As Covid has lessened its grip on the world in the last year- so creativity in music, sound and film has once more flourished. Below you’ll find our writers best-of lists for 2022- and as always it’s a highly genre-varied mixed selection of titles- highlighting the mission of our site.

Roger Batty (Editor/Owner)
1:Quentin Tolimieri - Monochromes [Elsewhere Music]
2:Sdug Bsngal - Πάθει μάθ& [Ominous Recordings]
3:Vidna Obmana - Memories Compiled: Three Tapes [Zoharum]
4:The Rita - Bandaged Invisibility [Urashima]
5:Jason Crumer - Thin Ice [Breathing Problem Productions/ No Rent]
6: Magnus Granberg & Skogen. - How Lonely Sits The City? [Another Timbre]
7:Various Artists - Monolithic Torment Forever [Monolithic Torment Forever]
8:The Residents - Wormwood Box(CD set) [Cherry Red/ MVD Audio/ New Ralph]
9:Hastings Of Malawi - Vibrant Stapler Obscures Characteristic Growth [Klanggalerie]
10: Fouke - The Red Mountains of Almases [The White Visitation]
11:Various Artists - Exploring Gong Culture In Southeast Asia: Massif A [Sub Rosa Records]
12: Meshuggah - Immutable [Atomic Fire]
13:Anton Mobin & Martina Verhoeven - Cure And Mound [New Wave Of Jazz]
14:Hardy Fox - Ibbur [Klanggalerie]
15: John Cage/ Apartment House - Hymkus [Another Timbre]
16: Worship - WHIRR [Self release]
17: Various Artists - Loch Ness Monster & Funky Chicken [Doctor Bird/ Cherry Red]
18: Merzbow - Animal Liberation - Until Every Cage Is Empty [Cold Spring]
19:Clara Iannotta - Moult [Kairos Music]
20: Terry Riley/John Tilbury - Keyboard Studies [Another Timbre]
21: TenHornedBeast - The Lamp Of No Light (Hymns For The York Doom Stone) Cold Spring
22: The Residents - Triple Trouble OST [Cherry Red/ MVD Audio/ Cryptic Corp]
23:My Demons Pissing in A Bucket - Leak Eternal [Self release]
24:Expose Your Eyes - Rest [Oxidation Records]
25: Devin Townsend - Lightwork [Inside Out Records]
26: Reaching Needles/ SALT - Hate For Purity [Self release]
27:Hession / Bardon / De Bézenac - JakTar [Discus Music]
28: Various Artists - Sylvia Rimbaud [Hot Fuzz]
29:Sado Rituals - Behind the Mask of Isa [Gates Of Hypnos]
30: Ingar Zach - Musica Liquida [Sofa Music]

Films
1:Lies and Deceit – Five Films by Claude Chabrol [Arrow Video]
2: The Pemini Organisation(1972-1974)  [Powerhouse]
3:Renaldo & The Loaf - 23rd Century Giants[Well Dang! Productions]
4: Bull [Second Sight Films]
5:Columbia Noir #5[Powerhouse]
6:Henry: Portrait of A Serial Killer  [Arrow Video]
7:Daddy[SRS Cinema]
8: Diary Of a Mad Housewife [Powerhouse]
9: The Last Son [101 Films]
10: The Return of Captain Invincible [Severin]
11:Scary Tales [101 Films]
12:Bartleby [Powerhouse]
13:Santo: El Enmascarado De Plata [VCI Entertainment]
14:Night Of The Demon [Severin]
15:Sometimes Aunt Martha Does Dreadful Things [101 Films]
16: God Told Me To [Blue Underground]
17:Hoffman [Powerhouse]
18: The Living Dead At Manchester Morgue [Synapse Films]
19: Essential Film Noir Collection 3  [Imprint]
20: Love [Second Run]
21: The Most Dangerous Game[Eureka Entertainment]
22: Ghostwatch [101 Films]
23: Brian And Charles[ Mediumrare Entertainment]
24:Terrifier & Terrifier 2 [Signature Entertainment]
25: Three Monster Tales of Sci-Fi Terror[Eureka Entertainment]
26: Red Angel [Arrow Video]
27: Maniac Driver [ 8-Films]
28: The Swimmer [Powerhouse]
29: Ninety-Eighty-Four [BFI]
30: The Necro Files [Visual Vengeance]

