Releases 2022

By popular demand, we’ve put together an on-going list of release dates for upcoming new albums of interest for 2022! The below list is accurate at the time of writing and in a constant state of change as release dates get changed!

January 2022

1st – Befell – “Grave Of The Condemned King“*
8th – Nihility – “Beyond Human Concepts”*
6th – Sothoris – “Wpiekłowstąpienie”
7th – Seven Nines and Tens – “Over Opiated in a Forest of Whispering Speakers”
7th – Infected Rain – “Ecdysis
7th – Wilderun – “Epigone“*
10th – ETHEREAL SHROUD – “Trisagion”
10th – Malignant Altar – “Realms of Exquisite Morbidity”
13th – Polar – “Everywhere, Everything”
14th – Wiegedood – “There’s Always Blood At The End of The Road”*
14th – Fit For An Autopsy – “Oh What The Future Holds”
14th – Shadow Of Intent – “Elegy”
14th – Wormshepard – “Ritual Hymns
14th – Enterprise Earth – “The Chosen”
14th – Ilium – “Quantum Evolution Event” EP*
14th – Wolfbastard – “Hammer The Bastards”*
14th – Party Cannon – “Volumes Of Vomit”
14th – Lee McKinney – “In The Light Of Knowledge
14th – Immurge – “Deadweight” EP*
14th – Descent – “Order Of Chaos”*
14th – Fixed Fight – “Antebellum”*
21st – SETYØURSAILS – “Nightfall”
22nd – Browbeat – “The Showdown” EP*
27th – Re-Armed – “XX”
28th – The Last Ten Seconds Of Life – “Self Titled”
28th – Depleted Uranium – “Origins” EP*
28th – Rabid Dogs – “Black Cowslip”*
28th – Burned In Effigy – “Rex Mortem”*
28th – Dead/Awake – “Semantics” EP*
28th – Blastanus -“Beyond”
28th – Dying Light – “Far from Life”
28th – Mantic Ritual – “Crusader” EP*
28th – The Risen Dread – “Night Hag”

February 2022

1st – Kill All The Gentlemen – “Black Canvas”*
4th – Venom Prison – “Erebos”
4th – Persefone – “Metanoia”
4th – The Final Sleep – “Vessels Of Grief”*
4th – (hed)p.e. – “Califas Worldwide”
4th – Krvvla – “X”*
4th – OvDeth – “Mortal Burden” EP*
4th – Golgothan – “Leech”
5th – Tymo – “The Art Of A Maniac”*
11th – Once Human – “Scar Weaver”
11th – InVisions – “Deadlock”*
11th – Theandric – Flight Among the Tombs EP*
11th – Karmanjaka – “Gates of Muspel”
11th – Dead Tree Seeds – “Back To The Seeds” EP*
12th – Angel Rising – “Immortal Volition”
17th – Darkmatter – “Project Dark Matter”*
18th – Circa Arcana – “Bridget Viginti” EP
18th – MÆNTRA – “Kundalini Rising”*
18th – Kuoleman Galleria – “Armon Loppu”
18th – Immolation – “Acts Of God”
18th – Nightrage – “Abyss Rising”*
18th – Sirens Bay – “In the Shadow of the Lighthouse”*
18th – Kluizenaer – “Ein Abbild Der Leere”
18th – Landmvrks – “Lost In The Waves (The Complete Edition)”
20th – Catalyst – “Catalyst II” EP*
25th – Allegaeon – “Damnum”
25th – Schemata Theory – “Unity In Time”*
25th – Inner Missing – “Dead Language”
25th – Blood Incantation – “Timewave Zero”
25th – Meslamtaea – “Weemoedsklanken”
25th – Fall Of Stasis – “The Chronophagist”
25th – Dark Worship – “Flesh Of A Saint” EP*
25th – XIL – “Rip And Tear”
25th – Brood of Hatred – “The Golden Age”
25th – Sadistic Force / Hellrot – “Sadistic Rot” Split*
25th – Turpentine Valley – “Alder”
28th – Humator – “Curse Of The Pharaoh”*

March 2022

1st – Obscurcis Romancia – “The Bringer Of Light”*
3rd – Ghost Toast – “Shade Without Color”
4th – NORD – “Machine Blood”*
4th – Deserted Fear – “Doomsday”
4th – Crowbar – “Zero And Below”*
4th – Hath – “All That Was Promised”*
4th – Vio-Lence – “Let The World Burn” EP
4th – Wounded Touch – “AMERICANXIETY
5th – TROGLODYTE – “The Hierarchical Ecological Succession: Welcome to the Food Chain!”*
11th – Vein.fm – “This World Is Going To Ruin You
11th – Sidious – “Blackest Insurrection”*
11th – Soulsplitter –  “Connection”
11th – The Dialectic – “A Falsehood Defined”*
11th – Soulline – “Screaming Eyes”
11th – Messa – “Close”*
11th – Purple Dawn – Peace & Doom Session Vol. II
13th – Parjure – “The Uncrowned King
15th – Cryptivore – “Celestial Extinction”*
17th – CINCINATTI BOWTIE – “The Harvest of Tellus
18th – Wretched Tongues – “Ulter Praefinitum”*
18th – Dark Funeral – “We Are The Apocalypse”
18th  Grave Next Door – “Sanctified Heathen”
18th – Zwaard – “Bloed en Wijn”
18th – Slaegt – “Goddess”*
18th – Extinction A.D. – “Culture Of Violence”
18th – Joshua Travis – “No Rest” EP*
18th – Final Cry – “The Ever-Rest”
18th – Interia – “Memoria”
18th – Indemon – “Fear Of Living” EP*
18th – Saqraruna – “Under the Light of Mountains”
22nd – Hellbore – “Panopticon”
22nd – CAEDEOUS – “Obscurus Perpetua”
23rd – Hellblind – “A Plague On All Your Houses” EP (Pitchshifter, Romeo Must Die)*
25th – BillyBio – “Leaders And Liars”
25th – Ignite – “Self Titled”
25th – Spill Your Guts – “The Wrath It Takes”
25th – Rise Of Kronos – “Council of Prediction”
25th – Hilltops Are For Dreamers – “In Disbelief”*
25th – Crown Magnetar – “Alone In Death”*
25th – Crown of Madness – “The Void”*
25th – Falamh – “Aeons Effigy”*
25th – Promethean Reign – Eat The Rich (2 track)*
31th – Third Nail – Theos-Haimaton*

April 2022

1st – Nekrogoblikon – “The Fundamental Slimes And Humours
1st – The Spirt – “Of Clarity And Galactic Structures”
1st – Kublai Khan – “Lowest Form Of Animal”*
1st – Dusk – “The Relic”
1st – Golgothan Remains – “Adorned In Ruin”*
1st – Mustasuo – “Hiljaisuus”*
8th – Planepacked – Transactinides
8th – Kaamos Warriors – “Spirit From The Void”*
8th – The Daily Chase – “The Colour of Crisis”*
8th – Skumstrike – Deadly Intrusions*
15th – Nonsun – “Blood & Spirit”*
15th – Monuments – “In Stasis”*
15th – Crisix – “Full HD”
15th – Cancer Bats – “Psychic Jailbreak
15th – Faceless Entity – “The Great Anguish of Rapture“
15th – My Own Fear – Violence Made History
15th – Sleepless – “Host Desecration”*
15th – Azaab – “Summoning the Cataclysm”
19th – Escaping Aghartha – “Croak”
21st – Chaos Sequence – “The Ties That Bind The Flesh And Mind” EP*
22nd – Pyreship – “Light Is A Barrier”
22nd – Bodysnatcher – “Bleed-Abide”*
22nd – Caliban – “Dystopia”
22nd – The Chapter – “Delusion of Consciousness”
22nd – CORPSESSED – “Succumb To Rot”*
22nd – Tyrannus – “Unslayable”*
22nd – Flayed Disciple – “A Hell In Living Flesh”*
22nd – Northlane – “Obsidian”
25th – Suppression – “The Sorrow of Soul through Flesh”
28th – Kneel Before The Death – “Memoir” EP*
28th – Beyond The Structure – “Scrutiny”*
29th – Saviour – “Shine & Fade“*
29th – And Hell Followed With – “Quietus”*
29th – The Nika Riots – “Derelict”
29th – Devil Master – “Ecstasies Of Never Ending Night”
29th – Revoid – “Sleepless Still”
29th – Allt – “The Seed Of Self Destruction” EP

