Metal hammer - top 50 albums of 2025
| 1 | Ghost | Skeletá | 2025 |
| 2 | Deftones | Private music | 2025 |
| 3 | Castle rat | The bestiary | 2025 |
| 4 | Spiritbox | Tsunami sea | 2025 |
| 5 | Mersa | The spin | 2025 |
| 6 | Deafheaven | Lonely people with power | 2025 |
| 7 | Creeper | Sanquivore II : Mistress of Death | 2025 |
| 8 | Turnstile | Never enough | 2025 |
| 9 | Lorna Shore | I feel the everblack festering within me | 2025 |
| 10 | Employed to serve | Fallen star | 2025 |
| 10 | Wardruna | Birna | 2025 |
| 11 | Conjurer | Unself | 2025 |
| 12 | Paradise lost | Ascension | 2025 |
| 13 | Imperial triumphant | Goldstar | 2025 |
| 15 | The Callous Daoboys | I don't want to see you in heaven | 2025 |
| 16 | AFI | Silver bleeds the black sun… | 2025 |
| 17 | Architects | The sky, the earth & all between | 2025 |
| 18 | Bleed from within | Zenith | 2025 |
| 19 | Coroner | Dissonance theory | 2025 |
| 20 | Blackbraid | Blackbraid III | 2025 |
| 21 | Havukruunu | Tavastland | 2025 |
| 22 | Bloodywood | Nu Delhi | 2025 |
| 24 | Rivers of Nihil | Rivers of Nihil | 2025 |
| 24 | Rwake | The return of magik | 2025 |
| 25 | Halestorm | Everest | 2025 |
| 26 | Blood vulture | Die dose | 2025 |
| 27 | Agriculture | The spiritual sound | 2025 |
| 28 | Backxwash | Only dust remains | 2025 |
| 29 | Sleep token | Even in Arcadia | 2025 |
| 30 | Cwfen | Sorrows | 2025 |
| 31 | Malevolence | Where only the truth is spoken | 2025 |
| 32 | Propagandhi | At peace | 2025 |
| 33 | Gaals wyrd | Braiding the stories | 2025 |
| 34 | Calva Louise | Edge of the abyss | 2025 |
| 35 | Deadguy | Near-death travel services | 2025 |
| 36 | Orbit culture | Death above life | 2025 |
| 37 | Jonathan Hultén | Eyes of the living night | 2025 |
| 38 | Hexvessel | Nocturne | 2025 |
| 39 | Margarita with Cult | Strung out in hell | 2025 |
| 40 | Der Weg einer Freiheit | Innern | 2025 |
| 41 | Machine head | Unatoned | 2025 |
| 42 | Spirit world | Helldorado | 2025 |
| 43 | Vukova | My God has got a gun | 2025 |
| 44 | Wytch hazel | V : Lamentations | 2025 |
| 45 | Paleface Swiss | Cursed | 2025 |
| 46 | Beyond extinction | Where they gather | 2025 |
| 47 | Testament | Para bellum | 2025 |
| 48 | Katatonia | Nightmares as extensions of the waking state | 2025 |
| 49 | Lacuna coil | Sleepless empire | 2025 |
| 50 | Slomatics | Atomicult | 2025 |
| 16 | AFI | Silver bleeds the black sun… | 2025 |
| 27 | Agriculture | The spiritual sound | 2025 |
| 17 | Architects | The sky, the earth & all between | 2025 |
| 28 | Backxwash | Only dust remains | 2025 |
| 46 | Beyond extinction | Where they gather | 2025 |
| 20 | Blackbraid | Blackbraid III | 2025 |
| 18 | Bleed from within | Zenith | 2025 |
| 26 | Blood vulture | Die dose | 2025 |
| 22 | Bloodywood | Nu Delhi | 2025 |
| 15 | The Callous Daoboys | I don't want to see you in heaven | 2025 |
| 3 | Castle rat | The bestiary | 2025 |
| 11 | Conjurer | Unself | 2025 |
| 19 | Coroner | Dissonance theory | 2025 |
| 7 | Creeper | Sanquivore II : Mistress of Death | 2025 |
| 30 | Cwfen | Sorrows | 2025 |
| 35 | Deadguy | Near-death travel services | 2025 |
| 6 | Deafheaven | Lonely people with power | 2025 |
| 2 | Deftones | Private music | 2025 |
| 10 | Employed to serve | Fallen star | 2025 |
| 33 | Gaals wyrd | Braiding the stories | 2025 |
| 1 | Ghost | Skeletá | 2025 |
| 25 | Halestorm | Everest | 2025 |
| 21 | Havukruunu | Tavastland | 2025 |
| 38 | Hexvessel | Nocturne | 2025 |
| 37 | Jonathan Hultén | Eyes of the living night | 2025 |
| 13 | Imperial triumphant | Goldstar | 2025 |
| 48 | Katatonia | Nightmares as extensions of the waking state | 2025 |
| 49 | Lacuna coil | Sleepless empire | 2025 |
| 34 | Calva Louise | Edge of the abyss | 2025 |
| 41 | Machine head | Unatoned | 2025 |
| 31 | Malevolence | Where only the truth is spoken | 2025 |
| 39 | Margarita with Cult | Strung out in hell | 2025 |
| 5 | Mersa | The spin | 2025 |
| 36 | Orbit culture | Death above life | 2025 |
| 45 | Paleface Swiss | Cursed | 2025 |
| 12 | Paradise lost | Ascension | 2025 |
| 32 | Propagandhi | At peace | 2025 |
| 24 | Rivers of Nihil | Rivers of Nihil | 2025 |
| 24 | Rwake | The return of magik | 2025 |
| 9 | Lorna Shore | I feel the everblack festering within me | 2025 |
| 29 | Sleep token | Even in Arcadia | 2025 |
| 50 | Slomatics | Atomicult | 2025 |
| 42 | Spirit world | Helldorado | 2025 |
| 4 | Spiritbox | Tsunami sea | 2025 |
| 47 | Testament | Para bellum | 2025 |
| 8 | Turnstile | Never enough | 2025 |
| 43 | Vukova | My God has got a gun | 2025 |
| 10 | Wardruna | Birna | 2025 |
| 40 | Der Weg einer Freiheit | Innern | 2025 |
| 44 | Wytch hazel | V : Lamentations | 2025 |
(maandag 15 december 2025)