It’s that time of the year again, when radio stations in between commercials are soaking us with Christmas music, when everyone seems to be stressing their asses off to be prepared for the upcoming holiday and shopkeepers with dollar sign eyes are at the top of their game.

It’s that time of year when those of us who live and breathe for music that never will find its way to commercial radio stations takes a short brake to look back at another year gone by. The metal genre with all its sub-categories is still going strong, and 2022 has been quite a good year for metal in general with bunches of really good releases.

Below you’ll find our top -25 lists showing our personal favorites among the massive amount of releases that have come to our attention during the last twelve months.

Obviously we haven’t had a chance to hear everything, and I’m sure a masterpiece or two have slipped through our fingers without receiving the attention it deserved. But ain’t that the beauty of it all, the constant search to discover new music whether it’s new albums or albums that you have missed out on earlier?

Even Knudsen's Top 25 Albums of 2022:

01. The Halo Effect - Days Of The Lost
02. Dream Unending - Songs Of Salvation
03. Darkened - The Black Winter
04. Undeath - It's Time.....To Rise From The Grave
05. An Abstract Illusion - Woe
06. Hath - All That Was Promised
07. Analepsy - Quiescence
08. Bloodbath - Survival Of The Sickest
09. Immolation - Acts Of God
10. Fallujah - Empyrean
11. Atrocia - Contamination
12. Revocation - Netherheaven
13. Alllegaeon - Damnum
14. Organectomy - Nail Below Nail
15. Ripped To Shreds - Jubian
16. Frozen Soul - Crypt Of Ice
17. Decaptacon - For Those Who Died
18. Amorphis - Halo
19. Memories Of A Lost Soul - Redefining Nothingness
20. Temple Of Void - Summoning The Slayer
21. Abhoria - Abhoria
22. Persefone - Metanoia
23. Septicflesh - Modern Primitive
24. Sentient Horror - Rites Of Gore
25. Soreption - Jord

Edvardsen's Top 25 Albums of 2022:

01. Fit for an Autopsy - Oh What the Future Holds
02. Analepsy - Quiescence
03. She Must Burn - Umbra Mortis
04. Organectomy - Nail Below Nail
05. Shadow of Intent - Elegy
06. Atrocia - Contamination
07. A Wake in Providence - Eternity
08. Signs of the Swarm - Absolvere
09. Gutricyde - Gutricyde
10. Worm Shepherd - Ritual Hymns
11. Pillars Of Autumn - SODOMIZER II
12. Lorna Shore - Pain Remains
13. Ingested - Ashes Lie Still
14. Depressed Mode - Decade of Silence
15. Sold Soul - I Hope We Make It Out of This Alive
16. Meshuggah - Immutable
17. Winter's Gate - The Voyage In Becoming
18. Fathom - The Lurking Gloom
19. Acranius - Mercy Denied
20. Decomposition Of Entrails - Perverted Torments
21. Xenotheory - Dawn of an Eyeless Realm
22. To Obey A Tyrant - Omnimalevolent
23. Amon Amarth - The Great Heathen Army
24. Synestia - Maleficium
25. Human Deception - Chasm Of Desire

We wish all our faithful readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Author: Edvardsen

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