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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2022.
Bands formed[edit]
Bands disbanded[edit]
Bands reformed[edit]
Deaths[edit]
- January 4 – Andrzej Nowak, guitarist of TSA, died from a long-term illness at the age of 62.[6]
- January 10 – Burke Shelley, vocalist and bassist of Budgie, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 71.[7]
- January 10 – Gérard Drouot, promoter of numerous rock and metal bands including Deep Purple and Alice Cooper, died from leukemia at the age of 69.[8]
- January 20 – Michael Lee Aday, singer and actor better known as Meat Loaf, died from COVID-19 complications at the age of 74.[9][10][11]
- January 25 – Fredrik Johansson, former guitarist of Dark Tranquillity, died from cancer at the age of 47.[12][13]
- January 26 – Kit Woolven, producer and engineer for albums by numerous rock and metal bands including Thin Lizzy, UFO, Cradle of Filth, Tony Iommi, Cathedral, and Steelheart, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 71.[14]
- February 1 – Jon Zazula, co-founder of Megaforce Records, died from complications of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and osteopenia at the age of 69.[15]
- February 6 – Bruce Greig, former guitarist of Misery Index and Dying Fetus, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 54.[16][17]
- February 10 – Roman Kostrzewski, vocalist of Kat & Roman Kostrzewski and former vocalist of Kat, died from cancer at the age of 61.[18][19]
- March 8 – Joe Moore, former drummer of Blood Feast, died from undisclosed reason at the age of 55.[20]
Events[edit]
- After two postponements, in 2020 and 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, heavy metal-related festivals such as Download, Sweden Rock Festival and Hellfest are expected to return this year.[21][22][23]
- On January 21, Testament announced the band was amicably parting ways with longtime drummer Gene Hoglan for the second time. Hoglan's previous stint with the band was between 1996 and 1997.[24] About two months later, he was replaced by Dave Lombardo, who was previously a member of Testament between 1998 and 1999.[25]
- On February 23, Tom Smith, guitarist of The Acacia Strain, has announced that he will be leaving the band in early March following a run of shows ending in Albany, New York.[26]
- On March 1, vocalist John Robert Centorrino, bassist Mike Menocker, and drummer Steven Sanchez departed The Last Ten Seconds of Life.[27]
- On October 29, UFO (who had begun their farewell tour in 2019) is scheduled to play their last-ever concert in Athens, Greece.[28]
Albums expected[edit]
January[edit]
Day | Artist | Album |
---|---|---|
7 | Atrocity | Unspoken Names (Demo 1991) (EP)[29] |
Infected Rain | Ecdysis[30] | |
Schwarzer Engel | Sieben[31] | |
14 | Enterprise Earth | The Chosen[32] |
Fit for an Autopsy | Oh What the Future Holds[33] | |
Ilium | Quantum Evolution Event (EP)[34] | |
Shadow of Intent | Elegy[35] | |
Skillet | Dominion[36] | |
Tony Martin | Thorns[37] | |
Underoath | Voyeurist[38] | |
21 | Ashes of Ares | Emperors and Fools[39] |
Asking Alexandria | Never Gonna Learn (EP)[40] | |
Battle Beast | Circus of Doom[41] | |
Boris | W[42] | |
Confess | Revenge at All Costs[43] | |
Giant | Shifting Time[44] | |
Iced Earth | A Narrative Soundscape[45] | |
Kissin' Dynamite | Not the End of the Road[46] | |
Sonata Arctica | Acoustic Adventures – Volume One[47] | |
Tokyo Blade | Fury[48] | |
28 | Celeste | Assassine(s)[49] |
Cloakroom | Dissolution Wave[50] | |
Dawn of Solace | Flames of Perdition[51] | |
Emerald Sun | Kingdom of Gods[52] | |
Krallice | Crystalline Exhaustion[53] | |
Lana Lane | Neptune Blue[54] | |
The Last Ten Seconds of Life | The Last Ten Seconds of Life[55] | |
Lawnmower Deth | Blunt Cutters[56] | |
Praying Mantis | Katharsis[57] | |
