My Favorite Albums 2025

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My Favorite Albums 2025

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Created
December 31, 2024
Entries
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Another year another list! Been really busy and trying to keep current but I’ve fallen a little behind on current releases, so I’m trying to catch up over the last month. EPs and non album releases are down on the bottom.

Here’s some beautiful covers to look at:








And a playlist of my favorite songs, max 2 per artist: Best of 2025
379.
1.
Maruja - Pain to Power
🇫🇷 9 (Experimental Rock, Jazz, Noise Rock)
379.
2.
Messa - The Spin
🇮🇹 9 (Doom, Post-Punk, Darkwave)
379.
3.
Grayceon - Then The Darkness
🇺🇸 8.5 (Progressive, Experimental Rock)
379.
4.
Daevar - Sub Rosa
🇩🇪 8.5 (Stoner, Doom, Grunge) Biggest grower on this list for me, the vibes and the vocal hooks are immaculate
379.
5.
Health - Conflict DLC
🇺🇸 8.5 (Industrial, Noise Rock) Returned to this more than any album from this year so far,
379.
6.
Psychonaut - World Maker
🇧🇪 8.5 (Post-Metal)
379.
7.
The Answer Lies In The Black Void - Transcendental
🇭🇺 🇳🇱 8.5 (Doom)
379.
8.
Deftones - Private Music
🇺🇸 8 (Alternative, Nu)
379.
9.
Naxatras - V
🇬🇷 8 (Psychedelic Rock, Space Rock)
379.
10.
Faetooth - Labyrinthine
🇺🇸 8 (Doom, Post-Metal)
379.
11.
Vermilia - Karsikko
🇫🇮 8 (Atmospheric Black, Pagan Black, Folk)
379.
12.
Deafheaven - Lonely People With Power
🇺🇸 8 (Blackgaze)
379.
13.
Resa Saffa Park - Silver Bead Eyes
🇳🇴 8 (Art Pop)
379.
14.
Dolven - In My Grave… Silence
🇺🇸 8 (Acoustic Doom)
379.
15.
Opia - I Welcome Thee, Eternal Sleep
🇺🇳 8 (Gothic Doom)
379.
16.
Scimitar - Scimitarium I
🇩🇰 8 (Blackened Heavy)
379.
17.
Indigo De Souza - Precipice
🇺🇸 8 (Indie Pop, Folk Pop)
379.
18.
Modern Life Is War - Life on the Moon
🇺🇸 8 (Hardcore Punk)
379.
19.
The Great Old Ones - Kadath
🇫🇷 8 (Ambient, Progressive, Atmospheric Black)
379.
20.
Mares Of Thrace - The Loss
🇨🇦 8 (Post-Hardcore, Black, Doom)
379.
21.
Sprints - All That Is Over
🇮🇪 8 (Post-Punk, Noise Rock)
379.
22.
Korypheus - Gilgamesh
🇺🇦 8 (Extreme Progressive, Djent)
379.
23.
Ingrown - Idaho
🇺🇸 8 (Hardcore)
379.
24.
Whirr - Raw Blue
🇺🇸 8 (Shoegaze)
379.
25.
Ameokama - I Will Be Clouds In The Morning And Rain In The Evening
🇺🇸 8 (Doomgaze, Ambient Black, Electronic, Noise)
379.
26.
Blackbraid - Blackbraid III
🇺🇸 8 (Atmospheric Black, Melodic Black)
379.
27.
葬火 - 徒花
🇯🇵 8 (Black, Death, Hardcore)
379.
28.
Phantom Spell - Heather & Hearth
🇬🇧 8 (Hard Rock, Progressive Rock)
379.
29.
Gazpacho - Magic 8-Ball
🇳🇴 8 (Atmospheric Rock, Progressive Rock)
379.
30.
Lvmen - Amen
🇨🇿 8 (Post-Metal, Blackened Hardcore)
379.
31.
Wolvennest - Procession
🇧🇪 8 (Stoner, Doom, Krautrock)
379.
32.
Anna Von Hausswolff - Iconoclasts
🇸🇪 8 (Art Rock, Experimental Jazz)
379.
33.
Saor - Amidst The Ruins
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 8 (Atmospheric Black, Celtic Folk)
379.
34.
Dormant Ordeal - Tooth And Nail
🇵🇱 8 (Technical Death)
379.
35.
Maud the Moth - The Distaff
🇬🇧 8 (Avant-Garde, Experimental Rock, Experimental Folk, Darkwave)
379.
36.
Snooze - I Know How You Will Die
🇺🇸 8 (Math Rock, Mathcore)
379.
37.
Obiymy Doschu - Відрада
🇺🇦 8 (Atnospheric Rock, Progressive Rock)
379.
38.
Coroner - Dissonance Theory
🇨🇭 8 (Technical Thrash)
379.
39.
Appalooza - The Emperor Of Loss
🇺🇸 8 (Alternative, Psychedelic Rock)
379.
40.
Amorphis - Borderland
🇫🇮 8 (Progressive, Melodic Death)
379.
41.
The Mars Volta - Lucro Sucio; Los Ojos Del Vacio
🇺🇸 8 (Art Rock, Synth Pop, Fusion)
379.
42.
Labyrinthus Stellarum - Rift In Reality
🇺🇦 8 (Atmospheric Black Metal)
379.
43.
Cross Bringer - Healismus Aeternus
🇧🇪 🇷🇺 8 (Blackened Progressive Hardcore)
379.
44.
Agriculture - The Spiritual Sound
🇺🇸 8 (Noise, Blackened Hardcore)
379.
