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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Even it was cold june, midnight sun was there and it energize norden people......musically it was well after Battlelore, Saor and Morrigan it was so hard to label best albums, they was not so hight as first 3.

1.Battlelore - The Return Of The Shadow

2.Saor - Origins

3.Morrigan - Anwynn

4.Kawir - Γιγαντομαχία (War Of The Giants)

5.Monasterium - Cold Are The Graves

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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.NOKTURNAL MORTUM - До лунарної поезії

2.Ghost - Impera

3.Abbath - Dread Reaver

4.Nite - Voices Of The Kronian Moon

5.Kvaen - The Great Below

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This is my list of newly released Albums that I listened/will listen to in 2022.
The records are presented in order of release date and I will rate them when I´m certain that I formed an opinion on them, though the ratings might change from time to time.
I hope this list might once again be inspiring to other users and that some people will find some new music to listen to.

1.Apocryphal - Tales Of Galilea

2.Wilderun - Epigone

3.Power Paladin - With The Magic Of Windfyre Steel

4.Kalmankantaja - Metsäuhri

5.Wiegedood - There's Always Blood At The End Of The Road

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1.Messa - Close

2.Sumerlands - Dreamkiller

3.Sonja - Loud Arriver

4.The Otolith - Folium Limina

5.Phantom Spell - Immortal's Requiem

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1.Blind Guardian - The God Machine

2.Stratovarius - Survive

3.Ozzy Osbourne - Patient Number 9

4.Kreator - Hate Über Alles

5.Machine Head - Øf Kingdøm And Crøwn

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All my top 2022 albums ranked in order that I have listened to completely. No EP's included only full length albums.

1.An Abstract Illusion - Woe

2.Psychonaut - Violate Consensus Reality

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

4.Aenaon - Mnemosyne

5.Djevel - Naa Skrider Natten Sort

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My top to bottom list of everything from 2022 I've spent time with and have also purchased either physically or digitally (which is why most of them have high ratings). Releases featured on MS only. Whole number ratings out of 10 and my personal opinions included.

NOTE: I am no longer updating this list as I have moved onto 2023... which you can check out here: https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=7758

1.Sylvaine - Nova

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

3.Tómarúm - Ash In Realms Of Stone Icons

4.Allegaeon - Damnum

5.Blackbraid - Blackbraid I

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My List of the releases made during 2022. Score based on the excel sheet i've made https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Hk_3gkpCfeKtdZNus_z3sxg-U8XJ_MqklfC8tbealaE/edit?usp=sharing

1.Blut Aus Nord - Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses

2.An Abstract Illusion - Woe

3.Porcupine Tree - Closure / Continuation

4.Celeste - Assassine(s)

5.Gaerea - Mirage

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3 Anno Covidi - the war year

1.Persefone - Metanoia

2.Dance With The Dead - Driven To Madness

3.Kuolemanlaakso - Kuusumu

4.Long Distance Calling - Eraser

5.NEMOPHILA - Seize The Fate

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1.Wilderun - Epigone

2.Riverwood - Shadows And Flames

3.Power Paladin - With The Magic Of Windfyre Steel

4.Toundra - Hex

5.Shadow Of Intent - Elegy

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My top albums for the year 2022

1.An Abstract Illusion - Woe

2.Disillusion - Ayam

3.White Ward - False Light

4.Saor - Origins

5.Blut Aus Nord - Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses

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Honestly curious to see if I get anywhere near 2021's ludicrous album count (~900) this year; should hopefully be some very high-scoring albums in the first couple of months, but otherwise let's hope for some good stuff this year!

Edit: Somehow managed to reach the list character limit, so going to delete some of the comments

1.Persefone - Metanoia

2.Hath - All That Was Promised

3.Rolo Tomassi - Where Myth Becomes Memory

4.Playgrounded - The Death Of Death

5.Kardashev - Liminal Rite

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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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