The Guardians - 2022 Roundup
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 Guardians 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 year saw a few extremely strong Power Metal releases with not much in-between other than a solid Satan release, a lukewarm Avantasia offering, and a few newer bands to me like Sumerlands, The Ferrymen, Riot City, and Maule showing that Heavy Metal isn't a totally dying breed. Blind Guardian and Fellowship were heavily within my rotation the past few months, whereas Power Paladin may be one of the dumbest Power Metal albums I've heard since Dragony's 2021 album last year.
- Blind Guardian - The God Machine
- Fellowship - The Saberlight Chronicles
- Satan - Earth Infernal
- Sumerlands - Dreamkiller
- Avantasia - A Paranormal Evening With the Moonflower Society
- Riot City - Electric Elite
- The Ferrymen - One More River to Cross
- Maule - Maule
- New Horizon - Gate of the Gods
- Battle Beast - Circus of Doom
- Nite - Voices of the Kronian Moon
- Septicflesh - Modern Primitive
- Saxon - Carpe Diem
- Unlucky Morpheus - Evolution
- Sabaton - The War to End All Wars
- Aeternam - Heir of the Rising Sun
- Hammerfall - Hammer of Dawn
- Bymir - Voices in the Sky
- Power Paladin - With the Magic of Windfyre Steel