Here's ITP V.022 BEST OF 2022 LIST, belated as it is. I totally forgot to post this. Sorry I'm a little late.
BLACK METAL:
1. WHITE WARD-"FALSE LIGHT"
2. AENAON "MNEMOSYNE"
3. VORGA-"STRIVING TOWARD OBLIVION"
4. ELLENDE-"ELLENBOGENGESELLSCHAFT"
5. ABBATH-"DREAD REAVER"
6. COLDWORLD-"ISOLATION"
7. WOODS OF DESOLATION-"THE FALLING TIDE"
8. BLUT AUS NORD,-"DISHARMONIUM-UNDREAMABLE ABYSSES",
9. GOATWHORE: "ANGELS HUNG FROM THE ARCHES OF HEAVEN"
10: GAEREA-"MIRAGE"
POWER METAL
1. BLIND GUARDIAN-"THE GOD MACHINE"
2. DRAGONLAND-"THE POWER OF THE NIGHTSTAR"
3. STEEL ARCTUS-"MASTER OF WAR"
4. CRYSTAL GATES-"TORMENT & WONDER: "THE WAYS OF THE LONELY ONES"
5. SEVENTH STORM""MALECDITUS"
6. SEVEN KINGDOMS-ZENITH
7. GRAVESHADOWN-"THE UNCERTAIN HOUR"
8. STRATOVARIUS-"SURVIVE"
9. DRAGON HAMMER-"SECOND LIFE"
DEATH METAL:
1. IMMOLATION- "ACT OF GOD"
2. IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT-"SPIRIT OF ECSTASY"
3. PARTY CANNON-"VOLUMES OF VOMIT"
4. AUTOPSY-"MORBIDITY TRIUMPHANT"
5. DECAPITATED "CANCER CULTURE"
6. ARTIFICIAL: BRAIN' "ARTIFICIAL: BRAIN"
7. DREAM UNENDING-"SONG OF SALVATION"
8. MAMALEEK- "DINNER COFFEE"
9. VOMIT FORTH: "SEETHING MALEVOLENCE"
10-WORM'"BLUE NOTHING"
GRIND:
1-WORMROT-"HISS"
2. ESCULA- "GRIND-MEMORY THEATER
3. WAKE-"THOUGHT FORM DESCENT"
4. Narakah – Nemesis Cloak
5. Pharmacist – Flourishing Extremities on Unspoiled Mental Grounds
THRASH: (In no particular order)
ZEAL & ARDOR-"ZEAL & ARDOR"
VOIVOD: "SYNCHRO ANARCHY"
DESTRUCTION-DIABOLICAL"
VULCANO-"STONE ORANGE"
MEGADETH: "THE SICK, THE DYING...AND THE DEAD"
KREATOR: "HATE UBER ALLES"
DEATHHAMMER-"ELECTRIC WARFARE"
TOXIK: "DIS MORTA"
BLACKENED, DEATH METAL: (In no particular order)
1. DAEVA-"THROUGH SHEER WILL AND BLACK MAGIC"
2. HATH-"ALL THAT WAS PROMISED"
3. WORM SHEPARD-"RITUAL HYMNS"
4. NOCTURNAL GRAVES: "AN OUTLAWS' STAND"
DEATH/DOOM FUNERAL DOOM: (In no particular order)
EIRD-"A VOID CHASER'S ELEGY"
SINISTER DOWNFALL-"THE LAST WITNESS"
ET MORIEMUR- "TAMASHI NO YAMA",
CANDLEMASS- "SWEET EVIL SUN"
PROCESS OF GUILT-"SLAVES BENEATH THE SUN"
KHASMATA-EERIE "DISMAL GATEWAYS"
SHAPE OF DESPAIR-"RETURN TO VOID"
MIZMOR-"WITS END"
GRAVELANDE-"GRAVKVADE"
DEHA AND MARLO VAN HORN'
NECROPLANET-"NGATIVE SPACE"