By now you have all grown sick of #aoty #aoty2025 lists, right? Bear with us, we have one more for you to suffer through! 😁 Here are the 10 #metal releases that hit us the hardest, in alphabetical order. This wasn’t exactly easy as 2025 was full of new high quality material.

#DeathKommander
Never To Grow Old

#gaahlswyrd
Braiding The Stories

#gorekaust
Fleshcross

#gravehex
Vermian Death

#gruesome
Silent Echoes

#inhumancondition
Mind Trap

#Malthusian
The Summoning Bell

#proscription
Desolate Divine

#sijjin
Helljjin Combat

#teitanblood
From the Visceral Abyss

It’s #BandcampFriday again and there are lots of new killer releases out there! We’ll be blasting the latest from #Proscription as well as #Malthusian #Imperialist #Blackbraid and #GraveHex It’s a good day for #deathmetal and #blackmetal

https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/desolate-divine

#ThursDeath this week was an easy choice, I've been playing a ton of this ridiculous new LP 'Vermian Death', the debut record from worm-rotted Finnish band GRAVE HEX. This is some truly great, dynamic, nasty, churning, grueling, grody OSDM-inspired death metal. Yet again, the Finns don't miss.

https://gravehex.bandcamp.com/album/vermian-death

#metal #DeathMetal #FinnishMetal #GraveHex #2025Albums #2025Records #ODSM @brian @HailsandAles @rtw @guffo @umrk @Kitty @flockofnazguls @swampgas

“The band is at its best when the snarls are harsh and the playing is fast,” writes Jonathan Shaw. https://dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/792422480738435072/grave-hex-vermian-death-night-terrors #Music #gravehex