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.
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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!
Thanks to all these Sick Drummers for giving us such amazing works to enjoy, learn from, and share!
We posted our 2021 list a few days before Aerosol released their ‘Murmurations’ album that featured our beloved brother, Sean Reinert. A project from John Hiler — who mixed Carbon-Based Anatomy, worked on the 10th-anniversary reissue of Focus, and also mixed and co-produced Reinert and Paul Masvidal’s Aeon Spoke — started a new band, Aerosol, with Reinert and engineer Matt Brownlie (Carly Pearce, Destiny’s Child, Kesha).
When Sean unexpectedly passed on January 24, 2021, Hiler contacted Dirk Verbeuren (Megadeth, ex-Soilwork) and Mike Heller (Fear Factory, Malignancy) to fill in on drums on the songs Sean hadn’t recorded yet. Murmurations is dedicated to Sean’s memory, and Aerosol are donating a portion of all proceeds to The Trevor Project, a 24/7 hotline for at-risk LGBTQ youth, in Sean’s name.
This album features some of, if not the last, recordings Sean Reinert was ever part of. Rest in Peace… we love and miss you and wanted to acknowledge your work on this record here.
Sean Reinert | Aerosol | Murmurations | Sean is featured on the tracks ‘Delilah‘ and ‘Fall Down.’
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Adam Houmam | Cartilage | The Deader the Better
Adam Houmam | Maentra | Kundalini Rising
Adam Jarvis | Human Corpse Abuse | Xenoviscerum
Adam Jarvis | Misery Index | Complete Control
Alex Curtin | Until I Wake | Inside My Head
Ali Richardson | Bleed From Within | Shrine
Andrew Baird | Fallujah | Empyrean
Art Cruz | Lamb of God | Omens
Austin Archey | Lorna Shore | Pain Remains
Billy Rymer | End | Gather & Mourn (split w/Cult Leader)
Bryce Butler | Shadow of Intent | Elegy
Carolina Perez | Castrator | Defiled in Oblivion
Casey Hansen | Cult Leader | Gather & Mourn (split w/End)
Cazz Grant | Hearse | Traipse Across the Empty Graves
Chris Reifert | Autopsy | Morbidity Triumphant
Chris Wilson | Troglodyte | The Hierarchical Ecological Succession: Welcome to the Food Chain
Cody Davidson | Sanguisugabogg | The Devil’s Eyes
Craig Reynolds | Stray From the Path | Euthanasia
Dale Crover | Melvins | Bad Mood Rising
Dan Presland | Black Lava | Soul Furnace
Daniel Erlandsson | Arch Enemy | Deceivers
Dante Haas | Barn | Habitat
Dave Bland | Full of Hell | Aurora Leaking from an Open Wound EP
Dave Haley | Psycroptic | Divine Council
Davide Billia | Antropofagus | Origin
Derek Roddy | Isotropy | Particle Horizon
Diogo Mota | Gaerea | Mirage
Dirk Verbeuren | Megadeth | The Sick, The Dying, and The Dead
Dirk Verbeuren | Kill Division | Peace Through Tyranny
Dobber Beverly | Oceans of Slumber | Starlight and Ash
Gabe Seeber | Unnecessary Surgery | Hauled off in Chunks
Gavin Harrison | Porcupine Tree | Closure/Continuation
Inferno | Behemoth | Opvs Contra Natvram
JP Damron | Vermin Womb | Retaliation
Jason Nitts | Warforged | The Grove | Sundial
Jono Garrett | Shock Withdrawal | Self-titled EP
James Payne | Hiss From The Moat | The Way Out Of Hell
James Stewart | Decapitated | Cancer Culture
Jeramie Kling | Inhuman Condition | Fearsick
Jeramie Kling | Venom Inc | There’s Only Black
John Longstreth | Origin | Chaosmos
John Longstreth | Malefic Throne | Self-titled EP
Kenny Grohowski | Imperial Triumphant | Spirit of Ecstasy
Kerim “Krimh” Lechner | Septicflesh | Modern Primitive
Kevin Paradis | Aronious | Irkalla
Lee Fisher | Fawn Limbs | Oleum EP
Levi Sheehan | Organectomy | Nail Below Nail
Lyn Jeffs | Ingested | Ashes Lie Still
Matt Garstka | Animals as Leaders | Parrhesia
Matt Tillett | Greylotus | Dawnfall
Max Kolesne | Krisiun | Mortem Solis
Mike Caputo | Desecrate the Faith | III
Mike Hamilton | Exhumed | To The Dead
Mike Ranne | Proceed on Your Way to Oblivion | Ceremorphosis
Nathan Bigelow | Arkaik | Labyrinth of Hungry Ghosts
Navene Koperweis | Entheos | In Purgatory Single
Nils Fjellström | Nordjevel | Gnavhòl
Olan Parkinson | Abaddon Incarnate | The Wretched Sermon
Paul Mazurkiewicz | Umbilicus | Path of 1000 Suns
Paweł Jaroszewicz | Antigama | Whiteout
Pierce Williams | Morkera | Entangled Excavations
Rene Martinez | Stabbing | Extirpated Mortal Process (we heard a preview)
Scott Osment | Deaf Club | Productive Disruption
Sebastian Lanser | Obsidious | Iconic
Shane Matthewson | Ken Mode | Null
Steve Shalaty | Immolation | Acts of God
Steven Sanchez | The Last Ten Seconds of Life | Self-titled
Tito Felix | Upon a Burning Body | Fury
Tomas Haake | Meshuggah | Immutable
Tony Westermark | Soreption | Jord
Travis Regnier | AngelMaker | Sanctum
Ventor | Kreator | Hate über Alles
Vijesh Ghariwala | Wormrot | Hiss
Vincent Tweten | Phobophilic | Enveloping Absurdity
Zack Simmons | Goatwhore | Angels Hung From the Arches of Heaven
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