Top 10 2022

Thank you one and all who voted all year. Please see below for some new metal music. As always this list is our way to keep up with new music and we are less worried about what is #1 and more what we haven't heard. We have done quarter lists for a while so you can see what has been hot all year and what has fallen off versus what is acting like the fucking own the place. Also historically I have done the genres as a comedic joke. I'm not funny so if anyone is offended, especially if you are one of the bands, please leave a comment below.


Spotify Sampler Of the 10+ Votes


[##] -- Charted Last Quarter (5 Votes Or Greater)

[--] -- New Or Charted Last Quarter (4 Votes Or Fewer)


Top 10 of 2022

Position / Album Vote Count 3rd Quarter Position 2nd Quarter Position 1st Quarter Position Genre
#1. Immolation - Acts of God 84 #1 #1 #1 Death, Death, & Death
#2. White Ward - False Light 64 #3 ## -- It Was Me, Post Black!
#3. Artificial Brain - Artificial Brain 58 #5 #4 -- Tech Death Prime
#4. Negative Plane - The Pact 48 #2 #2 -- Black Metal You Listen To When Spending All Your Time On The Internet
#5. The Chasm - The Scars of a Lost Reflective Shadow 46 #4 #5 -- Death With Very Long Titles
#6. Ashenspire - Hostile Arhitecture 46 ## -- -- Art School Anarchists
#7. Sumerlands - Dreamkiller 45 ## -- -- 1986 Forever
#8. Wormrot - Hiss 44 ## -- -- Grind
#9. Cult of Luna - The Long Road North 42 #6 #4 #2 Atmospheric Sludge / Post-Metal
#10. Blackbraid - Blackbraid I 40 #7 -- -- Atmospheric Black
Undeath - It's Time To Rise From The Grave 39 ## ## -- Wait For It ...Death!
Hath - All That Was Promised 36 ## ## ## Cant Talk, Playing Elden Ring
High Command - Eclipse of the Dual Moons 34 -- -- -- Crossover Thrash As Your DM
Misþyrming - Með hamri 32 -- -- -- Black
An Abstract Illusion - Woe 31 ## -- -- Upside-down Ballroom Dancing
Dream Unending - Song of Salvation 29 -- -- -- Cocteau Twins But Death Doom
Revocation - Netherheaven 27 ## -- -- Tech Death / Thrash
Wilderun - Epigone 26 ## ## -- Parallel Universe Opeth
Ripped to Shreds - 劇變 (Jubian) 26 -- -- -- Death
Pharmacist - Flourishing Extremities On Unspoiled Mental Grounds 26 ## ## -- Goregrind That's Forced To Be Serious For An Album
Blut Aus Nord - Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses 26 ## ## -- Atmospheric Black, Avant-garde, Black, Industrial, Dark Ambient, Probably Something Else
Messa - Close 25 ## -- -- Pass
Phobophilic - Undimensional Identites 25 ## -- -- Sleeveless White Shirt Death
Wiegedood - There's Always Blood At The End Of The Road 24 ## ## -- Black
Imperial Triumphant - Spirit of Ecstasy 24 ## -- -- Like Deathspell But With A Redbull
Sigh - Shiki 23 ## -- -- Genres Are Just Going To Confuse You
Wake - Thought From Descent 22 ## -- -- Black/Death
Autopsy - Morbidity Triumphant 22 -- -- -- Allow Me To Describe This Album Cover
Disillusion - Ayam 21 -- -- -- Melodic Progressive Death
Tómarúm - Ash in Realms of Stone Icons 20 ## ## -- Progressive Black
Chat Pile - God's Country 20 -- -- -- No matches found. Please try with different search terms. You could use wildcards (*) for more matches, or read more about your search options.
Inanna - Void of Unending Depth 20 -- -- -- Death & Lovecraft
Gaerea - Mirage 19 -- -- -- Post Black
Véhémence - Ordalies 19 ## ## #3 Can't Talk, Playing OSRS
Autonoesis - Moon of Foul Magics 19 -- -- -- Vektor Playing In The Other Room Vibe
Fellowship - The Saberlight Chronicles 19 ## -- -- Ren Faire Cult Eternal
Satan - Earth Infernal 18 ## ## -- Eternal Heavy
Sedimentum – Suppuration Morphogénésiaque 18 ## -- -- The Fear You Get At A Spelling Bee
Blind Guardian - The God Machine 18 ## -- -- Ol' Reliable
Black Fucking Cancer - Procreate Inverse 18 ## ## ## Fuck Alright, Stop Yelling
Kardashev - Liminal Rite 18 -- -- -- Atmospheric Deathcore
Allegaeon - DAMNUM 18 ## ## ## Melodic Death / DAMNUM
