Album of the Year 2020

Deftones / Ohms

Irist - Order Of The Mind
Lamb Of God - Lamb Of God
Trivium - What The Dead Men Say
DevilDriver - Dealing With Demons I
Testament - Titans Of Creation
Metallica - S&M2
AC/DC - Power Up

House of Noise - Massive Wagons (awful name I know).

Really like this band, only got in to them this year.
Here is the first song from the album

rednik wrote: »

Fish - Weltschmerz
Deep Purple - Whoosh
Joe Bonamassa - Royal Tea
The Pineapple Thief - Versions of the Truth
Blue Oyster Cult - The Symbol Remains

Some good choices here. I haven’t got around to listening to the Fish album yet, must listen to it over the next few days

Not listened to much 'Rock' from this year, but I'd add Pearl Jam's Gigaton.

Didn't buy much new music this year so my vote goes to :


McStine & Minnemann - Self Titled.



Must get Fish -Weltschmerz

Deftones - Ohms

Midleton Thai wrote: »

Jaysus - never heard of them, that's a belter of a song!!!

try this one, even better

Hellripper - The Affair Of The Poisons
Code Orange - Underneath
Heathen - Empire Of The Blind
Testament - Titans Of Creation
Armored Saint - Punching The Sky
AC/DC - PWR/UP
Corey Taylor - CMFT

#1. Alestorm - Curse of the Crystal Coconut
The only saving grace for 2020 and the "pirate metal drinking crew" deserves to be toured far and wide.

I also enjoyed Anti-flag's 20:20 vision (or 20:20 di-vision reissue), the Bombpops were a solid slice of summer and Pig Destroyers EP in August summed up the second lockdown. Marilyn Masons new record was also worth a listen as was the Nofx vs Frank Turner split (mostly for Frank's take on "eat the meek"). However, unlike others here, I haven't much time for the new Deftones or AC-DC offerings as they didn't push the envelope as much as they normally do. Smashing Pumpkins new record tried, but failed.

Deftones - Ohms
Touche Amore - Lament
Svalbard - When I Die, Will I Get Better?
Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin kynsi

Deftones & Biffy Clyro.

lord lucan wrote: »

Only 2 jump out at me this year;

AC/DC - Power up
Mr Bungle - Ranging Wrath of the Easter Bunny

Lethean wrote: »

in no particular order
Katatonia - City Burials
BodyCount - Carnivore
Enter Shikari - Nothing is true & Everything is possible
Zeal & Ardor - Wake of a Nation - EP
Ishan - Pharos - EP
Gojira - Another World (Single)

and, i know the album was released last year, but they released a lockdown video for it this year
Cattle Decapitation - Bring back the plague

I always love this thread for the suggestions and I've relistened to a few mentioned on here in case I didn't do them justice first time around. I have to say, that Mr Bungle album is epic!
As is the Cattle Decapitation tune, which I'm brand new to. Wow!

But given the number of votes here, can someone please explain what makes the Ohms album so good? I wouldn't even rate it as the best deftones release this year (Black stallion rocks ) nevermind album of the year? I'm clearly missing something and I don't know what "it" is.

1 Biffy Clyro- A Celebration of Endings
2 Pearl Jam- Gigaton
3 AC/DC-PWR up
4 Corey Taylor- CMFT (Black Blue Eyes, Samantha's gone and Culture Had my fav tracks, others are meh)