1.Deathspell Omega - The Long Defeat

2.Arð - Take Up My Bones

3.Earthless - Night Parade Of One Hundred Demons

4.Darkher - The Buried Storm

5.My Sleeping Karma - Atma

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As the Earth makes another full circle around the sun, its time to celebrate the best albums that marked that period.

1.Kurokuma - Born Of Obsidian

2.Jungle Rot - A Call To Arms

3.The Hu - Rumble Of Thunder

4.Malevolence - Malicious Intent

5.Toxik - Dis Morta

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I've played somewhere in the region of 1200 albums this year - there's been a lot of great stuff among them, so this will not be an easy list to narrow down - I'd like to say I can be stricter…

1.Psychonaut - Violate Consensus Reality

2.Disillusion - Ayam

3.Persefone - Metanoia

4.Kardashev - Liminal Rite

5.Shadow Of Intent - Elegy

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These are albums that I'm currently enjoying. They may be classics that I'm revisiting or new gems I've recently discovered. (Ordered alphabetically)

- A star (⭐️) denotes a new discovery…

1.Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops

2.Acid Bath - Paegan Terrorism Tactics

3.Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea

4.Ahab - The Divinity Of Oceans

5.Angrrsth - W Czeluść

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These are my top 100 favorite new releases of 2022

Genre stats:
Black: 22
Death: 18
Doom: 15
Stoner: 9
Sludge: 8
Heavy: 7
Post: 5
Thrash: 5
Prog / Avant-garde: 4
Alternative: 2
Gothic: 1
Folk:…

1.Lune - Hymns To The Lunar Realm

2.Famyne - II: The Ground Below

3.Umbra Conscientia - Nigredine Mundi

4.Angrrsth - W Czeluść

5.Devil Master - Ecstasies Of Never Ending Night

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All my top 2022 albums ranked in order that I have listened to completely. No EP's included only full length albums.

2025
2024
2023…

1.An Abstract Illusion - Woe

2.Panzerfaust - The Suns Of Perdition - Chapter III: The Astral Drain

3.Psychonaut - Violate Consensus Reality

4.Djevel - Naa Skrider Natten Sort

5.Humanotone - A Flourishing Fall In A Grain Of Sand

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Only including albums I've listened to the whole way through.

1.Persefone - Metanoia

2.Ode And Elegy - Ode And Elegy

3.Non Est Deus - Impious

4.Confess - Revenge At All Costs

5.Zeal & Ardor - Zeal & Ardor

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In order, my favourite song highlighted and a rating out of 5 for the album…

1.Undeath - It's Time . . .To Rise From The Grave

2.Maul - Seraphic Punishment

3.The Spirit - Of Clarity And Galactic Structures

4.Venom Prison - Erebos

5.Shadow Of Intent - Elegy

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2022 Best of list. In order of rating then in order of listening.

1.Blackbraid - Blackbraid I

2.Rammstein - Zeit

3.Exhumed - To The Dead

4.OAR - The Blood You Crave

5.Oshiego - Jaljalut

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Honestly curious to see if I get anywhere near 2021's ludicrous album count (~900) this year; should hopefully be some very high-scoring albums in the first couple of months, but otherwise let's…

1.Persefone - Metanoia

2.Hath - All That Was Promised

3.Rolo Tomassi - Where Myth Becomes Memory

4.Playgrounded - The Death Of Death

5.Kardashev - Liminal Rite

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All listened albums chart…

1.Wilderun - Epigone

2.Disillusion - Ayam

3.Sylvaine - Nova

4.Soundgarden - Live At The Paramount Theatre - Seattle 1992

5.Lamentations - Passion Of Depression

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2022 Listens…

1.Gaerea - Mirage

2.Immolation - Acts Of God

3.Panzerfaust - The Suns Of Perdition - Chapter III: The Astral Drain

4.Blackbraid - Blackbraid I

5.Dark Millennium - Acid River

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Reminder list for myself to keep track of new music coming out from my favourite artists.

1.Abbath - Dread Reaver

2.Alter Bridge - Pawns & Kings

3.Amon Amarth - The Great Heathen Army

4.Amorphis - Halo

5.Arch Enemy - Deceivers

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