45.
Retromorphosis - Psalmus Mortis
🇸🇪 8 (Technical Death)
379.
46.
Shedfromthebody - Whisper And Wane
🇫🇮 7.5 (Doomgaze)
379.
47.
Cult Of Fire - The One, Who Is Made Of Smoke
🇨🇿 7.5 (Black)
379.
48.
Car Seat Headrest - The Scholars
🇺🇸 7.5 (Indie Rock, Experimental Rock)
379.
49.
Ylva De Lune - II
🇩🇪 7.5 (Post-Black)
379.
50.
Forlorn (UK) - Aether
🇬🇧 7.5 (Metalcore, Pagan Folk)
379.
51.
This Gift Is A Curse - Heir
🇸🇪 7.5 (Blackened Sludge, Hardcore)
379.
52.
Cave Sermon - Fragile Wings
🇦🇺 7.5 (Progressive, Black, Death, Post-Metal)
379.
53.
Remina - The Silver Sea
🇦🇺 7.5 (Atmospheric Doom)
379.
54.
The Armed - The Future Is Here And Everything Needs To Be Destroyed
🇺🇸 7.5 (Noise Rock, Post-Hardcore)
379.
55.
Dax Riggs - 7 Songs For Spiders
🇺🇸 7.5 (Stoner Rock, Doom Rock)
379.
56.
Heretoir - Solastalgia
🇩🇪 7.5 (Blackgaze)
379.
57.
Aeldergyst - Werde
🇩🇪 7.5 (Dark Folk, Pagan Folk)
379.
58.
Telepathy - Transmissions
🇬🇧 7.5 (Post-Metal)
379.
59.
Calyces - Fleshy Waves Of Probability
🇬🇷 7.5 (Progressive)
379.
60.
Ragana - Ash Souvenir [Collaboration]
🇺🇸 7.5 (Post-Black, Post-Rock)
379.
61.
Fallujah - Xenotaph
🇺🇸 7.5 (Progressive Death)
379.
62.
Maps and Foils - Nulle Parte
🇫🇷 7.5 (Progressive Post-Hardcore, Post-Metal)
379.
63.
An Abstract Illusion - The Sleeping City
🇸🇪 7.5 (Melodic Death, Progressive Death)
379.
64.
Abigail Williams - A Void Within Existence
🇺🇸 7.5 (Black)
379.
65.
Confess - Destination Addiction
🇳🇴 7.5 (Thrash, Metalcore, Nu)
379.
66.
Eluveitie - Ànv
🇨🇭 7.5 (Celtic Folk, Melodic Death)
379.
67.
The Acacia Strain - You Are Safe From God Here
🇺🇸 7.5 (Deathcore)
379.
68.
Soot Sprite - Wield Your Hope Like a Weapon
🇬🇧 7.5 (Emo, Alternative Rock, Shoegaze)
379.
69.
Wardruna - Birna
🇳🇴 7.5 (Neofolk)
379.
70.
Sundowner - Work Dream
🇨🇦 7.5 (Post-Hardcore)
379.
71.
Raphael Weinroth-Browne - Lifeblood
🇨🇦 7.5 (Post-Rock, Modern Classical)
379.
72.
In Mourning - The Immortal
🇸🇪 7.5 (Melodic Death, Progressive)
379.
73.
Esox - Watery Grave
🇮🇹 7.5 (Blackgaze, Post-Rock, Neofolk)
379.
74.
The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die - Dreams of Being Dust
🇺🇸 7.5 (Emo, Post-Metal)
379.
75.
Pothamus - Abur
🇧🇪 7.5 (Post-Metal)
379.
76.
Jade - Mysteries Of A Flowery Dream
🇪🇸 7.5 (Atmoshperic Death Doom, Blackened Death)
379.
77.
Steven Wilson - The Overview
🇬🇧 7.5 (Progressive Rock, Atmospheric Rock)
379.
78.
Fauna - Ochre & Ash
🇺🇸 7.5 (Ambient Black)
379.
79.
Hexvessel - Nocturne
🇫🇮 7.5 (Neofolk, Melodic Black, Psychedelic Rock)
379.
80.
Shedfromthebody - Everything Out There Has Teeth
🇫🇮 7.5 (Experimental Rock, Alternative)
379.
81.
Perturbator - Age of Aquarius
🇫🇷 7.5 (Synthwave)
379.
82.
Lamp Of Murmuur - The Dreaming Prince In Ecstasy
🇺🇸 7.5 (Black)
379.
83.
Twenty One Pilots - Breach
7.5 (Alternative Rock, Alternative Hip Hop)
379.
84.
Drudkh - Гра тіней (Shadow Play)
🇺🇦 7.5 (Pagan Black)
379.
85.
Satanic Ritual Glorification - Morbid Orgies
🇺🇸 7.5 (Psychedelic Rock, Occult Rock)
379.
86.
Harakiri For The Sky - Scorched Earth
🇦🇹 7.5 (Black, Post-Metal)
379.
87.
Gwenifer Raymond - Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark
🇬🇧 7.5 (American Primitivism, Gothic Americana)
379.
88.
Castle Rat - The Beastiary
🇺🇸 7.5 (Doom, Psychedelic Rock)
379.
89.
Ditz - Never Exhale
🇬🇧 7.5 (Post-Punk, Post-Hardcore, Noise Rock)
379.
90.
Lorna Shore - I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me
🇺🇸 7.5 (Symphonic Technical Deathcore)
379.
