2025 Death Metal

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2025 Death Metal

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A list by
Jaro
Created
January 06, 2026
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184
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Yo,
Welcome to another year-end list of mine. I might finally be done changing up the formula, the latest addition being a few awards here in the introduction. The list part remains unchanged, all the death metal I've heard from 2025 sorted alphabetically by band name with subgenre and country flag.
I will be adding more albums in the future, can never listen to all I want to before the year ends so check back for updates. Allow me also to express some pride in featuring nine Polish bands on the list. Lovely scene Now, on to the awards:

Favorite album: Cytotoxin - Biographyte
Favorite song: Shadow Of Intent - Infinity Of Horrors
Favorite album art: Aephanemer - Utopie
Least favorite album on the list: Slaughter To Prevail - Grizzly

Thanks for reading, lemme know your favorites in the comments <3

UPDATE 03.02.2026 - Added 29 new (NEW) records, Polish band count went up to 10
184.
1.
1914 - Viribus Unitis
🇺🇦 Blackened Death
184.
2.
Abysmal Descent - Dismal Thoughts
🇧🇪 Dissodeath
184.
3.
Abyssery - Interminable End
🇧🇪 Modern Death
184.
4.
Aephanemer - Utopie
🇫🇷 Symphonic/Melodic Death
184.
5.
Allegaeon - The Ossuary Lens
🇺🇸 Progressive/Tech Melodic Death
184.
6.
Amorphis - Borderland
🇫🇮 It's fucking Amorphis
184.
7.
An Abstract Illusion - The Sleeping City
🇸🇪 Progressive Death
184.
8.
Ancient Death - Ego Dissolution
🇺🇸 Proggy OSDM
184.
9.
Angerot - Seofon
🇺🇸 OSDM
184.
10.
Aran Angmar - Ordo Diabolicum
🇬🇷/🇳🇱/🇮🇹 Melodic Black/Death (NEW)
184.
11.
Arkhaaik - Uihtis
🇨🇭 Blackened Death/Doom
184.
12.
Ashbreather - La Grande Bouffe
🇨🇦 Progressive Death/Sludge
184.
13.
Asphagor - The Aphotic Vortex
🇦🇹 Blackened Death
184.
14.
Aversed - Erasure Of Color
🇺🇸 Progressive Death
184.
15.
Aversions Crown - A Voice From The Outer Dark
🇦🇺 Technical Deathcore (NEW)
184.
16.
Baest - Colossal
🇩🇰 Death with classic Heavy Metal influences
184.
17.
Barren Path - Grieving
🇯🇵/🇺🇸 Deathgrind
184.
18.
Bear Mace - Slaves Of The Wolf
🇺🇸 OSDM
184.
19.
Behemoth - The Shit Ov God
🇵🇱 It's fucking Behemoth
184.
20.
Binah - Ónkos
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Progressive/Atmosheric Death/OSDM/Caverncore (NEW)
184.
21.
Blindfolded And Led To The Woods - The Hardest Thing About Being God Is That No One Believes Me
🇳🇿 Tech Death/Deathcore
184.
22.
Blood Red Throne - Siltskin
🇳🇴 Modern Death
184.
23.
Buried Realm - The Dormant Darkness
🇺🇸 Tech Death
184.
24.
ByoNoiseGenerator - Subnormal Dives
🇷🇺 Avant-garde/Brutal Death/Grind (NEW)
184.
25.
Cancer - Inverted World
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿/🇪🇸 󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧It's fucking Cancer
184.
26.
Cantu Ignis - The Fathomless Dominion
🇺🇸 Symphonic/Melodic Death (NEW)
184.
27.
Castrator - Coronation Of The Grotesque
🇺🇸 Death/Thrash (NEW)
184.
28.
Celestial Sanctuary - Visions Of Stagnant Blood
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Modern Death with an abysmal drum production
184.
29.
Changeling (GER) - Changeling
🇩🇪 Technical Progressive Death (NEW)
184.
30.
Chestcrush - Ψυχοβγάλτης
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Blackened/Brutal Death (NEW)
184.
