Top 50 albums of 2025

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  1.  Red Moon Architect  - October Decay
  2. The Bleak Picture - Shades of Life
  3. Cromlech - Of Owls and Eels
  4. An Abstract Illusion - The Sleeping City
  5. In Mourning - The Immortal
  6. Marasme - Fel
  7. Patristic - Catechesis
  8. Mosara - Rumour of a Funeral
  9. Castrator - Coronation of the Grotesque
  10. Unviar - Disglac
  11. Silent Tombs - Mourning Hymns From Beyond
  12. Horror Within - Soul Awakening
  13. Lights of Vimana - Neopolis
  14. The Howling Void - The Glow of a Distant Fire
  15. Aphonic Threnody - A Silence Too Old
  16. An Tóramh - Echoes of Eternal Night
  17. Dormant Ordeal - Tooth and Nail
  18. Acceptance - Crucifixion of Orchids
  19. Ominous Ruin - Requiem 
  20. Verheerer - Urgewalt
  21. Karg - Marodeur
  22. Ghostsmoker - Inertia Cult
  23. Havukruunu - Tavastland
  24. Sepulchral Curse - Crimson Moon Evocation
  25. Naked Whipper - Chapel Defilement
  26. Silent Deep Ocean - In Dark Eternity
  27. Destruction of Orion - States of Horror
  28. Imperishable - Revelation in Purity
  29. Shrieking Demons - The Festering Dwellers 
  30. Ritual Mass - Cascading Misery
  31. Novembre - Words of Indigo
  32. Schreigarm - Mara Comes and Darkness Shall Reign
  33. Malthusian - The Summoning Bell
  34. Beleth’s Trumpet - Chapel of Bones
  35. Pyromancer - Absolute Dominion
  36. Hate - Bellum Regiis
  37. Lik - Necro
  38. Veil of Conspiracy - Shape of Grief
  39. Embrional - Tendencies for Self-Distruction
  40. Decrepisy - Deific Mourning
  41. Structure - Heritage
  42. Aeonian Sorrow - From The Shadows
  43. Death Has Spoken - Elegy
  44. Kal-El - Astral Voyager Vol. 1
  45. Phrenelith - Ashen Womb
  46. Harakiri For The Sky - Scorched Earth
  47. Humanity Zero- Cursed Be the Gift of Life 
  48. Arkaist - Aube Noire
  49.  Membaris - Black Plasma Armour
  50.  Druparia - The River Above



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