Ultha - All That Has Never Been True 17 ## -- -- Black
Spiritworld - DEATHWESTERN 17 -- -- -- Death / Thrash With Ten Gallon Hats
Inexorum - Equinox Vigil 17 ## ## -- Black Metal With An Art Degree
Aeviterne - The Ailing Facade 17 ## ## ## Death ... but more inaccessible
Chaotian - Festering Carcinolith 17 ## -- -- Death Metal For A Basement Show With 10 People
Darkthrone - Astral Fortress 17 -- -- -- Nope
Sonja - Loud Arriver 16 -- -- -- Heavy / Gothic Rock
Suppression - The Sorrow of Soul Through Flesh 16 ## ## -- Death
Devil Master - Ecstasies of Never Ending Night 16 ## ## -- Black / Punk / The Pit of Ultimate Darkness
Ares Kingdom - In Darkness At Last 15 ## -- -- Music You Don't Find, It Finds You
Saor - Origins 15 ## -- -- Atmospheric Black / Folk
Grima - Frostbitten 15 ## -- -- Narnia If The White Witch Won
Early Moods - Early Moods 15 -- -- -- Sabbath in Protective Custody
Vital Spirit - till as the Night, Cold as the Wind 15 ## ## -- Black
Stangarigel - Na Severe Srdca 15 ## ## ## Black / Probably Made By Hobgoblins
Rotten Tomb - Visions of Dismal Fate 15 ## ## ## Death / Cold Tombs
Truchło Strzygi - Gwiezdny Demon 14 ## ## -- Help I'm Being Robbed By Punks
Friends of Hell - Friends of Hell 14 ## -- -- Witchfinder Lieutenant
Cloud Rat - Threshold 14 -- -- -- Grind / What A Hangover Sounds Like
Daeva - Through Sheer Will And Black Magic 14 -- -- -- Black / Thrash / Storm Sorcery Origin
Zeal & Ardor - Zeal & Ardor 14 -- -- -- Imagine Skeleton Dragons
Faceless Burial - At the Foothills of Deliration 14 -- -- -- Dan Seagrave Death
The Otolith - Folium Limina 13 -- -- -- Blood Meridian Doom
Cosmic Putrefaction - Crepuscular Dirge For The Blessed Ones 13 -- -- -- Death Metal You Stand Still For At Shows
Haunter - Discarnate Ails 13 ## -- -- Black / Death
Gevurah - Gehinnom 13 -- -- -- Revelation 20:1
Nite - Voices of the Kronian Moon 13 ## -- -- If Vampires Made Trad Metal Albums
Venator - Echoes From The Gutter 12 ## ## -- Heavy
Moonlight Sorcery - Piercing Through the Frozen Eternity 12 ## ## ## Strahd's Dinner Music
Tribal Gaze - Godless Voyage 12 ## -- -- WTF Texas Stop Being Gross
Gudsforladt - Friendship, Love And War 12 ## -- -- Black / Heavy
Maul - Seraphic Punishment 12 ## -- -- Death / Tomb of Horrors
Kvaen - The Great Below 12 ## ## -- Similar Artists: Dissection
Tzompantli - Tlazcaltiliztli 12 ## -- -- Death / Doom
Konvent - Call Down The Sun 11 ## ## -- Death / Doom
Power Paladin - With the Magic of Windfyre Steel 11 ## -- -- Power
Amorphis - Halo 11 ## ## ## Melodic Heavy / Hard Rock
Worm - Bluenothing 11 -- -- -- Death / Black / Doom / Acererak
Doublegeddon - Geddon Dangerous 11 ## -- -- Epic / Heavy
Vanum - Legend 11 ## ## -- Black
Voivod - Synchro Anarchy 10 ## ## ## Imagine If You Will, Cool Dream Theater
Elder - Innate Passage 10 -- -- -- Psych / Doom / Sour Diesel
Nocturnal Triumph - Nocturnal Triumph 10 ## ## ## Black / Rituals in the Cold Woods
Wampyrinacht - Night of the Desecration 10 ## ## -- Mod Only Black Metal
Luzifer - iRON sHACKLES 9 -- -- -- 1983 Forever
Psycroptic - Divine Council 9 ## -- -- Tech Death
Critical Defiance - No Life Forms 9 ## -- -- The Thrash Crusaders
Fallujah - Empyrean 9 -- -- -- Squat 5x5 / Bench Press 5x5 / Overhead Press 5x5
Conjurer - Páthos 9 ## -- -- Damn, You Okay? That's Rough, I'm Sorry
Riot City - Electric Elite 9 -- -- -- Heavy
Nechochwen - Kanawha Black 9 ## ## -- Black / Folk
Asunojokei - Island 9 -- -- -- Post Black / Hardcore / Opinions On Current Anime Storylines
Meshuggah - Immutrable 9 -- -- -- Djentlemen Only Club
Aeternam - Heir of the Rising Sun 9 -- -- -- Ancient Aliens
Sylvaine - Nova 8 -- -- -- FFXIV Boss Music
The Halo Effect - Days of the Lost 8 -- -- -- Melodic Death
Saidan - Onryō II: Her Spirit Eternal 8 -- -- -- Melodic Post Black
Vorga - Striving For Oblivion 8 -- -- -- Emperor's New Groove
