Reports from the Underground: 2022 Albums of the Year

Honorable Mentions

For those who have made it to the very end, here is a playlist with songs from all of our reviewers’ top ten nominations. I hope you all enjoy!

Finally, here is a recap of all of the albums that we rated an 8 or above this year that did not make it to any of our top tens lists. I would advise y’all to look for albums in your preferred genres to find albums that you might not have heard of last year. Thank you all for joining us for a great year. We’ll be there for you for all of your underground prog metal needs.

Best,
The Progressive Subway Team

mm-dd Band - Album (genre)

01-16 Pensées Nocturnes – Douce Fange (Avant-garde Metal, Black Metal, Symphonic Metal, Prog Metal)
01-21 Breaths – Though life has turned out nothing like I imagined, it is far better than I could have dreamt (Post Hardcore, Black Metal, Prog Metal, Post Metal)

02-18 The Blank Canvas [ ] – Dark Mirage (Prog Rock, Synthwave)
02-25 Cobra the Impaler – Colossal Gods (Stoner Metal, Prog Metal)

04-08 Crown Compass – The Drought (Prog Metal, Thrash Metal, Death Metal, Alternative Metal)
04-11 Epitaphe – II (Death Doom Metal, Prog Metal)
04-28 Moozoonsii – Inward (Stoner Metal, Sludge Metal, Prog Metal)

07-15 Birth – Born (Prog Rock, Psychedelic Rock)
07-22 Dusk Chapel – Astrophysics and Abnormal Activities (Death Metal, Prog Metal)

08-12 Zemeth – Loneliness (Neoclassical Metal, Power Metal, Melodeath, Prog Metal)
08-26 Speaking to Stones – (In)Human Error (Prog Metal)
08-26 Dreadnought – The Endless (Prog Metal, Post Metal, Black Metal, Doom Metal)

09-01 Etrange – Enigme (Instrumental Prog Metal)
09-01 Blake Hobson – The Spectacular (Prog Rock, Prog Metal, Comedy Rock, Sea Shanties)
09-02 Xenobiotic – Hate Monolith (Technical Death Metal, Deathcore)
09-27 Marbin – Dirty Horse (Jazz Fusion, Prog Rock)
09-30 Huracán – We are Very Happy (Sludge Metal, Prog Metal)

10-07 Parius – The Signal Heard Throughout Space (Prog Metal)
10-21 Freedom of Fear – Carpathia (Technical Death Metal)

11-11 Lamentations – Passion of Depression (Prog Metal, Death Metal)
11-18 Ultar – At the Gates of Dusk (Atmospheric Black Metal)