Year-End Lists

Loudwire: The 51 Best Rock + Metal Albums of 2025

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