DutchMetalManiac End of the Year Lists 2020

Hey DutchMetalManiac readers,

First of all, I hope you are all doing well under the shitty circumstances of 2020 and in case you aren’t, please keep in mind that better times will come!

I want to thank all of you for reading our articles and I hope you will also enjoy our upcoming posts! 

I also want to thank DutchMetalManiac’s current writers Glenn, Julia, Henric, Martijn, Alessandro, René and Patrick as well as our former writers.

Furthermore I also want to thank all the bands, labels, promoters and venues that we’ve worked with or will work with in the future, because without them there would be no DutchMetalManiac.

Personally I also want to thank everybody around me for supporting me and DutchMetalManiac.

As always around the end of the year you’ll find our end of the year lists of 2020 below.

We’ll have a short break from now on and we will be back in January for a very heavy (in a good way!) 2021! \m/

I hope you enjoy our end of the year lists and I hope to see you back next year.

I hope you, under these circumstances, still have a Merry Xmas and a happy new year with a lot of metal!

\m/

Tim van Velthuysen

End of the Year Lists 2020

Julia Obenauer

1. Dark Tranquillity – Moment (live review Rotterdam, live review Pratteln, end of year lists 2016)
2. Sólstafir – Endless Twilight of Codependent Love (end of year lists 2017, live review Haarlem)
3. Conception – State of Deception (review)
4. Mercury Circle – The Dawn of Vitriol
5. Mors Principium Est – Seven (end of year lists 2017, review other album)
6. Destruction – Born to Thrash: Live in Germany (end of year lists 2016)
7. Skálmöld – 10 Year Anniversary: Live in Reykjavík (end of year lists 2018, end of year lists 2017, live review Munchen, review other album)
8. Gotthard – #13
9. Kreator – London Apocalypticon: Live at the Roundhouse (live review Nijmegen, end of year lists 2017)
10. Alestorm – Curse of the Crystal Coconut (review, live review Nijmegen, review other album)

Henric van Essen

1. Mors Principium Est – Seven (end of year lists 2017, review other album)
2. Velkhanos – The Wrath (interview, review)
3. Elune – An Ancient Journal (Promoting Bands)
4. Angelcrypt – Dawn of the Emperor (Promoting Bands)
5. Swarmageddon – Inhuman
6. Allelic – À Contre Vent
7. Heathen Foray – Weltenwandel
8. Atavistia – The Winter Way
9. Trivium – What the Dead Men Say
10. One More Word – Wheel of Suffering (review)

Martijn Bakker

1. Celestial Season – The Secret Teachings (review)
2. Aurium – The Second Sun (interview, review)
3. Nightwish – Human. :II: Nature. (review, end of year lists 2019, live review Nijmegen, end of year lists 2016, end of year lists 2015, live review Amsterdam)
4. Fluisteraars – Bloem (review, review other album)
5. Angellore – Rien ne devait mourir (review)
6. Igorrr – Spirituality and Distortion (live review Nijmegen)
7. Fluisteraars – Relaas (review other album, review other album)
8. Apocalyptica – Cell-O (end of year lists 2015, live review Amsterdam)
9. Oceans of Slumber – Oceans of Slumber (live review Tilburg, review other album, live review Leeuwarden)
10. On Thorns I Lay – Threnos (end of year lists 2018)

Alessandro

1. Annihilator – Ballistic, Sadistic (end of year lists 2017)
2. Primal Fear – Metal Commando (end of year lists 2018, review other album, end of year lists 2016)
3. Sepultura – Quadra (end of year lists 2019, end of year lists 2017)
4. Seether – Sic Vis Pacem, Parebellum
5. Dokken – Lost Songs 1978-1981
6. Raven – Metal City
7. Magnum – The Serpent Rings
8. Blue Öyster Cult – The Symbol Remains
9. Armored Saint – Punching the Sky (live review Eindhoven)
10. AC/DC – Pwr Up

Runner-up: Pikes Edge (interview, end of year lists 2016, review other album)

Patrick Kundegraber

1. Alestorm – Curse of the Crystal Coconut (review, live review Nijmegen, review other album)
2. Midgard – Tales of Kreia (review)
3. In Extremo – Kompass zur Sonne (review, end of year lists 2016, review other album)
4. Feuerschwanz – Das Elfte Gebot (review)
5. Warkings – Revenge (review)
6. Mandaground – Enlightenment
7. Dendera – Reborn Into Darkness (review)
8. Amaranthe – Manifest (review)
9. Killer Be Killed – Reluctant Hero (review)
10. Toblakai – Puritans Hand (review)

René Müller

1. Havukruunu – Uinuos Syömein Sota
2. Katavasia – Magnus Venator (review)
3. Testament – Titans of Creation (live review Eindhoven)
4. Countless Skies – Glow (review, interview + other album stream, review other album)
5. Drouth – Excerpts From A Dread Liturgy (review)
6. Cirkeln – Kingdoms That No One Remembers (review)
7. Nero or the Fall of Rome – Beneath the Swaying Fronds of Elysian Fields
8. Wayfarer – A Romance With Violence (review)
9. Fortíð – World Serpent (review)
10. Ovnev – Transpiration (review)

Tim van Velthuysen

1. Aleah – Aleah
2. En Minor – When the Cold Truth Has Worn Its Miserable Welcome Out
3. Poppy – I Disagree
4. Myrkur – Folkesange (Promoting Bands, live review Nijmegen, review other album, end of year lists 2017, review other album, live review Amsterdam, end of year lists 2015, Promoting Bands)
5. Paradise Lost – Obsidian (preview Eindhoven, end of year lists 2015, live review Utrecht)
6. Zeal & Ardor – Wake of a Nation (live review Nijmegen, live review Haarlem, end of year lists 2018, Promoting Bands)
7. Fever 333 – Wrong Generation
8. In Extremo – Kompass zur Sonne (review, end of year lists 2016, review other album)
9. Frei.Wild – Corona Quarantäne Tape
10. Scour – Black EP (Promoting Bands)