Darren Charles
Best albums 
01 - Carpenter Brut – Leather Terror (Universal Music)
02 - Sigh – Shiki (Peaceville Records)
03 - Megadeth – The Sick, The Dying…and the Dead (Tradecraft/Universal)
04 - Dance with the Dead – Driven to Madness (Neuropa)
05 - Perturbator, Johannes Persson and Final Light – Final Light (Siviana)
06 - Burd Ellen – A Tarot of the Green Wood (Mavis Recordings)
07 - Clutch – Sunrise on Slaughter Beach (Weathermaker Music)
08 - Heilung – Drif (Seasons of Mist)
09 - GosT – The Textorcist Original Game Soundtrack (Self Released)
10 - Ghost – Impera (Spinefarm Records)
11 - Blind Guardian – The God Machine (Nuclear Blast)
12 - Wardruna – Kvitravn First Flight of the White Raven (Sony)
13 - Sabaton – The War to End All Wars (Nuclear Blast)
14 - Tangerine Dream – Strange Behaviour OST (BSX Records)
15 - Various Artists - The Guest II OST (Self Released)
16 - Sharron Kraus – Kin (Nightshade Records)
17 - Municipal Waste – Electrified Brain (Nuclear Blast)
18 - Spiritworld – Deathwestern (Century Media)
19 - Zeal and Ardor – Zeal and Ardor (MVKA)
20 - Burial Hex – Gauze (Cold Spring Records)
21 - John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies – Firestarter (Black Lot Music)
22 - Hening Zinoviev and Floating Candles – Die Nude for Satan OST (Library of the Occult Records)
23 - Sedna Chronicles – S/T (Self Released)
24 - Devil Master – Ecstasies of Never Ending Night (Relapse)
25 - Nils Økland - Glødetrådar (Hurbo)
26 - Kardashev – Liminal Rite (Metal Blade)
27 - King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Omnium Gatherum (KGLW)
28 - Goatwhore – Angels Hung from the Arches of Heaven (Metal Blade)
29 - Spiritualized – Everything Was Beautiful (Fat Possum Records)
30 - Hedvig Mollestad – Tempest Revisited (Rune Grammofon)

Best Films, DVDs, Bluray and UHD Releases
01 - Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema (Criterion Boxed Set)
02 - Dune (Warner Home Video)
03 - Yojimbo and Sanjuro (Criterion)
04 - The Owl Service (Network)
05 - Hunchback of Notre Dame (Eureka)
06 - Enter the Void (Arrow Ltd UHD Release)
07 - The Batman (Warner Home Video)
08 - Tenebre (Arrow Films – 4k UHD)
09 - Phenomena (Arrow Ltd 4k Ltd UHD release)
10 - Shock (Arrow Films)
11 - Moonage Daydream (Universal)
12 - Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio (Netflix)
13 - Requiem for a Dream (Powerhouse)
14 - Dr Strange and the Multiverse of Madness (Disney/ Marvel)
15 - Daisies (Criterion)
16 - Henry Portrait of A Serial Killer (Arrow Ltd UHD release)
17 - Spiderman – No Way Home (Sony)
18 - The Northman (Universal)
19 - Death on the Nile (Disney)
20 - Human Lanterns (88 Films)
21 - The Sacred Spirit (Arrow Films)
22 - Elvis (Warner Bros)
23 - Murder in a Blue World (Cauldron)
24 - Thor – Love and Thunder (Disney / Marvel)
25 - The Phantom of the Monastery (Powerhouse)
26 - See How They Run (Disney)
27 - Jurassic World – Dominion (Universal)
28 - Black Adam (DC)
29 - Turning Red (Disney)
30 - Black Panther – Wakanda Forever (Disney)

