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.

0:25-7:29 #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

3:37:33-END Withering Soul (Chicago), album -Passage of the Arcane Grievance Eludes the Light