My Picks: 10 Best Albums of 2020

Writer’s year-end note.

Hello everyone! This year is truly feels like only a day in my life. The Covid-19 pandemic has created devastation all around the globe, and the health crisis turned out to be a broader catastrophic and creates sudden and/or slow and steady changes to other sector like economy and business, social, culture, and probably the hardest-hit one: travel. Personally I think, though my business got affected too, but slowly but likely the atmosphere this pandemic creates (particularly the lockdowns) somewhat favors me: cleaner sky, more sleep, less noise, less outside routine with more time to do things at home that I don’t do normally (like washing, cooking, TV amongst other).

How about music business? Yes, the pandemic also bring in changes. The hardest-hit one is concerts. When this is going back to normal? Nobody knows the date for sure. Some says summer next year, some say in 2022. But one interesting change to notice here that as musicians was put on lockdown like most of people in the world, mostly back in the early months when the virus first struck, they start creating songs, and more songs. There are probably more fast-recorded songs and albums this year than any other year before which resulted in more surprise releases, although there are some delayed releases for some reasons too. So talking about album releases, there are plenty to catch out. So below, I made a short list of my favorite rock albums this year, just check it out!

One more thing, thank you for reading our blog, and let’s hope for a better year in 2021. Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year!!

Top 10 Albums of 2020.

10.  Blue Öyster Cult (Frontiers) – “The Symbol Remains”. Release date: October 9th.
9.  Paul McCartney (Capitol) – “McCartney III”. Release date: December 18th.
8.  Pearl Jam (Republic) – “Gigaton”. Release date: March 27th.
7.  Deep Purple (earMUSIC) – “Whoosh!”. Release date: August 7th.
6.  The Strokes (RCA) – “The New Abnormal”. Release date: April 10th.
5.  The Killers (Island) – “Imploding the Mirage”. Release date: August 21st.
4.  Trivium (Roadrunner) – “What the Dead Men Say”. Release date: April 24th.
3.  Bruce Springsteen (Columbia) – “Letter to You”. Release date: October 23rd.
2.  Deftones (Reprise) – “Ohms”. Release date: September 25th.
1.  AC/DC (Columbia) – “Power Up”. Release date: November 13th.

My Picks: 15 Best Song/Single of 2020

Hi all! Counting down to the end of the year, and now it’s time for me to share my favorite picks of song/single released this year. I’d like to hear yours also, so leave it in comment section below!

Top 15 song/single.

15.  Weezer (Atlantic) – “Hero”. Album: Van Weezer (2021).

14.  System of a Down (Columbia) – “Protect the Land”. Album: non-album song/single.

13.  Bring Me the Horizon (Sony/RCA) – “Obey”, feat. Yungblud. Album: Post Human: Survival Horror.

12.  Pearl Jam (Republic) – “Superblood Wolfmoon”. Album: Gigaton.

11.  Nightwish (Nuclear Blast) – “Noise”. Album: Human. :II: Nature.

10.  Deep Purple (earMUSIC) – “Throw My Bones”. Album: Whoosh!.

9.  Ozzy Osbourne (Epic) – “Ordinary Man”, feat. Elton John. Album: Ordinary Man.

8.  Bruce Springsteen (Columbia) – “Ghosts”. Album: Letter to You.

7.  The Killers (Island) – “Caution”. Album: Imploding the Mirage.

6.  Greta van Fleet (Lava/Republic) – “My Way, Soon”. Album: The Battle at Garden’s Gate (2021).

5.  Liam Gallagher (Warner) – “All You’re Dreaming Of”. Album: non-album song/single.

4.  The Strokes (RCA) – “At the Door”. Album: The New Abnormal.

3.  AC/DC (Columbia) – “Shot in the Dark”. Album: Power Up.

2.  Trivium (Roadrunner) – “Catastrophist”. Album: What the Dead Men Say.

1.  Deftones (Reprise) – “Ohms”. Album: Ohms.

Most Anticipated Albums of 2019

Here are my personal picks for most anticipated studio album release next year.

10) System of a Down (Q2 2019): After years of waiting there is so much hope that they are finally get the record done next year.

9) The Offspring (Q2 2019): There is a signal that double album is coming. Who knows?

8) Dream Theater (Feb 2019): The first song is available and one thing for sure, it’s still sounds like Dream Theater, so the full album needs to be checked out.

7) Pearl Jam (Q2 2019): The politically-charged song released this year hopefully not influencing the whole album next year. We need songs written and sounding with pure emotion, not blind rage.

6) AC/DC (Q3 2019): We need to hear from Brian and Angus again for some time, so the next album is a must have. Axl/DC could be an alternate option, though.

5) Megadeth (Q3 2019): The last album is pretty good, so we hope they’ll bring something great again for next year.

4) Deftones (Q2 2019): They said they are working on the next record, so we hope to get to hear them again soon.

3) Rammstein (Q1 2019): Production for the album seemed halfway done. So interesting to hear their new sound after a decade.

2) Slipknot (Q2 2019): If ‘All Out Life’, indicating the sound of the record, that would be pretty awesome, back to their heavier, older stuff.

1) Tool (Q2 2019): Yes, even a tiny updates on the new album made us mad. In late months, the talks about album recording seemed to be true, so new album is expected to drop finally next year!!

So, what are your list?