The AllMusic 2022
Year In Review
Metal has deep roots but continues to evolve. From long-established acts like Voivod, Meshuggah (pictured) and Megadeth are born genre-mashing innovators such as Astronoid and Cloakroom. Here are AllMusic's favorite metal albums of 2022.
Astronoid
Radiant Bloom
The Boston post-metal combo's third outing is a deeply satisfying amalgam of their best aspects.
Author & Punisher
Krüller
Tristan Shone refines and expands his style of droney industrial metal, with members of Tool making guest appearances.
Avantasia
A Paranormal Evening with the Moonflower Society
The ninth star-studded studio album from Tobias Sammet and crew offers gloriously bombastic production and signature performances.
Blut aus Nord
Disharmonium: Undreamable Abysses
Inspired by the fiction of H.P. Lovecraft, this set approaches the formless and forceful using rearward glances to frame its futurist impulses.
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Boris
Heavy Rocks [2022]
The third volume in the band's Heavy Rocks series juxtaposes their punk, metal, and drone roots with rugged and raw experimentalism.
Cave In
Heavy Pendulum
A dense and rewarding work that's both mindful of the past and focused on the horizon.
Cloakroom
Dissolution Wave
A deep space radio emission reaching out amongst the graveyard of stars in search of a ping.
Coheed and Cambria
Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind
The second chapter in this arc in the Amory Wars narrative offers a wealth of creative musical directions in 13 tight, wonderfully executed songs.
Ghost
Impera
The Swedes return with a melodically infectious, bombastic, hook-laden, riff-drenched stadium rock tome about the rise and fall of empires.
I Prevail
True Power
Aggression meets cross-genre wizardry on the post-hardcore outfit's most accessible effort to date.
Korn
Requiem
A focused metallic assault that adds something unexpected to the Korn story: a yearning for hope and healing.
Megadeth
The Sick, the Dying...and the Dead
The 16th studio album from these thrash metal deities is every bit as snarling and technically precise as any other point in their nearly 40-year history.
Meshuggah
Immutable
After six long years, Sweden's metal innovators indulge their trademark sound while expanding its reach in several directions.
Ozzy Osbourne
Patient Number 9
The metal superstar continues his late-in-the-game comeback on his 13th solo album, with guest appearances from a host of world-famous rock guitarists.
Petra Haden / The Lord
Devotional
A heavy and hypnotic union of harsh, droning guitars and intense wordless chanting from this unique duo.
Rammstein
Zeit
A mature, late-era gem that finds the fiery industrial metal masters in a reflective (but no less aggressive) mood.
Sigh
Shiki
Following 2018's Heir to Despair, avant-metal innovators Sigh continue incorporating Japanese traditional instruments into their surreally eclectic sound.
Stabbing Westward
Chasing Ghosts
Returning after two decades, the goth-industrial quartet make a surprisingly potent comeback with this tight fifth album.
The Devil Wears Prada
Color Decay
The metalcore group's eighth long-player pairs unrelenting aggression with expansive arrangements and introspective lyrics.
Underoath
Voyeurist
Balancing beauty and violence in a chaotic storm of screams, the Florida crew delivers one of their best albums yet.
Voivod
Synchro Anarchy
Four decades on, this Canadian quartet prove without doubt that they remain the kings of progressive thrash metal.
