Dec 012022
 

We have now entered the final month of 2022, and that begins the final countdown to the end of the year. In the world of metal, this month we’ll also start seeing more and more lists of the year’s best releases.

Back in 2009, when this site was just a few days old, I wrote a post about year-end lists and why people bother with them. The best reason still seems to be this: Reading someone else’s list of the albums they thought were best is a good way to discover music you missed and might like.

We don’t do an “official” NCS year-end “best albums” list. However, we publish the picks of each of our regular staff writers as well as a group of invited guests, in addition to lists that we re-post from a few print zines and “big platform” online sites.

Every year we also invite our readers to share their lists and we’re doing that again right here, right now.

If you’ve been pondering what you’ve heard this year and have made your own list of the albums, EPs, or splits released in 2022 that you think are the best of what you’ve heard, we invite you to share it with everyone in the Comments section to this post. And if you haven’t made a list yet but want to, there’s still plenty of time (read below).

 

We don’t have any hard-and-fast rules about year-end lists. Your list doesn’t have to be a specific number — it doesn’t have to be a “Top 10″ or “Top 20″ list, it could be a Top 2 list or a Top 15, or any other number.

And it doesn’t have to be a cross-genre list, i.e., the best of all metal you’ve heard this year. It could be the best death metal, or the best black metal, or the best grind, or the best crust or doom or prog or thrash metal, and on and on — pretty much whatever you want to do and feel comfortable doing, as long as it fits your definition of metal.

Don’t be shy, and don’t worry about being judged — if you haven’t figured it out already, it ain’t our style nor is it usually the style of our commenters to ridicule what someone else thinks is great metal.

And if you don’t have a list ready yet, no sweat, because you can come back to this post whenever you like and add your list later — or comment on the lists others have posted. I’ll put a link to this post at the top right side of every page so people can find it quickly — look for the link to 2022 NCS READERS’ YEAR-END LISTS. That will make the comments to this post a collection point for “Best of” readers’ lists. And that link will stay on our page from now through this time in 2023.

Last year we had 95 comments on this invitation, and I think that says something about how interested people are in seeing each other’s lists and reacting to them. So start thinking and start commenting (please, and thank you).

~Islander

  82 Responses to “LISTMANIA 2022: AN INVITATION FOR READERS’ LISTS OF THE YEAR’S BEST METAL”

  1. Disillusion – Ayam
    Fit For an Autopsy – Oh What the Future Holds
    Greg Puciato – Mirrorcell
    Dead Register – Alive
    Greyhaven – This Bright and Beautiful World
    Oceans of Slumber – Starlight and Ash
    Thoughtcrimes – Altered Pasts
    Cave In – Heavy Pendulum
    Soilwork – Overgivenheten
    Counterparts – A Eulogy to Those Still Here

    Not a cvlt list but there it is.

    • 1. Ether Coven – The Relationship Between the Hammer and the Nail
      2. Gaerea – Mirage
      3. Mother of Graves – Where the Shadows Adorn
      4. Slowbleed – The Blazing Sun, A Fiery Dawn
      5. The Chapter – Delusion of Consciousness
      6. Nostromo – Bucephale
      7. Jade – The Pacification of Death
      8. Hundred Year Old Man – Sleep in Light
      9. Fit for an Autopsy – Oh What the Future Holds
      10. Ulltha – All That Has Never Been True
      11. The Otolith – Folium Limina
      12. Disillusion – Ayam
      13. Tribal Gaze – The Nine Choirs
      14. Reeking Aura – Blood and Bonemeal
      15. Dream Unending – Song of Salvation

  2. 1 – Aeviterne – The Ailing Facade
    2 – Artificial Brain – Artificial Brain
    3 – Scarcity – Aveilut
    4 – Ashenspire – Hostile Architecture
    5 – Cosmic Putrefaction – Crepuscular Dirge for the Blessed Ones
    6 – Inanna – Void of Unending Depths
    7 – Black Death Cult – Diaspora
    8 – Wormrot – Hiss
    9 – Imperial Triumphant – Spirit of Ecstasy
    10 – Spider God – Fly in the Trap

    • 20) The Otolith – Folium Limina
      19) Aara – Triade II: Hemera
      18) Gaerea – Mirage
      17) Ultha – All That Has Never Been True
      16) Devil Master – Ecstacies of Never Ending Night
      15) Undeath – Rise From the Grave
      14) Inexorum – Equinox Vigil
      13) Saor – Origins
      12) Ripped to Shreds – 劇變 (Jubian)
      11) Elder – Innate Passage
      10) Lykotonon – Promethean Pathology
      9) Dreadnought – The Endless
      8) Imperial Triumphant – Spirit of Ecstacy
      7) Zeal and Ardor – s/t
      6) Falls of Rauros – Key to a Vanishing Future
      5) Krallice – Crystalline Exhaustion
      4) Krallice – Pyschagogoue
      3) Blackbraid – I
      2) Gudsforladt – Friendship Love and War
      1) Blood Incantation – Timewave Zero

      SHORTS
      Tchornobog/Abyssal split
      Tomb Mold – Aperture of Body ep
      Mizmor – Wit’s End
      Lamp of Murmuur/Ebony Pendant split
      Silent Thunder – Thousand Hammers demo
      Moonlight Sword – Elven Blood demo
      Fugitive – Maniac EP
      Panopticon – The End is Growing Near EP
      Hulder – The Eternal Fanfare EP
      Worm – Bluenothing EP

  3. Disillusion – Ayam
    Oceans of Slumber – Starlight and Ash
    Greg Puciato – Mirrorcell
    Cult of Luna – The Long Road North
    Fit for an Autopsy – Oh What the Future Holds
    Greyhaven – This Bright and Beautiful World
    Soilwork – Overgivenheten
    Counterparts – A Eulogy for Those Still Here
    Amorphis – Halo

  4. Favorite Music for 2022

    Mother of Graves – Where The Shadows Adorn
    Temple of Void – Summoning the Slayer
    Worm – Bluenothing
    Astral Tomb – Soulgazer
    Botch – one twenty two
    Greyhaven – This Bright and Beautiful World
    Blood Incantation – Timewave zero
    Amon Amarth – Great Heathen Army
    Rody Walker – Velocicopter EP
    Soul Blind – Feel it all Around

  5. Ive got a fuller list, but for sharing, this top 10 works quite well to snapshot my year.

    Nechochwen – Kanawha Black
    Doldrum – The Knocking
    Barn – Habitat
    Artificial Brain – Artificial Brain
    Elder – Innate Passage
    Wormrot – Hiss
    Autonoesis – Moon of Foul Magics
    Blut Aus Nord – DIsharmonium
    Epitaphe – II
    Miscreance – Convergence

    Of course a few EPs also made big dents.

