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2022 Metal Album Releases
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Jul 29
Chat Pile
God’s Country
82
critic score
(9)
81
user score
(1,688)
Sep 30
Slipknot
The End, So Far
72
critic score
(20)
57
user score
(863)
Oct 7
WILLOW
<COPINGMECHANISM>
73
critic score
(14)
71
user score
(792)
Nov 4
Fleshwater
We're Not Here to Be Loved
83
critic score
(2)
79
user score
(726)
Jul 15
Ashenspire
Hostile Architecture
90
critic score
(3)
81
user score
(669)
Jun 17
Nova Twins
Supernova
89
critic score
(14)
67
user score
(552)
Apr 29
Rammstein
Zeit
79
critic score
(14)
68
user score
(531)
Feb 4
Korn
Requiem
76
critic score
(12)
58
user score
(512)
Oct 14
Lorna Shore
Pain Remains
83
critic score
(9)
78
user score
(432)
Feb 25
Bad Omens
THE DEATH OF PEACE OF MIND
68
critic score
(4)
75
user score
(407)
Feb 11
Zeal and Ardor
Zeal & Ardor
74
critic score
(9)
68
user score
(365)
Feb 4
Rolo Tomassi
Where Myth Becomes Memory
86
critic score
(11)
73
user score
(349)
Mar 4
Vein.fm
This World Is Going to Ruin You
79
critic score
(10)
72
user score
(342)
Jul 27
明日の叙景 [Asunojokei]
アイランド (Island)
80
user score
(339)
Oct 21
Architects
the classic symptoms of a broken spirit
73
critic score
(11)
55
user score
(319)
Jun 3
Thornhill
Heroine
73
critic score
(3)
77
user score
(318)
Sep 2
Megadeth
The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead!
70
critic score
(11)
57
user score
(312)
Sep 16
The Devil Wears Prada
Color Decay
80
critic score
(3)
75
user score
(304)
Aug 12
Boris
Heavy Rocks
73
critic score
(10)
69
user score
(297)
Feb 11
Cult of Luna
The Long Road North
85
critic score
(9)
75
user score
(286)
May 18
Static Dress
Rouge Carpet Disaster
87
critic score
(7)
74
user score
(286)
Jul 22
Imperial Triumphant
Spirit of Ecstasy
78
critic score
(8)
74
user score
(269)
Aug 26
Sigh
Shiki
83
critic score
(5)
78
user score
(260)
Jun 3
Artificial Brain
Artificial Brain
78
critic score
(3)
75
user score
(257)
Nov 28
Metallica
Lux Æterna
90
critic score
(1)
70
user score
(246)
Jun 17
White Ward
False Light
83
critic score
(4)
78
user score
(242)
Jan 14
Fit For An Autopsy
Oh What the Future Holds
83
critic score
(4)
75
user score
(230)
Apr 22
Undeath
It's Time...To Rise From the Grave
82
critic score
(8)
73
user score
(229)
Apr 1
Meshuggah
Immutable
77
critic score
(12)
67
user score
(221)
Jan 13
Muse
Won't Stand Down
100
critic score
(1)
60
user score
(218)
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Sep 16
Maggie Lindemann
SUCKERPUNCH
60
critic score
(1)
65
user score
(208)
Jan 14
Skillet
Dominion
45
critic score
(3)
28
user score
(201)
Sep 9
Holy Fawn
Dimensional Bleed
81
critic score
(11)
76
user score
(201)
Mar 25
Animals As Leaders
Parrhesia
76
critic score
(6)
73
user score
(191)
Mar 11
Messa
Close
76
critic score
(5)
77
user score
(190)
Nov 18
Disturbed
Divisive
69
critic score
(6)
38
user score
(189)
Jun 10
Kardashev
Liminal Rite
88
critic score
(5)
77
user score
(188)
Jun 10
Motionless in White
Scoring the End of the World
68
critic score
(4)
64
user score
(183)
Jan 7
Wilderun
Epigone
87
critic score
(5)
72
user score
(176)
Jun 22
Spiritbox
Rotoscope
80
critic score
(1)
74
user score
(172)
May 20
Cave In
Heavy Pendulum
82
critic score
(12)
74
user score
(172)
Jan 14
Underoath
Voyeurist
77
critic score
(6)
63
user score
(171)
Sep 16
Electric Callboy
TEKKNO
72
critic score
(4)
74
user score
(165)
Sep 9
Ozzy Osbourne
Patient Number 9
74
critic score
(12)
62
user score
(163)
Nov 18
Tallah
The Generation of Danger
85
critic score
(2)
78
user score
(160)
Apr 22
Northlane
Obsidian
68
critic score
(4)
73
user score
(158)
Feb 4
Venom Prison
Erebos
82
critic score
(9)
72
user score
(156)
Oct 21
Brutus
Unison Life
80
critic score
(6)
77
user score
(153)
Jul 1
Conjurer
Páthos
82
critic score
(6)
73
user score
(151)
Sep 30
Autopsy
Morbidity Triumphant
82
critic score
(8)
75
user score
(151)
Feb 18
Immolation
Acts of God
86
critic score
(8)
72
user score
(147)
Jul 21
Muse
Kill or Be Killed
75
user score
(147)
Sep 23
KEN mode
NULL
81
critic score
(6)
73
user score
(139)
Sep 26
Darko
Oni
80
critic score
(1)
78
user score
(137)
Sep 16
Behemoth
Opvs Contra Natvram
80
critic score
(8)
65
user score
(132)
Aug 19
I Prevail
TRUE POWER
74
critic score
(5)
68
user score
(131)
Oct 7
Counterparts
A Eulogy for Those Still Here
84
critic score
(5)
73
user score
(130)
Oct 28
Darkthrone
Astral Fortress
80
critic score
(5)
69
user score
(127)
Jan 28
Krallice
Crystalline Exhaustion
70
critic score
(3)
73
user score
(126)
Jul 29
Ithaca
They Fear Us
89
critic score
(4)
72
user score
(125)
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