Top 25 METAL Albums of 2025

Time for my Top 25 Metal Albums of 2025 list. Remember! ⚠️ This is just my list of what I have heard and what I liked ⚠️ I tend to like the more extreme side of metal. Sorry, no Sleep Token here. ⚠️ If I didn't list your favourite album, I can't help you, but you can leave your list in the comments! ⚠️ Unless your list contains Sleep Token. 💿 GET 5% OFF AT BLACKSOUND RECORDS! Visit https://blacksound.com.au and enter EXPLOSIVE05 at checkout 💲 BECOME A CHANNEL MEMBER! Join the channel for 99c / month https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI-342HDxUvCW6d57a2QVJg/join 🤘🏻 HEAVY METALLURGY REVIEWS https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTXOdRIhfloV4j--m6cL2n2tBwaHlZyLZ 🍿 MOVIE REVIEWS https://www.explosiveaction.com 📱 SOCIALS https://instagram.com/explosiveaction https://letterboxd.com/ExplosiveAction/ https://www.facebook.com/ExplosiveAction https://twitter.com/XplosiveAction 📋 CHAPTERS 00:00 Intro 00:47 Prologue 01:27 Top 25 to 11 10:18 Top EPs 12:05 Top 10 26:28 Honourable Mentions 31:12 Notable Omissions 34:41 And the Winner Is... 36:48 Outro ⚠️ DON'T READ BELOW HERE UNTIL YOU'VE WATCHED THE VIDEO!!! ⚠️ ------------------------------------------------------ Top 25 to 11 25. Eternal Darkness - Eternal Darkness 24. Pissgrave - Malignant Worthlessness 23. Mortual - Altar Of Brutality 22. Collier d'Ombre - Autumnal Fortress 21. Tornekrans - Silent Whispers Echo From Forbidden Realms 20. Caustic Phlegm - Purulent Apocalypse 19. Kveldstimer - The Cursed Oak 18. Stangarigel - Za Striebornou Horou 17. Astral Gauze - A Fire As Alien As Hostile… 16. Plasmodulated - An Ocean Ov Putrid, Stinky, Vile, Disgusting Hell 15. Metaphobic - Deranged Excruciations 14. Rothadás - Töviskert... A Kísértés Örök Érzete... Lidércharang 13. Ancient Death - Ego Dissolution 12. Skare - I Tåkeheimens Djup 11. Ossuary - Abhorrent Worship Top EPs Cancer Void - First Metastasis Hellstorm Apocalypse - Hellstorm Apocalypse Moonfall - Odes To The Ritual Hills Nightwalker - The Eternal Flame Of Death Top 10 10. Phrenelith - Ashen Womb 9. Teitanblood - From The Visceral Abyss 8. Species - Changelings 7. Putridity - Morbid Ataraxia 6. Mephitic Corpse - Sickness Attracts Sickness 5. Eleventh Ray - Reviving Tehom 4. Castrator - Coronation Of The Grotesque 3. Pestilential Shadows - Wretch 2. Vile Apparition - Malignity Honourable Mentions Anoxia - Revel In Sin Clairvoyance - Chasm Of Immurement Corpus Offal - Corpus Offal Decrepisy - Deific Mourning Décryptal - Simulacre Diabolizer - Murderous Revelations Drawn And Quartered - Lord Of Two Horns Effroi - Eerie Passage Filth - Time To Rot Grave Infestation - Carnage Gathers Hebephrenique - Decathexis Innumerable Forms - Pain Effulgence Impurity - The Eternal Sleep Khaos Aura - Thorn Bringer Lvthn - The Devil's Bridge Malformed - Confinement Of Flesh Morbific - Bloom Of The Abnormal Flesh Osgraef - Reveries Of The Arcane Eye VoidCeremony - Abditum And the Winner Is... 1. Jade - Mysteries Of A Flowery Dream ------------------------------------------------------ logo by geeza.com.au divebomb by the glorious dead #aoty #metal2025