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Best Of 2022 Death Metal


Shieeet, here we go again...
Best death metal AD 2022 according to myself, listed alphabetically by band name with subgenres. Some notable omissions include: Amon Amarth, Behemoth, Decapitated, Fallujah, Lorna Shore, Omophagia, Paganizer and Temple Of Void. These left me a bit disappointed so I chose not to include them on the list proper, even though I enjoyed all the bands' newest albums. I'm also still catching up on a lot of records so this list will be updated semi-regularly. Hopefully you will find something you haven't heard here. Feel free to recommend stuff in the comments. Enjoy!

Oh and as a side note, none of the genre descriptors are meant as derogative, I obviously enjoy all these bands and albums. Caverncore (or cavernous death) for example is meant as familiar in sound/style to a band like Cruciamentum or Chthe'ilist.

Created by: Jaro | 05.01.2023



1. Abysmal Dawn - Nightmare Frontier
Modern Death
2. Acephalix - Theothanatology
OSDM
3. Aeternam - Heir Of The Rising Sun
Melodic Death/Folk
4. Aethereus - Leiden
Technical/Progressive Death
5. Allegaeon - Damnum
Progressive Melodic Death
6. Analepsy - Quiescence
Brutal Death/Slam
7. Ares Kingdom - In Darkness At Last
Death/Thrash
8. Arkaik - Labyrinth Of Hungry Ghosts
Tech Death
9. Aronious - Irkalla
Technical/Progressive Death
10. Artificial Brain - Artificial Brain
Technical/Progressive Death
11. Autonoesis - Moon Of Foul Magics
Melodic Thrash/Black/Death
12. Autopsy - Morbidity Triumphant
It's fucking Autopsy
13. Azaab - Summoning The Cataclysm
Tech Death
14. Baest - Justitia
Modern Death
15. Belphegor - The Devils
Blackened Death
16. Black Lava - Soul Furnace
Blackened Death
17. Bloodbath - Survival Of The Sickest
The OG OSDM band
18. Blood Chalice - The Blasphemous Psalms Of Cannibalism
Black/Death
19. Carrion Vael - Abhorrent Obsessions
Melodic Death
20. Cosmic Putrefaction - Crepuscular Dirge For The Blessed Ones
Dissodeath/Technical Death
21. Corpsessed - Succumb To Rot
OSDM
22. Darkened - The Black Winter
Swedeath
23. De Profundis - The Corruption Of Virtue
Progressive OSDM
24. Desolate Shrine - Fires Of The Dying World
Atmospheric Blackened Death
25. Disillusion - Ayam
Melodic Progressive Death
26. Dream Unending - Song Of Salvation
Atmospheric Death/Doom
27. Encryptment - Dödens Födsel
OSDM/Grindcore/Crust
28. Epoch Of Unlight - At War With The Multiverse
Technical Melodic Death/Black
29. Ernia - How To Deal With Life And Fail
Deathgrind
30. Exhumed - To The Dead
OSDM/Grindcore
31. Exocrine - The Hybrid Suns
Tech Death
32. Faceless Burial - At The Foothills Of Deliration
Progressive OSDM
33. Fit For An Autopsy - Oh What The Future Holds
Melodic Progressive Deathcore
34. Freedom Of Fear - Carpathia
Tech Death
35. Gluttony - Drogulus
OSDM
36. Goatwhore - Angels Hung From The Arches Of Heaven
Black/Death/Thrash
37. Golgothan Remains - Adorned In Ruin
Dissodeath
38. Graceless - Chants From Purgatory
OSDM/Doom
39. Harlequin - Origin Of Suffering
Melodic Blackened Death
40. Hath - All That Was Promised
Progressive Blackened Death
41. Heads For The Dead - The Great Conjuration
OSDM
42. Heaving Earth - Darkness Of God
Blackened Death/Dissodeath
43. Immolation - Acts Of God
It's fucking Immolation
44. Inanimate Existence - The Masquerade
Progressive/Technical Death
45. Ingested - Ashes Lie Still
