Metalheads Podcast Top 25 Albums of 2022

Yippee-ki-yay! It's here! The Metalheads Podcast Top 25 Metal Albums of 2022! Featuring James Lewis of Decibel Magazine! We got together, had a few laughs, drank some beers and counted down our favorite extreme records of the year. So, grab a machine gun and make fists with your toes on the carpet because you're about to be trapped in the Metalheads Plaza for 5+ hours. Welcome to the party, pal.

Metalheads Podcast's Top 25

1. 25)Abbath - Dread Reaver
2. 24)Mother of Graves - Where the Shadows Adorn
3. 23)Dream Unending - Song of Salvation
4. 22)Kreator - Hate Über Alles
5. 21)Voivod - Synchro Anarchy
6. 20)Arð - Take Up My Bones
7. 19)Devin Townsend - Lightwork
8. 18)Celeste - Assassine​(​s)
9. 17)Inanna - Void of Unending Depths
10. 16)WAIT - The End of Noise
11. 15)Hath - All That Was Promised
12. 14)White Ward - False Light
13. 13)Daeva - Through Sheer Will and Black Magic​.​.​.
14. 12)Sigh - Shiki
15. 11)Disillusion - Ayam
16. 10)Behemoth - Opvs Contra Natvram
17. 9)Temple of Void - Summoning the Slayer
18. 8)Cosmic Putrefaction - Crepuscular Dirge for the Blessed Ones
19. 7)Blackbraid - Blackbraid I
20. 6)Amorphis - Halo
21. 5)Immolation - Acts of God
22. 4)Falls of Rauros - Key to a Vanishing Future
23. 3)Cult of Luna - The Long Road North
24. 2)Wake - Thought Form Descent
25. 1)Goatwhore - Angels Hung from the Arches of Heaven

George's Top 25

1. 25)Temple of Void - Summoning the Slayer
2. 24)Veilburner - VLBRNR
3. 23)Sigh - Shiki
4. 22)High Command - Eclipse of the Dual Moons
5. 21)Cancer Bats - Psychic Jailbreak
6. 20)Abhoria - Abhoria
7. 19)Behemoth - Opvs Contra Natvram
8. 18)Werewolves - From the Cave to the Grave
9. 17)The Chasm - The Scars of a Lost Reflective Shadow
10. 16)Chat Pile - God's Country
11. 15)Parius - The Signal Heard Throughout Space
12. 14)Red Rot - Mel de Vivre
13. 13)White Ward - False Light
14. 12)WAIT - The End of Noise
15. 11)Bloody Hammers - Washed in the Blood
16. 10)Goatwhore - Angels Hung from the Arches of Heaven
17. 9)Cult of Luna - The Long Road North
18. 8)Amorphis - Halo
19. 7)The Antichrist Imperium - Volume III: Satan in His Original Glory
20. 6)Disillusion - Ayam
21. 5)Voivod - Synchro Anarchy
22. 4)Candlemass - Sweet Evil Sun
23. 3)Zeal and Ardor - Zeal & Ardor
24. 2)Arð - Take Up My Bones
25. 1)Devin Townsend - Lightwork

Jay's Top 25

1. 25)Graham Bonnet Band - Day Out in Nowhere
2. 24)Arð - Take Up My Bones
3. 23)Slaegt - Goddess
4. 22)Kreator - Hate Über Alles
5. 21)Hath - All That Was Promised
6. 20)Negative Plane - The Pact…
7. 19)Pike vs The Automaton - Pike vs The Automaton
8. 18)Temple of Void - Summoning the Slayer
9. 17)Cosmic Putrefaction - Crepuscular Dirge for the Blessed Ones
10. 16)Cult of Luna - The Long Road North
11. 15)Celeste - Assassine(s)
12. 14)Behemoth - Opvs Contra Natvram
13. 13)Sahg - Born Demon
14. 12)Kardashev - Liminal Rite
15. 11)White Ward - False Light
16. 10)Scorpions - Rock Believer
17. 9)Wake - Thought Form Descent
18. 8)Falls of Rauros - Key to a Vanishing Future
19. 7)Sigh - Shiki
20. 6)Immolation - Acts of God
21. 5)Saxon - Carpe Diem
22. 4)Elder - Innate Passage
23. 3)Blackbraid - Blackbraid I
24. 2)Abbath - Dread Reaver
25. 1)Goatwhore - Angels Hung from the Arches of Heaven

Will's Top 25

1. 25)Brood of Hatred - The Golden Age
2. 24)Reeking Aura - Blood and Bonemeal
3. 23)Castrator - Defiled in Oblivion
4. 22)Jade - The Pacification of Death
5. 21)Autopsy - Morbidity Triumphant
6. 20)Desolate Shrine - Fires of the Dying World
7. 19)Conan - Evidence of Immortality
8. 18)Thundering Hooves - Radiance
9. 17)Druid Lord - Relics of the Dead
10. 16)Hath - All That Was Promised
11. 15)Behold! The Monolith - From the Fathomless Deep
12. 14)Wake - Thought Form Descent
13. 13)Daeva - Through Sheer Will and Black Magic​.​.​.
14. 12)Abhoria - Abhoria
15. 11)Saor - Origins
16. 10)Goatwhore - Angels Hung from the Arches of Heaven
17. 9)Firebreather - Dwell in Fog
18. 8)Hundred Year Old Man - Sleep in Light
19. 7)Undeath - It's Time... to Rise from the Grave
20. 6)Bloodbath - Survival of the Sickest
21. 5)Cosmic Putrefaction - Crepuscular Dirge for the Blessed Ones
22. 4)Temple of Void - Summoning the Slayer
23. 3)Immolation - Acts of God
24. 2)Kreator - Hate Über Alles
25. 1)Behemoth - Opvs Contra Natvram