31.
Clairvoyance - Chasm Of Immurement
🇵🇱 Caverncore
184.
32.
Clouds - Desprins
🇷🇴 Atmospheric Doom/Death (NEW)
184.
33.
Concrete Age - Awaken The Gods
🇷🇺/🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Folk/Thrash/Power/Melodeath (NEW)
184.
34.
Consumption - Catharsis
🇸🇪 Carcass-core
184.
35.
Crimson Shadows - Whispers Of War
🇨🇦 Extreme Power/Melodic Death
184.
36.
Crown Of Madness - Memories Fragmented
🇨🇦 Progressive/Dissodeath (NEW)
184.
37.
Cryptopsy - An Insatiable Violence
🇨🇦 RHUAAAAARGH
184.
38.
Cytotoxin - Biographyte
🇩🇪 Brutal Tech Death
184.
39.
Daughter Chaos - Noble Rot
🇺🇸 Melodic Death (NEW)
184.
40.
De Profundis - The Gospel Of Rot
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Proggy OSDM
184.
41.
Dead And Dripping - Nefarious Scintillations
🇺🇸 Brutal/Progressive Death
184.
42.
Defacement - Doomed
🇳🇱 Dissodeath
184.
43.
Deliquesce - Saviour / Enslaver
🇦🇺 Brutal Death
184.
44.
Demon King - Death Knell
🇺🇸 Tech Death
184.
45.
Dephosphorus - Planetoktonos
🇬🇷 Blackened Death/Grindcore
184.
46.
Depravity - Bestial Possession
🇦🇺 Modern Death
184.
47.
Deserted Fear - Veins Of Fire
🇩🇪 Melodeath/Groove
184.
48.
Despised Icon - Shadow Work
🇨🇦 Deathcore
184.
49.
Dessiderium - Keys To The Palace
🇺🇸 Progressive Tech Death
184.
50.
Diabolizer - Murderous Revelations
🇹🇷 Modern Death
184.
51.
Disarmonia Mundi - The Dormant Stranger
🇮🇹 Melodic Death/Groove (NEW)
184.
52.
Discordant Meditation - Tragic Creature
🇺🇸 OSDM/Brutal Dissodeath (NEW)
184.
53.
Disembodiment - Spiral Crypts
🇨🇦 OSDM
184.
54.
Dissocia - To Lift The Veil
🇪🇸 Progressive Death (NEW)
184.
55.
Dormant Ordeal - Tooth And Nail
🇵🇱 Blackened Death
184.
56.
Drouth - The Teeth Of Time
🇺🇸 Black/Death
184.
57.
Embrional - Inherited Tendencies For Self-Destruction
🇵🇱 Blackened Death
184.
58.
Enragement - Extinguish All Existence
🇫🇮 Brutal Death
184.
59.
Entrails - Grip Of Ancient Evil
🇸🇪 Swedeath with guitars produced really far away
184.
60.
Erocis - The Sunken Lands
🇫🇷 Melodic Death/Epic Folk
184.
61.
Estuarine - Corporeal Furnace
🇺🇸/🇸🇪 Avantgarde Tech Death/Grindcore
184.
62.
Ex Deo - Year Of The Four Emperors
🇨🇦 Symphonic/Melodic Death
184.
63.
FaithXtractor - Loathing & The Noose
🇺🇸 Modern Death
184.
64.
Fallujah - Xenotaph
🇺🇸 Tech/Progressive Death
184.
65.
Fleshbore - Painted Paradise
🇺🇸 Technical/Melodic Death (NEW)
184.
66.
Fleshvessel - Obstinacy: Sisyphean Dreams Unfolded
🇺🇸 Avantgarde Death
184.
67.
Fractal Universe - The Great Filters
🇫🇷 Progressive Death
184.
68.
Fragda - Glorification Of Witchery
🇭🇺 Blackened Deathcore (NEW)
184.
69.
Frantic Amber - Death Becomes Her
🇸🇪 Swedeath with a bunch of outside influences, I wrote some more on it in the album's comments
184.
