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. |
