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)