91.
clipping. - Dead Channel Sky
🇺🇸 7.5 (Rap, Cyberpunk)
379.
92.
Deathless Legacy - Damnatio Aeterna
🇮🇹 7.5 (Occult Rock, Heavy)
379.
93.
K L P S - K L P S
🇸🇪 7.5 (Sludge, Post-Metal)
379.
94.
Mantar - Post Apocalyptic Depression
🇩🇪 7.5 (Sludge)
379.
95.
Halocraft - To Leave a Single Wolf Alive
🇬🇷 7.5 (Psychedelic Rock, Post-Rock)
379.
96.
Halocraft - The Sky Will Remember
🇬🇷 7.5 (Psychedelic Rock, Post-Rock)
379.
97.
Asunojokei - Think Of You
🇯🇵 7.5 (Blackened Post-Hardcore, Shoegaze)
379.
98.
Wyatt E. - Zamāru Ultu Gereb Ziqquratu Part 1
🇧🇪 7.5 (Drone Doom)
379.
99.
Dropkick Murphy's - For the People
🇺🇸 7.5 (Celtic Rock)
379.
100.
Kardashev - Alunea
🇺🇸 7.5 (Progressive Deathcore, Atmospheric Death, Shoegaze)
379.
101.
Auri - III - Candles & Beginnings
🇫🇮 7.5 (Folk)
379.
102.
Lorde - Virgin
🇳🇿 7.5 (Pop)
379.
103.
Trauma Bond - Summer Ends. Some Are Long Gone
🇬🇧 7.5 (Grindcore)
379.
104.
Sasami - Blood on the Silver Screen
🇺🇸 7.5 (Pop Rock)
379.
105.
Turnstile - Never Enough
🇺🇸 7.5 (Alternative Rock)
379.
106.
Igorrr - Amen
🇫🇷 7.5 (Cybergrind, Experimental Grindcore)
379.
107.
AFI - Silver Bleeds the Black Sun
🇺🇸 7.5 (Post-Punk, Darkwave)
379.
108.
Flummox - Southern Progress
🇺🇸 7.5 (Avant-Garde, Stoner)
379.
109.
Vale - No Tomorrow Worth Knowing
🇺🇸 7.5 (Atmospheric Black, Post-Rock, Neofolk)
379.
110.
Suotana - Ounas II
🇫🇮 7 (Melodic Death, Extreme Power)
379.
111.
Cradle Of Filth - The Screaming Of The Valkyries
🇬🇧 7 (Extreme Gothic)
379.
112.
Havukruunu - Tavastland
🇫🇮 7 (Black, Folk)
379.
113.
Rivers Of Nihil - Rivers Of Nihil
🇺🇸 7 (Extreme Progressive, Technical Death)
379.
114.
Bask - The Turning
🇺🇸 7 (Stoner Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Post-Metal)
379.
115.
Eyes - Spinner
🇩🇰 7 (Noise, Metalcore, Hardcore)
379.
116.
Green Carnation - A Dark Poem Part I: The Shores Of Melancholia
🇳🇴 7 (Gothic, Progressive)
379.
117.
Smote - Songs From The Free House
🇬🇧 7 (Dark Ambient, Drone, Psychedelic Folk)
379.
118.
The Halo Effect - March Of The Unheard
🇸🇪 7 (Gothenburg, Melodic Death)
379.
119.
Kazea - I. Ancestral
🇸🇪 7 (Doom, Sludge, Post-Metal)
379.
120.
Abraham - Idsungwüssä
🇨🇭 7 (Post-Metal)
379.
121.
Båkü - Soma
🇫🇷 7 (Sludge, Post-Metal)
379.
122.
Whitechapel - Hymns In Dissonance
🇺🇸 7 (Deathcore)
379.
123.
LANDMVRKS - The Darkest Place I've Ever Been
🇫🇷 7 (Metalcore)
379.
124.
Unreqvited - A Pathway To The Moon
🇨🇦 7 (Post-Metal, Atmospheric Black)
379.
125.
The Last Dinner Party - From the Pyre
🇬🇧 7 (Art Rock, Baroque Pop)
379.
126.
Kauan - Wayhome
🇷🇺 7 (Post-Rock)
379.
127.
Slomatics - Atomicult
🇨🇦 7 (Stoner, Psychedelic Rock)
379.
128.
Planning For Burial - It's Closeness, It's Easy
🇺🇸 7 (Shoegaze, Post-Rock)
379.
129.
The Birthday Massacre - Sleep Tonight
🇨🇦 7 (Synth Rock)
379.
130.
Blackbriar - A Thousand Little Deaths
🇳🇱 7 (Symphonic)
379.
131.
Lavinia Blackwell - The Making
🇬🇧 7 (Folk Rock)
379.
132.
You Win Again Gravity - Don't Leave Me Here, Pt. 1
🇬🇧 7 (Djent, Progressive, Post-Hardcore)
379.
133.
Pupil Slicer - Fleshwork
🇺🇸 7 (Mathcore)
379.
134.
Deadguy - Near-Death Travel Services
🇺🇸 7 (Mathcore, Metalcore)
379.
135.
Corde Oblique - Cries and Whispers
🇮🇹 7 (Post-Metal, Folkgaze)
379.
136.
Backxwash - Only Dust Remains
🇨🇦 7 (Experimental Hip Hop)
379.
137.
Thurnin - Harmr
🇳🇱 7 (Neofolk, Dark Folk)
379.
138.
Sea Mosquito - Majestas
🇬🇧 7 (Atmospheric Black)
379.
139.
