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F3ynman's Top 50 Most Frequently Listened-to Albums Of 2022


Merry Christmas, my fellow metalheads!

Inspired by Qualeen's list, I meticulously kept track of how often I listened to every album this year. I present to you my top 50 most frequently listened-to albums of the year 2022, ordered by number of full listens.

In other words, here are the albums that I've been most obsessively addicted to over the past year!

Frohe Weihnachten und einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr!

Created by: F3ynman | 24.12.2022



1. Slayer - Show No Mercy
1983 thrash, USA
2. Mercyful Fate - Melissa
1983 heavy, Denmark
3. Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked
2005 brutal / tech death, USA
4. Gojira - The Way Of All Flesh
2008 prog death, France
5. Autopsy - Severed Survival
1989 death, USA
6. Acherontas - Vamachara
2011 black, Greece
7. Neurosis - Souls At Zero
1992 post-hardcore / sludge, USA
8. Lucifer's Fall - III - From The Deep
2021 doom, Australia
9. Death - Spiritual Healing
1990 death, USA
10. Kypck - Черно
2008 doom, Finland
11. Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss
1990 thrash, USA
12. Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence
1993 melo black / death, Sweden
13. Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk
1997 symphonic black, Norway
14. Lucifer's Fall - Lucifer's Fall
2014 doom, Australia
15. Virgin Black - Sombre Romantic
2001 gothic, Australia
16. Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines
2002 brutal / tech death, USA
17. Melechesh - Emissaries
2006 melo black / folk, Israel
18. Mastodon - Leviathan
2004 prog sludge, USA
19. Kvelertak - Kvelertak
2010 blackened hardcore / punk, Norway
20. Slayer - Reign In Blood
1986 thrash, USA
21. Famyne - II: The Ground Below
2022 doom, UK
22. Deumus - Oyer And Terminer
2022 doom, Austria
23. Disfuneral - Blood Red Tentacle
2022 death, France
24. Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality
1971 doom, UK
25. Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings
1995 power, USA
26. Megadeth - Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good!
1985 thrash, USA
27. Terminalist - The Great Acceleration
2021 prog thrash, Denmark
28. Demigod - Slumber Of Sullen Eyes
1992 death, Finland
29. Summoning - Minas Morgul
1995 atmo black, Austria
30. Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
1994 black, Norway
31. Immolation - Acts Of God
2022 death, USA
32. Artificial Brain - Artificial Brain
2022 tech death, USA
33. Umbra Conscientia - Nigredine Mundi
2022 black, Costa Rica
34. Pentagram - Pentagram
1985 doom, USA
35. Lucifer's Fall - II - Cursed & Damned
2016 doom, Australia
36. Bolt Thrower - Realm Of Chaos
1989 death, UK
37. Nile - Amongst The Catacombs Of Nephren-Ka
1998 brutal / tech death, USA
38. Summoning - Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame
2001 atmo black, Austria
39. Falkenbach - ...Magni Blandinn Ok Megintiri...
1998 viking folk, Germany
40. Vinterland - Welcome My Last Chapter
1996 black, Sweden
41. Mastodon - Remission
2002 prog sludge, USA
42. Thy Catafalque - Sgùrr
2015 avant-garde black, Hungary
43. Devil Master - Ecstasies Of Never Ending Night
2022 melo black, USA
44. Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea
2006 funeral doom, Germany
45. Path Of Might - Deep Chrome
2022 prog sludge, USA
46. Species - To Find Deliverance
2022 thrash, Poland
47. Slayer - Hell Awaits
1985 thrash, USA
48. Æther Realm - Tarot
2017 melo death / folk, USA
49. Asphyx - Necroceros
2021 death, The Netherlands
50. Deathspell Omega - Kénôse
2005 avant-garde black, France



Disclaimer: All top lists are unofficial and do not represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
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24.12.2022 - 00:08
F3ynman
Nocturnal Bro
Contributor
For people interested in fun statistics, here is some data for my list:

Statistics:
Countries:
USA = 20
Australia = 4
UK = 3
Norway = 3
Austria = 3
France = 3
Sweden = 2
Denmark = 2
Germany = 2
Hungary = 1
Finland = 2
Israel = 1
Poland = 1
Greece = 1
The Netherlands = 1
Costa Rica = 1
Years:
1970-1979: 1
1980 - 1989: 8
1990 - 1999: 12
2000 - 2009: 11
2010 - 2019: 6
2020 - 2022: 13
Genres:
Death = 14
Black & Folk = 13
Doom & Gothic = 10
Thrash = 7
Sludge & Hardcore = 5
Heavy & Power = 2

Conclusions:
While I do branch out to several countries, most of my addictions still tend to come from the US. I've explored more albums released between 2000 and 2009, while revisiting personal favorites from the 90s. To prepare for the MS Awards, I also listened to many albums released this year. My favorite genres remain black and death, it seems. Although I began exploring more doom and sludge.

Overall, a very fun year of metal for me! I can't wait to see where my musical interests will take me next year
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25.12.2022 - 07:45
Qualeen
Lovely albums these! I didn't know you enjoyed Ahab! Also cool to see "In Their Darkened Shrines", "Leviathan", "The Way of All Flesh" and "Welcome My Last Chapter" on here
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So imminently visible - this cloaked innocent guilt
Sentenced to a lifetime, a second of structured chaos
Trampled by the ferocious, raging crowds of solitude
I'm the soil beneath me soaking up the sustenance of my own death.
[Meshuggah]
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25.12.2022 - 16:46
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
Cool list man
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I stand whit Ukraine and Israel. They have right to defend own citizens.

Stormtroopers of Death - "Speak English or Die"

I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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27.12.2022 - 20:47
F3ynman
Nocturnal Bro
Contributor
Written by Qualeen on 25.12.2022 at 07:45

I didn't know you enjoyed Ahab!

Their debut is the best funeral doom I've encountered. I'm not a big fan of the genre, but the eerieness on that one is spot-on
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Also cool to see "In Their Darkened Shrines", "Leviathan", "The Way of All Flesh"

Yeah those are great, especially Gojira's. The top 4 on my list (Show No Mercy, Melissa, Annihilation of the Wicked, The Way Of All Flesh) have been extremely addicting to me over the past year.

Other than those top 4, the best new discoveries for me this year that will probably over time be among my all-time favorites are:

Acherontas | Vamachara
Virgin Black | Sombre Romantic
Kypck | Черно
Melechesh | Emissaries
Neurosis | Souls At Zero
Thy Catafalque | Sgùrr
Kvelertak | Kvelertak

My plan is to document my new discoveries with my Currently Listening... lists and these end-of-year lists. Then I'll eventually create a list (or article) like musclassia's list where I show how my interests have changed over the course of several years.
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