TOP 10 WORST METAL ALBUMS OF 2022! 

My mom once asked my first girlfriend how I was in bed, in the most awkward way possible… and that memory somehow doesn’t make me cringe as much as Scoring the End of the World Does.

Damn shame six feet under didn’t release a album this year :/ I love it when we all get together and laugh at Chris Barnes

16:14 Wait wait wait. Assuming I heard that correctly, we live in a world where megadeth opens for FFDP at concerts?! I'm too scared to live in that world

MGK 3:08 Korn 4:37 Nekrogoblikon 7:11 Motionless in White 10:05 Amon Amarth 12:04 Five Finger Death Punch 14:00 Psychosexual/Psycho Synner 17:22 Razor 21:53 Architects 25:35 Chaoseum 27:57

I still think nightmares of the decomposed should make an appearance in this list. It’s shittiness transcends time

As a huge fan of Korn, I was trying to find a way to describe Requiem. Penance to Sorrow was the only song that really did anything for me but I couldn't really put a finger on what was missing, but I think you nailed it. It just sounds tired and lackluster, which really does make me sad

I got briefly scared when you said the psycho synner albums released on September 10th. I didn't want my birthday ruined

In my opinion, the PsychoSynner or Psychosexual or whatever tf albums are the worst albums of 2022. Probably the worst albums in general. They’re boring, irritating and overall pretty stupid but the worst part about one of these albums and the worst part about PsychoSexual in general is they ripped off Killing In The Name Of so blatantly that I’m waiting for RATM to sue them for plagiarism.

Completely agree with your take on Nekrogoblikon. Party Cannon is also just a "silly, fun, band," but they always put a smile on my face in addition to being more than listenable. I also thought Jeremy Spencer's Semi-Rotted would feel at home on this list. Thanks for the permission to keep drinking.

Will you be reviewing E. P's of 2022? We'd love to know what you think of our E.P and the others that have come out this year. It's great that you cover so many types of music in the metal genre.

Excellent video dude! Only one missing from my list is Darker Still from Parkway Drive. Architects and Parkway both are just falling off so hard right now. Architects was more surprising because I really liked the 2021 album. Also I didn't enjoy some songs off the MIW album this year but can't say the same for any other record here

I found "Requiem" to be just okay. "The Nothing" was just this huge black hole of explosive grief and despair, they couldn't possibly have followed up with more of the same. This was a healing album for them, and I respect that, even if it didn't leave me feeling anything special. As for MiW, I really enjoyed that album, and it's on my best list for one simple reason: Catharsis. Yes, it's cheesy. Yes, it's cringe. But damn does it not strike a chord with me. Then again, I love Power Metal, so I love albums that are cheesy and somewhat cringe. Every song on the album had staying power for me, and considering all the shit that litters the modern political landscape, it feels good to have an album that's a sincere expression of how it feels being surrounded by that. My worst album of the year is "Seventh Rum of a Seventh Rum" by Alestorm. I like Alestorm, and as I said, I like stuff that's cheesy and fun. I liked the song P.A.R.T.Y. But everything else on the album felt like filler. They literally did a remix of Tortuga which was *less* interesting and *less* catchy than the original. I hate that album because it's lazy, to the point where they've said "our audience doesn't give a shit, so why should we?" To quote Billy Maddison (the film, not the character): "Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened. I award you no points, and may god have mercy on your soul." Other than that, great video :).

Oh, also, if you want some good Thrash recommendations, I suggest checking out the following: Evil Invaders - Shattering Reflection (cheesy, but damn good fun) Protector - Excessive Outburst of Depravity (killer, no-holds bar death/thrash) Witchery - Nightside (exquisite Blackened Thrash)

Korn album was fun. Nothing special, but fun.

Love your videos Rob. Happy holidays to you and your wife.

I just realized that each time Psycho Synner has released albums, someone I knew died… I wish I was making that up.

