TOP 40 METAL ALBUMS OF 2025 – PART 1

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Top 40?!?!?

Holy crap, you went beyond with this! I only had 12…

40: Afsky- Fællesskab
39: Silence og the Nemeta – Towards the Crimera
38: Frosted Undergrowth – Unchained
37: Thron – Vurias
36: Thormesis – Neverless
35: Olde Throne – Megalith
34: Amorphis – Borderland
33: 1914 – Viribus Unitis
32: Outlaw – Opus Mortis
31: Veil of Conspiracy – Shape of Grief

Great choices overall!

Here are my Top 30 favorite albums of the year, along with some honorable mentions. Enjoy!

My honorable mentions of 2025:

Trauma Bond – Summer Ends. Some Are Long Gone

The Great Old Ones – Kadath

Spiritbox – Tsunami Sea

Arch Enemy – Blood Dynasty

Between the Buried and Me – The Blue Nowhere

Glorior Belli – S/T

Pelican – Flickering Resonance

The Callous Daoboys – I Don’t Want to See You in Heaven

Patristic – Catechesis

Veilburner – Longing for Triumph, Reeking of Tragedy

1914 – Viribus Unitis

Orbit Culture – Death Above Life

Lorna Shore – I Feel the Everblack Festering Within Me

Lathe of Heaven – Aurora

Tombs – Feral Darkness

Scour – Gold

Abduction – Existentialismus

Blut aus Nord – Ethereal Horizons

Whitechapel – Hymns in Dissonance

Qrixkuor – The Womb of the World

My Top 30 albums of 2025:

#30 Mechina – Bellum Interruptum

#29 Bloody Valkyria – In Our Home, Across the Fog

#28 Imperialist – Prime

#27 Faetooth – Labyrinthine

#26 Conjurer – Unself

#25 Despised Icon – Shadow Work

#24 À Terre – Embrasser la nuit

#23 Proscription – Desolate Divine

#22 Daughter Chaos – Noble Rot

#21 Fallujah – Xenotaph

#20 Sanguisugabogg – Hideous Aftermath

#19 Uulliata Digir – S/T

#18 Paradise Lost – Ascension

#17 In Mourning – The Immortal

#16 Sacrifice – Volume Six

#15 Saor – Amidst the Ruins

#14 Revocation – New Gods, New Masters

#13 Hæresis – Si Vis Pacem Para Bellvm

#12 Blackbraid – Blackbraid III

#11 Rivers of Nihil – S/T

#10 Testament – Para Bellum

#9 This Gift Is a Curse – Heir

#8 Gaahls Wyrd – Braiding the Stories

#7 Cryptopsy – An Insatiable Violence

#6 Teitanblood – From the Visceral Abyss

#5 Hangman’s Chair – Saddiction

#4 Dormant Ordeal – Tooth and Nail

#3 Imperial Triumphant – Goldstar

#2 Deafheaven – Lonely People with Power

MY FAVORITE ALBUM OF 2025: Deftones – Private Music

Thanks for the great top!!
My top 3: revocation, Coroner and Blut aus Nord

Greetings! Thanks for your recommendations. Honestly, it's been a great year of great releases. I'm sure you'll include the crushing and cosmic works Martröð (December 12), Lychgate (December 19), and Dyssidia in my top 3.

I had a shot every time she said stompy stomp moments and I am fucking blind

I don’t bother listening to albums more than once so I never have a best of year list.

Hello novice Metalhead, good to see growl metal being popular 🙃

1: An Abstract illusion
2: Vildhjarta
3: vianova
4: Sleep Token
5: Darko Us
6: Mesarthim
7: Shadow Of Intent
8: Ten 56
9: Mirar
10: Deafheaven
11: The Callous Daoboys
12: Ghost
13: Unprocessed
14: Drudkh
15: Schreigarm
16: Antimere
17: Conjurer
18: Spite
19: Hive
20: Whitechapel
21: Adept
22: Catsclaw
23: The Darkhorse Collective
24: Dayseeker
25: Havukruunu

I am also super picky when it comes to deathcore, Hymns of Dissonance was one of the few DC albums that I finished this year and the only that I would listen to on repeat. It being #40 just shows how stacked '25 was.

Loving it Lindsay! Good to see Bleed From Within – Zenith, love that album, definitely one of my faves this year

”Death Hilarious” with Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs is my number one this year.
”Deadbeat At Dawn” with Zig Zags at number two.
”Ego Dissolution” with Ancient Death at number three.
”Hårdrock på svenska” with Grevens Tid at number four.
”HrabnaR / Ad vesa” with Helheim at number five.

Very cool list 👍

Wow! You included Buried Realm- The Dormant Darkness! Amazing this is one of my fav!

Top 10 albums in no order.
Sanguisugabogg – Hideous Aftermath 
Alien Weaponry – Te Ra
Incite – Savage New Times
1914 – Viribus Unitis
Soulfly – Chama
Rivers of Nihil – Rivers of Nihil
Victim of Fire – Victim of Fire
An Abstract Illusion – The Sleeping City
Revocation – New Gods, New Masters
Blackbraid – III

My top 10 are –
1914 -Viribus Uniitis
Paradise lost -Ascension
Havukruunu -Tavastland
Coroner – Dissonance Theory
Baest – Colossal
Testament Para Bellum
Biohazard – Divided We Fall
Novembers Doom – Major Arcana
Drain – Is Your Friend
Warbringer -Wrath And Ruin

My metal sister! Top 40? You are working to hard, most people would do a top 20 and take a few days off. I appreciate all your hard work though, some great picks there, looking forward to the final 30!

31. Abigail Williams – a void within existence

32. Pupil Slicer – fleshwork

33. 1914 – viribus untis

34. blut aus nord – ethereal horizons

35. The Acacia Strain – you are safe from god here

36. Your Spirit Dies – gnawing pains will never rest

37. Thus Spoke Zarathustra-I’m done with self care, it’s time for others' harm

38. Opia – i welcome thee, eternal sleep

39. Drofnosura – ritual of split tongues

40. Calva Louise – edge of the abyss

What is that accent ? Also great list ❤