LebMetal’s Top Releases of 2020

Here’s our 2020 top releases lists by staff members and contributors; as always, feel free to share yours in the comments.

All entries are linked to an official Youtube video or to a Spotify/Bandcamp album stream. Click on the links to stream the music!

• Patrick Saad‘s Top 5 Releases of 2020

• 1- Pain of Salvation – Panther

• 2- Sólstafir – Endless Twilight of Codependent Love

• 3- The Ocean Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic

• 4- Code Orange – Underneath

• 5- Crippled Black Phoenix – Ellengæst

• Joe Francis‘ Top 10 Releases of 2020

• 1- Ensiferum – Thalassic

• 2- MetallicA – S&M2

• 3- Dark Tranquillity – Moment

• 4- Black Crown Initiare – Violent Portraits Of Doomed Escape
• 5- Alestorm – Curse of the Crystal Coconut
• 6- Lamb Of God – Lamb Of God
• 7- Svalbard – When I Die, Will I Get Better?
• 8- Fintroll – Vredesvävd
• 9- Paradise Lost – Obsidian
• 10- Ulcerate – Stare Into Death And Be Still

• Honorable Mentions

Sepultura – Quadra

Carach Angren – Franckensteina Strataemontanus

Deftones – Ohms

• Rami Rouhana’s Top 10 Releases of 2020

• 1- Igorrr – Spirituality and Distortion

• 2- Psychotic Waltz – The God Shaped Void

• 3- Pain of Salvation – Panther
• 4- Intronaut – Fluid Existential Inversions

• 5- My Dying Bride – The Ghot of Orion
• 6- Mamaleek – Come & See
• 7- Conception – State of Deception
• 8- Green Carnation – Leaves of Yesteryear
• 9- Long Distance Calling – How do we want to live?
• 10- Grayceon – Mothers Weavers Vultures