Paul Casey
1:Wormrot - Hiss [Earache]
2: Altars - Ascetic Reflection [Everlasting Spew]
3:Ana Fosca - Poised at the Edge of Structure [Helen Scarsdale Agency]
4:Colossloth - Promethean Meat [Cold Spring] 
5: Eric Copeland - Spiral Stairs [les albums claus]
6: Defect Designer - Neanderthal [Transcending Obscurity]
7: Hiroshi Ebina - In Science and the Human Heart [Kitchen]
8: Ekkoflok - Mosaik [Clang]
9:Benjamin Finger - Auditory Colors [Krysali Sound]
10: William Fowler Collins - Hallucinating Loss [Sicksicksick Distro/Western Noir]
11: Fabio Frizzi - The Eyes of the Cat [Cadabra]
12: GAMMELSÆTER & MARHAUG - Higgs Boson [Ideologic Organ]
13:Caldon Glover - Labyrintia [Cyclic Law]
14: Incapacitants - D.D.D.D [Abhorrent A.D]
15: Kollaps - Until The Day I Die [Cold Spring]
16: Kranemann + Pharmakustik - Electric Fluxus [Verlag System]
17:Live Burial - Curse of the Forlorn [Transcending Obscurity]
18: Midnight Odyssey - Echoes of a Celestial Ruin [I, Voidhanger]
19:Parasite Nurse - Caretaker [Abhorrent AD]
20: Perpetual Bridge - Astral Departures [Everest
21: Jacek Sienkiewicz - Pristine [Recognition]
22: Sonologyst - Interdimensional [Cold Spring]
23: TAL - Sapiduz [Öm-sound] 
24: The Circular Ruins & Mystified - Fantastic Journey [Cold Spring]
25: The Leaf Library + Teruyuki Kurihara - Melody Tomb [Mille Plateaux]
26: THOS ÆLLA - Sempiternal Mobocracies [I, Voidhanger]
27:Triumvir Foul - Onslaught to Seraphim [Invictus/Vrasubatlat]
28:Ufomammut - Fenice [Neurot Recordings]
29:Various Artists - The Body of Horror - Music Inspired by the Cinema [Eight Tower Records]
30:Various Artists - Visions Of Darkness Volume II [Cold Spring/Unexplained Sounds Group]

Josh Landy
1:Devin Townsend - Lightwork [Inside Out Records]
2. Meshuggah - Immutable [Atomic Fire]
3. Bekor Qilish - Throes of Death From the Dreamed Nihilism [I, Voidhanger Records]
4. Buñuel - Killers Like Us [Profound Lore Records]
5. Scaring The Mice For Revenge [Prohibited Records]
6. Michael Gregory Jackson - Electric Git Box [self released]
7. Current 93 - If A City Is Set Upon A Hill [HomAleph]
8. First Aid 4 Souls - I Am The Night [Alfa Matrix]
9. Steve Roach - Zones, Drones & Atmospheres [Projekt]
10. pinkcourtesyphone - All Intensive Purposes [Room40]
11. Andrew Oda - Back to the Body [Mappa]
12. Noisepoetnobody - Potential vs Eventual [self-released]
13. Prismaspect - Jovian Orchestra [TOUCH Samadhi]
14. Filteria - Live With the Lag [Suntrip Records]
15. Airi - Correlation [Zenon Records]
16. Paranoiac & Friends - The Blue Fire Dragon [Manic Dragon Records]
17. Cenotes - Those From Elsewhere EP [Forest Freaks Records]
18. Kri Samadhi & Ghreg On earth - Fait de Trois [Absolut Shit Records]
19. Lacerta - One Way Ticket EP [Forestdelic Records]
20. Pantomiman - Infected Tourist [Looney Moon Records]
21. Xikwri Neyrra - Tools EP [Absolut Shit Records]
22. VA [Deviant Force Records] - Deviant Decadance
23. VA [Dream Crew Records] - Primitif Festival Vol. 2
24. VA [Enygma Music] - As Deep As Possible
25. VA [Multidimensional Music] - Skull Prophecy
26. VA [Harmonia Records] - Vindaloo
27. VA [Xibalba Records] - Kings of CHVS
28. Smigonaut - Antithesis [The Rust Music]
29. Tipper - Marble Hunting [self-released]
30. Saafi Brothers - Make Pictures With the Sound [LSD - Liquid Sound Design]

