My favourite albums from 2022

1. 50

   Asphalt Meadows

   Death Cab for Cutie

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Indie rock
   • Post-punk revival

2. 49

   Doggerel

   Pixies

   
   

   Tracklist

   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 ●

   Genres

   • Alternative rock

3. 48

   Pavlov's Dawgs

   Tankard

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Thrash metal

4. 47

   Planet Zero

   Shinedown

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Hard rock
   • Alternative rock

5. 46

   Sacred

   Colour Haze

   
   

   Tracklist

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

   Genres

   • Stoner rock
   • Psychedelic rock

6. 45

   Shiki

   Sigh

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Progressive metal
   • Avant-garde metal

7. 44

   Wisdom

   Stick Figure

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Reggae
   • Jam rock

8. 43

   She Said

   Starcrawler

   
   

   Tracklist

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

   Genres

   • Pop punk
   • Alternative rock

9. 42

   Of Kingdom and Crown

   Machine Head

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Groove metal
   • Thrash metal

10. 41

    Nova

    Sylvaine

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Blazkgaze
    • Post-metal

11. 40

    Digital Noise Alliance

    Queensrÿche

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Heavy metal
    • Progressive metal

12. 39

    Above Cirrus

    Pure Reason Revolution

    
    

    Tracklist

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

    Genres

    • Progressive rock
    • Alternative rock

13. 38

    Death Valley Paradise

    Kris Barras Band

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Hard rock
    • Blues rock

14. 37

    Rakshak

    Bloodywood

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Groove metal
    • Rap metal
    • Folk metal

15. 36

    Heavy Pendulum

    Cave In

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Sludge metal
    • Post-metal

16. 35

    Never Let Me Go

    Placebo

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Alternative rock
    • Industrial rock

17. 34

    Banefyre

    Crippled Black Phoenix

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Post-rock
    • Progressive rock

18. 33

    II

    Dead Cross

    
    

    Tracklist

    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 ●

    Genres

    • Crossover thrash
    • Hardcore punk

19. 32

    Error

    The Warning

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Alternative rock
    • Hard rock

20. 31

    Heir of the Rising Sun

    Aeternam

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Symphonic metal
    • Melodic black metal

21. 30

    False Light

    White Ward

    
    

    Tracklist

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

    Genres

    • Atmospheric black metal
    • Jazz fusion
    • Blackgaze

22. 29

    The Gang's All Here

    Skid Row

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Heavy metal
    • Glam metal

23. 28

    The Great Heathen Army

    Amon Amarth

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Melodic death metal

24. 27

    Vaxis — Act II: A Window of the Waking Mind

    Coheed and Cambria

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Progressive rock
    • Progressive metal

25. 26

    Close

    Messa

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Doom metal
    • Heavy psych

26. 25

    Blackbraid I

    Blackbraid

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Melodic black metal
    • Black metal

27. 24

    Closure/Continuation

    Porcupine Tree

    
    

    Tracklist

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

    Genres

    • Progressive rock

28. 23

    Feel This

    Crobot

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Hard rock
    • Blues rock

29. 22

    Rashomon

    Ibaraki

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • Symphonic black metal

30. 21

    Diabolical

    Destruction

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Thrash metal

31. 20

    Acts of God

    Immolation

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Death metal

32. 19

    Feel the Void

    Hot Water Music

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Post-hardcore
    • Melodic hardcore

33. 18

    The God Machine

    Blind Guardian

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Power metal
    • Symphonic metal

34. 17

    Immutable

    Meshuggah

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • Djent
    • Groove metal

35. 16

    Isle of Wisdom

    Hällas

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Psychedelic rock
    • Progressive rock

36. 15

    Woe

    An Abstract Illusion

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • Melodic death metal

37. 14

    Impera

    Ghost

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Hard rock
    • AOR

38. 13

    The Long Road North

    Cult of Luna

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Post-metal
    • Atmospheric sludge metal

39. 12

    Lightwork

    Devin Townsend

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Progressive rock

40. 11

    Loud Arriver

    Sonja

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Gothic hard rock

41. 10

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

    Megadeth

    
    

    Tracklist

    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)

    Genres

    • Thrash metal

42. 9

    Pawns & Kings

    Alter Bridge

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Heavy metal
    • hard rock

43. 8

    Survive

    Stratovarius

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Power metal

44. 7

    Hate Über Alles

    Kreator

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Thrash metal

45. 6

    Halo

    Amorphis

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • Melodic death metal

46. 5

    Folium Limina

    The Otolith

    
    

    Tracklist

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

    Genres

    • Doom metal
    • Avant-garde metal

47. 4

    Sunrise on Slaughter Beach

    Clutch

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Blues rock
    • Stoner rock

48. 3

    Darker Still

    Parkway Drive

    
    

    Tracklist

    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 ●

    Genres

    • Metalcore
    • Heavy metal

49. 2

    Zeit

    Rammstein

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Neue Deutsche Härte
    • Industrial metal

50. 1

    Omens

    Lamb of God

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Groove metal