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Wonderbox Metal End of Year List – Best Metal of 2025 wp.me/p3zRmN-hJh

It's time to find out what the best #metal albums of 2025 were. Find something new to adore!

#blackmetal #doom #deathmetal #postmetal #grindcore #metalsky
Wonderbox Metal End of Year List – Best Metal of 2025
Another year, another list. 2025 followed 2024 as it was meant to, and brought with it a plethora of new metal albums to get excited about.
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Irk – The Seeing House (Review) wp.me/p3zRmN-hLe

Damn you Irk, damn you for being so good

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Irk – The Seeing House (Review)
Irk are a noise rock band from the UK and this is their second album. I got to The Seeing House far later than I wanted to or should have. Despite earmarking it for review, it somehow slipped throu…
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December 22, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Nemorous – What Remains When Hope Has Failed (Review) wp.me/p3zRmN-hKU

A late highlight of 2025

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Nemorous – What Remains When Hope Has Failed (Review)
Nemorous are a UK black metal band and this is their debut album. What Remains When Hope Has Failed has been a long time coming for yours truly. Arising from the ashes of the mighty Wodensthrone, N…
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December 21, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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End of Transmission: 1995-2025 The Final Tour – Orange Goblin/Grand Magus/Urne – Academy 2, Manchester – 13/12/25 (Live Review) wp.me/p3zRmN-hKy

The end of an era

#metal #heavymetal #hardrock #metalsky
End of Transmission: 1995-2025 The Final Tour – Orange Goblin/Grand Magus/Urne – Academy 2, Manchester – 13/12/25 (Live Review)
This is quite the event. Legendary band Orange Goblin are calling it a day after 30 years, sadly, and this is their farewell tour. It’s sold out, which I’m happy for them about, as they…
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December 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Fantastic list with lots of stuff I also loved and some key things I missed that I want to check out.
December 16, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Wonderbox Metal End of Year List – Best Metal of 2025 wp.me/p3zRmN-hJh

It's time to find out what the best #metal albums of 2025 were. Find something new to adore!

#blackmetal #doom #deathmetal #postmetal #grindcore #metalsky
Wonderbox Metal End of Year List – Best Metal of 2025
Another year, another list. 2025 followed 2024 as it was meant to, and brought with it a plethora of new metal albums to get excited about.
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December 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Dimholt – Metaform (Review) wp.me/p3zRmN-hJ3

A very enjoyable and satisfying slice of well-crafted black #metal. Highly recommended for fans of the style

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Dimholt – Metaform (Review)
Dimholt are a Bulgarian black metal band and this is their third album. I enjoyed 2014’s Liberation Funeral and 2019’s Epistēmē – I had thought I reviewed the latter too, but appa…
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December 12, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Martröð – Draumsýnir Eldsins (Review) wp.me/p3zRmN-hIT

A raging thunderstorm, punctuated by moments of tense calm and corrupt beauty. It’s an album of maddening complexity and slithering insidious darkness

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Martröð – Draumsýnir Eldsins (Review)
This is the debut album from international, (Iceland/US), black metallers Martröð. Martröð is brought to us by current/ex-members of Chaos Moon, Häxanu, Osgraef, Ringarë, Manetheren, Vörnir, Wormlu…
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December 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Rotten Sound – Mass Extinction (Review) wp.me/p3zRmN-hIx

If high quality, readily enjoyable #grindcore mayhem is your thing, then this is for you. Essential listening. What’s not to like? GRRIIIIINNNDDDDDDDDDDD!

#grind #metal #metalsky
Rotten Sound – Mass Extinction (Review)
This is the latest EP from Finnish grindcore legends Rotten Sound. GRRIIIIINNNDDDDDDDDDDD! Hell yeah. This is what it’s all about. eight tracks in 10 minutes. Rotten Sound rage and burn all b…
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December 9, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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Argus Megere – Cerburea Apusului (Review) wp.me/p3zRmN-hHU

If you have a taste for multifaceted, progressive/folk-influenced atmospheric black #metal, then this must surely be high on the agenda for you

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Argus Megere – Cerburea Apusului (Review)
Argus Megere are a Romanian black metal band and this is their fifth album. Cerburea Apusului is the long awaited follow up to 2017’s VEII. It may have been a while since their last record, b…
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December 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Jours Pâles – Résonances (Review) wp.me/p3zRmN-hIo

The guiding artist behind Jours Pâles has managed to imbue this music with a spirit all of its own, and I can’t help fall for Jours Pâles anew every time I hear something new from the band

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Jours Pâles – Résonances (Review)
This is the debut album from French post-black metallers Jours Pâles. Jours Pâles have been a band to not miss out on ever since 2021’s delectable Éclosion. Followed swiftly in 2022 by Tensio…
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December 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Vin de Mia Trix – This Landscape Is Alive (Review) wp.me/p3zRmN-hHJ

An exceptional album of #doom #metal worldbuilding

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Vin de Mia Trix – This Landscape Is Alive (Review)
This is the third album from Ukrainian doom metal band Vin de Mia Trix. Palimpsests was a record that topped my 20174 year end list, but that was a long time ago, and I never really expected to hea…
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December 2, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Enthroned – Ashspawn (Review) wp.me/p3zRmN-hIJ

A new, high quality, very enjoyable slice of blackened darkness from Enthroned

#metal #blackmetal #metalsky
Enthroned – Ashspawn (Review)
Enthroned are a black metal band from Belgium and this is their twelfth album. Following on from 2014’s Sovereigns and 2019’s Cold Black Suns, a new Enthroned album has now appeared on …
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December 1, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Doubtsower – The Past Melts Away with a Sneer (Review) wp.me/p3zRmN-hHC

This is a superlative work of underground #doom #metal. For connoisseurs of the style, this is an utterly essential listen

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Doubtsower – The Past Melts Away with a Sneer (Review)
Doubtsower is a one-man Welsh doom metal band and this is his fourth album. If you have yet to experience the uncommon blackened doom of Doubtsower, then let me recommend you Asphyxiation of a Seas…
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November 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Flowers of Rust – Crude Exhibitions of the Soul (Review) wp.me/p3zRmN-hIb

If you like your #blackgaze raw and violent, yet to still shine with jagged lustre, then Crude Exhibitions of the Soul is for you

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Flowers of Rust – Crude Exhibitions of the Soul (Review)
This is the second album from US solo post-black metal band Flowers of Rust. Crude Exhibitions of the Soul contains 33 minutes of post-black metal that’s of an uncommon variety. Flowers of Ru…
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November 26, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Phobocosm – Gateway (Review) wp.me/p3zRmN-hI3

This is death #metal as an otherworldly invasion force

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Phobocosm – Gateway (Review)
This is the fourth album from Canadian death metal act Phobocosm. 2023’s Foreordained made a good impression on me, so when ominous portents heralded the arrival of Gateway, I was ready. Acro…
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November 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Blut Aus Nord – Ethereal Horizons (Review) wp.me/p3zRmN-hHi

The songs offer up a hallucinatory experience, a psychedelic journey into otherworldly landscapes and vast, spacious blackened dreamscapes

#metal #blackmetal #metalsky
Blut Aus Nord – Ethereal Horizons (Review)
This is the sixteenth album from Blut Aus Nord, a French black metal band. Following on from 2023’s ​Disharmonium – Nahab comes Ethereal Horizons, a 52-minute work of expansive, exquisi…
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November 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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All Seeing Eyes – We Are the Revolution (Review) wp.me/p3zRmN-hGv

We Are the Revolution scratches a very specific itch that’s hard to reach. I mean, what’s not to like? Songs, character, charisma, personality? All Seeing Eyes deliver the goods

