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| List of years in heavy metal music |
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| (table) |
This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2020.
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | Necrodeath | Neraka (EP) [202] |
| 3 | Ad Infinitum | Chapter I: Monarchy [203] |
| August Burns Red | Guardians [204] | |
| Blaze Bayley | Live in Czech (live album) [205] | |
| Bonfire | Fistful of Fire [206] | |
| Conception | State of Deception [207] | |
| Dynazty | The Dark Delight [208] | |
| Red | Declaration [209] | |
| Testament | Titans of Creation [210] | |
| WVRM | Colony Collapse [211] | |
| 10 | Archgoat | Black Mass XXX (live album) [212] |
| Azusa | Loop of Yesterdays [213] | |
| Benighted | Obscene Repressed [214] | |
| Dream On, Dreamer | What If I Told You It Doesn't Get Better [215] | |
| Metal Church | From the Vault (compilation album) [216] | |
| Nightwish | Human. :II: Nature. [217] | |
| 15 | Outrage | Run Riot [218] |
| 17 | Aborted | La Grande Mascarade (EP) [219] |
| Abysmal Dawn | Phylogenesis [220] | |
| The Black Dahlia Murder | Verminous [221] | |
| Cadaver | D.G.A.F. (EP) [222] | |
| Khemmis | Doomed Heavy Metal (EP) [223] | |
| Myrath | Live in Carthage (live album) [224] | |
| Oranssi Pazuzu | Mestarin Kynsi [225] | |
| Turmion Kätilöt | Global Warning [226] | |
| 22 | Matenrou Opera | Chronos (EP) [227] |
| 24 | Axel Rudi Pell | Sign of the Times [228] |
| Cirith Ungol | Forever Black [229] | |
| Danzig | Danzig Sings Elvis (covers album) [230] | |
| Elder | Omens [231] | |
| Katatonia | City Burials [232] | |
| Mantric | False Negative [233] | |
| Trick or Treat | The Legend of the XII Saints [234] | |
| Trivium | What the Dead Men Say [235] | |
| Ulcerate | Stare into Death and Be Still [236] | |
| Warbringer | Weapons of Tomorrow [237] |
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Havok | V [238] |
| Killswitch Engage | Atonement II: B-Sides for Charity (EP) [239] | |
| Orange Goblin | Rough & Ready, Live & Loud (live album) [240] | |
| Vader | Solitude in Madness [241] | |
| Witchcraft | Black Metal [242] | |
| 8 | ...And Oceans | Cosmic World Mother [243] |
| Brant Bjork | Brant Bjork [244] | |
| Destruction | Born to Thrash – Live in Germany (live album) [245] | |
| Forgotten Tomb | Nihilistic Estrangement [246] | |
| Green Carnation | Leaves of Yesteryear [247] | |
| Mekong Delta | Tales of a Future Past [248] | |
| Naglfar | Cerecloth [249] | |
| Oathbreaker | Ease Me & 4 Interpretations (EP) [250] | |
| Secrets of the Moon | Black House [251] | |
| Winterfylleth | The Reckoning Dawn [252] | |
| 15 | Abramelin | Never Enough Snuff [253] |
| AC×DC | Satan Is King [254] | |
| Asking Alexandria | Like a House on Fire [255] | |
| Binary Code | Memento Mori [256] | |
| Firewind | Firewind [257] | |
| Paradise Lost | Obsidian [258] | |
| Ravenscry | 100 [259] | |
| Tokyo Blade | Dark Revolution [260] | |
| Triptykon | Requiem (Live at Roadburn 2019) (live album) [261] | |
| Voodoo Gods | The Divinity of Blood [262] | |
| 22 | Caligula's Horse | Rise Radiant [263] |
| Crossfaith | Species (EP) [264] | |
| Fairyland | Osyrhianta [265] | |
| Killitorous | The Afterparty [266] | |
| Old Man Gloom | Seminar VIII: Light of Meaning [267] | |
| Oz | Forced Commandments [268] | |
| Revenge | Strike.Smother.Dehumanize [269] | |
| Sinister | Deformation of the Holy Realm [270] | |
| Soulfly | Live Ritual NYC MMXIX (EP) [271] | |
| 27 | Novelbright | Wonderland [272] |
| 29 | Acârash | Descend to Purity [273] |
| Alestorm | Curse of the Crystal Coconut [274] | |
| Behemoth | A Forest (EP) [275] | |
| Bleed from Within | Fracture [276] | |
| Centinex | Death in Pieces [277] | |
| Def Leppard | London to Vegas (live album) [278] | |
| Grave Digger | Fields of Blood [279] | |
| Sorcerer | Lamenting of the Innocent [280] | |
| Xibalba | Años en Infierno [281] |
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 16 | Dream Squasher [282] |
| The Ghost Inside | The Ghost Inside [283] | |
