2022: A Quick Retrospective


This year, I’ve listened to over 106 days, 3 hours, 21 minutes and 14 seconds worth of new music, specifically music that came out in 2022. And that’s not mentioning the older albums I discovered, or went back to; the few 2023 albums I had the chance to listen to in advance; or the unknowable amount of time I’ve spent browsing new music, listening to snippets here and there. This amount of time only represents the albums I’ve kept track of and came out in 2022.

This represents 3,832 albums, EPs or split recordings. To be fair, I didn’t buy … Read more

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Friday, 3 February

ACOD – Cryptic Curse

€5 EUR
17:20
blackened death metal
France
Les Acteurs de l’ombre

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Alucard – Pale Fallen Angel

€3 EUR
16:48
black metal
Oulu, Finland
Independent

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Babyfang – In the Face Of

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Friday, 27 January

Anachronism – Meanders

7 CHF
33:10
progressive death metal
Lausanne, Switzerland
Independent

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… And Oceans – As in Gardens, So in Tombs

$9.99 USD
50:04
symphonic black metal
Jakobstad, Finland
Season of Mist

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Matt versus Dragoncorpse: The Drakketh Saga Review

From premise to name, Dragoncorpse is not a band that exactly begs to be taken seriously. The elevator pitch of “power deathcore” gives you an honest and clear idea of what to expect: a gimmicky juxtaposition of two genres that are generally gimmicky to begin with. (Leading off the album with a guest appearance by a member of Brojob doesn’t help matters.) They’ve taken the “Dragon-” prefix that is necessarily required to indicate your power metal status. My friends and I half-started a joke band called Dragondragon more than a decade ago mocking this very phenomenon. Toss on “-corpse” to … Read more

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Friday, 13 January

Ahab – The Coral Tombs

$9.99 USD
66:12
doom metal
Heidelberg, Germany
Napalm

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Anchor and Burden – Kosmonautik Pilgrimage

$10 USD
64:20
experimental metal
Berlin, Germany
Moon June

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