Easy overlooked & highly interesting records 2022
List with records which i would have like to see more often in the AOTY-lists out there. |
| 1 |  | Sum of R
Lahbryce
Experimental wall-of-sound metal sounding like Cult Of Luna went maniac. Fantastic and haunting vocals. |
| 2 |  | Astral Tomb
Soulgazer
Experimental, trippy and unconventional death metal. Production is raw and wild. |
| 3 |  | Black Fucking Cancer
Procreate Inverse
Devastating and relentless black metal. This record is a merciless and intense listen. |
| 4 |  | Witch Fever
Congregation
Young british band with massive power. The album is straightforward fun and has a great groove over the whole distance. |
| 5 |  | Pinkshift
Love Me Forever
Fantastic punk or post-hardcore with very strong and dominant female vocals. Great energy and vocal lines. |
| 6 |  | Hours Of Worship
The Cold That You Left
You find an outstanding and unique darkwave gothic sound on this one. Sad and emotional stuff. |
| 7 |  | Bong-Ra (NLD)
Meditations
A heavy rocking experimental jazzy doom monster. |
| 8 |  | Gudsforladt
Friendship, Love and War
Very charming black metal record with a folky feelings. |
| 9 |  | Rigorous Institution
Cainsmarsh
Original-sounding and exciting genre mix which combines crust-punk and black metal in a way that you have to think of the 80ies, UK sound and a long forgotten anarcho spirit. |
| 10 |  | Candelabrum
Nocturnal Trance
Eerie but beautiful mysterious low-fi black metal with a trancelike atmosphere. Very melancholic and great melodies. |
| 11 |  | Persher
Man with the Magic Soap
Fantastic sludgy industrial metal created by techno and ambient musicians. The hooks are sky high and the sound is ultraheavy and dry. |
| 12 |  | Temple Guard
Spear of the Revenant
An absolutely fun must-listen. This is Bolt Thrower goes metalcore. Brutal and on point. |
| 13 |  | deathcrash
Return
Beautiful and sad slowcorish music which reminds me of Rivulets meets The Appleseed Cast. |
| 14 |  | Just Mustard
Heart Under
Pop (?) music with an totally menacing noise in the back. In reality this is pretty heavy music. |
| 15 |  | Proper.
The Great American Novel
Pretty cool alternative-indie-whatever-emo allrounder record. With each song this album is making a twist. |
| 16 |  | Asunojokei
Island
Fantastic post black metal with a blackgaze and post hardcore edge. You have to listen carefully that this long record can grow on you. A true genre gem. Do not overlook this. |
| 17 |  | Long Knife
Curb Stomp Earth
Curb Stomp Earth is a tight punk masterpiece with a lot of surprises like horror-synths, a jazzy horn, some rock'n'roll and metallic stuff. You can think of Poison Idea. |
| 18 |  | Deadbody
The Requiem
Metalcore without being metalcore. Great hardcore record with a D.I.Y.-spirit. |
| 19 |  | Cold Gawd
God Get Me the Fuck Out of Here
If you like your shoegaze rocking hard and sounding more warm than cold, this is your thing. |
| 20 |  | Scarcity
Aveilut
Mix of totalism drone with black metal vocals and spirit. This is digging into your deepest and then holding something tight there until your listen is over. |
| 21 |  | Gehenna (USA)
Negative Hardcore
Gehenna are a hardcore legend and the band didn't lose a thing on their comeback here. This is furious muddy blackened hardcore at its best. If you are into black metal and open minded, this could be THE hardcore record for you. |
| 22 |  | Darkest Era
Wither On The Vine
Totally fine metal mix for metal lovers which flows so well over its full duration. The vocals are awesome and the music itself could please heavy and black metal fans as well. It reminds me of a way more friendly version of Primordial. |
| 23 |  | In Aphelion
Moribund
The ultimate melodic black metal album. Production is clean & crystal clear to highlight the precision of the music. Highlights are for sure the excellent guitar leads and an overall fun heavy metal feeling. If a metal fan who isn't into black metal has to listen to only one black metal album, then it has to be this. It is also very accessible. |
| 24 |  | Ellende
Ellenbogengesellschaft
