Your Albums of 2022 (So Far)

[Carrion Rocket]

Wormrot - Hiss
Rina Sawayama - Hold the Girl
Slavenkust - Slavenkust
Rammstein - Zeit
Cannons - Fever Dream

 

[gorthul]

As always for the last few years since 2013, many good albums but very little that I consider groundbreaking.

My top 5, though none of these is a 10/10 in my opinion.

Tomarum: Ash in Realms of Stone
Culprate: αριθμός τέσσερα
An Abstract Illusion: Woe
Holy Fawn: Dimensional Bleed
Cremation Lily: Dreams Drenched in Static

Biggest disappointment was the new Behemoth for me. Absolute borefest.

 

[Haphe]

Haven't kept up with much this year, but these two black metal(ish) releases would have to be my favorites.

 

[marke]

What should I do with "Woe"? People are praising it everywhere, and it should be right up my alley, but I just don't get it. I've tried. The album basically has 2 chords repeated into oblivion, and while a minimalist approach is often very cool, I don't think it was the intention here.

 

[Anectine_Matt]

So my year end top 20 ended up like this:

01. Spite - Dedication To Flesh
02. Vatican - Ultra
03. Darko - Oni
04. Monuments - In Stasis
05. Meshuggah - Immutable
06. Varials - Scars For You To Remember
07. He Is Legend - Endless Hallway
08. Polyphia - Remember That You Will Die
09. Fit For An Autopsy - Oh What The Future Holds
10. Chelsea Grin - Suffer In Hell
11. Crown Magnetar - Alone In Death
12. Thrown - Extended Pain
13. Distinguisher - Under The Weight of Things I Couldn't Change
14. Psycroptic - Divine Council
15. Ingested - Ashes Lie Still
16. Earth Eater - Infinite Ruin
17. Starve - Six Feet Into The Poppy Field
18. END - Gather & Mourn
19. Decapitated - Cancer Culture
20. Cabal - Magno Interitus

So much rad shit this year, looking forward to seeing what '23 brings.

 

[wheresthefbomb]

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

Goin Against Your Mind is 100% wall-to-wall bangers, makes my lifetime top 10 easy, and Perfect From Now On is dang close, but otherwise I have to agree. A lot of his albums are a big skip for me and I was really surprised to even like the recent singles.

I've also heard it's really hit and miss live since Doug is hiring studio musicians for tours who may or may not be phoning it in for a paycheck.

All that said, Doug's bad ideas are still better than most musician's best ideas. He's a brilliant songwriter and poet and has made some truly timeless contributions to rock music.

 

[putrid.stewing.mass]

Albums from 2022:
01. Undeath - It's Time... To Rise from the Grave
02. Stabbing - Extirpated Mortal Process
03. Wiegedood - There's Always Blood at the End of the Road
04. Tomarum - Ash in Realms of Stone Icons
05. Allegaeon - Damnum
06. Gudsforladt - Friendship, Love and War
07. Phobophilic - Enveloping Absurdity
08. Church of Disgust - Weakest is the Flesh
09. Exhumed - To the Dead
10. Escuela Grind - Memory Theater

Albums not from 2022 (i.e. shit I actually listened to for most of the year):
01. Obscura - Omnivium
02. Defeated Sanity - The Sanguinary Impetus
03. Unhuman - Unhuman
04. Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris
05. Viscera Infest - Verrucuous Carcinoma
06. Woods of Desolation - Torn Beyond Reason
07. Beyond Creation - Earthborn Evolution
08. Decrepit Birth - Diminishing Between Worlds
09. Këkht Aräkh - Pale Swordsman
10. Death - Individual Thought Patterns
[11. Vaktal - Glacial Wastelands Demo] (friends' unreleased material)
[12. Aphex Twin - literally everything omg] (not metal but I feel as if I should mention it as I listened to him and other electronic artists so much, he's just my most listened to and beloved)

Wasn't as much great metal as last year, but there was still more than enough to go around. Cheers to the next year!

 

[gunch]

Oh my god Chat Pile fuckign rips

 

[MAJ Meadows SF]

There were actually a ton of really good releases this year. A few exceptional listed as my top 6, and the rest were just beneath them. Probably missed a few contenders, but this comes off the Bandcamp rotation mostly. All recommended as they spent a lot of time in my headphones this past year.