Brutal Death/Slam/Deathcore
46. Innumerable Forms - Philosophical Collapse
OSDM
47. Instigate - Unheeded Warnings Of Decay
Dying Fetus-core
48. Inverted Matter - Harbinger
Progressive OSDM
49. Iron Flesh - Limb After Limb
Swedeath out of France
50. Iron Front - Left Out To Rot
OSDM
51. Jade - The Pacification Of Death
Atmospheric Death
52. Kardashev - Liminal Rite
Atmospheric Progressive Death/Post
53. Kuolemanlaakso - Kuusumu
Melodic Death/Doom
54. Lamentations - Passion Of Depression
Progressive Death
55. Light Dweller - Lucid Offering
Dissodeath
56. Live Burial - Curse Of The Forlorn
Progressive OSDM
57. Miscreance - Convergence
Atheist-core
58. Miseration - Black Miracles And Dark Wonders
Blackened Melodic Death
59. Misery Index - Complete Control
Deathgrind
60. Morbific - Squirm Beyond The Mortal Realm
OSDM
61. Mother Of Graves - Where The Shadows Adorn
Melodic Death/Doom
62. Necrophagous - In Chaos Ascend
Tech Death
63. Noctem - Credo Certe Ne Cras
Blackened Death
64. Nocturnal Graves - An Outlaw's Stand
Blackened Thrash/Death
65. Obsidious - Iconic
Progressive Technical Death
66. Ofermod - Ofermodian Litanies
Black/Death
67. Order Ov Riven Cathedrals - Absolute
Tech Death
68. Organectomy - Nail Below Nail
Brutal Death/Slam
69. Origin - Chaosmos
Technical/Brutal Death
70. Pestilent Reign - Ascension
Modern Death
71. Phobophilic - Enveloping Absurdity
OSDM
72. Phreneticis - Maze Of Time
Progressive Death
73. Psycroptic - Divine Council
Tech Death
74. Raster Density - Apothecary's Tome Ov Depravity And Filth
Progressive Technical Death
75. Revocation - Netherheaven
Modern Death
76. Ripped To Shreds - 劇變 (Jubian)
OSDM
77. Sadist - Firescorched
Progressive Death
78. Sceptic - Nailed To Ignorance
Tech Death (not the demo MS is linking for some reason)
79. Sentient Horror - Rites Of Gore
OSDM
80. Septicflesh - Modern Primitive
Symphonic Death
81. Shadow Of Intent - Elegy
Melodic Progressive Deathcore
82. Shape Of Despair - Return To The Void
Funeral Doom/Death
83. Soilwork - Övergivenheten
Melodeath
84. Soreption - Jord
Tech Death
85. Spire Of Lazarus - Soaked In The Sands
Technical Deathcore
86. Static Abyss - Labyrinth Of Veins
OSDM/Death/Doom
87. Strigoi - Viscera
Death/Doom/Grindcore
88. SubOrbital - Planetary Disruption
Tech Death/Deathgrind
89. Sun Eater - Vermin
Technical/Brutal Death
90. The Chasm - The Scars Of A Lost Reflective Shadow
Black/Death/Thrash
91. The Devils Of Loudun - Escaping Eternity
Technical/Progressive Death
92. Tribal Gaze - The Nine Choirs
Death/Hardcore
93. Undeath - It's Time​.​.​.To Rise From The Grave
OSDM
94. Vacuous - Dreams Of Dysphoria
Caverncore
95. Veilburner - VLBRNR
Progressive Black/Death
96. Venom Prison - Erebos
Melodic Death/Hardcore
97. Vittra - Blasphemy Blues
Melodic Death/Thrash
98. Void Rot - Telluric Dismemberment
Caverncore
99. Voidthrone - Metaphysical Degradation
Dissodeath
100. Vormir - Celestial Carnage
Progressive Technical Death
101. Wachenfeldt - Faustian Reawakening
Symphonic Blackened Death/Thrash
102. Wake - Thought Form Descent
Progressive Blackened Death
103. Warforged - The Grove / Sundial
Progressive Death (I could list like 5 other subgenres here)
104. Werewolves - From The Cave To The Grave
Blackened Death/Deathgrind
105. Wilderun - Epigone
Progressive Death
106. Writhing - Of Earth & Flesh
Dissodeath
107. Worm - Bluenothing
Atmospheric Death/Doom
108. Xenobiotic - Hate Monolith
Technical Deathcore



