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Scene Point Blank's Favorites: Year End (2022)

Individual staff lists

Aaron H's list

1. Death Cab For Cutie – Asphalt Meadows (Atlantic)
2. Orville Peck – Bronco (Columbia)
3. Ghost – Impera (Loma Vista Recordings)
4. The Mars Volta – The Mars Volta (Clouds Hill)
5. Cave In – Heavy Pendulum (Relapse Records)
6. Gregor Barnett – Don't Go Throwing Roses in My Grave (Epitaph Records)
7. Black Midi – Hellfire (Rough Trade Records)
8. The Beths – Expert in a Dying Field (Carpark Records)
9. Mitski – Laurel Hell (Dead Oceans)
10. Dear Boy – Forever Sometimes (Last Gang Records)
11. Grumpster – Fever Dream (Pure Noise)
12. Bloc Party – Alpha Games (BMG)
13. Holy Fawn – Dimensional Bleed (Wax Bodega)
14. She/Her/Hers – She/Her/Hers (Don Giovanni)
15. L.S. Dunes – Past Lives (Fantasy Records)
16. Sweat – Gotta Give It Up (Pirates Press)
17. Blaqk Audio – Trop d'amour (Blaqknoise)
18. City of Caterpillar – Mystic Sisters (Relapse Records)
19. Tim Kasher – Middling Age (15 Passenger Records)
20. A Wilhelm Scream – Lose Your Delusion (Creator-Destructor Records)
21. Joyce Manor – 40 oz. to Fresno (Epitaph)
22. OFF! – Free LSD (Fat Possum Records)
23. Elvis Costello & The Imposters – A Boy Named If (EMI/Capitol Records)
24. Football, Etc. – Vision (Independent)
25. The Ergs! – The Time And The Season EP (Dirtnap)
26. The Chats – Get Fucked (Bargain Bin)

Cheryl's list

1. 40 Watt Sun – Perfect Light (Svart Records)
2. Trhä – vat gëlénva (Jems Label)
3. Brutus – Unison Life (Sargent House)
4. Negative Plane – The Pact... (Invictus Records)
5. Dream Unending – Song of Salvation (20 Buck Spin)
6. Sumerlands – Dreamkiller (Relapse Records)
7. Shape Of Despair – Return To The Void (Season of Mist)
8. HEALTH – Disco4: Part II (Loma Vista Recordings)
9. Circle Of Ouroborus – Autuala (His Wounds)
10. Blut Aus Nord – Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses (Debemur Morti Productions)
11. Hangman's Chair – A Loner (Nuclear Blast)
12. Scarcity – Aveilut (The Flenser)
13. ColdWorld – Isolation (Eisenwald)
14. Sunrise Patriot Motion – Black Fellflower Stream (Self Released)
15. Messa – Close (Svart Records)
16. Devil Master – Ecstasies of Never Ending Night (Relapse Records)
17. Thou / Mizmor – Myopia (Gilead Media)
18. Spider God – Fly In The Trap (Repose Records)
19. Saidan – Onryō II: Her Spirit Eternal (Jems Label)
20. Gudsforladt – Friendship, Love and War (Night of the Palemoon)
21. Editors – EBM (PIAS Recordings)
22. Esoctrilihum – Consecration of the Spiritüs Flesh (I, Voidhanger Records)
23. Orville Peck – Bronco (Columbia)
24. Darkthrone – Astral Fortress (Peaceville Records)
25. Chat Pile – God's Country (The Flenser)