Dawn Of Ouroboros - Bioluminescence
🇺🇸 7 (Progressive Black, Post-Black)
379.
140.
AVKRVST - Waving At The Sky
🇳🇴 7 (Progressive)
379.
141.
Neptunian Maximalism - Le Sacre Du Soleil Invaincu
🇧🇪 7 (Drone, Free Jazz, Experimental Rock)
379.
142.
Shearling - Motherfucker, I Am Both: “Amen” and “Hallelujah”…
🇺🇸 7 (Noise, Post-Rock, Experimental Rock)
379.
143.
Kesha - .
🇺🇸 7 (Dance Pop)
379.
144.
Wytch Hazel - V: Lamentations
🇬🇧 7 (Hard Rock)
379.
145.
Miley Cyrus - Something Beautiful
🇺🇸 7 (Pop)
379.
146.
Kadavar - I Just Want To Be A Sound
🇩🇪 7 (Stoner Rock, Neo-Psychedelia)
379.
147.
Racing Mount Pleasant - Racing Mount Pleasant
🇺🇸 7 (Jazz Folk, Post-Rock)
379.
148.
A Flock Named Murder - Incendiary Sanctum
🇨🇦 7 (Black, Post-Metal)
379.
149.
Slumbering Sun - Starmony
🇺🇸 7 (Doom, Stoner)
379.
150.
Sumac - The Film [Collaboration]
🇺🇸 7 (Experimental Hip Hop, Post-Metal)
379.
151.
Faun - Hex
🇩🇪 7 (Darkwave, Neofolk)
379.
152.
Bong-Ra - Black Noise
🇳🇱 7 (Breakcore, Industrial)
379.
153.
An Evening With Knives - End Of Time
🇳🇱 7 (Sludge, Stoner, Post-Metal)
379.
154.
Rye - Знание
🇷🇺 7 (Ambient Black, Funeral Doom)
379.
155.
Species - Changelings
🇵🇱 7 (Progressive Thrash)
379.
156.
Yeule - Evangelical Girl Is a Gun
🇸🇬 7 (Indie Pop)
379.
157.
ASkySoBlack - Touch Heaven
🇺🇸 7 (Alternative Rock, Emo, Post-Hardcore)
379.
158.
Onirophagus - Revelations From The Void
🇪🇸 7 (Death-Doom)
379.
159.
Smiqra - Rɡyaɡ̇dźé!
🇨🇳 7 (Technical Avantgarde)
379.
160.
Pyres - Yun
🇨🇦 7 (Progressive Sludge)
379.
161.
Swans - Birthing
🇺🇸 7 (Drone, Post-Rock, Noise, Experimental Rock)
379.
162.
Great American Ghost - Tragedy Of The Commons
🇺🇸 7 (Hardcore, Metalcore)
379.
163.
The Man-Eating Tree - Night Verses
🇫🇮 7 (Suomi, Melodic Death, Folk)
379.
164.
Tribunal - In Penitence And Ruin
🇨🇦 7 (Gothic Doom)
379.
165.
...And Oceans - The Regeneration Itinerary
🇫🇮 7 (Symphonic Black)
379.
166.
Eden Circus - Irrlicht
🇩🇪 7 (Progressive)
379.
167.
Dawn Of A Dark Age - Ver Sacrum
🇮🇹 7 (Atmospheric Black, Folk, Avant-Garde)
379.
168.
Prehistoria - Cryptic Halo
🇺🇸 7 (Power, Speed)
379.
169.
Cryptosis - Celestial Death
🇳🇱 7 (Symphonic Black, Technical Thrash)
379.
170.
Sanguisugabogg - Hideous Aftermath
🇺🇸 7 (Brutal Death)
379.
171.
Meg Washington - Gem
🇦🇺 7 (Singer-Songwriter, Pop)
379.
172.
Hayden Pedigo - I'll Be Waving as You Drive Away
🇺🇸 7 (Ambient Americana, American Primitivism)
379.
173.
Hawkwind - There Is No Space for Us
🇬🇧 7 (Space Rock, Heavy Psych)
379.
174.
Frogg - Eclipse
🇺🇸 7 (Technical Death, Progressive Death)
379.
175.
Pulp - More
🇬🇧 7 (Indie Rock, Britpop)
379.
176.
Fange - Purulences
🇫🇷 7 (Industrial, Hardcore, Noise)
379.
177.
Drown In Sulphur - Vengeance
🇮🇹 7 (Deathcore)
379.
178.
Ada Rook - Unkillable Angel
🇨🇦 7 (Concrete, Electronic Metalcore)
379.
179.
Novelists - Coda
🇫🇷 7 (Djent, Progressive Metalcore)
379.
180.
Stick To Your Guns - Keep Planting Flowers
🇺🇸 7 (Hardcore, Metalcore)
379.
181.
Blut Aus Nord - Ethereal Horizons
🇫🇷 7 (Atmospheric Black)
379.
182.
Puteraeon - Mountains Of Madness
🇸🇪 7 (Death)
379.
183.
Grin - Acid Gods
🇩🇪 7 (Sludge, Stoner)
379.
184.
IQ - Dominion
🇬🇧 7 (Progressive Rock)
379.
185.
Pridian - Venetian Dark
🇪🇪 7 (Metalcore, Industrial, Groove)
379.
186.
Cryptopsy - An Insatiable Violence
🇨🇦 7 (Technical Death, Brutal Death)
379.
187.
Walg - V
🇩🇪 7 (Melodic Black)
379.
188.
Coheed and Cambria - The Father of Make Belief
🇺🇸 7 (Progressive Rock, Alternative Rock, Post-Hardcore)
379.
