We are pleased to release the Sick Drummer Magazine Favorite Drumming Albums of 2020! Our team has gone back and forth over a few different lists and have decided on these records. They are NOT in any particular order of most to least favorite, but a list alphabetized by the drummer’s first name. Our team considered creativity, groove, originality, musicality, finesse, speed, technicality, and several other factors when compiling our list. We apologize in advance to those we may not have heard… or overlooked. It’s been a crazy year.
Let’s all show our appreciation for these outstanding performances by these outstanding drummers. With the shitstorm 2020 has been for all of us, and the music industry, in particular, we are honored and excited to have these records to listen to and learn from. Please share the links to your favorites, and if you are able, purchase some records and/or merchandise from these artists. Every little bit helps.
Thanks to all these Sick Drummers for giving us such amazing works to enjoy, learn from, and share.
Drummer | Band | Record
Adam Jarvis | Pig Destroyer | The Octagonal Stairway EP
Adam Jarvis | Scour | The Black EP
Alan Cassidy | The Black Dahlia Murder | Verminous
Ali Richardson | Bleed From Within | Fracture
Ali Richardson | Sylosis | Cycle of Suffering
Anthony Barone | Beneath The Massacre | Fearmonger
Austin Archey | Lorna Shore | Immortal
Ben Koller | Killer Be Killed | Reluctant Hero
Bobby Jarzombek | Fates Warning | Longday Goodnight
Bryan Fajardo | Cognizant | Cognizant-Blurring Split
Bryce Butler | Contrarian | Only Time Will Tell
Chad Galley | Necrot | Mortal
Charlie Koryn | Skeletal Remains | The Entombment of Chaos
Chris Golding | Sulaco | Privilege EP
Dan Wilding | Carcass | Despicable EP
Daniel Cece | Krosis | Mount of Sacrifice Redux
Danny Herrera | Napalm Death | Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism
Dave Lombardo | Mr. Bungle | The Raging Wrath of The Easter Bunny Demo
Dennis ‘The Menace’ Ritchie | Macabre | Carnival of Killers
Derek Roddy | Nader Sadek | The Serapeum EP
Dirk Verbeuren | Cadaver | Edder & Bile
Dobber Beverly | Oceans of Slumber | Self-Titled
Eloy Casagrande | Sepultura | Quadra
Igor Cavalera | Deafkids and Petbrick | Deafbrick
James Coppolino | Abysmal Dawn | Phylogenesis
James Stewart | Vader | Solitude in Madness
Jamie Saint Merat | Ulcerate | Stare Into Death and Be Still
JP. Andrade | Kallias | The Fourth Phase
Jon Rice | Umbra Vitae | Shadow of Life
Justin Spaeth | Tombs | Under Sullen Skies
Kai Hahto | Nightwish | Human :||: Nature
Kenny Grohowski | Imperial Triumphant | Alphaville
Kevin Boutot | The Acacia Strain | Slow Decay
Kevin McGuill | Within The Ruins | Black Heart
Kevin Paradis | Benighted | Obscene Repressed
Kyle Severn | Incantation | Sect of Vile Divinities
Lee Fisher | Fawn Limbs | Sleeper Vessels
Lille Gruber | Defeated Sanity | The Sanguinary Impetus
Lyn Jeffs | Ingested UK | Where Only Gods May Tread
Mathieu Vilandré | Fuck the Facts | Pleine Noirceur
Matt Byrne | Hatebreed | Weight of the False Self
Matt DeGroot | Beneath The Hollow | Indoctrination
Ray Hearne | Haken | Virus
Ryan Van Poederooyen | Imonolith | State of Being
Spencer Moore | Inferi | Of Sunless Realms
Tam Moran | Scordatura | Mass Failure
Trynt Kelly | Unmerciful | Wrath Encompassed
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