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Top 20 Albums Of The Year (2025 picks and intrusive thoughts)
Every year I take part in GHOSTCULTMAG.COM's albums of the year. [link down below] It's a great time, I love and honored to be apart of it. Cause the numbers of contributors, rules and guidelines that they have in place, plus my extreme taste in music, a lot of my picks don't make the cut. So here are my picks of Top 20 Albums of 2025 along with and intrusive thoughts.
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20, The Armed - The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed
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19, Car Bomb - Tiles Whisper Dreams
(so fuckin good)
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18, Bodybox - 3
(This has to be what it sounds like to take a head dive into a wood chipper)
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17, Whitechapel - Hymns in Dissonance
(yes, please.)
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16, Meat Mallet - Back To The Barbecue
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15, Rotten Resurrection - Swamp Slams
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14, Traitors - Phobias
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13, To Obey a Tyrant - Frigore Inferni
(I feel like this is what Sauron would mosh to)
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12, Meth Leppard - Gatekeepers
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11, Peeling Flesh - PF Radio 2
(Sometimes you need to remind Mother Fuckers you're from the streets!)
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10, Gutrectomy - ANGST
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9, Larceny Roe - Extraction
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8, Pigpen - Mental Madness
(Cause you watched the Bear and like to mosh)
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7, Stolen Gun - Stolen Gun
(Its a flashback to the myspace era of metal)
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6, Cannabis Crypt - Vile Breed
(Hold my bong, I got some moshing to do! wait! let me hit that one more time!)
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5, Synestia - Premonitions
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4, Pintglass uk - Pintglass
(this is the vibe im getting.. It's 7:45 am, your on a 3 day bender of cheap beer, coke, hookers, gas station dick pills with your mates and you're leaving the jobsite pissed and jobless. You just knocked out the foreman cause he just caught you steal copper out of the walls. But now you can make it to your daughters dance recital to fight your ex wife's husband of 8 years to win back the love of your family. But first finish up that beer, take a bump and go kick his ass cause your boys are meeting you at the pub for a liquid lunch.)
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(The next 3 picks were so extremely hard to pick who goes where.)
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3, Netherwalker - Odyssey of Respair
( Are you like me, you love D&D but hate all that folky ass music that goes with it? "but there's Viking, Pirate, Dwarven Metal and don't for get Christopher Lee's power metal albums!" yeah we don't want to hear that shit either! We a Murder Hobos and our bloodlust hungers for something more brutal! Well, it looks like we just rolled a Natural 20 and finally got slaughter that annoying fuckin bard for playing that soft ass shit for so long.. Someone check on Matt Mercer cause we are about to kill every NPC and destroy Exandria!
THIS ALBUM IS ABSOLUTE FIRE!)
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2, Despised Icon - Shadow Work
(This album is perfect, I expect nothing less from Despised Icon! It)
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1, The Acacia Strain - You are safe from God here
(The way this band has grown over the years and has always stayed unforgivingly heavy, is beautiful. They wrote the perfect soundtrack to Armageddon and for 37 mins and 50 seconds you might be safe from god here, but no one else will be!)
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