189.
King Witch - III
🇫🇷 7 (Hard Rock, Doom)
379.
190.
Haven (GER) - Causes
🇩🇪 7 (Alternative, Post-Metal)
379.
191.
Menace Ruine - The Color Of The Grave Is Green
🇨🇦 7 (Apocalyptic Folk, Drone Doom)
379.
192.
Fleshvessel - Obstinacy: Sisyphean Dreams Unfolded
🇺🇸 7 (Experimental Death, Avant-Garde)
379.
193.
Heaven Shall Burn - Heimat
🇩🇪 7 (Melodic Death, Metalcore)
379.
194.
Imperial Triumphant - Goldstar
🇺🇸 6.5 (Avant-Garde Death)
379.
195.
Pelican - Flickering Resonance
🇺🇸 6.5 (Instrumental Post-Rock)
379.
196.
Black Narcissus - There Lingers One Who's Long Forgotten
🇧🇪 6.5 (Post-Rock)
379.
197.
Avatarium - Between You, God, The Devil And The Dead
🇸🇪 6.5 (Doom)
379.
198.
Liv Kristine - Amor Vincit Omnia
🇳🇱 6.5 (Gothic)
379.
199.
Katatonia - Nightmares As Extensions Of The Waking State
🇸🇪 6.5 (Alternative Rock)
379.
200.
Age Of Apocalypse - In Oblivion
🇺🇸 6.5 (Alternative, Hardcore)
379.
201.
Alex G - Headlights
🇺🇸 6.5 (
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202.
Midwife - Never Die
🇺🇸 6.5 (Shoegaze, Ambient)
379.
203.
Low Before The Breeze - A Hole Beneath The Home We Shared
🇺🇸 6.5 (Blackened Hardcore, Screamo)
379.
204.
David Galas - The Nihilist
🇺🇸 6.5 (Gothic Rock, Post-Punk)
379.
205.
Hemelbestormer - The Radiant Veil
🇧🇪 6.5 (Post-Metal)
379.
206.
Froglord - Metamorphosis
🇬🇧 6.5 (Sludge, Stoner)
379.
207.
Elvenking - Reader Of The Runes - Luna
🇮🇹 6.5 (Folk, Power)
379.
208.
In The Woods... - Otra
🇳🇴 6.5 (Progressive, Black)
379.
209.
Stoned Jesus - Songs To Sun
🇺🇦 6.5 (Stoner, AOR)
379.
210.
Prolapse - I Wonder When They’re Going to Destroy Your Face
🇬🇧 6.5 (Post-Punk, Noise Rock, Indie Rock)
379.
211.
Zanias - Cataclysm
🇩🇪 6.5 (Darkwave, EBM)
379.
212.
Steve Von Till - Alone In A World Of Wounds
🇺🇸 6.5 (Ambient, Neofolk)
379.
213.
Cloakroom - Last Leg Of The Human Table
🇺🇸 6.5 (Indie Rock, Shoegaze, Post-Hardcore)
379.
214.
Soulfly - Chama
🇧🇷 6.5 (Groove Thrash)
379.
215.
Thornhill - Bodies
🇦🇺 6.5 (Djent, Alternative, Shoegaze)
379.
216.
Noise Trail Immersion - Tutta La Morte In Un Solo Punto
🇮🇹 6.5 (Mathcore, Post-Metal)
379.
217.
Ahamkara - The Harrow Of The Lost
🇬🇧 6.5 (Atmoshpheric Black)
379.
218.
Obscura - A Sonication
🇩🇪 6.5 (Progressive Death, Technical Death)
379.
219.
Homeskin - Soul Washed Bleach
🇺🇸 6.5 (Avant-Garde Black, Mathcore)
379.
220.
Beastwars
379.
221.
Fleshwater - 2000: In Search Of The Endless Sky
🇺🇸 6.5 (Alternative Metal)
379.
222.
White Snake Of Blackened Maze - The Ocean Of Truth
🇧🇪 6.5 (Avant-Garde, Progressive Black)
379.
223.
Antlers (UK) - Hypothermia
🇬🇧 6.5 (Progressive Black, Symphonic Deathcore)
379.
224.
Peter Murphy - Silver Shade
🇹🇷 6.5 (Art Rock, Gothic Rock)
379.
225.
Panthalassan - From The Shallows Of The Mantle
🇨🇦 6.5 (Progressive Power)
379.
226.
Enterré Vivant - Akuzaï
🇫🇷 🇯🇵 6.5 (Atmospheric Black)
379.
227.
The Callous Daoboys - I Don’t Want To See You In Heaven
🇺🇸 6.5 (Mathcore, Metalcore, Pop Punk)
379.
228.
CKRAFT - Uncommon Grounds
🇫🇷 6.5 (Instrumental Progressive, Avant-Garde Jazz)
379.
229.
Street Sects - Dry Drunk
🇺🇸 6.5 (Industrial, Noise Rock)
379.
230.
Between The Buried And Me - The Blue Nowhere
🇺🇸 6.5 (Progressive Metalcore, Avant-Garde)
379.
231.
Unprocessed - Angel
🇩🇪 6.5 (Progressive Metalcore)
379.
232.
Esoctrilihum - Ghostigmatah - Spiritual Rites Of The Psychopomp Abxulöm
🇫🇷 6.5 (Symphonic Black, Experimental Black)
379.
233.
Frayle - Heretics & Lullabies
🇺🇸 6.5 (Doom)
379.
234.
