As with the others, gonna update as I go through my collection. This is really just for my own organizational purposes.

1.Brutus (BEL) - Unison Life

2.Chat Pile - God's Country

3.An Abstract Illusion - Woe

4.Xaon - The Lethean

5.Helms Alee - Keep This Be The Way

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1.White Ward - False Light

2.Gaerea - Mirage

3.Dream Unending - Song Of Salvation

4.An Abstract Illusion - Woe

5.Voivod - Synchro Anarchy

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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 yesterday, it really reduced the work to do!

PS : I cleaned the list listening to The Testament by Seventh Wonder, so I was particularly unhappy to see it in the biggest letdowns at the end

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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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Here we are with the best 30 albums of very evil music we listened to in 2022 in our Black Lodge. We'll have a podium with the best three, than 22 great albums in alphabetical order, and the top 5 debut albums in alphabetical order. And, to end, some honourable mentions...

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2.Mantar - Pain Is Forever And This Is The End

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

4.Birds In Row - Gris Klein

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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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It's been a while! I've been offline for quite a while now, but I thought to myself that it might be fun to visit some old hobbies, and now I'm introducing my top favorite albums of 2022! Hope you like it, and give a thumbs up if you do :-)

Thanks a lot, and happy new year!

1.The Halo Effect - Days Of The Lost

2.An Abstract Illusion - Woe

3.Allegaeon - Damnum

4.Blind Guardian - The God Machine

5.Ghost - Impera

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Top 50 of this forsaken year from the top to the abyss (but still good). 8 & above

Album count: 329
Average rating: 6.73

1.Cult Of Luna - The Long Road North

2.Sylvaine - Nova

3.Luminous Vault - Animate The Emptiness

4.White Ward - False Light

5.Blut Aus Nord - Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses

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1.Allegaeon - Damnum

2.An Abstract Illusion - Woe

3.Gaerea - Mirage

4.Cult Of Luna - The Long Road North

5.Disillusion - Ayam

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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 than the 25 I had in last year's list, but to be honest I feel like the competition for 25 spots is more intense this time around, so I'll stick to that (making this the top 2% of albums I heard this year) - shoutouts to Gloson, The Nest, Sum Of R, Process Of Guilt, Dysnostic and Aeviterne, who probably would have had good shots of making it onto this list if I'd made the time to revisit them more. Also shoutout to Laere and Euphrosyne, whose EPs in Clandestine Cuts indicate exceedingly promising futures

1.Psychonaut - Violate Consensus Reality

2.Disillusion - Ayam

3.Persefone - Metanoia

4.Kardashev - Liminal Rite

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.Polyphia - Remember That You Will Die

2.Zeal & Ardor - Zeal & Ardor

3.Behemoth - Opvs Contra Natvram

4.Saidan - Onryō II: Her Spirit Eternal

5.Veiled In Scarlet - Reincarnation

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Fell just shy of 100 albums per month for the first half of the year, I imagine I won't be matching that but let's try to get to a full 1000 albums for the year at least.

1.Psychonaut - Violate Consensus Reality

2.Disillusion - Ayam

3.An Abstract Illusion - Woe

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

5.Wake - Thought Form Descent

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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
Drone: 1
Hardcore: 1

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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1.Psychonaut - Violate Consensus Reality

2.White Ward - False Light

3.Disillusion - Ayam

4.Persefone - Metanoia

5.An Abstract Illusion - Woe

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1.Fellowship - The Saberlight Chronicles

2.Ode And Elegy - Ode And Elegy

3.Porcupine Tree - Closure / Continuation

4.Tómarúm - Ash In Realms Of Stone Icons

5.Disillusion - Ayam

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