| 11 | Power Trip | Live in Seattle – 05.28.2018 (live album) [284] |
| 12 | Anonymus | La Bestia [285] |
| Behold... The Arctopus | Hapeleptic Overtrove [286] | |
| BPMD | American Made (covers album) [287] | |
| Clint Lowery | Grief & Distance (EP) [288] | |
| Lord | Chaos Raining (EP) [289] | |
| Magnus Karlsson's Free Fall | We Are the Night [290] | |
| Michael Angelo Batio | More Machine Than Man [291] | |
| 17 | SiM | Thank God, There Are Hundreds of Ways to Kill Enemies [292] |
| 18 | Protest the Hero | Palimpsest [293] |
| 19 | Alarum | Circle's End [294] |
| Beyond the Black | Hørizøns [295] | |
| Cro-Mags | In the Beginning [296] | |
| Eisregen | Leblos [297] | |
| Lamb of God | Lamb of God [298] | |
| Make Them Suffer | How to Survive a Funeral [299] | |
| Mushroomhead | A Wonderful Life [300] | |
| Rise of the Northstar | Live in Paris (EP) [301] | |
| Spirit Adrift | Angel & Abyss Redux EP (EP) [302] | |
| The Sword | Chronology 2006–2018 (compilation album) [303] | |
| Conquest of Kingdoms (compilation album) [303] | ||
| Trapt | Shadow Work [304] | |
| Trash Talk | Squalor (EP) [305] | |
| 22 | Al-Namrood | Wala'at [306] |
| 25 | Thomas Giles | Feel Better (EP) [307] |
| 26 | Ahab | Live Prey (live album) [308] |
| Carach Angren | Franckensteina Strataemontanus [309] | |
| Emmure | Hindsight [310] | |
| Falconer | From a Dying Ember [311] | |
| Ice Nine Kills | Undead & Unplugged: Live from the Overlook Hotel (EP) [312] | |
| Long Distance Calling | How Do We Want to Live? [313] | |
| Mantar | Grungetown Hooligans II (covers album) [314] | |
| Mike Lepond's Silent Assassins | Whore of Babylon [315] | |
| Paysage d'Hiver | Im Wald [316] | |
| Pyrrhon | Abscess Time [317] | |
| Wino | Forever Gone [318] |
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | Boris | NO [319] |
| Bury Tomorrow | Cannibal [320] | |
| Haunt | Flashback [321] | |
| Henry Derek Elis | All the Pretty Little Horses (EP) [322] | |
| Jesu | Never (EP) [323] | |
| Khemmis | More Songs About Death, Vol. 1 (EP) [324] | |
| Poltergeist | Feather of Truth [325] | |
| Powerwolf | Best of the Blessed (compilation album) [326] | |
| 10 | Crown the Empire | 07102010 [327] |
| Ensiferum | Thalassic [328] | |
| Enuff Z'Nuff | Brainwashed Generation [329] | |
| Kiko Loureiro | Open Source [330] | |
| Static-X | Project: Regeneration Vol. 1 [331] | |
| Voivod | The End of Dormancy (EP) [332] | |
| 17 | Dark Sarah | Grim [333] |
| U.D.O. | We Are One [334] | |
| 24 | The Acacia Strain | Slow Decay [335] |
| Angband | IV [336] | |
| Defeated Sanity | The Sanguinary Impetus [337] | |
| Haken | Virus [338] | |
| Judicator | Let There Be Nothing [339] | |
| Primal Fear | Metal Commando [340] | |
| Valkyrie | Fear [341] | |
| 31 | Alcatrazz | Born Innocent [342] |
| Anneke van Giersbergen | Let the Light In (live album) [343] | |
| Dee Snider | For the Love of Metal Live! (live album) [344] | |
| Disavowed | Revocation of the Fallen [345] | |
| Imperial Triumphant | Alphaville [346] | |
| Katalepsy | Terra Mortuus Est [347] | |
| Lionheart | The Reality of Miracles [348] | |
| Septicflesh | Infernus Sinfonica MMXIX (live album) [349] | |
| Upon a Burning Body | Built from War (EP) [350] |
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | Crystal Lake | The Voyages [351] |
| 7 | Avatar | Hunter Gatherer [352] |
| Batushka | Раскол/Raskol (EP) [353] | |
| Black Crown Initiate | Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape [354] | |
| Blue Öyster Cult | 45th Anniversary – Live in London (live album) [355] | |
| Deep Purple | Whoosh! [356] | |
| In Hearts Wake | Kaliyuga [357] | |
| Krallice | Mass Cathexis [358] | |
| Lord of the Lost | Swan Songs III [359] | |
| Messiah | Fatal Grotesque Symbols – Darken Universe (EP) [360] | |
| Misery Signals | Ultraviolet [361] | |
| Onslaught | Generation Antichrist [362] | |
| Steve Von Till | No Wilderness Deep Enough [363] | |
| 14 | Halestorm | Reimagined (EP) [364] |
| Ingested | Where Only Gods May Tread [365] | |
