Best Metal of 2025

Agriculture - The Spiritual Sound

Ainsoph - Affection & Vengeance

Amorphis - Borderland

Ancient Death - Ego Dissolution

Architects - The Sky, the Earth & All Between

Author & Punisher - Nocturnal Birding

Behemoth - The Shit of God

Benediction - Ravage of Empires

Between The Buried And Me – The Blue Nowhere

Blackbraid - Blackbraid III

Black Magnet - Megamantra

Bleed From Within - Zenith

Blind Equation - A Funeral in Purgatory

Byenoisegenerator - Subnormal Dives

Castle Rat - The Bestiary

Castrator - Coronation of the Grotesque

Century - Sign of the Storm

Christian Mistress - Children of the Earth

Coroner - Dissonance Theory

Corpus Offal - Corpus Offal

Creeper - Sanguivore II: Mistress Of Death

Crypt Sermon - Saturnian Appendices

Cryptopsy – An Insatiable Violence

Deafheaven - Lonely People with Power
Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Innern

Dormant Ordeal - Tooth and Nail

Dream Theater – Parasomnia

Dying Wish - The Flesh Stays Together

Employed To Serve - Fallen Star

Full of Hell - Broken Sword, Rotten Shield

Ghost - Skeleta

Green Carnation - A Dark Poem, Part I: The Shores of Melancholia

Hedonist - Scapulimancy

Hooded Menace - Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration

Idle Heirs - Life is Violence

Igorrr - Amen

Imperial Triumphant - Goldstar

Jinger - Duel

Lamp Of Murmuur - The Dreaming Prince In Ecstasy

Lorna Shore - I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me

Messa - The Spin

Mirar - Ascension
Mongrel – Baptized in the Gutter

Obscura - A Sonication

OvO - Gemma

Panzerfaust - Fight or Die

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Death Hilarious

Plasmodulated - An Ocean ov Putrid, Stinky, Vile, Disgusting Hell

Primitive Man – Observance

Propogandhi - At Peace 

Rivers of Nihil - Rivers of Nihil

Rwake - The Return of Magik

Sacrifice - Volume Six

Sanguisugabogg - Hideous Aftermath

Sallow Moth – Mossbane Lantern

Scalp - Not Worthy of Human Compassion

Septicflesh - Amphibians

Shotgun Cock - The Thanato-Clitoral Codex of Ejaculatory Nihilism

Signs of the Swarm - To Rid Myself of Truth

Sijjin – Helljjin Combat

Species - Changelings

Spiritworld - Halldorado

Testament - Para Bellum

Thumos - The Trial of Socrates

Trauma Bond - Summer Ends. Some Are Long Gone.

Vacuous - In His Blood

Voidceremony - Abditum

Warbringer - Wrath and Ruin

Weeping Sores - The Convalescence Agonies

Witchrot - Soul Cellar

Witness Chamber - Bronze Gates

Wode - Uncrossing The Keys

Yellow Eyes - Confusion Gate

Zeicrydeus – Le Grande Hérésie