May 2022

6th – Depressed Mode – “Decade Of Silence”*
6th – Ibaraki – “Rashomon”
6th – Carbon Black – “We Remain”
6th – No Life – “Radical Thoughts” EP
7th – Harvested – “Self Titled”*
13th – Where’s My Bible – “Circle” EP*
13th – Katharos – “Of Lineages Long Forgotten”*
13th – Outshine – “The Awakening”
13th – Primitive Man – “Insurmountable”
13th – Demiricous – “III: Chaotic Lethal”
13th – Sacred Son – “The Foul Deth of Engelond”*
19th – Sailor Hunter – “Self Titled” EP*
20th – Malevolence – “Malicious Intent”
20th – Thy Kingdom Will Burn – “The Void And The Vengeance”*
20th – Casket Feeder – “Servants Of Violence”*
20th – Be Well – “Hello Sun”
20th – Unbowed – “Colour The Soul”*
20th – Dark Archive – “Reunite The Darkness”*
20th – Imonolith – “Progressions”
20th – The Hate Project – “From Flesh To Soil”*
20th – Draghoria – “Dangerous Species”
25th – Harbinger – “A Letter To Anguish”*
27th – Hollow Front – “The Price Of Dreaming”
27th – Cult Of The Night – “Dance of the Witches”
27th – The Cross – “Act II: Walls of the Forgotten”
27th – Sensory Amusia – “Breed Death”*
27th – Bekmørk – “The Path Nocturnal”
27th – Where the Devil by “Bury Your Demons” EP*
28th – Thrall – “Schisms”
30th –Malignant Aura – “Abysmal Misfortune is Draped Upon Me”
30th – Likheim – “Alt Skal Svinne Hen…” EP*
31st – Doubting Thompson – “Revelations” EP*

June 2022

3rd – Bleed From Within – “Shrine”*
3rd – Buried Realm – “Self Titled”*
3rd – Thornhill – “Heroine”
3rd – Hanging The Nihilist – “Prophetic Blasphemy”
3rd – HIVE – “Exuviae”
3rd – Corrosive – “Death As A Process”
3rd – Hypermass – “Empyrean”
3rd – Iron Tomb – “Vile Retribution” EP*
3rd – Antagonist A.D. – “Through Fire All Things Are Renewed”
4th – Patroness – “Fatum”
6th – Besieged – “Violence Beyond All Reason
8th – Amongst the Ashes – “The Fabricated Monolith“*
10th – Stellar Death – Sentient (Chapter 1)*
10th – CRISIS BENOIT – “El Culto De La Muerte”
10th – Nekkromaniac – “Plague Eater”
10th – Pre-Human Vaults – “Allegiance Divine”
10th – Malfested –  “Unethical Creations”*
11th – VØLUS – “Thrown to the Abyss”*
16th – Compilation – “Ziggy Stardust: 50 Years Later” (Raging Speedhorn)
11th – Motionless in White – “Scoring The End Of The World”
17th – Vexes – “Imagine What We Could Destroy /// If Only Given Time”
17th – Of Our Design – “The Worst Of Me”
17th – Consecration – “Cinis”*
17th – Exocrine – “The Hybrid Suns”
17th – Brutta – “Self Titled”*
17th – Truent – “Through The Vale of Earthly Torment”*
17th – Winds of Tragedy – “As Life Drifts Away”
17th – We Struck Gold – “Feel Nothing”
17th – Blasphemous Creation – “Beyond The Grave”
17th – BROJOB – “Jester” EP
17th – Weaponry – “Forever Nothing”*
21st – Tyrannos – “Spears Of The Aten”*
24th – Betraying The Martyrs – “Silver Lining” EP
24th – I Fight Bears – “Liberosis” EP*
24th – Speed – “Gang Called Speed” EP*
24th – Misgivings – “Self Titled”
24th – Suicide Silence – “The Cleansing (Ultimate Edition)”
26th – Defiant – “Vanguards of Misrule”*
30th – Battlegrave – “Cavernous Depths”
30th – Crossed Hands – “Heal”

