With so many new metal and hard rock albums being released each week, it can be difficult to keep up. We’re making things a lot easier for you by keeping track of all the 2022 releases in one convenient location.
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January 7, 2022
Apes – Lullabies For Eternal Sleep EP (Translation Loss)
At The Movies – The Soundtrack Of Your Life – Vol. 1 Re-Release (Atomic Fire)
At The Movies – The Soundtrack Of Your Life – Vol. 2 (Atomic Fire)
Carr Jam 21 – Can You Feel It EP (Self)
Carnation – Galaxy Studio Sessions (Season Of Mist)
Deaf Club – Productive Disruption (Three One G)
Infected Rain – Ecdysis (Napalm)
Despised Icon – Consumed By Your Poison Re-Release (Century Media)
Despised Icon – The Healing Process Re-Release (Century Media)
Necrophagous – In Chaos Ascend (Transcending Obscurity)
Needless – The Cosmic Cauldron (Uprising)
Nihility – Beyond Human Concepts (Vicious Instinct)
Nocturnal Graves – An Outlaws Stand (Season Of Mist)
Oar – The Blood You Crave (Blighttown)
Power Paladin – With The Magic Of Windfyre Steel (Atomic Fire)
Seven Nines And Tens – Over Opiated In A Forest Of Whispering Speakers (Willowtip)
Tygers Of Pan Tang – A New Heartbeat EP (Mighty)
Wilderun – Epigone (Century Media)
January 14, 2022
Aethereus – Leiden (The Artisan Era)
Arise From Worms – Arise From Worms EP (Goremaster)
Autumn’s Child – Zenith (Pride & Joy)
Belphegor – Blutsabbath Re-Release (Nuclear Blast)
Belphegor – The Last Supper Re-Release (Nuclear Blast)
Big Scenic Nowhere – The Long Morrow (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Breaths – Though Life Has Turned Out… (Trepnation)
Buffalo Revisited – Volcanic Rock Live (Ripple)
Descent – Order Of Chaos (Redefining Darkness)
Earthless – From The Ages Re-Release (Nuclear Blast)
Earthless – Rhythm From A Cosmic Sky Re-Release (Nuclear Blast)
Earthless – Sonic Prayer Re-Release (Nuclear Blast)
Ecryptus – Kyr’am Beskar’gam EP (SBDC)
Electromancy – Technopagan (Metal Assault)
Eliminator – Ancient Light (Dissonance)
Enterprise Earth – The Chosen (eOne)
Ereb Altor – Vargtimman (Hammerheart)
Fit For An Autopsy – Oh What The Future Holds (Nuclear Blast)
Furis Ignis – Decapitate The Aging World (Iron Bonehead)
Hit The Ground Runnin’ – Sudden Impact Re-Release (AOR Heaven)
Lee McKinney – In The Light Of Knowledge (Sumerian)
Magnum – The Monster Roars (SPV/Steamhammer)
Maule – Maule (Gates Of Hell)
Nullification – Kingdoms To Hovel (Personal)
Oceans – Hell Is Where The Heart Is Part I: Love EP (Nuclear Blast)
Oshiego – Jaljalut (Seven Kings)
Out Of This World – Out Of This World (Atomic Fire)
Party Cannon – Volumes Of Vomit (Gore House)
Pridelands – Light Bends (SharpTone)
Shadow Of Intent – Elegy (Blood Blast)
Skillet – Dominion (Atlantic)
Slowbleed – A Blazing Sun, The Fiery Dawn (Creator-Destructor)
Space Coke – Lunacy (Forbidden Place)
Spartan – Of Kings And Gods (Pest)
Tony Martin – Thorns (Dark Star)
Toundra – Hex (InsideOut)
Tristan Harders’ Twilight Theatre – Drifting Into Insanity (Pride & Joy)
Various Artists – Dominance And Submission: A Tribute To Blue Oyster Cult (Ripple)
Verbum – Exhortation To The Impure (Iron Bonehead)