Beautiful austrian post black metal. Most of its time you can call it blackgaze also. Ellende did a great job on being melancholic and harsh at the same time. |
| 25 |  | Devil's Witches
In All Her Forms
A wonderful doomy and psychedelic trip through the occult. |
| 26 | | Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard
The Harvest
Sci-Fi psychedelic doom made as an everflowing concept album. |
| 27 |  | Armed For Apocalypse
Ritual Violence
Merciless hardcore sludge with the pedal heavy on the metal. |
| 28 |  | Mares Of Thrace
The Exile
Smart and mighty sludge record. |
| 29 |  | Scalpture
Feldwärts
One of the best death metal records of the year. |
| 30 |  | Firtan
Marter
Dreamy and gazy black metal. |
| 31 |  | Skin Failure
Radillac
Very fun crossover record. |
| 32 |  | Pestilength
Basom Gryphos
Tricky and atmospheric black death metal album. |
| 33 |  | Petrol Girls
Baby
Fantastic angry and highly energetic post hardcore record. |
| 34 |  | Grin
Phantom Knocks
Psychedelic stoner rock with a lot of twists. |
| 35 |  | Tome of the Unreplenished
Earthbound
Progressive black metal which has a kind of peaceful atmosphere. |
| 36 |  | Stormruler
Sacred Rites & Black Magick
Highly entertaining melodic black metal album which is epic and with a lot of variety. |
| 37 |  | GGU:LL
Ex Est
Blackened post metal with a lot of doom, drone and a little bit sludge. Music is often slow and menacing. Fantastic artwork and overall atmosphere. |
| 38 |  | Obsidious
Iconic
This should be much more known here in the community. Perfect progressive technichal death metal from the Obscura guys. It is just like Dream Theater went Death Metal. |
| 39 |  | Absent In Body
Plague God
Reduced to a fascinating simplicity without being dull or boring. Menacing record. |
| 40 |  | Final Light
Final Light |
| 41 |  | Vein.fm
This World Is Going to Ruin You
Highly energetic and angry industrial hardcore beast. |
| 42 |  | Spice (USA-CA)
Viv
Indie with breakdowns. Great songwriting here. |
| 43 |  | Candy
Heaven Is Here
Musically this is total terror. When side a is done, you can chose to listen to some songs and side a again or to step down to hell with side b. |
| 44 |  | Wormrot
Hiss
Highly creative grindcore which mixes a lot of other metal genres in. Listening is so much fun here. |
| 45 |  | Conjurer (UK)
Pathos
Massive record which recommends a lot of attention. I hear a lot of genres here from sludge and metalcore over to screamo and post rock parts but it all fits together. |
| 46 |  | Worm Shepherd
Ritual Hymns
At first listen Ritual Hymns could sound bland: production is harsh, cold and flat plus the music lacks creativity and outstanding moments. But in the end i have to admit that Worm Shepherd did this symphonic blackened death metal core as great as the genre kings Lorna Shore. It grows until you will hear an album full of hits and pure lightweight metal entertainment. |
| 47 |  | KEN mode
Null
This noise hardcore band has already been out for a long time but they still keep getting better and fresher with each album. |
| 48 |  | Gillian Carter
Salvation Through Misery
Gillian Carter left the DIY-screamo path on this one. But they stay relevant. Their hardcore is still screamo-esk but is now presented with a lot of distortion in the vocals and stands for an overall modern genre approach. You surely have to like the distorted vocals to find access to this album. Rage level is high on this one. Love it for being so consequent over the whole playtime. |
| 49 |  | VR Sex
Rough Dimension
High class post punk gothic hymns for everybody. |
| 50 |  | SRSQ
Ever Crashing
Songs are little bit long but this is fantastic indie dream pop. |
| 51 |  | Murderbait
Nostalgia Like Cancer |
| 52 |  | Cailleach Calling
Dreams Of Fragmentation |
| 53 |  | Hoaxed
Two Shadows |
| 54 |  | Bleached Cross
Bleached Cross |
| 55 |  | Wulven
I Have Seen The End and It Is Beautiful |
| 56 |  | Knifeplay
Animal Drowning |
| 57 |  | Skullcrusher
Quiet the Room |
| 58 |  | Ruine
Révolte et Crânerie Paysanne |
| 59 |  | Vaura
Vista of Deviant Anatomies |
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