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The End of Year List 2020

 So, this is the thing that finally pushed me over the edge into putting my music fan thoughts out here a little more publically.

Every year I make a list of the albums I enjoyed most in the year. Mostly this is based on playlist statistics from my local music player and my ListenBrainz account, and then some simple mental calculations of how late in the year an album came out, so it's not just some mechanical list of the things I bought between January and March every year.

This year's list is heavy on Italian bands, one-person bands, sad boi noizes, and hatred for all mankind.

Best Atmospheric Black Metal album

Best Blackened Folk Metal album

Best "TRVE KVLT" black metal album

Best "Norway is so 1990s dad metal" Black Metal album

Best Ritual Occult Black Metal Album

Best Crust-As-Fuck Blackened Hardcore RABM album

Best Blackgaze / Post-Black / Post-Metal / Blackened Mogwai Worship Sad Boi Noizes of the year

Best D.S.B.M. album

Best Funeral Doom album

Best Album to use as soundtrack to the collapse of the world around you

Best avant-garde black metal-ish album that is not insipid prog-metal

The Oh, Shit, You Just Invented A New Subgenre Award

  • Winner: BIESY - Transsatanizm for the successful crossover of Black Metal, Power Electronics, and 1990's Industrial Rock
  • Runner-Up: KARMACIPHER - Introspectrum for being the only technical blackened disco-death laptop-Japanoise trigger drum fanatics on the planet

The First Annual Leif Gylve Fenris Nagell Pre-Posthumous Award for Excellence in Deathrock and/or Black 'n' Roll

The Aaron Turner award for being the best Aaron Turner to release three or more Aaron Turner albums in a year

Bonus: Best Non-Metal Album by a Metal Person

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