Album Of The Year 2025

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Album Of The Year 2025

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A list by
IceBelowTHearth
Created
January 10, 2025
Entries
55
Endorsements
6
55.
1.
Paradise Lost - Ascension
🇬🇧 9.8/10
55.
2.
An Abstract Illusion - The Sleeping City
🇸🇪 9.7/10
55.
3.
Saor - Amidst The Ruins
🇬🇧 9.6/10
55.
4.
Coroner - Dissonance Theory
🇨🇭 9.5/10
55.
5.
Fer De Lance - Fires On The Mountainside
🇺🇸 9.3/10
55.
6.
Mors Principium Est - Darkness Invisible
🇫🇮 9.2/10
55.
7.
Between The Buried And Me - The Blue Nowhere
🇺🇸 9.0/10
55.
8.
The Great Old Ones - Kadath
🇫🇷 8.9/10
55.
9.
Warbringer - Wrath And Ruin
🇺🇸 8.8/10
55.
10.
Bloody Valkyria - In Our Home, Across The Fog
🇫🇮 8.8/10
55.
11.
Dessiderium - Keys To The Palace
🇺🇸 8.7/10
55.
12.
Ihlo - Legacy
🇬🇧 8.7/10
55.
13.
Blackbraid - Blackbraid III
🇺🇸 8.7/10
55.
14.
Fallujah - Xenotaph
🇺🇸 8.7/10
55.
15.
Harakiri For The Sky - Scorched Earth
🇦🇹 8.7/10
55.
16.
Dream Theater - Parasomnia
🇺🇸 8.6/10
55.
17.
Testament - Para Bellum
🇺🇲 8.6/10
55.
18.
In Mourning - The Immortal
🇸🇪 8.6/10
55.
19.
Blut Aus Nord - Ethereal Horizons
🇫🇷 8.6/10
55.
20.
Green Carnation - A Dark Poem Part I: The Shores Of Melancholia
🇳🇴 8.5/10
55.
21.
Seven Sisters - Shadow Of A Fallen Star Pt. 2
🇬🇧 8.5/10
55.
22.
Dyssidia - Deeper Wells Of Meaning
🇦🇺 8.5/10
55.
23.
1914 - Viribus Unitis
🇺🇦 8.5/10
55.
24.
Amorphis - Borderland
🇫🇮 8.4/10
55.
25.
Tómarúm - Beyond Obsidian Euphoria
🇺🇸 8.4/10
55.
26.
The Halo Effect - March Of The Unheard
🇸🇪 8.4/10
55.
27.
Havukruunu - Tavastland
🇫🇮 8.4/10
55.
28.
Allegaeon - The Ossuary Lens
🇺🇸 8.3/10
55.
29.
Katatonia - Nightmares As Extensions Of The Waking State
🇸🇪 8.3/10
55.
30.
Ghost - Skeletá
🇸🇪 8.3/10
55.
31.
Buried Realm - The Dormant Darkness
🇺🇲 8.3/10
55.
32.
A Flock Named Murder - Incendiary Sanctum
🇨🇦 8.3/10
55.
33.
Bell Witch - Stygian Bough: Volume II [Collaboration]
🇺🇲 8.3/10
55.
34.
We Lost The Sea - A Single Flower
🇦🇺 8.3/10
55.
35.
Rivers Of Nihil - Rivers Of Nihil
🇺🇸 8.2/10
55.
36.
Grima - Nightside
🇷🇺 8.2/10
55.
37.
Steven Wilson - The Overview
🇬🇧 8.2/10
55.
38.
...And Oceans - The Regeneration Itinerary
🇫🇮 8.1/10
55.
39.
Valdrin - Apex Violator
🇺🇸 8.1/10
55.
40.
Trivium - Struck Dead
🇺🇸 8.1/10
55.
41.
Labyrinthus Stellarum - Rift In Reality
🇺🇦 8.1/10
55.
42.
Drudkh - Гра тіней (Shadow Play)
🇺🇦 8.1/10
55.
43.
Spiritbox - Tsunami Sea
🇨🇦 8.0/10
55.
44.
Aldaaron - Par-Delà Les Cimes
🇫🇷 8.0/10
55.
45.
Lucifer's Child - The Illuminant
🇬🇷 8.0/10
55.
46.
I Prevail - Violent Nature
🇺🇸 7.9/10
55.
47.
Omnium Gatherum - May The Bridges We Burn Light The Way
🇫🇮 7.9/10
55.
48.
Architects - The Sky, The Earth & All Between
🇬🇧 7.8/10
55.
49.
Obscura - A Sonication
🇩🇪 7.8/10
55.
50.
Avantasia - Here Be Dragons
🇩🇪 7.8/10
55.
51.
Helloween - Giants & Monsters
🇩🇪 7.7/10
55.
52.
Mizmor - Alluvion [Collaboration]
🇺🇸 7.6/10
55.
53.
Before The Dawn - Cold Flare Eternal
🇫🇮 7.6/10
55.
54.
Whitechapel - Hymns In Dissonance
🇺🇸 7.5/10
55.
55.
Bloodywood - Nu Delhi
🇮🇳 7.3/10
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23.12.2025 - 13:37

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Great list, mate.

Fantastic to see the Dessiderium release so high.

Maybe I need to revisit the An Abstract Illusion and Katatonia releases...
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