Music: Best album of 2020

[Cas]

This was my ballot for the 2020 Encyclopedia Metallum Album of the Year poll:

1. Wayfarer – A Romance with Violence
2. Lord Vigo – Danse de Noir
3. Ulcerate – Stare Into Death and Be Still
4. Hellripper – The Affair of the Poisons
5. Briton Rites – Occulte Fantastique
6. Spectral Lore & Mare Cogitum – Wanderers: Astrology of the Nine
7. Haunt – Flashback
8. Eternal Champion – Ravening Iron
9. The Spirit Cabinet – Bloodlines
10. My Dying Bride – The Ghost of Orion

Also worth mentioning:

Akhlys – Melinoë
Haunt – Mind Freeze
The Infernal Sea – Negotium Crucis
Pallbearer – Forgotten Days
Paradise Lost - Obsidian
Schizophrenia – Voices
Vader – Solitude in Madness

 

[izlez]

A very good year of music for me.

1. Protest The Hero - Palimpsest
2. Thou/Emma Ruth Rundle - May Our Chambers Be Full
3. Envy -The Fallen Crimson
4. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
5. Taylor Swift - Folklore
6. Touché Amore - Lament

 

[TheDoldrums]

1. The Avalanches - We Will Always Love You
2. Jay Electronica - Act 2: Patents of Nobility
3. Freddie Gibbs - Alfredo
4. Dogleg - Melee
5. Jay Electronica - A Written Testimony
6. Protomartyr - Ultimate Success Today
7. Caribou - Suddenly
8. Bing & Ruth - Species
9. Fleet Foxes - Shore
10. Cults - Hosts
11. Baths - Pop Music/False B Sides 2
12. Touche Amore - Lament
13. Four Tet - Sixteen Oceans
14. Oneohtrix Point Never - Magic Oneohtrix Point Never
15. Sufjan Stevens - The Ascension

 

[Thucydides]

1. Courtney Marie Andrews - Old Flowers

Thanks for putting me onto her. Great album.

 

[plank]

Thanks for putting me onto her. Great album.

Glad you like it, thanks for the heads up on the Waxahatchee album.
About that time for the 2021 thread!

 

[Thucydides]

Glad you like it, thanks for the heads up on the Waxahatchee album.
About that time for the 2021 thread!

I did 2020, you’re up for 2021 .

 

[Cas]

I keep listening to the Oranssi Pazuzu album and I just do not know what to make of it.

The Havukrunnu album also deserves a mention.