*No 000's were harmed in the making of this video* Smash like because breakdowns are cool :D

THANK YOU FOR SHOWING US HOW TO PLAY OUR SONGS CAUSE WE CANT PLAY THEM

Hey babe wake up, nik nocturnal just uploaded "best breakdowns of 2022"

Thank you for including Carcosa my friend

3:11 Nik really put the choo choos in lol

Mad props for the vocal performances, I've never seen such a wide vocal range 🤣

Thank you so much for including us!

I love how much time you had to chill in the oceans one 😂

Nik: takes screaming voice lessons Also Nik: "noises"

30 new songs to add to the gym playlist, let's go

LETS GO 😈🤘

Every Breakdown [Song - Artist(s)] 0:00 Reaper - Fit for a King 0:15 Levitate - Bleed from Within 0:28 P.O.P. - Within Destruction 0:45 III - Stray from the Path 0:55 Synthwave Vegan - Veil of Maya 1:08 Oblivion - Aviana 1:20 Nigh to Silence - ERRA 1:36 Miracle - A Day to Remember 1:49 Whispers of your Death - Counterparts 2:05 What I Would Give - Angelmaker 2:16 Conditional Healing - Fit for an Autopsy 2:37 Caved in - Spite 2:47 Telescope - Tallah 3:05 Tekkno Train - Electric Callboy 3:19 The Orphan - Paleface 3:33 Mass Produced - Oceano 3:44 Into the Earth - Lorna Shore 3:57 Grayout - Thrown 4:16 Stained in Rot - Ov Sulfur 4:27 Paralyzed - Allt 4:44 Exofilth - Distant 4:57 The Death We Seek - Currents 5:07 Translucent - Termina 5:27 Plague Speech - Oceans Ate Alaska 5:52 Red Dot Sight - To The Grave 6:07 .50 - Varials 6:22 Nihilius - Carcosa 6:37 Psalm of Agony - Enterprise Earth 6:52 Darkbloom - Brand of Sacrifice & We Came As Romans 7:18 Slaughterhouse - Motionless in White [My personal favorite, but has copyright strike :( ] 7:21 Evolving - Darko US 7:40 Hysteria - Spiritbox 7:59 Yenta - Ten56. I did my best. Edit: Thanks everyone for the suggestions and corrections. I'm hoping to be of some help to some of your playlists.

Hell yeah dude ❤️‍🔥

finally some love for conditional healing! that breakdown slaps, especially the callout🥵🥵🥵

You slid that Termina in there on us! Not wrong though, thanks for the content this year Nik!

2022 was full of great music. Thanks for thag

Learning the Termina breakdown must have been hard... good job👏

at 5:18 i had to put the damn video at 0.25x thinking it was an easter egg lmao, it really caugh me off guard

Thank you for including Termina! Both Translucent and Take Flight are incredible songs that I have been listening to A LOT since they came out, can't wait for more! You, Andy, and Chris are making S Tier stuff so please keep it coming

I just saw your heaviest riffs compilation from a couple of years ago on my front page and clicked on your channel to see if this year's edition was out yet. 5 minutes ago is about as fresh as it gets I guess. Talk about weird coincidences.

As someone who used to watch breakdown compilations in 240p in 2008, thank you.

It’s like every breakdown Nik adds another string onto his guitar 😂

3:13 lmao, I didn't expect this.

i saw electric callboy live earlier this month at a festival and hearing like 600 people all go "CHOO CHOO CHOO CHOO CHOO CHOO CHOO" was very theraputic

It's 2:18 am and I need to sle... HOLY SHIT NIK NOCTURNAL uploaded his TOP BREAKDOWNS OF 2022 I DONT NEED TO SLEEP ANYWAYS

At 5:18 the text flash was Lorna Shore - Into Thr Earth

I just love the different add ins u had, "voices" absolutely killed me XD

The heaviest breakdown of the year award goes to the breakdown of END's "Eden Will Drown" imo. It's disgustingly brutal

Love this ! So many jams I need to catch up with Happy holidays! 🤘🏻

Dude wow you're editing and mixing is nuts, great video! Clearly put hellllaaaaa effort into this cause it's not easy to come up with 20 breakdowns that sounds that good mashed together

Sick dude! Thank you for this!

I feel like I'm saying that every years, but 2022 have been a CRAZY year for the metal scene! So many awesome groups, so many incredible songs, riffs and disgusting breakdown.. to list all my favorite riffs/breakdowns of the year I need at least a 1h video lol. Thanks for this vid Nik, and I wish everyone really nice holidays

Thank you so much for including Allt in the breakdowns - those guys are so violently underrated.

So many great bangers this year

Glad you included an ALLT song, just plain awesome these guys!

freaking love these

Hell yeah!!! Love this so much. Mad respect for learning every single riff of each breakdown. But no Boundaries! That new record from them made me wanna throw elbows.

