Year-End Lists

Kerrang!: The 50 Best Albums of 2025

1. Turnstile
   Never Enough
2. Deftones
   Private Music
3. Ghost
   Skeletá
4. Hayley Williams
   Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party
5. Malevolence
   Where Only The Truth Is Spoken
6. Creeper
   Sanguivore II: Mistress of Death
7. Spiritbox
   Tsunami Sea
8. Sleep Token
   Even in Arcadia
9. twenty one pilots
   Breach
10. Deafheaven
    Lonely People with Power
11. Perturbator
    Age of Aquarius
12. Lambrini Girls
    Who Let the Dogs Out
13. Scowl
    Are We All Angels
14. Dayseeker
    Creature In The Black Night
15. Biffy Clyro
    Futique
16. Architects
    The Sky, the Earth & All Between
17. A Day to Remember
    Big Ole Album Vol. 1
18. Sleep Theory
    Afterglow
19. Hot Milk
    Corporation P.O.P
20. Nova Twins
    Parasites & Butterflies
21. Lorna Shore
    I Feel the Everblack Festering Within Me
22. Conjurer
    Unself
23. Babymetal
    Metal Forth
24. Yungblud
    Idols
25. Witch Fever
    FEVEREATEN
26. Stray from the Path
    Clockworked
27. Employed To Serve
    Fallen Star
28. Drain
    ...Is Your Friend
29. Landmvrks
    The Darkest Place I've Ever Been
30. Maruja
    Pain to Power
31. Halestorm
    Everest
32. Split Chain
    Motionblur
33. Dying Wish
    Flesh Stays Together
34. I Prevail
    Violent Nature
35. Castle Rat
    The Bestiary
36. Pupil Slicer
    Pupil Slicer
37. Militarie Gun
    God Save The Gun
38. Bleed from Within
    Zenith
39. Hot Mulligan
    The Sound a Body Makes When It's Still
40. The Callous Daoboys
    I Don't Want to See You in Heaven
41. Røry
    Restoration
42. Bury Tomorrow
    Will You Haunt Me, with That Same Patience
43. Sprints
    All That Is Over
44. Thornhill
    BODIES
45. False Reality
    Faded Intentions
46. Pinkshift
    Earthkeeper
47. Good Charlotte
    Motel Du Cap
48. Coheed and Cambria
    Vaxis – Act III: The Father of Make Believe
49. Orbit Culture
    Death Above Life
50. As December Falls
    Everything's On Fire But I'm Fine