(all lists in no particular order)
Matt’s Top of 2025:
Revocation — New Gods, New Masters – Metal Blade
Dream Theater – Parasomnia — InsideOut
Igorrr — Amen — Metal Blade
Allegaeon — The Ossuary Lens – Metal Blade
Testament – Para Bellum – Nuclear Blast
Amorphis — Borderland — Reigning Phoenix Music
Coroner – Dissonance Theory — Century Media
Between the Buried and Me — The Blue Nowhere — InsideOut
Cryptopsy – Insatiable Violence -– Season of Mist
The Halo Effect — March of the Unheard – Nuclear Blast

Matt’s Honorable Mentions:
Arch Enemy — Blood Dynasty — Century Media
The Haunted — Songs of Last Resort – Century Media
Fallujah — Xenotaph – Nuclear Blast
Rivers Of Nihil — Rivers Of Nihil — Metal Blade
Onslaught — Origins Of Aggression — Reigning Phoenix Music
Tubal Cain — Slime Abyss — Darkness Shall Rise
Conniption — The Theatre Of Invention — Self Released
Helstar — The Devil’s Masquerade — Massacre
Vicious Rumors — The Devil’s Asylum — SPV/Steamhammer
Nefarious — Addicted To Power — Relentless Metal
Machine Head — Unatoned — Nuclear Blast
Sodom — The Arsonist — Spv

Mike’s Picks Top 10:
Coroner — Dissonance Theory — Century Media
Revocation — New Gods, New Masters — Metal Blade
Allegaeon — The Ossuary Lens — Metal Blade
Dream Theater — Parasomnia — Inside Out Music
Igorrr — Amen — Metal Blade
Testament — Para Bellum — Nuclear Blast
Warbringer — Wrath And Ruin — Napalm
Buried Realm — The Dormant Darkness — Profound Lore
Lik — Necro — Metal Blade
Paradise Lost — Ascension — Nuclear Blast

Mike’s Honorable Mentions:
Violator — Unholy Retribution — Kill Again Records
Dormant Ordeal — Tooth And Nail — Willowtip
1914 — Viribus Unitis — Napalm
Nightbearer — Defiance — Testimony
Amorphis — Borderland — Reigning Phoenix Music
An Abstract Illusion — The Sleeping City — Willowtip
Abigail Williams — A Void Within Existence — Agonia Records
Blackbraid — Blackbraid Iii — Independent
Mezzrow — Embrace The Awakening — Rockshots
Saor — Amidst The Ruins — Season Of Mist
In Mourning — Song of the Cranes — Supreme Chaos
King Parrot — A Young Persons Guide To — Dead Serious Recordings
Thron — Vurias — Listenable
Hedonist — Scapulimancy — Southern Lord Recordings