The Quill | Live, New, Borrowed, Blue (compilation album)[58] | |
Steve Vai | Inviolate[59] |
February[edit]
March[edit]
Day | Artist | Album |
---|---|---|
4 | 10 Years | Deconstructed[102] |
Crowbar | Zero and Below[103] | |
Eric Wagner | In the Lonely Light of Mourning[104] | |
Flaw | Revival (covers album)[105] | |
Sabaton | The War to End All Wars[106] | |
Sunflower Dead | March of the Leper[107] | |
Ty Tabor | Shades[108] | |
Vein.fm | The World Is Going to Ruin You[109] | |
Vio-lence | Let the World Burn (EP)[110] | |
Warrior Soul | Out on Bail[111] | |
5 | Troglodyte | The Hierarchical Ecological Succession: Welcome to the Food Chain[112] |
11 | Brandon Boyd | Echoes and Cocoons[113] |
Claustrofobia | Unleeched[114] | |
Cloven Hoof | Time Assassin[115] | |
Ghost | Impera[116] | |
Grim Reaper | Reaping the Whirlwind (live album)[117] | |
Kiss | Off the Soundboard: Live in Virginia Beach (live album)[118] | |
Love/Hate | HELL, CA[119] | |
New Horizon | Gate of the Gods[120] | |
Shaman's Harvest | Rebelator[121] | |
Wolves at the Gate | Eulogies[122] | |
12 | Dog Fashion Disco | Cult Classic[123] |
18 | Agathodaimon | The Seven[124] |
Dark Funeral | We Are the Apocalypse[125] | |
Dawn of Ashes | Scars of the Broken[126] | |
JBO | Planet Pink[127] | |
Ronni Le Tekrø | Bigfoot TV[128] | |
Ronnie Atkins | Make It Count[129] | |
Stabbing Westward | Chasing Ghosts[130] | |
25 | Abbath | Dread Reaver[131] |
Animals as Leaders | Parrhesia[132] | |
Architects | For Those That Wish to Exist at Abbey Road (live album)[133] | |
BillyBio | Leaders and Liars[134] | |
Crystal Viper | The Last Axeman (mini-album)[135] | |
Eucharist | I Am the Void[136] | |
Hardcore Superstar | Abrakadabra[137] | |
Killing Joke | Lord of Chaos (EP)[138] | |
Michael Romeo | War of the Worlds, Part 2[139] | |
Pist.On | Cold World EP (EP)[140] | |
Reckless Love | Turborider[141] |
April[edit]
Day | Artist | Album |
---|---|---|
1 | Centinex | The Pestilence (EP)[142] |
Kublai Khan | Lowest Form of Animal (EP)[143] | |
Meshuggah | Immutable[144] | |
Nekrogoblikon | The Fundamental Slimes and Humours[145] | |
Satan | Earth Infernal[146] | |
Trick or Treat | Creepy Symphonies[147] | |
Wolf | Shadowland[148] | |
8 | Destruction | Diabolical[149] |
Dynazty | Final Advent[150] | |
Hällas | Isle of Wisdom[151] | |
Incite | Wake Up Dead[152] | |
Papa Roach | Ego Trip[153] | |
Treat | The Endgame[154] | |
15 | Axel Rudi Pell | Lost XXIII[155] |
Cancer Bats | Psychic Jailbreak[156] | |
Fozzy | Boombox[157] | |
Månegarm | Ynglingaättens Öde[158] | |
Monuments | In Stasis[159] | |
Nazareth | Surviving the Law[160] | |
Ronnie Romero | Raised on Radio (covers album)[161] | |
Semblant | Vermilion Eclipse[162] | |
These Arms Are Snakes | Duct Tape & Shivering Crows (compilation album)[163] | |
22 | Caliban | Dystopia[164] |
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter | Wilde Kinder[165] | |
Miseration | Black Miracles and Dark Wonders[166] | |
Northlane | Obsidian[167] | |
Shinedown | Planet Zero[168] | |
Skull Fist | Paid in Full[169] | |
Somali Yacht Club | The Space[170] | |
Udo Dirkschneider | My Way (covers album)[171] | |
23 | Kirk Hammett | Portals (EP)[172] |
29 | Al-Namrood | Worship the Degenerate[173] |
The Gathering | Beautiful Distortion[174] | |
Helms Alee | Keep This Be the Way[175] | |
Rammstein | Zeit[176] | |
Watain | The Agony & Ecstasy of Watain[177] |
May[edit]
Day | Artist | Album |
---|---|---|
6 | Depressed Mode | Decade of Silence[178] |
Halestorm | Back from the Dead[179] | |
Ibaraki | Rashomon[180] | |
Jani Liimatainen | My Father's Son[181] | |
Jeff Scott Soto | Complicated[182] | |
Three Days Grace | Explosions[183] | |
Windwaker | Love Language[184] | |
13 | Demiricous | III: Chaotic Lethal[185] |
Graham Bonnet Band | Day Out in Nowhere[186] | |
Misery Index | Complete Control[187] | |