Falls of Rauros - Keys To A Vanishing Future 8 ## ## -- Post Rock Raised By Black Metal
Mizmor & Thou - Myopia 8 ## -- -- Imagine Nothing Less Than Sunshine Pop
Cryptworm - Spewing Mephitic Putridity 5 ## ## -- Sewage Protein Shake
Astral Tomb - Soulgazer 8 -- -- -- Death / Magic Eye Painting
Imprecation - In Nomine Diaboli 8 -- -- -- Death
Desecresy - Unveil In The Abyss 8 ## ## -- Death
Owls Woods Graves - Secret Spies of the Horned Patrician 8 -- -- -- Road Bandits But Black Metal
Bog Body - Cryonic Crevasse Cult 8 ## ## -- Lets Make Music No One Will Like
Esoctrilihum - Saopth's 7 -- -- -- Like Math But Darker
Miscreance - Convergance 7 -- -- -- Tech Thrash Probally Into Harlan Ellison
Doldrum - The Knocking, Or The Story of the Sound that Preceded Their Disappearance 7 ## -- -- Hey, Cool Spirit Cabinet
Golgothan Remains - Adorned Ruin 7 -- -- -- Music of Collapsing Empires
Pure Wrath - Hymn To The Woeful Hearts 7 ## ## ## Melodic Black
Det Eviga Leendet - Reverence 7 -- -- -- Atmospheric Black
Heaving Earth - Darkness of God 7 -- -- -- School of Morbid Angel
Morbific - Squirm Beyond The Mortal Realm 7 -- -- -- That 10$ Basement Death Show Vibe
Deathspell Omega - The Long Defeat 7 -- -- -- Probably Complicated
Predatory Light - Death and the Twilight Hours 7 ## ## -- Black / Doom
Arizmenda - Spiders Lust in the Dungeon's Dust 7 -- -- -- Black
Molder - Engrossed In Decay 7 -- -- -- Death / Radiation Burns
Ghost - Impera 7 -- -- -- Heavy Metal Directed By Baz Luhrmann
Mortuous - Upon Deolation 6 -- -- -- Music For Leviathans
Jade - The Pacification Of Death 6 -- -- -- Atmospheric Death
Triumvir Foul - Onslaught To Seraphim 5 ## -- -- Mega Dungeon Death
Panzerfaust - The Suns of Perdition - Chapter III: The Astral Drain 6 -- -- -- Black
Schizophrenia - Recollections of the Insane 6 -- -- -- Hell Awaits Forever
Vacuous - Dreams of Dysphoria 6 -- -- -- Death But Grosser
Toadeater - Bexadde 6 -- -- -- Taking Mushrooms And Meeting Death
Hammers of Misfortune - Overtaker 6 -- -- -- What A Witch Garage Band Would Sound Like
Brymir - Voices In The Sky 6 -- -- -- Power Metal On 5-3-1
Ninth Realm - A Fate Unbroken 6 -- -- -- Crossover But Into Historical TTRPGs
Septicflesh - Modern Primative 6 -- -- -- Death But In 3D
Psychonaut - Violate Consensus Reality 6 -- -- -- Post Metal / Terence McKenna
Abhor - Sex Sex Sex 6 -- -- -- Thanks To The Six Discord Users Who Voted For This
Russian Circles - Gnosis 6 -- -- -- Post Metal
Hissing - Hypervirulence Architecture 6 -- -- -- Tropical Storm of Death
Watain - the Agony and Ecstasy of Watain 6 -- -- -- Black
Rolo Tomassi - Where Myth Becomes Reality 6 -- -- -- Progressive Math
Midnight - Let There Be Witchery 6 ## ## ## Jazz...Wait, Black / Speed
Altars - Ascetic Reflection 6 -- -- -- Feral Death
Scarcity - Aveilut 5 -- -- -- Avant Black
Kampfar - Til Klovers Takt 5 -- -- -- Mud On The Chest Black
Begrime Exemious - Rotting In The Aftermath 5 -- -- -- Whiskey Spiked With Thumbtacks
Swampborn - Beyond Ratio 5 -- -- -- Post Black / ???
Nécropole - Yoga 5 -- -- -- Black
De Profundis - The Cuorruption of Virtue 5 -- -- -- Death
Iron Griffin - Sotrm of MAgic 5 -- -- -- Heavy In Sound, DS In Album Cover
Conan - Evidence of Immortality 5 ## -- -- Sword and Sludgery
Deströyer 666 - Never Surrender 5 -- -- -- Black / Thrash
Venom Prison - Erebos 5 -- -- -- Death / Hardcore
Ateiggär - Tyrannemord 5 -- -- -- They Are The Black Wizards
Parish - Parish 5 -- -- -- 1972 Forever
Aara - Triade II: Hemera 5 -- -- -- Black But Also A Book Of Renaissance Poetry
Marrasmieli - Martaiden mailta 5 -- -- -- You Come Upon A Village In The Middle Of The Woods
Woe - Czernobog 5 -- -- -- FFO: The Sword / Mud Wizards
Satanic Warmaster - Aamongandr 5 -- -- -- FFO: Buff Werewolves
Fer De Lance - The Hyperborean 5 -- -- -- My Favorite Michael Moorcock Book? I am Glad You Asked.

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