70.
Graceless - Icons Of Ruin
🇳🇱 Death/Doom
184.
71.
Harvested - Dysthymia
🇨🇦 Tech Death
184.
72.
Hate - Bellum Regiis
🇵🇱 Blackened Death
184.
73.
Haxprocess - Beyond What Eyes Can See
🇺🇸 Progressive Thrash/Death
184.
74.
Heads For The Dead - Never Ending Night Of Terror
🇸🇪/🇩🇪/🇬🇧/🇺🇸 OSDM
184.
75.
Heruvim - Mercator
🇺🇦 OSDM
184.
76.
Hexrot - Formless Ruin Of Oblivion
🇺🇸 Dissodeath
184.
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Hooded Menace - Lachrymose Monuments Of Obscuration
🇫🇮 What they did on the previous album, just as good too
184.
78.
Hope Deferred - Darkness Remains
🇺🇸 Deathcore (NEW)
184.
79.
Hvrt - Cancerbloom
🇩🇪 Death/Sludge/Hardcore
184.
80.
Hyperdontia - Dormant Scourge
🇩🇰/🇹🇷 OSDM
184.
81.
Imperishable (USA) - Revelation In Purity
🇺🇸 Blackened Death (NEW)
184.
82.
Impermanence - Anicca
🇵🇱 Tech Death/Black
184.
83.
Impureza - Alcázares
🇫🇷 Progressive Death with Flamenco elements
184.
84.
In Mourning - The Immortal
🇸🇪 Progressive Melodic Death
184.
85.
Innumerable Forms - Pain Effulgence
🇺🇸 Death/Doom
184.
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Inoculation - Actuality
🇺🇸 Modern Death
184.
87.
Jade - Mysteries Of A Flowery Dream
🇪🇸 Atmospheric Death Metal
184.
88.
Kakothanasy - Metagonism
🇨🇭 Brutal/Tech Death
184.
89.
Kalaveraztekah - Nikan Axkan
🇲🇽 Folky Progressive Death
184.
90.
Kardashev - Alunea
🇺🇸 Progressive/Atmospheric Deathcore/Post Metal
184.
91.
Kaunis Kuolematon - Kun Valo Minussa Kuoli
🇫🇮 Melodic Death/Doom
184.
92.
Kontusion - Insatiable Lust For Death
🇺🇸 Caverncore/Hardcore
184.
93.
Krigsgrav - Stormcaller
🇺🇸 Black/Death/Dooom
184.
94.
Leper Colony - Those Of The Morbid
🇩🇪 OSDM
184.
95.
Light Dweller - The Subjugate
🇺🇸 Progressive/Dissodeath
184.
96.
Lik (SWE) - Necro
🇸🇪 Swedeath
184.
97.
Lloth - Archees Legeones
🇬🇷 Melodic Black/Death
184.
98.
Lorna Shore - I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me
🇺🇸 Melodic/Progressive Deathcore
184.
99.
Malformed - Confinement Of Flesh
🇫🇮 OSDM
184.
100.
Monochromatic Black - Vehemence
🇺🇸 Technical Deathcore
184.
101.
Morbific - Bloom Of The Abnormal Flesh
🇫🇮 OSDM
184.
102.
Mors Principium Est - Darkness Invisible
🇫🇮 It's fucking Mors Principium Est but now more symphonic
184.
103.
Mortual - Altar Of Brutality
🇨🇷 Death/Thrash
184.
104.
Mutagenic Host - The Diseased Machine
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 OSDM
184.
105.
Nailed To Obscurity - Generation Of The Void
🇩🇪 Melodic/Progressive Death/Doom
184.
106.
Nefas - Oblation Ov Obliteration
🇺🇸 Avant-garde Death
184.
107.
Nightbearer - Defiance
🇩🇪 Melodeath
184.
108.
Nightfall - Children Of Eve
🇬🇷 Melodic Black/Death/Doom, Gothic Metal
184.
109.
Novembers Doom - Major Arcana
🇺🇸 It's fucking Novembers Doom
184.
