Best of 2022

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Greg Kennelty

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November 22, 2022

It's that time of year again where everyone's publish their year-end list. But we wanna know – what's your favorite album of 2022? Voting is open now until December 5, so vote away!

Best Album of 2022

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-(16)- – Into Dust

96 Bitter Beings – Synergy Restored

A Wake In Providence – Eternity

A-Z – A-Z

Abbath – Dread Reaver

Abrams – In The Dark

Absent In Body – Plague God

Abysmal Dawn – Nightmare Frontier

Acephalix – Theothanatology

Acid Witch – Rot Among Us

Aenimus – Sacrificial

Aethereus – Leiden

Allegaeon – Damnum

Alter Bridge – Pawns & Kings

Alunah – Strange Machine

Amon Amarth – The Great Heathen Army

Amorphis – Halo

An Abstract Illusion – Woe

AngelMaker – Sanctum

Animals As Leaders – Parrhesia

The Antichrist Imperium – Volume III: Satan In His Original Glory

Antigama – Whiteout

Antropofagus – Origin

Anvil – Impact Is Imminent

Arch Enemy – Deceivers

Architects – The Classic Symptoms Of A Broken Spirit

ARÐ – Take Up My Bones

Armed For Apocalypse – Ritual Violence

Artificial Brain – Artificial Brain

Ashenspire – Hostile Architecture

Asking Alexandria – Never Gonna Learn

Astronoid – Radiant Bloom

Ataraxy – The Last Mirror

Author & Punisher – Krüller

Autophagy – Bacteriophage

Autopsy – Morbidity Triumphant

Bad Omens – The Death Of Peace Of Mind

Bad Wolves – Sacred Kiss

Baest – Justitia

Bastard Noise / Merzbow – Retribution By All Other Creatures

Bastions – Acres Of Love

Battle Beast – Circus Of Doom

Battlelore – The Return Of The Shadow

Begrime Exemious – Rotting In The Aftermath

Behemoth – Opvs Contra Natvram

Behold! The Monolith – From The Fathomless Deep

Besvärjelsen – Atlas

Billy Howerdel – What Normal Was

BillyBio – Leaders And Liars

Birds In Row – Gris Klein

Birth – Born

Blackbraid

Black Anvil – Regenesis

Black Magnet – Body Prophecy

Black Veil Brides – The Mourning

Bleed From Within – Shrine

Bleeding Through – Rage

Blind Guardian – The God Machine

Blood Command – Praise Armageddonism

Blood Incantation – Timewave Zero

Bloodbath – Survival Of The Sickest

Blut Aus Nord – Disharmonium – Undreamable Abysses

Bodysnatcher – Bleed-Abide

Bog Body – Cryonic Crevasse Cult

Bonecarver – Carnage Funeral

Boris – Heavy Rocks

Boris – W

Boris / Rocky & The Sweden – Split

Boundaries – Burying Brightness

Brant Bjork – Bougainvillea Suite

Brutus – Unison Life

Brymir – Voices In The Sky

The Callous Daoboys – Celebrity Therapist

Cancer Bats – Psychic Jailbreak

Candlemass – Sweet Evil Sun

Carrion Vael – Abhorrent Obsessions

Castrator – Defiled In Oblivion

Catalyst – A Different Painting For A New World

Cave In – Heavy Pendulum

Celeste – Assassine(s)

Charlie Griffiths – Tiktaalika

Chat Pile – God's Country

Choke – Desiphon

Christian Death – Evil Becomes Rule

City Of Caterpillar – Mystic Sisters

Cloakroom – Dissolution Wave

Cloud Rat – Threshold

Clutch – Sunrise On Slaughter Beach

Coheed And Cambria – Vaxis II: A Window Of The Waking Mind

Come To Grief – When The World Dies

Comeback Kid – Heavy Steps

Conan – Evidence Of Immortality

Conjurer – Páthos

Corpsessed – Succumb To Rot

Cosmic Putrefaction – Crepuscular Dirge For The Blessed Ones

Counterparts – A Eulogy For Those Still Here

Crosses – PERMANENT.RADIANT

Crowbar – Zero And Below

Cult Of Luna – The Long Road North

Daeva – Through Sheer Will and Black Magic

Dance Gavin Dance – Jackpot Juicer

Dark Funeral – We Are The Apocalypse

Darkane – Inhuman Spirits

Darkthrone – Astral Fortress

De Profundis – The Corruption Of Virtue

Dead Cross – II

Dead Lord – Dystopia

Deathbell – A Nocturnal Crossing

Deathspell Omega – The Long Defeat

Deathwhite – Grey Everlasting

Decapitated – Cancer Culture

Defleshed – Grind Over Matter

Demon Hunter – Exile

Deserted Fear – Doomsday

Destrage – SO MUCH. too much.