Psychosinner/sexual managed to make 12 albums in 3 years. All of them crap. That's actually impressive in a way. I only heard that "let the sin begin" song when it was new, nothing since. I'm almost tempted to listen to a new song or 2 to see how long before I tap out.

Say what you will about Amon Amarth’s new album, they absolutely kill live. Just saw them a few weeks ago and the show was incredible!

I genuinely couldn't finish that Amon Amarth album. Every time I tried to listen to it, I would zone out completely and forget it was even playing.

Well on a positive note; we had some really good releases from Paleface (Fear And Dagger), Plagues (Hell and Timeless) and Blood Butcher (Enter Blood Realm)

I'm not surprised with 5FDP going into this list. But I do sadly agree with you with the new Amon Amarth and Razor albums. I really wanted to liked them but then when I heard those albums, I was very disappointed. Where Amon Amarth just sounds boring and definitely didn't hype me up throughout the album, Razor did had some killer riffs and solos but the rest was just pretty stupid.

Architects’ album this year was a HUGE letdown, especially because they made probably their best album as a band only last year.

Nekrogoblikon may be keen on the idea that in the modern music industry, the only way to get close to making money is through touring. I saw them live with Goatwhore and Gwar and they were fun. The music plays live, but I didn't bother with this year's release or the last one they put out.

Out of curiosity, but as far as Thrash is concerned and you wondering where is the good Thrash, have you checked out Pursuit? They had their debut album out this year and I found it pretty excellent compared to a good chunk of Thrash.

It's like I just saw Amon Amarth a few days ago, and it was a great show, but damn they don't play any of my favorite songs by them anymore Vs the World turned 20 this year and they didn't even play a song off of it.

Oh damn! That Pink Whitney looks delishhh, 😂 great video man! 🤘🍻

Disturbed's Divisive and Slipknot's The End, So Far were also bad and it get's worse hearing them whine about cancel culture. It's thanks to them that I started calling it Boomer Metal and it sounds like FFDP and Jeremy Spencer sound like Boomers too lol, great video btw.

To be fair, I didn't really like Nekro's new album the first listen, but after listening to it a couple times, it kinda grew on me.

I have no memory of you talking about Psychosinner this year. Damn. My brain is starting to go... 😦

You know what's funny Mick Kenney from Anaal Nathrakh is actually the ghostwriter for motionless in white, so that might be the reason why the songwriting is in its core at least competently written

Saw Requiem in a countdown of Australia's top 10 metal countdown, to me it felt it lacked what The Nothing had

I just wanna take a moment to recognize and point out that this was the ONLY time I've heard "February" pronounced correctly. A hearty backpat for you, sir.

Hi Mr. Meltdown, even though I did buy a Sick New World ticket I thought this was another banger vid

Even though it was a sick burn...Jeremy Spencer got you to mention his name next to true geniuses like Devin Townsend and Buckethead...gotta be the absolute closest he wil ever come to success.

Slipknots new album was kind of a disappointment. They're 2019 album 'we are not your kind' was such a good album despite 2 albums before not hitting that hard, and they're 2021 single the chapel town rag was actully rlly good and brought me back to theyre self titled era. I'm kinda sad that the new album wasn't good cause it was one that was so anticipated and awaited for I rlly hope independent slipknot does better without the cringe record label that is road runner

I feel You about Nekrogoblikon. It´s just not funny. And there´s nothing more sad, than people trying to be funny, but failing at it. If You want funny stuff, over the top, more brutal at times, more daring stylistically (I mean, who else mixes Grindcore with Disco and Jazz?), more corny, more cringe, but in a fun way and above all way more musically proficient - Check Clown Core. Now that´s funny.

