Best NEW METAL Albums January 2025

[@DemonmachinE]

One big omission here, IMO - The Great Old Ones - Kadath. Especially with the Event Horizon shirt. Check it out. great album.

[@Rue669]

I’ve been looking for a metal channel like this. Thank you.

[@forgemastermetal]

There’s lots of em! Check out Metal Trenches, Metal Meltdown, Wyattxhim, Thralls of Metal, and Mad Mike. Great guys.

[@scottburnside3218]

That t-shirt is sic my bro love event horizon such an underated film

[@cueshma]

Thank you for the video; it introduced me to a few new bands. Fleshbore - Painted Paradise is the best album I've heard this year in case you may have missed it

[@MisterBrimm]

Here we go again, another full year of hundreds of metal albums to get through...

[@forgemastermetal]

Yeeep lol

[@directedbyxanderjones8329]

I reviewed that new Clouds album on The Great Metal Debate. I'm glad y'all included it on your list.

[@forgemastermetal]

It's very good!!

[@kauffeemug]

Nice list dudes! I finally got around to listening to everything I wanted to from the 31st! Here’s my favorites of January. 1. Relics of Humanity - Absolute Dismal Domain 2. Barshasketh - Antinomian Asceticism 3. Void of Hope - Proof of Existence 4. Harakiri for the Sky - Scorched Earth 5. Faithxtractor - Loathing and The Noose 6. Gored Embrace - In the Presence of a Malevolent Soul 7. Mutagenic Host - The Diseased Machine 8. The Great Old Ones - Kadath 9. Master Spy - Maze Runner 10. Synaptic - Enter the Void

[@J_Stamps86]

That Event Horizon t-shirt is just awesome

[@BenFortier]

Mega shout out to Cult of Cult for their amazing designs. www dot thecultofcult dot com

[@forgemastermetal]

Shout out to Cult of Cult!! Amazing merch.

[@Ardroth]

I was surprised to see Tremonti, but you guys are spot-on. Love him or hate him, the dude is a riff monster and always has been. Personally I had a tough time getting through Patriarkh and HFTS... both bands I've enjoyed in the past, but these latest offerings fell flat. My personal pick for January is Great American Ghost "tragedy of the commons". Literally just dropped on 1/31, probably after you recorded this vid. Total banger of an album from a local New Hampshire band, which almost never happens. These guys are legit tho. Highly recommended!

[@forgemastermetal]

Whoa, we never heard of bands from NH! Gonna have to scope it.

[@gavintshepho9606]

Tremonti my favorite album of January 🎸🤘

[@jcubed824]

Fantastic list as always! I would add "Kadath" by The Great Old Ones as a stellar release in January. I will say that if January was any indication, 2025 is going to be an INSANE year for metal.

[@tsvetirasheva634]

Dear guys, the list is nice, but how could you miss The Great Old Ones? Their new album is masterpiece, again 🖤

[@forgemastermetal]

We miss things all the time - that’s what you folks in the community are for 💚

[@bighissy392]

Continued excellence. My go to channel. Always look forward to new vids. Thank you!

[@forgemastermetal]

Thanks pal!

[@rockmovieswithtyler1989]

Also, definitely agree with Am I In Trouble? , Patriarkh and Harakiri For The Sky

[@loonyman83]

Man I got a few albums I need to listen to thanks to this list. Thanks for sharing boys. I'd say a big omission from your list would be Sypnatic's Enter The Void. Definitely a great Tech Death album that is worth your time, and at only 34 mins long it won't take you too long.

[@forgemastermetal]

Great call! Thanks for the heads up!

[@HansiWurstus]

You totally missed Germany's BURN DOWN EDEN with DISMAL EPIPHANY. It's a banger!

