Too Soon? Axl’s Best of 2020… So Far

In addition to all the other fucked up shit that has happened in 2020 thus far, multiple mental health professionals have now told me I have issues with rage. Moi? Issues with rage?! Gimme a fucking break!! I’LL SHOW YOU ISSUES WITH RAGE, MOTHERFUCKER!!!

Below, in alphabetical order, are the albums that have been keeping me out of prison this year:

-(16)- – Dream Squasher (Relapse)
Abrams – Modern Ways (Sailor)
Black Crown Initiate – Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape (Century Media)
The Black Dahlia Murder – Verminous (Metal Blade)
Calligram – The Eye is The First Circle (Prosthetic)
Descend – The Deviant (Aftermath)
Esoctrilihum – Eternity of Shaog (I, Voidhanger)
Fange – Pudeur (Throatruiner)
Girish and the Chronicles – Rock the Highway (Lion’s Pride Music)
Havok – V (Century Media)
Intronaut – Fluid Existential Inversions (Metal Blade)
Kvelertak – Splid (Rise)
Night Crowned – Impius Viam (Noble Demon)
Oceans of Slumber – Oceans of Slumber (Century Media)
Pilori – À Nos Morts (self-released)
Sojourner – Premonitions (Napalm)
Sylosis – Cycle of Suffering (NB)
Video Nasties – Dominion (APF)
Warbringer – Weapons of Tomorrow (Napalm)

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article omitted several of my picks. I have added those back in. My apologies for the oversights!