Best Metal Albums 2025

1

Steven Wilson – The Overview (2025) Album Review

Album Released: March 14, 2025 Wilhelm Salsus Massey

Progressive Rock

8.7 Great

2

Pathogenic – Crowned In Corpses (2025) Review

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

Progressive Deathdjent

8.6 Great

3

Dream Theater – Parasomnia (2025) Review

Album Released: February 7, 2025 Wilhelm Salsus Massey

Progressive Metal

8.5 Great

4

Mirar – Ascension (2025) Review

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

Extreme Thall

8.4 Great

5

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

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

Base Metal

8.3 Great

6

Rivers of Nihil – Rivers of Nihil (2025) Album Review

Album Released: May 30, 2025 Nick 'Chugley Chartington'

Progressive Death Metal

8.3 Great

7

Aversed – Erasure of Color (2025) Album Review

Album Released: March 21, 2025 Nick 'Chugley Chartington'

Progressive Death Metal

8.2 Great

8

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

Album Released: March 21, 2025 Wilhelm Salsus Massey

Instrumental Progressive Metal

8.2 Great

9

Voidfallen – The Rituals of Resilience (2025) Album Review

Album Released: February 21, 2025 Wilhelm Salsus Massey

Melodic Death Metal

8.2 Great

10

Nox Doloris – Konstantinopolis (2025) Review

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

Symphonic Blackened Death Metal

8.2 Great

11

All That Remains – AntiFragile (2025) Review

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

Metalcore

8.2 Great

12

Tiktaalika – Gods Of Pangaea (2025) Album Review

Album Released: March 14, 2025 Wilhelm Salsus Massey

Progressive Metal

8.1 Great

13

Obscura – A Sonication (2025) Review

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

Melodic Technical Death Metal

8.1 Great

14

Katatonia – Nightmares as Extensions of the Waking State (2025) Album Review

Album Released: June 6, 2025 Nick 'Chugley Chartington'

Progressive Gothcore

8 Great

15

Jinjer – Duél (2025) Review

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

Progressive Metalcore

8 Great

16

The Great Old Ones – Kadath (2025) Review

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

Melodic Black Metal

8 Great

17

Hazzerd – The 3rd Dimension (2025) Review

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

Melodic Thrash Metal

7.9 Good

18

Whitechapel – Hymns in Dissonance (2025) Review

Album Released: March 21, 2025 Nick 'Chugley Chartington'

Deathcore

7.9 Good

19

Enemy Inside – Venom (2025) Review

Album Released: February 28, 2025 Wilhelm Salsus Massey

Metalcore

7.9 Good

20

Confess – Destination Addiction (2025) Review

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

Death Metal

7.9 Good

21

Synaptic – Enter the Void (2025) Review

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

Technical Death Metal

7.9 Good

22

Estuarine – Corporeal Furnace (2025) Review

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

Blackened Deathgrind

7.8 Good

23

Cradle of Filth – The Screaming Of The Valkyries (2025) Album Review

Album Released: March 21, 2025 Nick 'Chugley Chartington'

Melodic Gothened Death Metal

7.8 Good

24

Warbringer – Wrath And Ruin (2025) Review

Album Released: March 14, 2025 Nick 'Chugley Chartington'

Thrash Metal

7.8 Good

25

Mechina – Bellum Interruptum (2025) Review

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

Symphonic Industrial Metal

7.8 Good

26

Rioghan – Kept (2025) Review

Album Released: February 14, 2025 Wilhelm Salsus Massey

Progressive Metal

7.8 Good

27

Bleeding Through – NINE (2025) Review

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

Metalcore

7.8 Good

28

Lacuna Coil – Sleepless Empire (2025) Review

Album Released: February 14, 2025 Wilhelm Salsus Massey

Base Metal

7.8 Good

29

Veil Of Conspiracy – Shape of Grief (2025) Review

Album Released: January 10, 2025 Wilhelm Salsus Massey

Progressive Doom Metal

7.8 Good

30

KLAW – Gods and Creators (2025) Review

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

Thrash Metal

7.7 Good

31

Serenity in Murder – Timeless Reverie (2025) Review

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

Symphonic Melodic Blackened Death Metal

7.7 Good

32

Nite – Cult of the Serpent Sun (2025) Album Review

Album Released: March 14, 2025 Nick 'Chugley Chartington'

Blackened Heavy Metal

7.6 Good

33

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

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

Metalcore

7.6 Good

34

Sulfator – Gemini (2025) Review

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

Melodic Thrash Metal

7.6 Good

35

Dawn of Ouroboros – Bioluminescence (2025) Review

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

Progressive Black Metal

7.6 Good

36

Beriedir – Liminal Spaces (2025) Review

Album Released: January 10, 2025 Wilhelm Salsus Massey

Progressive Metal

7.5 Good

37

Dreadnaught – Shutdown In A Heartbeat (2025) Review

Album Released: January 7, 2025 Nick 'Chugley Chartington'

Melodic Thrash Metal

7.4 Good

38

Legado de una Tragedia – Lovecraft (2025) Review

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

Symphonic Power Metal

7.4 Good

39

Theophonos – Allegheny Rains (2025) Review

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

Extreme Black Metal

7.4 Good

40

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

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

Melodic Death Metal

7.4 Good

41

March of Scylla – ANDROMEDA (2025) Review

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

Post Metal

7.3 Good

42

RUDRA – Antithesis (2025) Review

Album Released: January 14, 2025 Nick 'Chugley Chartington'

Melodic Black Metal

7.3 Good

43

Arion – The Light That Burns The Sky (2025) Review

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

Symphonic Power Metal

7.3 Good

44

Patriarkh – ПРОРОК ИЛИЯ (Prophet Ilja) (2025) Review

Album Released: January 3, 2025 Nick 'Chugley Chartington'

Black Metal

7.3 Good

45

Darko US – DETHMASK 3 (2025) Review

Album Released: February 5, 2025 Nick 'Chugley Chartington'

Horrorcore

7.3 Good

46

Killswitch Engage – This Consequence (2025) Review

Album Released: February 21, 2025 Nick 'Chugley Chartington'

Metalcore

7.2 Good

47

Stick To Your Guns – Severed Forever (2025) Review

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

Metalcore

7.1 Good

48

Eidola – Mend (2025) Review

Album Released: January 17, 2025 Wilhelm Salsus Massey

Post Hardcore

7 Good

49

Ex Deo – Year Of The Four Emperors (2025) Review

Album Released: January 10, 2025 Wilhelm Salsus Massey

Symphonic Death Metal

7 Good

50

Dragonknight – Legions (2025) Review

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

Power Metal

6.9 Fine

51

Thy Kingdom Will Burn – The Loss and Redemption (2025) Review

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

Melodic Death Metal

6.9 Fine

52

The Night Flight Orchestra – Give Us The Moon (2025) Review

Album Released: January 31, 2025 Wilhelm Salsus Massey

Rock

6.8 Fine

53

Lord Agheros – Anhedonia (2025) Review

Album Released: January 3, 2025 Nick 'Chugley Chartington'

Gothic Black Metal

6.7 Fine

54

Plaguewielder – IN DUST & ASH (2025) Review

Album Released: January 8, 2025 Nick 'Chugley Chartington'

Black Metal

6.6 Fine