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  I managed to gather 20 albums from the mediocre June 2025 in this present list! Definitely GRUESOME delivered the album of the month with their brand new Silent Echoes! Absolute Death's Human worship, and here we go - it is deservedly on top. Definitely an AOTY candidate too. Katatonia's brand new album hit me, so it goes second. I couldn't listen to everything that was released, but looking at the schedule, I didn't have the will to do so.  Nothing much to add as a context, I wrote a sentence with my thoughts next to each album below. Definitely taking Gruesome and few more with me in the next months. Here's my top 20 of June 2025 releases, more or less in a particular order. You all know that it is always subject to change depending on the mood and the circumstances. Let's move on, and thanks for reading! Gruesome - Silent Echoes ( Bandcamp ) Death's Human worship with a lot of Spiritual Healing taste and pinch of Leprosy. What else could be my No.1 for...

  I didn't enjoy the May'25 releases that much. Very few caught my attention and I'll continue to listen to them in the future months. Even some of the albums in the list below can't be considered so strong. It is a very heavy list, though, and at this point in time, it was the best I could gather as proof of my enjoyment of the new music. Naturally, most of my choices are black metal and death metal, and some cringeworthy stuff as well. I won't comment much this time, but the first five or six albums will definitely be in my various AOTY lists. The last 4 are here just because of the momentary lapse (lack) of reason and were severely dependent on my mood.  Was there a clear winner of the Album of the Month prize? Not really because every one of the first five albums in this list could be No. 1, depending on the mood. Finally, I decided to put Kaevum on top because this is the way BM should be - UG, raw, straightforward, no trends, no fun and games, no sympho crap, ...