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Nowhere near finished 2022 list, but never mind, hey?

Created by: LordFezzington | 15.01.2023


1. Fires In The Distance - Air Not Meant For Us
[Death Doom, USA] I was a year or so late to Echoes From Deep November, which is a really solid debut, defined by the synths. I feel this ups the songwriting in the sense that it is less reliant on the keys and therefore feels a bit more varied. Some great riffs and some really nice leads again. [8.5]
2. Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current
[Avant/Black, Norway] Very hard to accurately sum this one up, but a highly compelling blend of black metal with a range of other sounds. A surprisingly cathartic listen, despite the slightly odd turns it takes. [8.0+]
3. Demoniac (CHL) - Nube Negra
[Thrash, Chile] This is a fun and frenetic ride for sure, and the occasionally odd instrumentation is still cool. Ultimately doesn't quite have the charm of 2021's So It Goes for me. [7.0]
4. Mechina - Cenotaph
[Industrial/Symphonic, USA] Got to admire these guys for the consistency of pumping out a new record every New Year's Day, but it really is just more of the same and very hard to notice anything standing out at all. 'Broken Matter Manipulation' is decent, but then again, it doesn't have any vocals, so that helps... [5.0]
5. To write up
6. Baroness - Stone
7. Kalmah - Kalmah
8. Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags
9. Pupil Slicer - Blossom
10. Urne - A Feast On Sorrow
11. Going Off - What Makes You Tick?
12. Scar Symmetry - The Singularity (Phase II - Xenotaph)
13. Voyager - Fearless In Love
14. Will Haven - VII
15. Evile - The Unknown
16. Kataklysm - Goliath
17. Kvelertak - Endling
18. Royal Thunder - Rebuilding The Mountain
19. Enslaved - Heimdal
20. Thy Catafalque - Alföld
21. Fen - Monuments To Absence
22. Ahab - The Coral Tombs
23. Saturnus - The Storm Within
24. Sworn - A Journey Told Through Fire
25. Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit
26. Serpent Of Old - Ensemble Under The Dark Sun
27. Ghost - Phantomime
28. Dryad - The Abyssal Plain
29. Sadus - The Shadow Inside
30. Hellix - Montage
31. Shylmagoghnar - Convergence
32. Stortregn - Finitude
33. Obituary - Dying Of Everything
34. Skindred - Smile
35. Majestic Ryte - Majestic Ryte
36. Arkona - Kob'
37. The Ocean - Holocene
38. Therapy? - Hard Cold Fire
39. In Flames - Foregone
40. Blackbraid - Blackbraid II
41. Avenged Sevenfold - Life Is But A Dream...


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