What better start of the new year than exploring and discovering new music, bands and genres. This band released a dual single already in October 2025 but hey what can I say. Better late...
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Yearlist 2025 – Michael
2025 unfolded as a year shaped less by bombast and more by atmosphere. Across the metal and alternative spectrum, artists leaned into texture, introspection, and emotional clarity. It became a year of deep listening...
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P€NI$LOBOTOMY – “P1$$WORLD”
Extreme metal joke projects are everywhere in 2025, but very few are built like P€NI$LOBOTOMY. On “P1$$WORLD”, four tracks and just under eight minutes of Monopoly-themed chaos become a showcase in how to make...
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Yearlist 2025 – Antonie
2025 will be the year that’s remembered with highs and lows. We lost some great musicians and icons along the way, there was a lot of drama in the music industry and of course...
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Bloody Pineapples – “Bloody Pineapples”
On paper, Bloody Pineapples should have been a throwaway curiosity. A multi-national project born out of URM collab competitions, fronting a self-declared new subgenre ‘pineapplecore’ which sounds like the kind of joke that usually...
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Kittie – “Spit XXV”
I usually approach re-recordings with a very high degree of scepticism. At best, they’re harmless; at worst, they sound like an amateur cover band murdering songs you loved in your teens. 2025 gave us...
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Avdagata – “The Apocalyptic Aeon”
Sweden has never struggled to produce great extreme metal, but every so often a band turns up that doesn’t just join the lineage, it sharpens it. Avdagata’s second full-length, “The Apocalyptic Aeon”, is exactly...
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Yearlist 2025 – Ingrid
As for most people, 2025 has been a turbulent year for me as well. Nevertheless, it has produced quite some nice albums, within the different genres where I roam. Kite – Kite on Ice...
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The Year of Evolution and Reckoning: Andy’s Top 15 of 2025
2025 has been a year of reckoning as much as a year of discovery. Legacy genres have had to decide whether they’re museum pieces or living, breathing organisms. Some chose to polish themselves into...
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Yearlist 2025 – Omer
2025 was a year of hardships—and some smaller wins. It wasn’t marked by grand success, but by endurance, persistence, and learning how to recognize progress wherever it appeared. I hope that for you, the...
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