{"id":368877,"date":"2025-12-25T06:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T06:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/368877\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T06:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T06:11:08","slug":"rolling-stone-announce-the-15-best-metal-albums-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/368877\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolling Stone Announce &#8216;The 15 Best Metal Albums Of 2025&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Esteemed music publication Rolling Stone have published their list of \u2018The 15 Best Metal Albums Of 2025\u2019. In a year where downsizing and shrinkflation has become the norm, this list is down some additional 5 choices <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theprp.com\/2024\/12\/20\/news\/rolling-stone-post-their-choices-for-the-20-best-metal-albums-of-2024\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">from their 2024 list<\/a>, but still manages to cover numerous bases.<\/p>\n<p>When it came to metal as a whole, only two records from the heavier genres made the publication\u2019s list of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-lists\/best-albums-of-2025-1235466292\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The 100 Best Albums Of 2025<\/a>, with alternative metal favs Deftones landing at #76 with their tenth studio album \u201cprivate music\u201c. Melodic hardcore stars Turnstile meanwhile took home #31 for their latest acclaimed offering, \u201cNEVER ENOUGH\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>Focusing solely on metal though, a team of staff at Rolling Stone distilled the best metal offerings of 2025 down to the following choices:<\/p>\n<p>15. Coroner \u2013 \u201cDissonance Theory\u201c<\/p>\n<p>14. Deafheaven \u2013 \u201cLonely People With Power\u201c<\/p>\n<p>13. Runemagick \u2013 \u201cCycle Of The Dying Sun (Dawn Of Ashen Remains)\u201c<\/p>\n<p>12. Chepang \u2013 \u201cJhyappa\u201c<\/p>\n<p>11. Castle Rat \u2013 \u201cThe Beastiary\u201c<\/p>\n<p>10. Rwake \u2013 \u201cThe Return Of Magick\u201c<\/p>\n<p>09. Whitechapel \u2013 \u201cHymns In Dissonance\u201c<\/p>\n<p>08. Deadguy \u2013 \u201cNear-Death Travel Services\u201c<\/p>\n<p>07. Blut Aus Nord \u2013 \u201cEthereal Horizons\u201c<\/p>\n<p>06. Halestorm \u2013 \u201cEverest\u201c<\/p>\n<p>05. Primitive Man \u2013 \u201cObservance\u201c<\/p>\n<p>04. Dream Theater \u2013 \u201cParasomnia\u201c<\/p>\n<p>03. Ghost \u2013 \u201cSkelet\u00e1\u201c<\/p>\n<p>02. Agriculture \u2013 \u201cThe Spiritual Sound\u201c<\/p>\n<p>0.1 Deftones \u2013 \u201cprivate music\u201c<\/p>\n<p>You can read their explanations for each pick over at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-lists\/best-metal-albums-2025-1235484417\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rollingstone.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Esteemed music publication Rolling Stone have published their list of \u2018The 15 Best Metal Albums Of 2025\u2019. In&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[2342,181024,103006,181025,15793,158568,58649,66781,59897,88,22521,35696,216,176480,181026,181027,181028],"class_list":["post-368877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-agriculture","tag-blut-aus-nord","tag-castle-rat","tag-chepang","tag-coroner","tag-deadguy","tag-deafheaven","tag-deftones","tag-dream-theater","tag-entertainment","tag-ghost","tag-halestorm","tag-music","tag-primitive-man","tag-runemagick","tag-rwake","tag-whitechapel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}