    Vile Rites – The Ageless
    Speglas – Time, Futility & Death
    Haunter – Discarnate Ails

  6. Αχέροντας – Malocchio – The Seven Tongues of Δαημων
    ColdWorld – Isolation
    Djevel – Naa skrider natten sort
    Gaerea – Mirage
    Hath – All That Was Promised
    Hierophant – Death Siege
    Liminal Shroud – All Virtues Ablaze
    Mizmor & Thou – Myopia
    Pure Wrath – Hymn to the Woeful Hearts
    Ultha – All That Has Never Been True
    Vananidr – Beneath the Mold
    Witcher – Lélekharang

    • Great picks!

      ColdWorld – Isolation { I have listened to this consistently since release, just awesome}

    • Nice to see Αχέροντας – Malocchio – The Seven Tongues of Δαημων in the top spot. Also my top pick of the year.

  7. Molder-Engrossed In Decay
    Obscene-…From Dead Horizon to Dead Horizon
    Phobophilic-Enveloping Absurdity
    Midnight-Let There Be Witchery
    Jesus Wept-Psychedelic Degeneracy

  8. Coldworld – Isolation

    Devil Master – Ecstasies Of Never Ending Night

    La Mer – Death Verses

    Pure Wrath – Hymm To The Woeful Hearts

    Vanum – Legend

    Al-Namrood – Warship The Degenerate

    Grafvitnir – Tunes Of Sitra Ahra

    Temple- Sins And Punishments

    Gnome – King

  9. I did not hear a ton of metal…but here is what I got…It always changes a lot after Andy posts his lists…

    1. Gaerea – Mirage
    2. The Chapter – Delusion of consciousness
    3. Gloson – The Rift
    4. Wake – Thought Form Descent
    5. Claimstaker – Bury Us In Shadows
    6. Second to Sun – Nocturnal Philosophy
    7. Disillusion – Ayam
    8. Jade – The Pacification of Death
    9. Gevurah – Gehinnom
    10. GGU:LL – EX EST
    11. Panzerfaust – The Suns of Perdition – Chapter III: The Astral Drain
    12. Black Anvil – Regenesis
    13. Coldworld – Isolation
    14. Veilburner – VLBRNR
    15. The Otolith – Folium Limina
    16. Embrace of Thorns – Entropy Dynamics
    17. Brutus – Unison Life
    18. Aeviterne – The Ailing Façade
    19. Chrome Ghost – House of Falling Ash
    20. Holy Fawn – Dimensional Bleed

  10. Laparotomy – Ascendancy Through Hypnagogic Thought Process
    Toxik – Dis Morta
    Scarcity – Aveilut
    High Command – Eclipse of the Dual Moons
    Universally Estranged – Dimension of Deviant Clusters
    Floating – The Waves Have Teeth
    Kathaaria – To Be Shunned By All…As Centres Of Pestilence
    Battlegrave – Cavernous Depths
    Critical Defiance – No Life Forms
    Furis Ignis – Decapitate The Aging World
    Heads for the Dead – The Great Conjuration
    Vexation – Trepidation Reigns
    Devil Master – Ecstasies Of Never Ending Night

    Non-metal : black midi, Alvvays, Black Country New Road, Soul Glo

    This was a great year.

  11. So much good stuff this year, tried to make it 10 or 15 but failed miserably.
    Amorphis- Halo
    Blackbraid- I
    Darkthrone- Astral Fortress
    Exhumed- To The Dead
    Immolation- Acts Of God
    Fellowship- The Saberlight Chronicles
    Feral Light- Psychic Contortions
    Gudsforladt- Friendship, Love and War
    Gutvoid- Durance Of Lightless Horizons
    Maul- Seraphic Punishment
    Midnight- Let There Be Witchery
    Miscreance- Convergence
    Morbikon- Ov Mournful Twilight
    Mortuous- Upon Desolation
    Molder- Engrossed In Decay
    Negative Plane- The Pact
    Phobophilic- Enveloping Absurdity
    Riot City- Electric Elite
    Saor- Origins
    Satan- Earth Eternal
    Sigh- Shiki
    Sumerlands- Dreamkiller
    To The Dogs- Light The Fires
    Voivod- Synchro Anarchy
    White Ward- False Light

    Also loved the EPs from Berator, Kanonenfieber and Worm

  12. Immolation – Acts of God
    High Command – Eclipse of the Dual Moons
    Fellowship – The Saberlight Chronicles
    Castrator – Defiled to Oblivion
    Pure Wrath – Hymn to the Woeful Hearts
    Hulder – The Eternal Fanfare
    Escuela Grind – Memory Theater
    Blackbraid – Blackbraid I
    Visions of Atlantis – Pirates
    Phobophilic – Enveloping Absurdity

  13. For the record…I will absolutely ridicule you for your music choices

  14. Top 10 for me:
    1. Wilderun – Epigone
    2. Sigh – Shiki
    3. Zeal & Ardor – Zeal & Ardor
    4. Strigoi – Viscera
    5. Septicflesh – Modern Primitive
    6. Aeternam – Heir of the Rising Sun
    7. Sentient Horror – Rites of Gore
    8. Pillaging Villagers – Pillaging Villagers
    9. Imperial Circus Dead Decaence – Mogari
    10. Heads for the Dead – The Great Conjuration

  15. I’m just gonna throw five standout releases out there, for my taste…

    Qrixkuor ‘Zoetrope’ (very late but would be a crime to ignore!)
    Universally Estranged ‘Dimension of Deviant Clusters’
    Altars ‘Ascetic Reflection’
    Antichrist Imperium ‘Volume III Satan in His Original Glory
    Corpsessed ‘Succumb to Rot’

  16. 25. Daeva – Through Sheer Will & Black Magic…
    24. Inexorum – Equinox Vigil
    23. misanthropæ – Untitled
    22. Egregore – The Word of His Law
    21. Terzij De Horde – In One Of These, I Am Your Enemy
    20. Dreadnought – The Endless
    19. Doldrum – The Knocking, Or The Story Of The Sound That Preceded Their Disappearance
    18. Artificial Brain – Artificial Brain
    17. Sunrise Patriot Motion – Black Fellflower Stream
    16. Triumvir Foul – Onslaught to Seraphim
    15. Mortuous – Upon Desolation
    14. Falls of Rauros – Keys to a Vanishing Future
    13. Dream Unending – Song of Salvation
    12. Tzompantli – Tlazcaltiliztli
    11. Blut Aus Nord – Disharmonium – Undreamable Abysses
    10. Tómarúm – Ash In Realms Of Stone Icons
    9. Bedsore/Mortal Incarnation – Split
    8. WORM – Bluenothing
    7. Mur – Cut The Rivers Vein
    6. Scarcity – Aveilut
    5. White Ward – False Light
    4. Eight Bells – Legacy of Ruin
    3. Mares of Thrace – The Exile
    2. Aeviterne – The Ailing Facade
    1. Haunter – Discarnate Ails

    • Saw 8 Bells live, really good show! Blut Aus Nord has too many releases at this point still trying to keep up.

