Episode 176 "The Worst of 2022 Pt I: Black Metal"
| Artist | Title | Album | Label | New | Local |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nine Souls (U.S.) | Hexing Gaze | The Altar Awaits (2022) | Independent | ✔ | |
| Sotherion (France) | Shrine of the Chosen | Schwarmgeist (2022) | World Terror Committee Productions | ✔ | |
| Solipnosis (Chile) | Permanencia de Memoria Immediata | Poder absoluto individual (2022) | Dissonant Death Records | ✔ | |
| Stangarigel (Slovakia) | Hviezdne ohne nad kosodrevinami | Na Severe Srdca (2022) | Hexencave Productions | ✔ | |
| Pyrrha (Sweden) | Unholy Desires | A Path Damnation (2022) | Independent | ✔ | |
| Remorseless Winter (Washington D.C.) | Vortex of the Unknown | An Exile from the Body of Flesh and Blood (2022) | Independent | ✔ | |
| Scalding (Canada) | As Darkness Descends to Chaos | Exordium (2022) | Independent | ✔ | |
| Unholy Altar (Philadelphia) | Bloodless Cadaver | Unholy Altar Demo (2022) | Independent | ✔ | ✔ |
| Chamber of Mirrors (California) | Call from Beyond | Shadow Kingdom (2022) | Independent | ✔ | |
| Dreven (Czechia) | Undead | Dreven Demo (2022) | Independent | ✔ | |
| Hulder (Washington) | Sylvan Awakening | The Eternal Fanfare (2022) | 20 Buck Spin | ✔ | |
| Daeva (Philadelphia) | The Architect and the Monument | Through Sheer Will and Black Magic (2022) | 20 Buck Spin | ✔ | ✔ |
| Erzfeynd (Germany) | Firnoman | Behaft.Bekert (2022) | Independent | ✔ | |
| Kampfar (Norway) | Flammen Fra Nord | Til Klover Takt (2022) | Indie Recordings | ✔ | |
| Falls of Rauros (Maine) | Known World Narrows | Key to a Vanishing Future (2022) | Eisenwald | ✔ | |
| Arkæon (Denmark) | Parasit | Parasit (2022) | I, Voidhanger Records | ✔ | |
| Trolldom (Sweden) | Avtryck i tiden, vävens sista stycke | Av gudars ätt... (2022) | Iron Bonehead Productions | ✔ | |
| Krallice (New York) | Reprisals of Destiny | Psychagogue (2022) | Independent | ✔ | |
| Watain (Sweden) | Ecstasies in Night Infinite | The Agony & Ecstasy of Watain (2022) | Nuclear Blast | ✔ |