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MS Awards 2025 - Staff Picks!!

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An article by
ScreamingSteelUS
March 22, 2026
The 2025 Metal Storm Awards are over, but don't despair. We've brought you your favorite: more staff opinions! One vote isn't good enough for us, you see, so after the regular Awards close, we always have to do the whole thing over again. As usual, we had a couple of ties to sort out, which means, bizarrely, that by default the Best Power Metal Album of 2025 was actually Céline Dion's Let's Talk About Love. Sorry, but those are the rules. You'll see Helloween listed below, but we just haven't sorted out the linking yet. Anyway, here are the 2025 Metal Storm staff picks.




2025 Metal Storm Staff Picks



Alternative Metal

Mawiza - Ül






Ambient / Drone / Noise

Menace Ruine - The Color Of The Grave Is Green






Avant-Garde / Experimental Metal

Arrows - Yearning Arrows; Cloven Suns






Black Metal

Arkhaaik - Uihtis






Death Metal

Dormant Ordeal - Tooth And Nail






Djent / Math Metal

Ihlo - Legacy






Doom Metal

Messa - The Spin






Extreme Doom Metal

Ter Ziele - Embodiment Of Death






Extreme Progressive Metal

Cryptosis - Celestial Death






Folk / Pagan / Viking Metal

Havukruunu - Tavastland






Gothic Metal

Opia - I Welcome Thee, Eternal Sleep






Grindcore

Barren Path - Grieving






Hard Rock

Phantom Spell - Heather & Hearth






Hardcore / Metalcore / Deathcore

Deadguy - Near-Death Travel Services






Heavy / Traditional Metal

Scimitar - Scimitarium I






Industrial / Cyber / Electronic Metal

Health - Conflict DLC






Melodeath / Extreme Power / Gothenburg Metal

The Halo Effect - March Of The Unheard






Melodic Black Metal

Blackbraid - Blackbraid III









Post-Metal

Pothamus - Abur









Progressive Metal

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






Sludge Metal

Trudger - Void Quest






Stoner Metal

Khan - That Fair And Warlike Form // Return To Dust





Symphonic Metal

Qrixkuor - The Womb Of The World






Thrash / Speed Metal

Coroner - Dissonance Theory





Debut

Drowned In Silver - Mothers






Clandestine Cut

Even If We Lose - Even If We Lose






With all that being said, the 2025 Awards season is over. Now that we're 25% of the way through 2026, it's time to start catching up to the world and looking forward to our next opportunity to get together and rank stuff.
Written on 22.03.2026 by
ScreamingSteelUS
Written on 22.03.2026 by
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Great picks ! And lots of stuff that I missed
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