    • I won’t have my list until later this month (there’s some promising stuff coming out), but I can’t help but notice the lack of Kardashev in these comments………

  17. 2022-Top 10
    1.High Command-Eclipse of the dual moon
    2.Whiteward-False Light
    3.Saidan-Onryo II:Her Spirit Eternal
    4.Kampfar-Til Klovers Takt
    5.Gaerea-Mirage
    6.Black royal-Earthbound
    7.Firtan-Marter
    8.Sisyphean-Colours of Faith
    9.Dream Unending-Songs of Salvation
    10.Besna-Zverstva

  18. 1. Autonoesis Moon of Foul Magics
    2. Ultha All That has Never Been True
    3. Aeviterne The Ailing Facade
    4. Doldrum The Knocking
    5. Vimur Transcendental Violence
    6. Worm Bluenothing

    Almosts
    Immolation
    Cosmic Putrefaction
    Eight Bells
    Nechochwen
    Trauma Bond
    Wormrot
    Daeva
    Gevurah
    Desiccation
    Battlegrave

  19. White Ward – False Light
    Panzerfaust – The Suns of Perdition Chapter III
    Vital Spirit – Still As the Night, Cold As the Wind
    The Holy Flesh / Merger Remnant – Split 1
    Cave In – Heavy Pendulum
    Zeal & Ardor – Zeal & Ardor
    Brutus – Unison Life
    Comeback Kid – Heavy Steps
    Septicflesh – Modern Primitive
    STUPEFLIP – Stup Forever
    Carpenter Brut – Leather Terror

    Cheers from France !

  20. 1. Ripped to Shreds – Jubian

    2. Pilori – Quand Bien Même L’Enfer et le Déluge S’abattraient sur Nous

    3. Wormrot – Hiss

    4. Hath – All That Was Promised

    5. Immolation – Acts of God

    6. Faüst – Tinnitus Inquisition

    7. Ninth Realm – A Fate Unbroken

    8. Imperial Triumphant – Spirit of Ecstasy

    9. Midnight – Let There Be Witchery

    10. Strigoi – Viscera

    But so many other good drops this year

  21. IMMOLATION: Acts of God

    GAEREA: Mirage

    NORDJEVEL: Gnavhòl

    PANZERFAUST: The suns of Perdition chapter III: The astral Drain

    WAKE: Thought form Descent

    ALTARS: Ascetic Reflections

    VERBERIS: Adumbration of the veiled Logos

    WHITE WARD: False Light

    DEATHWHITE: Grey Everlasting

    LORD BELIAL: Rapture

    SEPTICFLESH: Modern Primitive

    AARA: Triade II: Hemera

    WATAIN: The agony & ecstasy of Watain

    DEATHSPELL OMEGA: The long Defeat

    AEVITERNE: The ailing Facade

    ULTRA SILVAM: The sanctity of Death

    SHAPE OF DESPAIR: Return to the Void

  22. Goatwhore- Angels Hung From The Arches Of Heaven
    Darkthrone – Astral Fortress
    Blackbraid – Blackbraid I
    Coathanger Abortion- Plan C
    Sumerlands – Dreamkiller
    Clutch – Sunrise on Slaughter Beach
    Ghost – Impera
    Lost Dog Street Band – Glory
    Benjamin Tod – Songs I Swore I’d Never Sing
    Dream Widow – s/t
    Soulfly – Totem
    Pike vs The Automation – s/t
    Elvis – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

  23. Of the Wand and the Moon, Emma Ruth Rundle, Brighter Death Now, Sarin, 40 Watt Sun, and Woorms

    Nothing but new Saor, Nechochwen, Innana, Kamfar, Worm, and Clandestine Blaze really got my attention for new stuff in metal.

  24. Sarin-There’s no way back and Woorms-Fatalismo are the only things I got really into for heavier music. Mostly been the new Of the Wand and the Moon, Emma Ruth Rundle, Brighter Death Now, and 40 Watt Sun.

    Only things in black/death stuff I have checked out is Worm, Kampfar, Nechochwen, Innana, and Saor.

  25. Ghost – Impera
    Panzerfaust – The Suns of Perdition III
    Deathspell Omega – The Long Defeat EP
    Absent in Body – Plague God
    CELESTE – Assassine(s)
    Goatwhore – Angels Hung From The Arches Of Heaven
    Mantar – Pain is Forever and this is the End
    Immolation – Acts of God
    Witchery – Nightside

  26. 1st. Eight Bells – Legacy Of Ruin
    2nd. Gloson – The Rift
    3rd. Drudkh – All Belong To The Night
    4th. Sidious – Blackest Insurrection
    5th. Audrey Horne – Devil’s Bell
    6th. Wiegedood – There’s Always Blood At The End Of The Road
    7th. Blut Aus Nord – Disharmonium – Undreamable Abyss
    8th. Cult Of Luna – The Long Road North
    9th. Ultha – All That Has Never Been True
    10th. Voivod – Synchro Anarchy
    11th. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms And Lava
    12th. Xentrix – Seven Words
    13th. Second To Sun – Nocturnal Philosophy
    14th. Consecration – Cinis
    15th. Pure Wrath – Hymn To The Woeful Hearts
    16th. Digir Gidim – The Celestial Cosmic Scale And The Shimmering Path Of The Supreme Regulator
    17th. Vorga – Striving Toward Oblivion
    18th. Gaerea – Mirage
    19th. Dawnwalker – House Of Sand
    20th. Ether Coven – The Relationship Between The Hammer And The Nail
    21st. Tomarum – Ash In The Realms Of Stone Icons
    22nd. – Shape Of Despair Return To The Void
    23rd. Grima – Frostbitten
    24th. Krisiun – Mortem Solis
    25th. Haunter – Discarnate Ails

