Favorites of 2022 - tracker

[TAC]

Are you done editing this post?

[LithoJazzoSphere]

I doubt it. 

[twosuitsluke]

1 - David Maxim Micic - Bilo IV
2 - Kate Havnevik - Lightship
3 - REMINA - Strata
4 - Red Handed Denial - I'd Rather Be Asleep
5 - Carpenter Brut - Leather Terror
6 - Sylvaine - Nova
7 - Giant Walker - All In Good Time
8 - Morphide - Anhedonia
9 - Emily Jane White - Alluvion
10 - AEries - Arcanum
11 - Darkher - The Buried Storm
12 - Zola Jesus - Arkhon
13 - Frayle - Skin & Sorrow
14 - Messa - Close
15 - White Ward - False Light
16 - Yaatri - Lucid
17 - Dreadnought - The Endless
18 - YAYA Kim - a.k.a. YAYA
19 - Shape of Despair - Return To the Void
20 - Ashes of Ares - Emperors and Fools
21 - Cobra the Impaler - Colossal Gods
22 - Autumn's Grey Solace - Therium
23 - A.A. Williams - As the Moon Rests
24 - Avatarium - Death, Where Is Your Sting
25 - Evergrey - A Heartless Portrait: The Orphean Testament
26 - Lost Domain - Merchant of Emotions
27 - Jani Liimatainen - My Father's Son
28 - Pure Reason Revolution - Above Cirrus
29 - Blind Guardian - The God Machine
30 - Celldweller - Satellites
31 - Oceans of Slumber - Starlight and Ash
32 - Demonical - Mass Destroyer
33 - Dream Unending - Song of Salvation
34 - Visions of Atlantis - Pirates
35 - Tedeschi Trucks Band - I Am the Moon: I. Crescent
36 - Revocation - Netherheaven
37 - Battle Beast - Circus of Doom
38 - Star One - Revel In Time
39 - Amorphis - Halo
40 - Entrails - An Eternal Time of Decay


Honorable Mentions - Tier 1:

40 Watt Sun - Perfect Light
Aeternam - Heir of the Rising Sun
Allen/Olzon - Army of Dreamers
Alter Bridge - Pawns & Kings
An Abstract Illusion - Woe
Animals As Leaders - Parrhesia
Arch Enemy - Deceivers
Atomic Symphony - Hybris
Atrium Carceri/Kammarheit - Colossus
Avishai Cohen Trio - Shifting Sands
Bjork - Fossora
Bloodbath - Survival of the Sickest
Celeste - Assassine(s)
Deathless Legacy - Mater larvarum
Depressed Mode - Decade of Silence
Derek Sherinian - Vortex
Disillusion - Ayam
Edenbridge - Shangri-La
Elder - Innate Passage
Envy of None - s/t
Ethel Cain - Preacher's Daughter
Halestorm - Back From the Dead
i_o & Lights - Warehouse Summer
Ithaca - They Fear Us
Kaipa - Urskog
Lalu - Paint the Sky
Leather - We Are the Chosen
Luna Fawn Ripley - Death of a Songbird
Maceration - It Never Ends...
Mecha Maiko - NOT OK
Mindwarden - Timeless
Minuit Machine - 24
Miseration - Black Miracles and Dark Wonders
MMXX - Sacred Cargo
Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway - Crooked Tree
Moriah Woods - Human
Nightrage - Abyss Rising
Punch Brothers - Hell on Church Street
Ripped To Shreds - Jubian
Rolo Tomassi - Where Myth Becomes Memory
Setyoursails - Nightfall
Shaam Larein - Sticka en kniv I varlden
Sharon Van Etten - We've Been Going About This All Wrong
Soilwork - Overgivenheten
Tears For Fears - The Tipping Point
The Birthday Massacre - Fascination
The Hellacopters - Eyes of Oblivion
The Interrupters - In the Wild
triosence - Giulia
Wine From Tears - I'm Fine...
Zguba - Znoj

Honorable Mentions - Tier 2:

