2025 Metal Album Releases – The Definitive Heavy Metal Year in Review

A complete breakdown of 2025’s metal releases — from underground killers to legendary icons — covering heavy metal, death, black, thrash, doom, power, prog, and beyond. Explore the most complete list of 2025 metal album releases. From underground to legendary acts, this definitive Heavy Metal Merchant guide documents the year metal proved its strength, diversity, and global power.

2025 Metal Album Releases – The Definitive Heavy Metal Year in Review

A Monumental Year for Heavy Metal

2025 will go down as one of the most diverse, ambitious, and powerful years in modern metal history. Across every corner of the genre, from traditional heavy metal to extreme underground, from melodic mastery to sonic brutality, metal once again proved why it remains one of the most enduring and evolving musical movements on the planet.

Metal is a multigenerational culture. It honours its past, carries its legacy forward, and looks boldly into the future. 2025 delivered on all fronts.

From legendary pioneers returning with career-defining releases, to underground artists reshaping the sound for a new era, this year has been stacked with essential albums across every subgenre: Heavy Metal, NWOTHM, Power Metal, Thrash Metal, Death Metal, Black Metal, Doom Metal, Progressive Metal, Symphonic Metal, Metalcore, Hardcore, Avant-Garde, and the hybrid gateway genres.

This list represents a true cross-section of the global metal scene, covering releases from established icons, cult favourites, and emerging forces pushing boundaries worldwide.

At Heavy Metal Merchant, we live and breathe this culture. This is not a trend list or a hype cycle. This is a curated, authoritative archive of 2025’s metal output, built for collectors, fans, and scene loyalists alike.

Whether you’re chasing the heaviest riffs, the darkest atmospheres, the sharpest songwriting, or the rawest underground energy, this list exists to document the year metal stood tall once again.

2025 Metal Album Releases – A–Z (Definitive List)

A

16 – Guides For The Misguided
1349 – Winter Mass
1914 – Viribus Unitis
A-Z - a2z²
Adamantis – Reforged
Aephanemer – Utopie
Aeternia – Into The Golden Halls
Agriculture – The Spiritual Sound
Airforce – Acts of Madness
Agartha – The Hidden
Alice Cooper Band – The Revenge Of Alice Cooper
Alestorm – The Thunderfist Chronicles
Allegaeon – The Ossuary Lens
Alien Weaponry – Te Ra
Ambush – Evil In All Dimensions
Amorphis – Borderland
An Abstract Illusion – On The Sleeping City
Ancient Bards – Artifex
Ancient Death – Ego Dissolution
And Oceans – The Regeneration Itinerary
Angel Damnation – Ethereal Blasphemy
Animalize – Verminateur
Anoxia – Revel In Sin
Aquilla – Sentinals Of The New Dawn
Aran Angmar – Ordo Diabolicum
Archaic Thorn – Malicious Spears
Arch Enemy – Blood Dynasty
Architects – The Sky The Earth & All Between
Arion – The Light That Burns The Sky
Armoured Knight – The Quest For the Sacred Melody
Art Nation – The Ascendance
As The World Dies – Nebula
Ashes of Ares – New Messiahs
Ashen – Leave The Flash Behind
Avantasia – Here Be Dragons
Avatar – Don’t Go In The Forest
Avatarium – Between You God and the Devil
Avulsed – Phoenix Cryptobiosis
Axetasy – Withering Tides

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B

Baest – Colossal
Battle Beast – Steelbound
Before The Dawn – Old Flare Eternal
Behemoth – The Shit Ov God
Benediction – Ravage Of Empires
Benefactor Decease – Abnormal Attachments
Bergfried – Romantik III
Between The Buried And Me – Blue Nowhere
Beyond Extinction – Where They Gather
Black & Damned – Resurrection
Black Majesty – Oceans Of Black
Blackbraid – III
Black Sword Thunder Attack – Self Titled
Blaze – Out Through The Door
Bleed From Within – Zenith
Blind Golum – Wunderkammer
Blood Monolith – The Calling of Fire
Blood Red Throne – Siltskin
Bloodbound – Field of Swords
Bloodywood – Nu Dehli
Bonfire – Higher Ground
Born of Osiris – Through Shadows
Brainstorm – Plague Rats
Brothers of Metal – Fimbulvinter
Burning Witches – Inquisition
Bygone – Bygone
Byzantine – Harbingers

