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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1.Immolation - Acts Of God

2.Bloodbath - Survival Of The Sickest

3.Strigoi - Viscera

4.Konvent - Call Down The Sun

5.Souldrainer - Departure

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1.Phobophilic - Enveloping Absurdity

2.Immolation - Acts Of God

3.Autopsy - Morbidity Triumphant

4.Wormrot - Hiss

5.Belphegor - The Devils

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Shieeet, here we go again...
Best death metal AD 2022 according to myself, listed alphabetically by band name with subgenres. Some notable omissions include: Amon Amarth, Behemoth, Decapitated, Fallujah, Lorna Shore, Omophagia, Paganizer and Temple Of Void. These left me a bit disappointed so I chose not to include them on the list proper, even though I enjoyed all the bands' newest albums. I'm also still catching up on a lot of records so this list will be updated semi-regularly. Hopefully you will find something you haven't heard here. Feel free to recommend stuff in the comments. Enjoy!

Oh and as a side note, none of the genre descriptors are meant as derogative, I obviously enjoy all these bands and albums. Caverncore (or cavernous death) for example is meant as familiar in sound/style to a band like Cruciamentum or Chthe'ilist.

1.Abysmal Dawn - Nightmare Frontier

2.Acephalix - Theothanatology

3.Aeternam - Heir Of The Rising Sun

4.Aethereus - Leiden

5.Allegaeon - Damnum

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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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1.Autopsy - Morbidity Triumphant

2.Putrefaction Sets In - Repugnant Inception Of Decomposing Paroxysm

3.Molder - Engrossed In Decay

4.Gronibard - Regarde Les Hommes Sucer

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

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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.Marillion - An Hour Before It's Dark

2.Satan - Earth Infernal

3.Messa - Close

4.Elder - Innate Passage

5.Arð - Take Up My Bones

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Top 100 2022 in the making.

1.Gaerea - Mirage

2.Lorna Shore - Pain Remains

3.Cult Of Luna - The Long Road North

4.SpiritWorld - Deathwestern

5.Final Light - Final Light

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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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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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Rating from 1 to 5

1.Shadow Of Intent - Elegy

2.Necrophagous - In Chaos Ascend

3.Bestial Profanation - Sanctuary Of The Living Dead

4.Fit For An Autopsy - Oh What The Future Holds

5.The Mist From The Mountains - Monumental: The Temple Of Twilight

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Grindcore is not one of my favorite subgenres, but I like it well enough on the whole. My experience with it has not been particularly broad, as I don't listen to it with much regularity, and so I have a lot of empty spaces. Of all my genre lists, this is possibly the most practical, because I do need help remembering what grindcore I like and how much I've heard.

Like my other genre lists, this is not meant to dictate for all time and all purposes what is and is not grindcore; there may be bands that are borderline or adjacent or individual albums by grindcore bands that are not in themselves grindcore. This is just for my own organization and reference.

I originally included Anaal Nathrakh and Melt-Banana on the grounds that grindcore forms part of the basis for their styles (and, more critically, because it was getting lonely at the top of the list), but considering either of them a grindcore act without heavy qualification would be quite a stretch. I already know that I like them anyway, so their inclusion on this list was not helpful to me in terms of making this a resource; on revision, I decided to nix them (and also the non-grind Carcass albums).

The first portion of the list contains albums that I count among my favorite grindcore releases. From then on, the list is broken into tiers of ratings 9/10 down to 6/10. If it isn't on the list, I haven't heard it or I didn't like it.

Last updated December 28, 2023.

1.Gridlink - Longhena

2.Gridlink - Coronet Juniper

3.Contrastic - Contrastic

4.Contrastic - Mamun

5.Takafumi Matsubara - Strange, Beautiful And Fast

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