The Moons of Jupiter - The Moons of Jupiter
🇬🇧 6 (Synthwave, Darkwave)
379.
235.
Mikau - Agartha
🇺🇸 6 (Trancecore, Metalcore)
379.
236.
Nadja - Cut
🇨🇦 6 (Ambient, Drone Doom)
379.
237.
Korine - A Flame in the Dark
🇺🇸 6 (Synthpop, Darkwave)
379.
238.
Lacuna Coil - Sleepless Empire
🇮🇹 6 (Alternative)
379.
239.
Rachael Yamagata - Starlit Alchemy
🇺🇸 6 (Pop)
379.
240.
Ulver - Neverland
🇳🇴 6 (Electronic Avant-Garde)
379.
241.
Winter - Adult Romantix
🇺🇸 6 (Indie Rock, Shoegaze)
379.
242.
Jaye Jayle - After Alter
🇺🇸 6 (Noise Rock, Post-Punk)
379.
243.
Guiltless - Teeth To Sky
🇺🇸 6 (Doom, Sludge, Post-Metal)
379.
244.
Eidola - Mend
🇺🇸 6 (Math Rock, Pop Rock)
379.
245.
Haunted Horses - Dweller
🇺🇸 6 (Industrial, Noise Rock)
379.
246.
S Y Z Y G Y X - Sinner
🇺🇸 6 (Darkwave, Coldwave)
379.
247.
Stormo - Tagli / Talee
🇮🇹 6 (Mathcore)
379.
248.
Datura - Songs from a Dark House
🇺🇸 6 (Post-Punk, Gothic Rock, Darkwave)
379.
249.
Banks - Off with Her Head
🇺🇸 6 (Pop)
379.
250.
Haunt Me - Watch You Bleed
6 🇺🇸 (Darkwave)
379.
251.
Am I In Trouble? - Spectrum
🇺🇸 6 (Blackened Avant-Garde, Math Rock, Progressive)
379.
252.
Kryptan - Violence, Our Power
🇸🇪 6 (Melodic Black)
379.
253.
!.T.O.O.H.! - Po Ovoci Poznáte Je
🇨🇿 6 (Progressive Grindcore, Technical Death)
379.
254.
Benthos - From Nothing
🇮🇹 6 (Djent, Progressive Metalcore)
379.
255.
Mountain Realm - Rustborn
🇺🇸 6 (Ambient, Dungeon Synth)
379.
256.
Ghost - Skeletá
🇸🇪 6 (Rock)
379.
257.
À Terre - Embrasser La Nuit
🇫🇷 6 (Post-Metal)
379.
258.
Witchcraft - Idag
🇸🇪 6 (Stoner Rock)
379.
259.
Baan - Neumann
🇰🇷 6 (Sludge, Post-Metal)
379.
260.
Wolf Alice - The Clearing
🇬🇧 6 (Pop Rock)
379.
261.
Door Eater - try
🇨🇦 🇺🇸 6 (Concrete, Noise Pop, Breakcore)
379.
262.
Shadow Of Intent - Imperium Delirium
🇺🇸 6 (Technical Deathcore)
379.
263.
Firienholt - Night Eternal
🇬🇧 6 (Atmospheric Black, Dungeon Synth)
379.
264.
Cleaning Women - Washer
🇫🇮 6 (Avant-Garde Rock, Experimental Rock)
379.
265.
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Death Hilarious
🇺🇸 6 (Sludge, Alternative)
379.
266.
Model/Actriz - Pirouette
🇺🇸 6 (Noise Rock, Post-Punk)
379.
267.
Jinjer - Du​é​l
🇺🇦 6 (Metalcore)
379.
268.
Lady Gaga - Mayhem
🇺🇸 6 (Dance Pop)
379.
269.
Today Is The Day - Never Give In
🇺🇸 5.5 (Hardcore, Noise Rock)
379.
270.
Scars On Broadway - Addicted To The Violence
🇺🇸 5.5 (Alternative)
379.
271.
Kryptograf - Kryptonomicon
🇳🇴 5.5 (Psychedelic Rock, Hard Rock)
379.
272.
Epica - Aspiral
🇳🇱 5.5 (Symphonic)
379.
273.
Squid - Cowards
🇬🇧 5.5 (Art Rock)
379.
274.
Pyramids - Pythagoras
🇺🇸 5.5 (Ambient, Atmospheric Reggaeton, Post-Rock)
379.
275.
Blood Cultures - Skate Story, Vol. 1
🇺🇸 5.5 (Experimental Indie Pop)
379.
276.
Slaughter To Prevail - Grizzly
🇷🇺 5.5
379.
277.
Dubhessa - Solace
🇦🇺 5.5 (Punk, Darkwave)
379.
278.
Propagandhi - At Peace
🇺🇸 5.5 (Punk Rock)
379.
279.
Mayday Parade - Sweet
🇺🇸 5.5 (Pop Punk)
379.
280.
Safe Mind - Cutting the Stone
🇺🇸 5.5 (Synth-Pop)
379.
281.
Home Is Where - Hunting Season
🇺🇸 5.5 (Emo, Indie Rock)
379.
282.
Vildhjarta - Där Skogen Sjunger Under Evighetens Grana
🇸🇪 5:5 (Progressive Math, Djent)
379.
283.
Born Of Osiris - Through Shadows
🇺🇸 5.5 (Progressive Deathcore)
379.
284.
Killswitch Engage - This Consequence
🇺🇸 5.5 (Melodic Metalcore)
379.
285.
Young Widows - Power Sucker
🇺🇸 5.5 (Noise Rock, Post-Punk)
379.
286.
Silverstein - Antibloom
🇨🇦 5.5 (Post-Hardcore)
379.
287.
Pale Cremation - Communion [Soviet Tapes 1984]
🇺🇸 5.5 (Doom, Stoner)
379.
288.
I Am Your God - △
🇫🇮 5.5 (Melodic Death)
379.
289.
Spiritbox - Tsunami Sea
🇺🇸 5.5 (Djent, Metalcore)
379.
290.
Uulliata Digir - Uulliata Digir
🇵🇱 5.5 (Avant-Garde Black)
379.
291.
Lightless - A Foreseen Loss
🇩🇪 5.5 (Blackened Doom)
379.
292.
Babymetal - Metal Forth
🇯🇵 5.5 (Kawaii Metal)
379.
293.
Nechochwen - Spelewithiipi
🇺🇸 5.5 (Neofolk)
379.
294.
Caroline - Caroline 2
🇬🇧 (Art Rock)
379.
295.
Kayo Dot - Every Rock, Every Half-Truth Under Reason
🇺🇸 5.5 (Experimental Rock, Avant-Garde)
379.
296.
Dance Gavin Dance - Pantheon
🇺🇸 5.5 (Pop Punk, Mathcore, Swancore)
379.
297.
Bury Tomorrow - Will You Haunt Me, With That Same Patience
🇬🇧 5.5 (Melodic Metalcore)
379.
298.
Panopticon - Laurentian Blue
🇺🇸 5.5 (Western Country, American Folk)
379.
299.
The Horrors - Night Life
🇬🇧 5.5 (Gothic Rock, Post-Punk)
379.
300.
Dream Theater - Parasomnia
🇺🇸 5.5 (Progressive)
379.
301.
Kaleo - Mixed Emotions
🇮🇸 5.5 (Blues Rock)
379.
302.
Caliban - Back From Hell
🇩🇪 5.5 (Metalcore)
379.
303.
Estuarine - Corporeal Furnace
🇺🇸 5.5 (Avant-garde, Technical Death, Grindcore)
379.
304.
Amber Asylum - Ruby Red
🇺🇸 5.5 (Atmospheric Doom)
379.
305.
Rise Against - I Want It All
🇺🇸 5 (Alternative Rock)
379.
306.
Nhor - Selenian Devotion
🇬🇧 5 (Neofolk, Ambient)
379.
307.
Garbage - Let All That You Imagine Be the Light
🇺🇸 5 (Alternative Rock)
379.
308.
Underøath - The Place After This One
🇺🇸 5 (Metalcore)
379.
309.
Mayday Parade - Sad
5 🇺🇸 (Pop Punk)
379.
310.
Architects - The Sky, The Earth & All Between
🇬🇧 5 (Hardcore, Metalcore)
379.
311.
Patriarkh - Пpopoк Илия
🇵🇱 5 (Atmospheric Black)
379.
312.
Love Is Noise - To Live In A Different Way
🇬🇧 5 (Alternative)
379.
313.
Déhà - Nethermost & Absolute Comfort
🇧🇪 5 (Funeral Doom)
379.
314.
Melvins - Thunderball
🇺🇸 5 (Sludge, Psychedelic Rock)
379.
315.
Demon Hunter - There Was A Light Here
🇺🇸 5 (Metalcore)
379.
316.
Ghost Bath - Rose Thorn Necklace
🇺🇸 5 (Blackgaze, Depressive Black)
379.
317.
Tumanduumband - Hail Satan, Triumph Awaits
379.
318.
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Phantom Island
🇦🇺 5 (Psychedelic Rock, Progressive Rock)
379.
319.
Pendulum - Inertia
🇦🇺 5 (Electronic Rock)
379.
320.
The Secret Experiment - The Weight of Human Noise
🇬🇧 5 (Darkwave)
379.
321.
The Lumineers - Automatic
🇺🇸 5 (Pop Rock)
379.
322.
Paleface Swiss - Cursed
🇨🇭 5 (Deathcore)
379.
323.
Lunar - Tempora Mutantur
🇺🇸 5 (Progressive)
379.
324.
Krsnī - Neige Éternelle
🇺🇿 5 (Atmospheric Black)
379.
325.
Mechina - Bellum Interruptum
🇺🇸 5 (Djent, Symphonic)
379.
326.
Tallah - Primeval: Obsession // Detachment
🇺🇸 4.5 (Nu, Alternative, Metalcore)
379.
327.
Manic Street Preachers - Critical Thinking
🇬🇧 4.5 (Rock)
379.
328.
Kathryn Mohr - Mirrors
🇺🇸 4.5 (Experimental Folk, Pop, Lo-Fi)
379.
329.
Stargazer (NOR) - Stone Cold Creature
🇳🇴 4.5 (Hard Rock, Melodic Heavy)
379.
330.
Sleep Token - Even In Arcadia
🇬🇧 4.5 (Djent, Art Pop, Progressive)
379.
331.
Fit For A King - Lonely God
🇺🇸 4.5 (Melodic Metalcore)
379.
332.
Sorry... - Fragile
🇬🇷 4.5 (Depressive Black)
379.
333.
Behemoth - The Shit Ov God
🇵🇱 4.5 (Blackened Death)
379.
334.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - I'm Done With Self Care, It's Time For Others' Harm
🇺🇸 4 (Metalcore, Deathcore)
379.
335.
Two-Man Giant Squid - Two-Man Giant Squid
🇺🇸 4 (Art Punk)
379.
336.
The Veils - Asphodels
🇬🇧 4 (Singer-Songwriter)
379.