| Kamelot | I Am the Empire – Live from the 013 (live album) [366] | |
| Primitive Man | Immersion [367] | |
| 21 | Buried Alive | Death Will Find You (EP) [368] |
| Hed PE | Class of 2020 [369] | |
| Incantation | Sect of Vile Divinities [370] | |
| Mad Max | Stormchild Rising [371] | |
| The Obsessed | Live at Big Dipper (live album) [372] | |
| Unleash the Archers | Abyss [373] | |
| Vicious Rumors | Celebration Decay [374] | |
| 28 | Dokken | The Lost Songs: 1978–1981 (compilation album) [375] |
| John Petrucci | Terminal Velocity [376] | |
| Metallica | S&M2 (live album) [377] | |
| Pain of Salvation | Panther [378] | |
| Pig Destroyer | The Octagonal Stairway (EP) [379] | |
| Powerman 5000 | The Noble Rot [380] | |
| Seether | Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum [381] | |
| Shattered Sun | Bled for You [382] | |
| Ulver | Flowers of Evil [383] | |
| Venom | Sons of Satan (compilation album) [384] | |
| Venomous Concept | Politics Versus the Erection [385] |
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | Black Tusk | Years in Black (compilation album) [471] |
| Celebrity Sex Scandal | The Fundamental [472] | |
| Fates Warning | Long Day Good Night [473] | |
| Jeff Scott Soto | Wide Awake (In My Dreamland) [474] | |
| Lionheart | Live at Summer Breeze (live album) [475] | |
| Lords of Black | Alchemy of Souls – Part I [476] | |
| Loudblast | Manifesto [477] | |
| Sólstafir | Endless Twilight of Codependent Love [478] | |
| 7 | Jucifer | نظم [479] |
| 12 | Mina Caputo | The Mones [480] |
| 13 | Intervals | Circadian [481] |
| Jesu | Terminus [482] | |
| Katatonia | Dead Air (live album) [483] | |
| King 810 | AK Concerto No. 47, 11th Movement in G Major [484] | |
| L.A. Guns | Renegades [485] | |
| Macabre | Carnival of Killers [486] | |
| Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons | We're the Bastards [487] | |
| Pyramaze | Epitaph [488] | |
| Soulburn | Noa's D'ark [489] | |
| 20 | Communic | Hiding from the World [490] |
| Contrarian | Only Time Will Tell [491] | |
| Dark Tranquillity | Moment [492] | |
| Ellefson | No Cover (covers album) [493] | |
| Fuck the Facts | Pleine Noirceur [494] | |
| Inquisition | Black Mass for a Mass Grave [495] | |
| Iron Maiden | Nights of the Dead, Legacy of the Beast: Live in Mexico City (live album) [496] | |
| Jinjer | Alive in Melbourne (live album) [497] | |
| Killer Be Killed | Reluctant Hero [498] | |
| Liturgy | Origin of the Alimonies [499] | |
| My Dying Bride | Macabre Cabaret (EP) [500] | |
| Nader Sadek | The Serapeum (EP) [501] | |
| Thrown into Exile | Illusion of Control [502] | |
| Tombs | Under Sullen Skies [503] | |
| 27 | Azarath | Saint Desecration [504] |
| Cadaver | Edder & Bile [505] | |
| Defiance | Checkmate: The Demo Collection (compilation album) [506] | |
| Dream Theater | Distant Memories – Live in London (live album) [507] | |
| Hatebreed | Weight of the False Self [508] | |
| Horse the Band | Your Fault (EP) [509] | |
| Morgan Rose | Controlled Chaos (EP) [510] | |
| Psycroptic | The Watcher of All (EP) [511] | |
| Scour | Black (EP) [512] | |
| Sodom | Genesis XIX [513] | |
| Within the Ruins | Black Heart [514] |
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | Deafheaven | 10 Years Gone (live album) [515] |
| Gama Bomb | Sea Savage [516] | |
| Hollywood Undead | New Empire, Vol. 2 [517] | |
| Iron Mask | Master of Masters [518] | |
| Iron Savior | Skycrest [519] | |
| Persuader | Necromancy [520] | |
| Soilwork | A Whisp of the Atlantic (EP) [521] | |
| 9 | Wes Borland | The Astral Hand [522] |
| 11 | Chris Cornell | No One Sings Like You Anymore, Vol. 1 (covers album) [523] |
| Cro-Mags | 2020 (EP) [524] | |
| Deeds of Flesh | Nucleus [525] | |
| 16 | Nocturnal Bloodlust | The Wasteland (EP) [526] |
| 18 | A Sound of Thunder | Parallel Eternity [527] |
| Ashes of Ares | Throne of Iniquity (EP) [528] | |
| Grayceon | Mothers Weavers Vultures [529] | |
| 24 | Batushka | Black Liturgy (live album) [530] |
| Papa Roach | 20/20 (EP) [531] | |
| 25 | Hate Forest | Hour of the Centaur [532] |