July 2022

1st – Conjurer – “Pathos”
1st – Thirteen Goats – “Servants of the Outer Dark”*
1st – A Lie Nation – “Sociopathology”*
1st – Devils Tail – “Desolation”
1st – Suffer – “The Sorrow We Sow, The Hatred We Know”*
1st – Thirteen Goats – “Servants of the Outer Dark”*
2nd – Catalysis – “Innova” EP*
8th – THE ATROPHIC – “Coagulating Mirth” EP*
8th – Bullet For My Valentine – “Self Titled” (deluxe)
8th – The Machinist – “All Is Not Well”
8th – ZARRAZA – “Kreated In Blood”*
8th – Spektrvm – “Blood For Heaven”*
8th – The Motion Below – ‘Breakthrough’ EP
9th – Gutlocker – “To Be Alive”*
10th – Begrime Exemious – “Rotting in the Aftermath”
13th – MEFISTO – “Phosphorus”
15th – Inhuman Condition – “Fearsick”*
15th – Ambrius – “Effigies Of Time”
15th – Ashenspire – Hostile Architecture
15th – Mercury’s Well – “Self Titled”*
15th – Witnesses – “The Holy Water EP”*
15th – ATLVS – “The Wound, The Blade”*
15th – Cruentus – “Fossilized”*
15th – Patria – “Hexerei”
15th – Scurìu – “Wilhelmina” EP
22nd – Oceans Of Slumber – “Starlight And Ash”*
22nd – Imperial Triumphant –  “Spirit of Ecstasy”
22nd – Gates to the Morning – “Walk Between Worlds”
22nd – Mosara – “Only The Dead Know Our Secrets”*
26th – Sleestak – “Harbinger”
29th – Sacred Sin – “Storms Over The Dying World”*
29th – Arch Enemy – “Deceivers”
29th – Ithaca – “They Fear Us”
29th – Spite – “Dedicated To Flesh
29th – Krisiun – “Mortem Solis
29th – Stick To Your Guns – “Spectre”*
29th – Beyond The Gallows – “Perpetual Misanthropy”

August 2022

5th – Soulfly – “Totem”*
5th – Psycroptic – “Divine Council”
5th – Ryker’s – “Our Cause Was Noble“
5th – Liminal Shroud – “All Virtues Ablaze”*
5th – Hautajaisyö – “Ei Hauta Kysy Lupaa”*
5th – Shuriken Cadaveric Entwinement – “Constructing The Cataclysm”
5th – Ether Coven – “The Relationship Between the Hammer and the Nail”*
5th – Fall and Resist – “Darkness Of Now” EP *
12th – Carrion Vael – “Abhorrent Obsessions”*
12th – The Halo Effect – “Days Of The Lost”
12th – Blasted Heath – “Vela”
12th – Primitive – “With the Rats and Snakes”*
19th – Spirit Adrift – “20 Centuries Gone”*
19th – Conan – “Evidence of Immortality”
19th – Soilwork “Övergivenheten”
19th – Buried Under Sky – “Darkest Corners”*
19th – Splintered Throne – “The Greater Good of Man”
19th – Orthodox – “Learning To Dissolve”*
19th – Realm Of Torment – “Ytene’s Collapse”
26th – Machine Head – “Of Kingdom And Crown”*
26th – Man Machine Industry – “Eschaton I. Reckoning Day”
26th – Intent – “Exile”*
26th – Eaten By Sharks – “Eradication”*
26th – Αuriferous Flame – “The Great Mist Within”
26th – Death Scythe – “Killing For Pleasure Forever”
26th – Anchillys – “Elan Vital”*
27th – Imperathron – “Mors Est Veritas”*

