The year 2022 brought many incredible releases for rock and metal fans, with new releases every week. And as is tradition at Wikimetal , we've gathered the main albums and EPs released this year in one place!
You can also check out our team's best-of-the-year lists, such as the 600 best songs released in 2022 in a playlist , 11 veteran bands that released old-school songs and delighted fans, and the list of the 50 best rock and heavy metal albums of the year here .
Our release calendar is updated weekly, also indicating the genre of each band and artist. To comfortably keep up with all the rock and metal releases, without missing any new singles, follow our new release playlist on Spotify and Deezer , also updated every Friday.
Below is our complete list of albums and EPs released in 2022!
LAST UPDATED: December 30th at 12:35 PM
See below the albums already released this year:
January 7th:
Atrocity – Unspoken Names (Demo 1991) (EP) [HEAVY METAL]
Infected Rain – Ecdysis [PROGRESSIVE METAL]
Needless – The Cosmic Cauldron [MELODIC/PROGRESSIVE DEATH METAL]
Pitty – Casulo (EP) [ROCK]
January 8:
Electric Sky – Electric Sky [HEAVY METAL]
January 10:
Desolation – The Unholy Spirit [DEATHCORE]
January 14:
Fit for an Autopsy – On What the Future Holds [DEATHCORE]
Memphis May Fire – The American Dream EP [METALCORE]
Shadow of Intent – Elegy [DEATHCORE]
Tony Martin – Thorns [HEAVY METAL]
Underoath – Voyeurist [METALCORE]
January 20th:
Johnny Monster – Perplexed Future [ROCK/POP]
January 21:
Ashes of Ares – Emperors and Fools [POWER METAL]
Asking Alexandria – Never Gonna Learn EP [METALCORE]
Battle Beast – Circus of Doom [POWER METAL]
Boris – W [METAL EXPERIMENTAL]
Confess – Revenge at All Costs [HEAVY METAL]
Kissin' Dynamite – Not the End of the Road [HEAVY METAL]
Sonata Arctica – Acoustic Adventures – Volume One [POWER METAL]
January 28:
Celeste – Assassine(s) [BLACK METAL / POST HARDCORE]
Cloakroom – Dissolution Wave [ROCK]
Dawn of Solace – Flames of Perdition [HEAVY METAL]
Lawnmower Deth – Blunt Cutters [THRASH METAL]
The Beatles – Get Back (Rooftop Performance) [CLASSIC ROCK]
The Dali Thundering Concept – All Mighty Men [DEATHCORE/METAL PROGRESSIVE]
The Last Ten Seconds of Life – The Last Ten Seconds of Life [DEATHCORE]
Praying Mantis – Katharsis [HEAVY METAL]
Rough Grind – Hardened [HARD ROCK/METAL]
Steve Vai – Inviolate [ROCK]
February 4th:
Abysmal Dawn – Nightmare Frontier (EP) [DEATH METAL]
Dinner And Whiskey Next Week – Gravitational Pull [PROGRESSIVE ROCK]
Korn – Requiem [NU METAL]
Mass Worship – Portal Tombs [METAL]
Saxon – Carpe Diem [HEAVY METAL]
SickWait – MAXXED EP [ROCK/PUNK] Venom Prison – Erebos [DEATH METAL]
February 7th:
Zion'z – Metanoia [ROCK/RAP]
February 11:
Amorphis – Halo [HEAVY METAL]
Cult of Luna – The Long Road North [HEAVY METAL]
Eddie Vedder – Earthling [ROCK]
Napalm Death – Resentment Is Always Seismic – A Final Throw of Throes [GRINDCORE]
Nervochaos – All Colors Of Darkness [DEATH METAL]
Once Human – Scar Weaver [HEAVY METAL]
Slash feat. Myles Kennedy & the Conspirators – 4 [HARD ROCK]
Voivod – Synchro Anarchy [PROG METAL
Zeal & Ardor – Zeal & Ardor [BLACK METAL]
February 18:
Annihilator – Metal II [THRASH METAL]
Bloodywood – Rakshak [HEAVY METAL]
