After a false start, someone (naming no names) got rather over-excited about a new Power Metal band that promptly disappeared out of the collective consciousness, it wasn’t until mid-January, and a new 40 Watt Sun album, that alternative, rock and metal really got out of the starting blocks for 2022.
And from there, we were treated to a plethora of strong albums as every week saw a handful of albums strongly recommended by our team of talented writers, each of them with glorious tastes.
While there were no overriding trends of note, 2022 did see a diversity of style, sound and talent impress us all, drain our wallets, and fill our libraries (digital or otherwise) with the picks of the year spread across a variety of sub-genres. So, from an ocean vast, our school of writers, photographers, editors and alumni have cast their nets and summoned from the deep Ghost Cult‘s democratically chosen and vaunted top 75 albums of 2022.
For part 1 (75 through to 41) read on…
75. Fallujah – Empyrean (Nuclear Blast) – GC review
74. Boston Manor – Datura (Sharptone) – GC review
73. Astronoid – Radiant Bloom (3DOT) – GC review
72. …And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead – XI: Bleed Here Now (Dine Alone / InsideOut) – GC review
71. Heriot – Profound Morality [EP] (Church Road) – GC review
70. Allegaeon – Damnum (Metal Blade) – GC review
69. Wolfheart – King of the North (Napalm) – GC review
68. Crowbar – Zero & Below (MNRK) – GC review
67. Clutch – Sunrise on Slaughterbeach (Weathermaker) – GC review
66. Counterparts – A Eulogy For Those Still Here (Pure Noise) – GC review
65. GGGOLDDD – This Shame Should Not Be Mine (Artoffact) – GC review
64. Coheed & Cambria – Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind (Roadrunner) – GC review
63. Wednesday 13 – Horrifier (Napalm) – GC review
62. Motionless In White – Scoring the End of the World (Roadrunner) – GC review
61. Mares of Thrace – The Exile (Sonic Unyon)
60. Månegarm – Ynglingaattens Ode (Napalm) – GC review
59. Candy – Heaven Is Here (Relapse)
58. vein.fm – This World Is Going To Ruin You (Nuclear Blast / Closed Casket) – GC review
57. Stratovarius – Survive (earMUSIC) – GC review
56. Venom Inc. – There’s Only Black (Nuclear Blast) – GC review
55. Stabbing Westward – Chasing Ghost (COP)
54. Lamb of God – Omens (Epic) – GC review
53. KEN Mode – Null (Artoffact) – GC interview
52. Blind Guardian – The God Machine (Nuclear Blast) – GC review
51. Misery Index – Complete Control (Century Media) – GC review
50. Blut Aus Nord – Disharmonium – Undreamable Abysses (Debemur Morti) – GC review
49. Revocation – Netherheaven (Metal Blade) – GC review
48. Frayle – Skin and Sorrow (Aqualamb) – GC review
47. Bob Vylan – The Price of Life (Ghost Theatre)
46. Carpenter Brut – Leather Terror (Universal / No Remorse) – GC review
45. Sylvaine – Nova (Season of Mist) – GC review
44. Rolo Tomassi – Where Myth Becomes Memory (MNRK Heavy) – GC review
43. Amorphis – Halo (Atomic Fire) – GC review
42. Sumerlands – Dreamkiller (Relapse) – GC review
41. Moon Tooth – Phototroph (Pure Noise) – GC review
Parts 2 (40-21) here:
https://www.ghostcultmag.com/ghost-cults-album-of-the-year-2022-part-2-40-21
3 (21-1) here: