TOP 20 – 2020: The Staff’s Choices – Rita Limede

It’s that time of the year again! Since 2020 is coming to an end really soon, it’s about time for our staff to publish their lists regarding the best albums for the year. In this atypical year, where we were pretty much deprived of live shows, music was still a faithful companion and a way of coping. The amount of quality releases was immense, so it’s not always an easy choice. Eventually, some releases of enormous quality may have been forgotten – or discovered later on.

So here they are, the choices for the best releases of this past year in the opinion of one of our editors – Rita Limede:

1. Ulcerate – Stare Into Death and Be Still

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ke2f1tvxCQ

2. Cytotoxin – Nuklearth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY7djxo6lz0

3. Enslaved – Utgard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkEXIpym5E0

4. Pain of Salvation – Panther

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QKmOJl4GXQ

5. Thy Catafalque – Naiv

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R02BzZH4J1s

6. Benighted – Obscene Repressed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFIeb2OPgUo

7. Sólstafir – Endless Twilight of Codependent Love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=286xijabYRA

8. Gaerea – Limbo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25BHJ66oSzM

9. Nero Di Marte – Immoto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBHIvizSwMw

10. Blackfield – For The Music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BFvm7G1bwY

11. Dark Tranquility – Moment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_CfzJ9GZ4M

12. Zeal & Ardor – Wake of A Nation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELKdyI3raGA

13. Benediction – Scriptures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUcd_koHUn8

14. Pestifer – Expanding Oblivion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYW0vml0e9M

15. Xenobiotic – Mordrake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnD3-Gvyd84

16. My Dying Bride – The Ghost of Orion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1DI7447ia0

17. Katla – allt þetta helvítis myrkur

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdK5s83pbCk

18. Ingested – Where Only Gods May Tread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfjIgxgwC8c

19. Paradise Lost – Obsidian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urugx_wSBy8

20. Stillbirth – Revive the Throne

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2qs7RsCkCE