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

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

George's Top 25

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

Jay's Top 25

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

Will's Top 25

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

John's Top 25

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

Matt's Top 25

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

Markisan's Top 25

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

James Lewis of Decibel Magazine's Top 25

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