Top 50 Albums Of 2025

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Top 50 Albums Of 2025

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ChrisWinther94
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Hello everybody! and Happy new year!

Once again, a new year has begun. And once again, I'm making a list.
New Years eve have become a night for reflection on my behalf. I reflected on how the last two years have been in music for me compared to one another. I'm not joking.
I realized that 2023 was a year full of new discoveries for me. I discovered so many new bands I've never listened to, in which a bunch of them spent most on the year in my top 50 list.

2024 on the other hand, was also a year full of surprises, but a more "nostalgic" year for me, as bands I grew up with like Judas Priest, Opeth, Wintersun, Octoploid (sounds like Amorphis during the Elegy period) released material sounding like back in the day.

I'm really excited to see how 2025 is gonna turn out, but I'm guessing it's gonna be just as good as the previous two years, but hopefully better! Because better is always better!

Once again I will include EP's on my list.

Top 50 Albums of 2026
Top Releases of 2024
Top 50 Albums of 2023
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1.
Coroner - Dissonance Theory
Rating: 8,7 - Country: Switzerland - Genre: Technical Thrash Metal - Best songs: Sacrificial Lamb, The Law, Renewal
50.
2.
Baest - Colossal
Rating: 8,6 - Country: Denmark - Genre: Death n' Roll - Best songs: Stormbringer, Imp of the Perverse, Misfortunate Son (feat. Orm)
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3.
Paradise Lost - Ascension
Rating: 8,6 - Country: England - Genre: Death Doom / Gothic Metal - Best songs: Serpents On the Cross, Salvation, The Precipice
50.
4.
An Abstract Illusion - The Sleeping City
Rating: 8,5 - Country: Sweden - Genre: Melodic / Progressive Death Metal - Best songs: No Dreams Beyond Empty Horizons, Emmett, The Sleeping City
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5.
Havukruunu - Tavastland
Rating: 8,5 - Country: Finland - Genre: Pagan Black Metal - Best songs: Havukruunu ja Talvenvarjo, Kuoleman Oma, De Miseriis Fennorum
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6.
Dormant Ordeal - Tooth And Nail
Rating: 8,5 - Country: Poland - Genre: Death Metal - Best songs: Halo of Bones, Dust Crown, Against the Dying of the Light
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7.
In Mourning - The Immortal
Rating: 8,4 - Country: Sweden - Genre: Progressive / Melodic Death Metal - Best songs: Song of the Cranes, The Sojourner, The Hounding
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8.
Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Innern
Rating: 8,4 - Country: Germany - Genre: Black Metal - Best songs: Xibalba, Eos, Fragment
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9.
Tómarúm - Beyond Obsidian Euphoria
Rating: 8,4 - Country: USA - Genre: Technical Death / Progressive Black Metal - Best songs: Shallow Ecstasy, Blood Mirage, Silver Ashen Tears
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10.
Deafheaven - Lonely People With Power
Rating: 8,4 - Country: USA - Genre: Atmospheric Black / Post-Metal - Best songs: Doberman, Revelator, The Marvelous Orange Tree
50.
11.
Howling Giant - Crucible & Ruin
Rating: 8,3 - Country: USA - Genre: Psychedelic Rock / Stoner Metal - Best songs: Hunter’s Mark, Archon, Beholder I: Downfall
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12.
Håndgemeng - Satanic Panic Attack
Rating: 8,3 - Country: Norway - Genre: Sludge / Stoner Rock - Best songs: Medieval Knievel, A Path Less Traveled, Sundrinker
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13.
Between The Buried And Me - The Blue Nowhere
Rating: 8,3 - Country: USA - Genre: Progressive Metalcore - Best songs: Absent Thereafter, Door #3, Psychomantreum
50.
14.
Blackbraid - Blackbraid III
