1.Ossian - A Rock Katonái

2.Pokolgép - Koncertlemez

3.Sanctuary - Into The Mirror Black

4.Iron Maiden - No Prayer For The Dying

5.Judas Priest - Painkiller

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Albums I have enjoyed the most in 2022, ranked approximately.

Including only albums I rated 3/5 or higher.

1.Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There

2.Zeal & Ardor - Zeal & Ardor

3.Rolo Tomassi - Where Myth Becomes Memory

4.deathcrash - Return

5.Venom Prison - Erebos

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So far I stand by my position on this decade, it's awful and so is anyone who lived through it.

Plus my top three favourite tracks from each release. \m/

Honourable mentions:
Draconian - A Rose For The Apocalypse (Gothic/Doom)
Anaal Nathrakh - Passion (Black/Grindcore)
Taake - Noregs Vaapen (Black)

1.Primordial - Redemption At The Puritan's Hand

2.Septicflesh - The Great Mass

3.Ava Inferi - Onyx

4.Warbringer - Worlds Torn Asunder

5.Belphegor - Blood Magick Necromance

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1.Greg Puciato - Mirrorcell

2.Amorphis - Halo

3.Lorna Shore - Pain Remains

4.Fallujah - Empyrean

5.The Halo Effect - Days Of The Lost

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Love Rammstein since primary school, was one of the first to introduce me into metal and still on the hype of their concert in Montreal this August 21.

1.Rammstein - Mutter

2.Rammstein - Reise, Reise

3.Rammstein - Sehnsucht

4.Rammstein - Herzeleid

5.Rammstein - Zeit

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An ordinary guy, an ordinary list.

1.Seth - La Morsure Du Christ

2.Swallow The Sun - Moonflowers

3.Carcass - Torn Arteries

4.Funeral Mist - Deiform

5.Cradle Of Filth - Existence Is Futile

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Just a list of albums I’ve either already picked up or pre ordered for the year.

1.Abbath - Dread Reaver

2.Absent In Body - Plague God

3.Alcest - Spiritual Instinct

4.Allegaeon - Damnum

5.Amon Amarth - The Great Heathen Army

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These are the best prog metal albums.

1.Symphony X - The Odyssey

2.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance

3.Blood Incantation - Hidden History Of The Human Race

4.Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory

5.Atavistia - Cosmic Warfare

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1.Pain Of Salvation - Remedy Lane

2.Evergrey - The Inner Circle

3.Dark Tranquillity - Haven

4.Pain Of Salvation - The Perfect Element, Part I

5.Nevermore - Dead Heart In A Dead World

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1.Saturnus - Martyre

2.Pain Of Salvation - The Perfect Element, Part I

3.Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun

4.Nevermore - Dead Heart In A Dead World

5.Radiohead - Kid A

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You know it's a rough year when this much Stoner crap makes it on lol. Fuck the 2010's.

Plus my top three favourite tracks from each release. \m/

Honourable mentions:
Hooded Menace - Never Cross The Dead (Death/Doom)
The Vision Bleak - Set Sail To Mystery (Gothic)
Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones (Avant-Garde/Gothic)

1.Blind Guardian - At The Edge Of Time

2.Watain - Lawless Darkness

3.Dark Fortress - Ylem

4.Helloween - 7 Sinners

5.Sodom - In War And Pieces

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1.System Of A Down - Mezmerize

2.Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor

3.Firewind - Allegiance

4.Nightwish - Dark Passion Play

5.Paradise Lost - In Requiem

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1.Avantasia - Angel Of Babylon

2.Avantasia - The Wicked Symphony

3.Volbeat - Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies

4.Evergrey - Hymns For The Broken

5.Accept - Blood Of The Nations

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I never hear it brought up but I wanna throw 2009 into the Best Metal Year conversation, comparing this to the year before it's insane. I didn't even give my favourite band an honourable mention as there was already too many.

D666, Ruins, Nazxul, Razor of Occam, Pestilential Shadows... Nice year for Aussie Black Metal.

1.Behemoth - Evangelion

2.Deströyer 666 - Defiance

3.Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue

4.Heaven And Hell - The Devil You Know

5.Artillery - When Death Comes

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Top finds from 2022 as I'm working my way through the backlog built by a couple of months of mental absence, loosely ordered but with a passing semblance of meaning to the numbers... A work in progress, obviously.

1.Kuolemanlaakso - Kuusumu

2.Vanhävd - Vila

3.Watain - The Agony & Ecstasy Of Watain

4.My Sleeping Karma - Atma

5.Déhà - Decadanse

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