![The Callous Daoboys – Celebrity Therapist [Things You Might Have Missed 2022]](https://www.angrymetalguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/thecallousdaoboys-celebritytherapist.jpg)
“Everybody listen: The Callous Daoboys don’t give a shit. More than ever, they do what they do and you just have to deal with it. Matthew Ryan is their drummer and they’re from Atlanta – coincidence? I know, some of are saying, “wait, doesn’t Matt Ryan play for Indianapolis?” There, you understand The Callous Daoboys. Their bonkers take on mathcore has placed them at the scene’s forefront.” New year, new Dao.
![Old Solar – Quiet Prayers (Redux) [Things You Might Have Missed 2022]](https://www.angrymetalguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/oldsolarquiet.jpg.webp)
“It’s a rare post-rock release that truly stands out. Those that do excel have to go further than waves of shoegazing guitars and must exercise song-writing discipline. Enter 2017 and enter North Carolina’s Old Solar. An EP entitled Quiet Prayers offered one of the year’s more poignant musical achievements, but it sadly flew too far under the radar. Almost 6 years and 1 full-length later sees Old Solar still resolutely toiling in the underground, but their sound and songwriting has matured.” Old and quiet can work sometimes.
![Verberis – Adumbration of the Veiled Logos [Things You Might Have Missed 2022]](https://www.angrymetalguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Verberis-Adumbration-of-the-Veiled-Logos-01.jpeg.webp)
“I’ve probably banged on before about how much I love Ulcerate. Luckily for me, mastermind Jamie Saint-Merat has his fingers in quite a few other death metal pies. Verberis is one of them. The wordily titled Adumbration of the Veiled Logos takes the twisting disso-death that was the band’s staple, and ramps the atmosphere up to 11.” That’s a lot of ulcers.
![Otoboke Beaver – Super Champon [Things You Might Have Missed 2022]](https://www.angrymetalguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/cover-2.jpg.webp)
“It never ceases to bum me out when people will champion (rightfully, I may add) one band for their characteristically wacky, zany antics and tight musicianship, but somehow let another, similar experience slide through the cracks. Case in point: we here at The Church of the Metal Guy of Angry have our fair share of Beaten To Death fans, and it’s not hard to see why. Their off-beat harmonies, blast-happy histrionics, and hilarious song titles won over a number of our jaded, blackened hearts in no time. That said, not many of us can say the same for (or at least listened to) the quirky, bubbly, and yet utterly batshit insane stylings of Kyoto’s Otoboke Beaver.” Leave it to Beaver.
![Septicflesh – Modern Primitive [Things You Might Have Missed 2022]](https://www.angrymetalguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/a3078795722_10-768x768.jpg)
“This article fits its category perfectly and not at all. On the one hand, Septicflesh is a household name in symphonic death metal and most of you won’t have missed that they released a new album this year. On the other hand, there has been little to no fanfare surrounding its release. No promo in our inbox, no chatter on the lines. It wasn’t until the following weekend had passed that I chanced upon it, did a double take, and took to the Hall to announce my discord about completely missing Modern Primitive, one of the biggest symphodeath releases of the year.” Septicflesh is back on the menu, boys!
![Persefone – metanoia [Things You Might Have Missed 2022]](https://www.angrymetalguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Persefone-Metanoia01.jpg)
“Right off the bat, metanoia is a weighty listening experience that demands your undivided attention and repeat listens to fully unlock the album’s many intricacies and textures. metanoia is lengthy and so densely packed that initial listens are both absorbing and overwhelming.” Answer the Persefone.
![Psychonaut – Violate Consensus Reality [Things You Might Have Missed 2022]](https://www.angrymetalguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/a3982478728_10_1.jpg.webp)
“Mixing slow-build dynamics, psychedelic excursions and cathartic crescendos with sudden explosions of fury, Psychonaut draws inspiration from the likes of The Ocean and Baroness (in that bygone era when Baroness wrote compelling music and didn’t crush their albums into unlistenable garbage at the production stage). Complex, sprawling, dense, and yet accessible, Violate Consensus Reality swirls around the listener.” Psychodrama.
![Darkthrone – Astral Fortress [Things You Might Have Missed 2022]](https://www.angrymetalguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Darkthrone_Astral-Fortress.jpg.webp)
“Darkthrone is the only early-days black metal band that’s kept me interested through the decades. In times when I care little for the vast majority of black metal releases, I’ll always give a new Darkthrone album a fair shake. That’s because over their 36-year career, Nocturno Culto and Fenriz always embraced change and took more risks than a degenerate gambler at a no-limits poker table in Macau.” Olde, colde, bolde.
![Sadist – Firescorched [Things You Might Have Missed 2022]](https://www.angrymetalguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Sadist-Firescorched-01.jpg.webp)
“Nearly 30 years into their career, Sadist still manages to fly under the radar. For the olde and young who dig through the single-word glossary of 90s tech/prog/weirdo death metal, Sadist falls curiously along the progressive spectrum. True to the Italian horror spirit that Sadist embodies, their work tiptoes the line between abstract and abrasive to unsettling effect, and just plain meandering and ineffective.” Sadistic biscuits, firescorched.
![Zeal & Ardor – Zeal & Ardor [Things You Might Have Missed 2022]](https://www.angrymetalguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/a0216729942_10-768x768.jpg)
“Zeal & Ardor have always been a band of “buts” (with only one “t”!): individual songs have been great but previous albums haven’t quite coalesced into a consistent whole. The live show is fantastic but the energy is lost in the recording studio (compare the scintillating live performance of “Baphomet”—with its classic “Right hand up! Left hand down!” chorus—to the tame studio version). Their schtick of combining slave gospel with black metal is great but it’s also limited in its options and will become overdone soon. Which meant a great deal rode on their third album, Zeal & Ardor. Was the band going to fulfill its promise, or remain an interesting, if flawed, mishmash? A “but” band, if you will?” But rock.