Disclaimer: All top lists are unofficial and do not represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
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07.01.2023 - 09:48
AndyMetalFreak
A Nice Guy
Contributor
Great list! It's always good to see lists narrowed down to genre's, there was some very solid death metal releases last year
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07.01.2023 - 21:52
Jaro
Written by AndyMetalFreak on 07.01.2023 at 09:48

Great list! It's always good to see lists narrowed down to genre's, there was some very solid death metal releases last year

Thank you
I know, right? Holy shit I have so many left to get through, the day of my submitting this list I heard 3 albums that would have made it haha
You got a favourite in here?
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07.01.2023 - 22:43
AndyMetalFreak
A Nice Guy
Contributor
Written by Jaro on 07.01.2023 at 21:52

Thank you
I know, right? Holy shit I have so many left to get through, the day of my submitting this list I heard 3 albums that would have made it haha
You got a favourite in here?

I've listened to quite a few here, and yet there are many I still haven't listened to. If I was to create a top 10 list of death metal releases from 2022 from favourite down it will probably be this:

1. An Abstract Illusion - Woe (Melodic/progressive death)
2. Aeviterne - The Ailing Facade (Experimental death)
3. Mother Of Graves - Where The Shadows Adorn (Death doom)
4. Jade - The Pacification Of Death (Atmospheric/death doom)
5. Strigoi - Viscera (Death)
6. Psycroptic - Divine Council (Technical death)
7. Hath - All That Was Promised (Death)
8. Dream Unending - Song Of Salvation (Death doom)
9. The Spirit - Of Clarity And Galactic Structures (Melodic death)
10. Immolation - Acts Of God (Death)
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20.06.2023 - 14:30
BCI
Best of Death Metal?
I thought it was ALL of Death Metal 🤣
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Black Crown Initiate have ruined a lot of bands for me...
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24.06.2023 - 16:51
Jaro
Written by BCI on 20.06.2023 at 14:30

Best of Death Metal?
I thought it was ALL of Death Metal 🤣

Nobody asked xD
Relisten to Liquid Anatomy
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25.07.2023 - 19:59
Guib
Thrash Talker
Nice list! Got me to discover a lot of stuff thanks as always Jarek for spreading the good stuff.
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- Headbanging with mostly clogged arteries to that stuff -
Guib's List Of Essential Albums
- Also Thrash Paradise
Thrash Here
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26.07.2023 - 12:25
Jaro
Written by Guib on 25.07.2023 at 19:59

Nice list! Got me to discover a lot of stuff thanks as always Jarek for spreading the good stuff.

Thank you for checking it out, lemme know which ones you dig most
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26.07.2023 - 17:06
Guib
Thrash Talker
Im not finished exploring it all yet but out of those I don't already know there's 2 big highlights so far which are Miscreance and Obsidious.
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- Headbanging with mostly clogged arteries to that stuff -
Guib's List Of Essential Albums
- Also Thrash Paradise
Thrash Here
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24.12.2023 - 10:04
Jaro
Written by Guib on 26.07.2023 at 17:06

Im not finished exploring it all yet but out of those I don't already know there's 2 big highlights so far which are Miscreance and Obsidious.

The track "Bound by Fire" from the Obsidious album ended up as my 2nd most listened to this year as I got into them late in 2022. First is "Sempiternal Beings" from Haken, very different metal but prog/technical too.
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