The ‘Best Of 2020’ On The Rock Solid Pressure Show
Hey Fiends..Here’s the charting positions from our ‘Best Of 2020’ broadcast. Congratulations to all the bands that took honors this year. It was the worst year the world has ever seen due to Covid. But It was another amazing year for new music. Actually, we had more submissions then we’ve ever seen in our 19 year history. ALSO, if you missed the broadcast last night, it should be up on all the podcast platforms now. Again, congrats to all the bands that made the cut this year. This was a tough one.
All the charting positions are submissions from our Record Label Media Partners, and the PR Firms we are associated with. We also chart self released submissions. All submissions have to fit the format for The Rock Solid Pressure Show to be nominated.
*ALBUM OF THE YEAR (Rock/Metal): Static-X: Project Regeneration Vol. 1
*ALBUM OF THE YEAR(Stoner/Doom): Vessel Of Light: Last Ride (Nomad Eel Records)
*SONG OF THE YEAR (Rock/Metal): Cancel Culture by ANGERHEAD
*SONG OF THE YEAR (Stoner/Doom): Lord Lumieres by FENISIA (Eclipse Records)
*EP OF THE YEAR: Book Of The Dead: Bound In Flesh Inked In Blood (Rebel Pyro)
*THE TOP 55 ALBUMS OF 2020 (Rock/Metal)
- STATIC-X: Project Regeneration Vol. 1
- LAMB OF GOD: Lamb Of God (Nuclear Blast)
- SORCERER: Lamenting Of The Innocent (Metal Blade)
- MIKE LePONDS SILENT ASSASSINS: Whore Of Babylon (Silver Lining Music)
- DARK FORTRESS: Spectres From The Old World (Century Media)
- SEPULTURA: Quadra (Nuclear Blast)
- GENUS ORDINIS DEI: Glare Of Deliverance (Eclipse)
- BONDED: Rest In Violence (Century Media)
- THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER: Verminous (Metal Blade)
- WIDERUN: Veil Of Imagination (Century Media)
- THEY MIGHT BE ZOMBIES: Reanimate (Combat)
- ANVIL: Legal At Last (AFM)
- BENEATH THE MASSACRE: Fearmonger (Century Media)
- ENSIFERUM: Thalassic (Metal Blade)
- ORACLE: Hindsight 2020 (Pavement)
- WITHIN THE RUINS: Black Heart (eOne)
- ANNIHILATOR: Ballistic Sadistic (Silver Lining Music)
- OBSIDIAN TIDE: Pillars Of Creation
- BEAR: Propaganda (Pelagic Records)
- CIRITH UNGOL: Forever Black (Metal Blade)
- BLEED FROM WITHIN: Fracture (Century Media)
- IN MALICE’S WAKE: The Blindness Of Faith
- WEREWOLVES: The Dead Are Screaming (Prosthetic)
- ARMORED SAINT: Punching The Sky (Metal Blade)
- SMOKE & MIRRORS: Anthems Of The Quarantine
- ETERNAL DELYRIA: Paradox Of The Mechanical Angel
- PSYKOTRIBE: The Devils Complex (EMP)
- LIK: Misanthropic Breed (Metal Blade)
- SODOM: Genesis XIX (eOne)
- CULT OF LILITH: Mara (Metal Blade)
- EMPYREAL SORROW: Praey
- CYPHER MACHINE: Myopic
- ART OF SHOCK: Dark Angeles (Century Media)
- INFERA BRUO: Rites Of The Nameless (Prosthetic)
- DIAMOND HEAD: Lightning To The Nations 2020 (Silver Lining Music)
- MENTAL DISASTER: The Repulsive Abomination (Death To Music)
- THE OUTFIT: Vikings (Pavement)
- SOULBURN: Noa’s Dark (Century Media)
- CHURCH OF THE DEAD: Church Of The Dead (Stay Heavy)
- WRECK-DEFY: Powers That Be (Sublevel)
- GAMA BOMB: Sea Savage (Prosthetic)
- ACCUSER: Accuser (Metal Blade)
- SIX FEET UNDER: Nightmares Of The Decomposed (Metal Blade)
- KILL RITUAL: The Opaque And The Divine (Dissonance)
- ETHER COVEN: Everything Is Temporary Except Suffering (Century Media)
- ANAAL NATHRAKH: Endarkenment (Metal Blade)
- CALIBRE: The Storm Inside (Downfall)
- NAGLFAR: Cerecloth (Century Media)
- HARLOTT: Detritus Of The Final Age (Metal Blade)
- THE BIRTHDAY MASSACRE: Diamonds (Metropolis)
- ELEGY OF MADNESS: Invisible World (Pride & Joy)