Christopher D's list

1. Wire – Not About To Die (Studio Demos-1977-1978) (Pinkflag)
2. The Senders – All Killer, No Filler (Left For Dead Records)
3. NastyFacts – Drive My Car (Left For Dead Records)
4. The Sons of Adam – Saturday’s Sons-The Complete Recordings 1964-1966 (High Moon Records)
5. Pinch Points – Process (Mistletone/Exploding In Sound Records)
6. Johnny Thunders – So Alone (Drastic Plastic Records)
7. The Christian Family – The Raw And Primitive Sound Of (Voodoo Rhythm Records)
8. OFF! – Free LSD (Fat Possum Records)
9. Pat Todd & The Rankoutsiders – There's Pretty Things in Palookaville (Hound Gawd! Records)
10. Double Cheese – Thee Black Album (Dirty Water Records)
11. The Jim Carroll Band – Catholic Boy (Fat Possum Records)
12. The Schizophonics – Hoof It (Pig Baby Records)
13. Loop – Sonancy (Reactor)
14. Bleeding Hearts – Riches to Rags (Bar/None Records)
15. Nervous Eaters – Monsters + Angels (Wicked Cool Records)
16. Mickey Leigh’s Mutated Music – Variants of Vibe (Wicked Cool Records)
17. Diamanda Galas – Broken Gargoyles (Independent)
18. The Anomalys – Glitch (Slovenly)
19. The Handcuffs – Burn the Rails (Pravda Records)
20. Michael Purkhiser – 3-D (MuSick Recordings)
21. OV Stars – Tuesdays (self-released)
22. Hollie Cook – Happy Hour (Merge Records)
23. Paul Leary – The History Of Dogs (Shimmy Disc)
24. Nestter Donuts – Flamenco Trash (Voodoo Rhythm)
25. OC Rippers – Wasteland Blues (Ruined Records)

Delaney's list

1. Crack Cloud – Tough Baby (Meat Machine)
2. The Chats – Get Fucked (Bargain Bin)
3. Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers – Pretty Good For A Girl Band (Domestic La La)
4. Orville Peck – Bronco (Columbia)
5. Night Court – Nervous Birds! Too (Debt Offensive, Snappy Little Numbers Quality Audio Recordings)
6. BRASS – Look On The Bright Side (Early Onset Records)
7. Anchoress – Stay Positive (Early Onset Records)
8. Stuttr – Stuck in the Muck (Early Onset Records)
9. Dead Cross – II (Ipecac)
10. More Kicks – Punch Drunk (Dirtnap)
11. The Mars Volta – The Mars Volta (Clouds Hill)
12. The Bobby Lees – Bellevue (Ipecac)
13. Beach Rats – Rat Beat (Epitaph)
14. Chained Bliss – Chained Bliss (Drunken Sailor)
15. Unsanitary Napkin – All Billionaires Are Bastards (AlwaysNeverFun, Limbless, Slimebag)
16. The Clever References – Hamish's House (Independent)
17. BlackDots – EP2 (Motorcycle Potluck Records)
18. Hurry Up – Dismal Nitch (Comedy Minus One)
19. Grumpster – Fever Dream (Pure Noise)
20. Starter Jackets – Dead Malls (Rad Girlfriend Records)
21. Meat Wave – Malign Hex (Swami)
22. Mikey Erg – Love At Leeds (Don Giovanni)
23. The Whiskey Bats – Flesh Eaters (Independent)
24. The Mountain Goats – Bleed Out (Merge)
25. Rip Room – Alight and Resound (Spartan Records)

