COUNT VLAD'S TOP 50 DEATH METAL ALBUMS OF 2025

 


It is that time of the year and I am kicking off with my TOP 50 DEATH METAL ALBUMS OF 2025. It's been quite a flooding year of releases, and some top-notch death metal albums are worthy of talking about. ...And listening on repeat, of course. 

The list below could easily include 100 labums, but I drew the line once again, as beyond 50th position, it is all the same. More importantly, the list turned out to be a bit of a mixed bag this time. It is because I listened to some (sexy) melo-death and I put everything in. Without surprises, or surprisingly even for me, Omnium Gatherum's May The Bridges We Burn Light The Way is at the top position here, followed by some real death metal albums... I know how it looks, but don't throw stones, though. It was a very addictive album, dynamic, with plenty of sing-alongs, without being way too cheesy for me. 

So if you can trust someone whose No.1 in a Death Metal AOTY list is Omnium Gatherum, please keep reading.

Gruesome album delivered is what I really miss without Chuck's DEATH. It is a huge album, and I thought it would land at No.1. Hooded Menace is more Paradise Lost than Paradise Lost and obviously is in the top 3. (yeah, that new Paradise Lost is a bit...plastic in the end). 

I can also discuss each album in more detail here, but is there any need to do so at the end of the year? If someone hasn't listened to some of the below records (and is reading this), just check them out yourself. When it comes to new death metal releases, I spent the most time with these 50+2. If I missed something, I missed it. 

A reminder: all the AOTY lists are a snapshot in time, and everything can change in a day.

Here are MY TOP 50 DEATH METAL ALBUMS OF 2025



1. Omnium Gatherum - May The Bridges We Burn Light The Way (Spotify)
2. Gruesome - Silent Echoes (Bandcamp)
3. Hooded Menace - Lachrymose Monuments Of Obscuration (Bandcamp)
4. Heteropsy - Embalming (Bandcamp)
5. 1914 - Viribus Unitis (Spotify)
6. Sallow Moth - Mossbane Lantern (Bandcamp)
7. Cabinet - anhedonia (Bandcamp)
8. Ritual Ascension - Profanation of the Adamic Covenant (Bandcamp)
9. Paradise Lost - Ascension (Bandcamp)

10. Tribal Gaze - Inveighing Brilliance (Bandcamp)
11. Mörtual - Altar of Brutality (Bandcamp)
12. Malthusian - The Summoning Bell (Bandcamp)
13. Vacuous - In His Blood (Bandcamp)
14. Novembers Doom - Major Arcana (Bandcamp)
15. Corrupter - Gloria in Profundis (Bandcamp)
16. Hedonist - SCAPULIMANCY (Bandcamp)
17. Clairvoyance - Chasm of Immurement (Bandcamp)
18. Faithxtractor - Loathing and the Noose (Bandcamp)

19. Malefic Throne - The Conquering Darkness (Bandcamp)
20. Nailed To Obscurity - Generation Of The Void (Bandcamp)
21. In Mourning - The Immortal (Bandcamp)
22. Innumerable Forms - Pain Effulgence (Bandcamp)
23. Retromorphosis - Psalmus Mortis (Bandcamp)
24. Primitive Man - Observance (Bandcamp)
25. Impurity - The Eternal Sleep (Bandcamp)
26. VoidCeremony - Abditum (Bandcamp)
27. Bone Fetish - Bone Fetish (Bandcamp)

28. Corpus Offal - Corpus Offal (Bandcamp)
29. Tenebro - Una Lama d'Argento (Bandcamp)
30. Vile Apparition - Malignity (Bandcamp)
31. Kontusion - Insatiable Lust For Death (Bandcamp)
32. Defacement - Doomed (Bandcamp)
33. Ancient Death - Ego Dissolution (Bandcamp)
34. Fimbul Winter - What Once Was (Bandcamp)
35. Nightbearer - Defiance (Bandcamp)
36. Unmerciful - Devouring Darkness (Bandcamp)

37. Depravity - Bestial Possession (Bandcamp)
38. Pissgrave - Malignant Worthlessness (Spotify)
39. Phobocosm - Gateway (Bandcamp)
40. Re-Buried - Flesh Mourning (Bandcamp)
41. Perishing - Malicious Acropolis Unveiled (Bandcamp)
42. Grave Infestation - Carnage Gathers (Bandcamp)
43. Cancer Void - First Metastasis (Bandcamp)
44. Act of Impalement - Profane Altar (Bandcamp)
45. Disembodiment - Spiral Crypts (Bandcamp)

46. Onirophagus - Revelations From The Void (Bandcamp)
47. Nihilvm - Ancient Cosmic Emanation (Bandcamp)
48. Sepulchral Curse - Crimson Moon Evocations (Bandcamp)
49. Imperishable - Revelation In Purity (Bandcamp)
50. Lik - Necro (Bandcamp)

51. Decrepisy - Deific Mourning (Bandcamp)
52. Proscription - Desolate Divine (Bandcamp)



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