2020 Reviews

On this page you can find all articles I wrote in 2020 organized on one page. The articles are organized counter chronologically. Click on the cover to read the article. Or use the searchform below to search for a specific release from 2020 by name.

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Silent Skies – Satellites – Album Review

Countless Skies – Glow – Album Review

Dark Tranquillity – Moment – Album Review

My Dying Bride – Macabre Cabaret – EP Review

Sólstafir – Endless Twilight Of Co-Dependent Love – Album Review

Communic – Hiding From The World – Album Review

Wolverine – A Darkened Sun – Review

Avandra – Skylighting – Album Review

Pyramaze – Epitaph – Album Review

Necrophobic – Dawn Of The Damned – Album Review

Fates Warning – Long Day Good Night – Album Review

Draconian – Under A Godless Veil – Album Review

Mörk Gryning – Hinsides Vrede – Album Review

DGM – Tragic Separation – Album Review

Perduratum – Exile’s Anthology – EP Review

Carcass – Despicable – EP Review

Mors Principium Est – Seven – Album Review

Cult Of Lilith – Mara – Album Review

Helion Prime – Question Everything – Album Review

Soul Secret – Blue Light Cage – Album Review

Enslaved – Utgard – Album Review

Dynfari – Myrkurs er þörf – Album Review

Amaranthe – Manifest – Album Review

Kataklysm – Unconquered – Album Review

Structural Disorder – Kingdom Crossing – EP Review

Skeletal Remains – The Entombment Of Chaos

PreHistoric Animals – The Magical Mystery Machine (Chapter One) – Album Review

Ihsahn – Pharos – EP Review

Hinayana – Death Of The Cosmic – EP Review

Oceans Of Slumber – Oceans Of Slumber – Album Review

Okyr – Premorbid Intelligence – Album Review

Manticora – To Live To Kill To Live – Album Review

Pain Of Salvation – Panther – Album Review

Vanishing Point – Dead Elysium – Album Review

Unleash The Archers – Abyss – Album Review

Veonity – Sorrows – Album Review

Nyktophobia – What Lasts Forever – Album Review

Ages – Uncrown – Album Review

Awake By Design – Awake By Design – Album Review

Black Crown Initiate – Violent Portraits Of Doomed Escape – Album Review

Gaerea – Limbo – Album Review

Buried Realm – Embodiment Of The Divine – Album Review

Navian – Reset – EP Review

Selenseas – The Outer Limits – Album Review

Albums still to come in 2020

Quantum – The Next Breath Of Air – EP Review

Ensiferum – Thalassic – Album Review

Battle Born – Battle Born – EP Review

The best albums of 2020 so far…the second quarter…AKA ‘the pandemic months’

Long Distance Calling – How Do we Want To Live? – Album Review

Sorcerer – Interview 2020 – ‘Lamenting Of The Innocent’ – “Songwriting…is heart breaking…and painful”

Airbag – A day At The Beach – Album Review

Re-Armed – Ignis Aeternum – Album Review

Atavist – III: Absolution – Album Review

Frost* – Others – EP Review

Darker Half – If You Only Knew – Album Review

Atavistia – The Winter Way – Album Review

Astralborne – Eternity’s End – Album Review

Centinex – Death In Pieces – Album Review

Haken – Virus – Album Review

Pile Of Priests – Pile Of Priests – Album Review

Haken – Interview 2020 Part 2 – Virus – ‘This is our passion, our love and our life’

Haken – Interview 2020 Part 1 – Virus – ‘music prevails in the end’

Sorcerer – Lamenting Of The Innocent – Album Review

Lesoir – Mosaic – Album Review

Temnein – Tales: Of Humanity And Greed – Album Review

Caligula’s Horse – Rise Radiant – Review

…And Oceans – Cosmic World Mother – Album Review

Vader – Solitude In Madness – Album Review

Shrapnel – Palace For The Insane – Album Review

Sinisthra – The Broad And Beaten Way – Album Review

Paradise Lost – Obsidian – Album Review

Naglfar – Cerecloth – Album Review

Forgotten Tomb – Nihilistic Estrangement – Album Review

Winterfylleth – The Reckoning Dawn – Album Review

Firewind – Firewind – Album Review

An Autumn For Crippled Children – All Fell Silent, Everything Went Quiet – Album Review

