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| List of years in heavy metal music |
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| (table) |
This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2022.
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Centinex | The Pestilence (EP) [233] |
| Kublai Khan | Lowest Form of Animal (EP) [234] | |
| Lords of the Trident | The Offering [235] | |
| Meshuggah | Immutable [236] | |
| Nekrogoblikon | The Fundamental Slimes and Humours [237] | |
| Satan | Earth Infernal [238] | |
| Trick or Treat | Creepy Symphonies [239] | |
| Wolf | Shadowland [240] | |
| 8 | Destruction | Diabolical [241] |
| Hällas | Isle of Wisdom [242] | |
| Incite | Wake Up Dead [243] | |
| Inglorious | MMXXI Live at the Phoenix (live album) [244] | |
| Mors Principium Est | Liberate the Unborn Inhumanity (compilation album) [245] | |
| Papa Roach | Ego Trip [246] | |
| Terzij de Horde | In One of These, I Am Your Enemy [247] | |
| Treat | The Endgame [248] | |
| 14 | Psychostick | ... and Stuff (compilation album) [249] |
| 15 | Abated Mass of Flesh | The Existence of Human Suffering [250] |
| Axel Rudi Pell | Lost XXIII [251] | |
| Cancer Bats | Psychic Jailbreak [252] | |
| Grand Belial's Key | Kohanic Charmers [253] | |
| JBO | Planet Pink [254] | |
| Månegarm | Ynglingaättens Öde [255] | |
| Monuments | In Stasis [256] | |
| Nazareth | Surviving the Law [257] | |
| Powerglove | Flawless Victory (EP) [258] | |
| Ronnie Romero | Raised on Radio (covers album) [259] | |
| Semblant | Vermilion Eclipse [260] | |
| These Arms Are Snakes | Duct Tape & Shivering Crows (compilation album) [261] | |
| 22 | Archgoat | All Christianity Ends (EP) [262] |
| Caliban | Dystopia [263] | |
| Die Apokalyptischen Reiter | Wilde Kinder [264] | |
| King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard | Omnium Gatherum [265] | |
| Märvel | Graces Came with Malice [266] | |
| Miseration | Black Miracles and Dark Wonders [267] | |
| Northlane | Obsidian [268] | |
| Ocean Grove | Up in the Air Forever [269] | |
| Primus | Conspiranoid (EP) [270] | |
| Skull Fist | Paid in Full [271] | |
| Somali Yacht Club | The Space [272] | |
| Speckmann Project | Fiends of Emptiness [273] | |
| Udo Dirkschneider | My Way (covers album) [274] | |
| 23 | Charlie Benante | Moving Pitchers (EP) [275] |
| Kirk Hammett | Portals (EP) [276] | |
| The Lord | Forest Nocturne [277] | |
| 29 | Al-Namrood | Worship the Degenerate [278] |
| Crashdïet | Automaton [279] | |
| The Gathering | Beautiful Distortion [280] | |
| Helms Alee | Keep This Be the Way [281] | |
| Heriot | Profound Morality (EP) [282] | |
| Rammstein | Zeit [283] | |
| Thunder | Dopamine [284] | |
| Void of Vision | Chronicles II: Heaven (EP) [285] | |
| Vulcano | Stone Orange [286] | |
| Watain | The Agony & Ecstasy of Watain [287] |
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Derek Sherinian | Vortex [389] |
| Greg Puciato | Mirrorcell [390] | |
| Haunt | Windows of Your Heart [391] | |
| Holy Dragons | Jörmungandr – The Serpent of the World [392] | |
| Massacre | Mythos (EP) [393] | |
| Municipal Waste | Electrified Brain [394] | |
| Randy Holden | Population III [395] | |
| Saint Asonia | Introvert (EP) [396] | |
| Shinedown | Planet Zero [397] | |
| Superheist | MMXX [398] | |
| 6 | Coldrain | Nonnegative [399] |
| 8 | Altaria | Wisdom [400] |
| Blind Channel | Lifestyles of the Sick & Dangerous [401] | |
| Powerwolf | The Monumental Mass – A Cinematic Metal Event (live album) [402] | |
| Wormrot | Hiss [403] | |
| 13 | Obituary | Cause of Death – Live Infection (live album) [404] |
| Slowly We Rot – Live & Rotting (live album) [404] | ||
| 15 | Antigama | Whiteout [405] |
| Jack Starr's Burning Starr | Souls of the Innocent [406] | |
| Mantar | Pain Is Forever and This Is the End [407] | |
| Senses Fail | Hell Is in Your Head [408] | |
| Sinner | Brotherhood [409] | |
| 22 | Hatriot | The Vale of Shadows [410] |
| Imperial Triumphant | Spirit of Ecstasy [411] | |
| Karl Sanders | Saurian Apocalypse [412] | |
| Oceans of Slumber | Starlight and Ash [413] | |
| Palisades | Reaching Hypercritical [414] | |
| Scar for Life | Sociophobia [415] | |
| Witchery | Nightside [416] | |
| 28 | Bad Wolves | Sacred Kiss (EP) [417] |
| Incantation | Tricennial of Blasphemy (compilation album) [418] | |
| 29 | Belphegor | The Devils [419] |
| Black Magnet | Body Prophecy [420] | |
| Chat Pile | God's Country [421] | |
| Krisiun | Mortem Solis [422] | |
| Stick to Your Guns | Spectre [423] | |
| Torture Killer | Dead Inside (EP) [424] | |
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 96 Bitter Beings | Synergy Restored [577] |
| Black Anvil | Regenesis [578] | |
| Dayseeker | Dark Sun [579] | |
| Depresszió | Vissza a Földre [580] | |
| Devin Townsend | Lightwork [581] | |
| Disillusion | Ayam [582] | |
| Frank Bello | Then I'm Gone (EP) [583] | |
| Ingested | Ashes Lie Still [584] | |
| Voivod | Ultraman (EP) [585] | |
| 8 | Vinnie Moore | Double Exposure [586] |
| 11 | Arallu | Death Covenant [587] |
| Chelsea Grin | Suffer in Hell [588] | |
| Drudkh | Всі належать ночі [589] | |
| Enuff Z'Nuff | Finer Than Sin [590] | |
| Epica | The Alchemy Project (EP) [591] | |
| He Is Legend | Endless Hallway [592] | |
| Kampfar | Til Klovers Takt [593] | |
| Last in Line | A Day in the Life (EP) [594] | |
| Leatherwolf | Kill the Hunted [595] | |
| Ring of Fire | Gravity [596] | |
| Xentrix | Seven Words [597] | |
| 18 | 16 | Into Dust [598] |
| Aurora Borealis | Prophecy Is the Mold in Which History Is Poured [599] | |
| Autograph | Beyond [600] | |
| Candlemass | Sweet Evil Sun [601] | |
| Disturbed | Divisive [602] | |
| Nickelback | Get Rollin' [603] | |
| Ronnie Atkins | Symphomaniac (EP) [604] | |
| Saint Asonia | Extrovert (EP) [605] | |
| Soen | Atlantis (live album) [606] | |
| Tallah | The Generation of Danger [607] | |
| Threshold | Dividing Lines [608] | |
| U.D.O. | The Legacy (compilation album) [609] | |
| Wolves at the Gate | Lowborn (EP) [610] | |
| 25 | Elder | Innate Passage [611] |
| Hibernus Mortis | The Monoliths of Cursed Slumber [612] | |
| In the Woods... | Diversum [613] | |
| Judicator | The Majesty of Decay [614] | |
| The Last Ten Seconds of Life | Disquisition on an Execution (EP) [615] | |
| Leather | We Are the Chosen [616] | |
| Lee Aaron | Elevate [617] | |
| Ofermod | Ofermodian Litanies (mini-album) [618] | |
| Sword | III [619] | |
| 28 | Necrodeath | Singin' in the Pain [620] |
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | Amberian Dawn | Take a Chance – A Metal Tribute to ABBA (covers album) [621] |
| Deströyer 666 | Never Surrender [622] | |
| Eisregen | Wiedergänger (EP) [623] | |
| Hammers of Misfortune | Overtaker [624] | |
| 9 | Lionheart | Welcome to the West Coast III [625] |
| Ripper | Return to Death Row (EP) [626] | |
| Serenity | Memoria (live album) [627] | |
| 14 | Nemophila | Seize the Fate [628] |
| 15 | Rotting Christ | The Apocryphal Spells, Vol. I (EP) [629] |
| The Apocryphal Spells, Vol. II (EP) [629] | ||
| 22 | Rudra | Eight Mahavidyas [630] |
| 25 | Snowy Shaw | This Is Heavy Metal, Plain & Simple (compilation album) [631] |
| 30 | Lord of the Lost | Blood & Glitter [632] |
| Satanic Warmaster | Aamongandr [633] |