Best New Music - 2022 edition

My June favorites albums:

  • Skills - Different Worlds (Hard Rock)
  • Karolina Errera & Lilit Grigoryan - Songs of Rain (Classical)
  • Anvil - Impact is Inminent (Metal)
  • Margaux de Fauchier - Disconova (Bossa Nova)
  • Joe Pass - Solo Flight (Jazz)
  • Graham Bonett - Live Around the World ( Live) (Hard Rock)
  • Kreator - Hate Uber Alles ( Metal)
  • The Tangent - Songs from the Hard Shoulder ( Prog Rock)
  • Seventh Wonder - The Testament (Metal)
  • Bokyung Byun - Clarice Assad, Brouwer & Others Guitar Work ( Classical Guitar)
 
I have no listen any other music in summer than Senjutsu every friday so to compensate this my next favorites lists will be a little more bigger.

My August favorites albums:

  • Simón Gof/ Katie Melua - Aerial (Ambient/Pop)
  • Bernie Marsden - Trios (Blues)
  • AZ - AZ ( Hard Rock)
  • Alan Parsons - From the New World (Prog Rock)
  • Arch Enemy - Deceivers (Metal)
  • Primus - Conspiranoid (EP) (Prog Metal)
  • Grave Digger - Symbol of Eternity (Metal)
 
My September favorites albums:

  • Megadeth - The Sick, The Dying and the Dead ( Metal)
  • King’s X - Three Sides of One (Prog Metal)
  • Blind Guardian - The God Machine (Metal)
  • Epica - Live at Paradiso (Live) (Metal)
  • Dynazty - Final Advent (Hard Rock)
  • Etrange - Enigme (Prog Metal)
  • Thundermother - Black and Gold (Hard Rock)
  • Deep Purple - The Now What. Extra and Bonus Songs (Rock)
  • Seventh Storm - Maledictus (Metal)
  • Manic Street Preachers - Know Your Enemy (Deluxe Edition)(Rock)
  • Smith/ Kotzen - Better Days and nights (Hard Rock)
  • Status Quo - Quoing in (The Best of the Naughtiest)(Rock)
  • Bill Evans - Morning Glory. The 1973 Concert Live in Buenos Aires (Jazz)
  • Will Vinson - Tripwire (Jazz)
  • Ringo Starr - EP3 (EP) (Pop Rock)
  • Pink Floyd - Animals (2018 Remix) (Prog Rock)
  • Talking Heads - Vital Signs (Live) (Pop Rock)
  • Motorpsycho - Ancient Astronauts (Prog Rock)
  • Supergrass - Supergrass (Deluxe Edition 2022 Remaster) (Pop Rock)
  • DIO - Live at Donnington ‘83 (Metal)
  • DIO - Live at Donnington ‘87 (Metal)
  • Machine Head - Of Kingdom and Crown ( Metal)
  • Deep Purple - The infinite B-Sides and Bonus Songs ( Live) ( Rock)
  • Chick Corea - The Montreaux Years (Live) (Jazz)
  • Caroline Savoie - Bruits Blancs ( Pop)
  • Annelien van Wauwe - Mozart Clarinet Concerto (EP)(Classical)
  • Children of the Sun - Roots ( Alternative)
  • Epica - We will take you with us (Live)
  • Laufey - The Reikjabik Sessions (EP) (Vocal Jazz)
  • Szun Waves - Earth Patterns (Jazz)
  • Arthur Brown & The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Long North Road ( Rock)
  • Mentalist - Empires Falling (Metal)
  • Laufey - Everything I know about Love (Vocal Jazz)
  • House of Lords - Saints and Sinners (Hard Rock)
  • Lindsey Webster - Reasons (Contemporary Vocal Jazz)
  • White Spirit - Right or Wrong (Hard Rock)
 
My September favorites albums:

  • Megadeth - The Sick, The Dying and the Dead ( Metal)
  • King’s X - Three Sides of One (Prog Metal)
  • Blind Guardian - The God Machine (Metal)
  • Epica - Live at Paradiso (Live) (Metal)
  • Dynazty - Final Advent (Hard Rock)
  • Etrange - Enigme (Prog Metal)
  • Thundermother - Black and Gold (Hard Rock)
  • Deep Purple - The Now What. Extra and Bonus Songs (Rock)
  • Seventh Storm - Maledictus (Metal)
  • Manic Street Preachers - Know Your Enemy (Deluxe Edition)(Rock)
  • Smith/ Kotzen - Better Days and nights (Hard Rock)
  • Status Quo - Quoing in (The Best of the Naughtiest)(Rock)
  • Bill Evans - Morning Glory. The 1973 Concert Live in Buenos Aires (Jazz)
  • Will Vinson - Tripwire (Jazz)
  • Ringo Starr - EP3 (EP) (Pop Rock)
  • Pink Floyd - Animals (2018 Remix) (Prog Rock)
  • Talking Heads - Vital Signs (Live) (Pop Rock)
  • Motorpsycho - Ancient Astronauts (Prog Rock)
  • Supergrass - Supergrass (Deluxe Edition 2022 Remaster) (Pop Rock)
  • DIO - Live at Donnington ‘83 (Metal)
  • DIO - Live at Donnington ‘87 (Metal)
  • Machine Head - Of Kingdom and Crown ( Metal)
  • Deep Purple - The infinite B-Sides and Bonus Songs ( Live) ( Rock)
  • Chick Corea - The Montreaux Years (Live) (Jazz)
  • Caroline Savoie - Bruits Blancs ( Pop)
  • Annelien van Wauwe - Mozart Clarinet Concerto (EP)(Classical)
  • Children of the Sun - Roots ( Alternative)
  • Epica - We will take you with us (Live)
  • Laufey - The Reikjabik Sessions (EP) (Vocal Jazz)
  • Szun Waves - Earth Patterns (Jazz)
  • Arthur Brown & The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Long North Road ( Rock)
  • Mentalist - Empires Falling (Metal)
  • Laufey - Everything I know about Love (Vocal Jazz)
  • House of Lords - Saints and Sinners (Hard Rock)
  • Lindsey Webster - Reasons (Contemporary Vocal Jazz)
  • White Spirit - Right or Wrong (Hard Rock)
If you have 36 favorite albums for September, how many did you listen to in total…?
 
