AUTOTHRALL'S YEAR END INFLUENZA BLOWOUT

As usual, a much larger list of my top 100 metal albums for 2022 is up over at my Rate Your Music page, and if that's not enough, here's the backup list with another 100 albums I really dug, including some of my favorite EPs and such. But below are my hierarchical top 22 for 2022 in both the full-length and EP/demo/split categories.



My Top 22 Metal Albums of 2022

01. Scalpture (De) - Feldwärts (98)

02. Voivod (Ca) - Synchro Anarchy (98)

03. Negative Plane (US) - The Pact (97)
04. Hammers of Misfortune (US) - Overtaker (95)

05. Blind Guardian (De) - The God Machine (95)

06. Deströyer 666 (Au) - Never Surrender (95)
07. Predatory Light (US) - Death and the Twilight Hours (93)
08. Messa (It) - Close (92)
09. Haunter (US) - Discarnate Ails (90)

10. Doldrum (US) - The Knocking... (90)*

11. Darkthrone (No) - Astral Fortress (90)
12. Satan (UK) - Earth Infernal (90)

13. Cosmic Putrefaction (It) - Crepuscular Dirge for the Blessed Ones (90)

14. Immolation (US) - Acts of God (90)

15. Final Light (Inter) - Final Light (90)
16. Gutvoid (Ca) - Durance of Lightless Horizons (90)

17. Heaving Earth (Cz) - Darkness of God (90)
18. Blut Aus Nord (Fr) - Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses (90)

19. Dreadnought (US) - The Endless (88)

20. Mortuous (US) - Upon Desolation (88)
21. Daeva (US) - Through Sheer Will and Black Magick (88)

22. High Command (US) - Eclipse of the Dual Moons (88)

* Sadly, no CD for this one. Pretty please?!

My Top 22 Metal EPs, Demos and Splits of 2022

01. Plasmodulated (US) - Plasmodulated (92)
02. Death Breath (Se) - The Old Hag (90)
03. VoidCeremony (US) - At the Periphery of Human Realms (90)
04. Ekstasis (US) - Paralyzing Impermanence (90)
05. Deathfiend (UK) - Beyond Life (88)
06. Congealed Putrescence (US) - Within the Ceaseless Murk (88)

07. Moonlight Sorcery (Fi) - Piercing Through the Frozen Eternity (87)

08. Moonlight Sorcery (Fi) - Nightwind: The Conqueror from the Stars (85)
09. Rancid Amputation (Pt) - Vile Human Taste (85)

10. Sölicitör (US) - All Debts on Death (83)

11. Mistcavern (Hu) - Into Twilight (82)

12. Worm (US) - Bluenothing (82)
13. Ravenous Dusk (Au) - The Dead of Night (80)
14. Iron Tomb (UK) - Vile Retribution (80)
15. Napalm Death (UK) - Resentment is Always Seismic... (80)

16. Vigilance (Sv) - Vigilance (80)

17. Roots of the Old Oak (UK) - Blot (80)

18. Malthusian (Ie)/Suffering Hour (US) - Time's Withering Shadow (80)
19. Grotesqueries (US) - Haunted Mausoleum (80)

20. Cimmerian Possession (Mx) - Sadistic Storm (80)

21. Metalucifer (Jp) - Heavy Metal Ninja (80)
22. Seer (Ca) - Vol. 7 (80)

My Top 22 NON-Metal Albums of 2022

01. Old Sorcery (Fi) - Dragon Citadel Elegies

02. Anima Morte (Se) - Serpents in the Field of Sleep

03. Klaus Schulze (De) - Deus Arrakis

04. Boy Harsher (US) - The Runner

05. Brutus (Be) - Unison Life

06. The Hellacopters (Se) - Eyes of Oblivion

07. Börn (Is) - Drottningar Dauðans 

08. Hällas (Se) - Elusion's Gate

09. Slasher Dave (US) - Halloween Howls

10. Elyvilon (US) - Drums in the Deepwood

11. Long Knife (US) - Curb Stomp Earth

12. Tales Under the Oak (De) - Swamp Kingdom

13. Zola Jesus (US) - Arkhon

14. Ulk (Nl) - Restoration Magic

15. Aurora (No) - The Gods We Can Touch

16. Erreth-Akbe (US) - A Lantern Swathed

17. Știu Nu Știu (Se) - New Sun

18. The Mars Volta (US) - The Mars Volta

19. Crippled Black Phoenix (UK) - Banefyre

20. Deadlife (UK) - Tortured Waters

21. The Birthday Massacre (Ca) - Fascination

22. Dance With the Dead (US) - Driven to Madness

All is calm, all is bright

Thanks as always for reading, folks! I'm off for the Holidays but will return for a year's end list, and then new reviews in January! - autothrall