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C

Cadaver – Hymns of Misanthropy
Caliban – Back from Hell
Calva Louise – Edge of the Abyss
Cancer – Inverted World
Candlemass – Black Star
Castle Rat – The Bestiary
Caustic Wound – Grinding Mechanism of Torment
Cave Sermon – Fragile Wings
Celestial Scourge – Orders of the Inevitable
Celestial Wizard – Regenesis
Century – Sign of The Storm
Changeling – Changeling
Chepang – Jhyappa
Chemicide – Violence Prevails
Christian Mistress – Children of the Earth
Coffin Feeder – Big Trouble
Cold Slither – Cold Slither
Cold Steel – Discipline & Punish
Conan – Violence Dimension
Condition Critical – Degeneration Chamber
Conjurer – Unself
Contusion – Insatiable Lust For Death
Coroner – Dissonance Theory
Corpus Offal – Corpus Offal
Cradle of Filth – The Screaming of the Valkyries
Creatures – Creatures II
Crematory – Destination
Creeper – Crushing
Cristianos Filippinis’ Flames of Heaven – Symphony of the Universe
Crowne – Wonderland
Cruel Bomb – Cruel Bomb
Cryptopsy – Insatiable Violence
Cryptosis – Celestial Death
Crystal Viper – The Live Quest
Cwfen – Sorrows

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D

Dark Angel – Extinction Level Event
Dark Driven – From The Unbeliever
Darker Half – Book of Fate
Darklon – Mind Reaper
Darkness – The Death Squad Chronicles
Darktribe – Forgotten Reveries
Darkyra – Life Force
Dawn of Ouroboros – Bioluminescence
Dayseeker - Creature of the Black Night
Deadguy – Near Death Travel Service
Dead Heat – Process of Elimination
Deafheaven – Lonely People With Power
Deathgoat – Dragged Into Realms Below
Deathless Legacy – Damnation Aerterna
Decrepisy – Deific Mourning
Defecto – Echoes of Isolation
Deftones – Private Music
Depravity - Bestial Possession
Der Weg Einer Freiheit – Innern
Desaster – Kill All Idols
Dessiderium – Keys To The Palace
Destruction – Birth of Malice
Deteriorot – Awakening
Dirkschneider & The Old Gang – Babylon
Dissocia – To Lift the Veil
Dolmen Gate – Echoes of Ancient Tales
Dormant Ordeal – Tooth & Nail
Doomsday – Never Known Peace
Domerunner – World Panopticon
Dragonknight – Legions
Dragonsclaw – Moving Target
Dream Theater – Parasomnia
Dynazty – Game of Faces

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E

Edge of Paradise – Prophecy
Elettra Storm – Evertale
Ellefson / Soto – Unbreakable
Eluveitie – Anv
Elvenking – Reader of the Runes: Luna
Employed to Serve – Fallen Star
Enthroned – Ashspawn
Entrails – Grip of Ancient Evil
Epica – Aspiral
Ereb Altor – Hälsingemörker
Eternal Darkness – Eternal Darkness
Eternal Idol – Behind a Vision
EvilCult – Triumph of Evil
Evoken – Mendacium

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F

Fallujah – Xenotaph
Feanor – Hellhammer
Feuerschwanz – Knightclub
Feversea – Man Under Erasure
Flight of Icarus – Terranova
Fractured Sanity – Age of Manipulation
Frantic Amber – Death Becomes Her
Frayle – Heretics & Lullabies
Front Row Warriors – Running Out of Time
Frozen Land – Icemelter
Funeral Vomit – Upheaval of Necromancy
Fur De Lance – Fire on the Mountainside

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G

Game Over – Face the End
Gates to Hell – Death Comes to All
Gaupa – Fyr
Ghaal’s Wyrd – Braiding the Stories
Ghornt – Bluetgraf
Ghost – Skeleta
Ghost Bath – Rose Thorn Necklace
Ginevra – Beyond Tomorrow
Grailknights – Forever
Grave Digger – Bone Collector
Graveripper – From Welkin to Tundra
Green Carnation – A Dark Poem Part I: The Shores of Melancholia
Gridlink – Perfect Amber
Grima – Nightside
Gruesome – Silent Echoes

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H

Haggus – Destination Extinction
Halestorm – Everest
Hammer King – Make Metal Royal Again
Hangman’s Chair – Saddiction
Hate – Bellum Regis
Haunt – Ignite
Havukruunu – Tavastland
Hazzerd – The 3rd Dimension
H.E.A.T. – Welcome To the Future
Heathen – Bleed the World Live
Heaven Shall Burn – Heimat
Heavens Gate – Tales From A Blistering Paradise
Helms Deep – Chasing the Dragon
Hell In The Club – Joker in the Pack
Hellbearer – Darker Fates
Helloween – Giants & Monsters
Helstar – The Devil’s Masquerade
Hesperia – Black Medieval Winter Over the Sibylline Mounts
Hexvessel – Nocturne
Hidden Intent - Terrorform
Holler – Next in Line
Hostila – Face The Fire
Hooded Menace – Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration
Horizon Ignited – Tides
Human Fortress – Stronghold
Hyena - About Rock n Roll

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I

I Saw the World’s End – Hangman’s Hymn MMXXV
Igorrr – Amen
Immortal Fate – Beautiful
Imperial Triumphant – Goldstar
Imperishable – Swallowing the World
Impureza – Alcázares
Impurity – The Eternal Sleep
Incite – Savage New Times
Inhuman Condition – Mind Trap
Innumerable Forms – Pain Effulgence
Insania – The Great Apocalypse
Iron Spell - From the Grave

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J

Jester Majesty – Infinite Measure, Finite Existence
Jinjer - Duel

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K

Kardashev – Alunea
Kategory V – Awaken A New Age of Chaos
Katatonia – Nightmares as Extensions of the Waking State
Katla – Scandinavian Pain
Keep of Kalessin – Kolossus
Kill Ritual – In My Head
Killswitch Engage – This Consequence
King Parrot – A Young Person’s Guide To
Kingsgrav – Stormcaller
King Zog – Second Dawn
Kontusion – Insatiable Lust for Death
Kostnateni – Prilistnost

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L

Labyrinth – In the Vanishing Echoes of Goodbye
Lacuna Coil – Sleepless Empire
Lady Beast – The Inner Alchemist
L.A. Guns – Leopard Skin
Lorna Shore – I Feel the Everblack Festering in Me
Lucille – Dawn of Destruction
Lynch Mob – Dancing with the Devil

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M

Machine Head – Unatoned
Majestica – Power Train
Malevolence – Where Only the Truth Is Spoken
Malphas – Extinct
Malthusian – The Summoning Bell
Manegarm – Edsvuren
Manntra – Titans
Mantar – Post Apocalyptic Depression
Mantric Momentum – Alienized
Margarite Witch Cult – Strung Out in Hell
Martyr – Dark Believer
Mason – Martyr
Mausoleum Gate – Space Rituals and Magick
Mawiza – Ul
Mean Mistreater – Do or Die
Melancholia – Random Access Misery
Memories of Old – Never Stop Believing
Messa – The Spin
Mezzrow – Embrace the Awakening
M.S.G. – Don’t Sell Your Soul
Midnight – Steel, Rust & Disgust
Midnight Vice – Midnight Vice
Mob Rules – Rise of the Ruler
Moonlight Haze – Beyond
Moon Wizard – Sirens
Morax – The Amulet
Morbya – Under the Spell
Mors Principium Est – Darkness Invisible
Mortal Sceptor – Ethereal Dominance
My Darkest Hate – Rust and Bones
Mystic Circle – Hexenbrand 1486
Mystic Circle – Kriegsgötter MMXXV
Myth Carver – Twist of Fate

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N

Nachblut – Todschick
Naevus – Back Home
Nailed to Obscurity – Generation of the Void
Nechacha – Maahe
Necromaniac – Sciomancy, Maledictions and Rites Abominable
Nightfall – Children of Eve
Nine Treasures – Seeking the Absolute
Nite – Cult of the Serpent Sun
Novembre – Words of Indigo

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O

Obscura – A Sonification
Obsidian Tongue – Eclipsing the World’s Scorn
Omnium Gatherum – May the Bridges We Burn Light the Way
One of Nine – Dawn of the Iron Shadow
Onslaught – Origins of Aggression
Opia – I Welcome Thee Eternal Sleep
Orbit Culture – Death Above Life

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P

Pagan Altar – Never Quite Dead
Paleface Swiss - Cursed
Pandemia – Darkened Devotion
Paradise Lost – Ascension
Paradox – Mysterium
Patristic – Catechesis
Phantom Spell – Heather and Heart
Phantom – Tyrants of Wrath
Pissgrave – Malignant Worthlessness
Primal Fear – Domination
Primalfrost – Path of Resilience
Professor Emeritus – A Land Long Gone
Psykosis – Mind Games
Pungent Stench – Mucous Secretion
Putridity – Morbid Ataraxia
Putrevore – Unending Rotting Cycle

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R

Raging Speedhorn – Nightwolf
Ravager – From Us With Hate
Revenous – Book of Covetous Souls
Red Fang – Deep Cuts
Red Shark – Sudden Impact
Reinforcer – Ice and Death
Relics of Humanity – Absolute Dismal Domain
Retador – Earendel
Retromorphosis – Psalmus Mortis
Revenge – Night Danger
Revocation – New Gods New Masters
Ribspeader – As Gods Devour
Risen Atlantis – Power To The Past
Ritual Mass – Cascading Misery
Rivers of Nihil – Self Titled
Rottrevore – Iniquitous
Runemagick– Cycle of The Dying Sun (Dawn Ashen Realms)

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S

Sabaton – Legends
Saber – Lost in Flames
Sacral Rage – Illusions of the Infinite Void
Sacred Steel – Ritual Supremacy
Sacrosanct – Kidron
Sadistic – Goatmessiah: Violence
Sanguisugabogg – Hideous Aftermath
Sanhedrin – Heat Lightning
Saor – Amidst the Ruins
Sarcator – Swarming Angels & Flies
Sarkasm – Carnival of atrocities
Savaged – Rising
Savage Lands – Army of Trees
Scardust – Souls
Scour – Gold
Serpent Rider – The Ichor of Chimaera
Seven Sisters - Shadow of a Fallen Star Pt 2
Shadow of Intent - Imperium Delirium
Sigh – I Saw the World’s End Hangman’s Hymn MMXXV
Sinner Rage – Powerstrike
Sintage – Unbound Triumph
Skräcken – Echoes From the Void
Skull & Crossbones – Time
Slaughter to Prevail – Grizzly
Sleep Token – Even in Arcadia
Smith / Kotzen – Black Light, White Noise
Sodom – The Arsonist
Soulfly – Charma
Species – Changelings
Speedclaw – Stardust
Spiritbox – Tsunami Sea
Spiritworld – Helldorado
Starlight Ritual – Rogue Angels
Steel Arctus – Dreamruler
Stillbirth – Survival Protocol
Stones Jesus – Songs to Sung
Storm Seeker – Set the Sails
Struck a Nerve – Self Titled
Stryper – The Greatest Gift of All
Sulfator – Gemini
Sun After Dark – Tatkraft
Sun of the Suns – Entanglement
Suotana – Ounas II
Svarta – Havet Månen Ska Lysa Din Väg

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T

Taar – Catharsis
Teaser Sweet – Night Stalker
Teitanblood – From the Visceral Abyss
Temptress – Catch the Endless Dawn
Temtris – Queens of Crows
Teramaze – The Harmony Machines
Terra Atlantica – Oceans
Testament – Para Bellum
Tetrach – Ugly Side of Me
The 7th Guild – Triumviro
The Devil Wears Prada - Flowers
The Feerymen – Iron Will
The Great Old Ones – Kadath
The Halo Effect – March of the Sun
The Haunted – Songs of the Last Resort
The Hellacopters – Overdriver
The Night Flight Orchestra – Give Us the Moon
The Pretty Wild – Zero Point Genesis
The Prophecy – Mosh O Clock
The Rods – Wild Dogs Unchained
Theurgion – All Under Heaven
This Gift Is a Curse – Heir
Throne of Iron – Adventure Two
Thron – Vurias
Thus Spoke Zarathustra – I’m Done with Self Care, It’s Time for Other Harm
Thy Kingdom Will Burn – The Loss and Redemption
Tiktaalika – Gods of Pangaea
Time Rift – In Flight
Tokyo Blade - Time of the Fire
Tomarum – Beyond Obsidian Euphoria
Tower – Let There Be Dark

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U–Z

Tremonti – The End Will Show Us How
Tribal Gaze – Inveighing Brilliance
Tribunal – In Penitence and Ruin
Trick or Treat – Ghosted
Twins Crew – Chapter IV
Unbounded Terror – Something Is Rotten In Humanity
Unleashed – The Fire Upon Your Lands
Unmerciful – Devouring Darkness
Vacuous – In His Blood
Valhalore – Beyond the Stars
Venator – Psychodrome
Vertebra – The Same
Vigilhunter – Self Titled
Vindicator – Whispers of Death
Violator – Unholy Retribution
Vicious Rumors – The Devil’s Asylum
Visions of Atlantis – Armada Live Over Europe
Vittra – Intense Indifference
Void Ceremony – Abditum
Void – Forbidden Morals
Volahn – Popol Vuh
Volbeat – Gods of Angels Trust
Vulvarine – Fast Lane
Wanton Attack – Brinnade Jord
Warbringer – Wrath and Ruin
Wardruna – Birna
Warfield – With the Old Breed
Warkings – Armageddon
Warlord – The Lost Archangel
Warmen – Band of Brothers
Warrant – The Speed of Metal
Wednesday 13 – Mid Death Crisis
Werewolves - The Ugliest Of All 
Whitechapel – Hymns of Dissonance
Wings of Steel – Winds of Time
Within Destruction – Animetal
Wode – Uncrossing the Darkness
Wrath of Longarius – Crown of Mortis
Wretched – Decay
Wucan – Axioms
Wytch Hazel – V Lamentations
Wythersake – At War With Their Divinity

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Why This List Matters

This isn’t just a playlist, it’s a historical snapshot of metal in 2025. From underground demos to global arena acts, this year proved that metal is not fading, it’s evolving, expanding, and thriving.

At Heavy Metal Merchant, we’re proud to support the scene at every level, from cult classics to the next generation of legends.

If you’re building your collection, discovering new bands, or tracking the evolution of heavy music, this list stands as one of the most complete metal release archives of 2025 anywhere online.

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