My worst of the year is expanded past metal, as while I listened to a LOT of music this year (663 albums according to Apple Music), there weren’t a whole lot of metal albums that were outright disappointing. Honorable mention: Ghost - Impera. It’s not that bad of a record, but it’s also not good. Quite literally the only song I wasn’t bored by was Little Sunshine, and I found Twenties to be borderline edgy. In no particular order: Kid Rock - Whatever it was called (admittedly this one made me laugh multiple times) MGK - Mainstream Sellout Psycho Sinner - both of them Motionless In White - Singing the Dark World or whatever it was And finally, Panic At the Disco - Viva Las Vengeance. This has to date my only DNF stamp. I somehow suffered to the 4th track, where Brendon and a children’s choir sang “We are the new Dead Kennedys” and I got so offended I backed out. Psycho Sinner left me mentally scarred for a bit, but I at least finished those albums. Brendon Urie sucks.

I love youtube because out of the blue a few weeks ago I see in my video feed Alvin and the Chipmunks FFDP, some "welcome to the circus" song, and it really did make me laugh.

Fuck it we’ve all waited to long we need a reviewing every five finger death punch album video NOW lol

The Great Heathen Army actually really opened up, to me. "The Serpent's Tail" is just one of their best songs, and the whole album is just fun.

That Razor album would be the tits if Dave produced and mixed it differently. What a serious let down after 25 years.

Love the Sobey's bag bro !

I have to agree .. Korn and Amon Amarth phoned in their records this year unfortunately

Okay, I’ve gotta disagree with Requiem. It’s not Korn’s best album, but it’s definitely one of the better late-career releases and it’s got a few top-tier Korn songs. There was far, FAR worse that could’ve made the list in my opinion. It’s not even the worst Korn album from this year, that belongs to Chaoseum.

oh god. This year was a good year for metal. But that just makes the bad albums more catastrophic in terms of bad. Least i can say, it wasnt as boring as last years releases. And i called it on Razor being in the worst for this year

Man, how CRAZY is it the Nekrogoblikon's album made your 'Top 10 Worst Albums' list, but yet was my FAVORITE album of the year for 2022! Ha, amazing juxtaposition. I wonder if he liked any of their other albums much or just doesn't like the band entirely. Sounds like he doesn't like their gimmick.

Razor's singer was recently in the news. He apparently witnessed a fiery car accident where someone was killed and has filed a civil suit for over a million $ claiming to have ptsd because of it. Says he gets triggered by fire and flames and has depression and lost his job. I wonder if he gets triggered by the cover of his album or singing the first song "flames of hatred". The guy has always been a go-nowhere and saw his chance to cash in. Absolutely zero shame so yeah, of course they put out a piss poor album with a drum machine.

Good list...but I'm kinna suprised dark funeral didn't make the cut

I know I have to listen to it at some point and make up my own mind about it, but I'm just so bummed out by what nearly *everyone* has said about that new Razor record that I haven't tried yet. They're the local classic thrash band that means the most to me. Although the last album they did in the 90s wasn't really awesome either, and the last two or three times I saw them live, they didn't quite kick my butt the way they once did -- so maybe the writing was on teh wall.

Sad to hear the Razor album is a letdown. Haven't had the chance to check it out because I've been eating up the death metal releases like I'm at a riff buffet instead. Haven't heard any of these but most of them seem bad indeed

Motionless in White is probably every goth girls favorite band. 😂

Korn was one of the bands that got me into metal when i was just a kid in the 90's/early 2000's and i still enjoy listening to their 1st 6 albums but after their 6th album i feel like they started to become more meh.

Korn Requiem was really good. Man I have to disagree I really loved this record.. but each to their own.. ☮️💓

the only record from this I heard this year is The Great Heathen Army. decently mid. I just didn't want to listen to anything that I thought would be bad cuz while I hate myself, I don't hate myself THAT much. long live The Metal Meltdown

I have to agree with you with Razor. I was looking to it. The production sucked. The other albums who cares lol. Awesome work

