Unranked Personal Favorite Releases From 2025

 

Abjectum - Demo CD (indie)
ACCESSTOGOD - Sharper Than a Blade CD (indie)
Acid Mass - Violent End EP 7" (indie?)
Artificial Go - Musical Chairs CD/LP (Feel It Records)
Brianna Kelly - Cloud of Nothingness CD (indie)
Carriers - Every Time I Feel Afraid CD/LP/CS (Brassland)
Citric Dummies - Split With Turnstile LP (Feel It Records)
Coast Off - Run Like Hell CD (indie)
Deadguy - Near-Death Travel Services LP (Relapse)
Debris (Columbus) - War Language tape (Flowerpot)
D. McCartney - For Those Not Here EP (digital - indie)
Eatt - Gov't Cheese EP tape (indie)
Emanating Peace - s/t EP CD
Evoken - Mendacium LP (20 Buck Spin)
Faithxtractor - Loathing and the Noose LP (Redefining Darkness Records)
Finished Basements - TIFF 24-bit Digital Transfer (indie)
Forced Starvation - s/t LP (RSR)
Good Flying Birds - Talulah's Tape LP/CD/CS (Carpark)
Gremlin - (digital singles)
Grief Counseling - s/t LP (indie)
Hotline TNT - Raspberry Moon (Third Man)
Internal Bleeding - Settle All Scores CS/LP (Maggot Stomp)
Jordan Darby - Dangerous and Holy Memories in the Very Theater of Salvation (Hissing Objects)
Jordan Darby - Follow Me Up LP (Hissing Objects)
Maura Weaver - Strange Devotion LP (Feel It Records)
Mdou Moctar - Tears of Injustice LP (Matador)
Mercy (NYC) - s/t EP tape (Sound Grotesca)
Mizmor & Hell - Alluvion (Gilead Media)
Motorbike - Kick It Over LP (Feel It Records)
Negative Reaction (NY/WV) - Salvaged From the Kuiper Belt - Digital/CD (Nothing's Cool)
Noisy Neighbors - Insolvent LP (indie)
Ossuary - Abhorrent Worship CD/LP (Me Saco Un Ojo/Darkness Shall Rise)
Paradise Lost - Ascension CD/LP (Nuclear Blast)
Primitive Impulse - Piss It Away LP (Feel It Records)
Primitive Man - Observance 2xLP (Relapse)
Ronnie Martin - Consume Like A Moth What Is Dear LP (Velvet Blue Music)
Rotten Sound - Mass Extinction EP (Season of Mist)
Rupture - Desperate Fucking Losers LP (RSR/HateApe)
Shrine Maiden - A Theory of /Cloud/ CD (Whited Sepulchre)
Sissy Spacek - Entrance 2xLP (Helicopter)
Sister Irene O'Connor - Fire of God's Love (reissue) LP (Freedom to Spend)
Sorcerot - Rotten Magick LP (Naturmacht Productions)
Spastic Amoebas & Leprophiliac - s/t split CD (Backwoods Butcher)
Sulfuric Cautery - Consummate Extirpation CD/CS/LP (P2, Blast Addict)
Sulfuric Cautery & Hacked Apart - Medical Cannibalism split EP (625 Thrashcore, Malokul, Blast Addict)
Suppression - Whispering Campaign EP (Chaotic Noise Productions)
Tumescent Cadaver - Thoroughly Deceased Cadaver LP (Backwoods Butcher)
Unwed Sailor - Cruel Entertainment LP (Spartan)
Valdrin - Apex Violator CD/LP/CS (Avantgarde Music)
Whore's Breath - this noise project is so prolific that I haven't managed to make it through all their releases this year, so just pick one (Stemms Tapes)
World Peace/God Is War (collab) - Come and Fucking See LP/CS (Twelve Gauge Records)
Wussy - Cincinnati Ohio LP (Shake It - released Dec of 2024)
Zoo - Singing Underwater EP (Nice Guys)