My Best 35 Metal Albums of 2025! My #1 and #2 technically released in December of 2024, but what can I say. It's my fucking list.
#1 Aara: I loved the vocals, the emotions. Just a nail in my head, immediately.
#2 Spectral Lore: A beast of a legendary band. This was released on 12-31-2024, as a "Demo". What a nut.
Top 11 are listed in order, and the rest are alphabetized.
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#1 Aara (Swiss), album - Eiger (Dec 6 2024)
Senkrechte Welten
7:30-17:20
#2 Spectral Lore (Greece), album - IV (Part 1)(Dec 31, 2024)
Solitary Mirrors
17:21-24:44
#3: Maladie (GER), album - Symptoms V
The Implacability Of Time
24:45-28:56
#4: 1914 (Ukraine), album - Viribus Unitis
1914 (The Siege Of Przemyśl)
28:57-37:15
#5: Patristic (Italy), album - Catechesis
A Vinculis Soluta II
37:16-45:17
#6: Blut Aus Nord (France), album - Ethereal Horizons
The Fall Opens The Sky
45:18-55:10
#7: Haxprocess (FL), album - Beyond What Eyes Can See
The Confines of the Flesh
55:11-58:36
#8: Thron (GER), album - Vurias
A Paradox
58:37-1:05:50
#9: Phosphorus (GER), album - Frail Grasp of Broken Hands
Frail Grasp Of Broken Hands
1:05:51-1:13:08
#10: Orm (Denmark), album - Guld
Undfangen
1:13:09-1:16:50
#11: Changeling (GER), album - S/T
Falling In Circles
And the rest (alphabetized):
1:16:51-1:20:07
..And Oceans (Finland), album - The Regeneration Itinerary
The Fire In Which We Burn
1:20:08-1:28:28
Abigail Williams (WA), album - A Void Within Existence
No Less Than Death
1:28:29-1:33:22
Akantophis (GER), album - Erneuerung
Perforation
1:33:23-1:43:14
An Abstract Illusion (Sweden), album - The Sleeping City
The Sleeping City
1:43:15-1:49:24
Ancient Death (MA), album - Ego Dissolution
Violet Light Decays
1:49:24-2:01:43
Ba'al (UK), album - The Fine Line Between Heaven and Here
Mother's Concrete Womb
2:01:44-2:08:44
Beannachd Leibh (CAN), album - Walking in His Works
Born Grey
2:08:45-2:15:42
Blood Abscission (Anon), album - II
II - V
2:15:43-2:21:26
Centuries of Decay (CAN), album - A Monument to Oblivion
Between the Waves of Grief
2:21:27-2:28:56
Dessiderium (AZ), album - Keys To The Palace
In The Midst Of May
2:28:57-2:35:11
Dormant Ordeal (Poland), album - Tooth and Nail
Against the Dying of the Light
2:35:12-2:39:45
Exilium Noctis (Greece), album - Pactum Diaboli
Fall Of Babylon
2:39:46-2:44:09
Floating (Sweden), album - Hesitating Lights
I Reached the Mew
2:44:10-2:50:13
Gabestok (Denmark), album - Alle Dør I Fremtiden
Incelcitadel (De Sidste Fyldte Papirer)
2:50:14-2:53:55
Grey Aura (Netherlands), album - Zwart vierkant Slotstuk
Opgehangen afgrond
2:53:56-3:02:00
Grima (Russia), album - Nightside
The Nightside
3:02:01-3:05:19
Hecktic (Bulgaria), album - Unbeholden
Black Swan
3:05:20-3:09:46
Morbikon (VA), album - Lost Within The Astral Crypts
Ghoul Infested Mausoleum
3:09:47-3:15:52
Sepulchral Curse (Finland), album - Crimson Moon Evocations
House Of The Black Moon
3:15:53-3:22:02
Sargassus (Finland), album - Vitruvian Rays
Carving the Veins of God
3:22:03-3:27:45
Umulamahri (TX), album - Learning the Secrets of Acid
Orifice Invocation
3:27:46-3:33:34
Uulliata Digir (Poland), album - S/T
Omni Dirga
3:33:35-3:37:32
Vokodlok (Romania), album - The Egregious Being
Disdain
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Withering Soul (Chicago), album -Passage of the Arcane
Grievance Eludes the Light
