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Colin Williams taps into perhaps the most international releases of any of our lists as he examines his most-listened and most-loved albums from the year.

Another mega-volume of new metal (we hope to return to weekly shortly!). Here's all the new metal that's been released between July 17th, 2022 and August 6th, 2022 -- spin (or skip) new music from Toxik, Imperial Triumphant, Soulfly, and more.

This New Jersey death metal sextet (mem. Unearthly Trance, Artificial Brain, and more) recently dropped their debut "Beneath the Canopy of Compost" EP -- it's filthy, devastating death-doom and has us begging for more.