Your Albums of 2022 (So Far)

[einarj]

From the top of my head, my 2022 favorites are:

Haunted Shores - Void
Bleed from within - Shrine
Fit for an autopsy - Oh What The Future Holds
Celeste - Assassine(s)
Monuments - In stasis

 

[Ralyks]

Guess this is my official list. Everything after Toxik is kinda of interchangeable in placing:

Toxik - Dis Morta (AOTY)

Imperial Triumphant - Spirit of Ecstasy

Slipknot - The End, So Far

Machine Head - Of Kingdom and Crown

Lights - PEP

Celeste - Assassine(s)

Mindforce - New Gods

Cave In - Heavy Pendulum

Greg Puciato - Mirrorcell

Marillion - A Hour Before It's Dark

 

[Loomer]

For me it's:

Blackbraid - I
Sumerlands - "Dreamkiller"
Ashenspire - "Hostile Architecture"
Chat Pile - "God's Country"
Artificial Brain - "Artificial Brain"

 

[Shawn]

I've really been enjoying Meshuggah's Immutable.

 

[KailM]

Final tally:
#1:

#2:

 

[BlackMastodon]

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.

Second time I've seen a Blackbraid mention this week, so will need to check this out.
Birds in Row absolutely rips.

Will have to check out the full Celeste album because De Tes Yeux Bleus Perlés is a killer song and what I wish Gojira sounded like on their last 2 albums.

 

[RevDrucifer]

Mastodon’s Hushed And Grimm was still my favorite album IN 2022 until Devin Townsend put out Lightwork. I somehow played songs off Lightwork more in 2 months than I did all the songs on Hushed And Grimm in the last year.

Lamb Of God- Omens; really dug this one, easily my favorite since Sacrament.

The new Slipknot was pretty damn good, as well, but I dig the catchy choruses where it seems a lot of others don’t.

 

[-snake]

a little more narrowed down than on page 4

9 dead - 9 dead
allegaeon - damnum
analepsy - quiescence
arkaik - labyrinth of hungry ghosts
crownn magnetar - alone in death
desoectomy - Predatory Barbaric Behaviors
internal organs external - the brutality of tomorrow
organectomy - nail below nail
paleface - fear & daggar
peelingflesh - human pudding
rings of saturn - rings of saturn
shadow of intent - elegy
slamadeus - slamphony no. 1
soreption - jord

most looking forward to in 2023
Sylosis

 

[Wildebeest]

Vai
Meshuggah
I actually like the new Smashing Pumpkins for the most part. A somewhat return to The Future Embrace/Oceania sound.
Bladee/Ecco2k - Crest

 

[JD27]

Seemed like a light year for me, but I did enjoy these a good bit.

White Lies - As I Try Not To Fall Apart
Revocation - Netherheaven
Dance Gavin Dance - Jackpot Juicer
Foxbat - Due South
Ghost - IMPERA
Crosses - PERMANENT.RADIANT - EP
He Is Legend - ENDLESS HALLWAY
Goatwhore - Angles Hung from the Arches of Heaven

 

[bigswifty]

Adding Wilderun - Epigone to my albums of (from) 2022. Great album, but even better, it lead the way to:

Wilderun - Veil of Imagination
Wilderun - Sleep at the Edge of the Earth

So.. Yeah

 

[youngthrasher9]

Bloodbath - Survival of the Sickest
Fit For An Autopsy - Oh What The Future Holds
Revocation - Netherheavan

I’m gonna have add an honorable mention for Soulfly - Totem

Such a different album from them, I think it’s the Dino influence but this album is quite thrashy. I dig.

 

[Ralyks]

#2:

I felt so wrong keeping White Ward off of my list, as well as Cult of Luna, Sundowning, and Final Light. The Blut Aus Nord record is freaking sweet too.

 

[works0fheart]

Really need to go through Eptaceros' list because he always finds the sickest shit. So far for me though, this is my favorite that I've discovered this year.

The album art is amazing too.

 

[JD27]

Need to add Hangman’s Chair - A Loner to my list, very cool album. Sort of a doom/goth/shoegaze feel to the album.




And thanks to this thread (I usually find something good every year in these), White Ward - False Light. Very surprised by that one, good listen.

 

[Alex79]

I only got around late to them, but this is definitely my favorite album this year. I love that operatic power metal stuff.

 

[Alex79]

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)

We’ll look at that. You’ve actually got some good taste there!

 

[gunch]

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.

Built to Spill has like 2-3 good songs per album and that's it

 

[feilong29]

Paul Wardingham - Prototype. Been hyped for his new album for months and it delivered!

 

[CanserDYI]

Built to Spill has like 2-3 good songs per album and that's it

Unfortunately I agree with this one, but the good songs are pretty damn good.