We have now entered the final month of 2022, and that begins the final countdown to the end of the year. In the world of metal, this month we’ll also start seeing more and more lists of the year’s best releases.
Back in 2009, when this site was just a few days old, I wrote a post about year-end lists and why people bother with them. The best reason still seems to be this: Reading someone else’s list of the albums they thought were best is a good way to discover music you missed and might like.
We don’t do an “official” NCS year-end “best albums” list. However, we publish the picks of each of our regular staff writers as well as a group of invited guests, in addition to lists that we re-post from a few print zines and “big platform” online sites.
Every year we also invite our readers to share their lists and we’re doing that again right here, right now.
If you’ve been pondering what you’ve heard this year and have made your own list of the albums, EPs, or splits released in 2022 that you think are the best of what you’ve heard, we invite you to share it with everyone in the Comments section to this post. And if you haven’t made a list yet but want to, there’s still plenty of time (read below).
We don’t have any hard-and-fast rules about year-end lists. Your list doesn’t have to be a specific number — it doesn’t have to be a “Top 10″ or “Top 20″ list, it could be a Top 2 list or a Top 15, or any other number.
And it doesn’t have to be a cross-genre list, i.e., the best of all metal you’ve heard this year. It could be the best death metal, or the best black metal, or the best grind, or the best crust or doom or prog or thrash metal, and on and on — pretty much whatever you want to do and feel comfortable doing, as long as it fits your definition of metal.
Don’t be shy, and don’t worry about being judged — if you haven’t figured it out already, it ain’t our style nor is it usually the style of our commenters to ridicule what someone else thinks is great metal.
And if you don’t have a list ready yet, no sweat, because you can come back to this post whenever you like and add your list later — or comment on the lists others have posted. I’ll put a link to this post at the top right side of every page so people can find it quickly — look for the link to 2022 NCS READERS’ YEAR-END LISTS. That will make the comments to this post a collection point for “Best of” readers’ lists. And that link will stay on our page from now through this time in 2023.
Last year we had 95 comments on this invitation, and I think that says something about how interested people are in seeing each other’s lists and reacting to them. So start thinking and start commenting (please, and thank you).
~Islander
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Disillusion – Ayam
Fit For an Autopsy – Oh What the Future Holds
Greg Puciato – Mirrorcell
Dead Register – Alive
Greyhaven – This Bright and Beautiful World
Oceans of Slumber – Starlight and Ash
Thoughtcrimes – Altered Pasts
Cave In – Heavy Pendulum
Soilwork – Overgivenheten
Counterparts – A Eulogy to Those Still Here
Not a cvlt list but there it is.
1. Ether Coven – The Relationship Between the Hammer and the Nail
2. Gaerea – Mirage
3. Mother of Graves – Where the Shadows Adorn
4. Slowbleed – The Blazing Sun, A Fiery Dawn
5. The Chapter – Delusion of Consciousness
6. Nostromo – Bucephale
7. Jade – The Pacification of Death
8. Hundred Year Old Man – Sleep in Light
9. Fit for an Autopsy – Oh What the Future Holds
10. Ulltha – All That Has Never Been True
11. The Otolith – Folium Limina
12. Disillusion – Ayam
13. Tribal Gaze – The Nine Choirs
14. Reeking Aura – Blood and Bonemeal
15. Dream Unending – Song of Salvation
Oops, accidentally left out Gloson – The Rift, which should have been at #3
1 – Aeviterne – The Ailing Facade
2 – Artificial Brain – Artificial Brain
3 – Scarcity – Aveilut
4 – Ashenspire – Hostile Architecture
5 – Cosmic Putrefaction – Crepuscular Dirge for the Blessed Ones
6 – Inanna – Void of Unending Depths
7 – Black Death Cult – Diaspora
8 – Wormrot – Hiss
9 – Imperial Triumphant – Spirit of Ecstasy
10 – Spider God – Fly in the Trap
20) The Otolith – Folium Limina
19) Aara – Triade II: Hemera
18) Gaerea – Mirage
17) Ultha – All That Has Never Been True
16) Devil Master – Ecstacies of Never Ending Night
15) Undeath – Rise From the Grave
14) Inexorum – Equinox Vigil
13) Saor – Origins
12) Ripped to Shreds – 劇變 (Jubian)
11) Elder – Innate Passage
10) Lykotonon – Promethean Pathology
9) Dreadnought – The Endless
8) Imperial Triumphant – Spirit of Ecstacy
7) Zeal and Ardor – s/t
6) Falls of Rauros – Key to a Vanishing Future
5) Krallice – Crystalline Exhaustion
4) Krallice – Pyschagogoue
3) Blackbraid – I
2) Gudsforladt – Friendship Love and War
1) Blood Incantation – Timewave Zero
SHORTS
Tchornobog/Abyssal split
Tomb Mold – Aperture of Body ep
Mizmor – Wit’s End
Lamp of Murmuur/Ebony Pendant split
Silent Thunder – Thousand Hammers demo
Moonlight Sword – Elven Blood demo
Fugitive – Maniac EP
Panopticon – The End is Growing Near EP
Hulder – The Eternal Fanfare EP
Worm – Bluenothing EP
Disillusion – Ayam
Oceans of Slumber – Starlight and Ash
Greg Puciato – Mirrorcell
Cult of Luna – The Long Road North
Fit for an Autopsy – Oh What the Future Holds
Greyhaven – This Bright and Beautiful World
Soilwork – Overgivenheten
Counterparts – A Eulogy for Those Still Here
Amorphis – Halo
Oooops sorry.
Favorite Music for 2022
Mother of Graves – Where The Shadows Adorn
Temple of Void – Summoning the Slayer
Worm – Bluenothing
Astral Tomb – Soulgazer
Botch – one twenty two
Greyhaven – This Bright and Beautiful World
Blood Incantation – Timewave zero
Amon Amarth – Great Heathen Army
Rody Walker – Velocicopter EP
Soul Blind – Feel it all Around
Ive got a fuller list, but for sharing, this top 10 works quite well to snapshot my year.
Nechochwen – Kanawha Black
Doldrum – The Knocking
Barn – Habitat
Artificial Brain – Artificial Brain
Elder – Innate Passage
Wormrot – Hiss
Autonoesis – Moon of Foul Magics
Blut Aus Nord – DIsharmonium
Epitaphe – II
Miscreance – Convergence
Of course a few EPs also made big dents.
