Experimentalism is thankfully on the rise, as. Heavy, experimental, interesting you name it. Some of these albums already feel like they've been part of my life for years given all that's happened and how often they've been played by me during all of this. One of the main vehicles helping us during these crazy times is music. to compensate for my natural inclination, this year it feels okay to just go with the flow a bit. My taste is certainly showing in my list, I'll admit, and while in other years I might have tried to control for that by deliberately including some more industrial, black metal, crust, etc. ![]() Still, there was, as always, an embarrassment of riches, so many good records that, aside from a few I could finger right now as appearing on my proper end-of-year list, the rest is basically plucked from a whim. I didn’t include it here because you already know you love Ulcerate.Everyone loves Ulcerate.Ulcerate is as close to a consensus pick as is possible in May of 2020. In the midst of all of this, heavy metal was still happening, even as releases slowed or got pushed way, way back to compensate. PS: Yes, Ulcerate released a new album.Stare into Death and Be Still was unsurprisingly given a stamp of approval and the metal Twitterverse has declared it the Record o’ the Year. ![]() The Australian wildfires feel like they were a year ago or more, but in truth were only a few months, while the entirety of COVID-19/quarantine era plus the most recent (and absolutely righteous and long-deserved) round of Black Lives Matter protests have swept up the world. ![]() It's never easy to pick a clean ten for a mid-year list, but 2020 had a harder go at it than most.
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