Metal Hammer has posted their 50 Best Albums of 2020 list online. The diverse list features picks from the publication's entire staff of music critics, and includes bands like Code Orange, Emma Ruth Rundle, Napalm Death, Katatonia, Ozzy Osbourne, and much more.
Check out the actual list here on Metal Hammer's site with explanations for each of the records.
50. Myrkur – Folkesange
49. Hellripper – The Affair Of The Poisons
48. Lik – Misanthropic Breed
47. Triptykon – Requiem (Live At Roadburn 2019)
46. All Them Witches – Nothing As The Ideal
45. Greg Puciato – Child Soldier: Creator Of God
44. Ingested – Where Only Gods May Tread
43. Crippled Black Phoenix – Ellengaest
42. Intronaut – Fluid Existential Inversions
41. Cirith Ungol – Forever Black
40. Bleed From Within – Fracture
39. Sharptooth – Transitional Forms
38. Atramentus – Stygian
37. Uada – Djinn
36. Make Them Suffer – How To Survive A Funeral
35. Katatonia – City Burials
34. Sólstafir – Endless Twilight Of Codependent Love
33. Armored Saint – Punching The Sky
32. Ozzy Osbourne – Ordinary Man
31. Anaal Nathrakh – Endarkenment
30. Sepultura – Quadra
29. The Ocean – Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic
28. Winterfylleth – The Reckoning Dawn
27. Backxwash – God Has Nothing To Do With This, Leave Him Out Of It
26. Kvelertak – Splid
25. Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou – May Our Chambers Be Full
24. Midnight – Rebirth By Blasphemy
23. Paysage D’Hiver – Im Wald
22. Jonathan Hultén – Chants From Another Place
21. Touché Amoré – Lament
20. Marilyn Manson – We Are Chaos
19. Ulver – Flowers Of Evil
18. Ulcerate – Stare Into Death And Be Still
17. Lamb Of God – Lamb Of God
16. Bury Tomorrow – Cannibal
15. Testament – Titans Of Creation
14. Pallbearer – Forgotten Days
13. Cryptic Shift – Visitations From Enceladus
12. Loathe – I Let It In And It Took Everything
11. Paradise Lost – Obsidian
10. Imperial Triumphant – Alphaville
09. Enslaved – Utgard
08. Trivium – What The Dead Men Say
07. Oceans Of Slumber – Oceans Of Slumber
06. A.A. Williams – Forever Blue
05. Svalbard – When I Die, Will I Get Better?
04. Oranssi Pazuzu – Mestarin Kynsi
03. Code Orange – Underneath
02. Napalm Death – Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism
01. Deftones – Ohms