Vile Rites – The Ageless
Speglas – Time, Futility & Death
Haunter – Discarnate Ails
Yeah that Miscreance album was notable this year.
Wormrot
Massen
White Ward
Gudsforladt
Final Light
Fellowship
Deathspell Omega
Charlie Griffiths
Universally Estranged
A Pregnant Light
Αχέροντας – Malocchio – The Seven Tongues of Δαημων
ColdWorld – Isolation
Djevel – Naa skrider natten sort
Gaerea – Mirage
Hath – All That Was Promised
Hierophant – Death Siege
Liminal Shroud – All Virtues Ablaze
Mizmor & Thou – Myopia
Pure Wrath – Hymn to the Woeful Hearts
Ultha – All That Has Never Been True
Vananidr – Beneath the Mold
Witcher – Lélekharang
Great picks!
ColdWorld – Isolation { I have listened to this consistently since release, just awesome}
Nice to see Αχέροντας – Malocchio – The Seven Tongues of Δαημων in the top spot. Also my top pick of the year.
Molder-Engrossed In Decay
Obscene-…From Dead Horizon to Dead Horizon
Phobophilic-Enveloping Absurdity
Midnight-Let There Be Witchery
Jesus Wept-Psychedelic Degeneracy
Coldworld – Isolation
Devil Master – Ecstasies Of Never Ending Night
La Mer – Death Verses
Pure Wrath – Hymm To The Woeful Hearts
Vanum – Legend
Al-Namrood – Warship The Degenerate
Grafvitnir – Tunes Of Sitra Ahra
Temple- Sins And Punishments
Gnome – King
I did not hear a ton of metal…but here is what I got…It always changes a lot after Andy posts his lists…
1. Gaerea – Mirage
2. The Chapter – Delusion of consciousness
3. Gloson – The Rift
4. Wake – Thought Form Descent
5. Claimstaker – Bury Us In Shadows
6. Second to Sun – Nocturnal Philosophy
7. Disillusion – Ayam
8. Jade – The Pacification of Death
9. Gevurah – Gehinnom
10. GGU:LL – EX EST
11. Panzerfaust – The Suns of Perdition – Chapter III: The Astral Drain
12. Black Anvil – Regenesis
13. Coldworld – Isolation
14. Veilburner – VLBRNR
15. The Otolith – Folium Limina
16. Embrace of Thorns – Entropy Dynamics
17. Brutus – Unison Life
18. Aeviterne – The Ailing Façade
19. Chrome Ghost – House of Falling Ash
20. Holy Fawn – Dimensional Bleed
ooh–Embrace of Thorns. I didnt have time to listen to that one enough in time for year-end lists.
One?
Try three…they did a full length, an EP, and a demo this year
Laparotomy – Ascendancy Through Hypnagogic Thought Process
Toxik – Dis Morta
Scarcity – Aveilut
High Command – Eclipse of the Dual Moons
Universally Estranged – Dimension of Deviant Clusters
Floating – The Waves Have Teeth
Kathaaria – To Be Shunned By All…As Centres Of Pestilence
Battlegrave – Cavernous Depths
Critical Defiance – No Life Forms
Furis Ignis – Decapitate The Aging World
Heads for the Dead – The Great Conjuration
Vexation – Trepidation Reigns
Devil Master – Ecstasies Of Never Ending Night
Non-metal : black midi, Alvvays, Black Country New Road, Soul Glo
This was a great year.
So much good stuff this year, tried to make it 10 or 15 but failed miserably.
Amorphis- Halo
Blackbraid- I
Darkthrone- Astral Fortress
Exhumed- To The Dead
Immolation- Acts Of God
Fellowship- The Saberlight Chronicles
Feral Light- Psychic Contortions
Gudsforladt- Friendship, Love and War
Gutvoid- Durance Of Lightless Horizons
Maul- Seraphic Punishment
Midnight- Let There Be Witchery
Miscreance- Convergence
Morbikon- Ov Mournful Twilight
Mortuous- Upon Desolation
Molder- Engrossed In Decay
Negative Plane- The Pact
Phobophilic- Enveloping Absurdity
Riot City- Electric Elite
Saor- Origins
Satan- Earth Eternal
Sigh- Shiki
Sumerlands- Dreamkiller
To The Dogs- Light The Fires
Voivod- Synchro Anarchy
White Ward- False Light
Also loved the EPs from Berator, Kanonenfieber and Worm
Get out of my head! Glad to see another extreme metal fan repping Fellowship!
Immolation – Acts of God
High Command – Eclipse of the Dual Moons
Fellowship – The Saberlight Chronicles
Castrator – Defiled to Oblivion
Pure Wrath – Hymn to the Woeful Hearts
Hulder – The Eternal Fanfare
Escuela Grind – Memory Theater
Blackbraid – Blackbraid I
Visions of Atlantis – Pirates
Phobophilic – Enveloping Absurdity
For the record…I will absolutely ridicule you for your music choices
Top 10 for me:
1. Wilderun – Epigone
2. Sigh – Shiki
3. Zeal & Ardor – Zeal & Ardor
4. Strigoi – Viscera
5. Septicflesh – Modern Primitive
6. Aeternam – Heir of the Rising Sun
7. Sentient Horror – Rites of Gore
8. Pillaging Villagers – Pillaging Villagers
9. Imperial Circus Dead Decaence – Mogari
10. Heads for the Dead – The Great Conjuration
I’m just gonna throw five standout releases out there, for my taste…
Qrixkuor ‘Zoetrope’ (very late but would be a crime to ignore!)
Universally Estranged ‘Dimension of Deviant Clusters’
Altars ‘Ascetic Reflection’
Antichrist Imperium ‘Volume III Satan in His Original Glory
Corpsessed ‘Succumb to Rot’
Note to self..
Don’t forget;
Autopsy ‘Morbidity Triumphant’
Blut Aus Nord ‘Disharmonium’
(Idiot!?)
