2025

Curious Ruminant

Jethro Tull

• Label: InsideOut
• Released: 7 March 2025

• Progressive rock
• Progressive folk

1. Puppet and the Puppet Master
2. Curious Ruminant
3. Dunsinane Hill
4. The Tipu house
5. Savannah of Paddington Green
6. Stygian Hand
7. Over Jerusalem
8. Drink from the Same Well
9. Interim Sleep

The World Under Unsun

Lunatic Soul

• Label: InsideOut
• Released: 31 October 2025

• Art rock
• Progressive rock

1. The World Under Unsun
2. Loop of Fate
3. Good Memories Don't Want to Die
4. Monsters
5. The Prophecy
6. Mind Obscured, Heart Eclipsed
7. Torn in Two
8. Hands Made of Lead
9. Ardour
10. Game Called Life
11. Confession
12. Parallels
13. Self in Distorted Glass
14. The New End

Nightmares as Extensions of the Waking State

Katatonia

• Label: Napalm
• Released: 6 June 2025

• Alternative metal
• Progressive metal

1. Thrice
2. The Liquid Eye
3. Wind of No Change
4. Lilac
5. Temporal
6. Departure Trails
7. Warden
8. The Light Which I Bleed
9. Efter solen
10. In the Event of

Tsunami Sea

Spiritbox

• Label: Pale Chord
• Released: 7 March 2025

• Alternative metal
• Metalcore

1. Fata Morgana
2. Black Rainbow
3. Perfect Soul
4. Keep Sweet
5. Soft Spine
6. Tsunami Sea
7. A Haven with Two Faces
8. No Loss, No Love
9. Crystal Roses
10. Ride the Wave
11. Deep End

The Arsonist

Sodom

• Label: Steamhammer
• Released: 27 June 2025

• Thrash metal

1. The Arsonist
2. Battle of Harvest Moon
3. Trigger Discipline
4. The Spirits That I Called
5. Witchhunter
6. Scavenger
7. Gun Without Groom
8. Taphephobia
9. Sane Insanity
10. A.W.T.F.
11. Twilight Void
12. Obliteration of the Aeons
13. Return to God in Parts

Borderland

Amorphis

• Label: Reigning Phoenix
• Released: 26 September 2025

• Progressive metal
• Melodic death metal

1. The Circle
2. Bones
3. Dancing Shadow
4. Fog to Fog
5. The Strange
6. Tempest
7. Light and Shadow
8. The Lantern
9. Borderland
10. Despair

Ànv

Eluveitie

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 25 April 2025

• Folk metal
• Melodic death metal

1. Emerge
2. Taranoías
3. The Prodigal Ones
4. Ànv
5. Premonition
6. Awen
7. Anamcara
8. The Harvest
9. Memories of Innocence
10. All Is One
11. Aeon of the Crescent Moon
12. The Prophecy

The Spin

Messa

• Label: Metal Blade
• Released: 11 April 2025

• Doom metal
• Gothic metal

1. Void Meridian
2. At Races
3. Fire on the Roof
4. Immolation
5. The Dress
6. Reveal
7. Thicker Blood

Triangulation

Steve Morse Band

• Label: Music Theories
• Released: 14 November 2025

• Jazz fusion

1. Break Through
2. Off the Cuff
3. TexUS
4. The Unexpected
5. March of the Nomads
6. Ice Breaker
7. Tumeni Parts
8. Triangulation
9. Taken by an Angel

The Light Shines Not for Thee

Brimstone Coven

• Label: n/a
• Released: 25 October 2025

• Stoner rock
• Occult rock

1. The Unknown
2. A Man's Demons
3. Fly on
4. Pass You by
5. Souls Intertwine
6. Occupy
7. Something in the Air / Not a Dream
8. Flesh Blood and Bone

Darkness Invisible

Mors Principium Est

• Label: Reigning Phoenix
• Released: 26 September 2025

• Melodic death metal

1. Of Death
2. Venator
3. Monuments
4. Tenebrae Iatebra
5. Summoning the Dark
6. Beyond the Horizon
7. The Rivers of Avernus
8. In Sleep There Is Peace
9. An Aria of the Damned
10. All Life Is Evil

