My Non-Metal AOTY list (3/4)

2 Skunk Anansie The Painful Truth
Rock

Skin delivers again, and again and again. Pick whatever track and it's a banger. So raw, real and with no punches pulled.

YT link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjzZqHc0ZfI&list=OLAK5uy_l47ERzB45bSDcEOc8EkfauGGsZvMj4xgM&index=1

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My Non-Metal AOTY 2025 list (2/4)

3 AFI Silver Bleeds the Black Sun
Darkwave, Post-Punk

Evaluate each band/artist by the album you are listening to, anything before or after can wait ;)

Very 80s goth, with Sisters, Mission, Bowie and Bauhaus vibes with a modern feel. Filled with earworms galore!

Bandcamp link
https://runforcoverrecords.bandcamp.com/album/silver-bleeds-the-black-sun

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My Metal AOTY (7/7)

1 Stick to your Guns Keep Planting Flowers

Incredibly short, but it spares nothing in the performance. I'd much rather have the complaint that something was too short than it had fillers.

This is my most played album & no matter what I am doing at the time it never stays in the background. It always pulls me full force into the emotions & there's one song that always leaves me raw, in a cathartic way.

If NIN was the emotional "noise inside my head" in my twenties, then this is the soundtrack of my complex emotional processing for 2025

YT link (sorry)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcAxQoLcG5o

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My Metal AOTY (6/7)

2 Dimscua Dust Eater

This blackened doom is brutal in the best way possible. An instant hit as soon as it started playing and when you find out more information it becomes understandable & even more soul wrenching.

This really did fight hard to be number one, and it was so hard to put it onto second place

Bandcamp link
https://dimscua.bandcamp.com/album/dust-eater-2

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My Metal AOTY (5/7)

3 Battlesnake Dawn of the Exultants and the Hunt for the Shepherd

This is feel good metal artistry that manages to take itself really seriously, but also not seriously at all.

Epic feel good with killer earworms that will leave you grinning for days.

Shout out to the band for having Samuel Frank do the album cover artwork, it's just as epic as the music.

Bandcamp link
https://battlesnakeband.bandcamp.com/album/dawn-of-the-exultants-and-the-hunt-for-the-shepherd

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My Metal AOTY (4/7)

4 King Kraken March of the Gods

Old school vibe, but with a modern feel. This South Wales band hits hard with an album so full of monsters and riffs that it's hard not to grin and holler along ;)

Songlink
https://album.link/s/3fGvepcXzJacqjvQ7E5sN6

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My Metal AOTY (3/7)

As it's the top 5, single posts with a music link & something about each from here on in ;)

5 Paradise Lost Ascension - Doom

I might surprise people by having this here, but there are no free rides with my AOTY

Good solid PL stuff, a bit long with the extended version, good but there are better options in the higher ranks of this list ;)

Bandcamp link
https://paradiselostofficial.bandcamp.com/album/ascension

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My Metal AOTY (2/7)

The second part of my albums & EPs

15 to 6

15 Arch Enemy Blood Dynasty - Death
14 Wyatt E Zamāru Ultu Qereb Ziqquratu Part 1 - Doom
13 Evoken - Mendacium - Funeral doom
12 Desert Smoke Desert Smoke - Instrumental
11 Dawn of Solace Affliction Vortex - Melodic doom

10 Bell Witch & Ariel Ruin Stygian Bough Volume II - Funeral doom
9 Ghost Skeletá - Metal
8 Rivers of Nihil Rivers of Nihil - Death
7 Orbit culture - Death Above Life - Death
6 Lorna Shore - I Feel The Black Festering Within Me - Death

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