{"id":384524,"date":"2026-01-03T00:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T00:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/384524\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T00:11:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T00:11:14","slug":"top-10-heaviest-2025-albums-that-i-will-continue-to-play-non-stop-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/384524\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Heaviest 2025 Albums That I Will Continue to Play Non-Stop in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

The landscape of metal was vast and impressive over the last twelve months of 2025, and there were so many great heavy albums that stood out. <\/p>\n

Before we get deep in the throes of 2026, let\u2019s take a look back at some of the best heavy albums from 2025 that I will continue to play non-stop as this year goes forward. <\/p>\n

\u2018Private Music\u2019 by Deftones <\/p>\n

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The nu-gaze gods returned in 2025 with a brand new album, five years in the making, and it absolutely did not disappoint<\/a>. It bursts with fast moments, and then slows down time like a plane coming in for a hard landing.<\/p>\n

Private Music reunited the band with producer Nick Raskulinecz, who worked on both Diamond Eyes (2010) and Koi No Yokan (2012), and it\u2019s very obvious. The tones here are similar to those albums, with big contrasts of bright and deep sounds.<\/p>\n

\u2018Lonely People with Power\u2019 by Deafhaven <\/p>\n

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Deafheaven is a band that, every time I think they can\u2019t possibly top themselves\u2026 they just do. The band\u2019s 2025 album, Lonely People with Power<\/a>, is a masterclass, but it\u2019s a masterclass in what they do, specifically. Because this band is practically genre-less. No one, and I mean NO ONE, sounds like Deafheaven. You can call them \u201cblackgaze\u201d if you want, but even within that definition, they stand alone in their sound.<\/p>\n

So what makes Lonely People with Power such a perfect album? It\u2019s the intentionality. The way you can distinctly hear what they\u2019re doing and how expertly they accomplish it. It\u2019s a collection of heavy musical art that was truly nurtured.<\/p>\n

\u2018Flesh Stays Together\u2019 by Dying wish <\/p>\n

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Dying Wish f***s SO HARD.<\/p>\n

I have been saying for years that no one is doing with metalcore what Dying Wish does. Their new album, Flesh Stays Together, makes me feel so vindicated. It\u2019s brutal hardcore<\/a> infused with heavy metal precision and breakdowns that could crumble Mount Hood.<\/p>\n

\u2018I Feel the Everblack Festering Within Me\u2019 by Lorna Shore <\/p>\n

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I\u2019m going to call this, easily, my favorite deathcore album of the year. Certainly, I won\u2019t deny being a tad biased toward these guys<\/a>, but I feel justified in saying that this record is flawless. On Everblack, we find the band in peak form, amping up those killer solos and building on their symphonic elements. All the while, frontman Will Ramos took advantage of the opportunity to write lyrics that are more personal and candid.<\/p>\n

This is something, I feel strongly, should push deathcore forward, into more mature spaces, and I believe this is the only band that could have done that.<\/p>\n

\u2018Goldstar\u2019 by Imperial triumphant<\/p>\n

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New York City\u2019s experimental aficionados torched the metal scene in 2025 with their new Speakeasy Deathjazz album, Goldstar.<\/p>\n

From its first track to its last, this record is profoundly unique. Some moments feel dangerously unrestrained. Others warmly walk you through a beautiful corridor of glittering sounds while easing your mind around the chaos taking place. Collectively, it is nothing short of phenomenal.<\/p>\n

\u2018Inveighing Brilliance\u2019 by Tribal Gaze<\/p>\n

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Tribal Gaze is fascinating. In five years, they\u2019ve gone from just forming as a band in Texas to making this masterpiece of a sophomore album, Inveighing Brilliance.<\/p>\n

I vividly remember listening to it for the first time in the Las Vegas airport and being just baffled at how these dudes crafted a death metal album worthy of envy from even the most dedicated genre icons. This is skull-crushing music at its finest.<\/p>\n

\u2018Hideous Aftermath\u2019 by Sanguisugabogg <\/p>\n

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In a year when metal saw major growth, it\u2019s important that we include Ohio\u2019s Sanguisugabogg in the conversation. These dudes have been cranking out some of the best modern goregrind for years.<\/p>\n

Then, they fire Hideous Aftermath onto the field, slaughtering everything in its path<\/a> with dark, deathy riffs. If their early stuff was like Cannibal Holocaust, this is some Texas Chain Saw Massacre s*** right here.<\/p>\n

\u2018Spire of Fear\u2019 by King Yosef <\/p>\n

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Your ears are just not ready for the industrial-core sounds that King Yosef is cooking up. The PNW native has been honing his craft for years<\/a>. It\u2019s all led to this moment, his 2025 album, Spire of Fear. It\u2019s slightly blackened and chock-full of breakdowns, but never loses sight of its purpose: to thoroughly and unconditionally, f**k you up.<\/p>\n

\u2018Discipline & Punish\u2019 by Cold Steel<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s been less than two months since Cold Steel dropped their new album, Discipline & Punish<\/a>, but you only need one listen to know it\u2019s the best thrash record of the year. Hands down.<\/p>\n

Hailing from Florida, the project makes it clear that the Cold Steel boys are here to shred, and shred they do.<\/p>\n

\u2018Tsunami Sea\u2019 by Spiritbox <\/p>\n

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Spiritbox is what I like to think of as a \u201ctorchbearer\u201d band. Their fanbase is growing rapidly, they are absolutely poised to be an arena-headlining metal band, and they\u2019ve worked their a**es off<\/a> to get there.<\/p>\n

Trying to sit here and explain to you why Tsunami Sea is perfect feels like a waste of time. It\u2019s just so obvious. This band is not watering down their sound to be anything they aren\u2019t, and their creativity is undeniably firing on all cylinders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The landscape of metal was vast and impressive over the last twelve months of 2025, and there were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[23275,49,48,978,75,2526,17741,341,3215],"class_list":["post-384524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-black-metal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-death-metal","tag-entertainment","tag-hardcore","tag-heavy-metal","tag-music","tag-noisey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}