Voodoma – Hellbound (Pride & Joy)
Weaponry – Everwinding Slaughter (Xtreem)
Wiegedood – There’s Always Blood At The End Of The Road (Century Media)
Wolfbastard – Hammer The Bastards (Clobber)
Worm Shepherd – Chalice Ov Rebirth (Unique Leader)
Wrong War – Once Upon A Weapon (Atomic Action/Council)
XCIII – Void (My Kingdom)
January 21, 2022
40 Watt Sun – Perfect Light (Svart)
Abyssus – Death Revival (Transcending Obscurity)
Acheron – Satanic Victory EP Re-Release (Vic)
Ashes Of Ares – Emperors And Fools (Rock Of Angels)
Battle Beast – Circus Of Doom (Nuclear Blast)
Beriedir – Aqva (Rockshots)
Billy Talent – Crisis Of Faith (Spinefarm)
Blood – Dysangelium Re-Release (Vic)
Boris – W (Sacred Bones)
Comeback Kid – Heavy Steps (Nuclear Blast)
Druid Lord – Relics Of The Dead (Hells Headbangers)
Edge Of Forever – Seminole (Frontiers)
Giant – Shifting Time (Frontiers)
Great American Ghost – Torture World EP (MNRK Heavy)
Hanging Garden – Neither Moth Nor Rust EP (Lifeforce)
Heir Apparent – Graceful Inheritance Re-Release (Hammerheart)
Kandia – Quaternary (Frontiers)
Kissin’ Dynamite – Not The End Of The Road (Napalm)
Lalu – Paint The Sky (Frontiers)
Lionheart – Second Nature Re-Release (Metalville)
Nocturna – Daughters Of The Night (Scarlet)
Setyoursails – Nightfall (Napalm)
Sleepwulf – Sunbeams Curl (Heavy Psych Sounds)
SOM – The Shape Of Everything (Pelagic)
Spitfire – Denial To Fail (No Remorse)
Through The Noise – Tragedies EP (Eclipse)
Tokyo Blade – Fury (Dissonance)
Torchbearer – Solace (Self)
Verikalpa – Tunturihauta (Scarlet)
Vrsty – Welcome Home (Spinefarm)
January 28, 2022
Aegrus – The Carnal Temples EP (Osmose)
Big Big Train – Welcome To The Planet (English Electric)
Burned In Effigy – Rex Mortem (Self)
Bye Bye Tsunami – Bye Bye Tsunami EP (Nefarious)
Celeste – Assassine(s) (Nuclear Blast)
Cloakroom – Dissolution Wave (Relapse)
Crystal Ball – Crysteria (Massacre)
Deathcult – Of Soil Unearthed (Invictus)
Earthless – Night Parade Of One Hundred Demons (Nuclear Blast)
Ectoplasma – Inferna Kabbalah (Memento Mori)
Faster Pussycat – Babylon: The Elektra Years 1987-1992 (HNE)
Freaks And Clowns – We Set The World On Fire (Metalville)
Gloves Off – Life…And Everything After (Upstate)
Grave Next Door – Sanctified Heathen (Black Doomba)
Harpyie – Blutbann (Metalville)
Hazemaze – Blinded By The Wicked (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Jethro Tull – The Zealot Gene (InsideOut)
The Last Ten Seconds Of Life – The Last Ten Seconds Of Life (Unique Leader)
Lawnmower Deth – Blunt Cutters (Dissonance)
Malefic Throne – Malefic Throne EP (Hells Headbangers)
Milquetoast – Caterwaul (Wise Blood)
The Mist From The Mountains – Monumental – The Temple Of Twilight (Primitive Reaction)
The Quill – Live, New, Borrowed, Blue (Metalville)
Rabid Dogs – Black Cowslip (Time To Kill)
Ravenous Death – Visions From The Netherworld (Memento Mori)
Steve Vai – Inviolate (Favored Nations/Mascot)
Stone House On Fire – Time Is A Razor (Electric Valley)
Tangent – Tangent EP (Dying Victims)
Tension – Decay (Dying Victims)
Toxpack – Zwanzig.Tausend.Volt (Napalm)
Vicious Knight – Alteration Through Possession (Dying Victims)
Wobbler – Afterglow Re-Release (Karisma)
Wobbler – Hinterland Re-Release (Karisma)
Wobbler – Rites At Dawn Re-Release (Karisma)
February 4, 2022
Abhoria – Abhoria (Prosthetic)
Abysmal Dawn – Nightmare Frontier EP (Season Of Mist)
Astrophobos – Corpus (Personal)
George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher – Corpsegrinder (Perseverance)
Korn – Requiem (Loma Vista)
Mass Worship – Portal Tombs (Century Media)
Michael Romeo – War Of The Worlds, Part II (InsideOut)
Mystic Circle – Mystic Circle (Atomic Fire)
Obsidian Sea – Pathos (Ripple)
Persephone – Metanoia (Napalm)
Powertryp – Midnight Marauder (Rafchild)
Rolo Tomassi – Where Myth Becomes Memory (MNRK)
Saxon – Carpe Diem (Silver Lining)
Seremonia – Neonlusifer (Svart)
Venom Prison – Erebos (Century Media)
Vorga – Striving Toward Oblivion (Transcending Obscurity)
Vulcano – Stone Orange (Emanzipation)
February 11, 2022
Amorphis – Halo (Atomic Fire)
Author & Punisher – Kruller (Relapse)
Creeping Flesh – And Then The Bombs Came (Emanzipation)
Cult Of Luna – The Long Road North (Metal Blade)
The Devils Of Loudun – Escaping Eternity (The Artisan Era)
Eddie Vedder – Earthling (Republic)
Girish And The Chronicles – Hail To The Heroes (Frontiers)
Hangman’s Chair – A Loner (Nuclear Blast)
Hexen – Being And Nothingness Re-Release (M-Theory)
Jizzy Pearl’s Love/Hate – Hell, CA (Golden Robot)
Mariangela Demurtas – Dark Ability EP (Self)
Naked Gypsy Queens – Georgiana EP (Mascot)
Napalm Death – Resentment Is Always Seismic – A Final Throw Of Throes EP (Century Media)
Near Death Condition – Ascent From The Mundane (Unique Leader)
Nervochaos – All Colors Of Darkness (Emanzipation)
Night Cobra – Dawn Of The Serpent (Irongrip/High Roller)
Once Human – Scar Weaver (earMusic)
Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy And The Conspirators – 4 (Gibson)
Tersivel – To The Orphic Void (Uprising)
Trouble – One For The Road/Unplugged Re-Release (Hammerheart)
Voivod – Syncro Anarchy (Century Media)
Zeal & Ardor – Zeal & Ardor (MVKA)
February 18, 2022
Annihilator – Metal II (earMusic)
Ard – Take Up My Bones (Prophecy)
Asiwyfa – Jettison (Equal Vision)
Black Map – Melodoria (Minus Head)
Boguslaw Balcerek’s Crylord – Human Heredity (Pride & Joy)
Bunuel – Killers Like Us (Profound Lore)
Dagoba – By Night (Napalm)
Fostermother – The Ocean (Ripple)
Glasya – Attarghan (Scarlet)
Goodbye June – See Where The Night Goes (Earache)
Immolation – Acts Of God (Nuclear Blast)
Jonas Lindberg And The Other Side – Miles From Nowhere (InsideOut)
The Last Of Lucy – Moksha (Transcending Obscurity)
Lord Agheros – Koine (My Kingdom)
Lunar Blood – Twilight Insurgency (Pulverised)
Manic Sinners – King Of The Badlands (Frontiers)
Matt Pike – Pike vs. The Automaton (MNRK Heavy)
The Neptune Power Federation – Le Demon De L’Amour (Cruz Del Sur)
Pure Wrath – Hymn To The Woeful Hearts (Debemur Morti)
Re-Machined – Brain Dead (Pride & Joy)
Rot TV – Tales Of Torment (Tee Pee)
Savage Grace – After The Fall From Grace Re-Release (Hammerheart)
Savage Grace – Master Of Disguise Re-Release (Hammerheart)
Schizophrenia – Recollections Of The Insane (Redefining Darkness)
Sickbay – Brutal Existence EP (Redefining Darkness)
Spirits Of Fire – Embrace The Unknown (Frontiers)
Star One – Revel In Time (InsideOut)
Static-X – Machine 20th Anniversary Edition (Otsego)
Veonity – Elements Of Power (Scarlet)
February 25, 2022
Abraham – Debris De Mondes Perdus (Pelagic)
Allegaeon – Damnum (Metal Blade)
Bad Omens – The Death Of Peace Of Mind (Sumerian)
Cobra The Impaler – Colossal Gods (Listenable)
Dashboard Confessional – All The Truth That I Can Tell (Hidden Note/AWAL)
Dead Head – Haatland (Petrichor)
Early Eyes – Look Alive! (Epitaph)
Eight Bells – Legacy Of Ruin (Prophecy)
Embryonic Devourment – Heresy Of The Highest Order (Unique Leader)
Firebreather – Dwell In The Fog (RidingEasy)
HammerFall – Hammer Of Dawn (Napalm)
Hebosagil – Yossa (Svart)
Metal Cross – Soul Ripper (From The Vaults)
Scorpions – Rock Believer (Spinefarm)
Serpent Cobra – Beware EP (Helter Skelter/Regain)
Shape Of Despair – Return To The Void
(Season Of Mist)
Short Stack – Maybe There’s No Heaven (UNFD)
Svartsot – Kumbl (Mighty)
Tankard – For A Thousand Years Box Set (Noise)
March 4, 2022
As I May – Karu (Uprising)
Cadaveria – The Shadows’ Madame Re-Release (Time To Kill)
Crowbar – Zero And Below (MRNK Heavy)
The Defaced – Charlatans (ViciSolum)
Endtime – Impending Doom (Heavy Psych Sounds)
The Flower Kings – By Royal Decree (InsideOut)
Godless Truth – Godless Truth (Transcending Obscurity)
Hath – All That Was Promised (Willowtip)
Jirm – The Tunnel, The Well, Holy Bedlam (Ripple)
Kuolemanlaakso – Kuusumu (Svart)
Kris Barras Band – Death Valley Paradise (Mascot)
Marillion – An Hour Before It’s Dark (earMusic)
Sabaton – The War To End All Wars (Nuclear Blast)
Sylvaine – Nova (Season Of Mist)
March 11, 2022
Chromancy – Shadows In Atlantis (Fighter)
E-L-R – Vexier (Prophecy)
Messa – Close (Svart)
Oddland – Vermillion (Uprising)
Shaman’s Harvest – Rebelator (Mascot)
Vanir – Sagas (Mighty)
March 18, 2022
Dark Funeral – We Are The Apocalypse (Century Media)
Friends Of Hell – Friends Of Hell (Rise Above)
Gauntlet Rule – The Plague Court (From The Vaults)
Hellfrost And Fire – Fire, Frost And Hell (Transcending Obscurity)
Hot Water Music – Feel The Void (Equal Vision)
Moonlight Haze – Animus (Scarlet)
Slaegt – Goddess (Century Media)
Stabbing Westward – Chasing Ghosts (COP International)
March 25, 2022
Animals As Leaders – Parrhesia (Sumerian)
BillyBio – Leaders And Liars (AFM)
Capricorn – For The Restless (Wild Kingdom)
Ignite – Ignite (Century Media)
Lucifer’s Child/Mystifier – Under Satan’s Wrath Split (Agonia)
Nite – Voices Of The Kronian Moon (Season Of Mist)
Placebo – Never Let Me Go (Rise)
Svartsot – Kumbi (Mighty)
Various Artists – Legacy: A Tribute To Leslie West (Provogue)
April 1, 2022
Centinex – The Pestilence EP (Agonia)
Pattern-Seeking Animals – Only Passing Through (InsideOut)
Violet Blend – Demons (Eclipse)
April 8, 2022
Destruction – Diabolical (Napalm)
Jack White – Fear Of The Dawn (Third Man)
Wet Leg – Wet Leg (Domino)
April 15, 2022
Fozzy – Boombox (Century Media)
May 6, 2022
Demonical – Mass Destroyer (Agonia)
Three Days Grace – Explosions (RCA)
June 22, 2022
Porcupine Tree – Closure/Continuation (Music For Nations/Megaforce)