If you have 36 favorite albums for September, how many did you listen to in total…?
I have no listened any kind of music in the summer. Just Senjutsu every Friday.
So I have to compensate 2 months from mid June to mid August and listen more than 1 album / day to complete my 365 albums challenge at the end of the year.

Btw I think the new White Spirit album will like you. Highly recommended.
 

Chez Kane - "Children of Tomorrow Gone" off her new album Powerzone, out last Friday.

Written, produced, engineered and performed by Crazy Lixx-vocalist/bandleader Danny with Chez on vocals.

Possibly my favourite song of 2022. I'm totally down for retro 80's music and Chez Kane really fills that void. Cheesy? Sure. But is it good? Well, it could easily have been a smash hit back in the late 80's, and whether that's good or bad is up to you.
 
My October favorites albums:

  • Bjork - Fossora (Alternative/Electronic)
  • The Dead Daisies - Radiance ( Hard Rock)
  • Stratovarius - Survive (Metal)
  • Adreanne A. Malette - Sitka (French Pop)
  • Tankard - Parlov’s Dawgs (Metal)
  • Rage - Spreading the Plague (EP) (Metal)
  • Gathering of Kings - Enigmatic (Metal)
  • Georgie Aue - Desert Cry (Vocal Jazz)
  • Aerodyne - Last Days of Sodom (Metal)
  • Veronica Sala - Destination Moon (Vocal Jazz)
  • Moonspell - From Down Below- Live 80 meters Deep ( Live) (Metal)
  • The Cult - Under the Midnight Sun (Rock)
  • Queensryche - Digital Noise Alliance ( Metal)
  • Franziska Loos - Generation Anything ( Vocal Jazz)
  • Ellefson - Soto - Vacation in the Underworld (Metal)
  • Billy Idol - The Cage (EP) (Rock)
  • Darkest Era - Wither on the Vine (Metal)
  • Kings of Mercia - Kings of Mercia (Hard Rock)
  • Robben Ford & Bill Evans - Common Ground (Jazz)
  • Melissa Lauren - My Voice (Jazz)
  • Marillion - Distant Lights. Leicester (Official Bootleg) (Prog Rock)
  • Marillion - Distant Lights. Port Zelande (Official Bootleg) (Prog Rock)
  • Alice Cooper - Live from the Astroturf (Rock)
  • Hawkwind - We are looking in on you ( Live) (Prog Rock)
  • Mayumi Hirasaki - Biber: Mystery Sonatas (Classical)
  • Alter Bridge - Pawns & Kings (Metal)
  • Julian Lage - View with a Room (Jazz)
  • Here it is: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen (Jazz)
  • Boney James - Detour (Jazz)
  • Asia - Asia in Asia. Live at the Budokan, Tokyo 1983 (Live) (Prog Rock)
  • Stryper - The Final Battle (Metal)
  • Joe Lynn Turner - Belly of the Beast (Metal)
  • Sodom - 40 Years at War. The Greatest Hell of Sodom (Metal)
 
My October favorites albums:


  • Moonspell - From Down Below- Live 80 meters Deep ( Live) (Metal)
This is a phenomenal live release from a phenomenal studio album. I got the deluxe blu-ray/book edition and the clear vinyl, and the sound and picture quality on both is amazing.

Edit: I've been listening to Moonspell since Wolfheart was their only album, and they're easily my favorite band behind Maiden. I don't believe they have a single weak album.
 
This is a phenomenal live release from a phenomenal studio album. I got the deluxe blu-ray/book edition and the clear vinyl, and the sound and picture quality on both is amazing.
I absolutely agree. Both are fantastic albums. It has been a great idea to get those songs in a live album. They sound so tight. One favorites of the year , no doubt.
 
Anima Morte - Serpents in the fields of sleep
(Instrumental Dark Prog Rock)


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Great discovery with this album. Great Instrumental stuff .

 
My favorite album from the year is: Battle Beast - Circus Of Doom.

On close second are: Stratovarius - Survive (an awesome surprise) and HammerFall - Hammer Of Dawn.

Other highlights are:

Scorpions - Rock Believer
Grave Digger - Symbol Of Eternity
Saxon - Carpe Diem
Sabaton - The War To End All Wars

Song of the year: Battle Beast - ''Place That We Call Home'' / Stratovarius - ''Frozen In Time'' or ''Voice Of Thunder'' / Scorpions - ''When You Know (Where You Came From)''

Album cover of the year: HammerFall - Hammer Of Dawn (hm: Grave Digger - Symbol Of Eternity, Visions Of Atlantis - Pirates and Saxon - Carpe Diem)

Great year for metal!
 
New music from Royal Thunder and the incredible Mlny Parsonz. 'Bout feckin' time!

While we're at it, this isn't from 2022, not even a little bit, but I only discovered it yesterday. It's my favorite thing on the Internet right now:
 
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