The best albums that brought me through 2020.
Synthwave
[5*] ORAX — Film
[5*] Waveshaper — Artifact
[5*] NewRetroWave — Magnatron III
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[4*] Deadlife — Dark Nation
[4*] Waveshaper — The Disk Hunter
[4*] Deadlife — Singularity
[4*] Deadlife — Variations on the Resolve
[4*] Deadlife — Orphan
[4*] Deadlife — City of Eternal Rain
[4*] Robert Parker — Crystal City
[4*] Robert Parker — End of The Night
[4*] Swayze — The Beginning
[4*] Victor Love — Technomancy
[4*] Carbon Based Lifeforms — Derelicts
[4*] NewRetroWave — In Search of Darkness
[4*] CYBERTHING! — KIRA
Rock / Metal …
[5*] Avenged Sevenfold — The Stage (2016, Metal Prog)
[5*] Avenged Sevenfold — Hail to the King (2013, Metal)
[5*] Pain Of Salvation — In the Passing Light of Day (2017, Metal Prog)
[5*] Pain Of Salvation — Panther (2020, Metal Prog)
[5*] IQ — Resistance (2019, Rock Prog)
[5*] No One Is Innocent — Frankenstein (2019, Rock)
[5*] Muse — Simulation Theory (2018, Rock)
[5*] Nas — King’s Disease (2020, Hip-Hop)
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[4*] Leprous — Pitfalls (2019, Metal Prog)
[4*] Fish — A Parley with Angels (2018, Rock Prog)
[4*] Fish — Weltmerz (2020, Rock Prog)
[4*] Anathema — The Optimist (2019, Rock Prog)
[4*] Haken — Aquarius (2010, Rock Prog)
[4*] Haken — Vector (2018, Rock Prog)
[4*] Haken — Virus (2020, Rock Prog)
[4*] Lunatic Soul — Through Shaded Woods (2020, Rock Prog)
[4*] Ozzy Osbourne — Ordinary Man (2020, Metal)
[4*] Ozzy Osbourne — Scream (2010, Metal)
[4*] Mass Hysteria — Matière Noire (2015, Metal)
[4*] Mass Hysteria — Maniac (2018, Metal)
[4*] Seether — Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum (2020, Metal)
[4*] Five Finger Death Punch — 8 (2020, Metal)
[4*] Five Finger Death Punch — And Justice for None (2018, Metal)
[4*] Stereophonics — Kind (2019, Rock)
[4*] Steven Wilson — 12 Things I Forgot (2020, Rock Prog)
[4*] Sam Fenders — Hypersonic Missiles (2019, Rock)
[4*] Deftones — Ohms (2020, Metal)
[3*] The Pineapple Thief — Versions of the Truth (2020, Rock Prog)
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