One more year, one more list. Accept that lists are a glimpse of the present time and the author's view on that specific time. No one can claim that they have listened to everything, and if some people do, don't trust them, ignore them, and their lists. Lists are fun and are just a starting point for discussions and spreading music. If you take them only seriously, you're missing the point, you're missing the music. And it is not a shame to admit after a few years that you overestimated or underestimated an album or a band by putting or not putting them on a list.
10. CRYPT SERMON - The Stygian Rose
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand. - Michael Scott, The Warlock
Check also: ECCLESIA - Ecclesia Militans, STYGIAN CROWN - Funeral for a King
9. SCALD - Ancient Doom Metal
You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day... - Psalms 91:5
Check also: CAPILLA ARDIANTE - Where Gods Live and Men Die, VENDEL - Out in the Fields
8. LORD GOBLIN - Lord Goblin
...nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday. - Psalms 91:6
Check also: AMETHYST - Throw Down the Gauntlet, INCONCESSUS LUX LUCIS - Temples Colliding in Fire
7. WARLORD - Free Spirit Soar
Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong. - Corinthians 16:13
Check also: ARYSITHIAN BLADE - Iriath, SILENT WINTER - Utopia
6. TRAVELER - Prequel to Madness
Though this be madness, yet there is method in't. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Check also: LEATHERHEAD - Leatherhead, SAXON - Hell, Fire and Damnation
5. IOTUNN - Kinship
The darker the night, the brighter the stars. - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
Check also: BLOOD INCANTATION - Absolute Elsewhere, HAIL SPIRIT NOIR - Fossil Gardens
4. SAIDAN - Visual Kill: The Blossoming of Psychotic Depravity
The night is dark and full of terrors. - George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
Check also: AULD RIDGE - For Death and Glory, to the Gods I Cry, SPECTRAL WOUND - Songs of Blood and Mire
3. MORGUL BLADE - Heavy Metal Wraiths
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. - Ephesians 6:12
Check also: GRAND MAGUS - Sunraven, JUDAS PRIEST - Invincible Shield
2. SAVAGE OATH - Divine Battle
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance. - Aeschylus
Check also: INNERWISH - Ash of Eternal Flame, TAROT - Glimpse of the Dawn
1. TRIUMPHER - Spirit Invictus
Know thyself, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories. - Sun Tzu
Check also: ACHELOUS - Tower of High Sorcery, DÖDSRIT - Nocturnal Will
Top - 3 EPs:
1. TALES OF MEDUSA - War of the Giants
2. DEMON SPELL - Evil Nights
3. WRITHEN HILT - Ancient Sword Cult
Special mention:
DIAMONDS HADDER - Beyond the Breakers: Released digitally for the first time in 2023 (we don't add digital-only releases in the "top" lists), it is available now on physical formats and it is a full artistic and emotional debut album that if you dive deep within, it will reveal all of its passion and originality.
What do we expect in 2025? If we're going to have new albums by CRIMSON GLORY, ETERNAL CHAMPION, KING DIAMOND, RIOT CITY, SOLSTICE, SUMERLANDS, TRIPTYKON and VISIGOTH, it will definitely be an exciting year in music.
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