METAL ARCHIVES has posted their annual readers poll of the top extreme metal releases of 2025.
ALBUM OF THE YEAR 2025
- Messa - The Spin: 19-7-7-1-3-2-1-2-2-0 = 782pts
- Havukruunu - Tavastland: 6-8-4-3-6-2-5-1-1-3 = 505pts
- Coroner - Dissonance Theory: 4-7-9-2-2-2-4-1-3-5 = 460pts
- Blut aus Nord - Ethereal Horizons: 4-5-5-4-3-3-3-3-5-4 = 411pts
- Blackbraid - Blackbraid III: 2-5-3-10-1-1-1-3-2-1 = 346pts
- Scimitar - Scimitarium I: 6-1-6-2-2-0-1-3-1-2 = 324pts
- Hooded Menace - Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration: 4-3-4-1-3-4-2-3-2-5 = 321pts
- Deafheaven - Lonely People with Power: 3-2-6-3-3-2-1-5-3-5 = 320pts
- Teitanblood - From the Visceral Abyss: 5-3-1-4-1-0-4-1-1-2 = 284pts
- Testament - Para Bellum: 5-3-3-1-1-1-1-1-0-2 = 266pts
- Yellow Eyes - Confusion Gate: 263pts
- Zeicrydeus - La grande hérésie: 230pts
- Imperial Triumphant - Goldstar: 219pts
- Qrixkuor - The Womb of the World: 211pts
- Black Sword Thunder Attack - Black Sword Thunder Attack: 198pts
- Helloween - Giants & Monsters: 189pts
- Evoken - Mendacium: 187pts
- One of Nine - Dawn of the Iron Shadow: 186pts
- Ancient Death - Ego Dissolution: 181pts
- Amorphis - Borderland: 173pts
- An Abstract Illusion - The Sleeping City: 172pts
- Warbringer - Wrath and Ruin: 169pts
- Saor - Amidst the Ruins: 162pts
- Castle Rat - The Bestiary: 160pts
- Dormant Ordeal - Tooth and Nail: 160pts
- Lamp of Murmuur - The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy: 156pts
- Majestica - Power Train: 153pts
- Paradise Lost - Ascension: 151pts
- Cryptopsy - An Insatiable Violence: 151pts
- Grenadier - Wolves of the Trench: 136pts
- Arkhaaik - Uihtis: 131pts
- Ghost - Skeletá: 131pts
- Pagan Altar - Never Quite Dead: 125pts
- Harakiri for the Sky - Scorched Earth: 123pts
- Avantasia - Here Be Dragons: 111pts
- Vultures Vengeance - Dust Age: 109pts
- In Mourning - The Immortal: 109pts
- 1914 - Viribus Unitis: 107pts
- Caustic Wound - Grinding Mechanism of Torment: 107pts
- Conan - Violence Dimension: 106pts
- Fer de Lance - Fires on the Mountainside: 105pts
- Floating - Hesitating Lights: 105pts
- Retromorphosis - Psalmus Mortis: 103pts
- Drudkh - Гра тіней (Shadow Play): 100pts
- Sargeist - Flame Within Flame: 100pts
- Blood Abscission - II: 98pts
- Nite - Cult of the Serpent Sun: 91pts
- Epica - Aspiral: 88pts
- Martröð - Draumsýnir eldsins: 86pts
- Century - Sign of the Storm: 85pts
- Sarastus - Agony Eternal: 85pts
- Innumerable Forms - Pain Effulgence: 81pts
- Tower - Let There Be Dark:
- Kostnatění - Přílišnost (Excess): 80pts
- Defacement - Doomed: 79pts
- Der Weg einer Freiheit - Innern: 78pts
- Wytch Hazel - V: Lamentations: 78pts
- The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Traveller Supplement 1: The Ephemeral Glades: 76pts
- Morast - Fentanyl: 76pts
- Felgrave - Otherlike Darknesses: 75pts
- Alestorm - The Thunderfist Chronicles: 74pts
- Abduction - Existentialismus: 74pts
- Katatonia - Nightmares as Extensions of the Waking State: 73pts
- Sijjin - Helljjin Combat: 72pts
- Hedonist - Scapulimancy: 71pts
- Esoctrilihum - Ghostigmatah - Spiritual Rites of the Psychopomp Abxulöm: 70pts
- Sigh - I Saw the World's End - Hangman's Hymn MMXXV: 70pts
- Helms Deep - Chasing the Dragon: 69pts
- Dead and Dripping - Nefarious Scintillations: 69pts
- Phantom - Tyrants of Wrath: 69pts
- Putridity - Morbid Ataraxia: 69pts
- Gjendød - Svekkelse: 68pts
- Shadow of Intent - Imperium Delirium: 68pts
- Deathhammer - Crimson Dawn: 67pts
- Tómarúm - Beyond Obsidian Euphoria: 67pts
- Stangarigel - Za striebornou horou: 66pts
- The Halo Effect - March of the Unheard: 66pts
- Labÿrinth - In the Vanishing Echoes of Goodbye: 65pts
- Venator - Psychodrome: 65pts
- Kauan - Wayhome: 65pts
- Fleshvessel - Obstinacy: Sisyphean Dreams Unfolded: 63pts
- In the Woods... - Otra: 61pts
- Agriculture - The Spiritual Sound: 60pts
- Violator - Unholy Retribution: 60pts
- Changeling - Changeling: 60pts
- Scardust - Souls: 60pts
- Grima - Nightside: 58pts
- Afsky - Fællesskab: 58pts
- Lik - Necro: 58pts
- Cradle of Filth - The Screaming of the Valkyries: 57pts
- Species - Changelings: 57pts
- Volahn - Popol Vuh: 56pts
- Vintersorg - Vattenkrafternas spel: 56pts
- Erocis - The Sunken Lands: 56pts
- Sodom - The Arsonist: 55pts
- Ereb Altor - Hälsingemörker: 55pts
- Hexvessel - Nocturne: 55pts
- Morild - Disse fugle får ingen at se: 55pts
- Mors Principium Est - Darkness Invisible: 54pts
- Battle Beast - Steelbound: 54pts
- Malformed - Confinement of Flesh: 54pts
- Gràb - Kremess: 52pts
- A Flock Named Murder - Incendiary Sanctum: 52pts
- Lipoma - No Cure for the Sick: 51pts
- Gruesome - Silent Echoes: 51pts
- Dynazty - Game of Faces: 50pts
- Necromaniac - Sciomancy, Malediction & Rites Abominable: 50pts
- Katla - Scandinavian Pain: 50pts
- Lethal Prayer - Sacrilege Infernus: 50pts
- Benediction - Ravage of Empires: 49pts
- Hate - Bellum Regiis: 49pts
- Lychgate - Precipice: 49pts
- Exterior Palnet - Haragma II: 49pts
- Behemoth - The Shit ov God: 49pts
- Revenge - Violation.Strife.Abominate: 49pts
- Lorna Shore - I Feel the Everblack Festering Within Me: 49pts
- Jade - Mysteries of a Flowery Dream: 48pts
- Pissgrave - Malignant Worthlessness: 48pts
- Gaahls Wyrd - Braiding the Stories: 48pts
- Whitechapel - Hymns in Dissonance: 48pts
- Elvenking - Reader of the Runes - Luna: 48pts
- Nachash - Eschaton Magicks: 48pts
- Labyrinthus Stellarum - Rift in Reality: 47pts
- Desaster - Kill All Idols: 47pts
- Allegaeon - The Ossuary Lens: 47pts
- Impurity - The Eternal Sleep: 47pts
- The Ominous Circle - Cloven Tongues of Fire: 47pts
- Owlbear - Feather & Claw: 47pts
- Spiritworld - Helldorado: 47pts
- Bloody Valkyria - In Our Home, Across the Fog: 46pts
- Gates of Dawn - III: 45pts
- Månegarm - Edsvuren: 43pts
- Sumerian Tombs - Age of Eternal Night: 43pts
- Warmoon Lord - Sacrosanct Demonopathy: 43pts
- Hagane - Top of the Tower: 43pts
- Pelican - Flickering Resonance: 43pts
- Tribunal - In Penitence and Ruin: 43pts
- ByoNoiseGenerator - Subnormal Dives: 42pts
- Bergfried - Romantik III: 42pts
- Mephitic Corpse - Sickness Attracts Sickness: 41pts
- Wings of Steel - Winds of Time: 41pts
- Theurgion - All Under Heaven: 40pts
- Angrrsth - Złudnia: 40pts
- Mechina - Bellum Interruptum: 40pts
- Waldgeflüster - Knochengesänge: 40pts
- Aran Angmar - Ordo Diabolicum: 39pts
- Nephylim - Circuition: 39pts
- Lust Hag - Irrevocably Drubbed: 38pts
- Clandestine Blaze - Consecration of the Blood: 38pts