1 - Hath - All That Was Promised
2 - Blackbraid - Blackbraid I
3 - Goatwhore - Angels Hung from the Arches of Heaven
4 - Wormrot - Hiss
5 - Immolation - Acts of God
6 - Undeath - It's Time... To Rise from the Grave

Notable albums and EPs:
The Chasm - The Scars of a Lost Reflective Shadow
Blind Guardian - The God Machine
Inanna - Void of Unending Depths
Sigh - Shiki
Autonoesis - Moon of Foul Magics
Decapitated - Cancer Culture
Darkthrone - Astral Fortress
Mother of Graves - Where the Shadows Adorn
Tomarum - Ash in Realms of Stone Icons
Amophis - Halo
Rammstein - Zeit
Meshuggah - Immutable
Psycroptic - Divine Counsel
Pharmacist - Flourishing Extremities on Unsoiled Mental Grounds
Worm - Bluenothing
Spirit World - Deathwestern
Chat Pile - God's Country
Tomb Mold - Aperture of the Body
Revocation - Netherheaven
Ripped to Shreds - (Jubian)
Maul - Seraphic Punishment
Stangarigel - Na Severe Srdca
Ancient Death - Sacred Vessel
Mortuous - Upon Desolation
Zeal and Ardor - Zeal & Ador
Sumerlands - Dreamkiller
Hammers of Misfortune - Overtaker
Ne Obliviscaris - Exul
Evergrey - A Heartless Portrait (The Orphean Testament)

 

[MFB]

Jesus Christ this thread hurts to look at, I recognize like, fucking three albums from this page alone that I can only imagine what's on the other five

 

[DarkstarII]

^^^ haha

Best to me in 2022:

Megadave - The sick the dying and the dead
Amon Amarth - The great heathen army

 

[Andromalia]

I know it's technically a november 2021 album but I just got hold of it, Hypocrisy's Worship is a bull's eye. The songs aren't ground breaking, but they're good, and the production isn't groundbreaking, but it's good. All together, possibly a top 20 all time for me and definitely the best Hypocrisy album. Even the "fillers" are good and saved by the production.

 

[marke]

Final top 5: 1. Artificial Brain - s/t 2. Fallujah - Empyrean 3. Soreption - Jord 4. Imperial Triumphant - Spirit of Ecstasy 5. Immolation - Acts of God

Did not hear much else that was so great imho. Even some of those top 5 are nothing spectacular. Allegaeon, Hath, An Abstract Illusion, Chat Pile, Revocation etc. had potential, but ultimately were a bit boring.. not bad albums, just not classics.

 

[marke]

Ok, I missed this one. It's great!

 

[Triple7]

 

[Emperor Guillotine]

I'm super late to the game (nothing new there), but here are what were my top albums of 2022.

1. Earthists – Have a Good Cult
2. Peter Fernandes – Incline
3. Chris Turner – Steezy
4. Dir En Grey – Phalaris
5. Counterparts – A Eulogy For Those Still Here
6. Joshua Travis – No Rest
7. Meshuggah – Immutable
8. Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas – Cocoon For the Golden Future
9. Pridelands – Light Bends
10. Carpenter Brut – Leather Terror

And some honorable mentions that didn't quite cut it for the list.

• Monuments – In Stasis
• Coldrain – Nonnegative
• Underoath – Voyeurist
• Orphan Twin – Future Classic
• Electric Youth – A Tribute to Ryuichi Sakamoto – To the Moon and Back

The album credits for Electric Youth's tribute album include: Thundercat, Hildur Gudnadottir, and a couple other artists whose names might surprise you.

Have a Good Cult by Earthists is my personal favorite album of 2022. I have not heard a modern metal album this genuinely creative from start to finish in quite a long time. The production of the album is expertly polished and further adds to heighten the truly thoughtful song composing that fuses metalcore with big, catchy, J-Pop (or J-Rock) inspired choruses, along with elements of orchestral instrumentation, chill downtempo, and other currently trendy electronic/ambient music.

If you guys read this post and take away anything, then at least hop on your preferred music streaming service and check out some of the artists whose names are on my list that you don't recognize. I hope that you'll be as blown-away as I was upon listening to some of these releases.

 

[mongey]

In metal , meshuggah for me.

Still on regular gym rotation. After not enjoying violet Sleep much , and am really enjoying it.

New Conan album is also getting some spins regular.

Apart from that I’m not sure I really explored much new metal in 2022

Listened to new porcupine tree allot , but not sure if that counts.

 

[Spicypickles]

Surprised so many people are mentioning Meshuggah. The band is great but this offering was so so.

Revocation was sick, Rammstein was nice, monuments was a solid album. The josh Travis album was pretty dope also. I mostly spent time exploring stuff I hadn’t before, old 70’s stuff, etc.

 

[BlackMastodon]

Surprised so many people are mentioning Meshuggah. The band is great but this offering was so so.

I've felt this way about Meshuggah largely outside of Obzen. Some good classics on Nothing and Chaosphere, I like I but need to be in the mood for it, but everything after Obzen I've found so goddamn boring.

 

[TheWarAgainstTime]

I'll narrow it down to a top 5 since we're already somewhat into 2023:

1. Meshuggah - Immutable

2. Fit For An Autopsy - Oh, What The Future Holds

3. Spite - Dedication To Flesh

4. Parkway Drive - Darker Still

5. Fit For A King - The Hell We Create

Honestly, there are a handful of albums from 2022 by artists I love that I simply haven't listened all the way through for whatever reason. Not enough time to sit down and listen to an album top-to-bottom, not in the right mood for that particular artist when I do have the time, etc. I'm sure my top 10 would look different if I had heard them all, but here we are