At first I set out to put together a list of my favorite 20 songs of the year (just like I did previously with my favorite albums of the year), but after a day or so of thinking and writing them down, I quickly realized that the list was greater than 20 and in the end, I had a list of 50 songs.
Well, I shrunk it down to 40 and then decided - what the hell am I doing? All of these songs are great. And I loved each one of them and each one deserves to be on the list. Each and every one of them.
So, here's my 40 favorite songs of the dumpster fire year that was 2020 - once again, in no specific order:
1. Within the Ruins - Black Heart
2. Architects - Animals
3. Foo Fighters - Shame Shame
4. Code Orange - Swallowing the Rabbit Whole
5. Unleash the Archers - Abyss
6. Machine Gun Kelly - Bloody Valentine
7. Poppy - Anything Like Me
8. Spirit Adrift - Screaming From Beyond
9. Green Day - Oh Yeah!
10. The Pretty Reckless - Death by Rock and Roll
11. Deftones - Urantia
12. Adelitas Way - Habit
13. Pop Evil - Work
14. Joyous Wolf - Odyssey
15. Tallah - L.E.D.
16. Black Stone Cherry - Again
17. Lady Gaga - 911
18. Armored Saint - End of the Attention Span
19. Spirit Box - Holy Roller
20. Run the Jewels - Holy Calamafuck
21. Ayron Jones - Take Me Away
22. AC/DC - Shot in the Dark
23. Hawk - CLVRMFKR
24. Avatar - Silence in the Age of Apes
25. Trivium - Amongst the Shadows and the Stones
26. Midnight - Fucking Speed and Darkness
27. August Burns Red - Defender
28. Metal Church - Dead on the Vine
29. Lamb of God - Memento Mori
30. Mr. Bungle - Bungle Grind
31. Royal Blood - Trouble's Coming
32. Hatebreed - When the Blade Drops
33. Stone Temple Pilots - Fare Thee Well
34. Bring Me The Horizon - Parasite Eve
35. Rob Zombie - The Triumph of King Freak (A Crypt of Preservation and Superstition)
36. Pearl Jam - Dance of the Clairvoyants
37. The Violent - Fly on the Wall
38. Smith & Myers - Not Mad Enough
39. Asking Alexandria - They Don't Want What We Want (And They Don't Care)
40. Them Evils - Where Ya Gonna Crash Tonight?