  27. 1 Gaerea- Mirage

    2 Nostalghia- Au Milieu de L’hiver

    3 Second to Sun- Nocturnal Philosophy

    4 Incandescence- Le Coeur de L’Homme

    5 Malist – As I become Darkness

    6 Aara- Traide II: Hemera

    7 Galderia- Endless Horizon

    8 Noktunral Mortum- To Lunar Poetry

    9 Ripped to Shreds- Jubian

    10 Walg- II

  28. No specific order (but top 3 probably ARÐ, Graceless and Ultha)

    ARР– Take up my Bones
    Drudkh – All belong to the night
    Sonja – Loud Arriver
    Abyssic – Brought Forth in Iniquity
    Graceless – Chants from Purgatory
    Darkest Era – Wither on the Vine
    Ultha – All that has never been True
    Final Light – Final Light
    Audrey Horne – Devil’s Bell
    Vanum – Legend
    Idol of Fear – Trespasser
    Shape of Despair – Return to the Void

  29. 1. Carpenter Brut – Leather Terror
    2. White Ward – False Light
    3. Kvaen – The Great Below
    4. Hyperia – Silhouettes of Horror
    5. Phobophilic – Enveloping Absurdity
    6. Battle Beast – Circus of Doom
    7. Hell Fire – Reckoning
    8. Inexorum – Equinox Vigil
    9. De Profundis – The Corruption of Virtue
    10. Moonshade – As We Set the Skies Ablaze

  30. 1. Tome of the Unreplenished – Earthbound
    2. Sensory Amusia – Breed Death
    3. Swampborn – Beyond Ratio
    4. Miscreance – Convergence
    5. Vauruvã – Por Nós da Ventania
    6. Barn – Habitat
    7. Bloodbath – Survival of the Sickest
    8. Azaab – Summoning the Cataclysm
    9. Autonoesis – Moon of Foul Magics
    10. Vicious Knights – Alteration Through Possession

    EPs

    Silurian – End of Ordovicia
    Australis – MMXXII
    Nuclear Tomb – Offer Your Life

  31. A little late to the game. But here goes it..

    1. Devoid of Life – Embracing Emptiness
    2. Afsind – Afsind
    3. Toadeater – Bexadde
    4. Vanum – Legend
    5. Doldrum – The Knocking
    6. Gaerea- Mirage
    7. Lurid – Firespell
    8. Feral Light – Enveloped and Transformed
    9. Sidious – Blackest Insurrection
    10. Konvent – Call Down the Sun
    11. Final Siege – March to Your Grave
    12. Liminal Shroud – All Virtues Ablaze
    13. Suffocater – Rotting Existence

    Dormant Ordeal – The Grand Scheme of Things – was released Dec 2021 so didn’t make it in time for a lot of ‘21 lists. But a fantastic album!

    • Totally agree about Dormant Ordeal. That album is almost perfection, and one of the most crushing albums ever.

      Vanum had a new album? damn

  32. 10. Zeal & Ardor – Zeal & Ardor
    9. Cult of Luna – The Long Road North
    8. Ultha – All that has been never true
    7. An Abstract Illusion – Woe
    6. Sonja – Loud Arriver
    5. Watain- The Agony & Ecstasy Of Watain
    4. Firtan – Marter
    3. Disillusion – Ayam
    2. Messa – Close
    1. White Ward – False Light

  33. 10. Inanna – Void of Unending Depths
    9. Cult of Luna – The Long Road North
    8. White Ward – False Light
    7. Wilderun – Epigone
    6. Brutus – Unison Life
    5. Callous Daoboys – Celebrity Therapist
    4. Immolation – Acts of God
    3. Fellowship – The Saberlight Chronicles
    2. Sylvaine – Nova
    1. Moon Tooth – Phototroph

  34. 1. Russian Circles- Gnosis
    2. White Ward- False Light
    3. Desecresy- Unveil in The Abyss
    4. Panzerfaust- The Suns of Perdition Chapter III
    5. Lost in Kiev- Rupture
    6. Innumerable Forms- Philosophical Collapse
    7. Vital Spirit- Still as The Night, Cold as The Wind

  35. My favorite year end album is the obscurity of our edit comment system in combination with our moderation claiming victims

    • I have no fucking idea how this works. Delays in comments appearing cause people to post twice. And then for unknown reasons the software sticks some comments in purgatory, requiring me to approve them before they appear, even when they don’t include words on the verboten list. Blah.

  36. On March 4th Midnight proclaimed ‘Let there be Witchery’ and sure enough, on July 22nd there was ‘Nightside’ from said Witchery.

    C21H23NO5 (most replayed):
    Гнёт – Бремя
    Glass Ox – Winds Of Violence
    Bekor Qilish – Throes Of Death From The Dreamed Nihilism
    Haunter – Discarnate Ails
    Malthusian/Suffering Hour – Time’s Withering Shadow
    Cosmic Putrefaction – Crepuscular Dirge For The Blessed Ones
    Et Moriemur- Tamashii No Yama
    Downcross – Hexapoda Triumph
    Maul – Seraphic Punishment
    Swampborn – Beyond Ration
    Devil Master – Ecstasies Of Never Ending Night
    White Ward – False Light
    Cult Of Luna – The Long Road North

    C17H21NO4 (Diabolically good):
    Wormgod – Where Old Curses Rest
    Glyph – Remind Us of the Sun
    Synteleia- The Secret Last Syllable
    Bedsore -Hypnagogic Hallucinations
    Verberis – Adumbration Of The Veiled Logos
    Might – Abyss
    Veilburner – Vlbrnr
    Sigh – Shiki
    Atruta – Da Varot Apramietnaj
    Blut Aus Nord – Disharmonium: Undreamable Abysses
    Messa – Close
    Autonoesis – Moon Of Foul Magics
    Goatwhore – Angels Hung From The Arches Of Heaven
    Aldorfrea – Thy Kingdom Cold
    Worm Shepherd – Ritual Hymns
    Author & Punisher – Kruller
    Hath – All that was promised
    Tómarúm – Ash In Realms Of Stone Icons
    Worm – Bluenothing
    Dream Unending – Song of Salvation
    Doldrum – The Knocking
    Cave In – Heavy Pendulum
    Chat Pile – God’s Country
    Final Light – Final Light
    Callous Daoboys – Celebrity Therapist
    Gudsforladt – Friendship, Love and War

  37. In no partcular order:

    Immolation “Acts of God”
    Autopsy “Morbidity Triumphant”
    Ironhawk “Rirual of the Warpath”
    Krushhammer “Blood, Violence & Blasphemy” (thanks again to NCS for this beast!!!)
    Turbocharged “Alpha Beast, Omega God”

    letdown:
    Watain

  38. Some of my favourite releases this year:

    Corpsessed – Succumb to Rot

    Immolation – Acts of God

    Father Befouled – Crowned in Veneficum

    Fossilization/Ritual Necromancy – Split

    Desolate Shrine – Fires of the Dying World

    Chaos Perversion – Petrified Against the Emanation (EP)

