Best records 2020:
- Fates Warning – Long Day Good Night
- Armored Saint – Punching the Sky
- Long Distance Calling – How Do We Want to Live?
- Benediction – Scriptures
- Zakk Sabbath – Vertigo
- Mr. Bungle – The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny Demo
- Hittman – Destroy All Humans
- Stygian Crown – Stygian Crown
- Katatonia – Dead Air
- Sodom – Genesis XIX
- Bruce Springsteen – Letter to You
- AC/DC – PWR/UP
- Hexx – Entangled in Sin
- Blue Öyster Cult – The Symbol Remains
- Heathen – Empire of the Blind
- Dark Tranquillity – Moment
- Deep Purple – Whoosh!
- Glacier – The Passing of Time
- Die Ärzte – Hell
- Chalice – Trembling Crown
Best cover artwork 2020:
- Fates Warning – Long Day Good Night
- Benediction – Scriptures
- Slaughterday – Ancient Death Triumph
- Sólastafir – Endless Twilight of Codependent Love
- Neànder – eremit

Best concerts 2020:
- Hammerfall – Alsterdorfer Sporthalle, Hamburg
- Epica – Webster Hall, New York
- Long Distance Calling – Hellseatic postoned, Bremen
- The Last Internationale – Cultuurpodium Boerderij, Zoetermeer
- Delain – TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht