The Best Metal Albums of 2025
Every 2025 record the editors have reviewed, from the highest score down.
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8.5
Cryptopsy
An Insatiable Violence
Nine albums deep and still the fastest room in Quebec.
Rafael Quintero
Aug 13, 2026
8.5
Whitechapel
Hymns in Dissonance
They put the clean singing away and remembered how to scare people.
Jonah Pike
Apr 21, 2026
8.0
Blackbraid
Blackbraid III
A trilogy closed with a plateau instead of a summit.
Eirik Solvang
Jul 1, 2026
8.0
Sodom
The Arsonist
Analogue drums, four decades in, and nowhere to play it.
Declan Rourke
May 16, 2026