TOP 50 ALBUMS OF 2022 - THE FULL LIST

Bandcamp links galore, too.

01. The Mars Volta - ‘The Mars Volta’ (Clouds Hill) [Bandcamp]

02. Madrugada - ‘Chimes At Midnight’ (Warner Music Norway) [Spotify]

03. Buñuel - ‘Killers Like Us’ (Profound Lore Records) [Bandcamp]

04. 40 Watt Sun - ‘Perfect Light’ (Svart Records) [Bandcamp]

05. Unyielding Love - ‘Flesh Of The Furnace’ (Self-released) [Bandcamp]

06. Menace Ruine - ‘Nekyia’ (Union Finale) [Bandcamp]

07. Zeal & Ardor - ‘Zeal & Ardor’ (MKVA) [Bandcamp]

08. OvO - ‘Ignoto’ (Artoffact Records) [Bandcamp] / KEN mode - ‘NULL’ (Artoffact Records) [Bandcamp]

09. Ysyry Mollvün - ‘Ysyry Mollvün’ (Avantgarde Music) [Bandcamp]

10. Devin Townsend - ‘Lightwork’ (InsideOut Music) [Spotify]

11. Chat Pile - ‘God's Country’ (The Flenser) [Bandcamp]

12. Weyes Blood - ‘And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow’ (Sub Pop Records) [Bandcamp]

13. The Hellacopters - ‘Eyes Of Oblivion’ (Nuclear Blast) [Bandcamp]

14. Autopsy - ‘Morbidity Triumphant’ (Peaceville Records) [Bandcamp] / Static Abyss - ‘Labyrinth Of Veins’ (Peaceville Records) [Bandcamp]

15. Predatory Light - ‘Death And The Twilight Hours’ (20 Buck Spin) [Bandcamp] / Cavernlight - ‘As I Cast Ruin Upon The Lens That Reveals My Every Flaw’ (Translation Loss Records) [Bandcamp]

16. Blacklab - ‘In A Bizarre Dream’ (Self-released) [Bandcamp]

17. Karin Park - ‘Private Collection’ (Pelagic Records) [Bandcamp]

18. Haunted Horses - ‘The Worst Has Finally Happened’ (Three One G) [Bandcamp]

19. Tension Span - ‘The Future Died Yesterday’ (Neurot Recordings) [Bandcamp]

20. Placebo - ‘Never Let Me Go’ (Rise Records) [Spotify]

21. Wovenhand - ‘Silver Sash’ (Glitterhouse Records) [Bandcamp]

22. postcards from new zealand - ‘burn, witch, burn‘ [Bandcamp] / ‘nin-an-ak‘ [Bandcamp] / ‘liminal space‘ [Bandcamp] (Self-released)

23. Voivod - ‘Synchro Anarchy’ (Century Media Records) [Spotify]

24. Innumerable Forms - ‘Philosophical Collapse’ (Profound Lore Records) [Bandcamp] / Sumerlands - ‘Dreamkiller’ (Relapse Records) [Bandcamp] / Dream Unending - ‘Song Of Salvation’ (20 Buck Spin) [Bandcamp]

25. Negative Plane - ‘The Pact’ (Invictus Productions / The Ajna Offensive) [Bandcamp]

26. Mantar - ‘Pain Is Forever And This Is The End’ (Metal Blade Records) [Bandcamp]

27. Olli Hänninen And Sami Hynninen - ‘Chambers’ (Svart Records) [Bandcamp] / Friends Of Hell - ‘Friends Of Hell’ (Rise Above Records) [Spotify]

28. Luminous Vault - ‘Animate The Emptiness’ (Profound Lore Records) [Bandcamp] / Artificial Brain - ‘Artificial Brain’ (Profound Lore Records) [Bandcamp]

29. Midnight - ‘Let There Be Witchery’ (Metal Blade Records) [Bandcamp] / Devil Master - ‘Ecstasies Of Never Ending Night’ (Relapse Records) [Bandcamp] / Spiter - ‘Bathe The Babe In Bats' Blood’ (Hells Headbangers Records) [Bandcamp]

30. Author & Punisher - ‘Krüller’ (Relapse Records) [Bandcamp]

31. Bastard Noise & Merzbow - ‘RETRIBUTION BY ALL OTHER CREATURES’ (Relapse Records) [Bandcamp] / Cavernancia - ‘no chão’ (Regulator Records) [Bandcamp]

32. Candy - ‘Heaven Is Here’ (Relapse Records) [Bandcamp]

33. 16 - ‘Into Dust’ (Relapse Records) [Bandcamp]

34. Cauchemar - ‘Rosa Mystica (Temple Of Mystery Records) [Bandcamp]

35. The Troops Of Doom - ‘Antichrist Reborn’ (Alma Mater Records) [Bandcamp] / Vulcano - ‘Stone Orange’ (Emanzipation Productions) [Bandcamp] / Ratos De Porão - ‘Necropolítica’ (F.O.A.D. Records) [Spotify]

36. War//Plague - ‘Manifest Ruination’ (Phobia Records / Organize And Arise) [Bandcamp]

37. Mamaleek - ‘Diner Coffee’ (The Flenser) [Bandcamp]

38. Serpentent - ‘Mother Of Light’ (Svart Records) [Bandcamp]

39. God Alone - ‘ETC’ (Prosthetic Records) [Bandcamp]

40. Executioner's Mask - ‘Winterlong’ (Profound Lore Records) [Bandcamp]

41. Tim Barry - ‘Spring Hill’ (Chunksaah Records) [Bandcamp] / The White Buffalo - ‘Year Of The Dark Horse’ (Snakefarm Records) [Spotify]

42. Orthodox - ‘Proceed’ (Alone Records) [Bandcamp] / Pylar - ‘Abysmos’ (Humo Internacional) [Bandcamp]

43. Wormrot - ‘Hiss’ (Earache) [Bandcamp]

44. Behold! The Monolith - ‘From The Fathomless Deep’ (Ripple Music) [Bandcamp] / Process Of Guilt - ‘Slaves Beneath The Sun’ (Alma Mater Records) [Bandcamp]

45. Diamanda Galás - ‘Broken Gargoyles’ (Self-released) [Bandcamp]

46. Dystopian Future Movies - ‘War Of The Ether’ (Self-released) [Bandcamp]

47. Firebreather - ‘Dwell In The Fog’ (RidingEasy Records) [Bandcamp]

48. ColdWorld - ‘Isolation’ (Eisenwald) [Bandcamp]

49. Konvent - ‘Call Down The Sun’ (Napalm Records) [Bandcamp]

50. IAmber - ‘Mercurial Shakes’ (Self-released) [Bandcamp]