STAFF PICKS: Torbjorn Solgard’s Top Albums of 2020



2020..What can I say? A year where Poppy releases a metal album and Glenn Danzig does an album of Elvis covers (for real go look it up)! Seriously though I think it was a bad year for everyone. Luckily there was some killer music to help us all get through. So, I’ve compiled a list of what helped me. This list was a lot harder to make than I first thought it was going to be so much good stuff out there. To be clear though, this isn’t a “best of” it’s just a list of my personal fav’s this year. So, enough bullshittin’ I present to you Torbjorn‘s 13.

13. Fumarole – Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes

12. Mondo Generator – Fuck It

11. Yatra – All Is Lost

10. Wolftooth – Valhalla

9. Black Rainbows – Cosmic Ritual Supertrip

8. Old Man Gloom – Seminar VIII: Light of Meaning

7. Primitive Man – Immersion

6. Mr. Bungle – The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo

5. Deftones – Ohms

4. Kataklysm – Unconquered

3. The Black Dahlia Murder – Verminous

2. Sepultura – Quadra

1. Napalm Death – Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism