First of all, Happy Newyear, wishing you all a healthy, blessed and prosperous 2026.

Thanks for your support over the past year, we really appreciate that. The past year has brought us many nice new releases, new bands and nice concerts / festivals. We expect 2025 to be even better!

Anyway, a little bit later: we are having each staff member of our team list their choices for The Top 10 Best Albums Of 2025. (In no particular order).

Sean:

1. Demon Hunter “There Was A Light Here”
2. Seth Davey “Words In The Wounds”
3. Tremonti “The End Will Show Us How”
4. Majestica “Power Train”
5. Dynamis “Byzantine Metal”
6. Stryper “The Greatest Gift Of All”
7. Igorrr “Amen”
8. Signum Regis “The Eyes of Power”
9. Cosmic Cathedral “Deep Water”
10. Starmen “Starmenized II”

John:

1. Adorned Graves – Wouta (melodic,thrashy doom)
2. Hell’s Enemy – No Dawn for Demon Kind (death metal)
3. Wisdom in Chains split ep (with Evergreen Terrace)
4. Silence the Echo – Liberation
5. Eluveite- Ànv
6. Adorned Graves – Dream I (80s metal)
7. Hell’s Enemy – West of Eden (ambient/atmospheric black metal)
8. Iron Savior – Reforged -Machine World
9. Biohazard – Death of Me (ep)
10. Demon Hunter – There Was a Light Here

Thrashboy:

1 Majestica “Power Train”
2 Stryper “The Greatest Gift Of All”
3 Demon Hunter “There Was A Light Here”
4 Eluveite – Ànv
5 Amorphis – Borderland
6 The Comancheres – A Decade In The Mirror
7 My Silent Wake – MMV – MMXXV
8 Hesychast – For Whom We Sing New Troparia
9 In Mourning – The Immortal
10 The Awakening – The Awakening

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What Were Your Favorite Albums Of 2025?