My favourite albums from 2022

1. 50

   Asphalt Meadows

   Death Cab for Cutie

   

   

   Indie rock | Post-punk revival

   Tracks:

   1. I Don't Know How I Survive
   2. Roman Candles ●
   3. Asphalt Meadows
   4. Rand McNally
   5. Here to Forever
   6. Foxglove Through the Clearcut
   7. Pepper
   8. I Miss Strangers
   9. Wheat Like Waves
   10. Fragments from the Decade
   11. I'll Never Give up on You

2. 49

   Doggerel

   Pixies

   

   

   Alternative rock

   Tracks:

   1. Nomatterday
   2. Vault of Heaven
   3. Dregs of the Wine
   4. Haunted House
   5. Get Simulated
   6. The Lord Has Come Back Today
   7. Thunder and Lightning
   8. There's a Moon on
   9. Pagan Man
   10. Who's More Sorry Now?
   11. You're Such a Sadducee
   12. Doggerel ●

3. 48

   Pavlov's Dawgs

   Tankard

   

   

   Thrash metal

   Tracks:

   1. Pavlov's Dawg
   2. Ex-Fluencer ●
   3. Berrbarians
   4. Diary of a Nihilist
   5. Veins of Terra
   6. Momento
   7. Metal Cash Machine
   8. Dark Self Intruder
   9. Lockdown Forever
   10. On the Day I Die

4. 47

   Planet Zero

   Shinedown

   

   

   Hard rock | Alternative rock

   Tracks:

   1. 2184
   2. No Sleep Tonight
   3. Planet Zero
   4. Welcome
   5. Dysfunctional You
   6. Dead Don't Die
   7. Standardized Experiences
   8. America Burning
   9. Do Not Panic
   10. A Symptom of Being Human
   11. Hope
   12. A More Utopian Future
   13. Clueless and Dramatic
   14. Sure Is Fun
   15. Daylight
   16. This Is a Warning
   17. The Saints of Violence and Innuendo ●
   18. Army of the Underappreciated
   19. Delete
   20. What You Wanted

5. 46

   Sacred

   Colour Haze

   

   

   Stoner rock | Psychedelic rock

   Tracks:

   1. Turquoise
   2. Goldmine
   3. Ideologigi ●
   4. Avatar
   5. 1.5 Degrees
   6. See the Fools
   7. In All You Are

6. 45

   Shiki

   Sigh

   

   

   Progressive metal | Avant-garde metal

   Tracks:

   1. Kuroi inori
   2. Kuroi kage
   3. Shoujahitsumetsu
   4. Shikabane
   5. Satsui — geshi no ato
   6. Fuyu ga kuru
   7. Shouku ●
   8. Kuroi kagami
   9. Mayonaka no kali
   10. Touji no asa

7. 44

   Wisdom

   Stick Figure

   

   

   Reggae | Jam rock

   Tracks:

   1. Old Sunrise
   2. Paradise ●
   3. Way of Life
   4. Edge of the Ocean
   5. Stepping Stones
   6. Fall into the Sun
   7. Showdown
   8. Soul of the World
   9. Smoke Signals
   10. Here Comes the Sound
   11. Sound System
   12. Satisfaction Feeling
   13. Higher
   14. Falling Stars

8. 43

   She Said

   Starcrawler

   

   

   Pop punk | Alternative rock

   Tracks:

   1. Roadkill
   2. She Said
   3. Stranded
   4. Thursday
   5. Broken Angels
   6. Jetblack ●
   7. True
   8. Midnight
   9. Runaway
   10. Better Place

9. 42

   Of Kingdom and Crown

   Machine Head

   

   

   Groove metal | Thrash metal

   Tracks:

   1. Slaughter the Martyr ●
   2. Choke on the Ahes of Your Hate
   3. Become the Firestorm
   4. Overdose
   5. My Hands Are Empty
   6. Unhallowed
   7. Assimilate
   8. Kill Thy Enemies
   9. No Gods, No Masters
   10. Bloodshot
   11. Rotten
   12. Terminus
   13. Arrows in Words from the Sky