- SORTOUT: Conquer From Within (Dr. Music Records)
- SECRET RULE: Against (Pride & Joy)
- MAGG DYLAN: Amethyst (Eclipse)
- OLD ROGERS REVENGE: Vengeance Of Blackbeard (Pavement)
* THE TOP 50 TRACKS OF 2020 (Rock/Metal)
- ANGERHEAD: Cancel Culture
- AMERICAN TERROR: PC-Me (EMP)
- SUPER MONSTER PARTY: It’s Resident Evil
- PIG: Situation (Armalyte Industries)
- NOTHGARD: Lightcrawler (Metal Blade)
- DEATH DEALER: Every Nation (Steel Cartel)
- ALLIGATOR BLOOD: Death Of A Heretic (Self Righteous)
- SHATTER BRAIN: Pitchfork Justice (Wormhole Death)
- LIONS SHARE: Shotgun Messiah
- CRAFTING THE CONSPIRACY: Dream Sequence
- GARY SCHUTT: There’s A Spider In The House
- TERRADOWN: Black Blood
- TRIAL BY COMBAT: Exsanguination Exite
- ARTILLERY: The Last Journey (Metal Blade)
- PARALYSIS: Tombstone
- RAVENSCROFT: Vengeance Is Mine (Pavement)
- VANKALE: Return To The Fold
- DEIMLER: Your Coffin (Awakening Records)
- HALF TON HAMMER: Surveillance
- ZOMBIEKING: Kings (Pavement)
- CONCRETE: Parasites (Black Voodoo)
- AGAINST THE GRAVE: Bleeding You
- TEMNEIN: A Few Drops Of Blood
- THE ODDEVEN: Again (Pavement)
- AUTUMN LIES BURIED: Last Ride
- WINTERS VERGE: A Thousand Souls (Pride & Joy)
- FATES WARNING: Scars (Metal Blade)
- BEHEMOTH: Shadows Ov Ea Cast Upon Golgotha (Metal Blade)
- PSYCHOSOMATIC: Riot Squadron (Nefarious Industries)
- FALCONER: In Regal Attire (Metal Blade)
- WELICORUSS: Frostbounded (El Puerto Records)
- UNTO THE WOLVES: A Culture Of Machines
- OVERSENSE: White Wolf
- INCANTATION: Fury’s Manifesto (Relapse)
- OPERUS: Book Of Shadows (Pride & Joy)
- CARNEFICINA: Somniphobic
- ANOVA SKYWAY: Diet Of Worms
- CLOCKWORK SKY: Longinus (One Eyed Toad)
- PISSING RAZORS: Left For Dead
- DEVILSKIN: Corrode
- BROTTHOGG: Resurrection
- OF THE FALLEN: Servitude
- CHIP & THE CHARGE UPS: This Bomb Aint Gonna Light Itself
- VIOLENT LIFE VIOLENT DEATH: Dead With Me (Innerstrength)
- CERBERUS: Dusk
- HOUR OF ANQUISH: Oblivion
- VILEST BREED: Big Takeover
- MALFESTED: Masked With Skulls Of The Fallen
- DELUGE: Baine (Metal Blade)
- BLACK MAGNET: Trustfucker (20 Buck Spin)
*THE TOP 10 STONER/DOOM ALBUMS OF 2020
- VESSEL OF LIGHT: Last Ride (Nomad Eel Records)
- HUNTSMEN: Mandela Of Fear (Prosthetic)
- ELDEN: Nostromo (Fuzzorama)
- KIRK WINDSTEIN: Dream In Motion (eOne)
- KANAWHA: The Sky Was The First To Fall
- HORISONT: Sudden Death (Century Media)
- PHLEFONYAAR: We Rest When The Crows Feast
- CRUEL CURSES: Pray For Sun, Plan For Rain
- DEAD LORD: Surrender (Century Media)
- BLACK PYRAMID: Quantum Phoenix (Burnout Records)
*THE TOP 10 STONER/DOOM TRACKS OF 2020
- FENISIA: Lord Lumieres (Eclipse)
- WITCHRIDER: Keep Me Out Of It (Fuzzorama)
- RUFF MAJIC: Swine Tooth Grin (Mongrel Records)
- 16: Sadlands (Relapse)
- CLOSE THE HATCH: Exit Anxiety
- EWIGKEIT: Yesterdays
- ONE STEP FROM FALLING: Rigamortis (Pavement)
- MONKEYSTIK: Wake Up
- DEMISED: In The Creek (Maldito Records)
- SORCIA: Nowhere But Up (Incineration Ceremony)
THE TOP 5 EP’s OF 2020
- BOOK OF THE DEAD: Bound In Flesh Inked In Blood (Rebel Pyro)
- FROM THE RUINS: Into Chaos (No Life Till Metal Records)
- THRASH BANDICOOT: Milwaukee Cannibal
- VICIOUS CIRCLE: Unearthed Precision (Sublevel)
- EXOMNIA: Aftermath (Alcyone Records)
*Before we leave 2020 behind entirely, we’d like to raise a final toast to all the great Musicians, Friends, Family and Actors we lost in 2020…We salute all our fallen brethren and will remember you forever..Save us a place at ‘Stage Left’ at that great gig in the sky..