My favourite albums from 2025

1. 51

   Curious Ruminant

   Jethro Tull

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Progressive rock
   • Progressive folk

2. 50

   The World Under Unsun

   Lunatic Soul

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Art rock
   • Progressive rock

3. 49

   Nightmares as Extensions of the Waking State

   Katatonia

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Alternative metal
   • Progressive metal

4. 48

   Tsunami Sea

   Spiritbox

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Alternative metal
   • Metalcore

5. 47

   The Arsonist

   Sodom

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Thrash metal

6. 46

   Borderland

   Amorphis

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Progressive metal
   • Melodic death metal

7. 45

   Ànv

   Eluveitie

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Folk metal
   • Melodic death metal

8. 44

   The Spin

   Messa

   
   

   Tracklist

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

   Genres

   • Doom metal
   • Gothic metal

9. 43

   Triangulation

   Steve Morse Band

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Jazz fusion

10. 42

    The Light Shines Not for Thee

    Brimstone Coven

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Stoner rock
    • Occult rock

11. 41

    Darkness Invisible

    Mors Principium Est

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Melodic death metal

12. 40

    Feather & Claw

    Owlbear

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Heavy metal
    • Power metal

13. 39

    Duél

    Jinjer

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • Metalcore

14. 38

    Death Above Life

    Orbit Culture

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Groove metal
    • Melodic death metal

15. 37

    Something to Consume

    Die Spitz

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Alternative metal
    • Alternative rock

16. 36

    Critical Thinking

    Manic Street Preachers

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Alternative rock
    • Post-punk revival

17. 35

    Pushed to the Edge

    Don Airey

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Hard rock
    • Progressive rock

18. 34

    Goldstar

    Imperial Triumphant

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

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

19. 33

    Brain Drain Diaries

    Märvel

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Hard rock

20. 32

    Laurentian Blue

    Panopticon

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Americana
    • Folk

21. 31

    Blackbraid III

    Blackbraid

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Melodic black metal
    • Atmospheric black metal

22. 30

    Ricochet

    Rise Against

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Alternative rock
    • Melodic hardcore

23. 29

    No Place Like Home

    Badflower

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Alternative rock
    • Hard rock

24. 28

    Kids Abandoning Destiny Among Vanity and Ruin

    Kadavar

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Psychedelic rock
    • Heavy psych

25. 27

    Parasomnia

    Dream Theater

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Progressive metal

26. 26

    The Revenge of Alice Cooper

    Alice Cooper

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Hard rock
    • Blues rock

27. 25

    God of Angels Trust

    Volbeat

    
    

    Tracklist

    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)

    Genres

    • Heavy metal
    • Hard rock

28. 24

    The Blue Nowhere

    Between the Buried and Me

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • Avant-garde metal

29. 23

    Mixed Emotions

    Kaleo

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Blues rock

30. 22

    Birth of Malice

    Destruction

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Thrash metal

31. 21

    Etheral Horizons

    Blut Aus Nord

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Atmospheric black metal

32. 20

    Don't Go in the Forest

    Avatar

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Groove metal
    • Melodic death metal

33. 19

    Tavastland

    Havukruunu

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Pagan metal
    • Melodic black metal

34. 18

    No Rain, No Flowers

    The Black Keys

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Pop rock
    • Blues rock

35. 17

    Arcadia

    Alison Krauss & Union Station

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Bluegrass
    • Americana

36. 16

    Let There Be Dark

    Tower

    
    

    Tracklist

    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 ●

    Genres

    • Heavy metal
    • Power metal

37. 15

    An Insatiable Violence

    Cryptopsy

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Technical death metal
    • Brutal death metal

38. 14

    Para Bellum

    Testament

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Thrash metal
    • Death metal

39. 13

    Breakthrough

    Joe Bonamassa

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Blues
    • Blues rock

40. 12

    For the People

    Dropkick Murphys

    
    

    Tracklist

    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"

    Genres

    • Celtic punk

41. 11

    I Just Want to Be a Sound

    Kadavar

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Psychedelic rock

42. 10

    Portals

    The Vintage Caravan

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Hard rock
    • Progressive rock

43. 9

    The Sleeping City

    An Abstract Illusion

    
    

    Tracklist

    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 ●

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • Melodic death metal

44. 8

    Vaxis: Act III — The Father of Make Believe

    Coheed and Cambria

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Progressive rock
    • Alternative rock

45. 7

    I Saw the End as It Passed Right Through Me

    Scorpion Child

    
    

    Tracklist

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

    Genres

    • Hard rock

46. 6

    Here to Destroy

    Split Dogs

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Punk
    • Hardcore punk

47. 5

    The Overview

    Steven Wilson

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Objects Outlive Us ●
    2. The Overview

    Genres

    • Progressive rock
    • Space rock

48. 4

    Lonely People with Power

    Deafheaven

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Blackgaze
    • Post-metal

49. 3

    Skeletá

    Ghost

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Hard rock
    • Glam metal

50. 2

    Ascension

    Paradise Lost

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Gothic metal
    • Doom metal

51. 1

    Dissonance Theory

    Coroner

    
    

    Tracklist

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

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • Thrash metal