John's Top 25

1. 25)Dystopia A.D. - Doomsday Psalm
2. 24)Arð - Take Up My Bones
3. 23)Parius - The Signal Heard Throughout Space
4. 22)Sigh - Shiki
5. 21)Epitaphe - II
6. 20)Dreadnought - The Endless
7. 19)Cosmic Putrefaction - Crepuscular Dirge for the Blessed Ones
8. 18)Devin Townsend - Lightwork
9. 17)Voivod - Synchro Anarchy
10. 16)Dream Unending - Song of Salvation
11. 15)White Ward - False Light
12. 14)Epectase - Nécroses
13. 13)Blind Guardian - The God Machine
14. 12)Apeiron Bound - Multiplicity
15. 11)Wilderun - Epigone
16. 10)Lamentations - Passion of Depression
17. 9)Aenaon - Mnemosyne
18. 8)Inann - Void of Unending Depths
19. 7)Michael Romeo - War of the Worlds // Pt​.​ 2
20. 6)Amorphis - Halo
21. 5)An Abstract Illusion - Woe
22. 4)WAIT - The End of Noise
23. 3)Cult of Luna - The Long Road North
24. 2)Disillusion - Ayam
25. 1)Mother of Graves - Where the Shadows Adorn

Matt's Top 25

1. 25)Come to Grief - When the World Dies
2. 24)Arð - Take Up My Bones
3. 23)Dysgnostic - Scar Echoes
4. 22)The Otolith - Folium Limina
5. 21)Gaerea - Mirage
6. 20)Altars - Ascetic Reflection
7. 19)In Aphelion - Moribund
8. 18)Yatra - Born into Chaos
9. 17)Cosmic Putrefaction - Crepuscular Dirge for the Blessed Ones
10. 16)Celeste - Assassine(s)
11. 15)Devenial Verdict - Ash Blind
12. 14)Graceless - Chants from Purgatory
13. 13)Vital Spirit - Still as the Night, Cold as the Wind
14. 12)Temple of Void - Summoning the Slayer
15. 11)Goatwhore - Angels Hung from the Arches of Heaven
16. 10)Sigh - Shiki
17. 9)Mortuous - Upon Desolation
18. 8)Daeva - Through Sheer Will and Black Magic​.​.​.
19. 7)Wormrot - Hiss
20. 6)Cult of Luna - The Long Road North
21. 5)Immolation - Acts of God
22. 4)Falls of Rauros - Key to a Vanishing Future
23. 3)Hath - All That Was Promised
24. 2)Wake - Thought Form Descent
25. 1)Blackbraid - Blackbraid I

Markisan's Top 25

1. 25)Abduction - Black Blood
2. 24)Black Royal - Earthbound
3. 23)Gaerea - Mirage
4. 22)Darkest Era - Wither on the Vine
5. 21)Trollcave - Rotted Remnants Dripping from the Void
6. 20)Ante-Inferno - Antediluvian Dreamscapes
7. 19)Dark Millennium - Acid River
8. 18)Daeva - Through Sheer Will and Black Magic​.​.​.
9. 17)Psychonaut - Violate Consensus Reality
10. 16)Autonoesis - Moon of Foul Magics
11. 15)Jade - The Pacification of Death
12. 14)Ancesthor - White Terror
13. 13)Celeste - Assassine​(​s)
14. 12)Mountaineer - Giving Up the Ghost
15. 11)Goatwhore - Angels Hung from the Arches of Heaven
16. 10)The Otolith - Folium Limina
17. 9)Dream Unending - Song of Salvation
18. 8)Inanna - Void of Unending Depths
19. 7)Cloud Rat - Threshold
20. 6)Liminal Shroud - All Virtues Ablaze
21. 5)Phobophilic - Enveloping Absurdity
22. 4)Chrome Ghost - House of Falling Ash
23. 3)Amorphis - Halo
24. 2)Wake - Thought Form Descent
25. 1)Falls of Rauros - Key to a Vanishing Future

James Lewis of Decibel Magazine's Top 25

1. 25)Black Royal - Earthbound
2. 24)Castrator - Defiled in Oblivion
3. 23)Disillusion - Ayam
4. 22)Morbikon - Ov Mournful Twilight
5. 21)Artificial Brain - Artificial Brain
6. 20)The Otolith - Folium Limina
7. 19)Eight Bells - Legacy of Ruin
8. 18)Tzompantli - Tlazcaltiliztli
9. 17)Autopsy - Morbidity Triumphant
10. 16)Mo'ynoq - A Place for Ash
11. 15)Ripped to Shreds - 劇變 (Jubian)
12. 14)Nechochwen - Kanawha Black
13. 13)Sigh - Shiki
14. 12)Satan - Earth Infernal
15. 11)Super Satan - Celestial
16. 10)Blackbraid - Blackbraid I
17. 9)Abbath - Dread Reaver
18. 8)Blood of Raui'ahn - Mutations Under a Blood Drenched Sun
19. 7)Phobophilic - Enveloping Absurdity
20. 6)Thulsa Doom - A Fate Worse than Death
21. 5)Mortuous - Upon Desolation
22. 4)Soul Glo - Diaspora Problems
23. 3)Immolation - Acts of God
24. 2)Kreator - Hate Über Alles
25. 1)Undeath - It's Time... to Rise from the Grave