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The Year In Review – Top 10 Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Albums of 2025

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“Who the fuck is Justin Bieber?” – Ozzy Osbourne

There’s not much to celebrate in rock and metal music in the same year when we lost the one and only John Michael “Ozzy” Osbourne. Nothing will ever be the same without the Prince of Darkness, the Madman, The Wizard of Ozz. There isn’t a single artist or band reviewed in the history of The Headbanging Moose that wasn’t influenced in several ways by Ozzy and, of course, by Black Sabbath. It is a very sad year indeed. However, Ozzy was always in a great mood, always happy, and I’m sure that, wherever he is now, he wants to see us all smiling and laughing, because that’s what life is all about. He also wants us to keep attending rock and metal concerts to have a good time with our loved ones, with our closest friends, just like Keith Ibbitson of Metal Paparazzi and I did so many times this year, covering incredible bands the likes of Blackbraid, Ne Obliviscaris, Cattle Decapitation, Blind Guardian, and so on. I’ve also had the utmost pleasure of seeing the mighty Judas Priest in Dalhalla, Sweden, a dream come true for this fanboy here, and I can’t wait to “run for my life” in 2026. Having said all that, let’s honor the life of Ozzy with The Headbanging Moose’s Top 10 Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Albums of 2025, excluding EP’s, best of’s and live albums, and keep on rockin’ like the Madman until our very last breath!

1. Blackbraid – Blackbraid III (REVIEW)
Behold the stunning next chapter in the musical and spiritual journey of the witch hawk of Black Metal hailing from the Adirondack Mountains.
Best song of the album: Wardrums At Dawn On The Day Of My Death

2. Werewolves – The Ugliest of All (REVIEW)
The torchbearers of “Caveman Death Metal” continuing to annihilate intellects with an unlistenable barrage of truly hideous music.
Best song of the album: The Ugliest of All

3. Testament – Para Bellum (REVIEW)
Let’s prepare for war to the sound of the breathtaking fourteenth studio album by California’s own masters of old school Thrash Metal.
Best song of the album: Para Bellum

4. Helloween – Giants & Monsters (REVIEW)
These German giants of Heavy Metal and monsters of Rock N’ Roll are back with their ass-kicking seventeenth studio album.
Best song of the album: Majestic

5. An Abstract Illusion – The Sleeping City (REVIEW)
This incredible Swedish Progressive Death and Black Metal entity returns with their heaviest and most atmospheric work to date.
Best song of the album: Like a Geyser Ever Erupting

6. Allegaeon – The Ossuary Lens (REVIEW)
World domination awaits to the sound of the striking new beast by one of the must-see bands of the current tech death scene worldwide.
Best song of the album: The Swarm

7. 1914 – Viribus Unitis (REVIEW)
Trench warfare meets blackened death and doom in 1914’s fourth onslaught of war-torn fury.
Best song of the album: 1918 Pt 3: ADE (A Duty to Escape)

8. Cryptopsy – An Insatiable Violence (REVIEW)
Canada’s own Death Metal machine returns with their ruthless ninth studio album.
Best song of the album: Until There’s Nothing Left

9. Baest – Colossal (REVIEW)
Back from the fires of Denmark, this unstoppable creature will crush you with their fourth studio album.
Best song of the album: Colossus

10. Diabolizer – Murderous Revelations (REVIEW)
The torchbearers of diabolical abomination unite once again to drag us down into the fiery abysses of Turkish Death Metal without warning.
Best song of the album: Deathmarch of the Murderous Tyrant

And here we have the runner-ups, completing the top 20 for the year:

11. Lorna Shore – I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me (REVIEW)
12. Impureza – Alcázares (REVIEW)
13. Crimson Shadows – Whispers of War (REVIEW)
14. Primal Fear – Domination (REVIEW)
15. Serenity In Murder – Timeless Reverie (REVIEW)
16. Khôra – Ananke (REVIEW)
17. Panzerchrist – Maleficium – Part 2 (REVIEW)
18. Ominous Ruin – Requiem (REVIEW)
19. Wrath of Belial – Embers of Dead Empires (REVIEW)
20. Grima – Nightside (REVIEW)

Not only that, here’s once again our Top 10 EP’s of 2025, proving once and for all that the duration of an album is not that important in the end. As long as the music is great, the whole thing can be only one second long, like the classic “You Suffer” by Napalm Death!

1. When Plagues Collide – Kingmaker (REVIEW)
2. De Profundis – The Gospel Of Rot (REVIEW)
3. Fimbul Winter – What Once Was (REVIEW)
4. NecroticGoreBeast – Brute (REVIEW)
5. Serpent Corpse – Retaliate (REVIEW)
6. Akouphenom – Connections To The Erebus (REVIEW)
7. Necht – The Inevitable Suffering (REVIEW)
8. Discovery Through Torment – Telesynthetic Rebirth (REVIEW)
9. Der Rote Milan – Verlust (REVIEW)
10. Eleine – We Stand United (REVIEW)

Do you agree with our list? What are your top 10 albums of 2025? Also, don’t forget to tune in every Tuesday at 10pm BRT on Rádio Coringão to enjoy the best of classic and underground metal with Jorge Diaz and his Timão Metal, and every Thursday at 8pm UTC+2 on Midnight Madness Metal e-Radio for the best of underground metal with The Headbanging Moose Show!

Metal Xmas and a Headbanging New Year! See you in 2026!

And of course, as we really don’t like those boring Christmas songs here on The Headbanging Moose, we’ll leave you with what’s perhaps the most emotional and strongest metal hymn of the year, the charity version of “War Pigs”, by Black Sabbath, recorded by Judas Priest and with Ozzy himself sharing the vocal duties with the Metal God Rob Halford! This is the epitome of rock and metal music!

Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses…

Album Review – Diabolizer / Murderous Revelations (2025)

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The torchbearers of diabolical abomination unite once again armed with their sophomore opus, dragging us down into the fiery abysses of Turkish Death Metal without warning.

Having remained a consistent force in the underground, Kadıköy, Turkey’s own malevolent Death Metal beast Diabolizer is back from the pits of the netherworld with their sophomore offering, the ruthless Murderous Revelations, following up on their venomous debut EP Apokalypse and their critically acclaimed, demolishing first full-length album Khalkedonian Death. Recorded at Mezar Sound Studios (vocals and drums) and by the band members on their own (guitars and bass), mixed and mastered by Emre Bingöl, and displaying a sulfurous, incendiary artwork by Dechristianize Art, the new album by vocalist Abomination, guitarists Can and Mustafa, bassist Malik, and drummer Aberrant brings to our avid ears savage riffing and blasting drums with gargantuan vocals, dragging us down into its fiery abysses without warning.

Just like in their previous album it’s pedal to the metal already from the very first second in Into the Depths of Diseased Minds, a lecture in Death Metal spearheaded by the demonic guttural by Abomination; and Aberrant destroys his enemies like a bulldozer in Hogtied in Razorwire, offering us all exactly what we need to bang our heads like true servants of chaos and hatred. Purulent Divinity in Black Flames carries one of the darkest song names ever crafted by Diabolizer, and the music exhales all that darkness thanks to the Stygian, visceral riffs by Can and Mustafa, supported by the thunderous bass by Malik, followed by Seeds of the Dethroned, the epitome of Turkish Death Metal at its finest, with the band blasting our faces with their demented riffs and solos, nonstop beats and fills, and the always venomous roars by Aberration.

Then investing in an absurdly heavy, neck-breaking sonority, the band will pulverize our cranial skulls in Set the World Ablaze (Infernal Dawn), one of those Death Metal songs that transpire brutality, violence and obscurity, whereas Bloodsteam Bonegrinder beautifully summarizes their core essence, with the inhumane growls by Aberration walking hand in hand with the apocalyptic, lethal riffage by Can and Mustafa until the very end. As mentioned already, those Turkish savages definitely know how to properly name their songs, with Deathmarch of the Murderous Tyrant showcasing an overdose of infuriated beats and fills by Aberrant that sound like the soundtrack to Armageddon. And finally, there’s no hope in sight as their last breath of vile and grim Death Metal comes in the form of Into the Jaws of Cerberus, with Can and Mustafa once again delivering crisp, striking riffs and solos in the name of extreme music.

From the frantic aggression of the instruments to the savagery displayed in the vocals, everything about Murderous Revelations feels like a strong continuation from their supreme debut album in 2021, which already saw them establish a loyal following. Hence, don’t forget to follow those unrelenting, talented Turkish servants of death on Facebook and on Instagram, to stream their devastating music on Spotify, and above all that, to purchase their demented new album from their own BandCamp, from the Dark Descent Records’ BandCamp, or from the Me Saco Un Ojo Records’ BandCamp, keeping the fires of old school, no shenanigans Death Metal burning like the pits of hell. The return of Diabolizer is an essential moment in the Death Metal calendar for 2025, and you better not miss it or you’ll have to face their fury and suffer in the hands of one of the best bands in the current extreme music scene worldwide.

Best moments of the album: Into the Depths of Diseased Minds, Seeds of the Dethroned, Bloodsteam Bonegrinder and Deathmarch of the Murderous Tyrant.

Worst moments of the album: None.

Released in 2025 Dark Descent Records/Me Saco Un Ojo Records

Track listing
1. Into the Depths of Diseased Minds 4:51
2. Hogtied in Razorwire 5:15
3. Purulent Divinity in Black Flames 5:41
4. Seeds of the Dethroned 4:25
5. Set the World Ablaze (Infernal Dawn) 5:21
6. Bloodsteam Bonegrinder 4:06
7. Deathmarch of the Murderous Tyrant 4:15
8. Into the Jaws of Cerberus 5:03

Band members
Abomination – vocals
Can – guitars
Mustafa – guitars
Malik – bass
Aberrant – drums