I always find it wildly entertaining hearing how these sound without vocals. Especially when Nik decides to insert the "rawr"s himself 😂

transition from the red dot sight to .50 is so cool

YES - Nik, breakdowns and guitar 🎸🤘

Awesome video man!

The fact that veil of maya has such insane guitar parts played by one guy is absolutely gnarly.

Ahh Within Destruction is a new favorite of mine. But man so many good bands on this list. Gotta Lotta music to catch up to

The video I've been waiting all year for😁

Loved hearing currents right after distant. Good shit bro

Really glad to see Tallah making it this year. TGOD was absolutely unbelievable

great mixing!

Loved the vocals.

I just got a 7 string today with a multi effects amp. Nik is one of my biggest inspirations and im so excited to get to progress in my gutair journey with him. Thank you nik!

Thank you for including Distant❤

Awesome video. Quite surprised there was no I Prevail breakdowns from True Power on this list Nik. They had some real hard hitting heavy breakdowns on there. 🙂

That "rawr" was beautiful. Hvala

Those little additions like for tekkno train and into the earth were perfect. The breakdown for the santas back in town from brojobs new death core Christmas ep is really good too.

"RNA SHORE - Into The Ea" my favorite song 5:19

ほわー♨️ 全部カッコイイ👍 今年は色々教えてくれてありがとう⚡ 来年も楽しみにしてます🤘

Bro, your covers are always so crisply done 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

great video dude

Oh yes. This has just made my day even better

Bold to include 2021 songs in this list Nik.

i can't express how much i love breakdowns

Hell yeah! Love the one from within destruction actually :)

Very nice breakdowns this year. The ADTR one still suprises me haha.I'm gonna go with New Order by The Gloom In The Corner, that ending breakdown is satisfying as hell

amazing picks as always 💯🤘

Yo I was DYING when you did the choo choo choo choo 😂

Awesome!

Boundaries had a lot of nice breakdowns on their new record, too bad none ended up in video :(. Amazing video as always, keep up good work Nik!

I'm glad you're keeping the tradition of KZfaq heavy breakdowns going 🙏

Saw ERRA in the thumbnail, knew u weren't going to disappoint. Hope u have a merry christmas, Nik (assuming u don't upload before christmas) 🎅🎄

The breaks in the breakdowns are the soundscape you needed. 😂

Nice video thanks sir 🍻🍻🍻

I just liked watching the pickups change in your MusicMan 🤣

Great list.

So sick. Need to iisten to most of this still.

Always awesome! I love how easy you make all these riffs look. Props. I'm sure you know a lot more bands than I do, but I just stumbled on Hypnosis by Sleep Token. Nice breakdown at 4:20 (coincidence...?) in that one. Also, SINK HOLE by He Is Legend @ 2:43. They're not exactly "metal" but their sound is pretty tight, and they've got some good riffage. Thanks for the vidz, Nik!

I love how palm muted chuggy stuff is kind of fading out for these huge riffy breakdowns

Best breakdown of year IMO: Atlvs - Comethazine Awesome work with this video Nik! 👏🏻👏🏻

Loved the choo choos

The fit for an autopsy breakdown is sick

I saw the Scoring The End of the World album cover on the Thumbnail and watched 8 minutes of the video🥲

I wait a whole year for this video. Hell. Yes.

Great stuff. Was hoping to see Animals As Leaders | Red Miso in there

What a way to end the year! 🤘🏻🖤

I went into this video and hoped to see Bleed from within. Was not disappointed tbh🤘🏼 And also even tho you picked your own song, no one can blame you for that, what a killer track

'Best Breakdowns' *proceeds to show every single released this year* its been a great year

Some of my favorite breakdowns this year are from Get the Shot, that whole album is bangin!

Counterparts takes the cake for me! Great compilation dude

The new Bleed from Within record has been such a treat to listen to

Hell yeah, love that you put Termina on here, they slap 😉

this year was so good! wow

Wow, Nik's impersination of Will Ramos is spot-on!

That tone is huge!

I love having my face broken. Well done on breakdowns breaking my face. Well done.

Woah dude, simmer down on the brutal vocals. I knew you were a good guitarist didn't know you were good at face noises too.

5:18 LORNA SHORE - Into the Earth. Took me a few minutes to pause right. Very funny nikolas

yo nik! great vid, love me some breakdowns, i got an idea though, what about also having the lead-up to the breakdowns because me personally the lead-up is as important as the breakdown itself and makes it SLAP so much harder, ya get me? just a thought though :)

Hey Nik, i was wondering if you ever plan to do a Rig Rundown? i'm pretty interested in your guitar collection, also merry christmas!

Your Termina stuff absolutely SLAPS

These breakdowns hit so hard that I set this video as my alarm clock sound

Currents - the Death we Seek is sick

CONGRATS ON 1 MIL NIC , BEEN HERE SINCE 250K🎉❤