- Condition Critical - Degeneration Chamber: 38pts
- Crimson Shadows - Whispers of War: 38pts
- Palantyr - The Ascent & the Hunger: 37pts
- Toughness - Black Respite of Oblivion: 37pts
- Blade's Edge - The Fate's Key: 37pts
- Ianthin - Pinacles austères: 37pts
- Myth Carver - Twist of Fate: 37pts
- Siege Column - Sulphur Omega: 37pts
- Trivax - The Great Satan: 37pts
- Vauruvã - Mar da Deriva: 36pts
- Gallower - Vengeance & Wrath: 36pts
- Austere - The Stillness of Dissolution: 36pts
- Karg - Marodeur: 36pts
- Medico Peste - Aesthetic of Hunger: 35pts
- Vigilhunter - Vigilhunter: 35pts
- GraveRipper - From Welkin to Tundra: 35pts
- C4 - Payback's a Bitch: 35pts
- Decline of the I - Wilhelm: 35pts
- Frost - Age of Fading and Doom: 35pts
- Noise Trail Immersion - Tutta la morte in un solo punto: 35pts
- Owls Woods Graves - Strix: 35pts
- Thormesis - Nevertheless: 35pts
- Firmament - For Centuries Alive: 34pts
- Sumac - The Film: 34pts
- Αχέροντας - Νekyia - The Necromantic Patterns: 34pts
- Eluveitie - Ànv: 34pts
- Green Carnation - A Dark Poem Part I: The Shores of Melancholia: 33pts
- Magus Lord - In the Company of Champions: 33pts
- Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Death Hilarious: 33pts
- Time Rift - In Flight: 33pts
- Weeping Sores - The Convalescence Agonies: 33pts
- Void - Forbidden Morals: 32pts
- Psychonaut - World Maker: 32pts
- Volbeat - God of Angels Trust: 32pts
- Animalize - Verminateur: 32pts
- Opia - I Welcome Thee, Eternal Sleep: 32pts
- ...and Oceans - The Regeneration Itinerary: 31pts
- Abigail Williams - A Void Within Existence: 31pts
- Nexion - Sundrung: 31pts
- Disembodiment - Spiral Crypts: 31pts
- Vile Apparition - Malignity: 31pts
- Rivers of Nihil - Rivers of Nihil: 31pts
- Kêres - Skryer of the Lighthouse: 31pts
- Malakhim - And in Our Hearts the Devil Sings: 31pts
- Primal Fear - Domination: 30pts
- Doomsday - Never Known Peace: 30pts
- Cadaver - Hymns of Misanthropy: 30pts
- Collier d'Ombre - Autumnal Fortress: 30pts
- Despised Icon - Shadow Work: 30pts
- Retador - Earëndel: 30pts
- Structure - Heritage: 30pts
- Dream Theater - Parasomnia: 29pts
- Fallujah - Xenotaph: 29pts
- Scour - Gold: 29pts
- Sacrifice - Volume Six: 29pts
- Dolmen Gate - Echoes of Ancient Tales: 29pts
- Vermilia - Karsikko: 29pts
- Cave Sermon - Fragile Wings: 29pts
- Sleep Paralysis - Sleep Paralysis: 29pts
- Veilburner - Longing for Triumph, Reeking of Tragedy: 29pts
- Sanguisugabogg - Hideous Aftermath: 28pts
- Mantar - Post Apocalyptic Depression: 28pts
- Rudra - Antithesis: 28pts
- Aeon Winds - An Ode to the Mountains: 28pts
- Faetooth - Labyrinthine: 27pts
- Hexrot - Formless Ruin of Oblivion: 27pts
- Cultic - Lore: 27pts
- The Night Flight Orchestra - Give Us the Moon: 27pts
- Chainsword - Chapter XII: 26pts
- Savage Master - Dark & Dangerous: 26pts
- Draugveil - Cruel World of Dreams and Fears: 26pts
- Aephanemer - Utopie: 26pts
- Angel of Damnation - Ethereal Blasphemy: 26pts
- Arch Enemy - Blood Dynasty: 26pts
- Décryptal - Simulacre: 26pts
- Syrinx - Time Out of Place: 26pts
- Brainblast - Colossus Suprema: 25pts
- Eschaton - Techtalitarian: 25pts
- Imprecation - Vomitum Tempestas: 25pts