110.
Novembre - Words Of Indigo
🇮🇹 Progressive Gothic/Doom/Death
184.
111.
Obscura - A Sonication
🇩🇪 It's fucking Obscura with added plagiarism
184.
112.
Omegavortex - Diabolic Messiah Of The New World Order
🇩🇪 Dissodeath/Thrash/Black
184.
113.
Ominous Ruin - Requiem
🇺🇸 Technical Brutal Death
184.
114.
Omnium Gatherum - May The Bridges We Burn Light The Way
🇫🇮 It's fucking Omnium Gatherum
184.
115.
Onirophagus - Revelations From The Void
🇪🇸 Blackened Death/Doom (NEW)
184.
116.
Ophidian Memory - Seraphim
🇺🇸 Progressive Blackened Death
184.
117.
Paradise Lost - Ascension
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 It's fucking Paradise Lost
184.
118.
Patristic - Catechesis
🇮🇹 Dissodeath
184.
119.
Pedestal For Leviathan - Enter: Vampyric Manifestation
🇺🇸 Symphonic OSDM/Brutal Death (NEW)
184.
120.
Perdition Temple - Malign Apotheosis
🇺🇸 Black/Death
184.
121.
Pestifer (PT) - Ravaging Fury
🇵🇹 OSDM
184.
122.
Phobocosm - Gateway
🇨🇦 Dissodeath
184.
123.
Phrenelith - Ashen Womb
🇩🇰 Dissodeath/OSDM
184.
124.
Pillars Of Cacophony - Paralipomena
🇦🇹 Tech/Progressive/Dissodeath (NEW)
184.
125.
Plasmodulated - An Ocean Ov Putrid, Stinky, Vile, Disgusting Hell
🇺🇸 Modern Death
184.
126.
Primalfrost - Path Of Resilience
🇨🇦 Melodic Death/Power
184.
127.
Proscription - Desolate Divine
🇫🇮 Blackened Death
184.
128.
Puteraeon - Mountains Of Madness
🇸🇪 Swedeath
184.
129.
Pyre - Where Obscurity Sways
🇷🇺 OSDM
184.
130.
Qrixkuor - The Womb Of The World
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Symphonic/Dissodeath
184.
131.
Relics Of Humanity - Absolute Dismal Domain
🇧🇾 Brutal Death
184.
132.
Retromorphosis - Psalmus Mortis
🇸🇪 Tech Death
184.
133.
Revocation - New Gods, New Masters
🇺🇸 Tech Death/Thrash
184.
134.
Rivers Of Nihil - Rivers Of Nihil
🇺🇸 Progressive/Tech Death
184.
135.
Sacred Noose - Vanishing Spires
🇬🇧 (Northern Ireland) 󠁧󠁢󠁮󠁩󠁲󠁿Black/Death/Doom
184.
136.
Sadist - Something To Pierce
🇮🇹 Progressive Death
184.
137.
Sanguisugabogg - Hideous Aftermath
🇺🇸 Modern/Brutal Death
184.
138.
Scalp - Not Worthy Of Human Compassion
🇺🇸 Deathgrind
184.
139.
Scalpture - Landkrieg
🇩🇪 OSDM
184.
140.
Scorching Tomb - Ossuary
🇨🇦 Modern Death
184.
141.
Serpent Corpse - Retaliate
🇨🇦 Crust Punk/OSDM
184.
142.
Shadow Of Intent - Imperium Delirium
🇺🇸 Symphonic Deathcore
184.
143.
Shed The Skin - The Carnage Cast Shadow
🇺🇸 Swedeath from the US
184.
144.
Sinsaenum - In Devastation
🇫🇷/🇺🇸/🇭🇺 Melodic Blackened Death/Groove
184.
145.
Skaphos - Cult Of Uzura
🇫🇷 Blackened Death (NEW)
184.
146.
Slaughter To Prevail - Grizzly
🇷🇺 Deathcore
184.
147.
Sphere - Inferno
🇵🇱 Blackened Death
184.