Dagoba – By Night [METAL INDUSTRIAL]
Daniel Lima – Take Time [ROCK/FOLK]
Immolation – Acts of God [DEATH METAL]
Insanidade – Insanidade No Estúdio Showlivre [ROCK]
Memphis May Fire – Make Believe [METAL]
Nightrage – Abyss Rising [MELODIC DEATH METAL]
Spirits of Fire – Embrace The Unknown [HEAVY METAL]
Star One – Revel in Time [PROGRESSIVE METAL]
February 25:
Allegaeon – Damnum [EXTREME METAL]
Bad Omens – The Death of Peace of Mind [METALCORE]
Blood Incantation – Timewave Zero [DEATH METAL]
Corey Taylor – CMFB…Sides EP [ROCK]
George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher – Corpsegrinder [DEATH METAL]
Guns N' Roses – Hard Skool EP [HARD ROCK]
Hammerfall – Hammer of Dawn [POWER METAL]
Johnny Marr – Fever Dreams Pts 1-4 [ROCK]
Reckless Love – Turborider [ROCK]
Scorpions – Rock Believer [HARD ROCK]
Shape of Despair – Return to the Void [DOOM METAL]
Svartsot – Kumbl [FOLK METAL]Tears For Fears – The Tipping Point [ROCK]
0 March 4:
As I May – Karu [METALCORE]
Liquid Legacy – Red Pill s [METAL]
Marillion – An Hour Before It's Dark [ROCK]
Sabaton – The War To End All Wars [HEAVY METAL]
Sonofold – Ghosts EP [ALTERNATIVE ROCK]
March 10th:
Felipe Machado – Primata [ROCK/POP]
March 11:
Black Pantera – Ascension [THRASH METAL]
Claustrophobia – Unleeched [THRASH/DEATH METAL]
Find Me – Lightning In A Bottle [MELODIC ROCK]
Ghost – Impera [HEAVY METAL/DOOM METAL]
Humanal – Humanal EP [METAL]
Shaman's Harvest – Rebelator [ROCK]
Wolves at the Gate – Eulogies [METAL / POST HARDCORE]
March 17th:
Johnny Monster – Future Reflection [ROCK/POP]
March 18:
Am Samstag – Dualism [GRUNGE/PUNK]
Beartooth – Below (Deluxe) [METAL]
Dark Funeral – We Are the Apocalypse [BLACK METAL]
Keith Richards – Main Offender (Super Deluxe Reissue) [ROCK]
March 20th:
Weezer – SZNZ: Spring [ROCK]
March 25:
Abbath – Dread Reaver [BLACK METAL]
Architects – For Those That Wish To Exist At Abbey Road [METALCORE]
Destroyer – Labyrinthitis [ROCK]
Dream Widow – Dream Widow [THRASH METAL]
Drowned – Recipe of Hate [DEATH/THRASH METAL]
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts – Changeup [ROCK]
Killing Joke – Lord of Chaos EP [ROCK]
Placebo – Never Let Me Go [ROCK]
April 1st:
Centinex – The Pestilence (EP) [DEATH METAL]
Meshuggah – Immutable [PROGRESSIVE METAL/EXTREME METAL]
Red Hot Chilli Peppers – Unlimited Love [ROCK]
Verminspawn – The Heralds Of Pestilenc EP [THRASH/DEATH METAL]
Wolf – Shadowland [HEAVY METAL]
April 8:
Destruction – Diabolical [THRASH METAL]
Inglorious – MMXXI Live at the Phoenix [HARD ROCK]
Joe Satriani – The Elephants of Mars [ROCK]
Serj Tankian & The FCC – Live at Leed [ROCK]
Papa Roach – Ego Trip [METAL]
The Linda Lindas – Growing Up [PUNK ROCK]
Weedevil – The Return EP [STONER ROCK]
April 11:
3rd Secret – 3rd Secret [ALTERNATIVE ROCK]
April 15:
Cancer Bats – Pshychic Jailbreak [HARDCORE PUNK]
Semblant – Vermilion Eclipse [MELODIC METAL]
Shaman – Rescue [PROGRESSIVE POWER METAL]
April 22:
Dorothy – Gifts From The Holy Ghost [ROCK]
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Omnium Gatherum [PSYCHODELIC ROCK]
Northlane – Obsidian [METALCORE]
Udo Dirkschneider – My Way [METAL]
April 23:
Kirk Hammett – Portals [ROCK/METAL INSTRUMENTAL]
April 26:
