than I did in the previous years.  The below list gives a hint about what black metal I listened to the most, and the albums I enjoyed the most in the already past year. Some of them are bleak, cold, full of hate. Others are encompassing various genres, and are on the edge of BM.  I am absolutely sure everybody has their own interpretation of the black metal albums that deserve attention. Yes, lists are personal. That's why I give you the 2020 choices of my icy black heart. 53 albums in no particular order and some honorable mentions. The bleakness of it all! ❤  UADA Djinn Bandcamp PAYSAGE D'HIVER Im Wald Bandcamp ANACHITIS Sorcerer's Sorrow Bandcamp SEVEROTH Vsesvet Bandcamp HORNA Kuoleman Kirjo Bandcamp THE COMMITTEE Utopian Deception Bandcamp CEREMONIAL CASTINGS Salem 1692 (MMXX) Bandcamp HAVUKRUUNU Uinuos Syömein Sota Bandcamp ESOCTRI

2020 has been about DEATH metal. I've been enjoying the genre the most during this severe and challenging year. It's like both, the year and the genre were born one for another. I haven't listened to so much death metal since...probably the glorious 1991-1994 period! That's why I listed down the best death metal albums for 2020, the ones that really stood out for me personally, and the ones that made me feel good in this apocalyptic death (metal) year. My death meditation. And my reminder for the next generation, if there will be any. I listed below 50 death metal albums that mostly fit into the genre's accepted boundaries, excluding the melancholic and melodic death/doom. The list is in no particular order, but if you are a death metal fanatic, by the end of 2020 you must have listened to all of them already, and have your thought on the matter. However, there is so much more than these 50 which deserve attention and recognition. Really. Just dig in a bit - 2020 wa