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Hesp-ile Architecture: Fave Releases 2022

This was such a strong year that I'm ranking my top 15 instead of just my top 10. The rest is alphabetical. Everything is a 4 or higher.
96Abduction (UK)
Black Blood

black metal
Favorite Track: Plutonian Gate
95Abraham
Débris De Mondes Perdus

sludge metal
FT: A Celestial Funeral
94Aequorea
Dim

post-metal
FT: Talus
93Aeviterne
The Ailing Facade

dissonant death metal
FT: The Reeking Suns
92Anna Sage
Anna Sage

sludge/metalcore
FT: ...The Serpents
91Arcem
An Amalgamation of Loss, Defeat, and Renewal

post-metal
FT: Mountains of Ash and Riverbeds Infertile
90atameo
it sure is sad to hope for the best while...

emotional hardcore
FT: hikikomori
89Au-Dessus
Mend

post-black metal
FT: Negation II
88Beyonce
Renaissance

dance pop
FT: VIRGO'S GROOVE
87Birds in Row
Gris Klein

emotional hardcore
FT: Noah
86Black Matter Device
AUTONOMOUS WEAPONS

mathcore
FT: Gender Mountain
85Blind Girls
The Weight of Everything

emoviolence
FT: You Will Learn to Feel Again
84Blut Aus Nord
Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses

atmospheric black metal
FT: Neptune's Eye
83The Callous Daoboys
Celebrity Therapist

mathcore
FT: Star Baby
82Celeste
Assassine(s)

post-black metal
FT: Il a tant reve d'elles
81Chalk Hands
Don't Think About Death

emo
FT: February's New Friend
80Chat Pile
God's Country

noise metal
FT: Tropical Beaches, Inc.
79Christina Vantzou
No. 5

ambient/neoclassical
FT: Red Eel Dream
78City of Caterpillar
Mystic Sisters

post-hardcore
FT: Voiceless Prophets
77Cloakroom
Dissolution Wave

shoegaze
FT: Dottie-back Thrush
76Cloud Rat
Threshold

grindcore
FT: 12-22-09
75Dawnwalker
House of Sand

post-metal
FT: Repeater
74Det Eviga Leendet
Reverence

black metal
FT: Estrange
73Dreadnought
The Endless

progressive metal
FT: Liminal Veil
72Earthrise
Until We Rest Beneath the Winter Way

post-metal
FT: Generation Loss
71Elder (USA-MA)
Innate Passage

progressive stoner rock
FT: Merged in Dreams - Ne Plus Ultra
70Ellende
Ellenbogengesellschaft

black metal
FT: Abschied
69END/Cult Leader
Gather and Mourn

sludge/grindcore
FT: Eden Will Drown (END side) / Long Shadows (Cult Leader side)
68Gatherers
" ( mutilator. ) "

post-hardcore
FT: massalette
67Gevurah
Gehinnom

black metal
FT: Towards the Shifting Sands
66Gillian Carter
Salvation Through Misery