25. Daeva – Through Sheer Will & Black Magic…
24. Inexorum – Equinox Vigil
23. misanthropæ – Untitled
22. Egregore – The Word of His Law
21. Terzij De Horde – In One Of These, I Am Your Enemy
20. Dreadnought – The Endless
19. Doldrum – The Knocking, Or The Story Of The Sound That Preceded Their Disappearance
18. Artificial Brain – Artificial Brain
17. Sunrise Patriot Motion – Black Fellflower Stream
16. Triumvir Foul – Onslaught to Seraphim
15. Mortuous – Upon Desolation
14. Falls of Rauros – Keys to a Vanishing Future
13. Dream Unending – Song of Salvation
12. Tzompantli – Tlazcaltiliztli
11. Blut Aus Nord – Disharmonium – Undreamable Abysses
10. Tómarúm – Ash In Realms Of Stone Icons
9. Bedsore/Mortal Incarnation – Split
8. WORM – Bluenothing
7. Mur – Cut The Rivers Vein
6. Scarcity – Aveilut
5. White Ward – False Light
4. Eight Bells – Legacy of Ruin
3. Mares of Thrace – The Exile
2. Aeviterne – The Ailing Facade
1. Haunter – Discarnate Ails
Saw 8 Bells live, really good show! Blut Aus Nord has too many releases at this point still trying to keep up.
I won’t have my list until later this month (there’s some promising stuff coming out), but I can’t help but notice the lack of Kardashev in these comments………
I just discovered Kardashev and they are awesome. Never even heard of them till today.
2022-Top 10
1.High Command-Eclipse of the dual moon
2.Whiteward-False Light
3.Saidan-Onryo II:Her Spirit Eternal
4.Kampfar-Til Klovers Takt
5.Gaerea-Mirage
6.Black royal-Earthbound
7.Firtan-Marter
8.Sisyphean-Colours of Faith
9.Dream Unending-Songs of Salvation
10.Besna-Zverstva
1. Autonoesis Moon of Foul Magics
2. Ultha All That has Never Been True
3. Aeviterne The Ailing Facade
4. Doldrum The Knocking
5. Vimur Transcendental Violence
6. Worm Bluenothing
Almosts
Immolation
Cosmic Putrefaction
Eight Bells
Nechochwen
Trauma Bond
Wormrot
Daeva
Gevurah
Desiccation
Battlegrave
White Ward – False Light
Panzerfaust – The Suns of Perdition Chapter III
Vital Spirit – Still As the Night, Cold As the Wind
The Holy Flesh / Merger Remnant – Split 1
Cave In – Heavy Pendulum
Zeal & Ardor – Zeal & Ardor
Brutus – Unison Life
Comeback Kid – Heavy Steps
Septicflesh – Modern Primitive
STUPEFLIP – Stup Forever
Carpenter Brut – Leather Terror
Cheers from France !
1. Ripped to Shreds – Jubian
2. Pilori – Quand Bien Même L’Enfer et le Déluge S’abattraient sur Nous
3. Wormrot – Hiss
4. Hath – All That Was Promised
5. Immolation – Acts of God
6. Faüst – Tinnitus Inquisition
7. Ninth Realm – A Fate Unbroken
8. Imperial Triumphant – Spirit of Ecstasy
9. Midnight – Let There Be Witchery
10. Strigoi – Viscera
But so many other good drops this year
IMMOLATION: Acts of God
GAEREA: Mirage
NORDJEVEL: Gnavhòl
PANZERFAUST: The suns of Perdition chapter III: The astral Drain
WAKE: Thought form Descent
ALTARS: Ascetic Reflections
VERBERIS: Adumbration of the veiled Logos
WHITE WARD: False Light
DEATHWHITE: Grey Everlasting
LORD BELIAL: Rapture
SEPTICFLESH: Modern Primitive
AARA: Triade II: Hemera
WATAIN: The agony & ecstasy of Watain
DEATHSPELL OMEGA: The long Defeat
AEVITERNE: The ailing Facade
ULTRA SILVAM: The sanctity of Death
SHAPE OF DESPAIR: Return to the Void
Goatwhore- Angels Hung From The Arches Of Heaven
Darkthrone – Astral Fortress
Blackbraid – Blackbraid I
Coathanger Abortion- Plan C
Sumerlands – Dreamkiller
Clutch – Sunrise on Slaughter Beach
Ghost – Impera
Lost Dog Street Band – Glory
Benjamin Tod – Songs I Swore I’d Never Sing
Dream Widow – s/t
Soulfly – Totem
Pike vs The Automation – s/t
Elvis – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Of the Wand and the Moon, Emma Ruth Rundle, Brighter Death Now, Sarin, 40 Watt Sun, and Woorms
Nothing but new Saor, Nechochwen, Innana, Kamfar, Worm, and Clandestine Blaze really got my attention for new stuff in metal.
Sarin-There’s no way back and Woorms-Fatalismo are the only things I got really into for heavier music. Mostly been the new Of the Wand and the Moon, Emma Ruth Rundle, Brighter Death Now, and 40 Watt Sun.
Only things in black/death stuff I have checked out is Worm, Kampfar, Nechochwen, Innana, and Saor.
