As is their annual tradition, all five members of Avenged Sevenfold have shared their individual lists of favorite albums of the year. For 2022, one album even made all of the lists: Weezer's SZNZ: Autumn, one of the four LPs corresponding to each season that Rivers Cuomo and Co. released this past year. Another common favorite is Kendrick Lamar's Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, which appears on the top-five lists of vocalist M. Shadows and guitarists Synyster Gates and Zacky Vengeance.
Bassist Johnny Christ and drummer Brooks Wackerman showed the most love for heavy music, with Megadeth, Ghost, Dead Cross and more topping their picks. But Shadows noted on Twitter that, while the albums didn't make his top five, he also enjoyed Slipknot, Rammstein, Ghost, NOFX, Disturbed, Megadeth and Polyphia's new records.
See A7X's year-end lists below.
M. Shadows:
Kendrick Lamar – Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
Weezer – SZNZ: Autumn
Weezer – SZNZ: Summer
Steve Lacy – Gemini Rights
Drake / 21 Savage – Her Loss
Synyster Gates:
Weezer – SZNZ: Autumn
Kanye West – Donda 2
Kendrick Lamar – Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
Dirty Heads – Midnight Control
Björk – Fossora
Zacky Vengeance:
Neil Young & Crazy Horse – World Record
Arctic Monkeys – The Car
Polyphia – Remember That You Will Die
Weezer – SZNZ: Autumn
Kendrick Lamar – Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
Honorable Mentions:
Orville Peck – Bronco
Rammstein – Zeit
Johnny Christ:
Alterbridge – Pawns & Kings
Megadeth – The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead!
Ghost – Impera
Willow – Coping Mechanism
Weezer – SZNZ: Autumn
Brooks Wackerman:
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Unlimited Love
The Smile – A Light for Attracting Attention
The interrupters – In The Wild
Weezer – SZNZ: Autumn
Dead Cross – II
More music I enjoyed: @polyphia , @slipknot , @RSprachrohr , Ghost, @NOFXband @Disturbed @Megadeth
— M. Shadows (@shadows_eth) December 30, 2022