#metal #powermetal #progressivemetal #metalsky
All Seeing Eyes – We Are the Revolution (Review)
This is the second album from UK progressive/power metal band All Seeing Eyes. Following on from 2014’s Trinity Road and 2021’s Reinventing Time comes the new record from All Seeing Eye…
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November 22, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Voidceremony – Abditum (Review) wp.me/p3zRmN-hHr

Voidceremony have presented us with a surprisingly captivating and compelling version of their death #metal insanity. It’s tech death, recognisably so, but manages to do its own thing within this crowded style

#deathmetal #techdeath #metalsky
Voidceremony – Abditum (Review)
This is the second album from US death metallers Voidceremony. Following on 2023’s enjoyable Threads of Unknowing, Abditum contains 30 minutes of complex technical death metal wizardry. As mu…
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November 22, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Old Night – Mediterranean Melancholy (Review) wp.me/p3zRmN-hH5

The well-crafted songs are vibrantly melancholic, existing as three-dimensional exemplars of #doom #metal majesty

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Old Night – Mediterranean Melancholy (Review)
Old Night are a Croatian doom metal band and this is their fourth album. 2017’s Pale Cold Irrelevance and 2019’s A Fracture in the Human Soul were both great records, so I was pleased a…
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November 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Civil Service – Dark /// (Review) wp.me/p3zRmN-hGU

A warm and welcoming post-rock style that is absolutely of the genre, yet is also simply better than the output of the average post-rock act

#rock #postrock #metalsky
Civil Service – Dark /// (Review)
This is the second album from UK post-rock band Civil Service. Civil Service offer up 46 minutes of post-rock on Dark ///. It’s an engaging and feeling-rich form of the style that Civil Servi…
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November 18, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Depravity – Bestial Possession (Review) wp.me/p3zRmN-hDV

As far as death #metal goes, I love Depravity’s commitment to savage intensity and blasting fury, but I’m also pleased that they still find time amidst the carnage to inject their music with meaty substance

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Depravity – Bestial Possession (Review)
Depravity are an Australian death metal band and this is their third album. It’s been a while since 2018’s Evil Upheaval and 2020’s Grand Malevolence, but both records made their …
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November 18, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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1914 – Viribus Unitis (Review) wp.me/p3zRmN-hGD

1914 have continued their upward trend, producing what is quite possibly their best work yet

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1914 – Viribus Unitis (Review)
1914 are a Ukrainian blackened death/doom band and this is their fourth album. It’s great to have a new album from this well-regarded band, (check out some of their past work here, here, and …
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November 16, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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The Hyena Kill – Collapse (Review) wp.me/p3zRmN-hEW

A strong record, especially when it has the time to get under your skin. The songs are well-written and would have been perfectly at home in the 90s, but retain The Hyena Kill’s core personality

#rock #shoegaze #alternative #metalsky
The Hyena Kill – Collapse (Review)
The Hyena Kill are an alternative rock band from the UK and this is their second album. I really liked 2021’s A Disconnect, so was pleased to see Collapse appear. The Hyena Kill have produced…
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November 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Lamp of Murmuur – The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy (Review) wp.me/p3zRmN-hEn

The icy riffs, symphonic keyboards, and cutthroat screams all conspire to create something greater than the sum of its parts

#metal #blackmetal #metalsky
Lamp of Murmuur – The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy (Review)
This is the fourth album from US solo black metal band Lamp of Murmuur. The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy is the follow up to 2023’s well-received Saturnian Bloodstorm. The latter was a record t…
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November 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Chairmaker – Leviathan Carcass (Review) wp.me/p3zRmN-hEN

A feast of #grindcore with a side order of absolute destruction. Devastatingly good fun. Assuming you like having your head repeatedly stamped on over and over and over and over again

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Chairmaker – Leviathan Carcass (Review)
This is the debut album from UK solo grindcore band Chairmaker. When an album is recommended for fans of Pig Destroyer and Agoraphobic Nosebleed, I have to at least spare it more than a cursory gla…
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November 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM