MY TOP 20 FOR MAY 2022

I always write the same in these intros. Too much new realease, not enough quality, dificult to pick the real standouts. May 2022 didn't differ from the status quo. Plenty of death metal. 

From the below list, probably very few are going to take higher rankings in my end of year AOTY list. Still though, I enjoyed a lot some of these albums in the past 30 days of May. 

Some new albums didn't live up to my expectations. Blut Aus Nord to name it, and I'm still struggling with it. Also I hate parody metal, but few songs of that Trollfest caught me obsessively. This is why you will find the album in the list below. 

The release of the month prize goes to AARA's Triade II. And then in no particular order comes all the rest new stuff that I liked and got my attention. Enjoy!


AARA - Triade II: Hemera
Release Date: 13 May


DECAPITATED - Cancer Culture
Release Date: 27 May



NECHOCWEN - Kanawha Black
Release Date: 13 May


HAUNTER - Discarnate Ails
Release Date: 6 May


COSMIC PUTREFACTION - Crepuscular Dirge For The Blessed Ones
Release Date: 6 May


OLHAVA - Reborn
Release Date: 27 May



DEMONICAL - Mass Destroyer
Release Date: 6 May 


SADISTIC RITUAL - The Enigma, Boundless
Release Date: 20 May


SADIST - Firescorched
Release Date: 20 May


TÓMARÚM - Ash In Realms of Stone Icons
Release Date: 6 May



EVERGREY - A Heartless Portrait (The Orphean Testament)
Release Date: 20 May


I AM THE NIGHT - While the Gods Are Sleeping
Release Date: 6 May


LORD BELIAL - Rapture
Release Date: 27 May


ASSUMPTION - Hadean Tides
Release Date:


PREDATORY LIGHT - Death and the Twilight Hours
Release Date: 20 May

SISYPHEAN - Colours of Faith
Release Date: 27 May


INANNA - Void of Unending Depths 
Release Date: 25 May


WAMPYRINACHT - Night of Desecration
Release Date: 20 May



CLAIRVOYANCE - Threshold of Nothingness
Release Date: 20 May


THE CHASM - The Scars of a Lost Reflective Shadow
Release Date: 27 May






THE MOST SURPRISING BONUS EVER!

TROLLFEST - Flamingo Overlord
Release Date: 27 May







THE MENTIONS:

VITAL SPIRIT - Still As The Night, Cold As The Wind

CADAVERIC COILS - Offerings of Rapture and Decay

FJØSNISSE - Fjorg og Fjeld

CHURCH OF DISGUST - Weakest Is The Flesh

LUMINOUS VAULT - Animate The Emptiness

HORN - Verzet 

OBSCENE - From Dead Horizon...To Dead Horizon

ARCAS - Arcas

PRIMITIVE MAN - Insurmountable



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