1.Blackbraid - Blackbraid I

2.Mist Of Misery - Severance

3.Stormruler - Sacred Rites & Black Magick

4.Kvaen - The Great Below

5.Amon Acid - Cosmogony

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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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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.Ritual Dictates - No Great Loss

2.Messa - Close

3.Sonja - Loud Arriver

4.Dream Unending - Song Of Salvation

5.Ultha - All That Has Never Been True

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1.Dream Unending - Song Of Salvation

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

3.Midnight - Let There Be Witchery

4.Konvent - Call Down The Sun

5.Xandria - The Wonders Still Awaiting

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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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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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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,…

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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1.An Abstract Illusion - Woe

2.Gaerea - Mirage

3.Andy Gillion - Arcade Metal

4.Early Moods - Early Moods

5.Sadness (USA) - Tortuga

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Hey, I'm back since late September. I'm probably only going to go to 50 albums this time around but that may change depending on how many metal (in some shape or form) albums I get to. So far…

1.Licho - Ciuciubabka

2.Heltekvad - Morgenrødens Helvedesherre

3.Grave Pilgrim - Molten Hands Reach West

4.Crown of Ascension - Transmission Errors

5.Devil Master - Ecstasies Of Never Ending Night

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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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Looks like we get to go around the sun for another year. So far...not off to a great start, but may as well continue this decade of garbage with another list. As always, recommendations welcome.

1.Arizmenda - Spiders Lust In The Dungeon’s Dust

2.Djevel - Naa Skrider Natten Sort

3.Imperial Triumphant - Spirit Of Ecstasy

4.Artificial Brain - Artificial Brain

5.Negative Plane - The Pact

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1.Verberis - Adumbration Of The Veiled Logos

2.Blut Aus Nord - Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses

3.Deathspell Omega - The Long Defeat

4.Dysgnostic - Scar Echoes

5.Artificial Brain - Artificial Brain

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So much music yet so little time!

These are all the 2022 albums that I've been able to check out so far.

1.Messa - Close

2.Shape Of Despair - Return To The Void

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

4.Brutus (BEL) - Unison Life

5.Vanhävd - Vila

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