[@faustianspirit573]

My list: 1) The Great Old Ones - Kadath (Atmospheric Black Metal with Sludge elements) 2) Drowning The Light - Conquer Or Serve I-V (Atmospheric Black Metal) 3) Lunar - Tempora Mutantur (Progressive Death Metal) 4) Labyrinth - In The Vanishing Echoes If Goodbye (Progressive Power Metal) 5) Century - Sign Of The Storm (Heavy Metal) 6) Hesperia - Fra Li Monti Sibillini (Black Medieval Winter Over The Sybilline Mounts) (Atmospheric Black Metal with Folk elements) 7) Descarnado - El Eterno Odio De Las Almas Desterradas (Technical Deathcore) 8) Pentagram - Lightning In The Bottle (Doom Metal) 9) Necromaniac - Sciomancy, Malediction & Rites Abominable (Blackened Thrash Metal with Doom elements) 10) Tormentor Tyrant - Excessive Escalation Of Cruelty (Death-Thrash) 11) The Obsidian Resurrection - As Darkness Falls (Symphonic Death Metal) 12) Häxkapell - Om Jordens Blod Och Urgavens Grepp (Atmospheric Black Metal with Folk elements) 13) The Halo Effect - March Of The Unheard (Melodic Death Metal) 14) Hazzerd - The Third Dimension (Thrash Metal) 15) Sarcator - Swarming Angels & Flies (Blackened Thrash Metal) 16) Avatarium - Between You, God, The Devil And The Dead (Psychedelic Rock) 17) Stick To Your Guns - Keep Planting Flowers (Metalcore) 18) Shrieking Demons - The Festering Dwellers (Death Metal) 19) Harakiri For The Sky - Scorched Earth (Blackgaze) 20) Fleshbore - Painted Paradise (Technical Death Metal)

[@msrcast]

That Lunar album!!

[@wheelsofmercury]

@@faustianspirit573Forgot to mention that Great Old Ones album!

[@faustianspirit573]

@@wheelsofmercury First AOTY candidate of 2025

[@DeathKingKong]

“Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see”

[@brainsmasher666]

The return of Naked Whipper was my favorite of January.

[@Yamkemper1]

Love it! This really was the best January I’ve heard in a while. Have yall thought about doing a podcast to delve deeper into what you love about metal? Maybe a longer KZbin vids? Take it easy 🤘🏻

[@forgemastermetal]

We will definitely consider that! Thanks for the suggestion.

[@Yamkemper1]

@ sweet I listen to your videos at work in between rocking out and I’m like: I could listen to some metal talk from these dudes.

[@beans8130]

Thank you for bringing mutagenic host to my attention! Absolutely digging this one. I really wish I could get into black metal...I just cannot get past the vocals. Been spinning coffin feeder this week & wormtales

[@forgemastermetal]

Nice!!

[@andrewgumpp7056]

Sick list boys. January has been a feast for black metal enjoyers like myself.

[@dmphax]

The Halo Effect 🔥🔥🔥🤘🤘🔥🔥🔥

[@jefferys9593]

So many good releases, early in the year. I was waiting on Mutagenic Host and Halo Effect 🤘🏽🤘🏽

[@forgemastermetal]

Yeah man, those are two huge ones.

[@rockmovieswithtyler1989]

🤯Finally, I'm not alone when it comes to Tremonti!🤗🫡🤘🏻💀

[@cowmark67]

Though it may not dominate my top favorites, I've been listening to a fair amount of doom & sludge this month so I'm excited to check out you picks. Here are my favorites of the month. 1. The Obsidian Resurrection - As Darkness Falls (symphonic death metal/death-thrash) 2. Harakiri for the Sky - Scorched Earth (post-black metal) 3. Am I in Trouble? - Spectrum (avant-garde black metal) 4. The Great Old Ones - Kadath (post-black metal/progressive black metal) 5. Geistlicht - Unburied Remnants of the Ancients (atmospheric black metal/melodic black metal) 6. Mutagenic Host - The Diseased Machine (death metal) 7. Skaldr - Saṃsṛ (melodic black metal) 8. The Sun Through a Telescope - Warm, Grey Day (doomgaze/post-metal/death-doom) 9. Obscure Sphinx - Emovere EP (post-metal/sludge metal) 10. Regnum Noricum - Lost Legacy (black metal)

[@forgemastermetal]

Awesome additions!!!

[@matthewsolomon8269]

Patriarkh was definitely my favorite of January, and will undoubtedly be in my best of the year list. Transcendent stuff. My other January picks: Barshasketh - Antinomian Asceticism Faithxtractor - Loathing and the Noose Fleshbore - Painted Paradise The Great Old Ones - Kadath Mutagenic Host - The Diseased Machine Void of Hope - Proof of Existence The Halo Effect - March of the Unheard Synaptic - Enter the Void Am I In Trouble? - Spectrum

[@lancelazer]

Two standouts for me were the Dragonknight album which was a total surprise at how goddamn good power metal can still be and the Shrieking Demons album just perfectly encapsulates everything I love about metal.

[@forgemastermetal]

You’ve got me intrigued!

[@ExiledAttila]

Mirar - Ascension. Check it out!

[@michaelbazany9751]

UULIATA DIGIR. Definitely check em out especially if you like weird/experimental stuff

[@mark7166]

Nothing to make fun of for including Tremonti on this list. Mark is an absolute monster of a musician, and Tremonti is one of my favorite bands ever. Although, I couldn't really get into this record. It felt like just more of the same from them, and I was like "yeah, it's cool but nah", haha.

[@jefferys9593]

Love the "Event Horizon" movie shirt. One of my favorite movies.

[@forgemastermetal]

Same!

[@jimmalloy2558]

Sick Dr. Weir shirt 🤘

[@forgemastermetal]

Mad props to Cult of Cult.

[@metal_maniac_68]

Purchased the new Halo Effect, Harakiri for the Sky and Tremonti. will have to check out Am I In Trouble

[@forgemastermetal]

Great purchases!

[@Ilnath]

Also a worthy mention Faidra - Dies Irae (ep) Bloodbark - Sacred Sound of Solitude

[@benh1467]

I didn't catch Bloodbark did a new one. Thanks for that!

[@ghastlymagician3336]

Im shocked you didnt mention this, since its seems to by both of your bread and butter, but "Sacred Sound of Soltiude" by Bloodbark, check it out and prepare to freeze your butt off. Also check out ",Vengence" by Drown in Sulfur, a blackend death core band who took familar tropes of the genre, and put a unique spin on them that made for a fun listen.

[@forgemastermetal]

Thanks! Drown in Sulphur is on this list.

[@xPushTeTx]

Patriarkh were never Batushka. Krysiuk tried to steal the name, but he lost the case in court to Drabikowski, real Batushka founder. IMHO, it is not worth to even talk about Krysiuk's music, because his reputation is destroyed. All support to real Batushka!

[@wheelsofmercury]

I feel the same way. Can’t wait until the new Batushka album comes out from Krystof and company! Hopefully Lykanthrop (aka Felix, who is in the backing choir and does a lot of KZbin black metal covers) is on the album.

[@fate5806]

@@xPushTeTx Wierszalin V is pretty good, though

[@forgemastermetal]

Dramaaaaaaaaa

[@wheelsofmercury]

Man, January just flew by! We’re already into February now? Good God… anyways, here are my favourites from this past month(?!): - Am I in Trouble? - Spectrum - Psycho-Frame - Feed (new two song EP) - Enterprise Earth - Descent into Madness (another awesome deathcore EP) - Häxkapell - Om jordens blod dur grepp (I think that’s the title? I don’t speak Swedish and I’m not about to copy and paste the whole thing.) - Necrodeath - Arimortis - Selvans - Saturnalia - Great American Ghost - Tragedy of the Commons - All That Remains - AntiFragile And I am conflicted about adding this band to the list here because they are on a sketchy record label, but I really like the new album by the Scottish black metal band Barshasketh. The record label conundrum probably will keep me from talking about it on my own channel, though.

[@forgemastermetal]

Gotta scope some of those!

[@samuelnissim2371]

I loved the palnet earth record (not a typo), also the new sulfator album, tech thrash goes brrrrr

[@forgemastermetal]

Palnet haha wtf??

[@samuelnissim2371]

@@forgemastermetal aaaaaaa sorry, it's exterior palnet from the odium nostrum channel, idk how i messed that up haha

[@getdrippy4416]

Two seconds into the video...Had to pause and buy myself an Event Horizon shirt. ⚰️💀

[@BenFortier]

Hope it was the Cult of Cult one! That's the design Brandon is wearing.

[@duncanrodd7691]

It is a great movie

[@forgemastermetal]

Shout out to Cult of Cult!!

[@Count_Deangeli]

there's another Doom band I liked with new album in January - it's called Umbersound

[@andrewkuykendall4166]

Do yourself a favor and listen to the new album from Adrift- Dry Soil. Its prop rock and sludge with black metal vocals... amazing album. Some others I really enjoyed that werent in this video are: The Great Old Ones- Kadath (black/Death) Srüda- Fury Among Ruins (Blackend Thrash?) Crochet- Cherish (Skramz/Screamo) Sarcator- Swarming Angels & Flies (Tech Trash/Death) Besna- Krásno (Post Black) Barshasketh- Antinomian Asceticism (Black Metal) The Blood Mountain Black Metal Choir- Demo I (Black Metal)

[@forgemastermetal]

That's a really intriguing album, thanks for sharing!!

[@coreydinardo5525]

Uulliata Digir's album is my favorite of January 2025. An early AOTY contender.

[@forgemastermetal]

Awesome pick!!

[@RandarosMusicworld]

Cool january on have bought The Halo Effect that fuckin rocks. But need more from january

[@johnooley6454]

Kadath by The Great Old Ones was my January fav. Check it out

[@Makkværk13]

Top Ten (in no particular order) The Halo Effect - March Of The Unheard (Melodic Death) USQUAM - Ex nihilo (Melodic Black Metal) Subterranean Lava Dragon - The Great Architect (Progressive Death Metal) Admire the Grim - Resist (Melodic Death) Lunar - Tempora Mutantur (Progressive Metal/Rock) Synaptic - Enter the Void (Technical Death Metal) On Fire - Bite The Blade (Power/Speed) Malkavian - DELUSION (Thrash/Groove Metal) Sarcator - Swarming Angels & Flies (Blackned Trash) Fleshbore - Painted Paradise (Technical/Melodic Death) Honourable mentions: December 24 Druparia - The River Above (Melodic Death) Greylotus - Motherwort (Progressive/Technical Deathcore) Lights to Remain - Damnation (Melodic Death) 2025 Clear Sky Nailstorm - Problem Solved (Trash) Shrieking Demons - The Festering Dwellers Death (Death) Time Rift - In Flight (Heavy Metal/Hard Rock) HAZZERD - The 3rd Dimension (Trash) Spesimin - Spesimin (Thrash/Death Metal/Punk) Peacebone - Blame The Bird (Psychedelic rock) Rats of Gomorrah - Infectious Vermin (Death) Pandemic - Phantoms (Trash) Faithxtractor - Loathing and the Noose (Death) Veil Of Conspiracy - Shape of Grief (Progressive doom Metal) Besna - Krásno (Post-Black/Progressive Metal) RETADOR - Earëndel (Trash) The Obsidian Resurrection - As Darkness Falls (Symphonic Black/Death/Thrash Metal) The Great Old Ones - Kadath (Post-Black Metal) Afflicta - Origin of Sorrow(Technical Death Metal) Empty Throne - Unholy (Melodic/Blackened Death Metal) Black Talon - Scenes of Agony (Trash) Forsaken Hill - The Fortress of Solitude (Melodic Death/Folk) Descarnado - El eterno odio de las almas desterradas (Technical Death Metal/Deathcore)

[@forgemastermetal]

Amazing additions, Forgemaster!!

[@DashieNegan41]

Best of January Mutagenic Host Fleshbore Sabhankra The Halo Effect Patriarkh

[@Count_Deangeli]

Not sure I agree with the statement that Metalcore and Deathcore are bigger than ever

[@forgemastermetal]

You don't think so?

[@Atlas-fx80]

Dragonknight - Legions. Great sympho power metal debut album. As typically for finnish bands it`s very melodic, each song is unique and the album doesn`t have issues typical for some power metal albums when it`s hard to distinguish between songs.

[@omnis1182]

@@Atlas-fx80 Power Metal is mad gay bro

[@C.good2damax]

A lot of good heavy stuff! I HFTS was pretty good and is epic. My favorite albums of January 2025 is on my channel. Check it out!

[@forgemastermetal]

Great pick!

[@adam0bt]

sweet commercial

[@forgemastermetal]

Yeah Brandon killed that

[@ejimenez182]

Patriarkh's album = Zzzzzzzzz

[@forgemastermetal]

Go back to sleep 🥱

[@Noivet666]

First!