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25 of ’25: Favorite Albums of 2025

As the frost of January 2026 begins to thin and we find ourselves on this final day of the month, it’s time to look back at the tectonic shifts of the year that was. 2025 didn’t just give us the (pretty expected) funerals; it surprised us with a series of massive, lively comebacks. We saw legendary names rise from the crypt and long-silent projects return with a ferocity that proved the “old world” is the only world – a timeless, decaying landscape where the shadows never truly fade!

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Review: The Howling Void – The Glow Of A Distant Fire (2025)

The April 2025 release of The Glow Of A Distant Fire, the ninth full-length album by The Howling Void, the monolithic, San Antonio, Texas-based one-person project of Ryan Wilson, is less an evolution than a culmination of his symphonic funeral doom style, immediately asserting itself as a standard for the genre. While deeply rooted in the genre’s defining characteristics of glacial pacing and oppressive atmosphere, the album distinguishes itself by leveraging immense soundscapes, aimed for intense philosophical introspection.

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Review: Pilgrimage – From Amber to Sun (2025)

Attention! Pilgrimage have unleashed their second album, From Amber to Sun, an overwhelming masterclass in Death-Doom Metal saturation. This cross-border alliance, anchored by musicians from Malta and The Netherlands, constructs sloe, monolithic structures of sound. Titanic low-end frequencies and ice-age tempos establish an immense, terrifying scale.

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Review: Evoken – Mendacium (2025)

Evoken stands as one of the fundamental pillars of American extreme doom metal. Formed in 1992 (under the initial name Funereus), this New Jersey collective has spent over three decades helping to define the sound of funeral doom – a genre characterized by its glacial pace, overwhelming psychological gravity, and mournful atmosphere.

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Review: Spaceship Landing: A Tribute to KYUSS (2025)

Released by the digital label Witching Cult, this twenty-track collection gathers a global lineup to honor the architects of desert rock. A map of fuzz and heat drawn anew, tracing the dry pulse of Palm Desert through bands scattered across the world: France, Italy, USA, Norway, Germany, Spain, Finland, Australia… what unites them is the enduring current that runs through Kyuss: that raw desert pulse carried forward in new hands, and reimagined under different suns.

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Review: Death Has Spoken – Elegy (2025)

Formed in 2017 in Białystok, Poland, Death Has Spoken have grown into a reliable presence within the country’s doom/death scene. Poland keeps a firm grip on its doom offerings, and this band stands near its center – serious, unhurried, and fully grounded in craft. Now releasing their third full-length, Elegy, they sound mature, massive, direct, and always within reach.