Ghost – Impera
Panzerfaust – The Suns of Perdition III
Deathspell Omega – The Long Defeat EP
Absent in Body – Plague God
CELESTE – Assassine(s)
Goatwhore – Angels Hung From The Arches Of Heaven
Mantar – Pain is Forever and this is the End
Immolation – Acts of God
Witchery – Nightside
1st. Eight Bells – Legacy Of Ruin
2nd. Gloson – The Rift
3rd. Drudkh – All Belong To The Night
4th. Sidious – Blackest Insurrection
5th. Audrey Horne – Devil’s Bell
6th. Wiegedood – There’s Always Blood At The End Of The Road
7th. Blut Aus Nord – Disharmonium – Undreamable Abyss
8th. Cult Of Luna – The Long Road North
9th. Ultha – All That Has Never Been True
10th. Voivod – Synchro Anarchy
11th. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms And Lava
12th. Xentrix – Seven Words
13th. Second To Sun – Nocturnal Philosophy
14th. Consecration – Cinis
15th. Pure Wrath – Hymn To The Woeful Hearts
16th. Digir Gidim – The Celestial Cosmic Scale And The Shimmering Path Of The Supreme Regulator
17th. Vorga – Striving Toward Oblivion
18th. Gaerea – Mirage
19th. Dawnwalker – House Of Sand
20th. Ether Coven – The Relationship Between The Hammer And The Nail
21st. Tomarum – Ash In The Realms Of Stone Icons
22nd. – Shape Of Despair Return To The Void
23rd. Grima – Frostbitten
24th. Krisiun – Mortem Solis
25th. Haunter – Discarnate Ails
1 Gaerea- Mirage
2 Nostalghia- Au Milieu de L’hiver
3 Second to Sun- Nocturnal Philosophy
4 Incandescence- Le Coeur de L’Homme
5 Malist – As I become Darkness
6 Aara- Traide II: Hemera
7 Galderia- Endless Horizon
8 Noktunral Mortum- To Lunar Poetry
9 Ripped to Shreds- Jubian
10 Walg- II
No specific order (but top 3 probably ARÐ, Graceless and Ultha)
ARÐ – Take up my Bones
Drudkh – All belong to the night
Sonja – Loud Arriver
Abyssic – Brought Forth in Iniquity
Graceless – Chants from Purgatory
Darkest Era – Wither on the Vine
Ultha – All that has never been True
Final Light – Final Light
Audrey Horne – Devil’s Bell
Vanum – Legend
Idol of Fear – Trespasser
Shape of Despair – Return to the Void
1. Carpenter Brut – Leather Terror
2. White Ward – False Light
3. Kvaen – The Great Below
4. Hyperia – Silhouettes of Horror
5. Phobophilic – Enveloping Absurdity
6. Battle Beast – Circus of Doom
7. Hell Fire – Reckoning
8. Inexorum – Equinox Vigil
9. De Profundis – The Corruption of Virtue
10. Moonshade – As We Set the Skies Ablaze
1. Tome of the Unreplenished – Earthbound
2. Sensory Amusia – Breed Death
3. Swampborn – Beyond Ratio
4. Miscreance – Convergence
5. Vauruvã – Por Nós da Ventania
6. Barn – Habitat
7. Bloodbath – Survival of the Sickest
8. Azaab – Summoning the Cataclysm
9. Autonoesis – Moon of Foul Magics
10. Vicious Knights – Alteration Through Possession
EPs
Silurian – End of Ordovicia
Australis – MMXXII
Nuclear Tomb – Offer Your Life
A little late to the game. But here goes it..
1. Devoid of Life – Embracing Emptiness
2. Afsind – Afsind
3. Toadeater – Bexadde
4. Vanum – Legend
5. Doldrum – The Knocking
6. Gaerea- Mirage
7. Lurid – Firespell
8. Feral Light – Enveloped and Transformed
9. Sidious – Blackest Insurrection
10. Konvent – Call Down the Sun
11. Final Siege – March to Your Grave
12. Liminal Shroud – All Virtues Ablaze
13. Suffocater – Rotting Existence
Dormant Ordeal – The Grand Scheme of Things – was released Dec 2021 so didn’t make it in time for a lot of ‘21 lists. But a fantastic album!
Totally agree about Dormant Ordeal. That album is almost perfection, and one of the most crushing albums ever.
Vanum had a new album? damn
10. Zeal & Ardor – Zeal & Ardor
9. Cult of Luna – The Long Road North
8. Ultha – All that has been never true
7. An Abstract Illusion – Woe
6. Sonja – Loud Arriver
5. Watain- The Agony & Ecstasy Of Watain
4. Firtan – Marter
3. Disillusion – Ayam
2. Messa – Close
1. White Ward – False Light
10. Inanna – Void of Unending Depths
9. Cult of Luna – The Long Road North
8. White Ward – False Light
7. Wilderun – Epigone
6. Brutus – Unison Life
5. Callous Daoboys – Celebrity Therapist
4. Immolation – Acts of God
3. Fellowship – The Saberlight Chronicles
2. Sylvaine – Nova
1. Moon Tooth – Phototroph
1. Russian Circles- Gnosis
2. White Ward- False Light
3. Desecresy- Unveil in The Abyss
4. Panzerfaust- The Suns of Perdition Chapter III
5. Lost in Kiev- Rupture
6. Innumerable Forms- Philosophical Collapse
7. Vital Spirit- Still as The Night, Cold as The Wind
My favorite year end album is the obscurity of our edit comment system in combination with our moderation claiming victims
I have no fucking idea how this works. Delays in comments appearing cause people to post twice. And then for unknown reasons the software sticks some comments in purgatory, requiring me to approve them before they appear, even when they don’t include words on the verboten list. Blah.
On March 4th Midnight proclaimed ‘Let there be Witchery’ and sure enough, on July 22nd there was ‘Nightside’ from said Witchery.
C21H23NO5 (most replayed):
Гнёт – Бремя
Glass Ox – Winds Of Violence
Bekor Qilish – Throes Of Death From The Dreamed Nihilism
Haunter – Discarnate Ails
Malthusian/Suffering Hour – Time’s Withering Shadow
Cosmic Putrefaction – Crepuscular Dirge For The Blessed Ones
Et Moriemur- Tamashii No Yama
Downcross – Hexapoda Triumph
Maul – Seraphic Punishment
Swampborn – Beyond Ration
Devil Master – Ecstasies Of Never Ending Night
White Ward – False Light
Cult Of Luna – The Long Road North
C17H21NO4 (Diabolically good):
Wormgod – Where Old Curses Rest
Glyph – Remind Us of the Sun
Synteleia- The Secret Last Syllable
Bedsore -Hypnagogic Hallucinations
Verberis – Adumbration Of The Veiled Logos
Might – Abyss
Veilburner – Vlbrnr
Sigh – Shiki
Atruta – Da Varot Apramietnaj
Blut Aus Nord – Disharmonium: Undreamable Abysses
Messa – Close
Autonoesis – Moon Of Foul Magics
Goatwhore – Angels Hung From The Arches Of Heaven
Aldorfrea – Thy Kingdom Cold
Worm Shepherd – Ritual Hymns
Author & Punisher – Kruller
Hath – All that was promised
Tómarúm – Ash In Realms Of Stone Icons
Worm – Bluenothing
Dream Unending – Song of Salvation
Doldrum – The Knocking
Cave In – Heavy Pendulum
Chat Pile – God’s Country
Final Light – Final Light
Callous Daoboys – Celebrity Therapist
Gudsforladt – Friendship, Love and War
And another contender for wall to wall infectiousness (and sickest cover):
SpiritWorld – Deathwestern
Yes, Et Moriemur’s latest album is from other world!!!!!!!!!!
In no partcular order:
Immolation “Acts of God”
Autopsy “Morbidity Triumphant”
Ironhawk “Rirual of the Warpath”
Krushhammer “Blood, Violence & Blasphemy” (thanks again to NCS for this beast!!!)
