Year-End Lists

Decibel Magazine: Top 40 Albums of 2025

1. Deadguy
   Near-Death Travel Services
2. Messa
   The Spin
3. Paradise Lost
   Ascension
4. Ancient Death
   Ego Dissolution
5. Rwake
   The Return Of Magik
6. Evoken
   Mendacium
7. Cryptopsy
   An Insatiable Violence
8. Tower
   Let There Be Dark
9. Deafheaven
   Lonely People with Power
10. Lamp Of Murmuur
    The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy
11. Tribunal
    In Penitence and Ruin
12. One of nine
    Dawn Of The Iron Shadow
13. Goldstar
    Imperial Triumphant
14. Teitanblood
    From the Visceral Abyss
15. Eternal Darkness
    Eternal Darkness
16. Decrepisy
    Deific Mourning
17. Volahn
    Popol Vuh
18. Haggus
    Destination Extinction
19. Castle Rat
    The Bestiary
20. Blackbraid
    Blackbraid III
21. Species
    Changelings
22. 16
    Guides For The Misguided
23. Coroner
    Dissonance Theory
24. Terror Corpse
    Ash Eclipses Flesh
25. Blut Aus Nord
    Ethereal Horizons
26. Nite
    Cult of the Serpent Sun
27. Hooded Menace
    Lachrymose Monuments Of Obscuration
28. Testament
    Para Bellum
29. Shearling
    Motherfucker, I am Both: "Amen" and "Hallelujah"...
30. Havukruunu
    Tavastland
31. Wode
    Uncrossing The Keys
32. Agriculture
    The Spiritual Sound
33. Morbikon
    Lost Within the Astral Crypts
34. In the Company of Serpents
    A Crack in Everything
35. Sanguisugabogg
    Hideous Aftermath
36. Biohazard
    Divided We Fall
37. Dead Heat
    Process of Elimination
38. NyreDolk
    Barndommens hjem
39. Ossuary
    Abhorrent Worship
40. Sodom
    The Arsonist