- Johan Langquist - The Castle - Johan Langquist - The Castle: 25pts
- Tiktaalika - Gods of Pangaea: 25pts
- Weald & Woe - Far from the Light of Heaven: 24pts
- Hate Forest - Against All Odds: 24pts
- Helheim - HrabnaR / Ad vesa: 24pts
- Profanatica - Wreathed in Dead Angels: 24pts
- Ossuary - Abhorrent Worship: 24pts
- Primitive Man - Observance: 24pts
- Blaze - Out Through the Door: 24pts
- 人間椅子 - まほろば: 24pts
- Amalekim - Shir Hashirim: 24pts
- Hæresis - Si Vis Pacem Para Bellvm: 24pts
- Pest - Eternal Nightmares: 24pts
- Tales of Medusa - Relentless Tragedy: 24pts
- Tribal Gaze - Inveighing Brilliance: 24pts
- Sabaton - Legends: 23pts
- Machine Head - Unatoned: 23pts
- Omnium Gatherum - May the Bridges We Burn Light the Way: 23pts
- Throne - That Who Sat upon Him, Was Death: 23pts
- Killswitch Engage - This Consequence: 22pts
- Mob Rules - Rise of the Ruler: 22pts
- Morbyda - Under the Spell: 22pts
- Omegavortex - Diabolic Messiah of the New World Order: 22pts
- Acid Age - Perilous Compulsion: 22pts
- Remina - The Silver Sea: 22pts
- Sun After Dark - Tatkraft: 22pts
- Scorching Tomb - Ossuary: 21pts
- Orbit Culture - Death Above Life: 21pts
- Patristic - Catechesis: 21pts
- Sunken - Lykke: 21pts
- Malthusian - The Summoning Bell: 20pts
- Istapp - Sól tér sortna: 20pts
- Depraver - Necrocryptic Obliteration: 20pts
- Novembers Doom - Major Arcana: 20pts
- Returning - Numinous: 20pts
- Scalp - Not Worthy of Human Compassion: 20pts
- Vulvectomy - Aberrant Vaginal Gestation: 20pts
- Eternal Darkness - Eternal Darkness: 20pts
- Iron Griffin - Gate Tower: 20pts
- Inborn Suffering - Pale Grey Monochrome: 20pts
- Queen of Dreams - Subnivium: 20pts
- Valhalore - Beyond the Stars: 20pts
- Deserted Fear - Veins of Fire: 19pts
- Fauna - Ochre & Ash: 19pts
- Forbidden Temple - In the Rotting Grave: 19pts
- Pestilential Shadows - Wretch: 19pts
- Sölicitör - Enemy in Mirrors: 19pts
- The Haunted - Songs of Last Resort: 19pts
- Mean Mistreater - Do or Die: 19pts
- Proscription - Desolate Divine: 19pts
- Phrenelith - Ashen Womb: 18pts
- Kayo Dot - Every Rock, Every Half-Truth Under Reason: 18pts
- Clairvoyance - Chasm of Immurement: 18pts
- Serpentes - Desert Psalms: 18pts
- The Great Old Ones - Kadath: 18pts
- Begging for Incest - Going Postal: 18pts
- Bone Church - Deliverance: 18pts
- Dawn of Ouroboros - Bioluminescence: 18pts
- Kardashev - Alunea: 18pts
- Meth Leppard - Gatekeepers: 17pts
- Obscura - A Sonication: 16pts
- Unbirth - Asomatous Besmirchment: 16pts
- 兀突骨 - 不死 (Immortality): 16pts
- Darkenhöld - Le fléau du rocher: 16pts
- Corpus Offal - Corpus Offal: 16pts
- Rwake - The Return of Magik: 16pts
- Valdrin - Apex Violator: 16pts
- VoidCeremony - Abditum: 16pts
- Necromantic Worship - Necromantic Worship: 16pts
- Revocation - New Gods, New Masters: 16pts
- Varnheim - Void: 16pts
- Walg - V: 16pts
- Ade - Supplicium: 16pts
- Am I in Trouble? - Spectrum: 16pts
- Bear Mace - Slaves of the Wolf: 16pts
- Sacred - Fire to Ice: 16pts
- Svartsyn - Vortex of the Destroyer: 16pts
- Terror Corpse - Ash Eclipses Flesh: 16pts
- Zmarłym - Wielkie zanikanie: 16pts
- Mausoleum Gate - Space, Rituals and Magick: 16pts
- Rothadás - Töviskert... a kísértés örök érzete... lidércharang: 16pts
- Kaunis Kuolematon - Kun valo minussa kuoli: 15pts
