Year-End Lists

Loudwire: The 51 Best Rock + Metal Albums of 2025

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2010s]

• Cursed
  Paleface Swiss
• The 3rd Dimension
  Hazzerd
• Parasomnia
  Dream Theater
• Duél
  Jinjer
• Sleepless Empire
  Lacuna Coil
• I Saw the End as It Passed Right Through Me
  Scorpion Child
• This Consequence
  Killswitch Engage
• Do or Die
  Mean Mistreater
• The Sky, the Earth & All Between
  Architects
• Curious Ruminant
  Jethro Tull
• Tsunami Sea
  Spiritbox
• Hymns in Dissonance
  Whitechapel
• The Way
  Dorothy
• Wrath and Ruin
  Warbringer
• The Overview
  Steven Wilson
• Goldstar
  Imperial Triumphant
• Blood Dynasty
  Arch Enemy
• Lonely People with Power
  Deafheaven
• The Ossuary Lens
  Allegaeon
• Life is Violence
  Idle Heirs
• Skeletá
  Ghost
• The Darkest Place I've Ever Been
  Landmvrks
• Unatoned
  Machine Head
• Even in Arcadia
  Sleep Token
• I Don't Want to See You in Heaven
  The Callous Daoboys
• Afterglow
  Sleep Theory
• Rivers of Nihil
  Rivers of Nihil
• Never Enough
  Turnstile
• Idols
  Yungblud
• Near-Death Travel Services
  Deadguy
• The Lash
  The Dirty Nil
• Metal Forth
  Babymetal
• Everest
  Halestorm
• Private Music
  Deftones
• Alienation
  Three Days Grace
• A Dark Poem, Pt. I: The Shores of Melancholia
  Green Carnation
• The Blue Nowhere
  Between the Buried and Me
• Something to Consume
  Die Spitz
• I Feel the Everblack Festering Within Me
  Lorna Shore
• Violent Nature
  I Prevail
• Flesh Stays Together
  Dying Wish
• New Gods, New Masters
  Revocation
• Silver Bleeds the Black Sun...
  AFI
• The Spiritual Sound
  Agriculture
• Hideous Aftermath
  Sanguisugabogg
• Para Bellum
  Testament
• God Save The Gun
  Militarie Gun
• The End
  Mammoth
• Don't Go in the Forest
  Avatar
• Sanguivore II: Mistress of Death
  Creeper
• ...Is Your Friend
  Drain