emotional hardcore
FT: The Pain of Being Awake
65Gloson
The Rift

post-metal
FT: Cerberus IV (Exodus)
64Gospel
The Loser

progressive hardcore
FT: Warm Bed
63Gospel
MVDM: Magick Volumes Of Dark Madder

progressive hardcore
62Grima
Frostbitten

post-black metal
FT: Giant's Eternal Sleep
61Grivo
Omit

shoegaze
FT: Trammel
60Haunter (USA-TX)
Discarnate Ails

black/death metal
FT: Spiritual Illness
59Hegemone
Voyance

post-black metal
FT: After Demise
58Helpless
Caged In Gold

blackened grindcore
FT: Focus Group Extraction
57Holy Fawn
Dimensional Bleed

shoegaze/post-hardcore
FT: Dimensional Bleed
56Immolation
Acts of God

death metal
FT: The Age of No Light
55Incandescence
Le Coeur de l'Homme

black metal
FT: La Spirale de l'echec
54Irist
Gloria

progressive sludge metal
FT: Gloria
53JID
The Forever Story

hip hop
FT: Lauder Too
52KEN mode
Null

noise metal
FT: Not My Fault
51Knoll
Metempiric

grindcore
FT: Tether and Swine
50Konvent
Call Down The Sun

post-metal
FT: Sand Is King
49Light Dweller
Lucid Offering

black/death metal
FT: Lucid Offering
48Misthyrming
Með hamri

black metal
FT: Aftaka
47Morrow (UK)
The Quiet Earth

post-crust
FT: Rejoice This Quiet Earth
46Mountaineer
Giving Up the Ghost

post-metal
FT: When the Soul Sleeps
45Nadja
Labyrinthine

drone metal
FT: Necroausterity
44No Sun
In The Interim

sludgegaze
FT: In My Heaven
43Norma Jean
Deathrattle Sing for Me

metalcore
FT: Spearmint Revolt
42Osserp
Els Nous Cants de la Sibil·la

blackened death metal
FT: TOT CREMA
41The Otolith
Folium Limina

sludge/doom metal
FT: Dispirit
40A Pale December
Death Panacea

black/death metal
FT: Nethermost
39Patristic
Apologetica

blackened death metal
FT: Apologetica
38Petrol Girls
Baby

post-hardcore
FT: Baby, I Had an Abortion
37Piri Reis
Ritma

emoviolence
FT: Curse on Pasumpahan Island
36Preoccupations
Arrangements

post-punk
FT: Fix Bayonets!
35Rejoice! The Light Has Come
Untitled EP II

dissonant black metal
FT: Around the Flames of Hope We Gather Until Embers We Become
34Rolo Tomassi
Where Myth Becomes Memory

post-mathcore
FT: Prescience
33Septicflesh
Modern Primitive

symphonic death metal
FT: Modern Primitives
32Sisyphean
Colours of Faith

dissonant black metal
FT: Sovereigns of Livid Hope
31The Smile
A Light For Attracting Attention

art rock
FT: The Opposite
30Sonum
Visceral Void Entropy

blackened death metal
FT: Feel Them Breathe
29Sugar Horse
Waterloo Teeth

post-metal
FT: Waterloo Teeth
28Terror Cell
Caustic Light

sludge/metalcore
FT: Panopticon
27Terzij de Horde
In One Of These, I Am Your Enemy

post-black metal
FT: Precipice
26Toadeater
Bexadde

post-black metal
FT: Let the Darkness Swallow You
25Tomarum
Ash in Realms of Stone Icons

black metal
FT: In This Empty Space
24Toundra
Hex

post-rock
FT: El Odio. Parte II
23Trauma Ray
Transmissions

alt rock/shoegaze
FT: Traumerei
22Trenches
Reckoner

post-metalcore
FT: Reckoner
21Ultar
At the Gates of Dusk

black metal
FT: Midnight Walk and Reminiscences of Necromancy
20The Wind in the Trees
Architects of Light

sludge/grindcore
FT: Dimensions Coalesce
19WOWOD/Somn
Split

post-metal
FT: Обречение: Часть 2 (WOWOD side) / Fracture (Somn side)
18Yearning (CAN)
MMXXII

emotional hardcore
FT: II
17YRRE
Luhlae x The Witch

sludge metal
FT: Dustsceawung
16Zeal and Ardor
Zeal and Ardor

alt metal
FT: Emersion
15Glassing
Dire And Sulk

blackened sludge metal
FT: Dire

I've been too numb to even choke
14Mizmor and Thou
Myopia

sludge/doom metal
FT: Drover of Man

Leveling the frontier
Look at your altars
Be open to destruction
13MICO
Zigurat

blackened sludge metal
FT: Zarpa

How to turn off your innocent head?
Endless chains, yet to break
Pulsating prisons forging you
12White Ward
False Light

post-black metal
FT: Silence Circles

Sharp knives don't know the truth
Their desire is power
11Psychonaut
Violate Consensus Reality

progressive post-metal
FT: All Your Gods Have Gone

I pray to outgrow my skin
All returns once more to the source
10Hath
All That Was Promised

progressive death metal
FT: The Million Violations

Given up to the nature of being
I'm ephemeral bane
9Artificial Brain
Artificial Brain

technical death metal
FT: Insects and Android Eyes

Most of it's made of metal but the flesh still remembers
8Naedr/Crowning
Rayau

emotional hardcore
FT: Ascension (Naedr side) / Elysium (Crowning side)

Our golden skyline
Transcends space and time
7Gaerea
Mirage

black metal
FT: Ebb

In extremis believers
Surreal poetic flaw
6Cult of Luna
The Long Road North

post-metal
FT: Blood Upon Stone

The night has left you
But darkness remains
5Pyrithe
Monuments to Impermanence

experimental sludge metal
FT: In Praise of the Enochian Trickster

[This album has lyrics but they're not published anywhere and I'll be fucked if I can decipher more than a stray line here and there]
4Conjurer (UK)
Pathos

sludge/metalcore
FT: It Dwells

I see light up ahead
Through the cracks in the pyre
It will never reach you
3Ashenspire
Hostile Architecture

experimental black metal
FT: Beton Brut

When you can't see the stars
You stop dreaming of space
2Wake
Thought Form Descent

black/sludge metal
FT: Bleeding Eyes of the Watcher

I covet an epoch in which I dissolve into the current of the celestial stream
1Ode and Elegy
Ode and Elegy

post-metal/neoclassical

Though God is the black between
And God trades only in dust
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