Coastwise – War Machine EP [HARD ROCK]
April 29:
Ann Wilson – Fierce Bliss [CLASSIC ROCK]
Battle Beast – Circus of Doom [POWER METAL]
Rammstein – Zeit [INDUSTRIAL METAL]
Thunder – Dopamine [ROCK]
May 6:
Arcade Fire – WE [INDIE ROCK]
The Damnation – Way of Perdition [HEAVY METAL]
Depressed Mode – Decade of Silence [DEATH / DOOM METAL]
Fozzy – Boombox [HEAVY METAL]
Halestorm – Back From The Dead [HARD ROCK/ALTERNATIVE METAL]
Ibaraki – Rashomon [BLACK METAL]
Memphis May Fire – Your Turn (EP) [METALCORE]
Silverstein – Misery Made Me [POST-HARDCORE]
Three Days Grace – Explosions [ROCK]
Warpaint – Radiate Like This [ROCK]
May 13th:
Carnivore – Carnivore (Re-release) [METAL]
Opeth – In Cauda Venenum (Extended Edition) – [PROGRESSIVE METAL]
Ratos de Porão – Necropolítica [PUNK]
The Black Keys – Dropout Boogie [ALTERNATIVE ROCK]
May 19:
Warred – The Siren [METAL]
May 20:
Anvil – Impact Is Imminent [HEAVY METAL]
Evergrey – A Heartless Portrait (The Prohéan Testament) [PROGRESSIVE METAL]
James LaBrie – Beautiful Shade of Gray [PROGRESSIVE METAL]
Our Last Night – Uninstall (EP) [POST-HARDCORE]
Septicflesh – Modern Primitive [DEATH METAL]
May 27:
Bloodhunter – Knowledge Was The Price [DEATH METAL]
Def Leppard – Diamond Star Halos [ROCK]
Horehound – Collapse [DOOM METAL/SLUDGE]
Liam Gallagher – C'Mon You Know [ROCK]
Liam Gallagher – Down By The River Thames (Live) [ROCK]
Mark Tremonti – Mark Tremonti Sings Sinatra [ROCK]
Michael Schenker Group – Universal [HARD ROCK]
June 3:
Astronoid – Radiant Bloom [POST-METAL]
Bleed From Within – SHRINE [HEAVY METAL]
GWAR – The New Dark Ages [THRASH METAL]
Killswitch Engage – Live At The Palladium [METALCORE]
Memphis May Fire – Remade In Misery [METALCORE]
June 6th:
Twilight Aura – For a Better World [METAL]
June 10:
Downset – Maintain [HARDCORE]
Kreator – Hate Über Alles [THRASH METAL]
Motionless In White – Scoring The End Of The World [HEAVY METAL]
June 17:
Caravellus – Inter Mundos [POWER METAL]
Greg Puciato – Mirrorcell [ROCK]
Gray Daze – The Phoenix [ROCK]
Matanza Inc – Retórica Diabólica [METAL]
Our Last Night – Empires Fall [POST-HARDCORE]
Soulfly – The Soul Remains Insane: The Studio Albums 1998 To 2004 [HEAVY METAL]
Whitesnake – Greatest Hits [HARD ROCK]
June 24:
Alestorm – Seventh Rum Of A Seventh Rum [HEAVY METAL]
Alexisonfire – Otherness [POST-HARDCORE]
Black Stone Cherry – Live From The Royal Albert Hall… Y'all [ROCK]
DIIV – Sometime / Human / Geist (EP) [ROCK / POST-PUNK]
The Hellacopters – Through The Eyes Of The Hellacopters (EP) [ROCK]
Porcupine Tree – Closure/Continuation [ROCK]
Weezer – SZNZ: Summer [ROCK]
July 1st:
Municipal Waste – Electrified Brain [THRASH METAL]
Saint Asonia – Introvert (EP) [ROCK]
Shinedown – Planet Zero [ROCK]
July 8:
Blind Channel – Lifestyles Of The Sick & Dangerous [POST-HARDCORE]
Bullet For My Valentine – Bullet For My Valentine Deluxe Edition [HEAVY METAL]
Powerwolf – The Monumental Mass – A Cinematic Metal Event [POWER METAL]
July 15:
Interpol – The Other Side Of Make-Believe [ROCK]
Orianthi – Live From Hollywood [ROCK]
Senses Fail – Hell Is In Your Head [POST HARDCORE]
July 22:
Jack White – Entering Heaven Alive [ROCK]
ZZ Top – Raw [ROCK/BLUES ROCK]
July 29:
Belphegor – The Devils [DEATH METAL]
