Here are my favourite Top 50 Albums Of The Year For 2025.
This was another outstanding year for some amazing and epic records that were released. Hope you like the albums that I've chosen here as it was really quite a hard list to put together which they always are.
I want to thank you all for reading the blog on a daily basis and letting me air my views on releases within the world of Doom, Sludge and Stoner Metal.
Huge Thanks to Frazer Jones at Desert Psychlist for his never-ending support and words of encouragement. Enjoy Your Retirement Frazer. You've earned it. Special thanks should also goto S Patrick Brooks, Marty Harvey and Gizmo for having my back throughout the year.
Thanks to the awesome contributions from Håkan Nyman and Jon McGough for their superb reviews and contributions to the blog this year.
Honourable mentions and thanks to Edd JR Saylor, Matthew Thomas, Todd Stealey, Steve Rodger, Mel Lie, Doomcakes, Stevie Reek, James Marshall and Bill Goodman for their support as well.
I must also give a shout out to the Bands, Labels and PR Reps who helped me be aware of albums or bands that I may have missed.
Check my list out for the best sounds I've heard all year.
1 - Slomatics - Atomicult
2 - Beastwars - The Ship // The Sea
3 - Howling Giant - Crucible And Ruin
4 - Modder - Destroying Ourselves For A Place In The Sun
5 - Pelican - Flickering Resonance
6 - Space Witch - Mountians Of Neptune
7 - Alphawhores - You Can Come Out Now
8 - Breath - Brahman
9 - Fuzznaut - Resistant Spirit
10 - Moon Destroys - She Walks By Moonlight
11 - Museum Of Light - Diviner
12 - Sisters - Wings Of Deliverance
13 - Insomniac - Om Moksha Ritam
14 - Burning Sister - Ghosts
15 - Slow Crush - Thirst
16 - Goya - In The Dawn Of November
17 - Kal-El - Astral Voyager Vol 1
18 - U.S. Christmas - Cannibals Of Unaka
19 - Conan - Violence Dimension
20 - Borracho - Ouroboros
21 - Torso - Annihilation Day
22 - SOM - Let The Light In
23 - Dozer - Rewind to Return: Rarities, Singles and B-Sides
24 - Margarita Witch Cult - Strung Out In Hell
25 - Bloodwood - Dark Simulator
26 - Bloodhorse - A Malign Star
27 - Demonic Death Judge - Absolutely Launched
28 - Bogwife - From Ashes
29 - Holy Roller - Rat King
30 - Grin - Acid Gods
31 - Maniard - Fragments Of Time
32 - Mountain Of Misery - Shades Of The Ashes
33 - HÅNDGEMENG - Satanic Panic Attack
34 - PIECE - Ramblers Axe
35 - Komatsu - A Breakfast For Champions
36 - Anamouth - Distant Skies And The Ocean Flies
37 - Melvins - Thunderball
38 - Yawning Man - Pavvement Ends
39 - Pigs x7 - Death Hilarious
40 - AAWKS - On Through The Sky Maze
41 - Miss Lava - Under A Black Sun
42 - Pyres - Yun
43 - Red Eye - III
44 - Bronco - Bronco
45 - Kaiser - 2nd Sound
46 - Icarus Burns - Icarus Burns
47 - Vape Warlök - ...And His Skull Shall Make My Bong
48 - Yawning Balch - Volume Three
49 - SoftSun - Eternal Sunrise
50 - SKOGSKULT - SKOGSKULT