Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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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