148.
Spire Of Lazarus - Those Who Live In Death
🇦🇹 Technical Deathcore
184.
149.
SpiritWorld - Helldorado
🇺🇸 Crossover Thrash/Death
184.
150.
Structure - Heritage
🇳🇱 Atmospheric Death/Doom
184.
151.
Subterranean Lava Dragon - The Great Architect
🇺🇸 Progressive Death (NEW)
184.
152.
Suffering Hour - Impelling Rebirth
🇺🇸 Avant-garde Black/Death Metal (NEW)
184.
153.
Suotana - Ounas II
🇫🇮 Melodic Black/Death
184.
154.
Supreme Void - Towards Oblivion
🇵🇱 Progressive/Dissodeath
184.
155.
Symbiotic Growth - Beyond The Sleepless Aether
🇨🇦 Progressive Death
184.
156.
Synaptic - Enter The Void
🇩🇪 Progressive Melodic Tech Death
184.
157.
Teitanblood - From The Visceral Abyss
🇪🇸 Death/Black
184.
158.
Terror Corpse - Ash Eclipses Flesh
🇺🇸 OSDM/Grindcore (NEW)
184.
159.
The Halo Effect - March Of The Unheard
🇸🇪 Melodeath
184.
160.
The Haunted - Songs Of Last Resort
🇸🇪 Thrash/Death/Groove
184.
161.
The Ominous Circle - Cloven Tongues Of Fire
🇸🇪 Dissodeath/Black
184.
162.
The Reticent - Please
🇺🇸 Progressive/Death
184.
163.
Thy Disease - United We Fall
🇵🇱 Blackened/Industrial Death (NEW)
184.
164.
Tithe - Communion In Anguish
🇺🇸 Blackened Death/Doom/Grindcore
184.
165.
Tómarúm - Beyond Obsidian Euphoria
🇺🇸 Progressive/Technical Death/Black
184.
166.
Tribal Gaze - Inveighing Brilliance
🇺🇸 Modern Death/Groove
184.
167.
Unbirth - Asomatous Besmirchment
🇮🇹 Technical Brutal Death
184.
168.
Undersave - Merged In Abstract Perdition
🇵🇹 Dissodeath
184.
169.
Unleashed - Fire Upon Your Lands
🇸🇪 It's fucking Unleashed
184.
170.
Unsouling - Outward Streams Of Devotional Woe
🇺🇸 Experimental Black/Death
184.
171.
Upon Stone - End Time Lightning
🇺🇸 Melodeath
184.
172.
Vader - Humanihility
🇵🇱 It's fucking Vader
184.
173.
Veilburner - Longing For Triumph, Reeking Of Tragedy
🇺🇸 Progressive Blackened Death
184.
174.
Victim Of Fire - The Old Lie
🇺🇸 Melodic Death/Thrash/Hardcore (NEW)
184.
175.
Vittra - Intense Indifference
🇸🇪 Melodic Death/Thrash
184.
176.
VoidCeremony - Abditum
🇺🇸 Progressive Death
184.
177.
Weeping Sores - The Convalescence Agonies
🇺🇸 Death/Doom
184.
178.
Werewolves - The Ugliest Of All
🇦🇺 Technical Blackened Death
184.
179.
Whitechapel - Hymns In Dissonance
🇺🇸 Throwback to their earlier works
184.
180.
Wode - Uncrossing The Keys
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Death/Black
184.
181.
Wombbath - Beyond The Abyss
🇸🇪 Swedeath
184.
182.
Wrath Of Belial - Embers Of Dead Empires
🇩🇰 Melodic Death/Thrash, again I wrote a long-ish comment on the album's page
184.
183.
Wretched - Decay
🇺🇸 Progressive/Melodic/Technical Death
184.
184.
Yotuma - The Final Void
🇺🇸 OSDM/Slam (NEW)
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Added 29 new albums, indicated by the NEW in parentheses. Romania and Scotland have joined the party of now 31 countries represented on the list (I separated the UK as one should) and the Polish band count is at 10.
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