Turbocharged “Alpha Beast, Omega God”
letdown:
Watain
Some of my favourite releases this year:
Corpsessed – Succumb to Rot
Immolation – Acts of God
Father Befouled – Crowned in Veneficum
Fossilization/Ritual Necromancy – Split
Desolate Shrine – Fires of the Dying World
Chaos Perversion – Petrified Against the Emanation (EP)
Death Collector – Death Collector (EP)
Origin – Chaosmos
Perilaxe Occlusion/ Celestial Santuary/ Thorn/ Fumes – Absolute Convergence (Split)
Autopsy – Morbidity Triumphant
Malefic Throne – Malefic Throne (EP)
Deathcrush – Under Serpents Reign
Esoctrilihum – Consecration of the Spiritüs Flesh
Perdition Temple – Merciless Upheaval
Decrapted – Bloody Rivers of Death
Ataraxy – The Last Mirror
Vermin Womb – Retaliation
Phobophilic – Enveloping Absurdity
Acausal Intrusion – Seeping Evocation
Strigoi – Viscera
Bloodbath – Survival of the Sickest
Sépulcre – Cursed Ways of Sheol (EP)
Albums:
White Ward: False Light
Swampborn: Beyond Ratio
Blut Aus Nord: Disharmonium – Undreamable Abysses
Gevurah: Gehinnom
Messa: Close
Fit For An Autopsy: Oh What The Future Holds
Nostromo: Bucephale
Hath: All That Was Promised
Aeviterne: The Ailing Facade
Veilburner: VLBRNR
Wake: Thought Form Descent
Ithaca: They Fear Us
Ashenspire: Hostile Architecture
Humanotone: The Flourishing Fall in a Grain of Sand
Tzompantli: Tlazcaltiliztli
The Callous Daoboys: Celebrity Therapist
An Anstract Illusion: Woe
Black Magnet: Body Void
Orm: Intet • Altet
Immolation: Acts Of God
EPs:
Worm: Bluenothing
Vile Rites: The Ageless
Creature: Chimerapolis
Mournful Congregation: The Exiviae of Gods part I
Sallow Moth: Failure To Find
Thank you, NCS!
In no particular order:
An Abstract Illusion – Woe
Seventh Wonder – The Testament
Immolation – Acts of God
Voivod – Synchro Anarchy
Fellowship – The Saberlight Chronicles
Revocation – Netherheaven
Amorphis – Halo
Psycroptic – Divine Council
Aethernam – Heir Of The Rising Sun
Wake – Thought Form Descent
Wilderun – Epigone
Stormruler – Sacred Rites & Black Magick
Worm – Bluenothing
Disillusion – Ayam
Judicator – The Majesty of Decay
Undeath – It’s Time to Rise… From the Grave
High Command – Eclipse of the Dual Moons
In the Woods – Diversum
Faceless Burial – At the Foothills of Deliration
Darkthrone – Astral Fortress
Yes, Revocation’s latest album is terrific. Aeternam released an epic album too this year. (only bad thing about Aeternam is i can never remember how to spell the name right). I was disappointed by Faceless Burial though; i was totally lost right from the start of it. Seemed there no actual songs, but rather a stream-of-consciousness mish-mash flow of pieces of songs carelessly sewn together.
Seems to be we already have a winner: Immolation!
Immolation — Acts of God
An Abstract Illusion — Woe
Grand Harvest — Consummatum Est
Concilivm — A Monument in Darkness
Aethereus — Leiden
Hath — All That Was Promised
Imperium — Ex Mortis Gloria
Vorga — Striving toward Oblivion
Ancient Mastery — Chapter Two: The Resistance
In Grief — An Eternity of Misery
De Profundis — The Corruption of Virtue
Tomb of Finland — Across the Barren Fields
Blackbraid — Blackbraid I
Belphegor — The Devils
Maul — Seraphic Punishment
Lots of great lists above, including some bands I never heard of, and some releases from favorite bands I was totally unaware of (Ultha had a new album? Watain too?). Metal overload.
Acherontas
Perturbator, Johannes Persson & Final Light
Absent in Body
Tons
Rotten Tomb
Werewolves
Caïnan Dawn
Come To Grief
Tzompantli
Anticreation
Tribal Gaze
The Otolith
Deliverance
Hierophant
Aara
Coldworld
Abysmalist
Kato
Verbum
Altar of Gore
Ande
Blasphematory
In Twilight’s Embrace
Heidnir
Skumstrike
Sundowning
Pure Wrath
SPLITS/E.P.’S
Fiat Nox
Prehistoric War Cult
Nordjevel
Domkraft/Slomatics
Malthusian / Suffering Hour
These are in no particular order, but as I look through my playlists these stand out.
Autonoesis-Moon of Foul Magics
Amorphis-Halo
Trial(see) -Feed the Fire
Strigoi-Viscera
Falls of Rauros- Key to a Vanishing Future
Maul-Seraphic Punishment
Mother of Graves-Where the Shadows Adorn
High Command-Eclipse of the Dual Moons
Voivod-Synchro Anarchy
Tomarum-Ash in Realms of Stone Icons
Well I guess that’s 10, probably some I’m forgetting
1 more:
Atvm-Famine, Putrid and Fucking Violence.
Oops lol
Top 25 Roughly In Order
1. Counterparts – A Eulogy for Those Still
Here
2. Lorna Shore – Pain Remains
3. Heavy Meta – Mana Regmata
4. The Callous Daoboys – Celebrity
Therapist
5. White Ward – False Light
6. Venom Prison – Erebos
7. Hath – All That was Promissed
8. Terror Cell – Caustic Light
9. Fit for an Autopsy – Oh What the
Future Holds
10. Drudkh – All Belong to the Night
Shadow of Intent – Elegy
Angelmaker – Sanctum
Morrow – The Quiet Earth
Urushiol – Pools of Green Fire
Chat Pile – God’s Country
Haunter – Discarnate Ails
Worm – Bluenothing
Illyria – Take Me Somewhere Beautiful
Cyborg Octopus – Between the Light and Air
A Wake in Providence – Eternity
Wake – Thought Form Descent
The Sawtooth Grin – Good.