Dennis's list

1. Unsanitary Napkin – All Billionaires Are Bastards (AlwaysNeverFun, Limbless, Slimebag)
2. Nobro – Live Your Truth Shred Some Gnar (Big Scary Monsters)
3. Orville Peck – Bronco (Columbia)
4. La Fraction – De L’Autre Côté (Crash Disques, Fraction Productions, General Strike, Gestalt, Konstroy, Maloka, Mass Productions, Mescufurus, Stonehenge Rds, Tranzophobia, Trujaca Fala, Twisted Chords)
5. Icare – Charogne (Hummus Records)
6. Have No Heroes – Letters To Nowhere (Black Star Foundation)
7. Crossed – Morrir (Pundonor Records, Zegema Beach Records, Clever Eagle Records, Left Hand Label)
8. An Abstract Illusion – Woe (Willowtip)
9. Sweat – Gotta Give It Up (Pirates Press)
10. GGGOLDDD – This Shame Should Not Be Mine (Artoffact)
11. Piri Reis – Ritma (Moment of Collapse Records, React With Protest, Framecode Records, Zegema Beach Records)
12. Vidres A La Sang – Fragments De L’Esdevenir (Abstract Emotions)
13. Another Chance – Resurgir (Self Released)
14. Cloud Rat – Threshold (Artoffact Records)
15. janpalach – Celestials (yoyodyne records, Desperate Infant Records, Friendly Otter, Andalucia Über Alles, Hardcore For The Losers, Sleepless Owl Records, zilpzalp records, Seitan's Hell Bike Punks, Collector's Series DIY, Bus Stop Press, Entes Anomicos, Salto Mortale Music, Ingo)
16. Wormrot – Hiss (Earache)
17. Crowning / Naedr – Rayau (Left Hand Label, Zegema Beach)
18. Pöls – Instinto (Discos Enfermos, El Lokal, A-Z Records, Exabrupto Records)
19. Blood Command – Praise Armageddonism (Loyal Blood Records)
20. Yearning – MMXXII (No Funeral)
21. Amorphis – Halo (Atomic Fire Records)
22. Grumpster – Fever Dream (Pure Noise)
23. Doctrina – Desprendimiento (Producciones Tudancas, Andalucía Über Alles)
24. Anna Sage – Anna Sage (Vox Project, Itawak Records, Urgence Disk Records, Dingleberry Records, Zegema Beach Records)
25. Hakan – Hakan Manifesto (Striped Music)

Loren's list

1. Moonraker – The Forest (Bearded Punk Records, Bypolar Records, No Time Records, Tiny Dragon Music)
2. Grumpster – Fever Dream (Pure Noise)
3. Sweat – Gotta Give It Up (Pirates Press)
4. Swami John Reis – Ride The Wild Night (Swami)
5. Martha – Please Don’t Take Me Back (Dirtnap, Specialist Subject Records)
6. Joyride! – Miracle Question (Salinas Records)
7. Plosivs – Plosivs (Swami)
8. Signals Midwest – Dent (Lauren Records)
9. The Anomalys – Glitch (Slovenly)
10. Meat Wave – Malign Hex (Swami)
11. Raging Nathans – Still Spitting Blood (Rad Girlfriend Records)
12. Mikey Erg – Love At Leeds (Don Giovanni)
13. Captain Asshole – Successfully Not Giving Up (Say-10, SBÄM Records)
14. La Armada – Anti-Colonial, Vol. 2 (Mal De Ojo Records)
15. Clown Sounds – Born Under A Bad Sigh (Recess Records)
16. Chained Bliss – Chained Bliss (Drunken Sailor)
17. Nightmarathons – Hidden Vigorish (A-F)
18. She/Her/Hers – She/Her/Hers (Don Giovanni)
19. Hakan – Hakan Manifesto (Striped Music)
20. The Eradicator – Forever The Eradicator (Stonewalled)
21. Kid You Not – Here's To Feelin' Good All The Time (Bypolar Records, Sell The Heart Records)
22. More Kicks – Punch Drunk (Dirtnap)
23. Scrunchies – Feral Coast (Dirtnap)
24. Tim Kasher – Middling Age (15 Passenger Records)
25. Forever Unclean – Best (Hidden Home Records)

Matt's list

1. Daniel Rossen – You Belong There (Warp)
2. Stormzy – This Is What I Mean (0207 Def Jam / Interscope)
3. The Mars Volta – The Mars Volta (Clouds Hill)
4. Cave In – Heavy Pendulum (Relapse Records)
5. Wet Leg – Wet Leg (Domino)