Dance Gavin Dance – Jackpot Juicer [ALTERNATIVE ROCK]
Krisiun – Mortem Solis [DEATH METAL]
August 5th:
Amon Amarth – The Great Heathen Army [MELODIC DEATH METAL]
In Hearts Wake – Green Is The New Black Soundtrack [METALCORE]
Soulfly – Totem [HEAVY METAL]
August 12:
Arch Enemy – Deceivers [MELODIC DEATH METAL]
Boris – Heavy Rocks (2022) [DOOM ROCK]
Hell Fire – Reckoning [THRASH METAL]
Hollywood Undead – Hotel Kalifornia [ROCK / METALCORE]
Hydra – Point Break [MELODIC ROCK]
Norma Jean – Deathrattle Sing For Me [METACORE]
August 19:
Conan – Evidence Of Immortality [DOOM METAL]
Five Finger Death Punch – Afterlife [METAL]
I Prevail – True Power [ROCK]
Soilwork – Övergivenheten [MELODIC DEATH METAL]
Thundermother – Black And Gold [HARD ROCK]
August 26:
Dynazty – Final Advent [POWER METAL]
Grave Digger – Symbol Of Eternity [HEAVY METAL]
Machine Head – Of Kingdom And Crown [HEAVY METAL]
Muse – Will Of The People [ALTERNATIVE ROCK]
September 2nd:
Blind Guardian – The God Machine [POWER METAL]
Berro Mote and Sorry For All – Sorry Pelo Berro [PUNK ROCK]
Femegades – Not All Men EP [PUNK ROCK]
The Hu – Rumble Of Thunder [HEAVY METAL FOLCLÓRICO]
Mad Chicken – Poultrygeist [Grunge/Sludge Metal]
Megadeth – The Sick, The Dying And The Dead [THRASH METAL]
Miss May I – Curse Of Existence [METALCORE]
September 5th:
Daniel Fonseca – Alienize EP [METAL]
September 9:
APNEA – Sea Sound [STONER ROCK]
Bloodbath – Survival Of The Sickest [DEATH METAL]
Ozzy Osbourne – Patient Number 9 [HEAVY METAL]
Julian Lennon – Jude [ROCK]
Parkway Drive – Darker Still [METALCORE]
Testament – Titans Of Creation Video Album [THRASH METAL]
Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown – Shake The Roots [ROCK]
September 16:
The 69 Eyes – Drive EP [ROCK]
Behemoth – Opvs Contra Natvram [DEATH METAL]
Clutch – Sunrise On Slaughter Beach [HARD ROCK]
Forkill – Sick Society [THRASH METAL]
The Devil Wears Prada – Color Decay [METALCORE]
The Mars Volta – The Mars Volta [ROCK]
Lou Reed – Words & Music, May 1965 [ROCK]
Mork – Den Svevende Festning EP [BLACK METAL]
Smith/Kotzen – Better Days… And Nights [HARD ROCK]
Wolfheart – King Of The North [MELODIC DEATH METAL]
September 23:
Avantasia – The Inmost Light EP [SYMPHONIC METAL]
Buzzcocks – Sonics In The Soul [ALTERNATIVE ROCK]
Dio – Dio At Donington '83 & '87 [METAL]
Motorhead – Iron Fist 40th Anniversary Edition [ROCK]
Stratovarius – Survive [POWER METAL]
Venom Inc. – There's Only Black [METAL]
September 30:
Alice Cooper – Live From The Astroturf [ROCK]
The Dead Daisies – Radiance [ROCK]
Dropkick Murphys – This Machine Still Kills Fascists [CELTIC PUNK]
Drowning Pool – Strike A Nerve [HEAVY METAL]
Pixies – Doggerel [ROCK]
Rage – Spreading the Plague [PROGRESSIVE METAL]
Raven – Leave 'Em Bleeding [HEAVY METAL]
Sabaton – Weapons Of The Modern Age [HEAVY METAL]
Sammy Hagar & The Circle – Crazy Times [HARD ROCK]
Slipknot – The End, So Far [NU METAL]
Sonata Arctica – Acoustic Adventures – Volume Two [POWER METAL]
Therion – Marijin Min Nar [SYMPHONIC METAL]
White Destruction – Lotus [THRASH METAL]
October 6th:
João Gordo – Brutal Brega [PUNK]
October 7th:
Armed For Apocalypse – Ritual Violence [HEAVY METAL]
Bush – The Art Of Survival [ROCK]