Ardours - Anatomy of a Moment
Charlie Griffiths - Tiktaalika
Charlotte Wessels - Tales From Six Feet Under Vol. II
Cloakroom - Dissolution Wave
Cult of Luna - The Long Road North
Dance With the Dead - Driven to Madness
Devin Townsend - Lightwork
E-L-R - Vexier
Emma Ruth Rundle - EG2: Dowsing Voice
Encryptment - Dodens fodsel
First Aid Kit - Palomino
Giant - Shifting Time
Hangman's Chair - A Loner
Hatchie - Giving the World Away
Immolation - Acts of God
In Loving Memory - The Withering
King's X - Three Sides of One
Knight Area - D-Day II: The Final Chapter
Lana Lane - Neptune Blue
Lights - PEP
Lisa Batiashvili - Secret Love Letters
Master Boot Record - Personal Computer
Megadeth - The Sick, the Dying...and the Dead!
Michael Romeo - War of the Worlds//Pt. 2
Persefone - Metanoia
Porcupine Tree - Closure/Continuation
Projected - Hypoxia
Queensryche - Digital Noise Alliance
Silversun Pickups - Physical Thrills
SZA - SOS
Teremaze - Flight of the Wounded
The Anix - REVENGE
The Gathering - Beautiful Distortion
The Halo Effect - Days of the Lost
The Midnight - Heroes
The Weeknd - Dawn FM
Those Who Bring the Torture - Cosmos Osmosis
Tigran Hamasyan - StandArt
Tineldae - Mothership
Ty Tabor - Shades

EPs:

Kingfisher Sky - Walk the Plank
Spiritbox - Rotoscope
Shedfromthebody - Destruction/Breathing/Healing
Vila - Liminal Space
Sara Gazarek - Vanity
Pre-Human Vaults - Allegiance Divine
GoGo Penguin - Between Two Waves
Marissa Nadler - The Wrath of the Clouds
Lethian Dreams - EnVain
Hanging Garden - Neither Moth Nor Rust
R. Missing - Placelessness and Saturnining
Silver Talon - Bloodflow
The Answer Lies in the Black Void - In Obsidian Clouds
Frou Frou - Off Cuts
Purity Ring - Graves
TesseracT - Regrowth
Emma Ruth Rundle - Orpheus Looking Back

[LithoJazzoSphere]

Round 6 will be here before you know it. 

[LithoJazzoSphere]

Just published the RYM version of my list.

https://rateyourmusic.com/list/LithoJazzoSphere/2022-favorite-albums/

[twosuitsluke]

I went the whole hog and did a top 100. 2022 really was a great year, it's surprising how all the releases creep up on you...

1. Coheed and Cambria - Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind (progressive rock/metal)
2. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Omnium Gatherum (mixed bag of genres)
3. The Mars Volta - The Mars Volta (progressive pop/rock)
4. Frank Turner - FTHC (folk punk)
5. Ghost - Impera (metal)
6. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava (progressive/jam rock)
7. Rammstein - Zeit (metal)
8. The Flatliners - New Ruin (punk rock)
9. Kirk Hammett - Portals (instrumental spaghetti western soundtrack/metal)
10. Venom Prison - Erebos (melodic death metal)

11. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Changes (psychedelic soul jazz rock)
12. Megadeth - The Sick, The Dying...and The Dead! (thrash metal)
13. The Interrupters - In the Wild (ska punk)
14. Machine Head - Øf Kingdøm and Crøwn (metal)
15. Zeal and Ardor - Zeal and Ardor (progressive metal)
16. White Ward - False Light (progressive black metal)
17. Disillusion - Ayam (progressive metal)
18. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Laminated Denim (progressive/jam rock)
19. Sigh - Shiki (progressive/melodic black metal)
20. Kreator - Hate Über Alles (thrash metal)

