GMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 2025

[CiG]

This probably won't be a proper poll because of low participation and a general lack of consensus on new music, but we can still drop our end of year lists here and spread around some recommendations.

I'll share the rules and RYM links just in case.

RYM ALBUMS LIST
RYM EP LIST

Reminder of the rules:
- please submit at least *5* releases. But just remember, real men vote at 10.
- first place in your rankings gets 10 points, 2nd gets 9, etc etc, 10th gets 1.
- feel free to post more than 10, but only the top 10 will get points.
- feel free to post less than 10, the same scoring will apply.
- feel free not to rank your picks, in which case all ten picks will get 5.5 points.
- if you're so much of a dick that you have to post more than 10 unranked picks, only the first 10 will count. In other words, go back to the third rule.

 

[Slammed]

I'll do 5 lists of 2 so that it looks like more participants.

 

[CiG]

Cheers mate!

 

[no country for old wainds]

i will participate in this

but probably not til like 2027

 

[Cronopio]

Get ready for the most powerful of the powerfullest power metal releases of the mighty powerful year of power 2025!

 

[Cronopio]

01. Majestica - Power Train
Favorite song: "Alliance Anthem"

02. Battle Beast - Steelbound
Favorite song: "Last Goodbye"

03. The 7th Guild - Triumviro
Favorite song: "The Metal Charade"

04. Sabaton - Legends
Favorite song: "Hordes of Khan"

05. Avantasia - Here Be Dragons
Favorite song: "The Moorlands at Twilight"

06. Aedan Sky - The Universal Realm
Favorite song: "Gate of Skies"

07. Insania - The Great Apocalypse
Favorite song: "The Trinity"

08. Bloodbound - Field of Swords
Favorite song: "Defenders of Jerusalem"

09. Terra Atlantica - Oceans
Favorite song: "Hoist the Sail"

10. Ancient Bards - Artifex
Favorite song: "Soulbound Symphony"


Honorable mentions:
Dynazty - Game of Faces
The Storyteller - The Final Stand
Art Nation - The Ascendance
Helloween - Giants & Monsters
Primal Fear - Domination
Airborn - Lizard Secrets: Part Three - Utopia
Memories of Old - Never Stop Believing

 

[Slammed]

Dude, you done fucked up!
It's the 2025 list. You're not supposed to post it until at least 12 months after the end of the year and then you are supposed to change it three times in that year and twice the following year.

 

[Cronopio]

The fuck you on about?

 

[RadicalThrasher]

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Spoiler

Subject to possible changes

Honorable mentions


Eternal Darkness - s/t
Mortal Scepter - Ethereal Dominance
Mental Devastation - The Delusional Mystery of the Self ll
Mortual - Altar of Brutality
Olde Outlier - From Shallow Lives to Shallow Graves
Perishing - Malicious Necropolis Unveiled
Plasmodulated - An Ocean ov Putrid, Stinky, Vile , Disgusting Hell
Silent Tombs - Mourning Hyms from Beyond
Sodom - The Arsonist
Sursum Corda - Metodos de Tortura
Telluric Necro-Parasites - Feel the Nocturnal Energy from the Emanations of the Niche


10. Continuum of Xul - Voratore

9. Liminal Erosion - In the Time Vulture's Talons

8. Clairvoyance - Chasm of Immurement

7. Gravered - Classic Cult to Death

6. Feretro - The Mortuary Destiny of Flesh

5. Einsatzgruppen - Shattering the Throne of Rempham

4. Drawn and Quartered - Lord of Two Horns

3. Chaos Inception - Vengeance Evangel

2. Rothadas - Toviskert.... a kisertes orok erzete.... lidercharang

1. Cancerbero - Sempiternal Decay

 

[CiG]

What in the fuck is that Liminal Erosion? Haha I have to save that for later just for the weird art alone.

 

[RadicalThrasher]

What in the fuck is that Liminal Erosion? Haha I have to save that for later just for the weird art alone.

Funeral doom/death. One of the many projects from a dude named Myk Colby (Wharflurch, Plasmodulated). Psychedelic, trippy shit

 

[CiG]

10. The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Traveller Supplement I: The Ephemeral Glades


9. Vigilhunter - Vigilhunter


8. Wadge - Got the Shakes


7. Forbidden Temple - In the Rotting Grave


6. Interceptor - Metal Death


5. Toughness - Black Respite of Oblivion


4. Old Bones - In Search of Prey


3. Scimitar - Scimitarium I


2. Mephitic Corpse - Sickness Attracts Sickness


1. Dead and Dripping - Nefarious Scintillations

 

[Slammed]

You'll change your mind again before I get my list done

 

[CiG]

"Mutate, don't stagnate." - DEVO

 

[Slammed]

You'd reckon the useless cunt who sold the farm and retired as if Dec 31 would have time to make a fucking list. But I'm miles behind I haven't even looked at what I bought last year yet.

 

[CiG]

If my list does change it won't be for awhile, because now that 2025 is over I'm diving straight back into going through old metal. Wrapped up 1999 recently so yeah, lots of stuff to get to!

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Scimitar owns

 

[Slammed]

If my list does change it won't be for awhile, because now that 2025 is over I'm diving straight back into going through old metal. Wrapped up 1999 recently so yeah, lots of stuff to get to!

I still don't know when I'll get to mine. I'm sure it will be before 2027 but who knows at this stage.

 

[RadicalThrasher]

@CiG ,checked out some stuff from your list. That Scimitar was pretty good.

Dead and Dripping and Mephitic Corpse....

Spoiler

 

[zerostatic]

Conan - Violence Dimension
Hazzerd - The Third Dimension
Fer de Lance - Fires on the Mountainside
Coroner - Dissonance Theory
1914 - Viribus Unitis
Gruesome - Silent Echoes
Hooded Menace - Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration
Nite - Cult of the Serpent Sun
Sijjin - Helljin Combat
Warbringer - Wrath and Ruin