Best album of 2020?

[gunshow86de]

Can I give an honorable mention for best cover art of 2020? (It's actually not a bad deathgrind record tbh)

 

[Dallas Shumski]

Dark Tranquility- Moment
My runner up would be Paradise Lost- Obsidian.

 

[Dyingsea]

Dark Tranquility- Moment
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I had high hopes for this one. The first half is great but then it seems to trail off a bit and seems to lose consistency. I am glad to see them bring back some of the Projector and Atoma type feel which are two of their pinnacle albums IMO. That being said it's still DT and still a good album.

 

[EdgeC]

No Fires in The Distance (Echoes of Deep November) or Pull Down the Sun (Of Valleys and Mountains) in this thread?

You guys are missing out.

 

[Hoss632]

Amaranthe- Manifest
Alter bridge - Walk the Sky 2.0 EP
Rabea Massaad- Grinding Gears Volume 3
Distant Dream- Point of View
The Bombpops- Death in Venice Beach

 

[eaeolian]

I'm not sure I can really decide, but this is in the running:

 

[gunshow86de]

No Fires in The Distance (Echoes of Deep November) or Pull Down the Sun (Of Valleys and Mountains) in this thread?

You guys are missing out.

I liked Fires in the Distance at first, but the way the album was promoted turned me off. They found like a half dozen different ways to release the same 3 songs (lyric vid, music vid, playthrough, full band performance, etc... ) over the course of 8 months and I just didn't care anymore by the time the record was released.

Pull Down the Sun sounds like some nice mid-era Gojira.

 

[eaeolian]

Greg Puciato- Child Soldier

https://gregpuciato.bandcamp.com/album/child-soldier-creator-of-god

This is a solid record that I would have missed with Liquid Metal on XM.