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2022 Music

Decibel: Top 40 Albums of 2022

18 November 2022

It's Time... To Rise From the Grave - Undeath

Decibel Magazine: Top 40 Albums of 2022

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2012]

  1. It's Time... To Rise From the Grave
    Undeath
  2. Heavy Pendulum
    Cave In
  3. Loud Arriver
    Sonja
  4. Blackbraid I
    Blackbraid
  5. Acts Of God
    Immolation
  6. Diaspora Problems
    Soul Glo
  7. Kanawha Black
    Nechochwen
  8. Hate Über Alles
    Kreator
  9. Null
    KEN mode
  10. Upon Desolation
    Mortuous
  11. Starlight And Ash
    Oceans of Slumber
  12. Thought Form Descent
    Wake
  13. God's Country
    Chat Pile
  14. Synchro Anarchy
    Voivod
  15. Pain Into Power
    Terror
  16. Dreamkiller
    Sumerlands
  17. The Pact
    Negative Plane
  18. Enveloping Absurdity
    Phobophilic
  19. Song Of Salvation
    Dream Unending
  20. Myopia
    Mizmor & Thou
  21. Earth Infernal
    Satan
  22. Legend
    Vanum
  23. Memory Theater
    Escuela Grind
  24. Deathwestern
    SpiritWorld
  25. Tlazcaltiliztli
    Tzompantli
  26. Legacy of Ruin
    Eight Bells
  27. Where the Shadows Adorn
    Mother of Graves
  28. 劇變 (Jubian)
    Ripped to Shreds
  29. Through Sheer Will And Black Magic...
    Daeva
  30. Defiled in Oblivion
    Castrator
  31. Electrified Brain
    Municipal Waste
  32. Regenesis
    Black Anvil
  33. Spirit Of Ecstasy
    Imperial Triumphant
  34. Halo
    Amorphis
  35. The Knocking, Or The Story of the Sound that Preceded Their Disappearance
    Doldrum
  36. Let There Be Witchery
    Midnight
  37. From the Rot Is a Gift
    STILL/FORM
  38. Shiki
    Sigh
  39. Mirage
    Gaerea
  40. Summoning The Slayer
    Temple Of Void

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