30 Best Metal Albums of 2020
Of all the things 2020 was a terrible year for, metal was not one of them. There were countless great releases all across the spectrum of heavy music this year, and even with our weekly metal song roundups, the weekly metal album roundups over at Invisible Oranges, and the several metal albums we reviewed this year in Notable Releases, it can be hard to keep up with all of it. But in order to help narrow things down, we ve put together a list of 30 metal albums from 2020 that we highly recommend listening to if you haven t done so already.
The Best Metal Albums of 2020
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The heavy metal band Eternal Champion are led by singer Jason Tarpey, whose vocals share a bellowing timbre with Ozzy Osbourne in the â80s, and whose ideas cannot be contained by his music, so he has to flesh them out with fantasy novels with titles like
The Godblade. His are stories of fallen kings and cosmic deities, full of intricate world-building and violent action sequences. When you see the band live, he can often be found center stage, raising a huge, glimmering sword toward the heavens.
Ravening Iron is the Texas bandâs second album, following 2016âs
The Armor of Ire, but they already feel like lifers. Tarpey is also the vocalist of Iron Age, while guitarist Blake Ibanez plays in Power Trip and the other three membersâbassist Brad Raub, guitarist John Powers, and multi-instrumentalist and producer Arthur Rizkâare members of the similarly epically scaled Sumerlands. Together, they treat Eternal Champion as a kind of fantasy