Choco617's AOTY 2025 - Lemmy.World

At last, I have assembled my album of the year list for 2025! I had a lot of fun picking out albums I was really excited about, and then a really hard time sorting them from there. So don’t put toooo much stock in any album’s relative position: I wholeheartedly recommend all of these. To that end, I also opted to consolidate everything into this single list this year (no differentiation for high/low profile bands or EPs). With no further ado: 1. Fallujah - Xenotaph (USA-CA) [https://fallujah.bandcamp.com/album/xenotaph] 2. Recorruptor - Sorrow Will Drown Us All (USA-MI) [https://recorruptor.bandcamp.com/album/sorrow-will-drown-us-all] 3. Demon King - Death Knell (USA-TN) [https://demonking.bandcamp.com/album/death-knell] 4. Cryptopsy - An Insatiable Violence (CAN-QC) [https://cryptopsyofficial.bandcamp.com/album/an-insatiable-violence] 5. Revocation - New Gods, New Masters (USA-MA) [https://revocationband.bandcamp.com/album/new-gods-new-masters] 6. Exterminatus - Echoes From A Distant Star, Pt. 1 (CAN-BC) [https://exterminatus.bandcamp.com/album/echoes-from-a-distant-star-part-i] 7. Sandvvitch - Sandvvitch (USA-NV) [https://sandvvitch.bandcamp.com/album/sandvvitch] 8. Ben’s Raincoat - Radiant Cliffs [EP] (USA-NE) [https://bensraincoat.bandcamp.com/album/radiant-cliffs] 9. Wrath of Belial - Embers of Dead Empires (Denmark) [https://wrathofbelial.bandcamp.com/album/embers-of-dead-empires] 10. Retromorphosis - Psalmus Mortis (Sweden) [https://retromorphosisofficial.bandcamp.com/album/psalmus-mortis] 11. Pathogenic - Crowned in Corpses (USA-MA) [https://pathogenic.bandcamp.com/album/crowned-in-corpses] 12. Synaptic - Enter the Void (Germany) [https://synapticmetal.bandcamp.com/album/enter-the-void] 13. Fleshbore - Painted Paradise (USA-IN) [https://fleshboreband.bandcamp.com/album/painted-paradise] 14. Celestial Scourge - Observers of the Inevitable (Norway) [https://celestialscourge.bandcamp.com/album/observers-of-the-inevitable] 15. Hypermass - Apparition Day [EP] (Norway) [https://hypermass.bandcamp.com/album/apparition-day] 16. Avatar of Hate - Necrotic Awakening (Romania) [https://avatarofhateofficial.bandcamp.com/album/necrotic-awakening] 17. Pravitas - The Parasitic Divine (UK-ENG) [https://pravitas.bandcamp.com/album/the-parasitic-divine] 18. Rivers of Nihil - Rivers of Nihil (USA-PA) [https://riversofnihil.bandcamp.com/album/rivers-of-nihil] 19. Unaligned - A Form Beyond (USA-FL) [https://unaligned-label.bandcamp.com/album/a-form-beyond] 20. Human Time - Цена совершенства ([The] Price of Perfection) (Russia) [https://circleflamerecords.bandcamp.com/album/price-of-perfection] 21. Eschaton - Techtalitarian (USA-CT/MA) [https://eschaton-label.bandcamp.com/album/techtalitarian] 22. Allodium - Dream Labyrinth (USA-CA) [https://youtu.be/YLfTaJ9zqmE] 23. Nightbearer - Defiance (Germany) [https://nightbearer.bandcamp.com/album/defiance] 24. Unknown Subject - Democracies Die! [EP] (Finland) [https://unknownsbjct.bandcamp.com/album/democracies-die] 25. Wretched - Decay (USA-NC) [https://wretchednc.bandcamp.com/album/decay] Honorable mention: I’d definitely classify this as some sort of deathcore, but this year I absolutely could not stop listening to Shadow of Intent - Imperium Delirium (USA-CT/RI) [https://shadowofintent7.bandcamp.com/album/imperium-delirium] Let me know what you feel I’ve left out, including the zanier stuff (looking at you, Frogg). I know I’ve scaled back my posting to just weekly roundups, but I’m still voraciously consuming as much as I can, so I’m eager to discover any more gems that managed to escape my notice - there are always inevitably some!

New Releases This Week, 2026.1.2 - Lemmy.World

Last release of 2025 is in, it’s officially time to work on our AOTY lists! - Beyond the Structure - Born of Naught (Estonia) [https://beyondthestructure.bandcamp.com/album/born-of-naught-album-2025] (12.31.25) - Krishna’s Cult - A Dreamer in a Dead World (CAN-QC) [https://krishnascult.bandcamp.com/album/a-dreamer-in-a-dead-world] (1.2.26)

New Releases This Week, 2025.5.16 - Lemmy.World

- Horror of Pestilence - ♾️ [EP] (China) [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mwWjVZXHWA7loAi3KxkFSbkiefFdSqROc] - No Raza - Tyrona (Colombia) [https://norazametal.bandcamp.com/album/tyrona] - Pandemia - Darkened Devotion (Czechia) [https://hammerheart.bandcamp.com/album/darkened-devotion]

New Releases This Week, 2025.5.9 - Lemmy.World

- Behemoth - The Shit ov God (Poland) [https://behemoth.bandcamp.com/album/the-shit-ov-god] (black metal, or blackened death maybe, but big band) - For the Pyres - At the Pyres of Sin (Sweden) [https://gruesomerecords.bandcamp.com/album/at-the-pyres-of-sin] (not suuper tech, but pretty good) - Ominous Ruin - Requiem (USA-CA) [https://ominousruin.bandcamp.com/album/requiem] (female vocalist now apparently?! hell yeah) - Sphere - Inferno (Poland) [https://damnedsphere.bandcamp.com/album/inferno] - Vampyre Deth - Chaotic Destruction [EP] (USA-TX) [https://vampyredeth.bandcamp.com/album/chaotic-destruction] (one-man project, don’t judge it by the name)

New Releases This Week, 2025.5.2 - Lemmy.World

Oops late, but light week for tech anyway: - Phyrxian Sun - Overlord (USA-MI) [https://phyrxiansun.bandcamp.com/album/overlord]

Rivers of Nihil - American Death (USA-PA, 2025) - Lemmy.World

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/34304780 [https://sh.itjust.works/post/34304780] > Rivers of Nihil, American Death > > Ngl, my neck is fucked now because I was actually banging my head and pulled a fucking muscle. > > Worth it

Mods are drunk, post/comment your off-genre recommendations! - Lemmy.World

Dream Evil - The Book of Heavy Metal (Sweden, 2004) In 2005 or so, when media consumption was a different animal, I found that sampler CDs were a great way to explore a bunch of bands at once without committing to a whole album of each. I went to my local CD Warehouse and Cheapo and snapped up a couple generations of Identity and Metal For The Masses - most of the stuff that resonated was metalcore and death metal (Heaven Shall Burn, God Forbid, Arch Enemy, etc.), but this weird power metal meta-track also stuck in my head. Also, it turns out the music video is way better than I could have imagined.

Mods are drunk, post/comment your off-genre recommendations! - Lemmy.World

Ingested - Titanomachy (UK-ENG, 2013) This is firmly in their “slamming deathcore” period, best track of theirs imo (though the new album slaps too)

Elitist - Sustaining Collapse (Denmark, 2023) - Lemmy.World

Vitriol - He Will Fight Savagely (USA-OR, 2024) - Lemmy.World