My top worst albums of the year (multi genre) is: 1. Oliver Tree-Cowboy Tears 2. Architects- The Classic Symptoms of a Broken Spirit 3. Excision-Onyx 4. Jeris Johnson-I WANT BLOOD/I want love 5. Drowning Pool-Strike a Nerve 6. Skillet-Dominion 7. Drake and 21 Savage- Her Loss 8. Fitz and the Tantrums-Let Yourself Free 9. Memphis May Fire-Remade in Misery 10. Ken Carson-X 11. Aaron Lewis-Frayed at Both Ends 12. Shinedown- Planet Zero 13. Country Goes Hardcore 14. Panic at the Disco-Viva Las Vengeance 15. Muse-Will of the People 16. MGK- Mainstream Sellout 17. KMFDM- Hyena 18. Twin Atlantic-Transparency 19. Jack Harlow-Come Home the Kids Miss You 20. Ghost- Impera

Bro, loved (???) you list, your commentary and your sense of (non) humour!

Rob’s face when realizing “sibling” is gender neutral. 😆 Nibling is gender neutral for niece or nephew…

Lol that psycho synner may be the worst shit I’ve heard all year. High Command also put out a killer thrash album a month or so ago. Thanks for the vid!

The new Iced Earth is pretty bad. Its just some old songs but no singing, just Jon talking out the lyrics.

With a album named “The Third Eye” they just might have a Tool crush.

Sake was your life saver in this review video.

I respectfully disagree about the latest Korn album mate but enjoyed the video apart from that. 👍

to think the band who made Hollow Crown are the same band makes Classic Symptoms is such a disappointment

I'm working on a pecan praline whisky while listening to htis. Wait.. Korn had an album that came out this year? Hmmm I want to say I missed that one but I probably watched your review. Ah well. Ha welp expected ffdp's album on this list. That was a terrible album from the little I ever heard.

I don't know you managed to sit through every last one of those just horrendous excuses for something resembling music without an aneurysm or getting alcohol poisoning 🤣 but you sir are a better man than I. I have trudged through some things out of shear curiosity and pure stubborn O.C.D. but that right there is borderline masochistic. However I'd imagine it makes you appreciate real music all the more. Keep up the good work sir.

Your Metal card has been revoked for using terms like “toxic masculinity”.

Definitely the great heathen army by Amon Amarth was my top worst album, I could not believe what I was hearing incredibly bad.

No disagreement. Nice to see someone being honest about Amon Amarth. This is a band that has me confused. It's not their music that is confusing, as its simplistic, boring and sounds like Amon Amarth from all previous albums but how this band became as popular as they have. The most innovation and growth I have seen from this band isnt even from the band, it's their fans. Whoever started the Viking Ship Row Boat pit really thought outside the box and was quite clever interpreting via runes I'm sure, the interaction bands and fans share in the live setting to literally just sit down and start pretending to row up shit creek with invisible paddles.What would be more entertaining to see would be the rowers face the opposite direction to attempt a get away at sea(?)from the redundancy and boredom an Amon Amarth album or gig can bring.

If I had to put together a list of the worst metal albums of all time, it would all be albums by Psycho Synner along with Torch the Faith. I truly believe we have witnessed the birth of the worst metal band to ever exist.

Machine Gun Karen 😅😅😅

Ice cube ASMR 🤘🏻

My ears will never recover from these albums But at least the top end was THAT good, with more 5/5s than I've personally ever seen

I’d probably say that the new Def Leppard album (yes I know it isn’t metal but still) is the biggest piece of dogshit I’ve heard all year

Oh my gawwwd, your description of FFDP is soooo fukkin hilarious. I'm dying here. And Megadeth opening for them is so laughable, and so perfectly encapsulates'popularity' vs talent/ability.

“Machine Gun Karen” Bwaahaahaa! Nice one.

Remember back in the day when a “bad metal album” was like a number 10 compared to the shit nowadays!

I agree the new Korn album was generic and sounded like B tracks from The Nothing, but it definitely had some good bangers on there and certainly wasn't INSULTINGLY bad, so I definitely disagree with you on that.

awesome list

There has been some really good albums released this year and on the flip side there's been a heaping pile of dog shit albums. Agree 10000000000% with this list haha

Jeremy Spencer says they'll either begin touring late this year, or early next year. Yikes.

