(Editor\u2019s note: Looking back on 2025, there were so many good albums released that we decided to reach out to some of today\u2019s artists and get them to weigh in on their favorites. What follows is the dudes of Alien Weaponry\u2019s Top Albums of 2025.)<\/p>\n
2025 was an awesome year for us. We released our third studio album, Te R\u0101, and got to tour not only in our home country Aotearoa, but also the U.S. \u2013 twice! First with Kerry King and Municipal Waste, and then with Avatar, which just wrapped up. We are super excited to get back home now and prepare for our European tour with Avatar in 2026.<\/p>\n
Lewis de Jong<\/p>\n
Lacuna Coil \u2013 Sleepless Empire<\/p>\n
I recently began listening to Italian metal band Lacuna Coil while on tour with Avatar in North America. Their latest album has a really good mix of melody and heaviness, with some cool features including Lamb of God\u2019s Randy Blythe, who also featured on our latest album.<\/p>\n
Lethernal Utopia \u2013 Illusion Of Time<\/p>\n
Also a band I discovered on tour with Avatar in North America. These guys were formed in 2023, so they are a pretty new band in the general scheme of things. Hailing from Toulouse, France, their new album has a good blend of everything I like in metal. Driving riffs and melodic elements. A good band to check out!<\/p>\n
Henry de Jong<\/p>\n
PENGSHUi \u2013 Guts<\/p>\n
Not technically metal, but heavy nonetheless, been digging this band as of late. I love their fusion of punk, metal and elecy fuck with!<\/p>\n
T\u016branga Morgan-Edmonds<\/p>\n
Ladrones \u2013 Mexican Pesado<\/p>\n
Mexico outputs some of the best music in the world, so when I discovered the bands 2024 record \u201cFlow Pesado\u201d that fuses everything I love about Latin music with huge breakdowns and super technical guitar work, I was sold. Then came this year\u2019s album, which is just as fun a journey from start to finish. At moments giving you extremely complex clean acoustic arrangements and then face melting heaviness all accompanied by a melodic and rhythmic vocal style that rivals the superstars of the pop world like Bad Bunny, Ladrones is definitely a band to add to your rotation.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Employed to Serve \u2013 Fallen Star<\/p>\n
It\u2019s one thing to listen to a kickass album, it\u2019s even better when that album was made by your friends. The riffs have never been heavier, the rhythms addicting and the increased back and forward dual vocals of Justine and Sammy dance with each other beautifully, not to mention some awesome guest collaborations sprinkled throughout the record as well. We had an amazing time on the road with ETS and it\u2019s been awesome seeing them go from strength to strength with their latest album.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Editor\u2019s note: Looking back on 2025, there were so many good albums released that we decided to reach…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":{"0":"post-379162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379162","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=379162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}