Sick Drummer Magazine – Favorite Drumming Albums of 2022

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Sick Drummer Magazine’s Favorite Drumming Albums of 2022! Our team has gone back and forth and has decided on these records. They are NOT in any particular order of most to least or least to most favorite. Just a list alphabetized by the drummer’s first name… there is no best album or drummer, just what our team enjoyed collectively.

Our team considers creativity, groove, originality, musicality, finesse, speed, technicality, and several other factors when compiling our lists. We apologize in advance to those we may not have heard… or overlooked. It’s been another crazy year. Nice to see things picking back up! Stay safe and healthy out there.

These albums were reviewed and picked by Ian Macdonald, Anton Hefele, Jeff Grindstopher, Jeanne Thomas, Mike Wyatt, Jason Blackburn, and David Culross Jr!

Let’s all show our appreciation for these outstanding performances by these drummers. We are honored and excited to have these records to listen to and learn from. Please share the links to your favorites, and if you can, purchase some records and/or merchandise from these artists. Every little bit helps.

This is the 4th year in a row Adam Jarvis and Lee Fisher have made this list. If you don’t know, now you know. That’s pretty insane. This year also features several players more than once… Adam Houmam, Adam Jarvis, Dirk Verbeuren, Jeramie Kling, and John Longstreth. Outstanding work, gentlemen!

Adam HoumamCartilage | The Deader the Better

Adam HoumamMaentra | Kundalini Rising

Adam JarvisHuman Corpse Abuse | Xenoviscerum

Adam Jarvis | Misery Index | Complete Control

Alex Curtin | Until I Wake | Inside My Head

Ali Richardson | Bleed From Within | Shrine

Andrew BairdFallujah | Empyrean

Art Cruz | Lamb of God | Omens

Austin ArcheyLorna Shore | Pain Remains

Billy RymerEnd | Gather & Mourn (split w/Cult Leader)

Bryce ButlerShadow of Intent | Elegy

Carolina PerezCastrator | Defiled in Oblivion

Casey HansenCult Leader | Gather & Mourn (split w/End)

Cazz GrantHearse | Traipse Across the Empty Graves

Chris ReifertAutopsy | Morbidity Triumphant

Chris WilsonTroglodyte | The Hierarchical Ecological Succession: Welcome to the Food Chain

Cody DavidsonSanguisugabogg | The Devil’s Eyes

Craig ReynoldsStray From the Path | Euthanasia

Dale CroverMelvins | Bad Mood Rising

Dan PreslandBlack Lava | Soul Furnace

Daniel ErlandssonArch Enemy | Deceivers

Dante HaasBarn | Habitat

Dave BlandFull of Hell | Aurora Leaking from an Open Wound EP

Dave HaleyPsycroptic | Divine Council

Davide BilliaAntropofagus | Origin

Derek RoddyIsotropy | Particle Horizon

Diogo MotaGaerea | Mirage

Dirk VerbeurenMegadeth | The Sick, The Dying, and The Dead

Dirk Verbeuren | Kill Division | Peace Through Tyranny

Dobber BeverlyOceans of Slumber | Starlight and Ash

Gabe Seeber | Unnecessary Surgery | Hauled off in Chunks

Gavin HarrisonPorcupine Tree | Closure/Continuation

InfernoBehemoth | Opvs Contra Natvram

JP DamronVermin Womb | Retaliation

Jason NittsWarforged | The Grove | Sundial

Jono GarrettShock Withdrawal | Self-titled EP

James PayneHiss From The Moat | The Way Out Of Hell

James StewartDecapitated | Cancer Culture

Jeramie KlingInhuman Condition | Fearsick

Jeramie KlingVenom Inc | There’s Only Black

John LongstrethOrigin | Chaosmos

John LongstrethMalefic Throne | Self-titled EP

Kenny GrohowskiImperial Triumphant | Spirit of Ecstasy

Kerim “Krimh” LechnerSepticflesh | Modern Primitive

Kevin Paradis | Aronious | Irkalla

Lee Fisher | Fawn Limbs | Oleum EP

Levi Sheehan | Organectomy | Nail Below Nail

Lyn JeffsIngested | Ashes Lie Still

Matt GarstkaAnimals as Leaders | Parrhesia

Matt Tillett | Greylotus | Dawnfall

Max KolesneKrisiun | Mortem Solis

Mike CaputoDesecrate the Faith | III

Mike HamiltonExhumed | To The Dead

Mike Ranne | Proceed on Your Way to Oblivion | Ceremorphosis

Nathan BigelowArkaik | Labyrinth of Hungry Ghosts

Navene KoperweisEntheos | In Purgatory Single

Nils FjellströmNordjevel | Gnavhòl

Olan ParkinsonAbaddon Incarnate | The Wretched Sermon

Paul Mazurkiewicz | Umbilicus | Path of 1000 Suns

Paweł JaroszewiczAntigama | Whiteout

Pierce WilliamsMorkera | Entangled Excavations

Rene MartinezStabbing | Extirpated Mortal Process (we heard a preview)

Scott OsmentDeaf Club | Productive Disruption

Sebastian LanserObsidious | Iconic

Shane MatthewsonKen Mode | Null

Steve ShalatyImmolation | Acts of God

Steven Sanchez | The Last Ten Seconds of Life | Self-titled

Tito FelixUpon a Burning Body | Fury

Tomas HaakeMeshuggah | Immutable

Tony WestermarkSoreption | Jord

Travis Regnier | AngelMaker | Sanctum

VentorKreator | Hate über Alles

Vijesh GhariwalaWormrot | Hiss

Vincent TwetenPhobophilic | Enveloping Absurdity

Zack SimmonsGoatwhore | Angels Hung From the Arches of Heaven