This year has flown by! And with it received so many high anticipated releases that we’ll be headbanging to well beyond 2022. This playlist of the Best Heavy Songs of 2022 was chosen by you! Real fans, who just love heavy music like I do. So join me in celebrating OUR favorite heavy songs of 2022 by headbanging to this Spotify playlist.
Thank you for participating in both New Music Monthly and Unsigned & Unleashed to help decide this year’s list! I’ll be back in 2023 with more new music suggestions for you to discover and choose your favorites!
Best Heavy Songs of 2022 (List)
- “The Crypt” – Ashes To Emperor
- “The Tide” – Matrass
- “Forgotten” – Korn
- “Let The Devil In” – Dark Funeral
- “Call Me Little Sunshine” – Ghost
- “Blood of Heaven” – Nocturna
- “Dream Cull” – Abbath
- “The Abysmal Eye” – Meshuggah
- “This Is It” – Nekrogoblikon
- “Longing” – Infected Rain
- “Wake Up The World” – Worship The Sacrifice
- “Handshake with Hell” – Arch Enemy
- “COLD BLOOD” – HEALTH, Lamb of God
- “Hate Uber Alles” – Kreator
- “The Howling” – Watain
- “The Third Eye” – Mani_ac
- “The Steeple” – Halestorm
- “Dead From The Start” – Kill The Lights
- “1992” – Extinction A.D.
- “Eleven” – Blind Hex
- “Watchtower” – The Devil Wears Prada
- “3amattic” – Crazy Mad Ride
- “Zeit” – Rammstein
- “I Am That Thirst” – Meshuggah
- “Light The Shortening Fuse” – Meshuggah
- “B.L.O.O.D.B.O.R.N” – AZAAB
- “In Your Face” – Grima
- “Acido” – Grima, Kaixo
- “Velvet & Cake II” – Juanjo Alvarez
- “Fear & Dagger” – Paleface
- “Altamira” – Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard
- “Behind The Times” – Extinction A.D.
- “It’s Always Worth The Gain” – Crowbar
- “Ronin” – Ibaraki, Gerard Way
- “Leviathan” – Dark Funeral
- “Upon Their Cross” – Violence
- “Nosophobic” – Krypt
- “Hello Death” – Decapitated, Jinjer
- “Ligature Marks” – Meshuggah
- “Wake Up Dead” – Lamb of God feat. Dave Mustaine
- “The Forsaken Idol” – Blood Hunter feat. Rosalнa Sairem
- “Manta” – The Second Fovea
- “Grave Dive” – Municipal Waste
- “Choke on the Ashes of Your Hate” – Machine Head
- “when we were young” – Architects
- “The Jinn” – Kirk Hammett
- “Fuck The Rules” – Immortal
- “High Speed Steel” – Municipal Waste
- “Beyond the Wall” – Saor
- “Starscourge” – Veska
- “Virtus Asinaria – Prayer” – Belphegor
- “Popecrusher” – Witchery
- “Digitalis Purpurea” – Svart Crown
- “Neptune’s Eye” – Blut Aus Nord
- “Careless Offering” – Cave In
- “Final Light” – Pertubator, Johannes Person, Final Light
- “Electrified Brain” – Municipal Waste
- “Contrived Constraint” – Parasite Caste
- “Chattel of Tyrants” – Awaken the Ancient
- “Don’t Feed Me Your Lies” – Venom Inc.
- “I’m Now The Monster” – Inhuman Condition
- “The Cutter” – Gwar, Lzzy Hale
- “We’ll Be Back” – Megadeth
- “Reaper” – Fit For A King
- “Rotoscope” – Spiritbox
- “Atlas AS7-A” – Effigy*
- “Run For Your Life” – Tabahi
- “Mass Formation Psychosis” – Spirit Adrift
- “Cullscape” – Origin*
- “Nevermore” – Lamb of God
- “The Greatest Fear” – Parkway Drive
- “Shitlist” – No Coffin
- “Pull From The Ghost” – ERRA
- “B.D.S.M.” – Trainwrecked
- “Speamint Revolt” – Norma Jean
- “New Dawn” – Oceans Ate Alaska
- “Reflections” – VENUES
- “The Deathless Sun” – Behemoth
- “Sleep Explosion” – Norma Jean
- “Icarus” – PhaseOne, Polaris
- “Lie To My Face” – Carnifex feat. Oceano
- “SWFYH” – Dead Tired
- “Violent Ends” – CABAL
- “Filth Upon Filth” – Soulfly
- “Don’t Pray For Me” – Within Temptation
- “Kingdom of Cold Flesh” – Belphegor
- “Caustic Vomit Reveries” – Inhuman Condition
- “The Dying Song (Time To Sing)” – Slipknot
- “The Deceiver” – Crazy Mad Ride
- “Frontier” – StonedHenge
- “Oathbreaker” – Exmortus
- “The Damage Done” – Soulfly
- “Walk With Me In Hell” – Fit For An Autopsy
- “The Great Deceiver” – In Flames
- “Yen” – Slipknot
- “.50” – Varials
- “Wish Me Dead” – 96 Bitter Beings
- “Thy Becoming Eternal” – Behemoth
- “Pazuzu” – Therion
- “Fortune Teller” – Blessings of Mara
- “Falling Through The Sky” – Fit For A King
- “Season of the Damned II” – Get The Shot
- “Versvs Christvs” – Behemoth
- “Gloria” – Irist
- “Wraith” – Half Me
- “Circles” – Varials
- “Harley Darling – Acoustic” – The Pretty Reckless
- “RE-Animate” – For The Fallen Dreams
- “The Cast-Out” – Figure of Speechless
- “From The Depths” – Krypt
- “Annihilation Phenomena” – The Last Ten Seconds of Life
- “Gomorrah” – Lamb of God
- “Our Time Is Now” – Gojira
- “Absolute Zero” – Entheos
- “Infinite Terror” – Aborted
- “Burn” – Polar
- “Times Like This” – Fit For A King, The Ghost Inside
- “Without Honor” – Deadbody
- “Godspeed – Stripped” – Wage War
- “Imposing Hammers of Cold Sorcery” – High Command
- “Lux Aeterna” – Metallica
- “Congelia” – Enslaved
- “Soap Bath” – After Smoke Clears
- “All I’ve Lost” – Ingested feat. Matt Heafy
- “Hell Is Where The Heart Is” – Oceans
- “Crystallomancy” – Korpiklaani
- “You And I” – Godsmack
- “Fortified By Bloodshed” – High Command
- “Exoskeleton” – GAUPA
- “Dark Cold Night” – Wolves At The Gate
- “Ripe With Sin” – Krypt
- “Foregone, Pt. 2” – In Flames
- “The Equinox of the Gods” – Dan Brooklyn
- “Firewake” – Zeal & Ardor
- “On Earth We’ll Reign” – Veska
- “Winter” – White Lung
- “Too Much Is Never Enough” – Gideon
- “The Echoing Habitat” – The Second Fovea
- “UNTENDED GRAVES” – The Acacia Strain
- “Enemy” – HOSTAGE feat. Ifa
- “Dancing In The Dark” – Beyond The Black
- “Rush” – Polar
- “The Dirt I’m Buried In” – Avatar
- “Depression Season” – Atreyu, Kayzo
- “Die While We’re Alive” – Ripper
- “An Offering to the Night” – Jesus Piece
- “My Addiction” – Silent Civilian
- “Addicted to Violence” – Fall of Babylon
- “Mass Murder Policy” – All Against
- “The Nuckelavee” – Hellripper
- “Chronophobic” – Kargyr
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