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#NowPlaying the recent album "Heather & Hearth" by the band #PhantomSpell from #Scotland

#HeavyMetal #FolkMetal #ClassicRock #AlbumsOf2025

Personal Rating: 9 / 10

Recommended Tracks: "Evil Hand", "The Autumn Citadel", "A Distant Shore", "Siren Song", "Heather & Hearth"

Just this: "…Jim Staley on trombones, Ikue Mori on electronics, and John Zorn on alto saxophone"

For fans of #Jazz a no-brainer. Enjoy!

Rating: 9/10

@brian

https://link.deezer.com/s/32kwQvMj92laGvKMS4Ahy

#RandomMusickMayhem #JohnZorn #Live #AlbumsOf2025

#NowPlaying the recent album "A Throne of Ashes" by the band #SunOfTheDying from #Spain

#DeathMetal #DoomMetal #AlbumsOf2025

Personal Rating: 4 / 10

Recommended Tracks: "Of Absence", "Martyrs", "Black Birds beneath your Sky"

https://sunofthedying.bandcamp.com/album/a-throne-of-ashes

Album cover for “A Throne Of Ashes” by Sun Of The Dying. A dark, brooding scene featuring a structure or pile engulfed in bright flames against a gray sky, with a large black bird hovering above and a silhouetted treeline at the bottom, conveying a bleak, atmospheric doom metal mood.

#NowPlaying the recent album "Dark Believer" by the band #Martyr from #Netherlands

#Metal #HeavyMetal #TrueMetal #AlbumsOf2025

Personal Rating: 4 / 10

Recommended Tracks: "Dark Believer", "Cemetery Symphony", "Legions of the Cross"

https://martyronline.bandcamp.com/album/dark-believer

#NowPlaying the #OriginalScore to the #TVSeries #SchwartesGold #BlackGold composed by #HansZimmer and #AlekseyIgudesman from the #USA and

#FilmMusic #Drama #Instrumental #ScoresOf2025 #AlbumsOf2025

Personal Rating: 6 / 10

Recommended Tracks: "Wrong Choices", "Johannas Theme", "Pride before Fall", "Johannas Soul", "Sad Oil", "Tylers Oil", "To the Devil I sold", "Running from the Truth", "Richards Guilt"

Album cover for “Black Gold: Music from the Original TV Series” by Hans Zimmer & Aleksey Igudesman. A rugged western landscape at sunset with a lone female figure in period clothing holding a rifle in the foreground. Behind her, an old wooden oil-rig structure and a horseback rider are silhouetted against a glowing sky of gold and deep blue hues. The title “Schwarzes Gold” appears in bold gold lettering, with the composers’ names below, creating a dramatic, cinematic mood that reflects the series’ historical drama theme

#NowPlaying the recent album "Taetra Philosophia" by the band #AbysmalGrief from #Italy

#DoomMetal #GothicMetal #AlbumsOf2025

Personal Rating: 4 / 10

Recommended Tracks: "Deus Cornatus", "Taetra Philosophia", "Speculum Fractum"

https://avantgardemusic.bandcamp.com/album/taetra-philosophia

Album cover for “Taetra Philosophia” by Abysmal Grief. A pale body draped in white lies on a surface beneath a simple wooden crucifix mounted on a light wood-paneled wall, with the band name and album title in gothic black text at the top, conveying a stark, somber atmosphere.

#NowPlaying the recent album "In the Glow of the Vatican Fire" by the Band #WhenTheDeadboltBreaks from the #USA

#Doom #Experimental #Psychedelic #Death #MixedVocals #AlbumsOf2025

Personal Rating: 3 / 10

Recommended Tracks: -

https://whenthedeadboltbreaks.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-glow-of-the-vatican-fire

Album cover for “In the Glow of the Vatican Fire” by When the Deadbolt Breaks. A burning classical cathedral dome glows orange with flames at its base under a dark sky with a crescent moon, framed by black borders and ornate gold band name text at the top.

#NowPlaying the recent album "Skogskult" by the band #Skogskult from #Sweden

#DoomMetal #StonerMetal #AlbumsOf2025

Personal Rating: 3 / 10

Recommended Tracks: -

https://skogskult.bandcamp.com/album/skogskult

Album cover for “Skogskult” by Skogskult. A dark woodland scene with tall, shadowy trees framing ritual-like figures wearing cloaks gathered around a carved stone or altar beneath an eclipse-like black sun, giving an eerie, occult forest atmosphere.

#NowPlaying the recent album "III" by the band #KingWitch from #Scotland

#HardRock #Metal #DoomMetal #FemaleVocals #AlbumsOf2025

Personal Rating: 8 / 10

Recommended Tracks: "Suffer in Life", "Behind the Veil", "Digging in the Dirt", "Swarming Flies", "Deal with the Devil", "Last great Wilderness", "Sea of Lies"

https://listenable-records.bandcamp.com/album/iii-3

Square album cover for “III” by King Witch. A dark, intricately detailed circular illustration fills most of the black square background. Within the circle is a dramatic, almost mythic scene of a snarling White wolf in the right upper corner surrounded by blooming flowers lunging toward a partial skeletal wolf emerging from shadowed terrain in the left lower corner who also bleaks its teeth. Around them are tangled, organic shapes—twisting foliage and ghostly forms—that create a dense, foreboding texture. Above the circular artwork, the band name “KING WITCH” appears in large, stylized, gold-colored lettering with sharp edges and a classic metal aesthetic. In the lower right corner of the cover, the album title “III” is set in a small, simple gold typeface. The overall color scheme is dominated by deep blues, muted earth tones, and dark shadows, evoking a mysterious, heavy, and atmospheric mood characteristic of doom metal and heavy rock.

