A brit Metal Hammer szerkesztősége a 2020-as albumok közül az alábbiakat tartotta a legjobb 30-nak.

1. DEFTONES – Ohms (Warners)

2. NAPALM DEATH – Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism (Nuclear Blast)

3. CODE ORANGE – Underneath (Roadrunner)

4. ORANSSI PAZUZU – Mestarin Kynsi (Nuclear Blast)

5. SVALBARD – When I Die, Will I Get Better? (Church Road)

6. A.A. WILLIAMS – Forever Blue (Bella Union)

7. OCEANS OF SLUMBER – Oceans Of Slumber (Century Media)

8. TRIVIUM – What The Dead Men Say (Roadrunner)

9. ENSLAVED – Utgard (Nuclear Blast)

10. IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT – Alphaville (Century Media)

11. PARADISE LOST – Obsidian (Nuclear Blast)

12. LOATHE – I Let It In And It Took Everything (Sharptone)

13. CRYPTIC SHIFT – Visitations From Enceladus (Blood Harvest)

14. PALLBEARER – Forgotten Days (Nuclear Blast))

15. TESTAMENT – Titans Of Creation (Nuclear Blast))

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16. BURY TOMORROW – Cannibal (Music For Nations))

17. LAMB OF GOD – Lamb Of God (Nuclear Blast))

18. ULCERATE – Stare Into Death And Be Still (Debemur Morti))

19. ULVER – Flowers Of Evil (House Of Mythology))

20. MARYLIN MANSON – We Are Chaos (Loma Vista))

21. TOUCHE AMORÉ – Lament (Epitaph))

22. JONATHAN HULTÉN – Chants from Another Place (Kscope))

23. PAYSAGE D’HIVER – Im Wald ( Kunsthall Produktionen))

24. MIDNIGHT – Rebirth (Metal Blade))

25. EMMA RUTH RUNDLE & THOU – May Our Chambers Be Full (Sacred Bones Records)

26. KVELERTAK – Splid (Rise)

27. BACKXWASH – God Has Nothing To Do With This Leave Him Out Of It (Grimalkin)

28. WINTERFYLLETH – The Reckoning Dawn (Candlelight)

29. THE OCEAN – Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic (Metal Blade)

30. SEPULTURA – Quadra (Nuclear Blast)