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The Saint Vitus Bar co-owner and booker reflects on 2020 and lists some of his favorite music of the year, including releases from HUM, Gulch, Ulcerate, Nothing, Deftones, Pallbearer, Jesu, Jessie Ware, Oranssi Pazuzu, Lido Pimienta, Chubby and the Gang, Freddie Gibbs and The Alchemist and more.

From Napalm Death to Ulcerate to Black Curse to Faceless Burial to Boris to Necrot, here are our favorite metal albums of the year...

Necrot, Spirit Adrift, Napalm Death, Sweven, Pallbearer, Crowbar's Kirk Windstein, Oranssi Pazuzu, and more... what do you think of their list?

It benefits the Movement for Black Lives and also features Modern Life Is War, Burn, Primitive Man, END, SECT, Racetraitor, Xibalba, Amygdala, All Torn Up! (ft. Stza Crack), and many others...

The stacked comp benefits the Movement for Black Lives and also features Modern Life Is War, Burn, Primitive Man, END, SECT, Amygdala, All Torn Up! (ft. Stza Crack), Cult Leader, Terminal Nation, Dawn Ray'd, Vile Creature, and more...

Tributes to Riley have been pouring in from all over the metal and hardcore communities, including from Converge, Lamb of God, Hatebreed, Thursday, La Dispute, Overkill, Kreator, Harms Way, Fucked Up, Trash Talk, Coheed, Full of Hell, Turnstile, and still many, many more...

It's been a killer year for hardcore so far, thanks to these releases by Gulch, Rotting Out, Drain, Year of the Knife, and more...

plus Joan as Police Woman, Dougie Poole, and more livestreams you can watch today since there are no live concerts to attend.

This stacked week's Notable Releases include Chelsea Wolfe's new band Mrs. Piss, Lady Gaga's return to dance-pop, Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist's new collab LP, Preservation's guest-filled LP, Medhane's second LP of 2020, and more...

New songs from Ulthar, Neurosis' Steve Von Till, -(16)-, Living Gate (mem YOB, Oathbreaker, etc), two Tool-related projects, Xibalba, and more.