Continuing with instrumental albums:

Black Narcissus - There Lingers One Who's Long Forgotten

https://blacknarcissusband.bandcamp.com/album/there-lingers-one-whos-long-forgotten

With just bass guitar and drums you would expect something to be lacking, but there's clearly enough strings on the bass to hit some tasty mids.

And this is fucking beautiful. Soaring, atmospheric, deeply interesting. Exactly how I want my post-rock to be.

#PostRock #PostMetal #Instrumental #Music #Albumsof2025

#NowPlaying the #OriginalScore to the Series #StrangerThings #Season5 composed by #KyleDixon and #MichaelStein from the #USA

#Instrumental #Soundtrack #80s #AlbumsOf2025 #ScoresOf2025 #SynthWave #Chilling #Retro

Personal Rating: 5 / 10

Recommended Tracks: "Starr", "WSQK", "Engage", "Safety Lock", "Double How", "Mr. Whats it?", "The Wall", "Camazotz Woods", "Super Shredder", "D.O.E.", "We're Friends, good Friends", "Operation Beanstalk", "Another Crawl", "Mist engulfs the Lab", ... 1/2

#NowPlaying the recent album "Celebrate nothing" by the band #TerryHoax from #Germany

#AlbumsOf2025 #Rock #AOR

Personal Rating: 6 / 10

Recommended Tracks: "Celebrate nothing", "Falling" , "Lose My Faith", "Shame on me", "Meanwhile", "High into the Sky", "Circle of Desire", "Don't Need Somebody"

Square album cover for “Celebrate Nothing” by Terry Hoax (2025 rock/indie album). The upper right portion of the cover features the band’s name “TERRY HOAX” in bold, uppercase letters with the album title “Celebrate Nothing” in a smaller font just beneath it. The text is colored in warm hues of orange and red. The left half of the cover shows a partial view of a large Ferris wheel against a pale, softly lit sky above a calm body of water, suggesting a coastal or lakeside scene. The Ferris wheel’s cabins are clearly visible, and its white metal structure forms a strong diagonal line from the top left toward the lower center. The overall palette consists of light blues, sandy beiges, and subtle pastel tones, giving the artwork a relaxed, slightly nostalgic feel that contrasts with the album’s title.

#NowPlaying the recent album "Ligament" by the band #Paatos from #Sweden

#ArtRock #ProgressiveRock #FemaleVocals #AlbumsOf2025

Personal Rating: 3 / 10

Recommended Tracks: "Beyond the Forrest", "Chemical Escape", "I'm letting Go", "Who am I"

https://paatos.bandcamp.com/album/ligament-digital-download

A moody, monochromatic scene fills the square cover. In the foreground, a dark, swirling mass of abstract thorn-like shapes or silhouetted organic forms spreads diagonally from the lower left toward the center. These jagged, plant-like black shapes contrast sharply against a cloudy, overcast gray sky in the background. Near the top center, the band name “paatos” appears in a simple white serif font with small symmetrical ornamental flourishes on either side. Just below it, in smaller uppercase white letters, is the album title “LIGAMENT.” The overall tone is atmospheric and slightly eerie, evoking a blend of natural chaos and brooding, introspective mood.

Metal Insider’s Chris Annunziata’s Top 5 Albums of 2025:

#Top5 #Albumsof2025 #Lists #Spiritbox #MachineHead

Link: https://metalinsider.net/lists/metal-insiders-chris-annunziatas-top-5-albums-of-2025

#NowPlaying the recent album "Violent Nature" by the band #IPrevail from the #USA

#Metalcore #PostHardcore #AlbumsOf2025

Personal Rating: 4 / 10

Recommended Tracks: "Pray", "Into Hell", "Annihilate me", "Rain"

https://iprevail.bandcamp.com/album/violent-nature

Square album cover featuring a close-up of a twisted piece of barbed wire wrapped around a metal screw or bolt intersecting a delicate white flower on a pale, textured background. The album title “VIOLENT NATURE” is displayed in large, bold, distressed red letters across the center, partially overlapping the barbed wire and flower, with the band’s name “I Prevail” in smaller red type near the bottom. The contrast between the harsh metal elements and the fragile flower visually reflects the album’s title

#NowPlaying the recent album "Entropy" by the band #LEAP from #UK

#IndieRock #Rock #AlbumsOf2025

Personal Rating: 8 / 10

Recommended Tracks: "Play Dead", "Exit Signs", "Sinking Feeling", "Over & Out", "Waste your Love", "Do or Die", "The Downfall", "Eclipse", "I was never there", "Messages", "Energies"