Bim, min, nu, wim, min, nu, wow. These are my top five metal albums of 2025. Yeah, let's do it.

At Number Five, we are going to go with the new Chat Pile collaboration with none other than Hayden Pedigo, In The Earth Again, creating some of the heaviest songs you'll hear both emotionally and sonically in 2025.

Next at Number Four, I want to shout out Agriculture's, The Spiritual Sound. Not only does this album have some very interesting religious themes throughout, but also some of the most ferocious performances and unhinged guitar solos you're going to hear in 2025, too.

At Number Three, it is Deafheaven with Lonely People with Power. I mean, if you're at all familiar with underground American metal music and American black metal music, you know this band already. And yeah, I love this record like a lot of other people did. I think it's their best since Sunbather.

At Number Two, though, I want to shout out Sumac & Moor Mother for The Film. Sumac's heavy crushing sludge metal riffs, and Moremother's just absolutely harrowing, freaky poetry about the state of the world work together way better than you think they might on paper.

And then finally, my Number One metal album of the year is Imperial Triumphant's Goldstar. A very high energy, high concept, high technicality black metal record, death metal record, experimental record, avant-garde metal record, with some of the most condensed and high-impact songs that this band has written in their career.