Robert Miklos (Piro)'s list

1. An Abstract Illusion – Woe (Willowtip)
2. Ithaca – They Fear Us (Hassle Records)
3. Persefone – metanoia (Napalm)
4. Wyatt E. – āl bēlūti dārû (Stolen Body Records)
5. Kardashev – Liminal Rite (Metal Blade)
6. Papir – 7 (Stickman Records)
7. Am Fost La Munte Și Mi-a Plăcut – La Vale (SWANBOY Music)
8. RVQ – SHAPES (Independent)
9. Bleed from Within – Shrine (Nuclear Blast Records)
10. Lack The Low – God-Carrier (Art As Catharsis)
11. Imperial Triumphant – Spirit of Ecstasy (Century Media Records)
12. Soldat Hans – Anthaupt (Wolves & Vibrancy Records)
13. Bree Van Reyk – Superclusters (Hobbledehoy Record Co.)
14. Saor – Origins (Season of Mist)
15. Brutus – Unison Life (Sargent House)
16. OU – one (InsideOut Music)
17. Allt – The Seed of Self Destruction (Independent)
18. Širom – The Liquified Throne of Simplicity (tak:til)
19. Dr. Acula – Dr. Acula (Silent Pendulum Records)
20. Glass Museum – Reflet (SDBAN ULTRA)
21. Theo Young – Tales From The Inland Sea (Independent)
22. Ashenspire – Hostile Architecture (Aural Music)
23. Rusk – Om Improvement (Nefarious Industries)
24. High Castle Teleorkestra – The Egg That Never Opened (Art As Catharsis)
25. Psycroptic – Divine Council (EVP Recordings)

Sarah Jane's list

1. Parkway Drive – Darker Still (Epitaph, Resist Records)
2. Municipal Waste – Electrified Brain (Nuclear Blast)
3. Ghost – Impera (Loma Vista Recordings)
4. Alestorm – Seventh Rum Of A Seventh Rum (Napalm)
5. Lex Lüger – Rey Del Terror (Independent)
6. Amorphis – Halo (Atomic Fire Records)
7. Coffin Carousel – Order Of The Bat (Noise Inc Records)
8. Siblings Of Samhain – Tales of Love, Death and the Macabre (Independent)
9. VoidOath – Ascension Beyond Kokytus (Cognitive Discordance Records, Cursed Monk Records)
10. Various Artists – Horrorpunk's Not Dead: Vol. 1 (We Are Horror Records)

Spyros Stasis's list

1. Aeviterne – The Ailing Facade (Profound Lore Records)
2. Huma Utku – The Psychologist (Editions Mego)
3. Chat Pile – God's Country (The Flenser)
4. Nik Colk Void – Bucked Up Space (Editions Mego)
5. Blut Aus Nord – Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses (Debemur Morti Productions)
6. Cult of Youth – With Open Arms (Hospital Productions)
7. Ken Mode – Null (Artoffact)
8. Cremation Lily – Dreams Drenched In Static (Flenser)
9. Artificial Brain – Artificial Brain (Profound Lore Records)
10. Kollaps – Until The Day I Die (Cold Spring)
11. Author & Punisher – Kruller (Relapse Records)
12. Diamanda Galas – Broken Gargoyles (Independent)
13. Pyrithe – Monuments to Impermanence (Gilead Media)
14. Lucretia Dalt – ¡Ay! (RVNG Intl)
15. Verberis – Adumbration of the Veiled Logos (Norma Evangelium Diaboli)
16. Dälek – Precipice (Ipecac)
17. Scarcity – Aveilut (The Flenser)
18. Whatever The Weather – Whatever The Weather (Ghostly International)
19. Locrian – New Catastrophism (Profound Lore Records)
20. Oren Ambarchi – Shebang (Drag City)
21. City of Caterpillar – Mystic Sisters (Relapse Records)
22. Loop – Sonancy (Reactor)
23. Cult of Luna – The Long Road North (Metal Blade)
24. Cloud Rat – Threshold (Artoffact Records)
25. Cold Gawd – God Get Me The Fuck Out of Here (Dais Records)