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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) [232] |
| Kublai Khan | Lowest Form of Animal (EP) [233] | |
| Lords of the Trident | The Offering [234] | |
| Meshuggah | Immutable [235] | |
| Nekrogoblikon | The Fundamental Slimes and Humours [236] | |
| Satan | Earth Infernal [237] | |
| Trick or Treat | Creepy Symphonies [238] | |
| Wolf | Shadowland [239] | |
| 8 | Destruction | Diabolical [240] |
| Hällas | Isle of Wisdom [241] | |
| Incite | Wake Up Dead [242] | |
| Inglorious | MMXXI Live at the Phoenix (live album) [243] | |
| Mors Principium Est | Liberate the Unborn Inhumanity (compilation album) [244] | |
| Papa Roach | Ego Trip [245] | |
| Terzij de Horde | In One of These, I Am Your Enemy [246] | |
| Treat | The Endgame [247] | |
| 14 | Psychostick | ... and Stuff (compilation album) [248] |
| 15 | Abated Mass of Flesh | The Existence of Human Suffering [249] |
| Axel Rudi Pell | Lost XXIII [250] | |
| Cancer Bats | Psychic Jailbreak [251] | |
| Grand Belial's Key | Kohanic Charmers [252] | |
| JBO | Planet Pink [253] | |
| Månegarm | Ynglingaättens Öde [254] | |
| Monuments | In Stasis [255] | |
| Nazareth | Surviving the Law [256] | |
| Powerglove | Flawless Victory (EP) [257] | |
| Ronnie Romero | Raised on Radio (covers album) [258] | |
| Semblant | Vermilion Eclipse [259] | |
| These Arms Are Snakes | Duct Tape & Shivering Crows (compilation album) [260] | |
| 22 | Archgoat | All Christianity Ends (EP) [261] |
| Caliban | Dystopia [262] | |
| Die Apokalyptischen Reiter | Wilde Kinder [263] | |
| King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard | Omnium Gatherum [264] | |
| Märvel | Graces Came with Malice [265] | |
| Miseration | Black Miracles and Dark Wonders [266] | |
| Northlane | Obsidian [267] | |
| Ocean Grove | Up in the Air Forever [268] | |
| Primus | Conspiranoid (EP) [269] | |
| Skull Fist | Paid in Full [270] | |
| Somali Yacht Club | The Space [271] | |
| Speckmann Project | Fiends of Emptiness [272] | |
| Udo Dirkschneider | My Way (covers album) [273] | |
| 23 | Charlie Benante | Moving Pitchers (EP) [274] |
| Kirk Hammett | Portals (EP) [275] | |
| The Lord | Forest Nocturne [276] | |
| 29 | Al-Namrood | Worship the Degenerate [277] |
| Crashdïet | Automaton [278] | |
| The Gathering | Beautiful Distortion [279] | |
| Helms Alee | Keep This Be the Way [280] | |
| Heriot | Profound Morality (EP) [281] | |
| Rammstein | Zeit [282] | |
| Thunder | Dopamine [283] | |
| Void of Vision | Chronicles II: Heaven (EP) [284] | |
| Vulcano | Stone Orange [285] | |
| Watain | The Agony & Ecstasy of Watain [286] |
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Derek Sherinian | Vortex [388] |
| Greg Puciato | Mirrorcell [389] | |
| Haunt | Windows of Your Heart [390] | |
| Holy Dragons | Jörmungandr – The Serpent of the World [391] | |
| Massacre | Mythos (EP) [392] | |
| Municipal Waste | Electrified Brain [393] | |
| Randy Holden | Population III [394] | |
| Saint Asonia | Introvert (EP) [395] | |
| Shinedown | Planet Zero [396] | |
| Superheist | MMXX [397] | |
| 6 | Coldrain | Nonnegative [398] |
| 8 | Altaria | Wisdom [399] |
| Blind Channel | Lifestyles of the Sick & Dangerous [400] | |
| Powerwolf | The Monumental Mass – A Cinematic Metal Event (live album) [401] | |
| Wormrot | Hiss [402] | |
| 13 | Obituary | Cause of Death – Live Infection (live album) [403] |
| Slowly We Rot – Live & Rotting (live album) [403] | ||
| 15 | Antigama | Whiteout [404] |
