Your Albums of 2022 (So Far)

[Ralyks]

If my list had to be made today, it's something like this in no particular order except my first one:

Toxik - Dis Morta (current and likely AOTY)
Imperial Triumphant - Spirit of Ecstasy
Final Light - Final Light
Florist - Florist
Slipknot - The End, So Far
Machine Head - Of Kingdom and Crown
Celeste - Assassine(s)
Sundowning - In the Light of Defeat, I Cease to Exist
Cave In - Heavy Pendulum
Marillion - A Hour Before It's Dark

 

[HarveyForte]

Black Midi - Hellfire
Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers

 

[OmegaSlayer]

Falling In Reverse VS Sebastian Bach

 

[Alex79]

I like both the new Arch Enemy and the new Megadeth albums a lot. I feel they are both worthy contenders and better than the albums before them.

 

[Pat]

Only listened to Magna Carta Cartel for the first time recently, but their newest album is awesome

 

[BlackMastodon]

Oh damn I didn't even realize MCC were making new music, I thought Tobias was focused on Ghost. Will have to check that out for sure.

 

[marke]

I truly found tech death this year it seems. My favorite genre of metal by far.. so ridiculous and fun! Such a rich genre with bunch of variety. From neoclassical guitar-wankery of First Fragment to robot-like execution and speed of Archspire, it just doesn't seem to get boring for me.

Some cool albums in addition to prevously mentioned Artficial Brain:
Soreption - Jord, Fallujah - Empyrean, Imperial Triumphant - Spirit of Ecstasy (more avantgarde than tech), Revocation - Netherheaven..

I'm also a sucker for melodies with blastbeats and Will Ramos so I will probably like the new Lorna Shore quite a bit too. After two listens its kinda corny and simple, constantly recycling ideas, but maybe I'll learn to enjoy it for what it is. Not gonna lie though, those breakdowns still make me cringe.. stupidest "thing" ever.

 

[wheresthefbomb]

New Birds in Row just dropped. It delivers.

 

[stuporstitches]

New Birds in Row just dropped. It delivers.

came here to plug this one, it’s already my most listened to album of 2022. the other contender which was released just 1 week earlier is the new Cloud Rat.

 

[electriceye]

Hands down:
Megadeth
Machine Head
Rammstein

Honorable mention:
Satriani

Biggest disappointment:
Teramaze
Dream Theater

 

[gunshow86de]

Really well done early-Carcass style grind...

 

[Leviathus]

Meshuggah
Porcupine Tree
Watain
Korn
Vai
Bloodbath

 

[Derek Spear]

Perfume - Plasma
Rammstein - Zeit
Meshuggah - Immutable

 

[bigcupholder]

Russian Circles - Gnosis

 

[-snake]

alphabetical order:

9 dead - 9 dead
allegaeon - damnum
acranius - mercy denied
aethereus - leiden
analepsi - quiescence
arkaik - labyrinth of hungry ghosts
crownn magnetar - alone in death
desoectomy - Predatory Barbaric Behaviors
fetal sewage - dahmers kitchen
grieve - pit of dispair
gutrectomy - manifestation of human suffering
ingested - ashes lie still
internal organs external - the brutality of tomorrow
kanine - karnage
mankind grief - monarch
nekrogoblikon - the fundamental slimes and humours
nephrectomy - meat
organectomy - nail below nail
paleface - fear & daggar
peelingflesh - human pudding
pestilectomy - from vulnerable to funeral
pestilent reign - ascension
putrified j - annihilating the weak
revocation - netherheaven
rings of saturn - rings of saturn
shadow of intent - elegy
slamadeus - slamphony no. 1
soreption - jord
spite - dedication to flesh
splattered - repugnant virtuocity
stabbing - extirpated mortal process
sun eater - vermin
tracheotomy - dissimulation
utter scorn - paroxysmal endemia
visceral explosion - human meat distribution process
vulvodynia - praenuntius infiniti (instrumentals)
xenobiotic - hate monolith

most looking forward to in 2023
Sylosis

 

[mastapimp]

Moon Tooth - Phototroph
Destrage - SO MUCH. too much.
Psycroptic - Divine Council
Revocation - Netherheaven
Spiritworld - Deathwestern
Soilwork - Overgivenheten
Megadeth - The Sick, The Dying... and the Dead
Charlie Griffiths - Tiktaalika
Steve Vai - Inviolate
Eric Gales - Crown
Rob Arnold - Magnitude

 

[wheresthefbomb]

It's nearly the end, my list looks basically the same:

Birds in Row - Gris Klein
Grivo - Omit
Cult of Luna - The Long Road North
Blackbraid - Blackbraid I

plenty of honorable mentions but those four stood head and shoulders above most everything else this year. Built to Spill had some interesting single but the album drop didn't do much for me.

 

[SCJR]

Loved the new Turnstile album. Digging Birds in Row now after reading through the thread.

 

[einarj]

Yup, it's that time of the year. The halfway point. Your favorite albums of 2022 so far. Name 'em.

Final Light - Final Light
Greg Puciato - Mirrorcell
Cave In - Heavy Pendulum
Moon Tooth - Phototroph
Immolation - Acts of God
Meshuggah - Immutable
Sundowning - In The Light Of Defeat, I Cease To Exist
Porcupine Tree - Closure / Continuation
Marillion - An Hour Before It's Dark
Blood Incantation - Timewave Zero
Rolo Tomassi - Where Myth Becomes Memory
Wait - The End of Noise
Voivod - Synchro Anarchy
Cult of Luna - The Long Road North
Celeste - Assassine(s)
Infected Rain - Ecdysis
This is Oblivion - This is Oblivion
Municipal Waste - Electrified Brain
White Ward - False Light
Owane and Jack Gardiner - Guardian Spirits of the Quantum Multiverse
Kreator - Hate Uber Alles
Astronoid - Radiant Bloom
GWAR - The New Dark Ages
Blut Aus Nord - Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses
Florence + The Machine - Dance Fever
Misery Index - Complete Control

Damn, this made me realize how much good stuff came in the first half. Not sure what my AOTY is so far, but I'd probably say Cave In is making the best argument so far.

My bandmate recently introduced me to that Celeste album. It is absolutely incredible!

 

[ArtDecade]

The moment no one has been waiting for.... ArtDecade's Favorite Releases of 2022

Album Releases
Scorpions - Rock Believer
Michael Schenker Group - Universal
Ozzy Osbourne - Patient Number 9
Skid Row - The Gang's All Here
Joe Satriani - The Elephants Of Mars
Giant - Shifting Time
John Norum - Gone To Stay

Remasters and Reissues
Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion I & II Deluxe Box Set
Quiet Riot – Alive and Well Deluxe Edition
Frank Zappa - Zappa/Erie Archival Live Release

Frontier Records Super Groups Releases
Skills - Different Worlds - feat. Renan Zonta (Electric Mob), Brad Gillis (Night Ranger), Billy Sheehan (Mr. Big) & David Huff (Giant)
Black Swan - Generation Mind - feat. Robin McAuley (MSG), Reb Beach (Winger), Jeff Pilson (Dokken) & Matt Starr (Mr Big)