Woe – An Abstract Illusion
Lasiodora – Molt
Soul Glo – Diaspora Problems
1. Blackbraid – Blackbraid 1
2. Saidan – onryo 2
3. Dead Cross – 2
4. Worm Shepard – Ritual Hymns
5. Puppy – Pure Evil
6. Crosses – permanent radiant
7. Escuela Grind –
8. Zeal and Ardor – Zeal and Ardor
9. Gggolddd – This shame should not mine
10. Fugitive – Maniac
11. Author and Punisher – Kruller
12. Dream Widow – Dream Widow
13. Miscreance – Convergence
14. Tribal Gaze – The Nine Choirs
15. Doldrum
16. Immolation
I’d say this would be my Top 25 in no particular order besides the first 10 being my top 10
Inexorum – Equinox Vigil
Immolation – Acts of God
Vital Spirit – Still as the Night, Cold as the Wind
Xenoglyph – Spiritfraud
Cruz – Confines de la Cordura
Autopsy – Morbidity Triumphant
Begrime Exemious – Rotting in the Aftermath
Vacuous – Dreams of Dysphoria
Jade – The Pacification Of Death
Ninth Realm – A Fate Unbroken
High Command – Eclipse of the Dual Moons
Ateiggär – Tyrannemord
Negative Plane – The Pact
Gevurah – Gehinnom
Sedimentum – Suppuration Morphogénésiaque
Doldrey – Celestial Deconstruction
Stangarigel – Na Severe Srdca
Spiritworld – Deathwestern
Ultra Silvam – The Sanctity of Death
Marrasmieli – Martaiden mailta
Encryptment – Dödens Födsel
Saidan – Onryō II: Her Spirit Eternal
Coscradh – Nahanagan Stadial
Imha Tarikat – Hearts Unchained – At War With A Passionless World
Toadeater – Bexadde
Goatwhore- -angels hung from the Arches of heaven
Maakeskit- Filthy Flying Feathery Fucks!
Death Fucking Cunt- decadent perversity
Artificial brain- artificial brain
Tons- hashension
Destruction- diabolical
Konvent-call down the sun
Lorna shore -pain Remains
Thumos – The Republic
Starer – The What It Is to Be
Moonknight – L’eclisse
Crestfallen Dusk – self titled
Escaping Aghartha – Croak
Glyph – remind us of the sun
Lycopolis – Amduat
Telesterion – An Ear of Grain in Silence Reaped
Kostnateni
Olim – Ursine
1) Blut Aus Nord – Disharmonium-Undreamable Abysses
2) Gevurah – Gehinnom
3) Misthyrming – Med Hamri
4) Verberis – Adumbration of the Veiled Logos
5) Djevel – Naa Skrider Natten Sort
6) White Ward – False Light
7) Gaerea – Mirage
8) Ultha – All That Never Was…
9) Hate Forest – Innermost
10) Dream Unending – Song of Salvation
11) Nattfärd – Forestrealm Eternal
12) Firtan – Marter
13) Kampfar – Til Klovers Takt
14) Crippled Black Phoenix – Banefyre
15) Terzij de Horde – In One of These I Am Your Enemy
16) Skarntyde – Da Jeg Grat Ved Jordens Ruiner
17) Véhémence – Ordalies
18) Kathaaria – To Be Shunned By All…
19) Negative Plane – The Pact
20) Gudsforladt – Friendship, Love and War
21) Watain – The Agony & Ecstasy of…
22) Sigh – Shiki
23) Drudkh – All Belong To The Night
24) Theriomorph – Diabolical Bloodswords
25) Dissolve Patterns – s/t
26) Hegemone – Voyance
27) In Twilight’s Embrace – Lifeblood
28) Vital Spirit – Still As the Night, Cold As the Wind
29) Stangarigel – Na Severe Srdca
30)Blackbraid – Blackbraid I
EP:
1) Mistcavern – Into Twilight
2) Aerdryk – Met de Drietand op mijn Huid
3) Zwaard – Bloed & Wijn
4) Laere – Coagula
5) Svrm – Червів майбутня здобич
Re-Issue:
1) Ultha – Forget Everything and Remember
2) Harakiri For The Sky – Aokigahara MMXXII
3) Amenra – De Doorn V2
Compilation: Blut Aus Nord – Lovecraftian Echoes
My favorite music of 2022:
Sigh – Shiki
Brobdingnagian – trambus tines
Asunojokei – アイランド (Island)
Comfort Food – Adventures of Mammals
Lucrecia Dalt – ¡Ay!
Misþyrming – Með hamri
Holy Fawn – Dimensional Bleed
Iosonouncane – IRA 2021
Unyielding Love – Flesh of The Furnace
Cryptae – Capsule
Autonoesis – Moon of Foul Magics
Heilung – Drif
Imperial Circus Dead Decadence – MOGARI – Shi E Fukeru Omoi Wa Rikujoku Sura Kurai
Ashenspire – Hostile Architecture
ꙂꙨѮŮӜŮѮꙨꙂ – ŶᾦϚӾѺᾦѺӾϚᾦŶ
Deathspell Omega – The Long Degeat
White Ward – False Light
Moor Mother – Jazz Codes
Discrepants – Beginnings
Vel’HAR – Letania I
Gevurah – Gehinnom
DIABOLIC OATH – Aischrolatreia
Black Midi – Hellfire
Those Poor Bastards – God Awful
Shinra Knives – You Will Never See Heaven
Anticreation – From the Dust of Embers
Oiseaux-Tempête – What On Earth (Que Diable)
newmath – Bloom
Rejoice! The Light Has Come – Untitled
Verberis – Adumbration of the Veiled Logos
Throwing Bricks – The Burden
Pilori – Quand Bien Meme L’Enfer Et Le Deluge S’abattraient Sur Nous
Et Moriemur – Tamashii no Yama
FRKSE – Desecrated Anxiety EP
Minibeast – On Ice
Saccage – Charogne
Ultha – All that has Never been True
Firtan – Marter
COSMIC PUTREFACTION – Crepuscular Dirge For The Blessed Ones
OFFICINE – OFFICINE
The Wakedead Gathering – Parallaxiom
Hissing – Hypervirulence Architecture
Aequorea – DIM
Venus Twins – Raxis
Mizmor and Thou – Myopia
Chat Pile – God’s Country
Skin Tension – Omni
Sheng Jie & Shen Jing – Parallel Weaving
Watain -The Agony & Ecstasy Of Watain
Space Coke – Lunacy
The Winston Brothers – Drift
Blackbraid – Blackbraid I
Ulthar – Nightgaunts MMXVI
Decoherence – More Is Different
Vaura – Vista Of Deviant Anatomies
Hath – All That Was Promised
Acherontas – Malocchio – The Seven Tongues Of Ahmon
Vio-lence – Let the World Burn
Melt Yourself Down – Pray For Me I Don’t Fit In
Reuerorum ibn Malachtum – Vacuum. The mystery of faith…
