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Aegrus - Invoking the Abysmal Night

There are so many releases that have potential to be best of the year. To make a fair assumption you got to thoroughly listen each album and grasp what it's all about. There is no way that I can do that to each release that sounds nice at first listen. Like if anyone can. Sulphur Aeon being fine example, initially I was not as impressed as I hoped to be. Lacking the brutality a bit. But many listens later I started to feel the album and understand it better. And now I believe it's magnificent. How many more albums will be around that requires similar effort? But these are all luxury problems. Fact is there is a ton of great releases in each genre each year. Now need to find a way to rank them a bit properly. Nice challenge!

Funny. This is what ChatGTP returns, I like the small comments and explanations it made:

Cognizant - Inexorable Nature of Adversity (Technical Grindcore ) Quite enjoyable. Walking Corpse - Our Hands, Your Throat (Swedish death/grindcore) Will be released December, nicely contained chaos.

Looking forward to following releases, a lot!: Afterbirth - In But Not Of - Hovering Human Head Drones (This is one of the more progressive songs on the album) Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns and Seven Seals: Omnivortex - Circulate is just out and is really good: Arborescence Of Wrath - Inferno - Origin worship but makes sense since Origin's singer is in the band with Marduk's drummer. Also if you like Hate Eternal.

Welkom medeNederlander!

Man Must Die must be one of my favourite artists. I have all their albums and come back regularly to them. Their last one I had to take more time to be able to rank them among their previous top tier releases. But it's definitely up there! Man Must Die - song: War Is My Will

Encryptment - Dödens födsel

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PROFANE ORDER - One Nightmare unto Another (2023) NWN! Productions Brutal!

Quite liking this album! At the Altar of the Horned God - Heart of Silence

Can't help but love this release! Faithxtractor - Contempt for a Failed Dimension

Schavot - Kronieken uit de nevel

I can't help but loving this band so much and this song especially. Second To Sun - Shaitan

Man Must Die is a long standing big fav of me - their furious and angry deathgrind does it for me. This new song of their new album is slower than normal. Let's see how the whole album pans out. Man Must Die - The Pain Behind It All

Thanks! That is awesome news - I really loved their previous release!!

Phobophilic - Enveloping Absurdity Sacrilegion - From Which Nightmares Crawl Walg - III

Thanks man!

To whom it may concern below is my blurred view on what is best of 2022 - this list if more material listened too would be likely little different: Album #1: Artificial Brain - Artificial Brain Album #2: Negative Plane - The Pact... Album #3: In Aphelion - Moribund Album #4: Vorga - Striving Toward Oblivion Album #5: De Profundis - The Corruption of Virtue Album #6: Sadistic Ritual - The Enigma, Boundless Album #7: The Antichrist Imperium - Volume III Satan in His Original Glory Album #8: Spider God - Fly in the Trap Album #9: Immolation - Acts of God Album #10: Wormrot - Hiss Album #11: The Chasm - The Scars of a Lost Reflective Shadow Album #12: Revocation - Netherheaven Album #13: Theotoxin - Fragment Totenruhe Album #14: Wrang - De vaendrig Album #15: Misthyrming - Med Hamri Album #16: Wiegedood - There's Always Blood at the End of the Road Album #17: Veilburner - VLBRNR Album #18: Altars Ablaze - Life Desecration Album #19: Verberis - Adumbration of the Veiled Logos Album #20: Faceless Burial - At the Foothills of Deliration HM: Werewolves, Hath, Thundering Hooves, Inanna, Altars, Golgothan Remains, Decapitated, Concilivm, Cryptic Hatred, Ripped to Shreds

Here some well done death metal releaes: Rotten Tomb - Visions of a Dismal Fate Werewolves - From the Cave to the Grave Reeking Aura - Blood and Bonemeal

Hi Airaux, I am thinking of: Alluvial - The Deep Longing for Annihilation Essence of Datum - Spellcrying Machine Dark Matter Secret - Perfect World Creation

Never thought tea would do this. Funny enough I am ok with red wine on the contrary.

I drink way too much coffee since long time - inherited from the time I have been working nightshift I guess. I still can't start up the day without 2x cups cups of coffee made from frseshly grinded beans. I have tried drinking a lot more tea during a period last year but apparently I can't handle tea, I was awake during some nights with some serious stomach pains. Since then I quit tea again and I never had i anymore. So got to stick to coffee drinking all day.

Prepping for AOTY list struggle; Corpsegrinder - Corpsegrinder

Looking forward seeing the lists from the population in here!