Time for my Top 25 Metal Albums of 2025 list.

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⚠️ 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!
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📋 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

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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

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