Metal Asylum's Top Albums Of 2020
Rich Catino's Top 25
Jack Mangan's Top 25
Rich Catino:
1) H.E.A.T.- II
2) Armored Saint - Punching the Sky
3) Girish & The Chronicles - Rock the Highway
4) Oz - Forced Commandments
5) Vanden Plas- The Ghost Xperiment: Illumination
6) Sorcerer - Lamenting The Innocent
7) Stallion - Slaves of Time
8) Archon Angel - Fallen
9) Bloody Heels - Ignite the Sky
10) Stryper - Even the Devil Believes
11) Fates Warning - Long Day Goodnight
12) Testament - Titans of Creation
13) Grave Digger - Fields of Blood
14) Wolf - Feeding the Machine
15) Firewind – Firewind
16) Cloven Hoof – Age of Steel
17) Rage - Wings of Rage
18) Serious Black - Suite 226
19) Mike Lepond’s Silent Assassins - Whore of Babylon
20) Black Swan – Shake the World
21) Sodom – XIX
22) Nightmare – Aeternam
23) Delain- Apocalypse & Chill
24) Evildead – United States of Anarchy
25) Raven – metal City
Honorable mentions: because I either forgot it came out, or the album was released too late in the year:
Alcatrazz - Born Innocent
Royal Hunt- Dystopia
Primal Fear - Metal Commando
Jeff Scott Soto - Wide Awake (In My Dreamland)
Live albums, Compilations, DVD, etc:
Metal Church - From The Vault (compilation)
Destruction - Born to Thrash (CD/DVD)
Books:
Denim & Leather - Saxon's First Ten years (author Martin Popoff)
Black Funeral: Into the Coven with Mercyful Fate (author Martin Popoff)
The Decade That Rocked (author Mark Weiss)
Jack Mangan:
1. Oceans of Slumber
2. Draconian - Under a Godless Veil
3. Haken - Virus
4. Eleine - Dancing in Hell
5. Ascension of the Watchers - Apocrypha
6. Mike LePond’s Silent Assassins - The Whore of Babylon
7. Moon Reverie
8. U.D.O. - We Are One
9. Vanden Plas - The Ghost Experiment - Illumination
10. Manticora - To Live To Kill To Live
11. Sons of Apollo - MMXX
12. Alkymist - Sanctuary
13. Paradise Lost - Obsidian
14. Armored Saint - Punching the Sky
15. Annihilator - Ballistic, Sadistic
16. Havukruunu - Uinuos Syömein Sota
17. Dead Kosmonaut - Gravitas
18. Jeff Scott Soto - Wide Awake (In My Dreamland)
19. Katatonia - City Burials
20. Trivium - What the Dead Men Say
21. Persuader - Necromancy
22. Heathen - Empire of the Blind
23. Alcatrazz - Born Innocent
24. Black Painted Moon - Personae
25. Unleash the Archers - Abyss
Honorable mentions (EPs, Rereleases, Covers, Heavy Non-Metal albums, books):
White Swan - Nocturnal Transmissions (EP)
Zeal & Ardor - Wake of a Nation (EP)
Etherius - Chaos. Order. Renewal. (EP)
Diamond Head - Lightning to the Nations 2020
Mr. Bungle - The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo 2020
Ellefson - No Cover
Morse, Portnoy, George - Cover to Cover Anthology (Vol 1-3)
GWAR - Scumdogs of the Universe - 30th Anniversary Edition
Hum - Inlet
Gosta Berlings Saga - Konkret Musik
I Am Michael Alago: Breathing Music. Signing Metallica, Beating Death by Laura Davis-Chanin and Michael Alago (book)
NOTE: I didn't get to Rob Halford's autobiography: "Confess," which was released in 2020. It's on my reading list.
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