TOP 20 Rock Albums of 2020

TOP 20 Rock & ALT Rock Albums of 2020

December 29, 2020 by Jimmy Alvarez

Stick a fork in it, 2020 is done…at least for new music. With most of the music industry being shut down this year, we missed out on all those great festivals, the return to the stage of bands like Rage Against the Machine and System of a Down.

With all that’s going on, or lack thereof… it’s hard to believe we received so many great new albums. All the genres stepped it up in 2020; rock, alt rock, punk, ska, rap, pop, country, reggae and EDM were the soundtrack of our lives over the last 12 months.

Here are the Top 20 Rock & ALT Rock albums that stood out.

BEST of 2020

Honorable Mention – The Bombpops | “Death in Venice Beach” & Beck | Hotwax (Live).

20. Five Finger Death Punch | “F8”

19. Morrissey | “I Am Not a Dog on a Chain”

18. Tame Impala | “The Slow Rush”

17. The 1975 | “Notes on a Conditional Form”

16. The Struts | “Strange Days”

15. Airborne Toxic Event | “Hollywood Park”

14. The Luxembourg Signal | “The Long Now”

13. Pretenders | “Hate for Sale”

12. The Killers | “Imploding the Mirage”

11. Bite Me Bambi | “Hurry Up and Wait”

10. The Suicide Machines | “Revolution Spring”

9. BUSH | “The Kingdom”

8. Foo Fighters | “Medicine at Midnight”

7. AC/DC | “Power Up”

6. Pearl Jam | “Gigaton”

5. Deftones | “Ohms”

4. Dramarama | “Color TV”

3. The Strokes | The New Abnormal

2. X | “Alphabetland”

1. Green Day | “Father of ALL Motherfuckers”

SID 201227 | TRACI TURNER, EDITOR