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TovH\u2019s Country is a delightfully expected banger of a LISTMANIA 2K25 DAY VII by the metal band IGoM, Spear & Roldy from winter two thousand and twenty five that artfully expresses a vile contempt for the dredges of late-stage crapitalism.<\/p>\n
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With all due respect to\u00a0Clipse,\u00a0Dead and Dripping,\u00a0Skaphos,\u00a0Onsetter,\u00a0Holy Death,\u00a0Friarbird, and\u00a0Jean-Paul Dessy, here is my Top 10 of 2025.<\/p>\n
Sometimes you premiere a track and, in your preparation, fall in love with the whole damn thing. Transcending Obscurity, per usual, has no shortage of end-of-year talent, but I\u2019d be remiss to omit Extinguish All Existence. Channeling Aborted, Suffocation, Dying Fetus, and a whole assortment of technically proficient, slam-addled brutal death metal, Enragement\u2019s 4th full-length is maybe the most fun record of the year. As I teased in conversations prior to the album\u2019s release, the explosive \u201cVesuvius\u201d was going to leave everyone as pulverized as pumice. Don\u2019t think too hard about this, y\u2019all. Just slam your face into the magma.<\/p>\n Extinguish All Existence by ENRAGEMENT<\/a><\/p>\n I spent months agonizing over Beyond Obsidian Euphoria, but those months were delightful, exploratory, and eye-opening. My fellow Atlantans created something titanic in size with the depth of an imminent iceberg. The journey is arduous, but the guides are inexhaustible. Returning to Beyond Obsidian Euphoria after all this time, there\u2019s a freshness and familiarity to it, a new appreciation for tracks like \u201cHalcyon Memory\u201d and a renewed sense of wonder at \u201cIn Search of the Triumph Beyond\u2026\u201d and \u201cSilver, Ashen Tears.\u201d It is impossible to imagine what follows \u201cBecoming the Stone Icon,\u201d but that is only to the band\u2019s credit.<\/p>\n Beyond Obsidian Euphoria by T\u00f3mar\u00fam<\/a><\/p>\n It was the year of Boldy Block, and I\u2019m planting my flag for this trio of albums all released within a few months of each other. Whether on the soul-infused Token of Appreciation, the sparse and haunted Alphabet Highway, or noodle-knocking of Conversational Pieces, James demonstrated all year a dizzying array of moods and moves that lesser rappers could never accomplish. \u201cCutthroats,\u201d \u201cB.O.B.,\u201d and \u201cSplit the Bill\u201d will stay on repeat when the calendar turns to 2026. \u201cPut 180 on the quarter when I cut the blow \/ When it came to cuttin\u2019 corners I had to cut it close.\u201d<\/p>\n Conversational Pieces by Boldy James & Real Bad Man<\/a><\/p>\n Watching the inspiring weirdness of Rick Maguire on stage back in October secured Sunshine and Balance Beams a spot on my year-end list. From the blown-out fuzz of \u201cDeep Clay,\u201d through the fragile-god melodrama of \u201cA Loosened Knot,\u201d to the technicolour revelations of \u201cBorn at Night,\u201d the whole album is a triumph of pressure and release, a soft, sensuous, and knowing look inward and outward at the ills and thrills of life. \u201cI\u2019m starting to believe it wouldn\u2019t at all have mattered if I\u2019d hit all the right notes.\u201d That\u2019s just it, isn\u2019t it? There are more notes to come.<\/p>\n Sunshine and Balance Beams by Pile<\/a><\/p>\n In the grand scheme of things, we had it coming. What we call fate. Tooth and Bone rains and pours, a forever-oncoming of diluvian proportions. Deft instrumentation, intense reflection, songs and ideas crafted to indulge and purge. Early returns on \u201cHalo of Bones,\u201d \u201cHorse Eater,\u201d and \u201cSolvent\u201d bore out, while \u201cEverything That isn\u2019t Silence is Trivial\u201d and \u201cAgainst the Dying of the Light\u201d gave us something worth grasping and relinquishing all the same. This is tragedy and comedy on the world\u2019s stage, played out in melody and ferocity. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t have to be today,\u201d though it will be one day.<\/p>\n Tooth and Nail by Dormant Ordeal<\/a><\/p>\n Whether you find it soothing or arresting, Flowers in the Spring is affectively rich and richly effective. These are fortuitous frequencies for the overwrought and shaky. These are dilating drones for the increasingly claustrophobic and hunched. Take off your shoes, take up some room, and take it all in. Feel that it\u2019s okay to exist in the minutiae or the grandeur of it all. Movements like \u201cFuck the Pigs\u201d and \u201cA Shepherd Stares in the Sun\u201d beat back Sa\u00efs\u2019s desire to unveil Isis. Our lives are a succession of things that can\u2019t be undone. That\u2019s truth enough, come what may.<\/p>\n Flowers in the Spring by Wrekmeister Harmonies<\/a><\/p>\n Wrong Side of Heaven is a band playing to all its strengths, particularly the exciting, unique versatility of their vocalist Akil Godsey. It\u2019s not just the cover of Maximum Penalty\u2019s \u201cCould You Love Me?\u201d either. It\u2019s in \u201cPale Horse,\u201d \u201cCloutbusting,\u201d \u201cLife Sublime,\u201d and \u201cAnti-Colonial,\u201d too, where the band\u2019s Baltimore bounce wraps itself around Akil\u2019s vocals like a glove. Whether offering up earnest self-introspection, critiquing genocidal campaigns, or championing the pockmarked beauty of hardcore, End It approach everything with raw, refreshing honesty. I don\u2019t want to hear one more word about that other<\/a> Baltimore band. That\u2019s the wrong side of history.<\/p>\n FSR85 \u2013 Wrong Side Of Heaven by End It<\/a><\/p>\n It was the beautiful sickness of love and adoration that ever made me think Moving Mountains could return after all these years and match what they did before they left us, but ultimately it doesn\u2019t matter because Pruning of the Lower Limbs is an adoring love letter to all the sick and beautiful of this world. I\u2019m aching for the acoustic corniness of \u201cBlue,\u201d for the poppy celebration of \u201cWedding Clothes,\u201d for the ribcage reverberations of \u201cAll Here,\u201d for the soft touch of \u201cEveryone is Happy,\u201d and for the flood of tears of \u201cGhosts.\u201d It\u2019s just simply who I am.<\/p>\n Pruning of the Lower Limbs by Moving Mountains<\/a><\/p>\n In a year of not doing very much right with putting words on a page, my July review of Low Demon, the second album from Chicago\u2019s Stomach, was one of very few high points. It is distressing, life, such as it is, with its endless pathways to thwarting you. The only habits you form are bad ones. The only streak you can string together is an unbroken streak of broken streaks. You\u2019re doing your goddamned best, and God bless you for it, but Cruelty is now our Godhead, and we are beset by its blessings. Find another way to worship.<\/p>\n LOW DEMON by STOMACH<\/a><\/p>\n And there is always another way. Yeah, they\u2019re gonna \u201cpick and pull at you,\u201d and, yeah, they\u2019re gonna leave you with \u201cfuck all,\u201d and, yeah, we can\u2019t seem to stop \u201cdancing with anxiety,\u201d but, even then, you might be able to understand \u201call this anger is just pain.\u201d If you can do that? If you can redefine the world for yourself, or redefine yourself for the world, then you can do anything. One thing you can do, lucky for us, is make the best retro-\u201980s record since we started making retro-\u201980s records. \u2018Cause that empire-setting sun \u201cnever sets on us.\u201d<\/p>\n Making me choose a top 10 album every year feels like what I imagine having to choose your favorite among your own children would be like, except that would probably be easier since you don\u2019t squirt out a new one every week or two. Fortunately for me, I had a surprising amount of crossover with other writers in the Toilet crew\u2019s lists, which made paring it down a bit easier this year. As always, I aimed to select albums that didn\u2019t get a showing on anyone else\u2019s top 10, and as always, it\u2019s presented in alphabetical order by band.<\/p>\n ADE is proof that death metal is always elevated by the addition of a bouzouki and some hand drums. I\u2019ve described these guys as \u201cNile for the Roman empire\u201d before, but there\u2019s some Nevermore-style riffing on here that helps give them their own musical identity despite the similarity to their Egypt-obsessed peers. It moves, it grooves, it\u2019ll send hundreds of thousands of its legions to die conquering the Mediterranean nations.