    Death Collector – Death Collector (EP)

    Origin – Chaosmos

    Perilaxe Occlusion/ Celestial Santuary/ Thorn/ Fumes – Absolute Convergence (Split)

    Autopsy – Morbidity Triumphant

    Malefic Throne – Malefic Throne (EP)

    Deathcrush – Under Serpents Reign

    Esoctrilihum – Consecration of the Spiritüs Flesh

    Perdition Temple – Merciless Upheaval

    Decrapted – Bloody Rivers of Death

    Ataraxy – The Last Mirror

    Vermin Womb – Retaliation

    Phobophilic – Enveloping Absurdity

    Acausal Intrusion – Seeping Evocation

    Strigoi – Viscera

    Bloodbath – Survival of the Sickest

    Sépulcre – Cursed Ways of Sheol (EP)

  39. Albums:

    White Ward: False Light
    Swampborn: Beyond Ratio
    Blut Aus Nord: Disharmonium – Undreamable Abysses
    Gevurah: Gehinnom
    Messa: Close

    Fit For An Autopsy: Oh What The Future Holds
    Nostromo: Bucephale
    Hath: All That Was Promised
    Aeviterne: The Ailing Facade
    Veilburner: VLBRNR

    Wake: Thought Form Descent
    Ithaca: They Fear Us
    Ashenspire: Hostile Architecture
    Humanotone: The Flourishing Fall in a Grain of Sand
    Tzompantli: Tlazcaltiliztli

    The Callous Daoboys: Celebrity Therapist
    An Anstract Illusion: Woe
    Black Magnet: Body Void
    Orm: Intet • Altet
    Immolation: Acts Of God

    EPs:
    Worm: Bluenothing
    Vile Rites: The Ageless
    Creature: Chimerapolis
    Mournful Congregation: The Exiviae of Gods part I
    Sallow Moth: Failure To Find

    Thank you, NCS!

  40. In no particular order:

    An Abstract Illusion – Woe
    Seventh Wonder – The Testament
    Immolation – Acts of God
    Voivod – Synchro Anarchy
    Fellowship – The Saberlight Chronicles
    Revocation – Netherheaven
    Amorphis – Halo
    Psycroptic – Divine Council
    Aethernam – Heir Of The Rising Sun
    Wake – Thought Form Descent
    Wilderun – Epigone
    Stormruler – Sacred Rites & Black Magick
    Worm – Bluenothing
    Disillusion – Ayam
    Judicator – The Majesty of Decay
    Undeath – It’s Time to Rise… From the Grave
    High Command – Eclipse of the Dual Moons
    In the Woods – Diversum
    Faceless Burial – At the Foothills of Deliration
    Darkthrone – Astral Fortress

    • Yes, Revocation’s latest album is terrific. Aeternam released an epic album too this year. (only bad thing about Aeternam is i can never remember how to spell the name right). I was disappointed by Faceless Burial though; i was totally lost right from the start of it. Seemed there no actual songs, but rather a stream-of-consciousness mish-mash flow of pieces of songs carelessly sewn together.

  41. Seems to be we already have a winner: Immolation!

  42. Immolation — Acts of God
    An Abstract Illusion — Woe
    Grand Harvest — Consummatum Est
    Concilivm — A Monument in Darkness
    Aethereus — Leiden
    Hath — All That Was Promised
    Imperium — Ex Mortis Gloria
    Vorga — Striving toward Oblivion
    Ancient Mastery — Chapter Two: The Resistance
    In Grief — An Eternity of Misery
    De Profundis — The Corruption of Virtue
    Tomb of Finland — Across the Barren Fields
    Blackbraid — Blackbraid I
    Belphegor — The Devils
    Maul — Seraphic Punishment

    Lots of great lists above, including some bands I never heard of, and some releases from favorite bands I was totally unaware of (Ultha had a new album? Watain too?). Metal overload.

  43. Acherontas
    Perturbator, Johannes Persson & Final Light
    Absent in Body
    Tons
    Rotten Tomb
    Werewolves
    Caïnan Dawn
    Come To Grief
    Tzompantli
    Anticreation
    Tribal Gaze
    The Otolith
    Deliverance
    Hierophant
    Aara
    Coldworld
    Abysmalist
    Kato
    Verbum
    Altar of Gore
    Ande
    Blasphematory
    In Twilight’s Embrace
    Heidnir
    Skumstrike
    Sundowning
    Pure Wrath

    SPLITS/E.P.’S
    Fiat Nox
    Prehistoric War Cult
    Nordjevel
    Domkraft/Slomatics
    Malthusian / Suffering Hour

  44. These are in no particular order, but as I look through my playlists these stand out.

    Autonoesis-Moon of Foul Magics
    Amorphis-Halo
    Trial(see) -Feed the Fire
    Strigoi-Viscera
    Falls of Rauros- Key to a Vanishing Future
    Maul-Seraphic Punishment
    Mother of Graves-Where the Shadows Adorn
    High Command-Eclipse of the Dual Moons
    Voivod-Synchro Anarchy
    Tomarum-Ash in Realms of Stone Icons

    Well I guess that’s 10, probably some I’m forgetting

    1 more:
    Atvm-Famine, Putrid and Fucking Violence.

  45. Top 25 Roughly In Order

    1. Counterparts – A Eulogy for Those Still
    Here
    2. Lorna Shore – Pain Remains
    3. Heavy Meta – Mana Regmata
    4. The Callous Daoboys – Celebrity
    Therapist
    5. White Ward – False Light
    6. Venom Prison – Erebos
    7. Hath – All That was Promissed
    8. Terror Cell – Caustic Light
    9. Fit for an Autopsy – Oh What the
    Future Holds
    10. Drudkh – All Belong to the Night

    Shadow of Intent – Elegy
    Angelmaker – Sanctum
    Morrow – The Quiet Earth
    Urushiol – Pools of Green Fire
    Chat Pile – God’s Country
    Haunter – Discarnate Ails
    Worm – Bluenothing
    Illyria – Take Me Somewhere Beautiful
    Cyborg Octopus – Between the Light and Air
    A Wake in Providence – Eternity

    Wake – Thought Form Descent
    The Sawtooth Grin – Good.
    Woe – An Abstract Illusion
    Lasiodora – Molt
    Soul Glo – Diaspora Problems

  46. 1. Blackbraid – Blackbraid 1
    2. Saidan – onryo 2
    3. Dead Cross – 2
    4. Worm Shepard – Ritual Hymns
    5. Puppy – Pure Evil
    6. Crosses – permanent radiant
    7. Escuela Grind –
    8. Zeal and Ardor – Zeal and Ardor
    9. Gggolddd – This shame should not mine
    10. Fugitive – Maniac
    11. Author and Punisher – Kruller
    12. Dream Widow – Dream Widow
    13. Miscreance – Convergence
    14. Tribal Gaze – The Nine Choirs
    15. Doldrum
    16. Immolation