- Cytotoxin - Biographyte: 15pts
- Barshasketh - Antinomian Asceticism: 15pts
- Sulfuric Cautery - Consummate Extirpation: 15pts
- Kexelür - Epigrama de un pasado perdido: 14pts
- Perdition Temple - Malign Apotheosis: 14pts
- Cénotaphe - Chimères: 14pts
- Kaeck - Gruwelijk onthaal: 14pts
- Morbific - Bloom of the Abnormal Flesh: 14pts
- Sepsis - Fetishize the Gutted: 14pts
- Wolvennest - Procession: 14pts
- Abyssal Vacuum - Abyssal Vacuum: 14pts
- Destruction - Birth of Malice: 14pts
- Kakothanasy - Metagonism: 14pts
- Schavot - Verstrikt in halflicht: 14pts
- Dalriada - Magvető: 14pts
- Heretoir - Solastalgia: 14pts
- Smiqra - Rɡyaɡ̇dźé!: 14pts
- Hexecutor - …Where Spirit Withers in Its Flesh Constraint: 13pts
- Lacuna Coil - Sleepless Empire: 13pts
- Grave Infestation - Carnage Gathers: 13pts
- Hirax - Faster than Death: 13pts
- Sainte Obyana du Froid - The Purest Ending: 13pts
- Synaptic - Enter the Void: 13pts
- Tombs - Feral Darkness: 13pts
- Venus Star - Smokeless Fires: 13pts
- Phobocosm - Gateway: 12pts
- Патриархь - Пророк Илия / Prorok Ilja: 12pts
- Hazzerd - The 3rd Dimension: 12pts
- Hidden Intent - Terrorform: 12pts
- Inhuman Nature - Greater than Death: 12pts
- Avatarium - Between You, God, the Devil and the Dead: 12pts
- Grey Aura - Zwart vierkant: Slotstuk: 12pts
- Kold - Det falmede håb: 12pts
- Rotten Sound - Mass Extinction: 12pts
- Tabernacle - The Iron Tabernacle: 12pts
- Harvst - Mahlstrom: 12pts
- Helstar - The Devil's Masquerade: 12pts
- Puritan Bone - Ecstasy on the Frontier of Blood: 12pts
- The Howling Void - The Glow of a Distant Fire: 12pts
- Trhä - Tahaccet ga qëcha com ibajn: 12pts
- Disarmonia Mundi - The Dormant Stranger: 11pts
- Warfield - With the Old Breed: 11pts
- Wulkanaz - Luftuz: 11pts
- Bell Witch - Stygian Bough: Volume II: 11pts
- Heteropsy - Embalming: 11pts
- SexMag - Sexorcyzm: 11pts
- Witchcraft - Idag: 10pts
- Blizaro - Light and Desolation: 10pts
- Faidra - Dies Irae: 10pts
- Hadopelagyal - Haematophoryktos: 10pts
- Midnight - Steel, Rust and Disgust: 10pts
- Autrest - Burning Embers, Forgotten Wolves: 9pts
- Drawn and Quartered - Lord of Two Horns: 9pts
- The Acacia Strain - You Are Safe from God Here: 9pts
- Anal Stabwound - Enshrining the Many-Fingered Grasp: 8pts
- Noctambulist - Noctambulist II: De droom: 8pts
- Vespéral - La mort de l'âme: 8pts
- Bloedmaan - Vampyric War in Blood: 8pts
- Vacuous - In His Blood: 7pts
- Before the Dawn - Cold Flare Eternal: 7pts
- Revelator - Light the Devil's Fire: 7pts
- Unleashed - Fire upon Your Lands: 7pts
- Urn - Demon Steel: 7pts
- Avatar - Don't Go in the Forest: 6pts
- Ninkharsag - The Black Swords of Winter: 6pts
- Ondfødt - Dimsvall: 6pts
- Stoned Jesus - Songs to Sun: 6pts
- Sulfator - Gemini: 6pts
- Wode - Uncrossing the Keys: 6pts
- Cancer - Inverted World: 5pts
- Medieval Demon - All Powers of Darkness: 5pts
- Ildaruni - Divinum Sanguinem: 4pts
- Pentagram - Lightning in a Bottle: 4pts
- Obscure Sphinx - Emovere: 4pts
- Darvaza - We Are Him: 3pts
- Ophidian Memory - Seraphim: 3pts
- Autumn's Dawn - We Lost Our Hope Along the Way: 2pts
Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-
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