<\/p>\n Supplicium by ADE<\/a><\/p>\n With each new release, Blindfolded and Led to the Woods find new ways of making music that is equal parts banging and upsetting. The amusing (and frankly perfect) album title hides behind it some of the band\u2019s most intense and disturbing material, a concept album whose final line carries the band\u2019s name. Rarely does lyricism match the ugliness of the music in extreme metal, but this one makes my skin crawl, and for that I have to applaud them.<\/p>\n The Hardest Thing About Being God Is That No One Believes Me by Blindfolded and Led to the Woods<\/a><\/p>\n Brainblast boldly asked the question, \u201cWhat if\u00a0First Fragment had a loud-ass orchestra going along with all the other stuff?\u201d and by god did they deliver on that premise, even getting the talents of Nicholas Wells and Dominic Lapointe on drums and fretless bass (as well as Rich Gray of\u00a0Annihilator). While they don\u2019t quite hit the pinch harmonics per minute of their Canadian counterparts, they approach similar levels of noodliness and back it up with a shitload of choirs and strings. This is the pure, uncut tech death excess; one hit of this will keep you going for days, and I know you\u2019ll be around for more.<\/p>\n COLOSSUS SUPREMA by BRAINBLAST<\/a><\/p>\n If any of you melodeath riff perverts haven\u2019t heard this yet, you need to do yourselves a favor and put this in your ear buttholes right now. Each of this EP\u2019s 5 songs are incredible earworms despite being on the longer side of songs for this genre, most around 6 minutes. The opening hook of \u201cNeovortex\u201d has bored a hole into my brain at this point, but the whole thing is incredibly catchy. Apparition Day is pure guitar porn, and it\u2019s immaculately paced and fun as all hell.<\/p>\n Apparition Day by Hypermass<\/a><\/p>\n Me too, giant screaming black ocean baby. Me too.<\/p>\n Tutta la Morte in un solo punto by Noise Trail Immersion<\/a><\/p>\n In retrospect, I may have been a bit too hung up on a minor gripe with this album in my review. I have only grown to appreciate this new Revocation album more since its release; it doesn\u2019t have the immediate fun factor of\u00a0Netherheaven, but it\u2019s as angry as the band has been in years and mean and nasty as they\u2019ve ever been. And, of course, the musicianship is immaculate. Thrashy tech death at its finest.<\/p>\n New Gods, New Masters by Revocation<\/a><\/p>\n Using an electric violin in place of a guitar is not something I\u2019d have ever thought to do in metal, but Slaughtersun shows that not only is it a viable alternative, it\u2019s fucking sick. Novelty aside, it gives the music a unique fuzzy tone that works surprisingly well with the band\u2019s hyper-aggressive death thrash. These guys have The Juice\u2122, and I really hope we hear more from them soon.<\/p>\n Black Marrow EP by Slaughtersun<\/a><\/p>\n Now this is some TECH-DEATH-ass tech death right here, super melodic shit chock full of weedlies and relentless in pace. It was also the first new album I listened to this year, and the fact that it\u2019s stuck with me all the way to now should speak volumes about its quality. The interplay between the strings is busy and complex, but the way they build their harmonies and counterpoint melodies make it fairly easy to follow along, or make it sound natural to the ear anyway. It also makes the spots where they slow down and slap you with a fat groove hit that much harder. An instant classic as far as I\u2019m concerned.<\/p>\n Enter the Void by Synaptic<\/a><\/p>\n Talking about a \u201crefinement\u201d of the musical equivalent of getting your head slammed in a car door might seem a little silly, but there\u2019s an art to making music that inflicts brain damage. Tribal Gaze were already cooking on\u00a0The Nine Choirs, and they took it to the next level on this one. They\u2019ve got stronger hooks, better pacing, more variety from riff to riff, and they keep it fun without it feeling tongue-in-cheek. No-frills death metal records like this are a dime a dozen, so making one that keeps me engaged and coming back for more is quite a feat.<\/p>\n Inveighing Brilliance by Tribal Gaze<\/a><\/p>\n No release this year left me spoiling for battle and conquest like\u00a0Far From the Light of Heaven. For as much as the lyrics speak of the misery of waging war in a distant land, the music itself makes it sound awesome. This is the sound of the enemy\u2019s pitiful assault breaking uselessly upon your walls as your archers rain arrows from the ramparts. These are the songs you play when your rams fall upon the castle gates like thunder, turning them into so much firewood. It\u2019s also probably what played for the crusaders as they died of typhoid on the way to wage a comedically unsuccessful war in the Middle East, so, you know, at least they got to hear some sick jams as their souls sunk into the pits of hell.