Destruction – Diabolical

Devil Master – Ecstasies Of Never Ending Night

The Devil Wears Prada – Color Decay

Devin Townsend – Lightwork

Disillusion – Ayam

Disturbed – Divisive

Dreadnought – The Endless

Dream Unending – Song of Salvation

Dream Widow – Dream Widow

Drudkh – All Belong To The Night

Druids – Shadow Work

Earthless – Night Parade Of One Hundred Demons

Earthrise – Until We Rest Beneath The Winter Way

Ecstatic Vision – Elusive Mojo

Egregore – The Word of His Law

Elder – Innate Passage

Electric Callboy – Tekkno

Ellende – Ellenbogengesellschaft

END / Cult Leader – Gather & Mourn

Enterprise Earth – The Chosen

Envy – Seimei

Evil Invaders – Shattering Reflection

Exhumed – To The Dead

Extinction A.D. – Culture Of Violence

Fallujah – Empyrean

Fit For An Autopsy – Oh What The Future Holds

Five Finger Death Punch – AfterLife

Fleshrot – Unburied Corpse

Frayle – Skin & Sorrow

Fucked Up – Oberon

Fugitive – Maniac

Full Of Hell – Aurora Leaking From An Open Wound

Gaerea – Mirage

Geezer – Stoned Blues Machine

George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher – Corpsegrinder

Ghost – Impera

Goatwhore – Angels Hung From The Arches Of Heaven

God Mother – Obeveklig

Gospelheim – Ritual & Repetition

Greg Puciato – Mirrorcell

Gronibard – Regarde Les Hommes Sucer

GWAR – The New Dark Ages

Halestorm – Back From The Dead

Hällas – Isle Of Wisdom

The Halo Effect – Days Of The Lost

Hammerfall – Hammer Of Dawn

Hammers Of Misfortune – Overtaker

Hath – All That Was Promised

Haunt – Windows Of Your Heart

Haunted Shores – Void

Haunter – Discarnate Ails

Heads For The Dead – The Great Conjuration

HEALTH – Disco 4: Part II

High Command – Siege Warfare

ho99o9 – Skin

Holy Fawn – Dimensional Bleed

Honeybee – Honeybee

Horndal – Be Evil

Hulder – The Eternal Fanfare

The HU – Rumble Of Thunder

Hyro The Hero – Worst Behavior

I AM – Eternal Steel

Ibaraki – Rashomon

Immolation – Acts Of God

Imonolith – Progressions

Imperial Triumphant – Spirit Of Ecstasy

In This Moment – Blood 1983

Inexorum – Equinox Vigil

Infected Rain – Ecdysis

Ingested – Ashes Lie Still

Inhuman Condition – Fearsick

Innumerable Forms – Philosophical Collapse

Irist – Gloria

James LaBrie – Beautiful Shade Of Grey

Jason Richardson & Luke Holland – II

Joshua Travis – No Rest

Jungle Rot – A Call To Arms

Kardashev – Liminal Rite

Karl Sanders – Saurian Apocalypse

Keiji Haino & SUMAC – Into This Juvenile Apocalypse Our Golden Blood To Pour Let Us Never

KEN mode – Null

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Butterfly 3001

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Changes

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms And Lava

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Laminated Denim

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Omnium Gatherum

King's X – Three Sides Of One

Kings Of Mercia – Kings Of Mercia

Kirk Hammett – Portals

Knoll – Metempiric

Konvent – Call Down The Sun

Korn – Requiem

Krallice – Crystalline Exhaustion

Krallice – Psychagogue

Kreator – Hate Über Alles

Lacuna Coil – Comalies XX

LaMacchia – Thunderheads

Lamb Of God – Omens

Lamentations – Passion Of Depression

The Last Ten Seconds Of Life – The Last Ten Seconds Of Life

Lee McKinney – In The Light Of Knowledge

Liturgy – As The Blood Of God Bursts The Veins Of Time

Live Burial – Curse Of The Forlorn

Locrian – New Catastrophism

Lorna Shore – Pain Remains

Machine Head – Øf Kingdøm And Crøwn

Malevolence – Malicious Intent

Månegarm – Ynglingaättens Öde

Mantar – Pain Is Forever And This Is The

Mass Worship – Portal Tombs

Massacre – Mythos

Master Boot Record – Personal Computer

Matt Pike – Pike Vs. The Automaton

Megadeth – The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead!

