Thunder Underground

In this episode we cover our Top 20 albums of 2020. We kick the episode off with talk about some near misses, some non hard rock favorites (Sturgill Simpson, Chis Stapleton, Orville Peck, The Struts), our official honorable mentions from Mitch Perry Group. Dirty Shirley, Ozzy Osbourne, Black Stone Cherry, Avatar and Killer Be Killed, why we left Richie Kotzen and Me and That Man off our lists, love for EPs from Junkyard, Nixons, Soilwork, love for the cover explosion from Charlie Benante and friends, cover albums from Ellefson, Chris Cornell, Clutch and BPMD, and a look to 2021 with Damon Johnson, Evergrey, Saxon, Lajon Witherspoon and more. We then get into our Top 20 countdown: Thunder Underground's Top 20 of 2020: 1 Armored Saint - Punching the Sky 2 Testament - Titans of Creation EP 273 3 Body Count - Carnivore 4 Kirk Windstein - Dream in Motion EP 29 / 79 5 Hatebreed - Weight of the False Self EP 196 BYRNE / 260 FRANK / CS WAYNE 6 Night Flight Orchestra - Aeromatic 7