Top-10 albums 2020! (editorial team)

Headbangers! Check out TOP-10 2020 from our team! Attention! The list comes in alphabetical order.

Winners!
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Necrophobic “Dawn of the Damned” | Century Media Records
Paradise Lost “Obsidian” | Nuclear Blast

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Oleksandr Maksymov:
Benediction “Scriptures” | Nuclear Blast
Black Funeral “Scourge of Lamashtu” | Iron Bonehead Productions
Burning Witches “Dance with the Devil” | Nuclear Blast
Bütcher “666 Goats Carry My Chariot” | Osmose Productions
Incantation “Sect of Vile Divinities” | Relapse Records
Paganland “Galizier” | Blackest Records
Revenge “Strike.Smother.Dehumanize” | Season of Mist Underground Activists
Sodom “Genesis XIX” | Steamhammer
Undeath “Lesions of a Different Kind” | Prosthetic Records
Witchtrap “Evil Strikes Again” | Hells Headbangers
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Carla Morton:
Anaal Nathrakh “Endarkenment” | Metal Blade Records
Carach Angren “Franckensteina Strataemontanus” | Season of Mist
Carcass “Despicable” | Nuclear Blast
Desolator “Sermon of Apathy” | Black Lion Records
Entorx “Faceless Insanity” | Independent
Finntroll “Vredesvävd” | Century Media Records
Igorrr “Spirituality And Distortion” | Metal Blade Records
Necrophobic “Dawn of the Damned” | Century Media Records
Shattered Hope “Vespers” | Solitude Productions
Vader “Solitude in Madness” | Nuclear Blast
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Droll:
Avatar “Hunter Gatherer” | eOne
DevilDriver “Dealing with Demons, Volume I” | Napalm Records
Ensiferum “Thalassic” | Metal Blade Records
Heaven Shall Burn “Of Truth & Sacrifice” | Century Media Records
Night Crowned “Impius Viam” | Noble Demon
Oceans “The Sun and the Cold” | Nuclear Blast
Second to Sun “Leviathan” | Independent
Sepultura “Quadra” | Nuclear Blast
Sodom “Genesis XIX” | Steamhammer
Spirit Adrift “Enlightened in Eternity” | Century Media Records
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Paul Castles:
Anaal Nathrakh “Endarkenment” | Metal Blade Records
Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou “May Our Chambers Be Full” | Sacred Bones Records
Imperial Triumphant “Alphaville” | Century Media Records
Khors “Where the Word Acquires Eternity” | Ashen Dominion
Napalm Death “Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism” | Century Media Records
Pallbearer “Forgotten Days” | Nuclear Blast
Paradise Lost “Obsidian” | Nuclear Blast
Testament “Titans of Creation” | Nuclear Blast
The Infernal Sea “Negotium Crucis” | Apocalyptic Witchcraft Recordings
Ulver “Flowers of Evil” | House of Mythology
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Gavin Brown:
Convulse “Deathstar” | Transcending Records
Dropdead “Dropdead 2020” | Armageddon Label
Gridfailure “Sixth Mass​-​Extinction Skulduggery II” | Nefarious Industries
Human Impact “Human Impact” | Ipecac Recordings
Imperial Triumphant “Alphaville” | Century Media Records
Napalm Death “Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism” | Century Media Records
Necrot “Mortal” | Tankcrimes
Skeletal Remains “The Entombment of Chaos” | Century Media Records
Uniform “Shame” | Sacred Bones
Video Nasties “Dominion” | APF Records
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Ilona Adhlactha:
​Árstíðir lífsins “Saga á tveim tungum II: Eigi fjǫll né firðir” | Ván Records
Crippled Black Phoenix “Ellengæst” | Season of Mist
Green Carnation “Leaves of Yesteryear” | Season of Mist
Hail Spirit Noir “Eden in Reverse” | Agonia Records
Igorrr “Spirituality And Distortion” | Metal Blade Records
Mora Prokaza “By Chance” | Season of Mist Underground Activists
Oranssi Pazuzu “Mestarin kynsi” | Nuclear Blast
Pain of Salvation “Panther” | InsideOut Music
Thy Catafalque “Naiv” | Season of Mist
Ulver “Flowers of Evil” | House of Mythology
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Sophie Laliberté:
Black Sun Brotherhood “God & Beast” | Snake Oil Kassettforlag
Crematory “Unbroken” | Napalm Records