Melvins – Bad Mood Rising

Memphis May Fire – Remade In Misery

Meshuggah – Immutable

Midnight – Let There Be Witchery

Misery Index – Complete Control

Miss May I – Curse Of Existence

Molder – Engrossed In Decay

The Monolith Deathcult – V4 – Verbittering

Monuments – In Stasis

Moon Tooth – Phototroph

Morbikon – Ov Mournful Twilight

Mork – Den Svevende Festning

Mors Principium Est. – Liberate The Unborn Inhumanity

Motionless In White – Scoring The End Of The World

Motor Sister – Get Off

Mournful Congregation – The Exuviae of Gods – Part I

Municipal Waste – Electrified Brain

Muse – Will Of The People

Mystic Circle – Mystic Circle

Napalm Death – Resentment Is Always Seismic – A Final Throw Of Throes

Nebula – Transmissions From Mothership Earth

Necrophagous – In Chaos Ascend

Nekrogoblikon – The Fundamental Slimes and Humours

Nickelback – Get Rollin'

Nightrage – Abyss Rising

Nite – Voices Of The Kronian Moon

Nocturnal Graves – An Outlaw's Stand

Norma Jean – Deathrattle Sing for Me

Northlane – Obsidian

Nothing More – Spirits

O.R.k. – Screamnasiam

Oceans Of Slumber – Starlight And Ash

OFF! – Free LSD

Once Human – Scar Weaver

ONI – Loathing Light

Origin – Chaosmos

Orthodox – Learning To Dissolve

The Otolith – Folium Limina

Ozzy Osbourne – Patient Number 9

Papa Roach – Ego Trip

Parkway Drive – Darker Still

Persefone – Metanoia

Phobophilic – Enveloping Absurdity

Plague Years – All Will Suffer

Porcupine Tree – Closure / Continuation

Power Paladin – With The Magic Of Windfyre Steel

Predatory Light – Death and the Twilight Hours

Primitive Man – Insurmountable

Primus – Conspiranoid

Psycroptic – Divine Council

Putrescine / Kosmogyr – Desolate Tides

Rammstein – Zeit

Razor – Cycle Of Contempt

Reeking Aura – Blood And Bonemeal

Revocation – Netherheaven

Rhythm Of Fear – Fatal Horizons

Ripped To Shreds – 劇變 (Jubian)

Ritual Dictates – No Great Loss

Rolo Tomassi – Where Myth Becomes Memory

Ruby The Hatchet – Fear Is A Cruel Master

Russian Circles – Gnosis

Sabaton – The War To End All Wars

Saor – Origins

Satyricon – Satyricon & Munch

Savage Master – Those Who Hunt At Night

Saxon – Carpe Diem

Scorpions – Rock Believer

Sedimentum – Suppuration Morphogénésiaque

Semi-Rotted – Deader Than Dead

Septicflesh – Modern Primitive

Serj Tankian – Perplex Cities

SETYØURSAILS – Nightfall

Seven Nines And Tens – Over Opiated In A Forest Of Whispering Speakers

Shadow Of Intent – Elegy

Shape Of Despair – Return To The Void

Shinedown – Planet Zero

Sigh – Shiki

Slipknot – The End, So Far

Slugcrust – Ecocide

SOEN – Atlantis

Soilwork – Övergivenheten

SOM – The Shape Of Everything

Somali Yacht Club – The Space

Sonata Arctica – Acoustic Adventures – Volume One

Soreption – Jord

Soulfly – Totem

Spell – Tragic Magic

Spite – Dedication To Flesh

Spirit Adrift – 20 Centuries Gone

Spiritbox – Rotoscope

Steve Vai – Inviolate

Stöner – Totally…

Stray From The Path – Euthanasia

Strigoi – Viscera

Sumerlands – Dreamkiller

Sylvaine – Nova

Tallah – The Generation Of Danger

Telekinetic Yeti – Primordial

Temple Of Void – Summoning The Slayer

Terror – Pain Into Power

Thoughtcrimes – Altered Pasts

Tómarúm – Ash In Realms Of Stone Icons

Tombs – Ex Oblivion

Trial – Feed The Fire

Tzompantli – Tlazcaltiliztli

Ufomammut – Fenice

Umbilicus – Path Of 1000 Suns

Undeath – It’s Time…To Rise From The Grave

Underoath – Voyeurist

Universally Estranged – Dimension Of Deviant Clusters

Vacuous – Dreams Of Dysphoria

Varials – Scars For You To Remember

Vein.fm – This World Is Going To Ruin You

Venom Inc. – There's Only Black

Venom Prison – Erebos

Vermin Womb – Retaliation

Void Rot – Telluric Dismemberment

Voivod – Synchro Anarchy

Volumes – Bend(ed)

Vomit Forth – Seething Malevolence

Watain – The Agony & Ecstasy Of Watain

Wake – Thought Form Descent

Warforged – The Grove

We Came As Romans – Darkbloom

Wednesday 13 – Horrifier

White Ward – False Light

Wiegedood – There’s Always Blood At The End Of The Road

Wilderun – Epigone

Witchery – Nightside

Within Destruction – Lotus

Wo Fat – The Singularity

Woods Of Desolation – The Falling Tide

Worm – Bluenothing

Worm Shepherd – Ritual Hymns

Wormrot – Hiss

Xenobiotic – Hate Monolith

Zeal & Ardor – Zeal & Ardor

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