Raging Power Zine’s Best Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Albums of 2022
Another year and another Best of list for Raging Power. With the Pandemic leaving many bands with so much time off, many of them had more time to write and record new albums since 2019. Sometimes down time can be a good thing. 2022, gave us a lot of great albums. So far, this is one of the best years for Heavy Metal albums in a while, and this is why my usual top 60 list for 22’ it the top 75 list. It could have easily have been 100 or more album. But, I really need it to keep it shorter. This is an epic year to metal, as I predicted. This time, I have included E.Ps instead of putting them on a serpent list. Exclude as always, any albums that are reissues, live and remixes. My friends, enjoy my list, and please, check out all of the bands that I have listed. I want to thank my friend Brad for keeping me loaded with music this year and suggesting some great albums for me to listen to.
1. Abbath – ‘Dread Reaver’
2. Amorphis – ‘Halo’
3. Arch Enemy – ‘Deceivers’
4. Autopsy –‘ Morbidity Triumphant’
5. Behemoth – ‘Opvs Contra Natvram’
6. Belphegor – ‘The Devils’
7. BlackBraid – ‘Blackbraid I’
8. Blind Guardian – ‘The God Machine’
9. Blind Illusion – ‘Wrath of the Gods’
10. Bloody Hammer – ‘Washed in Blood’
11. Graham Bonnet – ‘Band Day Out in Nowhere’
12. Corpsegrinder – ‘Corpsegrinder’
13. Candlemass – ‘Sweet Evil Sun’
14. Clutch – ‘Sunrise on Slaughter Beach’
15. Cult of Luna – ‘The Long Road North’
16. Dark Funeral – ‘We Are the Apocalypse’
17. Darkthrone – ‘Astral Fortress’
18. Decapitated – ‘Cancer Culture’
19. Destruction – ‘Diabolical’
20. Destroyer666 – ‘Never Surrender’
21. Devil Master - ‘Ecstasies Of Never Ending Night’
22. Eight Bells – ‘Legacy Of Ruin’
23. Fit for an Autopsy – ‘Oh What the Future Holds’
24. Friends of Hell – ‘Friends of Hell’
25. Ghost – ‘Impera’
26. Goatwhore – ‘Angels Hung From The Arches Of Heaven’
27. Grave Digger Symbol of Eternity’
28. Gwar – ‘The New Dark Ages’
29. Imha Tarikat – ‘Hearts Unchained: At War With A Passionless World’
30. Immolation – ‘Acts of God’
31. Imperial Triumphant – ‘Spirit of Ecstasy’
32. Jesters of Destiny – ‘Distorting Everything’
33. Jungle Rot – ‘A Call To Arms’
34. Killing Joke – ‘Lord Of Chaos’
35. Kreator – ‘Hate Über Alles’
36. Lovell's Blade –‘ Deadly Nightshade’
37. Machine Head – ‘ØF KINGDØM AND CRØWN’
38. Tony Marti n –‘ Thorns’
39. Mastodon - 'Hushed and Grim'
40. Megadeth – ‘The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead!’
41. Meshuggah – ‘Immutable’
42. Messa – ‘Close’
43. Midnight - ‘Let There Be Witchery’
44. The Michael Schenker Group – ‘Universal’
45. Napalm Death – ‘Resentment Is Always Seismic : A Final Throw Of Throes’
46. Nite – Voices Of The Kronian Moon’
47. Parkway Drive – Darker Still
48. Rammstein – ‘Zeit’
49. Sabaton – ‘The War To End All Wars’
50. Satan – ‘Earth Infernal’
51. SHAG –‘ Born Demon’
52. Sakis Tolis – ‘Among the Fires of Hell’
53. Saxon – ‘Carpe Diem’
54. Scorpios –‘ Rock Believer’
55. SepticFlesh –‘ Modern Primitive’
56. Sigh – ‘Shiki’
57. Spirit Adrift – ‘20 Centuries Gone’
58. Spiritworld –‘ DEATHWESTERN’
59. Soulfly –‘ Totem’
60. Stryper –‘ The Final Battle’
61. Tad Morose – ‘March Of The Obsequious’
62. Telekinetic Yeti – ‘Primordial’
63. Therion – ‘Leviathain II’
64. Tokyo Blade – ‘Fury’
65. Joe Lynn Turner – ‘Belly of The Beast’
66. Undeath- ‘ It’s Time… to Rise from the Grave’
67. Voivod – ‘Synchro Anarchy’
68. Venom Prison - 'Erebos'
69. Vio-lence – ‘Let the World Burn
70. Watain – ‘The Agony and Ecstasy of Watain’
71. Witchery - Nightside
72. Wo Fat –‘The Singularity’
73. Vante –‘ Vante’
74. Yatra – ‘Born Into Chaos’
75. Zeal & Ardor – ‘Zeal & Ardor’
In Memory of:
Eric Wagner: In The Lonely Light of Mourning
Best cover album
Udo Dirkschneider My Way.
Best name for a band that I have heard in 2022
Telekinetic Yeti
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2023 Album Purchases Pt. 2
LPs and EPs that were bought digital-only (usually through Bandcamp) are marked with an asterisk.
July:
Hell Is Empty And All the Devils Are Here by Anaal Nathrakh
A New Kind Of Army*, Mobilize*, The Terror State, and Cease-Fires* by Anti-Flag
Life Is But A Dream… by Avenged Sevenfold
Fallen Angel Of Doom.... by Blasphemy
Heavy Steps by Comeback Kid
Ascension Codes by Cynic
9 & Walnut by Descendents
Bellum Omnium Contra Omnes (War Of All Against All) by Diocletian
All That Emotion by Hannah Georgas
It Was A Home by Kaina
Gag Order by Kesha
Øf Kingdøm And Crøwn by Machine Head
Nothing by Meshuggah
72 Seasons by Metallica
Planet Satan by Mysticum
Stained Glass Revelations by Negative Plane
Hell-On by Neko Case
Hex (2023 Old Temple Reissue) by Nunslaughter
This Is Why by Paramore
Demo 2013*, Pure Disgust 7"*, Chained*, and Pure Disgust* by Pure Disgust
Total Vermin Tape* by Rat Cage
The Poisoner by Sanhedrin
Black Devotion Will Let The Devil In (Satanic Black Devotion, Split With Horned Almighty, Tyranny Returns, Disciple Of The Heinous Path, and Let The Devil In) by Sargeist
Morte Negra by Tormentador
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MACHINE HEAD Announce Their Electric Happy Hour (Live) Spring 2023 Tour!
Following the release of their 10th full-length album “ØF KINGDØM AND CRØWN” to staggering 10/10 reviews across the board and Top 10 chartings across the globe, MACHINE HEAD will embark on an 18-date trek across the U.S.. The Electric Happy Hour (Live) tour will kick off on May 15th in Ventura, CA, and will make its way to Des Moines, Fort Wayne, and Detroit before ending in Los Angeles on June…
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