September 2022

1st – Oceans Ate Alaska – “Disparity”
1st – Afterimage – “Dying Gaul”
2nd – Mantic Ritual – “Heart Set Stone”*
2nd – Rituals – “Show Me The Signs”*
2nd – Ensanguinate – “Eldritch Anatomy”
2nd – State Of You – “State Of You” EP*
2nd – Silurian – “End of Ordovicia”*
2nd – Gallia – “Obscura”
2nd – Sobriquet – “Apotheosis” EP*
2nd – Asylum – “Tyrannicide”*
2nd – Toxicon – “Be The Fire & Wish For The Wind”*
6th – Meteora – “of Shades and Colours”*
8th – Symbolical – “Natura”*
9th – Fallujah – “Empyrean”
9th – Blackment – “Plains of Oblivion”
9th – Stray From The Path – “Euthanasia”*
9th – Morphide – “Anhedonia”
9th – Vermilia – “Ruska”
9th – END/Cult Leader – “Gather & Mourn” (Split EP)
10th – Praise The Sun – “The Proffer Of Light”*
13th – Sublation – “Path To Bedlam”*
13th – Deformatory – “Harbinger” EP*
16th – Confessions Of A Traitor – “Punishing Myself Before God Does”
16th – Anti-Clone – Human (EP)*
16th – Somehow Jo – “Scales And Details”*
16th – Assimilator – “Self Titled”
16th – Destrage – “So Much, Too Much”
16th – A Burden To Bear – “With Empty Eyes and Hollow Hearts” EP
16th – Harmed – “The Everchanging Gap Between Life And Loss”
16th – BATTLESWORD – “Towards The Unknown”
19th – Algebra – “Chiroptera”*
19th – Miscreance – “Convergence”*
20th – OTUS – “Torch”*
23rd – Living Wreckage – “Self Titled”
23rd – Writhing – “Of Earth & Flesh” EP
23rd – Venom Inc – “There Is Only Black”
23rd – Eternal Closure – “At the Center of It All – Chapter I”*
23rd – Blodskam – “Ave Eve”
23rd – FALL OF CARTHAGE – “Drawn Into Madness”
23rd – Razor – “Cycle Of Contempt
23rd – Gales of Avalon – Oblivion EP
30th – Dark Forest – “Ridge & Furrow”
30th – Skelator – “Blood Empire”*
30th – Slipknot – “The End, So Far”
30th – Ruina – “As The Sky Begins to Break”*
30th – ELLENDE – “Ellenbogengesellschaft”

October 2022

1st – Brotthogg – “Epicinium”*
4th – Les Enfants de DAGON – “De Profundis”
7th – Lamb Of God – “Omen”
7th – Armed For Apocalypse – “Ritual Violence”
7th – RITUAL DICTATES – “No Great Loss”*
7th – Asgrauw – “Façade”
7th – Cogadh – “Rune Tongue”*
7th – Get The Shot – “Merciless Destruction”
7th – Wednesday 13 – “Horrifier”
7th – Sudden Deaf – “Havoc”
7th – Red Elm – “Arena”
7th – Boundaries – “Burying Brightness”
7th – Upon Your Grave – “Gold & Decay”*
7th – Faceless Burial – “At The Foothills Of Deliration”
7th – Counterparts – “A Eulogy For Those Still Here”
11th – MADROST – “Lost Lives Volume 1″*
14th – We Came As Romans – “Darkbloom”
14th – Varials – “Scars For You To Remember”
14th – Headshot – “Eyes Of The Guardians”
14th – Lacuna Coil – “Comalies XX”*
14th – Imprecation – “In Nomine Diaboli”*
14th – Obsidian Skies – “Saturnian” EP*
14th – Law Of Power – “Born Into War” EP*
14th – Lorna Shore – “Pain Remains”*
14th – She Must Burn – “Umbra Mortis”*
17th – Diabolical Raw – “Elegy of Fire Dusk”
20th – MARTYRED – “The Relegation”
21st – Architects – “The Classic Symptoms Of A Broken Spirit
21st – Crooked Royals – “Quarter Life Daydream”*
21st – Vatic – “Mercer 217” EP*
21st – Taking Balfour – “Dawn of Polaris”
21st – Pythian – “Understanding In Light” EP
21st – Cabal – “Magno Interitus”
21st – A Wake In Providence – “Eternity”
24th – Lastbreath – “Vendetta”*
26th – Ironstone – “The Place I Cannot Find”
28th – Clamoris – “Opus Limbonica”*
28th – Dr Acula – “Self Titled”
28th – The Gloom In The Corner – “Trinity”
28th – Fit For A King – “The Hell We Create”
28th – Gorotica – “Morbid Menagerie”*
28th – Triskelyon – “Downfall”*
28th – DEATHSIEGE – “Throne Of Heres”
28th – Darkthrone – “Astral Fortress”
28th – Despised Icon – “Déterré”
28th – Devin Townsend – “Lightwork”
28th – Deadbody – “The Requiem”
31st – Veil Of The Serpent – “Gallery Of Sin”*

