2020 has been an... interesting year. While real-life circumstances has left much to be desired, this year's music releases has done their fair share to compensate for the shitshow outside. This is only the third year we've done these lists of records, and it's been both very entertaining finding and picking those who truly excel, and equally tiresome to listen to hours of mediocre records. Of course, some of us have had long lists of records we've want to draw attention to, but for your sake (and our sanity's), we've condensed or list into neat categories and nice round numbers

As a small media, we cover what we can during the year, where we do the best we can. We wanna thank every artist, band, label, and so on out there for making this year a year full of music that set new boundaries and healed more lives. We would not have existed without you. This is Metal To Go's best of 2020!

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J.C.L.

Runners up:

Scáth na Déithe - The Dirge of Endless Mourning

Mörk Gryning - Hinsides Vrede

Paysage d'Hiver - Im Wald

Illkynja - Sæti Sálarinnar

Void Prayer - The Grandiose Return to the Void

Aran - Veden Varjoista

Odraza - Rzeczom

Vassafor - III - To The Death

Ôros Kaù - Imperii Templum Aries

Vspolokh - Pomre

Onwards! Next category is Best Danish metal release of 2020. Some might be looking for specific works here, but since I might have worked on those myself (being a musician and all), these won't be included here.

Next Category is Best short release, aka EP's

Also, my pick for this year's best cover artwork is:¨

Atramentus - Stygian (Painted by Mariusz Lewandowski)

Finally, the Redemption of releases from before 2020. This short list is a selection of albums which I missed in 2019, and feel like they could have impacted last years judgement significantly. So here, with apologies to the respective artists is: