Deathwish Artists & Staff Pick their 2022 AOTY

January 09, 2022

Everyone agrees this has been a wild year for music. So to sum it up, we asked some of our bands and staff for their AOTY lists for 2022. Here's what they said.

Jim from Greet Death -
Lucid Express - Lucid Express

Jackie from Greet Death -
Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend
Sam Evian - Time to Melt

Sam from Greet Death -
“I listened to a lot of shitty music from 2010."

Logan from Greet Death -
Portrayal of Guilt - We are Always Alone
Wednesday - Twin Plagues
Angels & Airwaves - Lifeforms
Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
Spirit of the Beehive - Entertainment, Death
Another Michael - New Music and Big Pop

Lowell from Frail Body -
The Armed - Ultrapop
Cannibal Corpse - Violence Unimagined
youth novel - S/T
hawak - nouc
Turnstile - Glow On
suffocate for fucks sake - Fyra
Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready
Porter Robinson - Nurture
Downhaul - PROOF
Gojira - Fortitude

Nicholas from Frail Body -
Sangguisabogg - Tortured Whole
Gojira - Fortitude
Fiddlehead - Between the Richness
200 Stab Wounds - Slave to the Scalpel
Turnstile - GLOW ON
The Armed - ULTRA POP
Yautja - The Lurch
Full of Hell - Garden of Burning Apparitions
Regional Justice Center - Crime and Punishment
Cannibal Corpse - Violence Unimagined

Nic from Frail Body -
Turnstile - Glow On
Krallice - Demonic Wealth
Beach House - Once Twice Melody
Monobody - Comma
Pains - Gnashing Among the Carnage
Torment and Glory - We Left a Note with an Apology
Emma Ruth Rundle - Engine of Hell
Fiddlehead - Between the Richness
Deafheaven - Infinite Granite
Past Forms - CTRL

Brandon from Chastity -

1. crywank - just popping in to say hi
2. ellis - nothing is sacred anymore EP
3. ethel cain - inbred EP
4. full of hell - garden of burning aspirations
5. young thug - punk
6. lower town - the gaping mouth
7. lil peep and lil tracy - castles 1/2
8. teenage wrist - earth is a black hole
9. dooms children - self titled
10. touch amore - lament - i know this is a list for 2021, but 2020 and 2021 have melted into one another, and this record is nuts, still listening like it just came out

Keith from Deathwish -

10. Allie - Maybe Next Time
9. Jail Socks - Coming Down
8. Ronda Spectacular - Live
7. Ekulu - Unscrew My Head
6. Better Off - Self-Titled
5. Wolves in the Throne Room - Primordial Arcana
4. C4 - Chaos Streaks
3. Runnner - Always Repeating
2. Trace Mountains - House of Confusion
1. Teenage Wrist - Earth is a Black Hole