Feather & Claw

Owlbear

• Label: Alone
• Released: 28 February 2025

• Heavy metal
• Power metal

1. As Arrows Hail
2. Crawl from the Carcass
3. Wild Shape
4. Devastation Be My Name
5. Shadow of the Dragon
6. Bloodsilver
7. Song of the Grey Witch
8. The Fall of Netheril
9. Hawkriders of the Wastes

Duél

Jinjer

• Label: Napalm
• Released: 7 February 2025

• Progressive metal
• Metalcore

1. Tantrum
2. Hedonist
3. Rogue
4. Tumbleweed
5. Green Serpent
6. Kafka
7. Dark Bile
8. Fast Draw
9. Someone's Daughter
10. A Tongue So Sly
11. Duél

Death Above Life

Orbit Culture

• Label: Century Media
• Released: 3 October 2025

• Groove metal
• Melodic death metal

1. Inferna
2. Bloodhound
3. Inside the Waves
4. The Tales of War
5. Hydra
6. Nerve
7. Death Above Life
8. The Storm
9. Neural Collapse
10. The Path I Walk

Something to Consume

Die Spitz

• Label: Third Man
• Released: 12 September 2025

• Alternative metal
• Alternative rock

1. Pop Punk Anthem (Sorry for the Delay)
2. Voir Dire
3. Throw Yourself to the Sword
4. American Porn
5. Sound to No One
6. Go Get Dressed
7. Red40
8. Riding with My Girls
9. Punishers
10. Down on It
11. A Strange Moon / Selenophilia

Critical Thinking

Manic Street Preachers

• Label: Sony
• Released: 14 February 2025

• Alternative rock
• Post-punk revival

1. Critical Thinking
2. Decline & Fall
3. Brush Stroked of Reunion
4. Hiding in Plain Sight
5. People Ruin Paintings
6. Dear Stephen
7. Being Baptised
8. My Brave Friend
9. Out of Time Revival
10. Deleted Scenes
11. Late Day Peaks
12. One Man Militia

Pushed to the Edge

Don Airey

• Label: earMUSIC
• Released: 28 March 2025

• Hard rock
• Progressive rock

1. Tell Me
2. The Keep on Running
3. Moon Rising
4. Rock the Melody
5. Flame in the Water
6. Out of Focus
7. Power of Change
8. Girl from Highland Park
9. Godz of War
10. Edge of Reality
11. Finnigan's Awake

Goldstar

Imperial Triumphant

• Label: Century Media
• Released: 21 March 2025

• Dissonant death metal
• Avant-garde metal
• Progressive metal

1. Eye of Mars
2. Gomorrah Nouveaux
3. Lexington Delirium
4. Hotel Sphinx
5. NEWYORKCITY
6. Goldstar
7. Rot Moderne
8. Pleasuredome
9. Industry of Misery

Brain Drain Diaries

Märvel

• Label: n/a
• Released: 5 December 2025

• Hard rock

1. Look! It's Rock 'n' Roll
2. A Beautiful Corpse
3. Brain Drain
4. Take a Stand
5. How Much Can I Wait
6. Biding My Time
7. Lord of the Gilded Cage
8. Time Has a Way
9. Butt to the Head
10. Steal the Night

Laurentian Blue

Panopticon

• Label: Nordvis
• Released: 15 August 2025

• Americana
• Folk

1. Liberation Song
2. The Poetry in Roadkill
3. Ever North
4. I Want to Be Alone
5. Flowers in the Ditch
6. An Argument with God
7. Irony and Actuality
8. Down Along the Border
9. This Mortal Coil's Rusted
10. Broken Bars
11. Ely in the Dark

Blackbraid III

Blackbraid

• Label: n/a
• Released: 8 August 2025

• Melodic black metal
• Atmospheric black metal

1. Dusk (Eulogy)
2. Wardrums at Dawn on the Day of My Death
3. The Dying Breath of Sacred Stag
4. The Earth Is Weeping
5. God of Black Blood
6. Traversing the Forest of Eternal Dusk
7. Tears of the Dawn
8. Like Wind Through the Reeds Making Waves Like Water
9. And He Became the Burning Stars ...
10. Fleshbound

Ricochet

Rise Against

• Label: Loma Vista
• Released: 15 August 2025

• Alternative rock
• Melodic hardcore

1. Nod
2. I Want It All
3. Ricochet
4. Damage Is Done
5. Us Against the World
6. Black Crown
7. Sink Like a Stone
8. Forty Days
9. State of Emergency
10. Gold long Gone
11. Soldier
12. Prizefighter

No Place Like Home

Badflower

• Label: Big Machine John Varvatos
• Released: 20 June 2025

• Alternative rock
• Hard rock

1. No Place Like Home
2. Haunting You
3. London
4. Story of Our Lives
5. Snuff
6. Swinging Hammer
7. Detroit
8. What's the Point
9. Don't Be a Stranger
10. Paws
11. Number 1
12. Let Me Get Something off My Chest
13. Butterfly

Kids Abandoning Destiny Among Vanity and Ruin

Kadavar

• Label: Clouds Hill
• Released: 7 November 2025

• Psychedelic rock
• Heavy psych

1. Lies
2. Heartache
3. Explosions in the Sky
4. The Corner of E 2nd & Robert Martinez
5. Stick It
6. You Me Apocalypse
7. The Children
8. K.A.D.A.V.A.R.
9. Total Annihilation

Parasomnia

Dream Theater

• Label: InsideOut
• Released: 7 February 2025

• Progressive metal

1. In the Arms of Morpheus
2. Night Terror
3. A Broken Man
4. Dead Asleep
5. Midnight Messiah
6. Are We Dreaming?
7. Bend the Clock
8. The Shadow Man Incident

The Revenge of Alice Cooper

Alice Cooper

• Label: earMUSIC
• Released: 25 July 2025

• Hard rock
• Blues rock

1. Black Mamba
2. Wild Ones
3. Up All Night
4. Kill the Flies
5. One Night Stand
6. Blood on the Sun
7. Crap That Gets in the Way of Your Dreams
8. Famous Face
9. Money Screams
10. What a Syd
11. Inter Galactic Vagabond Blues
12. What Happened to You
13. I Ain't Done Wrong
14. See You on the Other Side

God of Angels Trust

Volbeat

• Label: Vertigo
• Released: 6 June 2025

• Heavy metal
• Hard rock

1. Devils Are Awake
2. By a Monster's Hand
3. Acid Rain
4. Demonic Depression
5. In the Barn of the Goat Giving Birth to Satan's Spawn in a Dying World of Dom
6. Time Will Heal
7. Better Be Fueled Than Tamed
8. At the End of the Sirens
9. Lonely Fields
10. Enlighten the Disorder (By a Monster's Hand Part 2)

The Blue Nowhere

Between the Buried and Me

• Label: InsideOut
• Released: 12 September 2025

• Progressive metal
• Avant-garde metal

1. Things We Tell Ourselves in the Dark
2. God Terror
3. Absent Thereafter
4. Pause
5. Door #3
6. Mirador Uncoil
7. Psychomanteum
8. Slow Paranoia
9. The Blue Nowhere
10. Beautifully Human

Mixed Emotions

Kaleo

• Label: Atlantic
• Released: 9 May 2025

• Blues rock

1. Bloodline
2. USA Today
3. Rock n Roller
4. Run No More
5. Back Door
6. Lonely Cowboy
7. The Good Die Young
8. Legacy
9. Memoirs
10. Sofðu unga ástin mín

Birth of Malice

Destruction

• Label: Napalm
• Released: 7 March 2025

• Thrash metal

1. Birth of Malice
2. Destruction
3. Cyber Warfare
4. No Kings — No Masters
5. Scumbag Human Race
6. God of Gore
7. A.N.G.S.T.
8. Dealer of Death
9. Evil Never Sleeps
10. Chains of Sorrow
11. Greed
12. Fast as a Shark