<\/p>\n Far From the Light of Heaven by Weald + Woe<\/a> Rolderathis<\/p>\n 2025 was a tough year for life and a great one for metal music. My BC wishlist continued growing to an insurmountable height (I can hear Spear\u2018s laughter from above), and I listened to far less new music than I wanted to. If only I had 7 days of BIG, MEATY LISTS to help me catch up. I want to say thank you to our readers, writers, Discordians, and endangered species Commentator disqii for continuing to flush with us despite a distressing (to say the least) present\u2014this crapper would crumble without your support and shidposts.<\/p>\n Another year, another non-Euclidean horror traveling through the spheres to desecrate my year-end list\u2014such is life in the Girardiverse\u2122. Skaphos does blackened death a little differently than most in the style, with streams of eerie melody rising from the deep, adding color out of space to a genre I often find lacking in personality.<\/p>\n A host of deranged voices reverberates through Cult of Uzura: acolytes drone their deity\u2019s name in the title track, and \u201cEchoes of the Drowned\u201d features a throat-singing intro that lends unearthly ambience to the proceedings. (There\u2019s even a Mercyful Fate\u00a0falsetto in \u201cMad Man and the Sea\u201d that I find quite charming.) While it\u2019s not explicitly written with this intent, what begins as a relatively tame record slowly unravels into insanity, with greater variety and more surprises in store the further we sink. However, it\u2019s probably unwise to believe anything I say; I went delightfully mad the second I set eyes on Uzura\u2019s cyclopean visage.<\/p>\n Cult of Uzura by SKAPHOS<\/a><\/p>\n Gorzkie plony has a carnival air about it, but imagine Cooger & Dark<\/a> as opposed to Napalm \u201cstep right up\u201d-ery. Guttural (yet highly expressive) vocals bellow like caged beasts from these black \u2018n roll tracks, and I\u2019m reminded of the theatrics of the Hellenic metal scene. A tapestry of reverb coats the album, adding an arena rock gloss to songs like \u201cNa pr\u00f3\u017cno\u201d and \u201cNikt nie wie\u201d without drowning out the details.<\/p>\n Narrenwind\u2019s more aggressive side takes influence from Ruun-era Enslaved (\u201cKantylena\u201d), speed metal (\u201cKoniugacja\u201d), and guitar-driven folk metal (Khirki and Quasarborn\u00a0come to mind); it\u2019s an eclectic mix that took me several spins to start appreciating, but I\u2019m glad I didn\u2019t give up on this strange circus. Doing so would\u2019ve made me a fool, and we\u2019ve got enough of those in the genre already.<\/p>\n Gorzkie plony by NARRENWIND<\/a><\/p>\n Ahh, Polish death metal: one of the few reasons I\u2019ll volunteer to be slaughtered, ground into mincemeat, and shoved in a sheep intestine. Vulgus Illustrata\u00a0echoes the abattoir in its cold, mechanistic precision, but veins of melody and an infusion of disparate genres ensure the album never sounds lifeless; \u201cOrgiastic\u201d\u2018s start\/stop intro and hypnotic breakdown recall Nevermore\u00a0at their most nu metal (laudatory), and \u201cCensure\u201d\u2018s densely-layered tremolos channel Serpents Lair\u2018s take on blackened death.<\/p>\n Insidius raised this album in a cage of claustrophobic dissonance\u2014a sound I\u2019m just starting to explore (thanks, Brock)\u2014and in combination with the organic production, I received my coup de gr\u00e2ce. I am nothing but a captive (bolt) audience when Vulgus Illustrata\u00a0reverberates above the killing floor.<\/p>\n Vulgus Illustrata by Insidius<\/a><\/p>\n Jordsjuk\u2019s black metal is bitter as winter wind and sharp as a rat\u2019s incisors, with nary a ritual nor corpse paint in sight. There is no escapism here: no theater, no magic, just the bleakness of urban decay and the ugly sounds that accompany it. Naglet til livet leaves little room between instrument and audience, favoring dry, nearly caustic production over smothering reverb; the result is an album that makes an immediate impact through its severity.<\/p>\n Opening track \u201cKollaps\u201d inundates listeners with blastbeats like acid rain, but the band is comfortable spreading their suffering in a variety of tempos. Whether encrusted in d-beats (\u201cGrovt skadeverk\u201d) or waltzing piss-drunk down a dark alley (\u201cTil ettertids plage\u201d), the songs on Naglet til livet\u00a0never outstay their welcome\u2014and thank goodness, I\u2019d be a pile of raw hamburger in a gutter somewhere if this album topped 40 minutes. I think you\u2019ll like it.<\/p>\n Naglet til livet by Jordsjuk<\/a><\/p>\n I\u2019ve spent much of 2025 in my own aporia<\/a>, watching truth erode along with the rights of my most vulnerable friends and family. Blackwater\u2019s farewell EP, a rabid mix of blackened deathgrind, hardcore, and post-metal, practically froths at the mouth in anger, providing a perfect soundtrack to our current of national (and moral) degradation. Aporia\u2018s jagged, bare-bones production coats the borders of each track in razor wire, making for a visceral experience that stays lodged in the body long after the music\u2019s bled out.<\/p>\n Songs like \u201cConstant Paradigm\u201d and the title track recall Dying Fetus at their grooviest while still sounding seconds from collapse; this balancing act is all the more impressive when caustic, blackened vocals (think\u00a0Full of Hell or Anaal Nathrakh) and morose melodies enter the fray. Aporia\u00a0clung to me like a leech this entire year\u2014and a little more, as it technically released in the last days of 2024\u2014but unlike vocalist Fabian Lindberg\u2019s dire pronunciation, it didn\u2019t drain my spirit or drag me down; rather, it staved off complacency and kept me pissed off enough to fight another day.<\/p>\n Aporia by Blackwater<\/a><\/p>\n I love when a band name alone sends me down a Wikipedia spiral. In the case of Melpomene<\/a>, I found out she\u2019s the Muse of tragedy in Greek mythology; it would\u2019ve been tragic indeed if I\u2019d let this project slip through my feathers. Fortunately, the stellar artwork that drew me in is matched in quality by the instrumental everythingcore beneath the surface\u2014a veritable cascade of genres that will speak its own language to every listener.<\/p>\n Through smoky jazz, subtle electronics, fusion guitar heroics in the vein of CHON and Plini, and the gnarliest rhythm hand this side of Convulsing, A Body Is A Suggestion\u00a0shines in each of its many facets. This album encourages all who hear it to rip themselves open, contemplate what\u2019s inside, and let it bloom into the world, regardless of the reception.<\/p>\n A Body Is A Suggestion by Melpomene<\/a><\/p>\n With a crack of cudgel on cranium, ARKHAAIK sent me back several millennia, to a time when the realms of man and beast were less stratified by religious dogma. This blackened death\/doom opus\u2014with Proto-Indo-European<\/a> lyrics, reconstructed by Zurich-based academic, SzaSza\u2014transports listeners to the Bronze Age to watch the sun rise and set on a day of hunting and ritual slaughter.<\/p>\n From ecstatic battle-cries to cymbals that sound like they were excavated during an archaeological dig (\u201cGeutores Suhnos\u201c),\u00a0Uihtis\u00a0employs a unique sonic palette that feels genuinely ancient. The band\u2019s mastery of mood and setting stirs up a sense of yearning in me that will be familiar to history nerds: the incurable itch to traverse time and see the world as it once was; to reach out and touch the mysteries of the distant past.<\/p>\n Uihtis by ARKHAAIK<\/a><\/p>\n By the time the adorable, warbly synth intro to \u201cThe Autumn Citadel\u201d crossed my eardrums, it was too late: I was caught in Phantom Spell\u2019s clutches. Having been raised on a diet of classic and prog rock\u2014with bands like Heart, Kansas, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer in regular rotation\u2014I was particularly susceptible to this project\u2019s retro charms. \u201cRetro prog\u201d might sound like an oxymoron, but Kyle McNeill\u2019s songwriting manages to both pay homage to yesteryear\u2019s pioneers and weave in the rhythmic intensity of heavy metal without once approaching banality.<\/p>\n From tales of high fantasy (\u201cThe Autumn Citadel\u201d) to the title track\u2019s ode to pastoral life, Heather & Hearth\u00a0handles epic-length tracks and shorter, punchier numbers with the same level of care and attention to detail. There\u2019s a warmth imbued throughout the album that speaks to McNeill\u2019s deep love and respect for his musical forebears, resulting in a class act with elements that just about anyone can appreciate.<\/p>\n Heather & Hearth by Phantom Spell<\/a><\/p>\n I\u2019m already a sucker for this sort of folk-tinged black metal; throw in epic tracks split into movements with liberal use of leitmotifs, and it\u2019s over. I didn\u2019t expect much when I saw the monochromatic landscape art, but the instant \u201cEtt altare av ska\u0308rvor pt1\u201d started, my ambivalence melted away. Blodsd\u00e5d Och Hor\u00a0is suffused with atmosphere of the Viking variety: melodic, mid-paced riffs evoke the steady rhythm of oars, and choral cleans lend the weight of ages.<\/p>\n While melody adds depth of emotion to the album, the most grim and frostbitten among us will find cold comfort in blasting blackthrash segments and Olof\u2019s rasping vocals which, oddly enough, approach skramz\/screamo in their hoarse delivery. In moments of unexpected beauty (the emotive leads in \u201cDit gudarna tra\u0308lar a\u0308r pt2\u201d) and impish delight, Jordf\u00e4st showcases the elasticity of this (once) insular genre.<\/p>\n Blodsd\u00e5d Och Hor by Jordf\u00e4st<\/a><\/p>\n Chaos Inception is a fitting name for the band that set my listening habits into an unrecoverable tailspin this year. Since my first listen in February, I\u2019ve pored over the seemingly endless depths of Vengeance Evangel on a daily basis, to the detriment of my quality time with all other albums. Whether noticing a quiet guttural submerged in the background or a particularly inhuman fill from K\u00e9vin Paradis, subtle details continue rising to the surface like so many bloated corpses.<\/p>\n The album has taken up permanent residence in my car stereo and the remaining folds of my brain, so much so that I\u2019ve considered utterly debasing myself by creating a Metal-Archives account to upload the lyrics included with my physical copy. Do you remember the scene in\u00a0Ratatouille where the nasty food critic takes a bite of the eponymous dish and is transported in an instant to a watershed moment deep in his past? This record\u00a0had the same impact on me, but I was spirited away to the day I first heard Nile\u2018s\u00a0Annihilation of the Wicked, my initiation into the absurd revelry that is brutal death metal. There aren\u2019t enough superlatives in the English language to express my adoration for Vengeance Evangel, so I will simply say it\u2019s my favorite death metal album of all time.<\/p>\n Vengeance Evangel by CHAOS INCEPTION<\/a> Make sure to check out LISTMANIA 2K25 Days I<\/a> | II<\/a> | III<\/a> | IV<\/a> | V<\/a> | VI<\/a> as well!<\/p>\n Did you dig this? Take a second to support Toilet ov Hell on Patreon!<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Enragement.jpg?ssl=1\")
<\/a>10. Enragement \u2013 Extinguish All Existence
Transcending Obscurity Records | Track Premiere<\/a>
Top Volcanic Experience: \u201cVesuvius\u201d<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Tomarum.jpg\"\/)
<\/a>09. T\u00f3mar\u00fam \u2013 Beyond Obsidian Euphoria
Prosthetic Records | Review<\/a>
Most Hogged-Out Prog: \u201cSilver, Ashen Tears\u201d<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/BoldyJames.jpg\"\/)
<\/a>08. Boldy James \u2013 Conversational Pieces, Alphabet Highway, Token of Appreciation
Real Bad Man Records | 1301 | RRC Music | FIF<\/a> | FIF<\/a>
Biggest Stick with a Flycatcher: \u201cCutthroats\u201d<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Pile.jpg\"\/)
<\/a>07. Pile \u2013 Sunshine and Balance Beams
Sooper Records | FIF<\/a>
Weirdo Anthem of The Year: \u201cBorn at Night\u201d<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DO.jpg\"\/)
<\/a>06. Dormant Ordeal \u2013 Tooth and Bone
Willowtip Records
Dylan Thomas\u2019s Favourite Metal Song: \u201cAgainst the Dying of the Light\u201d<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WH.jpg\"\/)
<\/a>05. Wrekmeister Harmonies \u2013 Flowers in the Spring
Thrill Jockey Records | FIF<\/a>
Most Aptly Named Drone Track: \u201cFuck the Pigs\u201d<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/End-It-Wrong-Side-of-Heaven-Album-Cover.jpg\"\/)
