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Nowhere near finished 2022 list, but never mind, hey?

Created by: LordFezzington | 15.01.2023


1. Fires In The Distance - Air Not Meant For Us
[Death Doom, USA] I was a year or so late to Echoes From Deep November, which is a really solid debut, defined by the synths. I feel this ups the songwriting in the sense that it is less reliant on the keys and therefore feels a bit more varied. Some great riffs and some really nice leads again. [8.5]
2. Demoniac (CHL) - Nube Negra
[Thrash, Chile] This is a fun and frenetic ride for sure, and the occasionally odd instrumentation is still cool. Ultimately doesn't quite have the charm of 2021's So It Goes for me. [7.0]
3. Mechina - Cenotaph
[Industrial/Symphonic, USA] Got to admire these guys for the consistency of pumping out a new record every New Year's Day, but it really is just more of the same and very hard to notice anything standing out at all. 'Broken Matter Manipulation' is decent, but then again, it doesn't have any vocals, so that helps... [5.0]
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5. Baroness - Stone
6. Kalmah - Kalmah
7. Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags
8. Pupil Slicer - Blossom
9. Urne - A Feast On Sorrow
10. Going Off - What Makes You Tick?
11. Scar Symmetry - The Singularity (Phase II - Xenotaph)
12. Voyager - Fearless In Love
13. Will Haven - VII
14. Evile - The Unknown
15. Kataklysm - Goliath
16. Kvelertak - Endling
17. Royal Thunder - Rebuilding The Mountain
18. Enslaved - Heimdal
19. Thy Catafalque - Alföld
20. Fen - Monuments To Absence
21. Ahab - The Coral Tombs
22. Saturnus - The Storm Within
23. Sworn - A Journey Told Through Fire
24. Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit
25. Serpent Of Old - Ensemble Under The Dark Sun
26. Ghost - Phantomime
27. Dryad - The Abyssal Plain
28. Sadus - The Shadow Inside
29. Hellix - Montage
30. Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current
31. Shylmagoghnar - Convergence
32. Stortregn - Finitude
33. Obituary - Dying Of Everything
34. Skindred - Smile
35. Majestic Ryte - Majestic Ryte
36. Arkona - Kob'
37. The Ocean - Holocene
38. Therapy? - Hard Cold Fire
39. In Flames - Foregone
40. Blackbraid - Blackbraid II
41. Avenged Sevenfold - Life Is But A Dream...


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