MOLOCK'S TOP ALBUMS OF 2025

THIS TOOK WAY LONGER THAN NECESSARY

2025 has definitely not been my favorite year!

Make no mistake, I have liked many good albums from 2025. I'm just not sure my dick is blown off! That being said, I had a lot of contenders, and narrowed the list down to a top 10, and 3 honorable mentions.

I WAS a bit neglectful, and only listened to 77 albums this year, apparently.

Here's hoping 2026 properly wets my willy, but, anyway, here's the list.

Castle Rat - The Bestiary

Genre: Traditional Heavy/Doom Metal

Origin: New York

Listen, about 80% of the reason this made the list is because the band is called Castle Rat, and by gum, I want it on my list. The album is alright too!

Vauruvã - Mar da deriva

Genre: Atmoblack, Brazilian Folk

Origin: Brazil

It's black metal, it's Brazillian folk music! This is a good album, but I'd be more receptive to it, if I didn't think that Kaatarya did it better, before them.

Jim Ghedi - Wasteland

Genre: Irish/English Folk

Origin: England

This is an unlikely entry onto my list. It's some traditional folk music, and it hits just right, if you ask me.

10. Sleep Paralysis - Sleep Paralysis

Genre: Experimental Black Metal / Ragtime / Chiptune

Origin: Michigan

This is music for Belphagor sitting on your chest, playing ragtime tunes. Shit is really cool, a'ight?

09. Evoken - Mendacium

Genre: Funeral Doom

Origin: New Jersey

Not music for blasting down the highway. It's music for brooding in the dark, and becoming one with the black mold.

08. Hooded Menace - Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration

Genre: Death Doom Metal

Origin: Finland

Swedish death metal with some tight ass solos, except it's Finnish, actually.

07. Kostnatění - Přílišnost (Excess)

Genre: Progressive Black Metal? I dunno man

Origin: Czechia?

It's got that blackened punk energy, in the way that it's kinda just doing whatever the fuck it wants. This could be higher, tbh.

06. Titanic - Hagen

Genre: Art Pop

Origin: Mexico

I know! Doesn't seem like my speed! But I actually like some pop, when it goes a bit off kilter. Check it out.

05. ByoNoiseGenerator - Subnormal Dives

Genre: Brutal Jazz / Deathgrind

Origin: Somewhere in Russia I guess

So I heard you like jazz.

04. Qrixkuor - The Womb of the World

Genre: Symphonic Death Metal

Origin: England

This is the sound of the oncoming apocalypse, the sound of seven trumpets, judgment is calling. So, anyway, easy listening.

03. Cave Sermon - Fragile Wings

Genre: Progressive Death Metal

Origin: Australia

I see this labeled as post metal, and if I’m frank, I have no idea what that actually really means. I mean, I know in a sense, but, like, whatever man. But what I do know, is I like Cave Sermon. Any of these top 3 albums could've been my pick of the year.

02. Imperial Triumphant - Goldstar

Genre: Experimental Death Metal

Origin: New York

Imperial Triumphant's brand of art deco death metal. Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle made into sound. I actually prefer their 2018 album, Vile Luxury, and don't think they've been as good as that since then, but, I can't deny this record is pretty dope.

01. Messa - The Spin

Genre: Doom Metal / Gothrock

Origin: Italy

My album of the year, actually. It's pretty accessible, as far as stuff that generaly make my list. Sara Blanchin's vocals are great here, the hooks are catchy, the solos are sick. What can I say, it got more spins than anything else I listened to this year.