Best Metal Albums 2025

Steven Wilson – The Overview (2025) Album Review

Album Released: March 14, 2025 Wilhelm Salsus Massey

Progressive Rock

8.7 Great

Pathogenic – Crowned In Corpses (2025) Review

Album Released: February 7, 2025 Nick "Chugley Chartington"

Progressive Deathdjent

8.6 Great

Dream Theater – Parasomnia (2025) Review

Album Released: February 7, 2025 Wilhelm Salsus Massey

Progressive Metal

8.5 Great

Mirar – Ascension (2025) Review

Album Released: January 1, 2025 Nick "Chugley Chartington"

Extreme Thall

8.4 Great

Tremonti – The End Will Show Us How (2025) Review

Album Released: January 10, 2025 Nick "Chugley Chartington"

Base Metal

8.3 Great

Sometime In February – Where Mountains Hide (2025) Album Review

Album Released: March 21, 2025 Wilhelm Salsus Massey

Instrumental Progressive Metal

8.2 Great

Voidfallen – The Rituals of Resilience (2025) Album Review

Album Released: February 21, 2025 Wilhelm Salsus Massey

Melodic Death Metal

8.2 Great

All That Remains – AntiFragile (2025) Review

Album Released: January 31, 2025 Nick "Chugley Chartington"

Metalcore

8.2 Great

Nox Doloris – Konstantinopolis (2025) Review

Album Released: January 16, 2025 Nick "Chugley Chartington"

Symphonic Blackened Death Metal

8.2 Great

Obscura – A Sonication (2025) Review

Album Released: February 7, 2025 Nick "Chugley Chartington"

Melodic Technical Death Metal

8.1 Great

Tiktaalika – Gods Of Pangaea (2025) Album Review

Album Released: March 14, 2025 Wilhelm Salsus Massey

Progressive Metal

8.1 Great

Jinjer – Duél (2025) Review

Album Released: February 7, 2025 Nick "Chugley Chartington"

Progressive Metalcore

8 Great

The Great Old Ones – Kadath (2025) Review

Album Released: January 24, 2025 Nick "Chugley Chartington"

Melodic Black Metal

8 Great

Hazzerd – The 3rd Dimension (2025) Review

Album Released: January 17, 2025 Nick "Chugley Chartington"

Melodic Thrash Metal

7.9 Good

Confess – Destination Addiction (2025) Review

Album Released: January 31, 2025 Nick "Chugley Chartington"

Death Metal

7.9 Good

Enemy Inside – Venom (2025) Review

Album Released: February 28, 2025 Wilhelm Salsus Massey

Metalcore

7.9 Good

Synaptic – Enter the Void (2025) Review

Album Released: January 15, 2025 Nick "Chugley Chartington"

Technical Death Metal

7.9 Good

Estuarine – Corporeal Furnace (2025) Review

Album Released: January 1, 2025 Nick "Chugley Chartington"

Blackened Deathgrind

7.8 Good

Mechina – Bellum Interruptum (2025) Review

Album Released: March 23, 2025 Nick "Chugley Chartington"

Symphonic Industrial Metal

7.8 Good

Rioghan – Kept (2025) Review

Album Released: February 14, 2025 Wilhelm Salsus Massey

Progressive Metal

7.8 Good

Bleeding Through – NINE (2025) Review

Album Released: February 14, 2025 Nick "Chugley Chartington"

Metalcore

7.8 Good

Veil Of Conspiracy – Shape of Grief (2025) Review

Album Released: January 10, 2025 Wilhelm Salsus Massey

Progressive Doom Metal

7.8 Good

Lacuna Coil – Sleepless Empire (2025) Review

Album Released: February 14, 2025 Wilhelm Salsus Massey

Base Metal

7.8 Good

Serenity in Murder – Timeless Reverie (2025) Review

Album Released: February 28, 2025 Nick "Chugley Chartington"

Symphonic Melodic Blackened Death Metal

7.7 Good

KLAW – Gods and Creators (2025) Review

Album Released: January 31, 2025 Nick "Chugley Chartington"

Thrash Metal

7.7 Good

Architects – The Sky, The Earth & All Between (2025) Album Review

Album Released: February 28, 2025 Nick "Chugley Chartington"

Metalcore

7.6 Good

Dawn of Ouroboros – Bioluminescence (2025) Review

Album Released: March 7, 2025 Nick "Chugley Chartington"

Progressive Black Metal

7.6 Good

Sulfator – Gemini (2025) Review

Album Released: January 9, 2025 Nick "Chugley Chartington"

Melodic Thrash Metal

7.6 Good

Beriedir – Liminal Spaces (2025) Review

Album Released: January 10, 2025 Wilhelm Salsus Massey

Progressive Metal

7.5 Good

The Halo Effect – March Of The Unheard (2025) Review

Album Released: January 10, 2025 Nick "Chugley Chartington"

Melodic Death Metal

7.4 Good