Etheral Horizons

Blut Aus Nord

• Label: Debemur Morti
• Released: 28 November 2025

• Atmospheric black metal

1. Shadows Breathe First
2. Seclusion
3. The Ordeal
4. The Fall Opens the Sky
5. What Burns Now Listens
6. Twin Sun Reverie
7. The End Becomes Grace

Don't Go in the Forest

Avatar

• Label: Thirty Tigers
• Released: 31 October 2025

• Groove metal
• Melodic death metal

1. Tonight We Must Be Warriors
2. In the Airwaves
3. Captain Goat
4. Don't Go in the Forest
5. Death and Glitz
6. Abduction Song
7. Howling at the Waves
8. Dead and Gone and Back Again
9. Take This Heart and Burn It
10. Magic Lantern

Tavastland

Havukruunu

• Label: Svart
• Released: 28 February 2025

• Pagan metal
• Melodic black metal

1. Kuolematon laulunheki
2. Yönsytny
3. Havukruunu ja talvenvarjo
4. Tavastland
5. Kuoleman oma
6. Unissakävijä
7. Kun veri sekoittuu lumeen
8. De Miseriis Fennorum

No Rain, No Flowers

The Black Keys

• Label: Easy Eye
• Released: 8 August 2025

• Pop rock
• Blues rock

1. No Rain, No Flowers
2. The Night Before
3. Babygirl
4. Down to Nothing
5. Oh Repeat
6. Make You Mine
7. Man on a Mission
8. Kiss It
9. All My Life
10. A Little Too High
11. Neon Moon

Arcadia

Alison Krauss & Union Station

• Label: n/a
• Released: 28 March 2025

• Bluegrass
• Americana

1. Looks Like the End of the Road
2. The Hangman
3. Th Wrong Way
4. Granite Mills
5. One Ray of Shine
6. Richmond on the James
7. North Side Gal
8. Forever
9. Snow
10. There's a Light up Ahead

Let There Be Dark

Tower

• Label: Cruz del Sur
• Released: 21 March 2025

• Heavy metal
• Power metal

1. Under the Chapel
2. Let There Be Dark
3. Holy Water
4. And I Cry
5. The Well of Souls
6. Book of the Hidden
7. Legio X Fratensis
8. Iron Clad
9. Don't You Say
10. The Hammer

An Insatiable Violence

Cryptopsy

• Label: Season of Mist
• Released: 20 June 2025

• Technical death metal
• Brutal death metal

1. The Nimis Adoration
2. Until There's Nothing Left
3. Dead Eyes Replete
4. Fools Last Acclaim
5. The Art of Emptiness
6. Our Grest Deception
7. Embrace the Nihility
8. Malicious Needs

Para Bellum

Testament

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 10 October 2025

• Thrash metal
• Death metal

1. For the Love of Pain
2. Infanticide A.I.
3. Shadow People
4. Meant to Be
5. High Noon
6. Witch Hunt
7. Nature of the Beast
8. Room 177
9. Havana Syndrome
10. Para Bellum

Breakthrough

Joe Bonamassa

• Label: J&R Adventures
• Released: 18 July 2025

• Blues
• Blues rock

1. Breakthrough
2. Trigger Finger
3. I'll Take the Blame
4. Drive by the Exit Sign
5. Broken Record
6. Shake This Ground
7. Still Walking with Me
8. Life After Dark
9. You Don't Own Me
10. Pain's on Me

For the People

Dropkick Murphys

• Label: Play It Again Sam USA
• Released: 4 July 2025

• Celtic punk

1. Who'll Stand With Us?
2. Longshot
3. The Big Man
4. Chesterfields and Aftershave
5. Bury the Bones
6. Kids Games
7. Sooner Kill 'Em First
8. Fiending for the Lies
9. Streetlights
10. School Days Over
11. The Vultures Circle High
12. One Last Goodbye "Tribute to Shane"

I Just Want to Be a Sound

Kadavar

• Label: Clouds Hill
• Released: 16 May 2025

• Psychedelic rock

1. I Just Want to Be a Sound
2. Hysteria
3. Regeneration
4. Let Me Be a Shadow
5. Sunday Mornings
6. Scar on My Guitar
7. Strange Thoughts
8. Truth
9. Star
10. Until the End

Portals

The Vintage Caravan

• Label: Napalm
• Released: 26 September 2025

• Hard rock
• Progressive rock

1. Philosopher
2. Portal I
3. Days Go by
4. Portal II
5. Here You Come Again
6. Current
7. Give and Take
8. Portal III
9. Crossroads
10. Alone
11. Portal IV
12. Freedom
13. Riot
14. Electrified
15. Portal V
16. My Aurora
17. This Road

The Sleeping City

An Abstract Illusion

• Label: Willowtip
• Released: 17 October 2025

• Progressive metal
• Melodic death metal

1. Blackmurmur
2. No Dreams Beyond Empty Horizons
3. Like a Geyser Ever Erupting
4. Frost Flower
5. Emmett
6. Silverfields
7. The Sleepng City

Vaxis: Act III — The Father of Make Believe

Coheed and Cambria

• Label: Virgin
• Released: 14 March 2025

• Progressive rock
• Alternative rock

1. Yesterday's Lost
2. Goodbye, Sunshine
3. Searching for Tomorrow
4. The Father of Make Believe
5. Meri of Mercy
6. Blind Side Sonny
7. Play the Poet
8. One Last Miracle
9. Corner My Confidence
10. Someone Who Can
11. The Continuum I: Welcome to Forever, Mr. Nobody
12. The Continuum II: The Flood
13. The Continuum III: Tethered Together
14. The Continuum IV: So It Goes

I Saw the End as It Passed Right Through Me

Scorpion Child

• Label: Noize in the Attic
• Released: 14 February 2025

• Hard rock

1. Be the Snake
2. Acress
3. Outliers
4. See the Shine
5. The Starker
6. Wired Corpse
7. Godskin
8. Hanging Sun

Here to Destroy

Split Dogs

• Label: Venn
• Released: 28 February 2025

• Punk
• Hardcore punk

1. Stay Tunes
2. Monster Truck
3. Animal
4. Be a Sport
5. Meg
6. Lafayette
7. And What?
8. Precious Stones
9. All in

The Overview

Steven Wilson

• Label: Universal
• Released: 14 March 2025

• Progressive rock
• Space rock

1. Objects Outlive Us
2. The Overview

Lonely People with Power

Deafheaven

• Label: Roadrunner
• Released: 28 March 2025

• Blackgaze
• Post-metal

1. Incidental I
2. Doberman
3. Magnolia
4. The Garden Route
5. Heathen
6. Amethyst
7. Incidental II
8. Revelator
9. Body Behavior
10. Incidental III
11. Winona
12. The Marvelous Orange Tree

Skeletá

Ghost

• Label: Loma vista
• Released: 25 April 2025

• Hard rock
• Glam metal

1. Peacefield
2. Lachryma
3. Satanized
4. Guiding Lights
5. De profundis borealis
6. Cenotaph
7. Missilia amori
8. Marks of the Evil One
9. Umbra
10. Excelsis

Ascension

Paradise Lost

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 19 September 2025

• Gothic metal
• Doom metal

1. Serpent on the Cross
2. Tyrants Serenade
3. Salvation
4. Silence Like the Grave
5. Lay a Wreath upon the World
6. Diluvium
7. Savage Days
8. Sirens
9. Deceivers
10. The Precipice
11. This Stark Town
12. A Life Unknown

Dissonance Theory

Coroner

• Label: Century Media
• Released: 17 October 2025

• Progressive metal
• Thrash metal

1. Oxymoron
2. Consequence
3. Sacrificial Lamb
4. Crisium Bound
5. Symmetry
6. The Law
7. Transparent Eye
8. Trinity
9. Renewal
10. Prolonging