Havok – V – Album Review

Helfró – Helfró – Album Review

Victoria K – Essentia – Album Review

Cryptex – Once Upon A Time – Album Review

Thy Despair – The Song Of Desolation – Album Review

Cirith Ungol – Forever Black – Album Review

Igorrr – Spirituality and Distortion – Album Review

Nightwish – HUMAN. II: NATURE. – Album Review

Katatonia – City Burials – Album Review

Wolfheart – Wolves Of Karelia – Album Review

Asenblut – Die Wilde Jagd – Album Review

Nicumo – Inertia – Album Review

The Black Dahlia Murder – Verminous – Album Review

Omega Infinity – Solar Spectre – Album Review

Symbolik – Emergence – Album Review

Pure Reason Revolution – Eupnea – Album Review

Irist – Order Of The Mind – Album Review

Testament – Titans Of Creation – Album Review

The best albums of 2020 so far…three months in

Ilium – Carcinogeist – Album Review

Dawn Of Ouroboros – The Art Of Morphology – Album Review

Torchia – The Coven – Album Review

Novena – Eleventh Hour – Album Review

Ashes Of Life – Seasons Within – Album Review

Dynazty – The Dark Delight – Album Review

Sutrah – Aletheia – EP Review

Welicoruss – Siberian Heathen Horde – Album Review

Myth Of I – Myth Of I – Album Review

My Dying Bride – The Ghost Of Orion – Album Review

Infirmum – Walls Of Sorrow – Album Review

Live Review: A Swedish Adventure with Evergrey and Sorcerer – 28 February 2020, Kulturbolaget, Malmö

Inno – The Rain Under – Album Review

Kvaen – The Funeral Pyre – Album Review

Mindtech – Omnipresence – Album Review

Dark Fortress – Spectres From The Old World – Album Review

The Oneira – Injection – Album Review

Night Crowned – Impius Viam – Album Review

Dead Serenity – Beginnings – EP Review

The Night Flight Orchestra – Aeromantic – Album Review

Deadrisen – Deadrisen – Album Review

Blaze Of Perdition – The Harrowing Of Hearts – Album Review

Godsticks – Inescapable – Album Review

Isle Of The Cross – Excelsis – Album Review

Demons & Wizards – III – Album Review

Vredehammer – Viperous – Album Review

H.E.A.T – H.E.A.T II – Album Review

Psychotic Waltz – The God-Shaped Void – Album Review

Into The Open – Destination Eternity – Album Review

Lunarsea – Earthling/Terrestre – Album Review

Pure Wrath – The Forlorn Soldier – EP Review

Sylosis – Cycle Of Suffering – Album Review

Sepultura – Quadra – Album Review

Dyscordia – Delete / Rewrite – Album Review

Godthrymm – Reflections – Album Review

On Thorns I Lay – Threnos – Album Review

God Dethroned – Illuminati – Album Review

Fragment Soul – A Soul Inhabiting Two Bodies – Single Review

Mariana Semkina – Sleepwalking – Album Review

Mini Album Reviews: Moloken, The Driftwood Sign & Midnight

Serenity – The Last Knight – Album Review

Ihsahn – Telemark – EP Review

Temperance – Viridian – Album Review

Blasphemer – The Sixth Hour – Album Review

Anticipated Album Releases in 2020 – Part 4

Deathwhite – Grave Image – Album Review

Marko Hietala – Pyre Of The Black Heart – Album Review

SWMM – Trail Of The Fallen – Album Review

Into Pandemonium – Darkest Rise – EP Review

Bonded – Rest In Violence Album Review

Serious Black – Suite 226 – Album Review

Darktribe – Voici L’Homme – Album Review

Brothers Of Metal – Emblas Saga – Album Review

A Life Divided – Echoes – Album Review

Thoughts Factory – Elements – Album Review

Anticipated Album Releases in 2020 – Part 3

The Top 10 Individual Songs of 2019

Anticipated Album Releases in 2020 – Part 2

Andy Gillion – Neverafter – Album Review

Anticipated Album Releases in 2020