A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears…
>>> Decibel Magazine Top 40 of 2022, Nos. 19-6
Dream Unending - Song of Salvation (20 Buck Spin; 2022)
Phobophilic - Enveloping Absurdity (Prosthetic; 2022)
Negative Plane - The Pact… (The Ajna Offensive; 2022)
Sumerlands - Dreamkiller (Relapse; 2022)
Terror - Pain Into Power (Pure Noise; 2022)
Voivod - Synchro Anarchy (Century Media; 2022)
Chat Pile - God's Country (The Flenser; 2022)
Wake - Thought Form Descent (Metal Blade; 2022)
Oceans of Slumber - Starlight and Ash (Century Media; 2022)
Mortuous - Upon Desolation (Carbonized; 2022)
KEN Mode - Null (Artoffact; 2022)
Kreator - Hate Über Alles (Nuclear Blast; 2022)
Nechochwen - Kanawha Black (Bindrune; 2022)
Soul Glo - Diaspora Problems (Epitaph; 2022)
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Lorenzo Montanà - Decorar Silenzi (Projekt; due Jan 6, 2023)
>>> Decibel Magazine Top 40 of 2022, Nos. 5-3
Immolation - Acts of God (Nuclear Blast; 2022)
Blackbraid - Blackbraid I (self-released; 2022)
Sonja - Loud Arriver (Cruz del Sur; 2022)
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Purple Decades - Journey Test (Beacon Sound; due Jan. 27, 2023)
Joanna Mattrey & Steven Long - Strider (Dear Life; due Feb. 10, 2023)
Laraaji - Segue to Infinity (Numero Group; due Feb. 10, 2023, recorded late 1970s)
>>> Decibel Magazine Top 40 of 2022, Nos. 2-1
Cave In - Heavy Pendulum (Relapse; 2022)
Undeath - It’s Time… to Rise from the Grave (Prosthetic; 2022)
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claire rousay & Jacob Wick - anything you can do… (Mended Dreams; 2022)
Ángeles Rojas - breathe into the forest, into the bird, into the song (Sawyer Editions; due Jan. 6, 2023)
Christopher Poovey - Vessels: Spellbook in the House of Hearts (Sawyer Editions; due Jan. 6, 2023)
James M. Creed - Six Studies (Sawyer Editions; due Jan. 6, 2023)
Lottie Sadd - a practice in taking up space (Sawyer Editions; due Jan. 6, 2023)
Anne-F Jacques & claire rousay - a very busy social life (Mended Dreams; 2022)
Grant Evans - Surveillance Palmistry (Humanhood Recordings; 2022)
Cecil Taylor - Newport 1965 (HI_Q; 2022)
Marc Ducret - Palm Sweat: Marc Ducret Plays the Music of Tim Berne (Out of Your Head; due March 10, 2023)
George Walker - Antifonys; Sinfonia No. 4 ("Strands"); Lilacs; Sinfonia No. 5 ("Visions") - Latonia Moore, Cleveland Orchestra/Franz Welser-Möst (Cleveland Orchestra; 2022)