Although being a successor to the kind of “meh-years” 2020 and 2021, 2022 gave birth to a lot of great releases. Here is my little recap of what has been awesome throughout the year.
Albums:
![Wiegedood](https://www.transcendedmusic.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/286ED44D-D68C-4F87-A1CC-426A41145EE0.webp)
Wiegedood: There’s always blood at the end of the road
Dialing up the harshness and atmosphere Wiegedood released their best work so far.
![Celeste](https://www.transcendedmusic.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/F00AC8C9-CD97-4251-A882-CBBC805A4BE3_1_201_a.jpeg)
Celeste: Assassine(s)
Assassine(s) is Celeste’s most accessible work to date and holds its listeners firm like the hands on the cover.
![Heriot](https://www.transcendedmusic.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/a1652136800_10-1024x1024.jpg)
Heriot: Profound morality
Combining Hardcore, glitchy Electronic and bone crushing Metal, Heriot’s next steps will be felt in the upcoming years.
![Hundred year old man - Sleep in Light](https://www.transcendedmusic.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/a0041164048_10-1024x1021.jpg)
Hundred Year Old Man: Sleep in light
Massive as a planet killing asteroid this Post-Metal opus magnum is a big welcome back by Hundred Year Old Man and screams to perforate your ears in a live setting.
![Reeking Aura](https://www.transcendedmusic.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/a0603987504_10-1024x1024.jpg)
Reeking Aura: Blood and bonemeal
This psychotic crop caretaker is sure to rake your mind too!
![](https://www.transcendedmusic.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/a1718081395_10-1024x1024.jpg)
Primitive Man: Insurmountable
Primitive Man continue to push the definition of what is bearable listening to.
![Cover of False Light by White Ward](https://www.transcendedmusic.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/a2447867317_10-1024x1024.jpg)
White Ward: False light
False light is the new climax in White Wards discography, nothing more, nothing less.
![Soft Kill](https://www.transcendedmusic.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/a3832214755_10-1024x1024.jpg)
Soft Kill: Canary yellow
Evading expectations and succeeding in creating a heart gripping record.
![Our loss is total](https://www.transcendedmusic.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/3360420-1024x1024.jpg)
Our Loss Is Total: I
The Black Metal brainchild of Neaera and Heaven Shall Burn members comes black, bleak and blasting.
![Tribal Gaze](https://www.transcendedmusic.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/a2179170318_10-1024x1024.jpg)
Tribal Gaze: The nine choirs
Death Metal got a whole lot better with this release alone.
![](https://www.transcendedmusic.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/a0422845073_10-1024x925.jpg)
Blood Incantation: Timewave zero
Ambient done by a Death Metal band, what can go wrong? Nothing.
![Birds in Row](https://www.transcendedmusic.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/a2654440946_10-1024x1024.jpg)
Birds In Row: Gris Klein
Gris Klein is the most focused release of Birds in Row so far, they rely on their strengths and build upon them.
EPs:
![Rotting in Dirt](https://www.transcendedmusic.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/a2222592034_10-1024x1024.jpg)
Rotting In Dirt: I am eating my shame
Ferocious like a trapped animal, which has you in its fangs.
![Copse](https://www.transcendedmusic.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Mara-_-Mondrem-Artwork-1024x1024.jpg)
Copse: Mara|Mondrem
If this EP does not catch your Post-Black Metal heart than nothing else will.
![Ashtoreth & Pilgrimage to Pleroma](https://www.transcendedmusic.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/284260535_428282155965020_2494786537931292585_n-1024x1024.jpg)
Ashtoreth & Pilgrimage To Pleroma: UR
Ambient for every coming doomsday.
![](https://www.transcendedmusic.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/a1917976336_10-1024x1024.jpg)
God Mother: Obeveklig
Take a chance, take a chance, take a chuggah chance on this effing great new EP by Hardcore Swedes God Mother!
![](https://www.transcendedmusic.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/a2342637065_10-1024x1024.jpg)
Jesus Wept: Psychedelic degeneracy
Groovy as ever Jesus Wept riffed into my heart this year.
![Oversize](https://www.transcendedmusic.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/a2689326999_10-1024x1024.jpg)
Oversize: Into the ceiling
Summer maybe gone, but this EP will stay in its playlists.
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