The Horde - 2022 Roundup

Xephyr
Xephyr
The Guardians The Infinite The North
First Post November 29, 2022 09:29 PM
Post #12986
I'm having some issues with my 2022 list this year, so I'm going to try and break everything down by Clan to try and organize my thoughts. Here's my full, ordered list of Horde albums I've checked out this year, I'd be interested to see anyone else's top 5 or 10 or whatever as we're going into the final month of 2022. This one is going to be tough and I'll probably come back to reorder it as there are always a ton of middling to above-average Death Metal albums that get pushed to the forefront each year. The first 10 or so are fantastic, but the list quickly loses some steam after that. Encenathrakh also had the pleasure of being my second ever 0.5 rating, which drives home the fact that I'm truly not a fan of improv Brutal/Slam Death Metal.

  1. Imperial Triumphant - Spirit of Ecstasy
  2. Allegaeon - Damnum
  3. Artificial Brain - Artificial Brain
  4. Inanna - Void of Unending Depths
  5. Grenadier - Trumpets Blare in Blazing Glory
  6. Haunter - Discarnate Ails
  7. Immolation - Acts of God
  8. Aeviterne - The Ailing Facade
  9. Hath - All That Was Promised
  10. The Chasm - The Scars of a Lost Reflective Shadow
  11. Cosmic Putrefaction - Crepuscular Dirge for the Blessed Ones
  12. Esoctrilihum - Consecration of the Spiritus Flesh
  13. Undeath - It's Time... To Rise From the Grave
  14. Suppression - The Sorrow of Soul Through Flesh
  15. Bloodbath - Survival of the Sickest
  16. Imperial Circus Dead Decadence - Mogari...
  17. Cloud Rat - Threshold
  18. Desolate Shrine - Fires of the Dying World
  19. The Halo Effect - Days of the Lost
  20. Shadow of Intent - Elegy
  21. Rotten Tomb - Visions of a Dismal FateAnalepsy - Quiescence
  22. Schizophrenia - Recollections of the Insane
  23. Psycroptic - Divine Council
  24. Mortuous - Upon Desolation
  25. Septicflesh - Modern Primitive
  26. Wormrot - Hiss
  27. Aeternam - Heir of the Rising Sun
  28. Golgothan Remains - Adorned In Ruin
  29. Bymir - Voices in the Sky
  30. Cryptworm - Spewing Mephitic Putridity
  31. Knoll - Metempiric
  32. Encenathrakh - Ithate Thngth Oceate
Ben
Ben
The Fallen The Horde The North The Pit
November 30, 2022 10:07 AM
Post #12988

Here's my list for the year...


1. Inanna - Void of Unending Depths

2. Immolation - Acts of God

3. Artificial Brain - Artificial Brain

4. Ataraxy - The Last Mirror

5. Pharmacist - Flourishing Extremities on Unspoiled Mental Grounds

6. Hath - All That Was Promised

7. Cosmic Putrefaction - Crepuscular Dirge for the Blessed Ones

8. Allagaeon - Damnum

9. Aeviterne - The Ailing Facade

10. Schizophrenia - Recollections of the Insane

11. Shadow of Intent - Elegy

12. Esoctrilihum - Consecration of the Spiritüs Flesh

13. The Chasm - The Scars of a Lost Reflective Shadow

14. The Halo Effect - Days of the Lost

15. Undeath - It's Time... to Rise From the Grave

16. Imperial Triumphant - Spirit of Ecstasy

17. Needless - The Cosmic Cauldron

Xephyr
Xephyr
The Guardians The Infinite The North
December 05, 2022 07:21 PM
Post #13101

I've been seeing that Pharmacist album everywhere for the past few months and finally decided to give it a shot. What a weird and funky sounding album. Definitely not my thing but I'm starting to understand the hype, the fact that they're able to weave some random Progressive Metal passages in with everything else is very impressive. I think the base is a little too "disgusting" sounding for me, as a lot of my complaints stem from the vocal performance, but all the grooves and riffs they're able to accomplish are really cool. Hopefully I'll get a few more listens out of it to see if it edges anything out on the list. If anything, this is definitely a more impressive album than something like Undeath's record this year, despite me probably preferring that record for casual listening over something like Pharmacist.