337.
All That Remains - Antifragile
🇺🇸 4 (Melodic Metalcore)
379.
338.
Bergthron - Neu Asen Land
🇩🇪 4 (Progressive Black)
379.
339.
Black Country, New Road - Forever Howlong
🇬🇧 4 (Baroque Pop)
379.
340.
——EPs, Live, and Splits——
379.
341.
Obscure Sphinx - Emovere
🇵🇱 8.5 (Post-Metal, Doom, Sludge)
379.
342.
Anneke Van Giersbergen - La Vie
🇳🇱 8.5 (Pop Rock, Atmospheric Rock)
379.
343.
King Like Mom - The Future
🇺🇸 8.5 (Post-Hardcore, Shoegaze)
379.
344.
Chat Pile - Live At Roadburn 2023
🇺🇸 8.5 (Sludge, Noise Rock)
379.
345.
Couch Slut - Live At Roadburn 2024 The Couch Slut Brunch Hour
🇺🇸 8 (Noise Rock, Sludge, Hardcore)
379.
346.
Spotlights - Rarities
🇺🇸 8 (Atmospheric Sludge, Post-Metal)
379.
347.
The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Traveller Supplement 1: The Ephemeral Glades
🇺🇸 8 (Heavy)
379.
348.
Maruja - Tír na nÓg
🇫🇷 8 (Avant-Garde Jazz, Noise Rock, Post-Punk)
379.
349.
Riverside - Live ID.
🇵🇱 8 (Progressive Rock)
379.
350.
Spares - Spares
🇺🇸 8 (Noise Rock, Post-Hardcore)
379.
351.
Gaupa - Fyr
🇸🇪 7.5 (Doom, Paychedelic Rock)
379.
352.
Sunrot - Passages
🇺🇸 7.5 (Sludge)
379.
353.
Blackwater Holylight - If You Only Knew
🇺🇸 7.5 (Psychedelic Rock, Stoner Rock)
379.
354.
Botch - 061524
🇺🇸 7.5 (Metalcore)
379.
355.
Life - My Heart The Dreaming Memory
🇨🇦 7.5 (Screamo)
379.
356.
Silent Planet - Bloom in Heaven [Collaboration]
🇺🇸 7.5 (Djent, Progressive Metalcore)
379.
357.
Sarmat - Upgrade
🇺🇸 7.5 (Jazz Fusion, Technical Death)
379.
358.
Dozer - Rewind To Return: Rarities, Singles And B-Sides
🇸🇪 7.5 (Stoner)
379.
359.
Full Of Hell - Broken Sword, Rotten Shield
🇺🇸 7.5 (Grindcore, Hardcore Punk)
379.
360.
Nospūn - Ozai
🇺🇸 7 (Progressive)
379.
361.
Swervedriver - The World’s Fair EP
7 (Alternative Rock, Shoegaze)
379.
362.
Blackshape - Prismer I
🇺🇸 7 (Djent, Mathcore, Post-Metal)
379.
363.
Annisokay - Abyss Pt. II
🇩🇪 7 (Metalcore)
379.
364.
Crown Magnetar - Punishment
🇺🇸 7 (Technical Deathcore)
379.
365.
Amenra - With Fang And Claw
🇧🇪 6.5 (Sludge, Post-Metal)
379.
366.
Cineastre - Fortgang
🇩🇪 6.5 (Atmospheric Black, Neofolk)
379.
367.
Year Of No Light - Les Maîtres Fous
🇫🇷 6.5 (Drone, Atmospheric Sludge)
379.
368.
Atlases - Penumbra: Recast
🇫🇮 6.5 (Djent, Post-Metal)
379.
369.
Blood Abscission - I I
🇺🇳 6 (Atmospheric Black)
379.
370.
Amenra - De Toorn
🇧🇪 6 (Sludge, Post-Metal)
379.
371.
Life - ...And Still It Flutters
🇨🇦 6 (Screamo)
379.
372.
Wormrot - TNT
🇮🇩 6 (Grindcore)
379.
373.
Earth - WEM Dominator (Live In London NW1, 2016)
🇺🇸 5 (Psychedelic Rock)
379.
374.
Enterprise Earth - Descent Into Madness
🇺🇸 5 (Deathcore)
379.
375.
Serpentskin - Seepentskin EP 1
🇩🇪 5 (Darkwave, Progressive House)
379.
376.
Summer Pearl - The Interlude
🇬🇧 5 (Contemporary Jazz, Hip Hop)
379.
377.
Theophonos - Banishment
🇺🇸 5 (Mathcore, Black Metal)
379.
378.
Old Nick - Where Poison Apples Grow
🇺🇸 3 (Electronic Black)
379.
379.
Big Brave - OST
🇨🇦 N/A (Film Score, Experimental)
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Cool list mate, looks like we have quite similar taste and ratings.

That Black Narcissus cover is gorgeous - going to have to check out the album!
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Written by Languedocian on 14.02.2025 at 23:01

Cool list mate, looks like we have quite similar taste and ratings.

That Black Narcissus cover is gorgeous - going to have to check out the album!

Thanks! If you like Mono, Sleepmakeswaves, AIWYFA and other instrumental post rock acts like that you’ll probably like Black Narcissus as well.
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Good list.

Will keep an eye on your selections.
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Written by Cynic Metalhead on 15.02.2025 at 07:58

Good list.

Will keep an eye on your selections.

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Really like the sizes of the album artwork at the top dude, looks amazing. Did you have to do anything special to the formatting?
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