  47. I’d say this would be my Top 25 in no particular order besides the first 10 being my top 10

    Inexorum – Equinox Vigil
    Immolation – Acts of God
    Vital Spirit – Still as the Night, Cold as the Wind
    Xenoglyph – Spiritfraud
    Cruz – Confines de la Cordura
    Autopsy – Morbidity Triumphant
    Begrime Exemious – Rotting in the Aftermath
    Vacuous – Dreams of Dysphoria
    Jade – The Pacification Of Death
    Ninth Realm – A Fate Unbroken

    High Command – Eclipse of the Dual Moons
    Ateiggär – Tyrannemord
    Negative Plane – The Pact
    Gevurah – Gehinnom
    Sedimentum – Suppuration Morphogénésiaque
    Doldrey – Celestial Deconstruction
    Stangarigel – Na Severe Srdca
    Spiritworld – Deathwestern
    Ultra Silvam – The Sanctity of Death
    Marrasmieli – Martaiden mailta

    Encryptment – Dödens Födsel
    Saidan – Onryō II: Her Spirit Eternal
    Coscradh – Nahanagan Stadial
    Imha Tarikat – Hearts Unchained – At War With A Passionless World
    Toadeater – Bexadde

  48. Goatwhore- -angels hung from the Arches of heaven
    Maakeskit- Filthy Flying Feathery Fucks!
    Death Fucking Cunt- decadent perversity
    Artificial brain- artificial brain
    Tons- hashension
    Destruction- diabolical
    Konvent-call down the sun
    Lorna shore -pain Remains

  49. Thumos – The Republic
    Starer – The What It Is to Be
    Moonknight – L’eclisse
    Crestfallen Dusk – self titled
    Escaping Aghartha – Croak
    Glyph – remind us of the sun
    Lycopolis – Amduat
    Telesterion – An Ear of Grain in Silence Reaped
    Kostnateni
    Olim – Ursine

  50. 1) Blut Aus Nord – Disharmonium-Undreamable Abysses

    2) Gevurah – Gehinnom

    3) Misthyrming – Med Hamri

    4) Verberis – Adumbration of the Veiled Logos

    5) Djevel – Naa Skrider Natten Sort

    6) White Ward – False Light

    7) Gaerea – Mirage

    8) Ultha – All That Never Was…

    9) Hate Forest – Innermost

    10) Dream Unending – Song of Salvation

    11) Nattfärd – Forestrealm Eternal

    12) Firtan – Marter

    13) Kampfar – Til Klovers Takt

    14) Crippled Black Phoenix – Banefyre

    15) Terzij de Horde – In One of These I Am Your Enemy

    16) Skarntyde – Da Jeg Grat Ved Jordens Ruiner

    17) Véhémence – Ordalies

    18) Kathaaria – To Be Shunned By All…

    19) Negative Plane – The Pact

    20) Gudsforladt – Friendship, Love and War

    21) Watain – The Agony & Ecstasy of…

    22) Sigh – Shiki

    23) Drudkh – All Belong To The Night

    24) Theriomorph – Diabolical Bloodswords

    25) Dissolve Patterns – s/t

    26) Hegemone – Voyance

    27) In Twilight’s Embrace – Lifeblood

    28) Vital Spirit – Still As the Night, Cold As the Wind

    29) Stangarigel – Na Severe Srdca

    30)Blackbraid – Blackbraid I

    EP:

    1) Mistcavern – Into Twilight

    2) Aerdryk – Met de Drietand op mijn Huid

    3) Zwaard – Bloed & Wijn

    4) Laere – Coagula

    5) Svrm – Червів майбутня здобич

    Re-Issue:

    1) Ultha – Forget Everything and Remember

    2) Harakiri For The Sky – Aokigahara MMXXII

    3) Amenra – De Doorn V2

    Compilation: Blut Aus Nord – Lovecraftian Echoes

  51. My favorite music of 2022:

    Sigh – Shiki
    Brobdingnagian – trambus tines
    Asunojokei – アイランド (Island)
    Comfort Food – Adventures of Mammals
    Lucrecia Dalt – ¡Ay!
    Misþyrming – Með hamri
    Holy Fawn – Dimensional Bleed
    Iosonouncane – IRA 2021
    Unyielding Love – Flesh of The Furnace
    Cryptae – Capsule
    Autonoesis – Moon of Foul Magics
    Heilung – Drif
    Imperial Circus Dead Decadence – MOGARI – Shi E Fukeru Omoi Wa Rikujoku Sura Kurai
    Ashenspire – Hostile Architecture
    ꙂꙨѮŮӜŮѮꙨꙂ – Ŷ​ᾦ​Ϛ​Ӿ​Ѻ​ᾦ​Ѻ​Ӿ​Ϛ​ᾦ​Ŷ
    Deathspell Omega – The Long Degeat
    White Ward – False Light
    Moor Mother – Jazz Codes
    Discrepants – Beginnings
    Vel’HAR – Letania I
    Gevurah – Gehinnom
    DIABOLIC OATH – Aischrolatreia
    Black Midi – Hellfire
    Those Poor Bastards – God Awful
    Shinra Knives – You Will Never See Heaven
    Anticreation – From the Dust of Embers
    Oiseaux-Tempête – What On Earth (Que Diable)
    newmath – Bloom
    Rejoice! The Light Has Come – Untitled
    Verberis – Adumbration of the Veiled Logos
    Throwing Bricks – The Burden
    Pilori – Quand Bien Meme L’Enfer Et Le Deluge S’abattraient Sur Nous
    Et Moriemur – Tamashii no Yama
    FRKSE – Desecrated Anxiety EP
    Minibeast – On Ice
    Saccage – Charogne
    Ultha – All that has Never been True
    Firtan – Marter
    COSMIC PUTREFACTION – Crepuscular Dirge For The Blessed Ones
    OFFICINE – OFFICINE
    The Wakedead Gathering – Parallaxiom
    Hissing – Hypervirulence Architecture
    Aequorea – DIM
    Venus Twins – Raxis
    Mizmor and Thou – Myopia
    Chat Pile – God’s Country
    Skin Tension – Omni
    Sheng Jie & Shen Jing – Parallel Weaving
    Watain -The Agony & Ecstasy Of Watain
    Space Coke – Lunacy
    The Winston Brothers – Drift
    Blackbraid – Blackbraid I
    Ulthar – Nightgaunts MMXVI
    Decoherence – More Is Different
    Vaura – Vista Of Deviant Anatomies
    Hath – All That Was Promised
    Acherontas – Malocchio – The Seven Tongues Of Ahmon
    Vio-lence – Let the World Burn
    Melt Yourself Down – Pray For Me I Don’t Fit In
    Reuerorum ibn Malachtum – Vacuum. The mystery of faith…
    Sulphur Nurse – Roopkund
    Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio – Cold As Weiss
    Buñuel – Killers Like Us
    Immolation – Acts Of God
    An Isolated Mind – A Place We Cannot Go
    Author & Punisher – Krüller
    Zeal & Ardor – Zeal & Ardor
    Homeskin – Integument Crystallization/Cries Methodically
    Sunk Heaven – Porous Mirror
    Melvins – Bad Mood Rising
    Vile Ritual – Tongues of the Exanimate
    UIV – Frigus (EP)
    Chaos Perversion – Petrified Against the Emanation
    Cult Of Luna – The Long Road North
    Black Country, New Road – Ants From Up There
    Μνήμα – Disciples of Excremental Liturgies