21. The Lazy Eyes - SongBook (psychedelic rock)
22. Worm - Bluenothing (death metal)
23. Persefone - Metanoia (progressive metal)
24. Cave In - Heavy Pendulum (post-hardcore/metal)
25. Species - To Find Deliverance (technical thrash metal)
26. The Dear Hunter - Antimai (progressive/funk rock)
27. David Maxim Micic - BILO IV (progressive metal)
28. NOFX - Double Album (punk rock)
29. And So I Watch You From Afar - Jettison (post-rock)
30. Kikagaku Moyo - Kumoyo Island (psychedelic rock)
31. Rolo Tomassi - Where Myth Becomes Memory (progressive/post-metal)
32. Lamb of God - Omens (metal)
33. Dream Unending - Songs of Salvation (progressive death metal)
34. Asunojokei - Island (J-eafheaven)
35. Civilians - Civilians (progressive/jazz rock)
36. In The Woods... - Diversum (progressive metal)
37. Tómarúm - Ash in Realms of Stone Icons (progressive blackened metal)
38. Ibaraki - Rashomon (black-ish metal)
39. King Buffalo - Regenerator (progressive rock)
40. Wilderun - Epigone (progressive metal)
41. PUP - The Unraveling of PUPTHEBAND (punk rock)
42. Devin Townsend - Lightwork (progressive metal)
43. Arch Enemy - Deceivers (melodic death metal)
44. The Murlocs - Rapscallion (psychedelic rock)
45. Messa - Close (progressive doom metal)
46. An Abstract Illusion - Woe (progressive metal)
47. Hot Water Music - Feel the Void (punk rock)
48. Hällas - Isle of Wisdom (progressive rock)
49. Moontooth - Phototroph (progressive rock/metal)
50. Aenaon - Mnemosyne (progressive metal)
51. Sarattma - Escape Velocity (progressive death metal)
52. Thy Catafalque - Mezolit (Live at Fekete Zaj) (avant-garde/progessive metal)
53. Charlie Griffiths - Tiktaalika (progressive metal)
54. Spirit Adrift - 20 Centuries Gone (metal)
55. Norma Jean - Deathrattle Sing for Me (metalcore)
56. Gnome - King (stoner metal)
57. Darkthrone - Astral Fortress (black-ish metal)
58. Blood Incantation - Timewave Zero (ambient/soundscape)
59. Bloodbath - Survival of the Sickest (death metal)
60. Yin Yin - The Age of Aquarius (Funk and disco beats/Electro experimentation)
61. Kardashev - Liminal Rite (progressive metal)
62. Chemicide - Common Sense (thrash metal)
63. Parius - The Signal Heard Throughout Space (progressive metal)
64. Elder - Innate Passage (progressive/stoner metal)
65. Jamie Lenman - The Atheist (alt rock)
66. Chat Pile - God's Country (sludge/noise rock)
67. Dreadnought - The Endless (progressive metal)
68. Holy Fawn - Dimensional Bleed (post-metal/shoegaze)
69. Dopapod - Dopapod (funk/jam rock)
70. The Hirsch Effekt - Solitaer (progressive metal)
71. Oceans of Slumber - Starlight and Ash (progressive metal)
72. Psychonaut - Violate Consensus Reality (progressive/post-metal)
73. Behold! The Monolith - From the Fathomless Deep (sludge metal)
74. Gospel - The Loser (post-hardcore)
75. Conjurer - Páthos (progressive/post-metal)
76. Spiritworld - DEATHWESTERN (thrash metal)
77. Dir en Grey - Phalaris (progressive metal)
78. Crippled Black Phoenix - Banefyre (post-rock)
79. Foxtails - Fawn (post-hardcore)
80. Alexisonfire - Otherness (post-hardcore)
81. Porcupine Tree - Closure / Continuation (progressive rock)
82. Obsidious - Iconic (progressive metal)
83. Astronoid - Radiant Bloom (dreamy shoegaze)
84. Russian Circles - Gnosis (post-metal)
85. Amorphis - Halo (melodic death metal)
86. Destrage - SO MUCH. Too much (progressive metal)
87. Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - Night Gnomes (psychedelic rock)
88. Decapitated - Cancer Culture (death metal)
89. Redeemon - Redeemon (skacore)
90. Fallujah - Empyrean (progressive death metal)
91. Septicflesh - Modern Primitive (symphonic death metal)
92. Allegaeon - DAMNUM (progressive death metal)
93. Meshuggah - Immutable (Meshuggah)
94. Revocation - Netherheaven (death metal)
95. Billy Talent - Crisis of Faith (alt/punk rock)
96. Might - Abyss (sludgy extreme metal)
97. Satyr - Totem (progressive rock)
98. Don Bolo - Bahamut (progressive)
99. Wormrot - Hiss (grindcore)
100. Hangman's Chair - A Loner (progressive metal)