| Jack Starr's Burning Starr | Souls of the Innocent [405] | |
| Mantar | Pain Is Forever and This Is the End [406] | |
| Senses Fail | Hell Is in Your Head [407] | |
| Sinner | Brotherhood [408] | |
| 22 | Hatriot | The Vale of Shadows [409] |
| Imperial Triumphant | Spirit of Ecstasy [410] | |
| Karl Sanders | Saurian Apocalypse [411] | |
| Oceans of Slumber | Starlight and Ash [412] | |
| Palisades | Reaching Hypercritical [413] | |
| Scar for Life | Sociophobia [414] | |
| Witchery | Nightside [415] | |
| 28 | Bad Wolves | Sacred Kiss (EP) [416] |
| Incantation | Tricennial of Blasphemy (compilation album) [417] | |
| 29 | Belphegor | The Devils [418] |
| Black Magnet | Body Prophecy [419] | |
| Chat Pile | God's Country [420] | |
| Krisiun | Mortem Solis [421] | |
| Stick to Your Guns | Spectre [422] | |
| Torture Killer | Dead Inside (EP) [423] | |
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 96 Bitter Beings | Synergy Restored [576] |
| Black Anvil | Regenesis [577] | |
| Dayseeker | Dark Sun [578] | |
| Depresszió | Vissza a Földre [579] | |
| Devin Townsend | Lightwork [580] | |
| Disillusion | Ayam [581] | |
| Frank Bello | Then I'm Gone (EP) [582] | |
| Ingested | Ashes Lie Still [583] | |
| Voivod | Ultraman (EP) [584] | |
| 8 | Vinnie Moore | Double Exposure [585] |
| 11 | Arallu | Death Covenant [586] |
| Chelsea Grin | Suffer in Hell [587] | |
| Drudkh | Всі належать ночі [588] | |
| Enuff Z'Nuff | Finer Than Sin [589] | |
| Epica | The Alchemy Project (EP) [590] | |
| He Is Legend | Endless Hallway [591] | |
| Kampfar | Til Klovers Takt [592] | |
| Last in Line | A Day in the Life (EP) [593] | |
| Leatherwolf | Kill the Hunted [594] | |
| Ring of Fire | Gravity [595] | |
| Xentrix | Seven Words [596] | |
| 18 | 16 | Into Dust [597] |
| Aurora Borealis | Prophecy Is the Mold in Which History Is Poured [598] | |
| Autograph | Beyond [599] | |
| Candlemass | Sweet Evil Sun [600] | |
| Disturbed | Divisive [601] | |
| Nickelback | Get Rollin' [602] | |
| Ronnie Atkins | Symphomaniac (EP) [603] | |
| Saint Asonia | Extrovert (EP) [604] | |
| Soen | Atlantis (live album) [605] | |
| Tallah | The Generation of Danger [606] | |
| Threshold | Dividing Lines [607] | |
| U.D.O. | The Legacy (compilation album) [608] | |
| Wolves at the Gate | Lowborn (EP) [609] | |
| 25 | Elder | Innate Passage [610] |
| Hibernus Mortis | The Monoliths of Cursed Slumber [611] | |
| In the Woods... | Diversum [612] | |
| Judicator | The Majesty of Decay [613] | |
| The Last Ten Seconds of Life | Disquisition on an Execution (EP) [614] | |
| Leather | We Are the Chosen [615] | |
| Lee Aaron | Elevate [616] | |
| Ofermod | Ofermodian Litanies (mini-album) [617] | |
| Sword | III [618] | |
| 28 | Necrodeath | Singin' in the Pain [619] |
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | Amberian Dawn | Take a Chance – A Metal Tribute to ABBA (covers album) [620] |
| Deströyer 666 | Never Surrender [621] | |
| Eisregen | Wiedergänger (EP) [622] | |
| Hammers of Misfortune | Overtaker [623] | |
| 9 | Lionheart | Welcome to the West Coast III [624] |
| Ripper | Return to Death Row (EP) [625] | |
| Serenity | Memoria (live album) [626] | |
| 14 | Nemophila | Seize the Fate [627] |
| 15 | Rotting Christ | The Apocryphal Spells, Vol. I (EP) [628] |
| The Apocryphal Spells, Vol. II (EP) [628] | ||
| 22 | Rudra | Eight Mahavidyas [629] |
| 25 | Snowy Shaw | This Is Heavy Metal, Plain & Simple (compilation album) [630] |
| 30 | Lord of the Lost | Blood & Glitter [631] |
| Satanic Warmaster | Aamongandr [632] |