    • Artificial Brain – Artificial Brain
      Blut Aus Nord – Disharmonium-Undreamable Abysses
      White Ward – False Light
      Aeviterne – The Ailing Facade
      Vermin Womb – Retaliation
      Imperial Triumphant – Spirit of Ecstasy
      Encenathrakh – Ithate Thngth Oceate
      Ashenspire – Hostile Architecture
      Chrome Ghost –– House Of Falling Ash
      Cloud Rat – Threshold
      Ken Mode – Null
      Wake – Thought Form Descent

  52. 1- Darkher – The Buried Storm
    2- The Otolith – Folium Limina
    3- Arsena – Blood Rusted Mother Earth
    4- White Ward – False Light
    5- Cult of Luna – The Long Road North
    6- Pure Wrath – Hymn to the Woeful Hearts
    7- Knight & Gallow – For Honor and Bloodshed
    8- The Mist from the Mountains – The Temple of Twilight
    9- Phobophilic – Enveloping Absurdity
    10 – Saor – Origins

    Honorable mention to Megadeth In 2022, three good songs on an album is all I need from them to be happy!

  53. The best of 2022

    01 – Soilwork – Övergivenheten
    02 – Fit For An Autopsy – Oh What the Future Holds
    03 – In Cave – Heavy Pendulum
    04 – Disillusion – Ayam
    05 – Evergrey – A Heartless Portrait (The Orphean Testament)
    06 – SepticFlesh – Modern Primitive
    07 – Allegaeon – Damnum
    08 – Becoming The Archetype – Children Of The Great Extinction
    09 – Funeral Chic – Roman Candle
    10 – Hangman’s Chair – A Loner
    11 – Cult of Luna – The Long Road North
    12 – Author & Punisher – Krüller
    13 – Zeal & Ardor – Zeal & Ardor
    14 – Ibaraki – Rashomon
    15 – Kardashev – Liminal Rite
    16 – Perséfone – Metanoia
    17 – Wilderun – Epigone
    18 – Amorphis – Halo
    19 – Wolfheart – King Of The North
    20 – Brymir – Voices In The Sky
    21 – Ghost – Impera
    22 – Rammstein – Zeit
    23 – Kreator – Hate Über Alles
    24 – Strigoi – Viscera
    25 – Lacrimas Profundere – How To Shroud Yourself With Night
    26 – Druids – Shadow Work
    27 – Crowbar – Zero And Below
    28 -(16)- – Into Dust
    29 – Misery Index – Complete Control
    30 – Revocation – Netherheaven
    31 – Hath – All That Was Promised
    32 – An Abstract Illusion – Woe
    33 – Fallujah – Empyrean
    34 – Obsidious – Iconic
    35 – Panzerfaust – Chapter III: The Astral Drain
    36 – Watain – The Agony & Ecstasy of Watain
    37 – Abbath – Dread Reaver
    38 – Witchery – Nightside
    39 – Goatwhore – Angels Hung from the Arches of Heaven
    40 – Black Anvil – Regenesis
    41 – Black Void – Antithesis
    42 – Nighted – Absence
    43 – Behemoth – Opvs Contra Natvram
    44 – Belphegor – The Devils
    45 – Ereb Altor – Vargtimman
    46 – Spiritworld – Deathwestern
    47 – Clutch – Sunrise on Slaughter Beach
    48 – Oceans of Slumber – Starlight and Ash
    49 – Darkest Era – Wither On The Vine
    50 – Deathwhite – Grey Everlasting
    51 – Dead Register – Alive
    52 – Blacklist – Afterworld
    53 – Voivod – Synchro Anarchy
    54 – Cobra The Impaler – Colossal Gods
    55 – Crown Compass – The Drought
    56 – Parius – The Signal Heard Throughout Space
    57 – Lamentations.- Passion of Depression
    58 – The Offering – Seeing The Elephant
    59 – Dream Widow – Dream Widow
    60 – Audrey Horne – Devil’s Bell
    61 – Sergeant Thunderhoof – This Sceptred Veil
    62 – My Diligence – The Matter, Form and Power
    63 – Grave Lines – Communion
    64 – Candlemass – Sweet Evil Sun
    65 – The Halo Effect – Days Of The Lost
    66 – Bloodbath – Survival of the Sickest
    67 – Autopsy – Morbidity Triumphant
    68 – Immolation – Acts of God
    69 – Decapitated – Cancer Culture
    70 – Miseration – Black Miracles and Dark Wonders
    71 – Xaon – The Lethean
    72 – Aeternam – Heir of the Rising Sun
    73 – Darkane – Inhuman Spirits
    74 – Deserted Fear – Doomsday
    75 – Hypermass – Empyrean
    76 – Temple Of Void – Summoning The Slayer
    77 – Tomb Of Finland – Across The Barren Fields
    78 – Grand Harvest – Consummatum Est
    79 – Jade – The Pacification Of Death
    80 – Mother of Graves – Where the Shadows Adorn
    81 – Innumeable Forms – Philosophical Collapse
    82 – Undeath – It’s Time… To Rise From the Grave
    83 – Ripped to Shreds – Jubian
    84 – Exhumed – To The Dead
    85 – NITE – Voices of the Kronian Moon
    86 – Devil Master – Ecstasies of Never Ending Night
    87 – Kvaen – The Great Below
    88 – The Spirit – Of Clarity and Galactic Structures
    89 – Saor – Origins
    90 – Gaerea – Mirage
    91 – Black Lava – Soul Furnace
    92 – Psycroptic – Divine Council
    93 – Sadist – Firescorched
    94 – Soulfly – Totem
    95 – I Am – Eternal Steel
    96 – Jungle Rot – A Call To Arms
    97 – Entrails – An Eternal Time of Decay
    98 – Maceration – It Never Ends…
    99 – Inhuman Condition – Fearsick
    100 – Dark Funeral – We Are The Apocalypse
    101 – Ocean of Grief – Pale Existence
    102 – Telekinetic Yeti – Primordial
    103 – Conjurer – Páthos
    104 – Meshuggah – Immutable
    105 – Mass Worship – Portal Tombs