Martin P
1:Alice Kemp - To All My Hideous Children (Coherent States)
2:Blood Incantation - Timewave Zero ( Century Media)
3: Blut Aus Nord - Disharmonium: Undreamable Abysses (Debemur Morti Productions)
4:Bog-Shed - The Official Bog-Set (Melodic)
5: Diamond Galas - Broken Gargoyles (Intravenal Sound Operations)
6: Delphine Dora - Hymnes Apophatiques (Morc Records)
7:Éliane Radigue/Frédéric Blondy - Occam XXV (Organ Reframed)
8:Eva-Maria Houben/GBSR Duo - Together On The Way (Another Timbre)
9:Govt Alpha - Xerxes ‎(Audio Dissection, Industrial Recollections)
10: Hands To - Bio Electric (New Forces)
11: I’m Being Good - New Tropes (Wrong Speed Records)
12: John Tilbury/Terry Riley - Keyboard Studies (Another Timbre)
13: Johnny Chang/Keir GoGwilt - Hope Lies Fallow (Another Timbre)
14: Katelyn Clark/Isaiah Ceccarelli - Landmarks (Another Timbre)
15: Kjostad - Music For Organic Performance (New Forces)
16 :Koufar - Minority Report (Phage Tapes)
17: Lettera 22 - Negative Tongue ‎(Phage Tapes)
18: Magnus Gra nberg/Skogen - How Lonely Sits the City? (Another Timbre)
19 Monde Bruits - Tapes 1991-1994 ‎(Audio Dissection, Industrial Recollections)
20 M.A.S.O.N.N.A./Controlled Death - M.A.S.O.N.N.A./Controlled Death (Phage Tapes, Trapdoor Tapes)
21: Mordecoli - The Addiction (Hedione)
22: Nazi Killer/Vile Sect - Split (Samizdat Records, Rip Roaring Shit Storm Records, Dead Heroes Records, Gronk! Records, Hecatombe Records, Repulsive Medias, Swalase Records, Hardcore For
23: The Losers, 9 Lies, Legion Productions, No Time Records, Grindhead Records)
24: The Ex - Blueprints For A Blackout (Pig Brother Productions)
25: The Haters - Live! (At War With False Noise, Narcolepsia)
26: The Rebel - A Cretian Build-Up (Wrong Speed Records)
28:The Rita - Magazine (New Forces)
29:The Rita/Ba. Ku. - The Rita/Ba. Ku. (Ominous Recordings, Phage Tapes)
30:Sarah Davachi - Two Sisters (Late Music)

Karl Grümpe

1. Iannis Xenakis “Electroacoustic Works” 5xLP boxset / 5xCD boxset (Karlrecords) 
2. Diamanda Galás “Broken Gargoyles” CD (Intravenal Sound Operations) 
3. Teufelskeller “Teufelskeller” LP (WV Sorcerer Productions) 
4. Nick Mott “The Fall of the Human Empire” LP (Lumberton Trading Company) 5. Marc Romboy “Voyage De La Planète” 2xLP (Hyperharmonic) 
6. Book Of Sand “Occult Anarchist Propaganda” LP (Fiadh Productions) 
7. Kapotte Muziek “Musik Ohne Ende” CD (Tribe Tapes) 
8. Gonemage “Handheld Demise” CS (Xenoglossy Productions / WereGnome Records)
9. Kleistwahr “Do Not” LP (Fourth Dimension Records) 
10. The Rita / Ba. Ku. “The Rita / Ba. Ku.” LP (Phage Tapes, Ominous Recordings) 
11. Aube “Emotional Oscillation” CS (Advaita Records) 
12. Masonna “Masonna Vs. Bananamara” LP (Urashima) 
13. Ramleh “Hole In The Heart” 2xLP (Dirter Promotions) 
14. Hands To “Bio Electric” 5xCD boxset (New Forces) 
15. Kazumoto Endo / Boar “Homebrew / Metal Bound Flesh” LP (Peyote Tapes) 
16. Oksana Linde “Aquatic And Other Worlds (1983-1989)” LP (Buh Records) 
17. Perverts In White Shirts “Meaning What Exactly?” LP (Misanthropic Agenda)
18. Ale Hop “Why Is It They Say A City Like Any City?” LP (Karlrecords) 
19. Jana Irmert “What Happens At Night” LP (Fabrique Records) 
20. Sedition “Discography Circa 1989 / 1992” LP (Screaming Babies Records, MCR Company) 
21. Pauline Oliveros & Reynols “Half A Dove In New York, Half A Dove In Buenos Aires” LP (Smalltown  Supersound) 
22. Yan Jun “Time Killer” CDr (Hard Return) 
23. Merzbow / Lawrence English “Вечный Сталкер = Eternal Stalker” LP/CD (Dais Records) 
24. Misery / Extinction Of Mankind “Apocalyptic Crust” LP (Fight For Your Mind, Profane Existence)
25. Grim “Folk Music” LP (Steinklang Industries) 
26. Kazumoto Endo / Blood Of Chhinnamastika “The Goddess Of Mercy / Bhairava Mantra” LP (Aberrant Recordings) 
27. Geography Of Hell “Verdun 1916” LP (Hospital Productions) 
28. K2 “Hybrid Dub Metal Musik” LP (Tribe Tapes) 
29. Incapacitants “As Loud As Possible” 2xLP+7” (Total Black) 
30. Mankind? “Discography” LP (Ryvvolte Records, Fight For Your Mind)

Colin Lang
1. Sons Of, Sam Prekop & John McEntire (Thrill Jockey)
2. Dishes are never done but good luck, Helvetia (Self-released)
3. Repair and Reward, Lincoln (Temporary Residence)
4. Sentimental Fool, Lee Fields (Daptone)
5. “The Room”, Flying Lotus & Devin Tracy (Warp Records)
6. Still, here, Marisa Anderson (Thrill Jockey)
7. Tape 1, Eric Van Thyne (Audiobulb)
8. Forest Nocturne, The Lord (Southern Lord)
9. In These Times, Makaya McCraven (International Anthem)
10. Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy, Jeff Parker (Eremite)
11. From the River to the Ocean, Fred Anderson & Hamid Drake (Thrill Jockey)
12. Lord of the Flies, Melvins (Amphetamine Reptile)
13. YTI⅃AƎЯ, Bill Callahan (Drag City)
14. Improvised Munitions & Demo, Unsane (Lamb Unlimited)
15. The Other Forgotten Letters, Stephen Vitiello x Bill Seaman (Room 40)
16. GRM [Generators], Keith Fullerton Whitman (NAKID)
17. Pink Dolphins, Anteloper (International Anthem)
18. Translation From Unspecified, David Grubbs & Jan St. Werner (Blue Chopsticks)
19. Daughter, Raum (Yellow Electric)
20. Nazarite, The Lord & David Pajo (Southern Lord)
21. Blonde (OST), Warren Ellis & Nick Cave (Invada)
22. (Watch My Moves), Kurt Vile (Verve)
23. Nakama, Steve Gunn (Matador)
24. Headdress, Sunburned Hand of the Man (Three Lobed Recordings)
25. No. 5, Christina Vantzou (Kranky)
26. The Sails p. 1 & 2, Loscil (Frond) 
27. . . . On Reflection, William Basinski & Janek Schaefer (Temporary Residence)
28. Together, Duster (Numero Group)
29. Lucifer on the Moon, Spoon (Matador)
30. I’m Not Gonna Try it (Again), Lee Ranaldo (Dysmusie)