Sulphur Nurse – Roopkund
Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio – Cold As Weiss
Buñuel – Killers Like Us
Immolation – Acts Of God
An Isolated Mind – A Place We Cannot Go
Author & Punisher – Krüller
Zeal & Ardor – Zeal & Ardor
Homeskin – Integument Crystallization/Cries Methodically
Sunk Heaven – Porous Mirror
Melvins – Bad Mood Rising
Vile Ritual – Tongues of the Exanimate
UIV – Frigus (EP)
Chaos Perversion – Petrified Against the Emanation
Cult Of Luna – The Long Road North
Black Country, New Road – Ants From Up There
Μνήμα – Disciples of Excremental Liturgies
Artificial Brain – Artificial Brain
Blut Aus Nord – Disharmonium-Undreamable Abysses
White Ward – False Light
Aeviterne – The Ailing Facade
Vermin Womb – Retaliation
Imperial Triumphant – Spirit of Ecstasy
Encenathrakh – Ithate Thngth Oceate
Ashenspire – Hostile Architecture
Chrome Ghost – House Of Falling Ash
Cloud Rat – Threshold
Ken Mode – Null
Wake – Thought Form Descent
1- Darkher – The Buried Storm
2- The Otolith – Folium Limina
3- Arsena – Blood Rusted Mother Earth
4- White Ward – False Light
5- Cult of Luna – The Long Road North
6- Pure Wrath – Hymn to the Woeful Hearts
7- Knight & Gallow – For Honor and Bloodshed
8- The Mist from the Mountains – The Temple of Twilight
9- Phobophilic – Enveloping Absurdity
10 – Saor – Origins
Honorable mention to Megadeth In 2022, three good songs on an album is all I need from them to be happy!
The best of 2022
01 – Soilwork – Övergivenheten
02 – Fit For An Autopsy – Oh What the Future Holds
03 – In Cave – Heavy Pendulum
04 – Disillusion – Ayam
05 – Evergrey – A Heartless Portrait (The Orphean Testament)
06 – SepticFlesh – Modern Primitive
07 – Allegaeon – Damnum
08 – Becoming The Archetype – Children Of The Great Extinction
09 – Funeral Chic – Roman Candle
10 – Hangman’s Chair – A Loner
11 – Cult of Luna – The Long Road North
12 – Author & Punisher – Krüller
13 – Zeal & Ardor – Zeal & Ardor
14 – Ibaraki – Rashomon
15 – Kardashev – Liminal Rite
16 – Perséfone – Metanoia
17 – Wilderun – Epigone
18 – Amorphis – Halo
19 – Wolfheart – King Of The North
20 – Brymir – Voices In The Sky
21 – Ghost – Impera
22 – Rammstein – Zeit
23 – Kreator – Hate Über Alles
24 – Strigoi – Viscera
25 – Lacrimas Profundere – How To Shroud Yourself With Night
26 – Druids – Shadow Work
27 – Crowbar – Zero And Below
28 -(16)- – Into Dust
29 – Misery Index – Complete Control
30 – Revocation – Netherheaven
31 – Hath – All That Was Promised
32 – An Abstract Illusion – Woe
33 – Fallujah – Empyrean
34 – Obsidious – Iconic
35 – Panzerfaust – Chapter III: The Astral Drain
36 – Watain – The Agony & Ecstasy of Watain
37 – Abbath – Dread Reaver
38 – Witchery – Nightside
39 – Goatwhore – Angels Hung from the Arches of Heaven
40 – Black Anvil – Regenesis
41 – Black Void – Antithesis
42 – Nighted – Absence
43 – Behemoth – Opvs Contra Natvram
44 – Belphegor – The Devils
45 – Ereb Altor – Vargtimman
46 – Spiritworld – Deathwestern
47 – Clutch – Sunrise on Slaughter Beach
48 – Oceans of Slumber – Starlight and Ash
49 – Darkest Era – Wither On The Vine
50 – Deathwhite – Grey Everlasting
51 – Dead Register – Alive
52 – Blacklist – Afterworld
53 – Voivod – Synchro Anarchy
54 – Cobra The Impaler – Colossal Gods
55 – Crown Compass – The Drought
56 – Parius – The Signal Heard Throughout Space
57 – Lamentations.- Passion of Depression
58 – The Offering – Seeing The Elephant
59 – Dream Widow – Dream Widow
60 – Audrey Horne – Devil’s Bell
61 – Sergeant Thunderhoof – This Sceptred Veil
62 – My Diligence – The Matter, Form and Power
63 – Grave Lines – Communion
64 – Candlemass – Sweet Evil Sun
65 – The Halo Effect – Days Of The Lost
66 – Bloodbath – Survival of the Sickest
67 – Autopsy – Morbidity Triumphant
68 – Immolation – Acts of God
69 – Decapitated – Cancer Culture
70 – Miseration – Black Miracles and Dark Wonders
71 – Xaon – The Lethean
72 – Aeternam – Heir of the Rising Sun
73 – Darkane – Inhuman Spirits
74 – Deserted Fear – Doomsday
75 – Hypermass – Empyrean
76 – Temple Of Void – Summoning The Slayer
77 – Tomb Of Finland – Across The Barren Fields
78 – Grand Harvest – Consummatum Est
79 – Jade – The Pacification Of Death
80 – Mother of Graves – Where the Shadows Adorn
81 – Innumeable Forms – Philosophical Collapse
82 – Undeath – It’s Time… To Rise From the Grave
83 – Ripped to Shreds – Jubian
84 – Exhumed – To The Dead
85 – NITE – Voices of the Kronian Moon
86 – Devil Master – Ecstasies of Never Ending Night
87 – Kvaen – The Great Below
88 – The Spirit – Of Clarity and Galactic Structures
89 – Saor – Origins
90 – Gaerea – Mirage
91 – Black Lava – Soul Furnace
92 – Psycroptic – Divine Council
93 – Sadist – Firescorched
94 – Soulfly – Totem
95 – I Am – Eternal Steel
96 – Jungle Rot – A Call To Arms
97 – Entrails – An Eternal Time of Decay
98 – Maceration – It Never Ends…
99 – Inhuman Condition – Fearsick
100 – Dark Funeral – We Are The Apocalypse
101 – Ocean of Grief – Pale Existence
102 – Telekinetic Yeti – Primordial
103 – Conjurer – Páthos
104 – Meshuggah – Immutable
105 – Mass Worship – Portal Tombs
Finally, I was waiting for the new Misþyrming album…. and the wait was worth it….. Here we go….