Deeds of Flesh “Nucleus” | Unique Leader Records
Draconian “Under a Godless Veil” | Napalm Records
Enslaved “Utgard” | Nuclear Blast
Gatecloser “From the Wasteland” | Sliptrick Records
My Dying Bride “The Ghost of Orion” | Nuclear Blast
Nightwish “Human. :||: Nature.” | Nuclear Blast
Pulse “Adjusting The Space” | NRT-Records
Sólstafir “Endless Twilight of Codependent Love” | Season of Mist
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Nichalas Edward:
Evoker “Evil Torment” | Blood Harvest
Freeways “True Bearings” | Temple Of Mystery Records
Haunt “Mind Freeze” | Shadow Kingdom Records
Necrot “Mortal” | Tankcrimes
Proscription “Conduit” | Dark Descent Records
Skeleton “Skeleton” | 20 Buck Spin
Sölicitör “Spectral Devastation” | Gates of Hell Records
Thirsty Demon “Unconscious Suicide” | Dissonant Death Records
Traveler “Termination Shock” | Gates of Hell Records
Warbringer “Weapons of Tomorrow” | Napalm Records
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Tomislav Debelic:
…and Oceans “Cosmic World Mother” | Season of Mist
Abigor “Totschläger (A Saintslayer’s Songbook)” | World Terror Committee
Draconian “Under a Godless Veil” | Napalm Records
E.N.D. “A Grave Deceit” | Geenger Records
Fides Inversa “Historia Nocturna” | World Terror Committee
Inquisition “Black Mass for a Mass Grave” | Agonia Records
Moonspell “The Butt3rfly Effect” | Napalm Records
My Dying Bride “The Ghost of Orion” | Nuclear Blast
Paradise Lost “Obsidian” | Nuclear Blast
Selbst “Relatos de angustia” | Debemur Morti Productions
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Marko Köfler:
Armored Saint “Punching the Sky” | Metal Blade Records
Cult of Lilith “Mara” | Metal Blade Records
Demons & Wizards “III” | Century Media Records
Ecclesia “De Ecclesiæ Universalis” | Aural Music
Fovitron “Altar of Whispers” | Alcyone Records
Glacier “The Passing of Time” | No Remorse Records
Heathen “Empire of the Blind” | Nuclear Blast
Katavasia “Magnus Venator” | Floga Records
Kirk Windstein “Dream in Motion” | eOne
Unleash the Archers “Abyss” | Napalm Records
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Yade Malice:
Alestorm “Curse of the Crystal Coconut” | Napalm Records
Elffor “Unholy Throne of Doom” | Repose Records / Nekrart Productions
Gut “Disciples of Smut” | Splatter Zombie Records
Master Boot Record “FLOPPY DISK OVERDRIVE” | Metal Blade Records
Orbit Culture “Nija” | Seek & Strike
Spell “Opulent Decay” | Bad Omen Records
The Sound That Ends Creation “Memes, Dreams, and Flying Machines” | Dark Trail Records
Thy Catafalque “Naiv” | Season of Mist
Witch Taint “Sons of Midwestern Darkness” | Tee Pee Records
Wrekmeister Harmonies “We Love to Look at the Carnage” | Thrill Jockey Records
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Peter Morsellino:
Canopy “Humanity Loss” | Independent
Dead Cosmonauts “We Sent Fragile Creatures to the Heavens but Not All of Them Perished” | 1969839 Records DK
Eyes “Underperformer” | Indisciplinarian
False Gods “No Symmetry​.​.​.​ Only Disillusion” | Seeing Red Records
InTechnicolour “Big Sleeper” | Big Scary Monsters Recording Company
King Buffalo “Dead Star” | Independent
Subterraen “Rotten Human Kingdom” | Transcending Obscurity Records
Voices of Ruin “Path to Immortality” | M-Theory Audio
Witnesses “Doom II” | Independent
Zhora “Mortals” | Hostile Media
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Colin:
Celestial Season “The Secret Teachings” | Burning World Records
Draghkar “At the Crossroads of Infinity” | Unspeakable Axe Records
Esoctrilihum “Eternity of Shaog” | I, Voidhanger Records
Funeral Leech “Death Meditation” | Carbonized Records
Necrophobic “Dawn of the Damned” | Century Media Records
Of Feather and Bone “Sulfuric Disintegration” | Profound Lore Records
Paradise Lost “Obsidian” | Nuclear Blast
The Troops of Doom “The Rise of Heresy” | Blood Blast Distribution
Triglathena “Memento Novissimarum” | Independent
Worm “Gloomlord” | Headsplit Records / Iron Bonehead Productions
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Gabriel Faithless:
Afterbirth “Four Dimensional Flesh” | Unique Leader Records
Benediction “Scriptures” | Nuclear Blast
Cadaver “Edder & Bile” | Nuclear Blast
Draghkar “At the Crossroads of Infinity” | Unspeakable Axe Records
Enslaved “Utgard” | Nuclear Blast
Glorious Depravity “Ageless Violence” | Translation Loss Records
Inquisition “Black Mass for a Mass Grave” | Agonia Records
Necrophobic “Dawn of the Damned” | Century Media Records
Spirit Possession “Spirit Possession” | Profound Lore Records
Voluptas “Towards the Great White Nothing” | MetalGate
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Lord Sinned:
Cadaver “Edder & Bile” | Nuclear Blast
Demons & Wizards “III” | Century Media Records
Forlorn Citadel “Ashen Dirge of Kingslain” | Northern Silence Productions
Lamp of Murmuur “Heir of Ecliptical Romanticism” | Death Kvlt Productions
Midnight Betrothed “Indulgence In Eternity” | Atrocity Altar
My Dying Bride “The Ghost of Orion” | Nuclear Blast
Paganland “Galizier” | Blackest Records
Paradise Lost “Obsidian” | Nuclear Blast
Persuader “Necromancy” | Frontiers Records
Pure Wrath “The Forlorn Soldier” | Debemur Morti Productions
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Evil Mike:
Benediction “Scriptures” | Nuclear Blast
Havok “V” | Century Media Records
Necrophobic “Dawn of the Damned” | Century Media Records
Perdition Temple “Sacraments of Descension” | Hells Headbangers Records
Proscription “Conduit” | Dark Descent Records
Putrid Pile “Revel in Lunacy” | Sevared Records
Skeletal Remains “The Entombment of Chaos” | Century Media Records
Sodom “Genesis XIX” | Steamhammer
The Black Dahlia Murder “Verminous” | Metal Blade Records
Voracious Scourge “In Death” | Massacre Records
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Mila Immortality:
Akhlys “Melinoë” | Debemur Morti Productions
Antzaat “For You Men Who Gaze into the Sun” | Immortal Frost Productions
Armagedda “Svindeldjup ättestup” | Nordvis Produktion
Fides Inversa “Historia Nocturna” | World Terror Committee
Häxenzijrkell “Die Nachtseite” | Amor Fati Productions
Ondskapt “Grimoire Ordo Devus” | Osmose Productions
Prosternatur “Mortuus et Sepultus” | Transcendance
Serpents Oath “Nihil” | Soulseller Records
The True Werwolf “Devil Crisis” | Werewolf Records
Urfaust “Teufelsgeist” | Ván Records
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Hacebo Kupferbart:
Automb “Chaosophy” | Witching Hour Productions
Benediction “Scriptures” | Nuclear Blast
Benighted “Obscene Repressed” | Season of Mist
Carach Angren “Franckensteina Strataemontanus” | Season of Mist
Dark Tranquillity “Moment” | Century Media Records
Karg “Traktat” | AOP Records
Necrophobic “Dawn of the Damned” | Century Media Records
Paradise Lost “Obsidian” | Nuclear Blast
Sodom “Genesis XIX” | Steamhammer
The Corona Lantern “Certa Omnibus Hora” | MetalGate
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Dayv Oblyvyon:
Acherontas “Psychic Death – The Shattering of Perceptions” | Agonia Records
Kawir “Adrasteia” | Iron Bonehead Productions
King Dude “Full Virgo Moon” | Ván Records
Medico Peste “ב: The Black Bile” | Season of Mist
Panzerfaust “The Suns of Perdition – Chapter II: Render unto Eden” | Eisenwald
Second to Sun “Leviathan” | Independent
The Committee “Utopian Deception” | Folter Records
Ulver “Flowers of Evil” | House of Mythology
Urfaust “Teufelsgeist” | Ván Records
Winterfylleth “The Reckoning Dawn” | Candlelight Records
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David L:
Convocation “Ashes Coalesce” | Everlasting Spew Records
Defeated Sanity “The Sanguinary Impetus” | Willowtip Records
Incantation “Sect of Vile Divinities” | Relapse Records
Ingested “Where Only Gods May Tread” | Unique Leader Records
Stillbirth “Revive the Throne” | Unique Leader Records
The Acacia Strain “Slow Decay” | Rise Records
The Black Dahlia Murder “Verminous” | Metal Blade Records
Ulcerate “Stare into Death and Be Still” | Debemur Morti Productions
Vader “Solitude in Madness” | Nuclear Blast
Wormhole “The Weakest Among Us” | Lacerated Enemy Records
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