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Loudwire's 70 Best Rock + Metal Albums of 2020
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AC/DC - Power Up
November 13, 2020
Hard Rock
Critic Score
77
23
reviews
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Spotify
Akhlys - Melinoë
December 14, 2020
Atmospheric Black Metal
Critic Score
90
2 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
All Time Low - Wake Up Sunshine
April 3, 2020
Pop Rock
Critic Score
77
6
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Alpha Wolf - A Quiet Place to Die
September 25, 2020
Metalcore
Critic Score
80
1 review
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Armored Saint - Punching the Sky
October 23, 2020
Heavy Metal
Critic Score
80
1 review
Amazon
iTunes
Music
August Burns Red - Guardians
April 3, 2020
Metalcore
Critic Score
78
4
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Avatar - Hunter Gatherer
August 7, 2020
Melodic Death Metal
Critic Score
70
2 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Bütcher - 666 Goats Carry My Chariot
January 31, 2020
Thrash Metal
Amazon
Black Stone Cherry - The Human Condition
October 30, 2020
Hard Rock
Critic Score
75
4
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Body Count - Carnivore
March 6, 2020
Crossover Thrash
Critic Score
59
6
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Bring Me The Horizon - POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR
October 30, 2020
Alternative Metal
Critic Score
75
11
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Code Orange - Underneath
March 13, 2020
Metalcore
Critic Score
84
15
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Corey Taylor - CMFT
October 2, 2020
Hard Rock
Critic Score
67
10
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Creeper - Sex, Death & the Infinite Void
July 31, 2020
Pop Rock
Critic Score
89
11
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Dark Tranquillity - Moment
November 20, 2020
Melodic Death Metal
Critic Score
68
4
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Deep Purple - Whoosh!
August 7, 2020
Hard Rock
Critic Score
67
7
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Deftones - Ohms
September 25, 2020
Alternative Metal
Critic Score
85
28
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Demons & Wizards - III
February 21, 2020
Power Metal
Critic Score
80
1 review
Amazon
Enslaved - Utgard
October 2, 2020
Progressive Metal
Critic Score
87
3 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Fake Names - Fake Names
May 8, 2020
Power Pop
Critic Score
73
3 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
FEVER 333 - WRONG GENERATION
October 23, 2020
Post-Hardcore
Critic Score
85
2 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Five Finger Death Punch - F8
February 28, 2020
Groove Metal
Critic Score
68
5
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Greg Puciato - Child Soldier: Creator of God
October 9, 2020
Darkwave
Critic Score
80
4
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Gulch - Impenetrable Cerebral Fortress
July 24, 2020
Metalcore
Critic Score
79
1 review
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Haken - Virus
July 24, 2020
Progressive Metal
Critic Score
82
3 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Hayley Williams - Petals for Armor
May 8, 2020
Art Pop
Critic Score
79
28
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Hum - Inlet
June 23, 2020
Shoegaze
Critic Score
80
9
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Igorrr - Spirituality and Distortion
March 27, 2020
Avant-Garde Metal
Critic Score
78
3 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Imperial Triumphant - Alphaville
July 31, 2020
Avant-Garde Metal
Critic Score
86
5
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
In This Moment - Mother
March 27, 2020
Alternative Metal
Critic Score
55
2 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
John Petrucci - Terminal Velocity
August 28, 2020
Critic Score
70
1 review
Amazon
Katatonia - City Burials
April 24, 2020
Alternative Metal
Critic Score
82
7
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Killer Be Killed - Reluctant Hero
November 20, 2020
Groove Metal
Critic Score
78
7
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Kvelertak - Splid
February 14, 2020
Hardcore Punk
Critic Score
81
9
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Lamb of God - Lamb of God
June 19, 2020
Groove Metal
Critic Score
78
11
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Loathe - I Let It in and It Took Everything
February 7, 2020
Metalcore
Critic Score
76
5
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Machine Gun Kelly - Tickets To My Downfall
September 25, 2020
Pop Punk
Critic Score
66
8
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Marilyn Manson - WE ARE CHAOS
September 11, 2020
Alternative Rock
Critic Score
78
15
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Midnight - Rebirth By Blasphemy
January 24, 2020
Heavy Metal
Critic Score
80
2 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Mr. Bungle - The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo
October 30, 2020
Thrash Metal
Critic Score
73
9
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Napalm Death - Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism
September 18, 2020
Grindcore
Critic Score
84
10
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Nightwish - HUMAN. :II: NATURE.
April 10, 2020
Symphonic Metal
Critic Score
70
6
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Nova Twins - Who Are The Girls?
February 28, 2020
Alternative Metal
Critic Score
79
6
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Ozzy Osbourne - Ordinary Man
February 21, 2020
Heavy Metal
Critic Score
77
18
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Palaye Royale - The Bastards
May 29, 2020
Glam Rock
Critic Score
63
3 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Pallbearer - Forgotten Days
October 23, 2020
Doom Metal
Critic Score
79
10
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Pearl Jam - Gigaton
March 27, 2020
Alternative Rock
Critic Score
78
32
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Polaris - The Death Of Me
February 21, 2020
Metalcore
Critic Score
80
1 review
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Poppy - I Disagree
January 10, 2020
Alternative Metal
Critic Score
69
19
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Puscifer - Existential Reckoning
October 30, 2020
Critic Score
74
6
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Seether - Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum
August 28, 2020
Alternative Metal
Critic Score
68
4
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Sepultura - Quadra
February 7, 2020
Thrash Metal
Critic Score
77
9
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Sevendust - Blood & Stone
October 23, 2020
Alternative Metal
Critic Score
76
5
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Skeletal Remains - The Entombment of Chaos
September 11, 2020
Critic Score
73
3 reviews
Amazon
Sons Of Apollo - MMXX
January 17, 2020
Amazon
Spectral Lore & Mare Cognitum - Wanderers: Astrology of the Nine
March 13, 2020
Atmospheric Black Metal
Amazon
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Static-X - Project Regeneration, Vol. 1
July 10, 2020
Critic Score
79
4
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Stone Temple Pilots - Perdida
February 7, 2020
Acoustic Rock
Critic Score
74
6
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Sylosis - Cycle Of Suffering
February 14, 2020
Thrash Metal
Critic Score
80
1 review
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Tallah - Matriphagy
October 2, 2020
Nu Metal
Critic Score
80
1 review
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Testament - Titans of Creation
April 3, 2020
Thrash Metal
Critic Score
76
8
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
The Black Dahlia Murder - Verminous
April 17, 2020
Melodic Death Metal
Critic Score
83
4
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
The Bombpops - Death in Venice Beach
March 13, 2020
Pop Punk
Critic Score
100
1 review
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
The Ghost Inside - The Ghost Inside
June 5, 2020
Metalcore
Critic Score
82
5
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
The Smashing Pumpkins - CYR
November 27, 2020
Synthpop
Critic Score
59
29
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
The Struts - Strange Days
October 16, 2020
Pop Rock
Critic Score
70
6
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Trivium - What The Dead Men Say
April 24, 2020
Metalcore
Critic Score
77
6
reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown - Pressure
October 16, 2020
Critic Score
75
2 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Ulcerate - Stare Into Death And Be Still
April 24, 2020
Death Metal
Critic Score
90
3 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
Unleash The Archers - Abyss
August 21, 2020
Power Metal
Critic Score
75
2 reviews
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
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https://loudwire.com/best-rock-metal-albums-2020/
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