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A year with almost an endless amount of killer releases. Many of which won't be on this list. Decided to just do 40 this time since 2020 did produce many more great releases than previous years. These aren't all the best but they were my favorites for the year. I don't care to explain why each album made the list.

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Don't see your favorite on the list? Fuck Off!!

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January 19th "Best of 2020" part 2

Merciless Onslaught w/Hellpreacher

LIVE Tuesday from 10pm-1am EST

Only at mercilessonslaught.listen2myshow.com

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Playlist for episode HERE
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Darkspell  "Into the Darkness"
Incremate  "Mortal Domain"
Dehuman Reign  "Descending Upon the Oblivious"
S.N.O  "The Mutated Lifeform"

40. Darkspell

"Into the Darkness"

(ThreeMetal Forces Distro)

39. Incremate

"Mortal Domain"

(German Democratic Recordings)

38. Dehuman Reign

"Descending Upon the Oblivious"

(F.D.A. Records)

37. S.N.O

"The Mutated Lifeform"

(Independent)

Evoker  "Evil Torment"
Kryptamok  "Verisaarna"
Sadistic Drive  ""Anthropophagy"
Pustilence  "The Birth of the Beginning Before the Inception of the End"

36. Evoker

"Evil Torment"

(Blood Harvest)

35. Kryptamok

"Verisaarna"

(Purity Through Fire)

34. Sadistic Drive

""Anthropophagy"

(Headsplit Records)
(La Caverna Records)

33. Pustilence

"The Birth of the Beginning Before the Inception of the End"

(Independent)

Schizophreni  "Voices"

32. Schizophrenia

"Voices"

(Dying Victims Productions)

(Redefining Darkness Records)

Miasmatic Necrosis  "Apex Profane"

31. Miasmatic Necrosis

"Apex Profane"

(Goatgrind Records)

Evil Incarnate  "Depopulation Agenda"
Ymir

29. Ymir

"S/T"

(Werewolf Records)

30. Evil Incarnate

"Depopulation Agenda"

(Bestial Burst)

Kommodus
Coffin Curse  "Ceased to Be"
Venator  "Paradiser"
Dearth  "To Crown All Befoulment"

28. Kommodus

"S/T"

(GoatowaRex)

27. Coffin Curse

"Ceased to Be"

(Memento Mori)

26. Venator

"Paradiser"

(Dying Victims Productions)

25. Dearth

"To Crown All Befoulment"

(Sentient Ruin Laboratories)

Flame  "Ignis Spiritus"
Evoke  "Seeds of Death"
Pharmacist  ""Medical Renditions of Grinding Decomposition"
Infesticide  "Envenoming Wounds"

24. Flame

"Ignis Spiritus"

(Primitive Reaction)

23. Evoke

"Seeds of Death"

(Pulverised Records)

22. Pharmacist

""Medical Renditions of Grinding Decomposition"

(Bizarre Leprous Production)

21. Infesticide

"Envenoming Wounds"

(Blood Harvest)

Churchacide  "Abhorrent Others"
Witches Hammer  "Damnation Is My Salvation"
Altar of Gore  "Obscure & Obscene Gods"
Deadlight Sanctuary  "Thaumaturgical Rites of the Damned"

20. Churchacide

"Abhorrent Others"

(Antichriconoclast Productions)

19. Witches Hammer

"Damnation Is My Salvation"

(Nuclear War Now! Productions)

18. Altar of Gore

"Obscure & Obscene Gods"

(Independent)

17. Deadlight Sanctuary

"Thaumaturgical Rites of the Damned"

(Sentient Ruin Laboratories)

(Iron Bonehead Productions)

Front  "Antichrist Militia"

16. Front

"Antichrist Militia"

(Iron Bonehead Productions)

Kurnugia  "Forlorn and Forsaken"
Maquahuitl  "At the Altar of Mictlampa"
Hecatomb  "Horrid Invocations"

15. Kurnugia

"Forlorn and Forsaken"

(Memento Mori)

14. Maquahuitl

"At the Altar of Mictlampa"

(Balamkú Records)

13. Hecatomb

"Horrid Invocations"

(Independent)

Cardiac Arrest  "The Day That Death Prevailed"
Sanctifying Ritual
Slagmark  "Purging Sacred Soils"
Boundless Chaos  "Of Death and Perdition"

12. Cardiac Arrest

"The Day That Death Prevailed"

(Memento Mori)

(Headsplit Records)

11. Sanctifying Ritual

"S/T"

(Iron Bonehead Productions)

10. Slagmark

"Purging Sacred Soils"

(Purity Through Fire)

9. Boundless Chaos

"Of Death and Perdition"

(Independent)

Svolder  "The Beast's Mercenaries"
Malicious  "Deranged Hexes"
Perdition Temple  "Sacraments of Descension"
Cultus Profano  "Accursed Possession"

8. Svolder

"The Beast's Mercenaries"

(Doomsday Elite)

(Lower Silesian Stronghold)

7. Malicious

"Deranged Hexes"

(Invictus Productions)

6. Perdition Temple

"Sacraments of Descension"

(Hells Headbangers Records)

5. Cultus Profano

"Accursed Possession"

(Debemur Morti Productions)

Siege Column  "Darkside Legions"
Abigor  "Totschläger (A Saintslayer's Songbook)"
Black Curse "Endless Wound"
Omegavortex "Black Abomination Spawn"

4. Siege Column

"Darkside Legions"

(Nuclear War Now! Productions)

3. Abigor

"Totschläger (A Saintslayer's Songbook)"

(World Terror Committee)

2. Black Curse

"Endless Wound"

(Sepulchral Voice Records)

1. Omegavortex

"Black Abomination Spawn"

(Invictus Productions)

Here's some other releases that

didn't make the list worth mentioning.

 

click on band name for bandcamp link

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Succubus Seducers

Thirsty Demon

Cemetery Dwell

Luna in Sanguinem

Totenwache

Engulfed

Deogen

Empty Chalice

Century

Storm Siege

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