[PixelDream]

Nice genre selection at number 93, so true. Great list as well.

[twosuitsluke]

Nice genre selection at number 93, so true. Great list as well.

I know  they are a law unto themselves

[nick_z]

I went the whole hog and did a top 100. 2022 really was a great year, it's surprising how all the releases creep up on you...


2. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Omnium Gatherum (mixed bag of genres)

6. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava (progressive/jam rock)


11. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Changes (psychedelic soul jazz rock)

18. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Laminated Denim (progressive/jam rock)
 

Do you have all of their 2022 releases in your top 20?  Or was there more?

31. Rolo Tomassi - Where Myth Becomes Memory (progressive/post-metal)
32. Lamb of God - Omens (metal)

50. Aenaon - Mnemosyne (progressive metal)

I have seen the Rolo Tomassi album mentioned in a few places, and I haven't checked it out yet. Not familiar with it at all, so I'm curious. I used to listen and enjoy Lamb of God a fair bit, but I guess I got a little tired of the sound on the last few albums. Haven't listened to this one yet. I take it from your ranking it's pretty good? I kinda randomly checked out the Aenaon recod a few days ago (again, I saw it mentioned in a few lists), and I thought it was a pretty cool record. Avant-gardish, but not too weird for the sake of being weird. And obviously recommended to those who like their sax in metal 

[twosuitsluke]

I went the whole hog and did a top 100. 2022 really was a great year, it's surprising how all the releases creep up on you...


2. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Omnium Gatherum (mixed bag of genres)

6. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava (progressive/jam rock)


11. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Changes (psychedelic soul jazz rock)

18. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Laminated Denim (progressive/jam rock)
 

Do you have all of their 2022 releases in your top 20?  Or was there more?

31. Rolo Tomassi - Where Myth Becomes Memory (progressive/post-metal)
32. Lamb of God - Omens (metal)

50. Aenaon - Mnemosyne (progressive metal)

I have seen the Rolo Tomassi album mentioned in a few places, and I haven't checked it out yet. Not familiar with it at all, so I'm curious. I used to listen and enjoy Lamb of God a fair bit, but I guess I got a little tired of the sound on the last few albums. Haven't listened to this one yet. I take it from your ranking it's pretty good? I kinda randomly checked out the Aenaon recod a few days ago (again, I saw it mentioned in a few lists), and I thought it was a pretty cool record. Avant-gardish, but not too weird for the sake of being weird. And obviously recommended to those who like their sax in metal 

No, there was actually one other King Gizzard release this year I didn't rate, it was an EP called Made in Timeland 

The new Rolo Tomassi is really good, and the previous is also pretty damn good. They've just been moving away from their hardcore sound for years, and getting more progressive, really great stuff.

New Lamb of God is pretty standard fair, it's just the songs are stronger than they've been in years.

I've heard a few Aenaon, but this latest is pretty cool, and I too like sax in my metal!

[nick_z]

5 - Carpenter Brut - Leather Terror

Nice to see this one so high, Litho. When I first checked it out a few months, I did kinda randomly...I ended up liking it a lot, and I came back to it often.

I know it's a different side of synthwave, but did you check out The Midnight's latest album, Heroes? I only gave it one listen, and it left a pretty good impression (minus perhaps the song Brooklyn. Friday. Love, which sounded a bit too, um, bouncy?). Need to go back to it.

[LithoJazzoSphere]

I found it really disappointing.  I like a lot of their earlier material a great deal though, so I'm sure I'll give it another shot later on.