Rating: 8,3 - Country: USA - Genre: Atmospheric / Melodic Black Metal - Best songs: God of Black Blood, Tears of the Dawn, And He Became the Burning Stars...
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15.
Testament - Para Bellum
Rating: 8,2 - Country: USA - Genre: Thrash Metal - Best songs: For the Love of Pain, High Noon, Nature of the Beast
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16.
Psychonaut - World Maker
Rating: 8,2 - Country: Belgium - Genre: Post-Metal - Best songs: Endless Currents, And You Came With Searing Light, Endless Erosion
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17.
The Halo Effect - March Of The Unheard
Rating: 8,2 - Country: Sweden - Genre: Melodic Death Metal - Best songs: Detonate, Our Channel to the Darkness, A Death that Becomes Us
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18.
Wytch Hazel - V: Lamentations
Rating: 8,2 - Country: England - Genre: Hard Rock - Best songs: I Lament, The Citadel, Heavy Load
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19.
Ancient Death - Ego Dissolution
Rating: 8,2 - Country: USA - Genre: Atmospheric Death Metal - Best songs: Breaking the Barriers of Hope, Breathe - Transcend (Into the Glowing Streams of Forever), Unspoken Oath
50.
20.
Allegaeon - The Ossuary Lens
Rating: 8,2 - Country: USA - Genre: Melodic / Technical Death Metal - Best songs: Driftwood, The Swarm, Dark Matter Dynamics (feat. Adrian Bellue)
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21.
Orm - Guld
Rating: 8,2 - Country: Denmark - Genre: Black Metal - Best songs: Af Magt, Rigdom, Martret
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22.
In The Woods... - Otra
Rating: 8,1 - Country: Norway - Genre: Avant-garde / Progressive Black Metal - Best songs: The Misrepresentation of I, The Kiss and the Lie, Let me Sing
50.
23.
Messa - The Spin
Rating: 8,1 - Country: Italy - Genre: Doom Metal - Best songs: Fire on the Roof, The Dress, Reveal
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24.
In The Woods... - Otra
Rating: 8,1 - Country: Norway - Genre: Avant-garde / Progressive Black Metal - Best songs: The Misrepresentation of I, The Kiss and the Lie, Let me Sing
50.
25.
Aephanemer - Utopie
Rating: 8,1 - Country: France - Genre: Symphonic / Melodic Death Metal - Best songs: La Règle Du Jeu, La Rivière Souterraine, Utopie (Partie II)
50.
26.
Saor - Amidst The Ruins
Rating: 8,1 - Country: Scotland - Genre: Atmospheric Folk / Black Metal - Best songs: Echoes of the Ancient Land, Glen of Sorrow, Rebirth
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27.
Mors Principium Est - Darkness Invisible
Rating: 8,1 - Country: Finland - Genre: Symphonic / Melodic Death Metal - Best songs: Monuments, Summoning the Dark, The Rivers of Avernus
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28.
Cradle Of Filth - The Screaming Of The Valkyries
Rating: 8,1 - Country: England - Genre: Symphonic / Extreme Gothic Metal - Best songs: The Trinity of Shadows, White Hellebore, Ex Sanguine Draculae
50.
29.
Green Carnation - A Dark Poem Part I: The Shores Of Melancholia
Rating: 8,1 - Country: Norway - Genre: Progressive Gothic Metal - Best songs: Me My Enemy, The Slave That You Are, Too Close to the Flame
50.
30.
Feversea - Man Under Erasure
Rating: 8,0 - Country: Norway - Genre: Post-Metal - Best songs: Murmur Within the Skull of God, New Creatures Replace Our Names
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31.
Lamp Of Murmuur - The Dreaming Prince In Ecstasy
Rating: 8,0 - Country: USA - Genre: Black Metal - Best songs: Forest of Hallucinations, Moondance, The Fall
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32.
Vintersorg - Vattenkrafternas Spel
Rating: 8,0 - Country: Norway - Genre: Progressive Folk / Black Metal - Best songs: Störtsjö, Malströmsbrus, Kraftkällan
50.
33.
Dream Theater - Parasomnia
Rating: 8,0 - Country: USA - Genre: Progressive Metal - Best songs: Night Terror, Dead Asleep, The Shadow Man Incident
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34.