Visions of Atlantis | Pirates[188] | |
Zero Hour | Agenda 21[189] | |
20 | Anvil | Impact Is Imminent[190] |
Evergrey | A Heartless Portrait (The Orphean Testament)[191] | |
James LaBrie | Beautiful Shade of Gray[192] | |
Malevolence | Malicious Intent[193] | |
Sadist | Firescorched[194] | |
Septicflesh | Modern Primitive[195] | |
Spheric Universe Experience | Back Home[196] | |
27 | Brutality | Sempiternity[197] |
Coheed and Cambria | Vaxis – Act II: A Window of the Waking Mind[198] | |
Lord Belial | Rapture[199] | |
Michael Schenker Group | Universal[200] | |
Odd Crew | Dark Matters (Part 1)[201] | |
Trollfest | Flamingo Overload[202] |
June[edit]
Day | Artist | Album |
---|---|---|
3 | Bleed from Within | Shrine[203] |
Gwar | The New Dark Ages[204] | |
Kreator | Hate Über Alles[205] | |
Memphis May Fire | Remade in Misery[206] | |
10 | Motionless in White | Scoring the End of the World[207] |
Schandmaul | Knüppel aus dem Sack[208] | |
Secrets | The Collapse[209] | |
Wind Rose | Warfront[210] | |
17 | Greg Puciato | Mirrorcell[211] |
Tungsten | Bliss[212] | |
24 | Alestorm | Seventh Rum of a Seventh Rum[213] |
Porcupine Tree | Closure/Continuation[214] |
July[edit]
Day | Artist | Album |
---|---|---|
8 | Blind Channel | Lifestyles of the Sick & Dangerous[215] |
15 | Senses Fail | Hell Is in Your Head[216] |
22 | Palisades | Reaching Hypercritical[217] |
29 | Arch Enemy | Deceivers[218] |
August[edit]
Day | Artist | Album |
---|---|---|
5 | Dub War | Westgate Under Fire[219] |
Imperial Age | New World[220] |
September[edit]
Day | Artist | Album |
---|---|---|
9 | Tallah | The Generation of Danger[221] |
Artists with material in production[edit]
- Acid Reign[222]
- Agent Steel[223]
- Alter Bridge[224]
- Anthrax[225]
- Atheist[226]
- Atrophy[227]
- Autopsy[228]
- Avenged Sevenfold[229]
- Behemoth[230]
- Belphegor[231]
- Black Sabbath (box set)[232]
- Blind Guardian[233]
- Blind Illusion – Wrath of the Gods[234]
- Body Count – Merciless[235]
- Broken Hope[236]
- Candlemass[237]
- Chuck Wright – Chuck Wright's Sheltering Sky[238]
- Clutch[239]
- Coroner[240]
- Crashdïet[241]
- Cryptic Slaughter[242]
- The Cult[243]
- Dead Brain Cells[244]
- Death Angel[245]
- Decapitated[246]
- Devin Townsend – Lightwork[247]
- Dismember[248]
- Dokken[249]
- Doro[250]
- Dr. Acula[251]
- Drowning Pool – Strike a Nerve[252]
- Dying Fetus[253]
- Entheos[254]
- Epica[255]
- Equilibrium[256]
- Evile[257]
- Exciter[258]
- Exhorder[259]
- Exmortus[260]
- Five Finger Death Punch[261]
- Godflesh[262]
- Godsmack[263]
- Holocausto Canibal[264]
- In Flames[265]
- In the Woods...[266]
- Insomnium[267]
- Judas Priest[268]
- Khold[269]
- King Diamond – The Institute[270]
- King's X[271]
- KK's Priest[272]
- Lamb of God[273]
- Last in Line (studio album and EP)[274]
- Lee Aaron[275]
- Lorna Shore[276]
- Machine Head[277]
- Mantic Ritual[278]
- Megadeth – The Sick, the Dying... and the Dead![279]
- Mercyful Fate[280]
- Metal Church[281]
- Ministry[282]
- Morbid Saint[283]
- Municipal Waste[284]
- Nasty Savage[285]
- Nita Strauss[286]
- Obituary[287]
- Onslaught[288]
- Overkill[289]
- Ozzy Osbourne[290]
- Prong[291]
- Queensrÿche[292]
- Quiet Riot[293]
- Razor – Cycle of Contempt[294]
- Rebaelliun[295]
- Runemagick[296]
- Sacred Reich[297]
- Satyricon[298]
- Skid Row – United World Rebellion: Chapter Three[299]
- Slipknot[300]
- Soilwork[301]
- Sonata Arctica – Acoustic Adventures – Volume Two[302]
- Soulfly[303]
- Staind[304]
- Stephen Pearcy – Agent Provocateur[305]
- Stratovarius[306]
- Suicidal Tendencies[307]
- Sylosis[308]
- Tankard[309]
- Testament[310]
- Toxik – Dis Morta[311]
- Trauma – Awakening[312]
- Ugly Kid Joe[313]
- Venom Inc.[314]
- Vesperian Sorrow[315]
- Warmen[316]
- Wednesday 13[317]
- Winger[318]
- Wolfsbane[319]
- Xentrix[320]
- Xysma[321]
- Yakuza[322]
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