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  The final list. The Album of the Year 2022 list.  Personally, it's been a very tough year, with terrible events, very hard moments, battles, and changes.  Musically it's been a mediocre year. I bearly compiled this present list, featuring the albums that I liked the most and listened to the most. It's based on emotions, as usual. Some of the names are pretty clear - if you are following me on social media, you know. For the others, I had to look deep back at the previous months' lists and memories, and consider whether I liked them really, to what extent, or whether I had preferred something else. It's been an abundant year in terms of releases. Quantity, not quality. No real stand-out albums that leave a solid impression and will last in time. You all know my bragging, so no change. I'm the grumpy pretentious mainstream hipster elitist poser that hates the world circus.  I still keep on buying vinyl, but not with the speed and in quantities I used to. It beca...

  Another useless list here. I published my  Black Metal top list for 2022  featuring 42 names, so this time I present you the best of 2022 death metal albums. For the sake of consistency, I did it with 42 names again. These are the DM releases that made me the best impression and/or I liked the most. Frankly speaking the death metal in 2022 wasn't that exciting at all. A lot of stuff out there but not memorable.  As usual, the below 42 are not in a particular order. Overall it is a solid list but not really sure how many I'm going to take into 2023 onwards with me. Because another pile of new stuff is coming and we'll be buried under the new schedule. And compared to the klassiks, almost zero of the new stuff has the power even to try to attempt what I really love from the past...You know what I mean. Another remark - I tried to list down the death metal albums as per the understanding of the genre itself, not mixing with cross genres like death-black for example. S...

I decided to do this post in a lazy way. I used the app everybody is using these days in order to make the collage and the list respectively. Honestly, I didn't have the intention to publish any list - neither BM/DM, nor AOTY.  I have always stated - in general, it's been a mediocre year for my beloved music, with few releases that really have the staying power. Therefore it is not easy to pick equally good/bad albums... As usual, I'm listing the albums that I enjoyed the most and that I listened to the most in this already-gone year. Most of the releases were part of my monthly tops throughout 2022 on this blog.  Remember, the list is not in a particular order, however, I have a softer spot for some of the releases than for others. Listing my favorite BM albums wasn't an easy task for another reason - the mixing of the genres these days. I tried to put in this list BM albums that are closest to the understanding of the genre, so names like White Ward, D666, Goatwhore, ...