MindRuler
Ancient Mariner
The whole album is highly recommended!
Best New Music 2025 Edition
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Kalata
Out of the Silent Planet
It's time to share my rankings of the year. Solid metal year for the bands I like.
Album Of The Year: Helloween - Giants & Monsters. Some of the songs could have been better, but overall it's the strongest and varied.
Other highlights:
Battle Beast - Steelbound
Bloodbound - Field Of Swords
Primal Fear - Dominion
Majestica - Power Train
Wings Of Steel - Winds Of Time
Songs of the year:
Helloween - ''Giants On The Run''
Helloween - ''We Can Be Gods''
Helloween - ''Majestic''
Helloween - ''A Little Is A Little Too Much''
Bloodbound - ''Born To Be King''
Battle Beast - ''Angel Of Midnight''
Battle Beast - ''The Burning Within''
Majestica - ''A Story In The Night''
Primal Fear - ''Far Away''
Primal Fear - ''Eden''
Avantasia - ''Phantasmagoria''
Wings Of Steel - ''Winds Of Time''
Wings Of Steel - ''We Rise''
Anguish Project - ''What's Believing''
Smith/Kotzen - ''Wraith''/''Life Unchained''/''Darkside''
Vocalist of the year: I guess Leo Unnermark (Wings Of Steel)
Best lyrics: not sure
Best solos: Parker Halub (Wings Of Steel). Solos in albums: Helloween, Smith/Kotzen.
Best melodies: Field Of Swords.
Best verses: something from Battle Beast.
Best chorus: really tough to say, some song from Battle Beast or Bloodbound albums, too good, or ''A Story In The Night'', ''Eden''.
Best riffs: Dominion/Winds Of Time.
Best instrumental section: ''We Can Be Gods'', ''Majestic'', ''A Story In The Night'' or ''Winds Of Time''.
Album Cover Of The Year: probably Legends (Sabaton).
Album Of The Year: Helloween - Giants & Monsters. Some of the songs could have been better, but overall it's the strongest and varied.
Other highlights:
Battle Beast - Steelbound
Bloodbound - Field Of Swords
Primal Fear - Dominion
Majestica - Power Train
Wings Of Steel - Winds Of Time
Songs of the year:
Helloween - ''Giants On The Run''
Helloween - ''We Can Be Gods''
Helloween - ''Majestic''
Helloween - ''A Little Is A Little Too Much''
Bloodbound - ''Born To Be King''
Battle Beast - ''Angel Of Midnight''
Battle Beast - ''The Burning Within''
Majestica - ''A Story In The Night''
Primal Fear - ''Far Away''
Primal Fear - ''Eden''
Avantasia - ''Phantasmagoria''
Wings Of Steel - ''Winds Of Time''
Wings Of Steel - ''We Rise''
Anguish Project - ''What's Believing''
Smith/Kotzen - ''Wraith''/''Life Unchained''/''Darkside''
Vocalist of the year: I guess Leo Unnermark (Wings Of Steel)
Best lyrics: not sure
Best solos: Parker Halub (Wings Of Steel). Solos in albums: Helloween, Smith/Kotzen.
Best melodies: Field Of Swords.
Best verses: something from Battle Beast.
Best chorus: really tough to say, some song from Battle Beast or Bloodbound albums, too good, or ''A Story In The Night'', ''Eden''.
Best riffs: Dominion/Winds Of Time.
Best instrumental section: ''We Can Be Gods'', ''Majestic'', ''A Story In The Night'' or ''Winds Of Time''.
Album Cover Of The Year: probably Legends (Sabaton).
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The_7th_one
Ancient Mariner
I have no listened any music since may due to personal issues so I cannot update this thread with my favorite albums through the year.
But until April my favorite albums are:
But until April my favorite albums are:
- Avatarium - Between You, God, The Devil and The Dead
- Pentagram - Lightning in a Bottle
- Riverside - Live I.D.
- Yazz Ahmed - A Paradise in the Hold (Jazz)
- Apocalypse Orchestra - A Plague for Thee
- Jethro Tull - Curious Ruminant
- Smith / Kotzen - Black Light / White Noise
- Envy of None - Stygian Wave
MindRuler
Ancient Mariner
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Diesel 11
As you scream into the web of silence...
I don’t usually listen to much in the way of new music, but I will say that Ethel Cain’s first release this year, Perverts, was a super interesting project. It’s a drone album, so lots of drawn-out, slow, repeating passages, that marry the sound she established on her debut with something even darker and spookier. I quite liked it.