Rivers Of Nihil - Rivers Of Nihil
Rating: 8,0 - Country: USA - Genre: Progressive / Technical Death Metal - Best songs: The Sub-Orbital Blues, Criminals, The Logical End
50.
35.
Omnium Gatherum - May The Bridges We Burn Light The Way
Rating: 8,0 - Country: Finland - Genre: Melodic Death Metal - Best songs: The Darkest City, Walking Ghost Phase, Barricades
50.
36.
Katla - Scandinavian Pain
Rating: 8,0 - Country: Denmark - Genre: Stoner Doom / Sludge Metal - Best songs: Goblet of Power, Taurus (feat. Ole Luk), White Dagger
50.
37.
Kauan - Wayhome
Rating: 8,0 - Country: Finland - Genre: Post-Rock / Doom Metal - Best songs: Leave / Let Go, Haste / Ascend, Arrive / Resolve
50.
38.
Igorrr - Amen
Rating: 7,9 - Country: France - Genre: Experimental Breakcore / Avant-garde Metal - Best songs: Headbutt, Blastbeat Falafel, Mustard Mucous
50.
39.
Royal Sorrow - Innerdeeps
Rating: 7,9 - Country: Finland - Genre: Alternative Metal - Best songs: Metrograve, Evergreen, Looking Glass
50.
40.
Avatarium - Between You, God, The Devil And The Dead
Rating: 7,9 - Country: Sweden - Genre: Doom Metal - Best songs: Long Black Waves, I See You Better In the Dark, Lovers Give a Kingdom to Each Other
50.
41.
...And Oceans - The Regeneration Itinerary
Rating: 7,9 - Country: Finland - Genre: Symphonic / Industrial Black Metal - Best songs: Förnyelse i Tre Akter, I am Coin I am Two, Copper Blood Titanium Scars
50.
42.
Centuries Of Decay - A Monument To Oblivion
Rating: 7,9 - Country: Canada - Genre: Progressive Death Metal - Best songs: Cauterize, To Dust, The Great Divide
50.
43.
Astronoid - Stargod
Rating: 7,9 - Country: USA - Genre: Shoegaze / Post-Metal - Best songs: Love Weapon, Dream Protocol '88, Depressed Mode
50.
44.
Evoken - Mendacium
Rating: 7,9 - Country: USA - Genre: Funeral Doom Metal - Best songs: Lauds, Sext, Compline
50.
45.
Opia - I Welcome Thee, Eternal Sleep
Rating: 7,8 - Country: Spain / United Kingdom - Genre: Gothic Doom Metal - Best songs: On Death's Door Part I, The Fade, Days Gone By
50.
46.
Austere - The Stillness Of Dissolution
Rating: 7,8 - Country: Australia - Genre: Depressive Black Metal - Best songs: Dissolved Exile, Redolent Foulness, Rusted Veins
50.
47.
Pagan Altar - Never Quite Dead
Rating: 7,8 - Country: England - Genre: Doom / Heavy Metal - Best songs: Liston Church, Madame M'Rachel, Kismet
50.
48.
1914 - Viribus Unitis
Rating: 7,8 - Country: Ukraine - Genre: Blackened Death / Doom Metal - Best songs: 1917 (The Isonzo Front), 1918 Pt. I: WIA (Wounded In Action), 1918 Pt. III: ADE (A Duty to Escape) (feat. Aaron Stainthorpe)
50.
49.
Defecto - Echoes Of Isolation
Rating: 7,8 - Country: Denmark - Genre: Melodic / Progressive Metal - Best songs: Eclipsed by the Void, Heart on Fire (feat. Stig Rossen), Through Cloak and Bones
50.
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Nailed To Obscurity - Generation Of The Void
Rating: 7,8 - Country: Germany - Genre: Melodic Doom / Death Metal - Best songs: Liquid Morning, Overcast, Clouded Frame
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Good list. I feel some of the good selections are left below while giving merit to "deathmetal-lite" on #1 is bit biased.
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Written by Cynic Metalhead on 24.01.2025 at 19:57

Good list. I feel some of the good selections are left below while giving merit to "deathmetal-lite" on #1 is bit biased.

Thanks man!
Biased? Meh, I disagree.
It’s a matter of taste I guess, I’ve been a huge In Flames fan since my teens, and The Halo Effect really just hit the spot on the sound I fell In love with back then 😊 I honestly don’t Think it will stay on my number 1 spot, because 2025 has just begun and we’ll have a whole year ahead of us. We’ll see I do really enjoy the album and I have been spinning it since it’s release. Favorite release so far, what’s not to like? 🤘🏻🔥🔥

Anyway, thanks for the thumbs up on my list, and I’m glad you liked it overall!
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