10. 41

    Nova

    Sylvaine

    

    

    Blazkgaze | Post-metal

    Tracks:

    1. Nova
    2. Mono No Aware
    3. Nowhere, Still Somewhere
    4. Fortapt ●
    5. I Close My Eyes So I Can See
    6. Everything Must Come to an End

11. 40

    Digital Noise Alliance

    Queensrÿche

    

    

    Heavy metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. In Extremis
    2. Chapters
    3. Lost in Sorrow ●
    4. Sicdeth
    5. Behind the Walls
    6. Nocturnal Light
    7. Out of the Black
    8. Forest
    9. Realms
    10. Hold on
    11. Tormentum

12. 39

    Above Cirrus

    Pure Reason Revolution

    

    

    Progressive rock | Alternative rock

    Tracks:

    1. Our Prism
    2. New Kind of Evil
    3. Phantoms
    4. Cruel Deliverance ●
    5. Scream Sideways
    6. Dead Butterfly
    7. Lucid

13. 38

    Death Valley Paradise

    Kris Barras Band

    

    

    Hard rock | Blues rock

    Tracks:

    1. Dead Horses
    2. Long Gone
    3. My Parade ●
    4. These Voices
    5. Who Needs Enemies
    6. Devil You Know
    7. Wake Me When It's Over
    8. Hostage
    9. Cigarettes and Gasoline
    10. Bury Me
    11. Chaos

14. 37

    Rakshak

    Bloodywood

    

    

    Groove metal | Rap metal | Folk metal

    Tracks:

    1. Gaddaar
    2. Aaj
    3. Zanjeero-se ●
    4. Machi Bhasad
    5. Dana-Dan
    6. Jee Veerey
    7. Endurant
    8. BDSK.exe
    9. Yaad
    10. Chakh Le

15. 36

    Heavy Pendulum

    Cave In

    

    

    Sludge metal | Post-metal

    Tracks:

    1. New Reality ●
    2. Blood Spiller
    3. Floating Skulls
    4. Heavy Pendulum
    5. Pendulambient
    6. Careless Offering
    7. Blinded by a Blaze
    8. Amaranthine
    9. Searchers of Hell
    10. Nightmare Eyes
    11. Days of Nothing
    12. Waiting for Love
    13. Reckoning
    14. Wavering Angel

16. 35

    Never Let Me Go

    Placebo

    

    

    Alternative rock | Industrial rock

    Tracks:

    1. Forever Chemicals
    2. Beautiful James ●
    3. Hugz
    4. Happy Birthday in the Sky
    5. The Prodigal
    6. Surrounded by Spies
    7. Try Better Next Time
    8. Sad White Reggae
    9. Twin Demons
    10. Chemtrails
    11. This Is What You Wanted
    12. Went Missing
    13. Fix Yourself

17. 34

    Banefyre

    Crippled Black Phoenix

    

    

    Post-rock | Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Incantation for the Different
    2. Wyches and Basterdz
    3. Ghostland
    4. The Reckoning
    5. Bonefire
    6. Rose of Jericho
    7. Blackout77
    8. Down the Rabbit Hole
    9. Everything Is Beautiful but Us ●
    10. The Pilgrim
    11. I'm OK, Just Not Alright
    12. The Scene Is a False Prophet
    13. No Regrets

18. 33

    II

    Dead Cross

    

    

    Crossover thrash | Hardcore punk

    Tracks:

    1. Love without Love
    2. Animal Espionage
    3. Heart Reformer
    4. Strong adn Wrong
    5. Ants and Dragons
    6. Nightclub Canary
    7. Christian Missile Crisis
    8. Reign of Error
    9. Imposter Syndrome ●

19. 32

    Error

    The Warning

    

    

    Alternative rock | Hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. Intro 404
    2. Disciple
    3. Choke ●
    4. Animosity
    5. Money
    6. Amour
    7. Evolve
    8. Error
    9. Z
    10. 23
    11. Kool Aid Kids
    12. Revenant
    13. Martirio

