By now you have all grown sick of #aoty #aoty2025 lists, right? Bear with us, we have one more for you to suffer through! 😁 Here are the 10 #metal releases that hit us the hardest, in alphabetical order. This wasn’t exactly easy as 2025 was full of new high quality material.

#DeathKommander
Never To Grow Old

#gaahlswyrd
Braiding The Stories

#gorekaust
Fleshcross

#gravehex
Vermian Death

#gruesome
Silent Echoes

#inhumancondition
Mind Trap

#Malthusian
The Summoning Bell

#proscription
Desolate Divine

#sijjin
Helljjin Combat

#teitanblood
From the Visceral Abyss

#monthlylastfm for January 2021

Top 8 monthly artists for Halbeard
1. #Ezkaton (51 plays)
2. #Stworz (49 plays)
3. #Saor (34 plays)
4. #DeathKommander (31 plays)
5. #Zarathustra (28 plays)
6. #Sørgelig (25 plays)
7. #TemplumAnimaMorti (23 plays)
8. #sacrificiumcarmen (21 plays)

101 different artists in this time period