Top 25 Albums of 2025

Counting down my top 25 favorite metal albums of 2025! Albums mentioned in my top 25 today are listed below (in alphabetical order - for the actual ranked order, you will have to watch the video!): Ambush - Evil in All Dimensions Behölder - In the Temple of the Tyrant Bloody Valkyria - In Our Home, Across the Fog Blut Aus Nord - Ethereal Horizons Century - Sign of the Storm Ereb Altor - Halsingemorker Fer De Lance - Fires on the Mountainside Gjendod - Svekkelse Haimad - When Night Rode Across the North Havukruunu - Tavastland Haxkapell - Om jordens blod och urgravens grepp Helms Deep - Chasing the Dragon Hesperia - Fra li Monti Sibillini (Black Medieval Winter Over the Sybilline Mounts) Jade - Mysteries of a Flowery Dream Lamp of Murmuur - The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy Obsidian Tongue - Eclipsing Worlds of Scorn Phantom Spell - Heather and Hearth Remina - The Silver Sea Saor - Amidst the Ruins Seven Sisters - Shadow of a Fallen Star, Pt. 2 Skare - I takeheimens djup Valdrin - Apex Violator Vultures Vengeance - Dust Age Wings of Steel - Winds of Time Zeicrydeus - La Grande Heresie Honorable Mentions (unranked - in alphabetical order): Aephanemer - Utopie Afsky - Faellesskab Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Innern Epica - Aspiral Haxprocess - Beyond What Eyes Can See Helloween - Giants & Monsters Hooded Menace - Lachtymose Monuments of Obscuration Istapp - Sol ter sortna One of Nine - Dawn of the Iron Shadow Tribunal - In Penitence and Ruin Vintersorg - Vattenkrafternas spel