MY TOP LIST OF FEBRUARY 2025


February 2025 was a solid month. I listened to many new albums and the selection below only proves there were good ones. A 30-album selection is not happening very often most recently, especially in times of constant flood of new records (of mediocrity).  I tried to make a split in the selection, and there is a kind of top 20 and then another 10 very special mentions. Anyway, it could all be taken as one whole pile of stuff to be checked for those who haven't yet. All these are good and enjoyable albums that differ from the pedestrian release schedule that happens every Friday or every day of the week.  And I keep buying a lot of records, new albums or klassiks, my collection grows and grows.

There is one clear album of the month for me. HANGMAN'S CHAIR's Saddiction took all the bells and whistles in February 2025. Soooo good, so melancholic, and so drowning into sadness. Then follows the rest, and the list here is somehow in a particular order this time. As I mentioned above, a very solid 20 followed by another 10 that I liked a lot as well. There is no need to dissect each and every album in the list. There is clearly a pattern, though - plenty of quality (filthy) death metal, and every album deserves a high praise. The same goes for the thrash (!) or the few black metal records in the selection. Yeah, the new Sacrfice made me believe in good old thrash again, and I ended up the month listening to many old and new thrash bands.

So, another month is gone, and another list is done. Febraury 2025 ✅



HANGMAN'S CHAIR - Saddiction (Bandcamp)
VACUOUS - In His Blood (Bandcamp)
OBSCURA - A Sonication (Bandcamp)
SEPULCHRAL CURSE - Crimson Moon Evocations (Bandcamp)
SACRIFICE - Volume Six (Bandcamp)

MORAST - Fentanyl (Bandcamp)
GRÀB - Kremess (Bandcamp)
HAVUKRUUNU - Tavastland (Bandcamp)
RITUAL ASCENSION - Profanation of the Adamic Covenant (Bandcamp)
GRAVE INFESTATION - Carnage Gathers (Bandcamp)

ACT OF IMPALEMENT - Profane Altar (Bandcamp)
PISSGRAVE - Malignant Worthlessness (Bandcamp)
RETROMORPHOSIS - Psalmus Mortis (Bandcamp)
OREAMNOS - Futility (Bandcamp)
WREN - Black Rain Falls (Bandcamp)

CROWN OF MADNESS - Memories Fragmented (Bandcamp)
GRIMA - Nightside (Bandcamp)
SCOUR - Gold (Bandcamp)
HIRAX - Faster Than Death (Bandcamp)
BLEEDING THROUGH - NINE (Spotify)


MACABRA - Etsaman (Bandcamp)
LIGHT DWELLER- The Subjugate (Bandcamp)
STORM DEATH - Chaos Will Reign! (Spotify)
CHEMICIDE - Violence Prevails (Bandcamp)
ABDUCTION - Existentialismus (Bandcamp)

MISANTHROPIC - Festering Nihilistic Hatred (Bandcamp)
SARKOM - Exceed In2 Chaos (Bandcamp)
OLD SKIN - Wails of Ten Thousand (Bandcamp)
16 - Guides For The Misguided (Bandcamp)
DÉLIRANT - Thoughteater (Bandcamp)

*FRIGHTFUL - What Lies Ahead (Bandcamp) - easily one of the best things you can hear these days. It easily turned into top choice for the month, probably right after Saddiction. I am glad I didn't overlooked it and added it here immediately after all the list had been prepared. So here it is! A must listen!


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