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  This is the last monthly top list for 2025! Next - the AOTY lists. November delivered some excellent albums, and I have at least 5-6 in mind that are landing on my various end-of-year lists.  For album of the month I am torn between Omnium Gatherum's May The Bridges We Burn Light The Way and Blut aus Nord's Ethereal Horizons . Both are just great. Omnium Gatherum album is quite a surprise, but it is catchy, memorable, uplifting, and sexy (ffs). You can sing along and enjoy a lot! Blut aus Nord is transcendental, out-of-this-earth, drifting you away again, making you forget reality with tears in your eyes... 1914 also released a brilliant album, so less cheesy than the previous.   And then the rest - yes, the below list contains good stuff out of the needless pile of releases that I go through every month. These 25 I selected are everything you need from the November'25 release schedule.  In less than a month, and as usual, I'll be publishing my 2025 favorites...

  A stacked October. Some great albums, and too many others that will be forgotten. I shortlisted 30 for the sake of abundance, as the month suggested. Easily, I could have drawn the line at 20, and, having in mind that the list below is roughly in order, you can see where it would have been.  Coroner's return is my album of the month. Of course. My first with the band was in 1989, and I have loved them since then. Exceptional musicianship and absolutely unfuckwithable with every album they put out. Now again, Dissonance Theory is a masterclass, just to slap all new tasteless bands in the face and show them how it must be done. When you are good, you are good. Age doesn't matter.  Right after Coroner comes Lachrymose Monuments Of Obscuration, the fantastic new album by Hooded Manace. Two things - I love HM too, and as a huge Paradise Lost fan, this album just blew me away. Gothic recreated, it is that much reminiscent of it.  Then the others. I must admit I was very ...