Album(s) of the year

[Necr0rceN]

These are on my shortlist for 2020:

Butcher - 666 Goats Carry My Chariot

https://youtu.be/gaUgCG92iRc

Acherontas - Psychic Death - The Shattering of Perceptions

https://youtu.be/J5KAaZUvRbg

Katavasia - Magnus Venator

https://youtu.be/tn8rIg2_BJM

Árstíðir lífsins - Saga á tveim tungum II: Eigi fjǫll né firðir

https://youtu.be/z4GoBVkFIDM

[Eoin McLove]

Wytch Hazel
Gjendød
Malokarpatan

I can't think of anything else I bought this year that was from this year. I'm sure I'm overlooking a few cool releases but I'm terrible at remembering...

Edit.  The Ljosazabojstwa album was cool.

[Slaughterday]

Almost forgot that Slutvomit - Copulation of Cloven Hooves came out in 2020. This is one of the best albums of the last 10 years let alone last year.

[Blizzard Beast]

Almost forgot that Slutvomit - Copulation of Cloven Hooves came out in 2020. This is one of the best albums of the last 10 years let alone last year.

What a name.

[Thorn]

Damn right, forgot about that one, killer album.

[Trev]

I think I've only listened to two albums from 2020, so I guess they're my albums of the year by default. Enjoyed both of them anyway

Enslaved - Utgard
Black Crown Initiate - Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape

[Abandon All Hope]

Black Curse - Endless Wound

[boozegeune]

In order:
Inexorum - Moonlit Navigation
Ulthar- Providence
Ruin Lust - Mortal
Necrot - Mortal

Though tbf I need to spend more time with the Necrot.

[Scáthach]

My faves from 2020 are
Temple Nightside - Pillars of Damnation
Vassafor - To the Death.

Two more deserving of mention are Skáphe - 3 and Dearthe - Dispirited Obscurity. Only got them at the start of December but really enjoying them. The Almyrkvi / Ruins of Beverast split is deserving of an honourable mention too.

[Eoin McLove]

Ysengrin- Initiatio was another good one this year.

[Born of Fire]

Haven't got round to listening to much new stuff and some of the things I thought were new turned out be not quite so new 

But anyway like mclove said that new Ljosazabojstwa is fuckin cllass.

I was hoping for a bit more out of the latest Tribulation release but those vocals are so bloody samey that it just takes away from the musical developments over the last few albums.

For me the recent standout, and I haven't seen much mention of it on here, is Macabre - Carnival of Killers. Fuckin great craic album. Usual tongue massively in cheek biography of infamous serial killers but it's so much more enjoyable than I was expecting considering the underwhelming album that preceded it.

[mickO)))]

Abigor
Acherontas
Akhlys
Circle of Dawn
Hate Forest
Horna
Kult ofenzivy
Macabre
Ofermod
Starcave
Precambrian
Vassafor
Vothana

[Kurt Cocaine]

Abigor
Acherontas
Akhlys
Circle of Dawn
Hate Forest
Horna
Kult ofenzivy
Macabre
Ofermod
Starcave
Precambrian
Vassafor
Vothana

Yes...

[TurnTheAirBlue]

I'm not a big black metal fan but do like the classic stuff like Emperor, Mayhem, Immortal and Dissection etc... I wasn't at all familiar with the band Inquisition, but their new album was showing up on a lot of peoples year-end lists so I decided to give it a spin... Glad I did, It's amazing... riffs for days, darkly melodic and catchy as hell. It sounds like a mishmash of Immortal, Dissection, Bathory and even Type O in parts. Check out the start of the third song 'Necromancy through a Buried Cosmos', that chord progression and that guitar sound = Type O. Also, from around 5:38 onward, you'll hear some very tasteful guitar playing. I certainly haven't heard many bands of this ilk incorporate something like it into their sound so seamlessly, it blew my mind to be quite honest! I'm not sure if he's using a bottleneck slide, vibrato or some effect (or a combination of all) but it sounds amazing. I know he is using vibrato on his chords throughout the song but this particular part really stood out to me. 

         

Anyway, this album is a must-listen, even if you're not a BM fan. It's just great metal, simple as that.
If you haven't listened to the album yet check out the song 'Luciferian Rays', simply majestic! It really represents the album well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj5XNbmrp1o

[blessed1]

I'm not a big black metal fan but do like the classic stuff like Emperor, Mayhem, Immortal and Dissection etc... I wasn't at all familiar with the band Inquisition, but their new album was showing up on a lot of peoples year-end lists so I decided to give it a spin... Glad I did, It's amazing... riffs for days, darkly melodic and catchy as hell. It sounds like a mishmash of Immortal, Dissection, Bathory and even Type O in parts. Check out the start of the third song 'Necromancy through a Buried Cosmos', that chord progression and that guitar sound = Type O. Also, from around 5:38 onward, you'll hear some very tasteful guitar playing. I certainly haven't heard many bands of this ilk incorporate something like it into their sound so seamlessly, it blew my mind to be quite honest! I'm not sure if he's using a bottleneck slide, vibrato or some effect (or a combination of all) but it sounds amazing. I know he is using vibrato on his chords throughout the song but this particular part really stood out to me. 

         

Anyway, this album is a must-listen, even if you're not a BM fan. It's just great metal, simple as that.
If you haven't listened to the album yet check out the song 'Luciferian Rays', simply majestic! It really represents the album well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj5XNbmrp1o

Im surprised these lads are still getting support.