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Best of 2020

Metal Injection Readers' Top Albums of 2020

metal injection top albums of 2020

Over 30,000 votes have been tallied, and you, the Metal Injection junkies have made your voices heard. These are the albums you deemed to be the best albums of 2020. How does the overall list match with your personal list? Let us know in the comments.

1. Lamb of God ‘Lamb of God’ – 1563 votes – 4.81 %
2. Sepultura ‘Quadra’ – 1319 votes – 4.06 %
3. Deftones ‘Ohms’ – 1146 votes – 3.53 %
4. Trivium ‘What the Dead Men Say’ – 998 votes – 3.07 %
5. The Black Dahlia Murder ‘Verminous’ – 984 votes – 3.03 %
6. Mr. Bungle ‘The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny' – 681 votes – 2.09 %
7. Testament ‘Titans of Creation’ – 649 votes – 2 %
8. Ozzy Osbourne ‘Ordinary Man’ – 612 votes – 1.88 %
9. Code Orange ‘Underneath’ – 597 votes – 1.84 %
10. Igorrr ‘Spirituality and Distortion’ – 561 votes – 1.73 %

11. Killer Be Killed ‘Reluctant Hero’ – 560 votes – 1.72 %
12. Unleash the Archers ‘Abyss’ – 548 votes – 1.69 %
13. Within Destruction ‘Yokai’ – 481 votes – 1.48 %
14. Bleed From Within ‘Fracture’ – 480 votes – 1.48 %
15. Ulcerate ‘Stare Into Death and Be Still’ – 454 votes – 1.4 %
16. Lorna Shore ‘Immortal’ – 439 votes – 1.35 %
17. Anaal Nathrakh ‘Endarkenment’ – 437 votes – 1.34 %
18. Avatar ‘Hunter Gatherer’ – 416 votes – 1.28 %
19. Paradise Lost ‘Obsidian’ – 414 votes – 1.27 %
20. Napalm Death ‘Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism’ – 404 votes – 1.24 %

21. August Burns Red ‘Guardians’ – 393 votes – 1.21 %
22. Witch Taint ‘Sons of Midwestern Darkness' – 385 votes – 1.18 %
23. The Acacia Strain ‘Slow Decay’ – 372 votes – 1.14 %
   Marilyn Manson ‘We Are Chaos’ – 372 votes – 1.14 %
24. The Ocean ‘Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic’ – 366 votes – 1.13 %
25. Ingested ‘Where Only Gods May Tread' – 351 votes – 1.08 %
26. Black Crown Initiate ‘Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape’ – 343 – 1.06 %
27. Dark Tranquillity ‘Moment’ – 342 votes – 1.05 %
28. Katatonia ‘City Burials’ – 318 votes – 0.98 %
29. Loathe ‘I Let it In and it Took Everything’ – 304 votes – 0.94 %
30. Kataklysm ‘Unconquered’ – 298 votes – 0.92 %

31. Gaerea ‘Limbo' – 297 votes – 0.91 %
32. Havok ‘V’ – 295 votes – 0.91 %
   Sylosis ‘Cycle of Suffering’ – 295 votes – 0.91 %
33. Carach Angren ‘Franckensteina Strataemontanus’ – 284 votes – 0.87 %
34. Enslaved ‘Utgard’ – 281 votes – 0.86 %
35. Alestorm ‘Curse of the Crystal Coconut’ – 280 votes – 0.86 %
36. Poppy ‘I Disagree’ – 276 votes – 0.85 %
37. Body Count ‘Carnivore’ – 272 votes – 0.84 %
38. Haken ‘Virus’ – 267 votes – 0.82 %
39. Necrophobic ‘Dawn of the Damned’ – 260 votes – 0.8 %
40. Nightwish ‘Human. :II: Nature.’ – 253 votes – 0.78 %
   Uada ‘Djinn' – 253 votes – 0.78 %

