Almost all album titles fall in one of two categories: The album shares the title with one of its songs (the title track) or, alternatively, the album title is independent from the songs (no title track).

However,…

1.40 Watt Sun - Wider Than The Sky

2.A Forest Of Stars - A Shadowplay For Yesterdays

3.Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops

4.Agalloch - The Mantle

5.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

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1.White Ward - False Light

2.Gaerea - Mirage

3.Dream Unending - Song Of Salvation

4.Morkera - Entangled Excavations

5.An Abstract Illusion - Woe

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1.Disembowelment - Transcendence Into The Peripheral

2.Weakling - Dead As Dreams

3.Greylotus - Dawnfall

4.John Petrucci - An Evening With John Petrucci & Jordan Rudess [Collaboration]

5.John Petrucci - Suspended Animation

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Taken around 8:30 pm GMT
There was no write-in for djent so I voted for one.
Not totally clean (trolls in last categories are kept for fun),
Thanks to the person who curated most of the write-is since…

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2.A.A. Williams - As The Moon Rests

3.Disturbed - Divisive

4.Dog Fashion Disco - Cult Classic

5.Fleshwater - We're Not Here To Be Loved

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1.An Abstract Illusion - Woe

2.White Ward - False Light

3.Gaerea - Mirage

4.Disillusion - Ayam

5.The Halo Effect - Days Of The Lost

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This is an alphabetical list of interesting instrumental songs that have been included by vocal groups as original contribution to an album. Therefore, this list does not include instrumental-based groups…

1.Anathema - Eternity

2.Anathema - Judgement

3.Arch Enemy - War Eternal

4.Arch Enemy - Will To Power

5.As I Lay Dying - An Ocean Between Us

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My very subjective ranking of all heard metal and metal-adjacent albums 2022.

1.Mamaleek - Diner Coffee

2.Wilderun - Epigone

3.Disillusion - Ayam

4.Ashenspire - Hostile Architecture

5.Cavernlight - As I Cast Ruin Upon The Lens That Reveals My Every Flaw

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Better late than never! I tried to be thorough and listened to anything I thought I might be remotely interested in order to create this list.

1.An Abstract Illusion - Woe

2.Blind Guardian - The God Machine

3.Wilderun - Epigone

4.Brymir - Voices In The Sky

5.Immolation - Acts Of God

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Well, here I put my personal top with which to me have been the best albums of 2022. They are not all they are, but if they all are.

1.Exocrine - The Hybrid Suns

2.Allegaeon - Damnum

3.Tómarúm - Ash In Realms Of Stone Icons

4.Lorna Shore - Pain Remains

5.Inexorum - Equinox Vigil

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1.Fallujah - Empyrean

2.Psycroptic - Divine Council

3.Nocturna - Daughters Of The Night

4.Arch Enemy - Deceivers

5.Tómarúm - Ash In Realms Of Stone Icons

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1.Sigh - Shiki

2.Darkest Era - Wither On The Vine

3.Blind Guardian - The God Machine

4.Sabaton - The War To End All Wars

5.Tómarúm - Ash In Realms Of Stone Icons

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Top 12 Albums of 2022 according to le Lutin O.

1.Amon Amarth - The Great Heathen Army

2.Lorna Shore - Pain Remains

3.Zeal & Ardor - Zeal & Ardor

4.The Halo Effect - Days Of The Lost

5.Shadow Of Intent - Elegy

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It's a list of all the albums that I plan on listening to from the year 2022.

Edit 2023: the list is now a personal ruffly ranked top 100 of the year.

1.Persefone - Metanoia

2.Wilderun - Epigone

3.Disillusion - Ayam

4.An Abstract Illusion - Woe

5.Kardashev - Liminal Rite

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1.Zeal & Ardor - Zeal & Ardor

2.Polyphia - Remember That You Will Die

3.Behemoth - Opvs Contra Natvram

4.Saidan - Onryō II: Her Spirit Eternal

5.Veiled In Scarlet - Reincarnation

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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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