  54. Finally, I was waiting for the new Misþyrming album…. and the wait was worth it….. Here we go….

    10- Hath: “All that was promised”

    9- Blind Guardian: “The God Machine”

    8- Et Moriemur: “Tamashii No Yama”

    7- SepticFlesh: “Modern Primitive”

    6- Allegaeon: “Damnum”

    5- Dawohl: “Leviathan”

    4- Véhémence: “Ordalies”

    3- Misþyrming: “Með hamri”

    2- Swamp Lantern: “The Lord is With Us”

    1- Blackbraid: “Blackbraid I”

  55. Better late than never:

    1. Gloson – The Rift
    2. An Abstract Illusion – Woe
    3. Wake – Thought Form Descent
    4. Hath – All that was Promised
    5. Evadne – The Pale Light of Fireflies (though released in December of 2021, this album was too late be make it to any lists and it is criminally overlooked)
    6. Disillusion – Ayam
    7. Rolo Tomassi – Where Myth Becomes Memory
    8. Septicflesh – Modern Primitive
    9. Rammstein – Zeit
    10. Tersivel – To the Orphic Void
    11. White Ward – False Light
    12. Gaerea – Mirage
    13. Kardashev – Liminal Rite
    14. Harakiri for the Sky – Aokigahara MMXXII
    15. Crone – Gotta Light?
    16. Strigoi – Viscera
    17. The Halo Effect – Days of the Lost
    18. Rise to the Sky – Every Day, A Funeral
    19. Celeste – Assassine(s)
    20. Karg – Resignation
    21. Pure Wrath – Hymn to the Woeful Hearts
    22. Dawn of Solace – Flames of Perdition
    23. Machine Head – Of Kingdom and Crown
    24. Winds of Tragedy – As Life Drifts Away
    25. Ultar – At the Gates of Dusk
    26. Darkane – Inhuman Spirits
    27. Rise to the Sky – Stay With Me When You’re Gone
    28. Cult of Luna – the Long Road North
    29. Persefone – metanoia
    30. Shape of Despair – Return to the Void

  56. I’ll drop mine as well even though it’s getting late in the year haha

    A bunch of Honorable Mentions: Threshold, Warforged, Venom Prison, Ernia, Aethereus, Werewolves, Daeva, Them, Aronious, Blut Aus Nord, Darkest Era, De Profundis, Jade, Kardashev, Kvaen, Sun Eater and the mighty Sigh.
    These didn’t get enough playtime but I could see them making this list in an alternate universe where I chose to listen to them more over the ones you see below.

    1. Revocation – Netherheaven
    2. Trial – Feed the Fire
    3. Sumerlands – Dreamkiller
    4. Fit For An Autopsy – Oh What the Future Holds
    5. Satan – Earth Infernal
    6. Hath – All That Was Promised
    7. Soreption – Jord
    8. Aeternam – Heir of the Rising Sun
    9. Judicator – The Majesty of Decay
    10. High Command – Eclipse of the Dual Moons
    11. Origin – Chaosmos
    12. Alestorm – Seventh Rum of a Seventh Rum
    13. Fellowship – The Saberlight Chronicles
    14. Morbikon – Ov Mournful Twilight (probably would have made it higher had I heard it earlier)
    15. Ghost – Impera

    Further than those I couldn’t order the albums properly.
    Song I Heard The Most Times This Year award goes to “Hellfighters” off of Sabaton’s latest.

    Thanks for reading :*

  57. 10 for 2022, in no particular order except for Chat Pile, which for me were certainly top of the game this year:

    1. Chat Pile “God’s Country”

    Fjort “[nichts]
    Spectrum Mortis “Bit Meseri – The Incantation”
    Gaerea “Mirage”
    White Ward “False Light”
    Swamp Lantern “The Lord Is With Us”
    Drudkh “All Belong To The Night”
    Messa “Close”
    Ultha “All That Has Never Been True”
    Eight Bells “Legacy Of Ruin”

  58. Avatar for Jacubus Upirus

    My top 20

    20. Woods of Desolation – The falling tide
    19. Vermilia – Ruska
    18. Dëgénéréscence – ….Ainsi! Nous dansâmes aux limber détestées
    17. Scarcity – Aveilut
    16. Drudkh – All belong to the night
    15. Belphegor – the Devil’s
    14. Grafvitnir – Tunes of Sitra Ahra
    13. Glemsel – Forfader
    12. Aara – Triade II: Hemera
    11. Lunar Spells – Demise of Heaven
    10. Haunter – Duscarnate Ails
    9. The Spirit – Of Clarity and Galactic Structures
    8. Svrm – цервiв майбутня здобиц
    7. Nocturnal Triumph
    6. Consummatio – Desaevio
    5. Drengskapur/Old Arrival – Ruin
    4. Krallice – Cristalline Exhaustion
    3. Malist – As I Become Darkness
    2. Grieve – Funeral
    1. Vehemence – Ordalies

    Honorable Mentions:

    White Ward – False Light
    Bríi – Corpos transparentes
    Ashenspire – Hostile Architecture

  59. Avatar for Lichtmens
    My top 20
    20. Woods of Desolation – The falling tide
    19. Vermilia – Ruska
    18. Dëgénéréscence – ….Ainsi! Nous dansâmes aux limber détestées
    17. Scarcity – Aveilut
    16. Drudkh – All belong to the night
    15. Belphegor – the Devil’s
    14. Grafvitnir – Tunes of Sitra Ahra
    13. Glemsel – Forfader
    12. Aara – Triade II: Hemera
    11. Lunar Spells – Demise of Heaven
    10. Haunter – Duscarnate Ails
    9. The Spirit – Of Clarity and Galactic Structures
    8. Svrm – цервiв майбутня здобиц
    7. Nocturnal Triumph
    6. Consummatio – Desaevio
    5. Drengskapur/Old Arrival – Ruin
    4. Krallice – Cristalline Exhaustion
    3. Malist – As I Become Darkness
    2. Grieve – Funeral
    1. Vehemence – Ordalies

    Honorable Mentions:

    White Ward – False Light
    Bríi – Corpos transparentes
    Ashenspire – Hostile Architecture

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