<\/a>04. End It \u2013 Wrong Side of Heaven
Flatspot Records
Song to Show the Zionists in Your Life: \u201cAnti-Colonial\u201d<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MM.jpg\"\/)
<\/a>03. Moving Mountains \u2013 Pruning of the Lower Limbs
Wax Bodega | FIF<\/a>
Choicest Lullaby for Crybabies: \u201cGhosts\u201d<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Stomach.jpg\"\/)
<\/a>02. Stomach \u2013 Low Demon
Hibernation Release | Review<\/a>
Soundtrack to Unpleasant Living: \u201cDredged\u201d<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/HF.jpg\"\/)
<\/a>01.Home Front \u2013 Watch it Die
La Vida Es Un Mus | FIF<\/a>
The Antidote to It All: \u201cLight Sleeper\u201d<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/spear-2k23.jpg\"\/)
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<\/a>ADE \u2013 Supplicium
Time To Kill | Premiere\/Review<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/the-hardest-thing-about-being-god-is-that-no-one-believes-me-balttw.jpg\"\/)
<\/a>Blindfolded and Led to the Woods \u2013 The Hardest Thing About Being God Is That No One Believes Me
Prosthetic Records | TTT Feature<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/brainblast.jpg\"\/)
<\/a>Brainblast \u2013 Colossus Suprema
Vmbrella<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/hypermass.jpg\"\/)
<\/a>Hypermass \u2013\u00a0Apparition Day
Seek & Strike<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/noise-trail-immersion.jpg\"\/)
<\/a>Noise Trail Immersion \u2013 Tutta la Morte in un solo punto
I, Voidhanger | Dissodaddies feature<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/revocation-gods-header.png\"\/)
<\/a>Revocation \u2013 New Gods, New Masters
Metal Blade | Review<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/slaughtersun.jpg\"\/)
<\/a>Slaughtersun \u2013 Black Marrow
Independent | TTT Feature<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/synaptic.jpg\"\/)
<\/a>Synaptic \u2013 Enter the Void
Lifeless Chasm Records | TTT Feature<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Tribal-Gaze.jpg\"\/)
<\/a>Tribal Gaze \u2013\u00a0Inveighing Brilliance
Nuclear Blast<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WealdWoeFarLightHeavenjpg.jpg\"\/)
<\/a>Weald & Woe \u2013 Far From the Light of Heaven
Fiadh Productions | Review<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/roldy-2k23.jpg\"\/)
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10. Skaphos \u2013 Cult of Uzura
Transcending Obscurity | Track Premiere<\/a><\/p>\n![\"https:\/\/f4.bcbits.com\/img\/a1150675729_10.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/a1150675729_10.jpg\"\/)
9. Narrenwind \u2013 Gorzkie plony
Pagan Records | TTT Feature<\/a><\/p>\n![\"https:\/\/f4.bcbits.com\/img\/a2326433149_10.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/a2326433149_10.jpg\"\/)
8. Insidius \u2013 Vulgus Illustrata
Black Lion Records<\/p>\n![\"https:\/\/f4.bcbits.com\/img\/a0868402487_10.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/a0868402487_10.jpg\"\/)
7. Jordsjuk \u2013 Naglet til livet
Indie Recordings<\/p>\n![\"https:\/\/f4.bcbits.com\/img\/a0159025644_10.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/a0159025644_10.jpg\"\/)
6. Blackwater \u2013 Aporia
Independent<\/p>\n![\"https:\/\/f4.bcbits.com\/img\/a2947233176_10.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/a2947233176_10.jpg\"\/)
5. Melpomene \u2013 A Body Is A Suggestion
Independent | TTT Feature<\/a><\/p>\n![\"https:\/\/f4.bcbits.com\/img\/a0374474877_10.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/a0374474877_10.jpg\"\/)
4. ARHAAIK \u2013 Uihtis
Eisenwald | TTT Feature<\/a><\/p>\n![\"https:\/\/f4.bcbits.com\/img\/a2671329826_10.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/a2671329826_10.jpg\"\/)
3. Phantom Spell \u2013\u00a0Heather & Hearth
Independent<\/p>\n![\"https:\/\/f4.bcbits.com\/img\/a0799846586_10.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/a0799846586_10.jpg\"\/)
2. Jordf\u00e4st \u2013 Blodsd\u00e5d Och Hor
Black Lion Records<\/p>\n![\"https:\/\/f4.bcbits.com\/img\/a1483258639_10.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/a1483258639_10.jpg\"\/)
1. Chaos Inception \u2013 Vengeance Evangel
Lavadome Productions | Review<\/a> | TTT Feature<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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