Year-End Lists

Loudwire: 50 Best Rock + Metal Albums of 2022

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2023 • 2010s]

• Fit for An Autopsy
  Oh What The Future Holds
• Korn
  Requiem
• Venom Prison
  Erebos
• Eddie Vedder
  Earthling
• Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators
  4
• Bloodywood
  Rakshak
• Allegaeon
  Damnum
• Bad Omens
  The Death of Peace of Mind
• HammerFall
  Hammer of Dawn
• Scorpions
  Rock Believer
• Ghost
  Impera
• Yelawolf and Shooter Jennings
  Sometimes Y
• Abbath
  Dread Reaver
• Animals As Leaders
  Parrhesia
• Soul Glo
  Diaspora Problems
• Red Hot Chili Peppers
  Unlimited Love
• Jack White
  Fear of the Dawn
• Papa Roach
  Ego Trip
• Dorothy
  Gifts from the Holy Ghost
• Undeath
  It's Time... To Rise From the Grave
• Rammstein
  Zeit
• Fozzy
  Boombox
• Halestorm
  Back from the Dead
• Malevolence
  Malicious Intent
• Kardashev
  Liminal Rite
• Motionless in White
  Scoring the End of the World
• Nova Twins
  Supernova
• The Warning
  Error
• Municipal Waste
  Electrified Brain
• Shinedown
  Planet Zero
• Arch Enemy
  Deceivers
• Five Finger Death Punch
  AfterLife
• I Prevail
  True Power
• Muse
  Will of the People
• Megadeth
  The Sick, the Dying... and the Dead!
• One Ok Rock
  Luxury Disease
• Ozzy Osbourne
  Patient Number 9
• Electric Callboy
  Tekkno
• The Mars Volta
  The Mars Volta
• Slipknot
  The End, So Far
• Counterparts
  A Eulogy For Those Still Here
• Lamb of God
  Omens
• Alter Bridge
  Pawns & Kings
• Lorna Shore
  Pain Remains
• Architects
  The Classic Symptoms of a Broken Spirit
• Polyphia
  Remember That You Will Die
• Devin Townsend
  Lightwork
• Disturbed
  Divisive
• Nickelback
  Get Rollin'
• Tallah
  The Generation Of Danger