November 2022

1st – Munitions – “Black Wind”*
4th – Ingested – “Ashes Lie Still”
4th – Echolot – “Curatio”
4th – Iron Kingdom – “The Blood Of Creation”
4th – Fuzznaut – “Apophenia”
4th – Wyrmwoods – “No Sun Nor Moon
4th – Ninth Realm – “A Fate Unbroken”*
4th – Strychnos – “A Mother’s Curse”*
4th – Gorgatron – “Agony Reborn” EP*
4th – Pitch Black Mentality – “World Final Wake”
4th – Sarcator – “Alkahest”
7th – Aittala – “Live To Regret”
9th – Chaos Over Cosmos –  “A Dream if Ever There Was One”*
10th – Warhymn – “Cult of Primordials”
11th – Scattered Storm – “In This Dying Sun” EP*
11th – Chelsea Grin – “Suffer In Hell”
11th – Bonecarver – “Carnage Funeral”*
11th – Kingsmen – “Bones Don’t Lie”
11th – Casket Robbery – “Rituals of Death”*
11th – Virulence – “Necrosis” EP
13th – Trash Panda – “Pawns Of The Putrid God”
14th – Infall – “Far”
18th – Candlemass – “Sweet Evil Sun”
18th – Vain Louie – “Time Devours Everything”
18th – Brothers Till We Die – “Reincarnation
18th – Scars Of The Flesh – “In Darkness Alone”*
18th – Borders “Bloom Season”
18th – Deathfiend – “Beyond Life”
18th – This Is The Last Time – “Acclimation”
18th – Griefbringer – “The Horrible Wilting”
18th – Crest – “Riptide” EP*
18th – Blood Of The Wolf – “IV: The Declaration Of War Eternal”
18th – Blight Town – “It Lives” EP*
25th – Katapult – “Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes”
25th – Alienatör – “Regrets”*
25th – Sirrush – “Molon Labe”
25th – Nazghor – “Seventh Secular Crusade”*
25th – The Last Ten Seconds Of Life – “Disquisition on an Execution“*
26th – Shoot To Kill – “Torment” EP
28th – Necrodeath – “Singin’ in the Pain”*
30th – Aghiazma – “Carnage”

December 2022

1st – Sonus Mortis – “Collapse The Mountain”*
1st – Sold Soul – “I Hope We Make It Out of This Alive”
2nd – Messora – “Burn”*
2nd – Dystopia A.D. – “Doomsday Psalm“*
2nd – Funeral Mass – “Shadow of the Raventhrone”
2nd – Despite Exile – “Wound”
2nd – Heron – “Empires of Ash”*
2nd – Shining Wizard – “Tournament Of Death”
2nd – Nihilist Death Cult – “Death To All Tyrants”*
2nd – Nighnacht – “Asking To Be Killed”
2nd – Death Reich – “The Final Plague” EP*
2nd – Napalm Ted – “PESTILENTIAL PURSUIT”* EP
2nd – In Search Of Solace – “The Endless Ache”
8th – WOLOK – “The Bilious Hues of Gloom”*
9th – Autumn’s Grief – “Dead By The Dawn”*
9th – Lionheart – “Welcome To The West Coast III”*
9th – Gomorra – “Dealer Of Souls”
9th – Stabbing – “Extirpated Mortal Process”*
9th – Imperial Execration – “Commanding Satan’s Crusades”
9th – Onhou – “Monument”*
12th – Mallus Spiritus – “Vultures of Despair”
12th – xygrbryrx – “Cunning Punts” EP*
15th – Død Håp – “Black Sun”*
16th – Xexyz – “Gamera”
20th – Godwatt – “Vol III”*
23rd – The Crippler – “I’m Just Gonna Let Myself In”
23rd – Drakh – “Crossing Spirits”*

*Reviewed by Metal Noise!
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