20. 31

    Heir of the Rising Sun

    Aeternam

    

    

    Symphonic metal | Melodic black metal

    Tracks:

    1. Osman's Dream
    2. Beneath the Nightfall
    3. Irene
    4. Nova Roma
    5. Kasifi's Verses
    6. Where the River Bends ●
    7. The Treacherous Hunt
    8. Akhatist Hymn
    9. The Fall of Constantinople

21. 30

    False Light

    White Ward

    

    

    Atmospheric black metal | Jazz fusion | Blackgaze

    Tracks:

    1. Leviathan
    2. Salt Paradise
    3. Phoenix ●
    4. Silence Circles
    5. Echoes in Eternity
    6. Cronus
    7. False Light
    8. Downfall

22. 29

    The Gang's All Here

    Skid Row

    

    

    Heavy metal | Glam metal

    Tracks:

    1. Hell or High Water
    2. The Gang's All Here
    3. Not Dead Yet
    4. Time Bomb ●
    5. Resurrected
    6. Nowhere Fast
    7. When the Lights Come on
    8. Tear It Down
    9. October's Song
    10. World on Fire

23. 28

    The Great Heathen Army

    Amon Amarth

    

    

    Melodic death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Get in the Ring
    2. The Great Heathen Army
    3. Heidrun ●
    4. Oden Owns You All
    5. Find a Way or Make One
    6. Dawn of Norsemen
    7. Saxons and Vikings
    8. Skagul Rides with Me
    9. The Serpent's Trail

24. 27

    Vaxis — Act II: A Window of the Waking Mind

    Coheed and Cambria

    

    

    Progressive rock | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Embers of Fire
    2. Beautiful Losers
    3. Comatose
    4. Shoulders
    5. A Disappearing Act
    6. Love Murder One
    7. Blood
    8. The Liars Club
    9. Bad Man
    10. Our Love
    11. Ladders of Supremacy ●
    12. Rise, Nainasha (Cut the Cord)
    13. Window of the Waking Mind

25. 26

    Close

    Messa

    

    

    Doom metal | Heavy psych

    Tracks:

    1. Suspended
    2. Dark Horse
    3. Orphalese ●
    4. Rubedo
    5. Hollow
    6. Pilgrim
    7. 0=2
    8. If You Want Her to Be Taken
    9. Leffotrak
    10. Serving Him

26. 25

    Blackbraid I

    Blackbraid

    

    

    Melodic black metal | Black metal

    Tracks:

    1. The River of Time Flows Through Me ●
    2. As the Creek Flows Softly by
    3. Sacandaga
    4. Barefoot Ghost Dance on Bloodsoaked Soil
    5. Warm Wind Whispering Softly Through Hemlock at Dusk
    6. Prying Open the Jaws of Eternity

27. 24

    Closure/Continuation

    Porcupine Tree

    

    

    Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Harridan
    2. Of the New Day
    3. Rats Return
    4. Dignity
    5. Herd Culling ●
    6. Walk the Plank
    7. Chimera's Wreck

28. 23

    Feel This

    Crobot

    

    

    Hard rock | Blues rock

    Tracks:

    1. Electrified
    2. Dizzy
    3. Set You Free
    4. Better Times ●
    5. Golden
    6. Without Wings
    7. Livin' on the Streets
    8. Into the Fire
    9. Dance with the Dead
    10. Holy Ghost
    11. Never Break Me
    12. Staring Straight into the Sun

29. 22

    Rashomon

    Ibaraki

    

    

    Progressive metal | Symphonic black metal

    Tracks:

    1. Hakanaki hitsuzen
    2. Kagutsuchi
    3. Ibaraki-dōji ●
    4. Jigoku dayü
    5. Tamashii no houkai
    6. Akumu
    7. Komorebi
    8. Rōnin
    9. Susanoo no mikoto
    10. Kaizoku

30. 21

    Diabolical

    Destruction

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Under the Spell
    2. Diabolical
    3. No Faith in Humanity
    4. Repent Your Sins
    5. Hope Dies Last
    6. The Last of a Dying Breed ●
    7. State of Apathy
    8. Tormented Soul
    9. Servant of the Beast
    10. The Lonely Wolf
    11. Ghost from the Past
    12. Whorefication
    13. City Baby Attacked by Rats

31. 20

    Acts of God

    Immolation

    

    

    Death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Abandoned
    2. An Act of God ●
    3. The Age of No Light
    4. Noose of Thorns
    5. Shed the Light
    6. Blooded
    7. Overtures of the Wicked
    8. Immortal Stain
    9. Incineration Procession
    10. Broken Prey
    11. Derelict of Spirit
    12. When Halos Burn
    13. Let the Darkness in
    14. And the Flames Wept
    15. Apostle

32. 19

    Feel the Void

    Hot Water Music

    

    

    Post-hardcore | Melodic hardcore

    Tracks:

    1. Another Breath
    2. Killing Time
    3. Newtown Scraper
    4. Habitual
    5. Collect Your Things and Run
    6. Hearts Stay Full
    7. Feel the Void ●
    8. Turn the Dial
    9. The Weeds
    10. Scratch on
    11. Ride High
    12. Lock up

33. 18

    The God Machine

    Blind Guardian

    

    

    Power metal | Symphonic metal

    Tracks:

    1. Deliver Us from Evil
    2. Damnation
    3. Secrets of the American Gods ●
    4. Violent Shadows
    5. Life Beyond the Spheres
    6. Architects of Doom
    7. Let It Be No More
    8. Blood of the Elves
    9. Destiny

34. 17

    Immutable

    Meshuggah

    

    

    Progressive metal | Djent | Groove metal

    Tracks:

    1. Broken Cog
    2. The Abysmal Eye
    3. Light the Shortening Fuse
    4. Phantoms
    5. Ligature Marks
    6. God He Sees in Mirrors
    7. They Move Below
    8. Kaleidoscope ●
    9. Black Cathedral
    10. I Am That Thirst
    11. The Faultless
    12. Armies of the Preposterous
    13. Past Tense

35. 16

    Isle of Wisdom

    Hällas

    

    

    Psychedelic rock | Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Birth / Into Darkness
    2. Advent of Dawn
    3. Earl's Theme ●
    4. The Inner Chamber
    5. Elusion's Gate
    6. Gallivants (of Space)
    7. Stygian Depths
    8. The Wind Carries the Word

36. 15

    Woe

    An Abstract Illusion

    

    

    Progressive metal | Melodic death metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Behemoth That Lies Asleep
    2. Slaves
    3. Tear Down This Holy Mountain ●
    4. Prosperity
    5. Blomsterkans
    6. In the Heavens Above, You Will Become a Monster
    7. This Torment Has No End, Only New Beginnings

37. 14

    Impera

    Ghost

    

    

    Hard rock | AOR

    Tracks:

    1. Imperium
    2. Kaisarion
    3. Spillways
    4. Call Me Little Sunshine ●
    5. Hunter's Moon
    6. Watcher in the Sky
    7. Dominion
    8. Twenties
    9. Darkness at the Heart of My Love
    10. Griftwood
    11. Bite of Passage
    12. Respite on the Spitalfields

38. 13

    The Long Road North

    Cult of Luna

    

    

    Post-metal | Atmospheric sludge metal

    Tracks:

    1. Cold Burn ●
    2. The Silver Arc
    3. Beyond I
    4. An Offering to the Wild
    5. Into the Night
    6. Full Moon
    7. The Long Road North
    8. Blood upon Stone
    9. Beyond II

39. 12

    Lightwork

    Devin Townsend

    

    

    Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Moonpeople
    2. Lightworker
    3. Equinox
    4. Call of the Void ●
    5. Heartbreaker
    6. Dimensions
    7. Celestial Signals
    8. Heavy Burden
    9. Vacation
    10. Children of God

40. 11

    Loud Arriver

    Sonja

    

    

    Gothic hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. When the Candle BUrns Low ...
    2. Nylon Nights ●
    3. Pink Fog
    4. Wanting Me Dead
    5. Fuck, Then Die
    6. Daughter of the Morning Star
    7. Moans from the Chapel
    8. Loud Arriver

41. 10

    The Sick, the Dying ... and the Dead!

