50 TOP DEATH METAL ALBUMS OF 2020 YOU CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT


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 was a true death metal year. The brutal one, the uncompromising one. Yes, stare into DEATH and be still, ffs!

ULCERATE 
Stare Into Death And Be Still

The Death Metal album of 2020!
ABYSMAL DAWN 
Phylogenesis
LIK 
Misanthropic Breed
FACELESS BURIAL
Speciation
Bandcamp
TERMINAL NATION
Holocene Extinction


CRYPTIC SHIFT
Visitations From Enceladus

CYTOTOXIN
Nuklearth

XIBALBA
Años en Infierno

DEPRAVITY
Grand Malevolence

COEXISTENCE
Collateral Dimension



BENEDICTION
Scriptures
RIPPED TO SHREDS
Luan

KATALEPSY
Terra Mortuus Est

AFTERBIRTH
Four Dimensional Flesh


DEVANGELIC
Ersetu

SCARAB
Martyrs of the Storm

FUNERAL LEECH
Death Meditation


DARKENED
Kingdom of Decay


EXOCRINE
Maelstorm
Bandcamp



VADER
Solitude In Madness
UNDERGANG
Aldrig i livet
Bandcamp

DEFEATED SANITY
The Sanguinary Impetus
Bandcamp

KRUELTY
A Dying Truth
Bandcamp
UNDEATH
Lesions of a Different Kind
DEFILED
Infinite Regress
Bandcamp
DEEDS OF FLESH
Nucleus
Bandcamp


STILLBIRTH
Revive the Throne
Bandcamp

PLAGUE
Portraits of Mind
Bandcamp





SKELETHAL
Unveiling the Threshold
Bandcamp

OF FEATHER AND BONE
Sulphuric Disintegration
Bandcamp


VOIDCEREMONY 
Enthropic Reflections Continuum: Dimensional Unravel


COSMIC PUTREFACTION
The Horizons To Which The Splendour Withers
DIABOLIC OATH
Profane Death Exodus
Bandcamp

KHTHONIIK SERVIIKS
Æzoqiizoiikum
Bandcamp


CAUSTIC WOUND
Death Posture
Bandcamp

ANGEROT
The Divine Apostate
Bandcamp

VOID ROT
Descending Pillars
Bandcamp

CONTRARIAN
Only Time Will Tell
Bandcamp

TEMPLE OF VOID
The World That Was
Bandcamp


CARNATION
Where Death Lies
Bandcamp
200 STAB WOUNDS
Piles of Festering Decomposition
Bandcamp
DISEMBOWEL
Echoes of Terror
Bandcam

REVOLTING
The Shadow at the World's End
Bandcamp

BLOODSOAKED NECROVOID
Expelled Into the Unknown Depths of the Unfathomable
Bandcamp

AHTME
Mephitic
Bandcamp





DISRUPTED
Pure Death
Bandcamp

DEHUMAN REIGN
Descending Upon Obvious
Bandcamp

SOLOTUS
Realm of Ash and Blood
Bandcamp

TRIBE OF PAZUZU
King of All Demons
Bandcamp


THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER
Verminous
Bandcamp

BLACK CURSE
Endless Wound
Bandcamp


CRYPTIC SHIFT/REPLICANT/INOCULATION/ASTRAL TOMB
Chasm of Aeons

ENGULFED
Vengeance of the Fallen
Bandcamp

DÉCEMBRE NOIR
The Renaissance of Hope

BEDSORE
Hypnagogic Hallucinations




HONORABLE MENTIONS: Make Them Die Slowly, Ingested, Toxaemia, Puteraeon, Cryptworm, Demonical, Necrot, Centinex, Putrid Offal.
NB. I listed 55 albums without the honorable mentions. 😉

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  1. Heavy Metal Sasquatch12/13/20, 8:29 PM

    Incredible list Vlad! Ulcerate could steal top spot for me; def my favoruite tech death. Did you like like the Incantation record?

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    1. Count Vlad12/13/20, 8:35 PM

      I'm not huge on Incantation tbh, although their latest album got me in August. Still though, it didn't do much for me through the year. I was thinking about it while preparing this list, but it didn't make the cut.

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