41. Protest the Hero ‘Palimpsest’ – 243 votes – 0.75 %
42. Necrot ‘Mortal’ – 240 votes – 0.74 %
43. Warbringer ‘Weapons of Tomorrow’ – 236 votes – 0.73 %
44. Imperial Triumphant ‘Alphaville’ – 235 votes – 0.72 %
   Oranssi Pazuzu ‘Mestarin Kynsi’ – 235 votes – 0.72 %
45. Bury Tomorrow ‘Cannibal’ – 233 votes – 0.72 %
46. Polaris ‘The Death of Me’ – 210 votes – 0.65 %
47. Vader ‘Solitude in Madness’ – 206 votes – 0.63 %
48. Make Then Suffer ‘How to Survive a Funeral’ – 193 votes – 0.59 %
49. Currents ‘The Way it Ends' – 191 votes – 0.59 %
50. Benediction ‘Scriptures’ – 190 votes – 0.58 %
   Heaven Shall Burn ‘Of Truth and Sacrifice’ – 190 votes – 0.58 %

51. Kvelertak ‘Splid’ – 189 votes
52. Pallbearer ‘Forgotten Days’ – 186 votes
53. Spirit Adrift ‘Enlightened In Eternity’ – 184 votes
54. Venom Prison ‘Primeval’ – 178 votes
55. Intronaut ‘Fluid Existential Inversions’ – 173 votes
56. Sodom ‘Genesis XIX' – 172 votes
57. Cabal ‘Drag Me Down' – 163 votes
58. Draconian ‘Under a Godless Veil’ – 161 votes
59. Orbit Culture ‘Nija' – 160 votes
60. Skeletal Remains ‘The Entombment of Chaos’ – 151 votes

61. The Ghost Inside ‘The Ghost Inside’ – 148 votes
62. Beneath the Massacre ‘Fearmonger’ – 147 votes
63. Caligula's Horse ‘Rise Radiant' – 144 votes
64. Armored Saint ‘Punching the Sky’ – 142 votes
65. Midnight ‘Rebirth by Blasphemy’ – 139 votes
66. Dance Gavin Dance ‘Afterburner’ – 138 votes
   My Dying Bride ‘The Ghost of Orion’ – 138 votes
67. DevilDriver ‘Dealing with Demons I’ – 132 votes
68. ACxDC ‘Satan is King' – 131 votes
69. Finntroll ‘Vredesvavd’ – 128 votes
70. Static-X ‘Project Regeneration Vol. 1' – 127 votes

71. Sevendust ‘Blood & Stone’ – 126 votes
72. Inferi ‘Sunless Realms’ – 125 votes
73. Suicide Silence ‘Become the Hunter’ – 123 votes
74. Amaranthe ‘Manifest’ – 120 votes
   In This Moment ‘Mother’ – 120 votes
75. Elder ‘Omens’ – 119 votes
76. Bodysnatcher ‘This Heavy Void’ – 113 votes
77. Ensiferum ‘Thulassic' – 112 votes
   Myrkur ‘Folkesange’ – 112 votes
79. Delain ‘Apocalypse & Chill' – 105 votes
80. Incantation ‘Sect of Vile Divinities’ – 100 votes

81. Vulkan ‘Technatura’ – 98 votes
82. Oceans of Slumber ‘Oceans of Slumber’ – 96 votes
   Poema Arcanvs ‘Stardust Solitude’ – 96 votes
83. Automb ‘Chaosophy' – 95 votes
84. Wake ‘Devouring Ruin’ – 94 votes
85. Fates Warning ‘Long Day Good Night’ – 93 votes
86. Demons & Wizards ‘III’ – 91 votes
87. Havukruunu ‘Uinuos Syömein Sota' – 90 votes
   Svalbard ‘When I Die, Will I Get Better' – 90 votes
88. Plini ‘Impulsive Voices' – 88 votes
89. Within the Ruins ‘Black Heart’ – 86 votes
   Xibalba ‘Anos En Infierno’ – 86 votes
90. Aversions Crown ‘Hell Will Come For Us All' – 83 votes
   Invent, Animate ‘Greyview' – 83 votes

91. Primitive Man ‘Immersion’ – 82 votes
92. Abysmal Dawn ‘Phylogenesis’ – 81 votes
93. Cytotoxin ‘Nuklearth' – 79 votes
94. Green Carnation ‘Leaves of Yesteryear’ – 78 votes
95. The Amity Affliction ‘Everyone Loves You… Once You Leave’ – 77 votes
96. Winterfylleth ‘The Reckoning Dawn’ – 76 votes
97. Emmure ‘Hindsight’ – 75 votes
98. Eternal Champion ‘Ravening Iron' – 72 votes
   Jupiterian ‘Protosapien’ – 72 votes
   Mushroomhead ‘A Wonderful Life’ – 72 votes
   Pain of Salvation ‘Panther’ – 72 votes
99. Of Feather & Bone ‘Sulfuric Disintegration' – 69 votes
100. Cirith Ungol ‘Forever Black’ – 67 votes