    Megadeth

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Sick, the Dying ... and the Dead!
    2. Life in Hell
    3. Night Stalkers
    4. Dogs of Chernobyl
    5. Sacrifice
    6. Junkie
    7. Psycopathy
    8. Killing Time
    9. Solider on!
    10. Célebutante
    11. Mission to Mars
    12. We'll Be Back ●
    13. Police Truck
    14. This Planet's on Fire (Burn in Hell)

42. 9

    Pawns & Kings

    Alter Bridge

    

    

    Heavy metal | hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. This Is War
    2. Dead Among the Living
    3. Silver Tongue ●
    4. Sin After Sin
    5. Stay
    6. Holiday
    7. Fable of the Silent Son
    8. Season of Promise
    9. Last Man Standing
    10. Pawns & Kings

43. 8

    Survive

    Stratovarius

    

    

    Power metal

    Tracks:

    1. Survive
    2. Demand
    3. Broken
    4. Firefly
    5. We Are Not Alone
    6. Frozen in Time
    7. World on Fire
    8. Glory Days
    9. Breakaway ●
    10. Before the Fall
    11. Voice of Thunder

44. 7

    Hate Über Alles

    Kreator

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Sergio Corbucci Is Dead
    2. Hate Über Alles ●
    3. Killer of Jesus
    4. Crush the Tyrants
    5. Strongest of the Strong
    6. Become Immortal
    7. Conquer and Destroy
    8. Midnight Sun
    9. Demonic Future
    10. Pride Comes Before the Fall
    11. Dying Planet

45. 6

    Halo

    Amorphis

    

    

    Progressive metal | Melodic death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Northwards
    2. On the Dark Waters
    3. The Moon ●
    4. Windmane
    5. A New Land
    6. When the Gods Came
    7. Seven Roads Come Together
    8. War
    9. Halo
    10. The Wolf
    11. My Name Is Night

46. 5

    Folium Limina

    The Otolith

    

    

    Doom metal | Avant-garde metal

    Tracks:

    1. Sing No Coda
    2. Adromeda's Wing
    3. Ekpyrotic ●
    4. Hubris
    5. Bone Dust
    6. Dispirit

47. 4

    Sunrise on Slaughter Beach

    Clutch

    

    

    Blues rock | Stoner rock

    Tracks:

    1. Red Alert (Boss Metal Zone)
    2. Slaughter Beach
    3. Mountain of Bone
    4. Noesferatu Madre
    5. Mercy Brown ●
    6. We Strive for Excellence
    7. Skeletons on Mars
    8. Three Golden Horns
    9. Jackhammer Our Names

48. 3

    Darker Still

    Parkway Drive

    

    

    Metalcore | Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Ground Zero
    2. Like Napalm
    3. Glitch
    4. The Greatest Fear
    5. Darker Still
    6. Imperial Heretic
    7. If a God Can Bleed
    8. Soul Bleach
    9. Stranger
    10. Land of the Lost
    11. From the Heart of Darkness ●

49. 2

    Zeit

    Rammstein

    

    

    Neue Deutsche Härte | Industrial metal

    Tracks:

    1. Armee der Tristen
    2. Zeit
    3. Schwarz
    4. Giftig
    5. Zick Zack
    6. OK
    7. Meine Tränen
    8. Angst ●
    9. Dicke Titten
    10. Lügen
    11. Adieu

50. 1

    Omens

    Lamb of God

    

    

    Groove metal

    Tracks:

    1. Nevermore
    2. Vanishing
    3. To the Grave
    4. Ditch
    5. Omens ●
    6. Gomorrah
    7. Ill Designs
    8. Greyscale
    9. Denial Mechanism
    10. September Song