Jan 6, 2026
My Best 35 Metal Albums of
2025! My #1 and #2 technically released in December of
2024, but what can I say. It's my fucking list.
#1 Aara: I loved the
vocals, the emotions. Just a nail in my head,
immediately.
#2 Spectral Lore: A
beast of a legendary band. This was released on 12-31-2024,
as a "Demo". What a nut.
Top 11 are listed in order, and the rest are alphabetized.
0:25-7:29
#1 Aara (Swiss),
album - Eiger (Dec 6 2024)
Senkrechte Welten
7:30-17:20
#2 Spectral Lore
(Greece), album - IV (Part 1)(Dec 31, 2024)
Solitary Mirrors
17:21-24:44
#3: Maladie (GER),
album - Symptoms V
The Implacability Of Time
24:45-28:56
#4: 1914 (Ukraine),
album - Viribus Unitis
1914 (The Siege Of
Przemyśl)
28:57-37:15
#5: Patristic
(Italy), album - Catechesis
A Vinculis Soluta II
37:16-45:17
#6: Blut Aus Nord
(France), album - Ethereal Horizons
The Fall Opens The Sky
45:18-55:10
#7: Haxprocess (FL),
album - Beyond What Eyes Can See
The Confines of the Flesh
55:11-58:36
#8: Thron (GER),
album - Vurias
A Paradox
58:37-1:05:50
#9: Phosphorus
(GER), album - Frail Grasp of Broken Hands
Frail Grasp Of Broken
Hands
1:05:51-1:13:08
#10: Orm (Denmark),
album - Guld
Undfangen
1:13:09-1:16:50
#11: Changeling
(GER), album - S/T
Falling In Circles
And the rest
(alphabetized):
1:16:51-1:20:07
..And Oceans
(Finland), album - The Regeneration Itinerary
The Fire In Which We Burn
1:20:08-1:28:28
Abigail Williams
(WA), album - A Void Within Existence
No Less Than Death
1:28:29-1:33:22
Akantophis (GER),
album - Erneuerung
Perforation
1:33:23-1:43:14
An Abstract Illusion
(Sweden), album - The Sleeping City
The Sleeping City
1:43:15-1:49:24
Ancient Death (MA),
album - Ego Dissolution
Violet Light Decays
1:49:24-2:01:43
Ba'al (UK), album -
The Fine Line Between Heaven and Here
Mother's Concrete Womb
2:01:44-2:08:44
Beannachd Leibh
(CAN), album - Walking in His Works
Born Grey
2:08:45-2:15:42
Blood Abscission
(Anon), album - II
II - V
2:15:43-2:21:26
Centuries of Decay
(CAN), album - A Monument to Oblivion
Between the Waves of Grief
2:21:27-2:28:56
Dessiderium (AZ),
album - Keys To The Palace
In The Midst Of May
2:28:57-2:35:11
Dormant Ordeal
(Poland), album - Tooth and Nail
Against the Dying of the
Light
2:35:12-2:39:45
Exilium Noctis
(Greece), album - Pactum Diaboli
Fall Of Babylon
2:39:46-2:44:09
Floating (Sweden),
album - Hesitating Lights
I Reached the Mew
2:44:10-2:50:13
Gabestok (Denmark),
album - Alle Dør I Fremtiden
Incelcitadel (De Sidste Fyldte
Papirer)
2:50:14-2:53:55
Grey Aura
(Netherlands), album - Zwart vierkant Slotstuk
Opgehangen afgrond
2:53:56-3:02:00
Grima (Russia),
album - Nightside
The Nightside
3:02:01-3:05:19
Hecktic (Bulgaria),
album - Unbeholden
Black Swan
3:05:20-3:09:46
Morbikon (VA), album
- Lost Within The Astral Crypts
Ghoul Infested Mausoleum
3:09:47-3:15:52
Sepulchral Curse
(Finland), album - Crimson Moon Evocations
House Of The Black Moon
3:15:53-3:22:02
Sargassus (Finland),
album - Vitruvian Rays
Carving the Veins of God
3:22:03-3:27:45
Umulamahri (TX),
album - Learning the Secrets of Acid
Orifice Invocation
3:27:46-3:33:34
Uulliata Digir
(Poland), album - S/T
Omni Dirga
3:33:35-3:37:32
Vokodlok (Romania),
album - The Egregious Being
Disdain
3:37:33-END
Withering Soul
(Chicago), album -Passage of the Arcane
Grievance Eludes the Light