This list contains my 16 favourite albums of the year 🤘

HONOURABLE MENTIONS:
Antimatter - A Profusion Of Thought
Porcupine Tree - Closure / Continuation…

1.Dragonland - The Power Of The Nightstar

2.Blind Guardian - The God Machine

3.Seventh Wonder - The Testament

4.Michael Romeo - War Of The Worlds, Pt. 2

5.Brymir - Voices In The Sky

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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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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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I don't know if I am just getting too old, or is it the lack of dedicated time to just sit down and listen to an album properly, without doing anything else, but I have a feeling that more and more…

1.New Horizon - Gate Of The Gods

2.Månegarm - Ynglingaättens Öde

3.Amorphis - Halo

4.The Halo Effect - Days Of The Lost

5.Ereb Altor - Vargtimman

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Every category (Best, Very Good...) in no particular order...

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3.Disillusion - Ayam

4.An Abstract Illusion - Woe

5.Aenaon - Mnemosyne

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My personal picks from 2022 some are good some are terrible…

1.Queensrÿche - Digital Noise Alliance

2.The Cult - Under The Midnight Sun

3.Elder - Innate Passage

4.King Buffalo - Regenerator

5.Voivod - Synchro Anarchy

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1.Porcupine Tree - Closure / Continuation

2.Disillusion - Ayam

3.In The Woods... - Diversum

4.Ghost - Impera

5.Threshold - Dividing Lines

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2022 was a great year for Prog Metal.
A lot of fine albums.

1.Disillusion - Ayam

2.An Abstract Illusion - Woe

3.Aeternam - Heir Of The Rising Sun

4.Brymir - Voices In The Sky

5.Persefone - Metanoia

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1.Seventh Wonder - The Testament

2.Kreator - Hate Über Alles

3.Ghost - Impera

4.Jani Liimatainen - My Father's Son

5.Stratovarius - Survive

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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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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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1.Wilderun - Epigone

2.Ufomammut - Fenice

3.Ego Depths - Elläkkairavertta

4.ColdWorld - Isolation

5.Absent In Body - Plague God

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I've been meaning to start a 2022 list for quite a while, so here is the start of it. These are the albums that impressed me. I will update the list, obviously a work in progress.

1.Pure Reason Revolution - Above Cirrus

2.Spitfire - Denial To Fall

3.Birth - Born

4.Fer De Lance - The Hyperborean

5.Dawn Of Solace - Flames Of Perdition

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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.Wind Rose - Warfront

2.Evergrey - A Heartless Portrait (The Orphean Testament)

3.Saxon - Carpe Diem

4.Amorphis - Halo

5.Girish And The Chronicles - Hail To The Heroes

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