Runners Up

Solstafir ‘Endless Twilight of Codependent Love’ – 67 votes
Bear ‘Propaganda’ – 66 votes
Six Feet Under ‘Nightmares of the Decomposed’ – 65 votes
Mora Prokaza ‘By Chance’ – 64 votes
Hazzerd ‘Delirium’ – 61 votes
Alpha Wolf ‘A Quiet Place to Die' – 59 votes
Cloudkicker ‘Solitude’ – 58 votes
Ayreon ‘Transitus’ – 57 votes
Fuck the Facts ‘Pleine Noirceur’ – 56 votes
Earth Rot ‘Black Tides of Obscurity' – 55 votes
Intervals ‘Circadian’ – 55 votes
Psychonaut ‘Unfold The God Man' – 55 votes
Boris ‘No’ – 54 votes
Sons of Apollo ‘MMXX’ – 54 votes
Sumac ‘May You Be Held’ – 54 votes
Firewind ‘Firewind’ – 52 votes
Tombs ‘Under Sullen Skies’ – 52 votes
Scardust ‘Strangers’ – 51 votes
Wolfheart ‘Wolves of Karelia' – 51 votes
Dark Fortress ‘Spectres from the Old World' – 50 votes
Psychotic Waltz ‘The God-Shaped Void’ – 50 votes
Nothing ‘The Great Dismal’ – 48 votes

Lucifer ‘Lucifer III’ – 46 votes
156/Silence ‘Irrational Pull' – 45 votes
Ulthar ‘Providence’ – 44 votes
Xenobiotic ‘Mordrake’ – 44 votes
Binary Code ‘Memento Mori’ – 42 votes
The Night Flight Orchestra ‘Aeromantic’ – 42 votes
Ignea ‘The Realms of Fire and Death’ – 41 votes
Good Tiger ‘Raised in a Doomsday Cult’ – 37 votes
Pyrrhon ‘Abscess Time’ – 37 votes
Elephant Tree ‘Habits’ – 36 votes
Nero Di Marte ‘Immoto’ – 31 votes
Voices of Ruin ‘Path to Immortality’ – 30 votes
Reflections ‘Willow' – 29 votes
Antagonist ‘Gone is the Light’ – 27 votes
Azusa ‘Loop of Yesterdays’ – 27 votes
Envy ‘The Fallen Crimson’ – 27 votes
Vampire Squid ‘Reinventing the Eel’ – 27 votes
Let Us Prey ‘Virtues of the Vicious’ – 26 votes
Covet ‘Technicolor’ – 24 votes
War On Women ‘Wonderful Hell’ – 24 votes

16 ‘Dream Squasher' – 23 votes
Higher Power ‘27 Miles Underwater' – 23 votes
Leaves' Eyes ‘The Last Viking’ – 23 votes
Plague Years ‘Circle of Darkness' – 22 votes
The Fall of Troy ‘Mukiltearth’ – 22 votes
An Autumn For Crippled Children ‘All Fell Silent, Everything Went Quiet’ – 19 votes
Krallice ‘Mass Cathexis' – 19 votes
Medico Peste ‘The Black Bile’ – 18 votes
Brant Bjork ‘Brant Bjork’ – 17 votes
Sharptooth ‘Transitional Forms’ – 17 votes
Exist ‘Egoiista’ – 16 votes
Grave Digger ‘Fields of Blood’ – 16 votes
Huntsmen ‘Mandala of Fear' – 16 votes
In the Company of Serpents ‘Lux' – 16 votes
Neck of the Woods ‘The Annex of Ire’ – 16 votes
Abrams ‘Modern Ways’ – 15 votes
Al Namrood ‘Wala’at' – 8 votes
Ascension of the Watchers ‘Apocrypha’ – 7 votes
Ether Coven ‘Everything is Temporary Except Suffering’ – 7 votes
Sicarius ‘God of Dead Roots’ – 7 votes
Stinky ‘Of Lost Things’ – 7 votes
Insect Ark ‘The Vanishing’ – 6 votes
Nitesoil ‘Abusement Park’ – 1 votes

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