Charlotte Wessels – Tales From Six Feet Under Vol. II [ALTERNATIVE]
The Cult – Under The Midnight Sun [ROCK]
Ellefson-Soto – Vacation In The Underworld [METAL]
Get The Shot – Merciless Destruction [HARDCORE]
Lamb Of God – Omens [METAL]
Queensryche – Digital Noise Alliance [HEAVY METAL]
Wednesday 13 – Horrifier [GOTHIC METAL]
October 14:
Alter Bridge – Pawns & Kings [ROCK]
Lacuna Coil – Comalies XX [GOTHIC METAL]
Lorna Shore – Pain Remains [DEATHCORE]
Nothing More – Spirits [ROCK]
Orianthi – Rock Candy [ROCK]
Poppy – Stagger EP [ALTERNATIVE METAL]
The Puro – Law of Return [ALTERNATIVE ROCK]
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Return of the Dream Canteen [ROCK]
Skid Row – The Gang's All Here [HEAVY METAL]
Sleeping With Sirens – Complete Collapse [POST-HARDCORE]
We Came As Romans – Darkbloom [METALCORE]
October 21:
Architects – the classic symptoms of a broken spirit [METALCORE]
Arctic Monkeys – The Car [ALTERNATIVE ROCK]
Avantasia – A Paranormal Evening with the Moonflower Society [SYMPHONIC METAL]
Black Veil Brides – The Mourning EP [ROCK]
In This Moment – Blood 1983 EP [METAL]
Serj Tankian – Perplex Cities EP [HEAVY METAL]
Stryper – The Final Battle [HARD ROCK]
October 28:
The Damned – A Night Of A Thousand Vampires [ROCK]
Darkthrone – Astral Fortress [BLACK METAL]
Devil's Witches – In All Her Forms [ROCK]
Dimmu Borgir – Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia Re-Release [BLACK METAL]
Fear Factory – Recoded [HEAVY METAL]
Foo Fighters – The Essential Foo Fighters [ROCK]
Fit For A King – The Hell We Create [METALCORE]
Palaye Royale – Fever Dream [ALTERNATIVE ROCK]
Soraia – Bloom [ROCK]
November 4th:
Devin Townsend – Lightwork [ROCK]
Frank Bello – Then I'm Gone EP [ROCK/THRASH METAL]
The Pretty Reckless – Other Worlds [HARD ROCK]
Switchfoot – This Is Our Christmas Album [ALTERNATIVE ROCK]
Voivod – Ultraman EP [THRASH METAL]
November 11:
Epica – The Alchemy Project EP [SYMPHONIC METAL]
Guns N' Roses – Use Your Illusion I & II Box Set [HARD ROCK]
November 18:
Candlemass – Sweet Evil Sun [DOOM METAL]
Disturbed – Divisive [DISTURBED]
KISS – Creatures Of The Night Re-Release [HARD ROCK]
Nickelback – Get Rollin' [ROCK]
Queen – The Miracle (Collectors Edition) [ROCK]
Smashing Pumpkins – ATUM (Act 1) [ALTERNATIVE ROCK]
Wizards – Seven [METAL]
November 25:
Black Lava – Soul Furnace [BLACKENED DEATH METAL]
Circles – The Stories We Are Afraid Of Vol. 1 EP [EXPERIMENTAL ROCK]
League Of Distortion – League Of Distortion [METAL]
Spiritworld – Deathwestern [THRASH METAL/HARDCORE]
December 2nd:
Amberian Dawn – Take A Chance – A Metal Tribute To ABBA [METAL]
Destroyer 666 – Never Surrender [BLACK/THRASH METAL]
Hammers Of Misfortune – Overtaker [HEAVY METAL]
Mick's Jaguar – Salvation [ROCK]
NOFX – Double Album [PUNK ROCK]
White Lung – Premonition [PUNK ROCK]
Tarja – Best Of: Living The Dream [METAL SYMPHONIC]
December 9:
††† (Crosses) – Permanent.Radient EP
Lionheart – Welcome To The West Coast III
Woods Of Desolation – The Falling Tide
December 16:
Classless Act – Welcome To The Acoustic Show EP
Mos Generator – Time//Wounds
Rotting Christ – The Apocryphal Spells, Vol. 1 EP
December 30th:
Feuerschwanz – Todsünden [MEDIEVAL FOLK]
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