My favourite albums from 2025

1. 50

   Curious Ruminant

   Jethro Tull

   

   

   Progressive rock | Progressive folk

   Tracks:

   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

2. 49

   Nightmares as Extensions of the Waking State

   Katatonia

   

   

   Alternative metal | Progressive metal

   Tracks:

   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

3. 48

   Tsunami Sea

   Spiritbox

   

   

   Alternative metal | Metalcore

   Tracks:

   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

4. 47

   The Arsonist

   Sodom

   

   

   Thrash metal

   Tracks:

   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

5. 46

   Borderland

   Amorphis

   

   

   Progressive metal | Melodic death metal

   Tracks:

   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

6. 45

   Ànv

   Eluveitie

   

   

   Folk metal | Melodic death metal

   Tracks:

   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

7. 44

   The Spin

   Messa

   

   

   Doom metal | Gothic metal

   Tracks:

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

8. 43

   Triangulation

   Steve Morse Band

   

   

   Jazz fusion

   Tracks:

   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

9. 42

   The Light Shines Not for Thee

   Brimstone Coven

   

   

   Stoner rock | Occult rock

   Tracks:

   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

10. 41

    Darkness Invisible

    Mors Principium Est

    

    

    Melodic death metal

    Tracks:

    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

11. 40

    Feather & Claw

    Owlbear

    

    

    Heavy metal | Power metal

    Tracks:

    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

12. 39

    Duél

    Jinjer

    

    

    Progressive metal | Metalcore

    Tracks:

    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

13. 38

    Death Above Life

    Orbit Culture

    

    

    Groove metal | Melodic death metal

    Tracks:

    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

14. 37

    Something to Consume

    Die Spitz

    

    

    Alternative metal | Alternative rock

    Tracks:

    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

15. 36

    Critical Thinking

    Manic Street Preachers

    

    

    Alternative rock | Post-punk revival

    Tracks:

    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

16. 35

    Pushed to the Edge

    Don Airey

    

    

    Hard rock | Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    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

17. 34

    Goldstar

    Imperial Triumphant

    

    

    Dissonant death metal | Avant-garde metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    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

18. 33

    Brain Drain Diaries

    Märvel

    

    

    Hard rock

    Tracks:

    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

19. 32

    Laurentian Blue

    Panopticon

    

    

    Americana | Folk

    Tracks:

    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

20. 31

    Blackbraid III

    Blackbraid

    

    

    Melodic black metal | Atmospheric black metal

    Tracks:

    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

21. 30

    Ricochet

    Rise Against

    

    

    Alternative rock | Melodic hardcore

    Tracks:

    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

22. 29

    No Place Like Home

    Badflower

    

    

    Alternative rock | Hard rock

    Tracks:

    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

23. 28

    Kids Abandoning Destiny Among Vanity and Ruin

    Kadavar

    

    

    Psychedelic rock | Heavy psych

    Tracks:

    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

24. 27

    Parasomnia

    Dream Theater

    

    

    Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    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

25. 26

    The Revenge of Alice Cooper

    Alice Cooper

    

    

    Hard rock | Blues rock

    Tracks:

    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

26. 25

    God of Angels Trust

    Volbeat

    

    

    Heavy metal | Hard rock

    Tracks:

    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)

27. 24

    The Blue Nowhere

    Between the Buried and Me

    

    

    Progressive metal | Avant-garde metal

    Tracks:

    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

28. 23

    Mixed Emotions

    Kaleo

    

    

    Blues rock

    Tracks:

    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

29. 22

    Birth of Malice

    Destruction

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    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

30. 21

    Etheral Horizons

    Blut Aus Nord

    

    

    Atmospheric black metal

    Tracks:

    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

31. 20

    Don't Go in the Forest

    Avatar

    

    

    Groove metal | Melodic death metal

    Tracks:

    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

32. 19

    Tavastland

    Havukruunu

    

    

    Pagan metal | Melodic black metal

    Tracks:

    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

33. 18

    No Rain, No Flowers

    The Black Keys

    

    

    Pop rock | Blues rock

    Tracks:

    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

34. 17

    Arcadia

    Alison Krauss & Union Station

    

    

    Bluegrass | Americana

    Tracks:

    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

35. 16

    Let There Be Dark

    Tower

    

    

    Heavy metal | Power metal

    Tracks:

    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 ●

36. 15

    An Insatiable Violence

    Cryptopsy

    

    

    Technical death metal | Brutal death metal

    Tracks:

    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

37. 14

    Para Bellum

    Testament

    

    

    Thrash metal | Death metal

    Tracks:

    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

38. 13

    Breakthrough

    Joe Bonamassa

    

    

    Blues | Blues rock

    Tracks:

    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

39. 12

    For the People

    Dropkick Murphys

    

    

    Celtic punk

    Tracks:

    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"

40. 11

    I Just Want to Be a Sound

    Kadavar

    

    

    Psychedelic rock

    Tracks:

    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

41. 10

    Portals

    The Vintage Caravan

    

    

    Hard rock | Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    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

42. 9

    The Sleeping City

    An Abstract Illusion

    

    

    Progressive metal | Melodic death metal

    Tracks:

    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 ●

43. 8

    Vaxis: Act III — The Father of Make Believe

    Coheed and Cambria

    

    

    Progressive rock | Alternative rock

    Tracks:

    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

44. 7

    I Saw the End as It Passed Right Through Me

    Scorpion Child

    

    

    Hard rock

    Tracks:

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

45. 6

    Here to Destroy

    Split Dogs

    

    

    Punk | Hardcore punk

    Tracks:

    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

46. 5

    The Overview

    Steven Wilson

    

    

    Progressive rock | Space rock

    Tracks:

    1. Objects Outlive Us ●
    2. The Overview

47. 4

    Lonely People with Power

    Deafheaven

    

    

    Blackgaze | Post-metal

    Tracks:

    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

48. 3

    Skeletá

    Ghost

    

    

    Hard rock | Glam metal

    Tracks:

    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

49. 2

    Ascension

    Paradise Lost

    

    

    Gothic metal | Doom metal

    Tracks:

    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

50. 1

    Dissonance Theory

    Coroner

    

    

    Progressive metal | Thrash metal

    Tracks:

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