Last year, I attempted to post a list of all the albums and EPs I heard about. I split this compilation into two parts, posting the first at 6 months and the second at the end of December. I didn’t really like the way it worked out, so I’m trying something different for 2025 and sharing new releases quarterly. I am dividing albums and EPs into separate posts, though. That much is staying the same.

Also, in as many cases as possible, I am linking Apple Music profiles. While I continue to use Spotify when building my playlists, I do understand that many artists have conflicting emotions in regard to that particular streaming service. Therefore, I will attempt to send traffic to your alternative platforms. (Release dates may differ, depending on when the album hit Apple. I have used the dates posted by the bands/artists.)

• Skies of Terra – Dreamcatcher [1/1]
• Hobokin – The Rebellion [1/3]
• The Journals Kept – Campfire [1/3]
• Black Cat Bill – Floral Swords: Kuro Neko Sama [1/5]
• Tremonti – The End Will Show Us How [1/10]
• Gnostician – Unification as an Art [1/10]
• The Obsidian Resurrection – As Darkness Falls [1/10]
• Total Radio Silence – The Stories We Tell Ourselves [1/12]
• Animal Ion – Introspection [1/15]
• Nail Bite – Nostalgia [1/17]
• Featured – All Mouth and No Trousers [1/17]
• Beatific – Life Under Tension [1/24]
• Divine Shade – Fragments, Vol. 1 [1/26]
• Deified – Defacto Flame [1/31]
• Jonathan Hultén – Eyes of the Living Night [1/31]
• Six Hours For A Lifetime – 21 [2/5]
• Of Grace – Vindicta [2/7]
• Days of Jupiter – The World Was Never Enough [2/7]
• Wraithlurk – Crucified [2/12]
• Moon Fever – Forever Sleep [2/14]
• Horizon Theory – Radio Silence! [2/14]
• Hands Like Houses – Atmospherics [2/14]
• Bloody Pineapples – Bloody Pineapples [2/14]
• Touch of Red – In Our Nature [2/14]
• Crying Vessel – Sepulchers: The Maiden [2/14]
• Crying Vessel – Sepulchers: The Servant [2/14]
• Spiders – Sharp Objects [2/14]
• Corlyx – Purple Pain [2/14]
• Onioroshi – Shrine [2/18]
• Tricky Shoreline – Hummingbird [2/21]
• Sinclair Noire – Bone Orchard [2/21]
• Dirty Honey  – Mayhem and Revelry Live [2/21]
• Jason Bieler and the Baron Von Bielski Orchestra – The Escapologist [2/21]
• Delphi Ravens – Keeper of Secrets [2/21]
• War Within Dreams – The Blue [2/22]
• Conan and the Malis – Going for a Walk [2/23]
• Starbender – Social Engineering [2/27]
• Caleb Hyles, Judge & Jury – The Darkness Before the Dawn [2/28]
• Kings of Karma – Bite the Bullet [3/1]
• VVitch – Nefarious [3/1]
• The Royal Ritual – Retract in Circles [3/4]
• Confessions of a Serial Killer – Audio Violence [3/7]
• CrosseD – No Pulse [3/10]
• Mean Silver Machine – No Way Out [3/14]
• Dead Rabbitts, Judge & Jury, Escape the Fate – Redefined [3/14]
• I Rose From the Dead – Lost in the Woods [3/14]
• Mainframe Bird – Ghosts Never Clap [3/21]