Idk why but MIW never made me think of Hot Topic and I don't know why. Though I respectfully disagree and love MIW, Red, White and Boom is proper shit

If you want red white and boom. Without the cringe, Then listen to Protest The hero's palimpheset album. (Idk how you spell it but you get what i mean) it's a far better produced and put together album. Favorite song ( fireside). I can give you a multiple albums that dose everything "scoring the end of the world", but better. Werewolf was okay. The synths where boring and uneventful and the guiter the chorus was supposed to be this dramatic thing but it it didn't live up. As synth head i was offeneded by the synths. Listed to "Undead" by D.notive or Night At the Grindhouse pt 1 and 2.

I feel like slipknot new album is kind of a big let down for me. I personally think they peaked on volume 3.

My opinion on albums here: HM MGK- yeah it's bad. And I liked Tickets to My Downfall fine for what it is. Korn- I didn't hated it, it just wasn't very interesting. But then again, Korn haven't dropped much stuff I liked post Untouchables Motionless in White- I don't hate this album, can be cringy at points, but eh, not of kinda cringe I find too unbearable, and it had some songs I like Amon Amarth- Great Heathen Army? More like...BORING, this album was too boring for inspiring me to write any puns Architects- awful, their worst album Haven't heard-Nekrogoblikon, Five Finger Death Punch (I refuse to listen to anything FFDP willingly), Psycho Synner (them I'm not listening to either), Razor and Chaoseum

Bad comments = another drinking game!! Win, win!!!

I think the most disappointing album of the year for me was the new Lost Society album. They stripped away everything great about their sound and decided to go for the radio metal sound. I'm not upset at them evolving and changing, I just don't like where they're going.

I actually liked the Razor album. But it’s stupidity I found charming 😂

So, in the sports parlance, Jeremy Spencer is a 3-peat champion of the worst metal album of the year on The Metal Meltdown.

Motionless In White make me sad. After Creatures they have disappointed with pretty much every record. They have a couple of good tracks off of each record that are always drowned out by cringe incarnate.

i cant believe psycho synner is a thing, the sad thing about FFDP and Ivan Moody i thought what he did in Motograter was pretty good, nothing special but it was good nu metal and now he is doing five finger death punch, Motograter were so much better imo

For me the worst album of the year and my biggest dissapointment is Thornhill - Heroine. Like The Dark Pool was great, atmospheric, synths, riffs for days, drums that are creative and a singer that SOARS over the track... Heroine is so formulaic, squared, the mix is weird and the vocals are just BURIED IN MUD, and the drums are like meh... I saw a story before the release saying that "Its darker than the Dark Pool and heavier" and I was like "Ok, those are corporate buzz words but I am interested" and then the singles were from bad to worse and the album is just a mess... Like, literally hear a song like "Where do We go when We Die" or "Lily and the Moon" and then compare that to "Casanova" or "Hollywood" how is this the same band? What the fuck happened? We traded a great metalcore album for Muse, and not even good muse...

Ok there is a lot of stuff off of STROTW that was cringe, but there are some bangers on there.

You're right, man. It has been a disappointing year for metal, and that sake was a good choice.

Razor's comeback was quite painful for me. Except maybe for Decibels, all their other albums are top tier thrash, and I've been waiting almost literally all my life for a new Razor album only to be this... bland. It hurts me to say this, but Dave Carlo and co. should have called it quits long ago. Speaking of newer thrash, if you haven't listened to Nekromantheon's latest, you're missing out on something great.

KoRn Requiem was pretty solid, but hey, it’s your list. Merry christmas.

Great Heathen Army was a good Album.

The band I really hate is "Rattl'n Ice In A Jar"

Korn 😔😭

Forgot that the Jeremy Spencer Experience is bitching about cancel culture. Course speaking about grown men being cringe was Esdel Dope, forgot that he's with Static X and of course there were some live videos where he was with Dope bitching about getting canceled. This man is in his forties and whining about dumb shit, it almost hursts as much as listening to Psychosynner.