10- Hath: “All that was promised”
9- Blind Guardian: “The God Machine”
8- Et Moriemur: “Tamashii No Yama”
7- SepticFlesh: “Modern Primitive”
6- Allegaeon: “Damnum”
5- Dawohl: “Leviathan”
4- Véhémence: “Ordalies”
3- Misþyrming: “Með hamri”
2- Swamp Lantern: “The Lord is With Us”
1- Blackbraid: “Blackbraid I”
Better late than never:
1. Gloson – The Rift
2. An Abstract Illusion – Woe
3. Wake – Thought Form Descent
4. Hath – All that was Promised
5. Evadne – The Pale Light of Fireflies (though released in December of 2021, this album was too late be make it to any lists and it is criminally overlooked)
6. Disillusion – Ayam
7. Rolo Tomassi – Where Myth Becomes Memory
8. Septicflesh – Modern Primitive
9. Rammstein – Zeit
10. Tersivel – To the Orphic Void
11. White Ward – False Light
12. Gaerea – Mirage
13. Kardashev – Liminal Rite
14. Harakiri for the Sky – Aokigahara MMXXII
15. Crone – Gotta Light?
16. Strigoi – Viscera
17. The Halo Effect – Days of the Lost
18. Rise to the Sky – Every Day, A Funeral
19. Celeste – Assassine(s)
20. Karg – Resignation
21. Pure Wrath – Hymn to the Woeful Hearts
22. Dawn of Solace – Flames of Perdition
23. Machine Head – Of Kingdom and Crown
24. Winds of Tragedy – As Life Drifts Away
25. Ultar – At the Gates of Dusk
26. Darkane – Inhuman Spirits
27. Rise to the Sky – Stay With Me When You’re Gone
28. Cult of Luna – the Long Road North
29. Persefone – metanoia
30. Shape of Despair – Return to the Void
I’ll drop mine as well even though it’s getting late in the year haha
A bunch of Honorable Mentions: Threshold, Warforged, Venom Prison, Ernia, Aethereus, Werewolves, Daeva, Them, Aronious, Blut Aus Nord, Darkest Era, De Profundis, Jade, Kardashev, Kvaen, Sun Eater and the mighty Sigh.
These didn’t get enough playtime but I could see them making this list in an alternate universe where I chose to listen to them more over the ones you see below.
1. Revocation – Netherheaven
2. Trial – Feed the Fire
3. Sumerlands – Dreamkiller
4. Fit For An Autopsy – Oh What the Future Holds
5. Satan – Earth Infernal
6. Hath – All That Was Promised
7. Soreption – Jord
8. Aeternam – Heir of the Rising Sun
9. Judicator – The Majesty of Decay
10. High Command – Eclipse of the Dual Moons
11. Origin – Chaosmos
12. Alestorm – Seventh Rum of a Seventh Rum
13. Fellowship – The Saberlight Chronicles
14. Morbikon – Ov Mournful Twilight (probably would have made it higher had I heard it earlier)
15. Ghost – Impera
Further than those I couldn’t order the albums properly.
Song I Heard The Most Times This Year award goes to “Hellfighters” off of Sabaton’s latest.
Thanks for reading :*
10 for 2022, in no particular order except for Chat Pile, which for me were certainly top of the game this year:
1. Chat Pile “God’s Country”
Fjort “[nichts]
Spectrum Mortis “Bit Meseri – The Incantation”
Gaerea “Mirage”
White Ward “False Light”
Swamp Lantern “The Lord Is With Us”
Drudkh “All Belong To The Night”
Messa “Close”
Ultha “All That Has Never Been True”
Eight Bells “Legacy Of Ruin”
Avatar for Jacubus Upirus
My top 20
20. Woods of Desolation – The falling tide
19. Vermilia – Ruska
18. Dëgénéréscence – ….Ainsi! Nous dansâmes aux limber détestées
17. Scarcity – Aveilut
16. Drudkh – All belong to the night
15. Belphegor – the Devil’s
14. Grafvitnir – Tunes of Sitra Ahra
13. Glemsel – Forfader
12. Aara – Triade II: Hemera
11. Lunar Spells – Demise of Heaven
10. Haunter – Duscarnate Ails
9. The Spirit – Of Clarity and Galactic Structures
8. Svrm – цервiв майбутня здобиц
7. Nocturnal Triumph
6. Consummatio – Desaevio
5. Drengskapur/Old Arrival – Ruin
4. Krallice – Cristalline Exhaustion
3. Malist – As I Become Darkness
2. Grieve – Funeral
1. Vehemence – Ordalies
Honorable Mentions:
White Ward – False Light
Bríi – Corpos transparentes
Ashenspire – Hostile Architecture
Avatar for Lichtmens
My top 20
20. Woods of Desolation – The falling tide
19. Vermilia – Ruska
18. Dëgénéréscence – ….Ainsi! Nous dansâmes aux limber détestées
17. Scarcity – Aveilut
16. Drudkh – All belong to the night
15. Belphegor – the Devil’s
14. Grafvitnir – Tunes of Sitra Ahra
13. Glemsel – Forfader
12. Aara – Triade II: Hemera
11. Lunar Spells – Demise of Heaven
10. Haunter – Duscarnate Ails
9. The Spirit – Of Clarity and Galactic Structures
8. Svrm – цервiв майбутня здобиц
7. Nocturnal Triumph
6. Consummatio – Desaevio
5. Drengskapur/Old Arrival – Ruin
4. Krallice – Cristalline Exhaustion
3. Malist – As I Become Darkness
2. Grieve – Funeral
1. Vehemence – Ordalies
Honorable Mentions:
White Ward – False Light
Bríi – Corpos transparentes
Ashenspire – Hostile Architecture
Sorry, posted it twice accidentally