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| List of years in heavy metal music |
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| (table) |
This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2025.
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | Battlesnake | Dawn of the Exultants and the Hunt for the Shepherd [336] |
| Dawn of Ashes | Infecting the Scars [337] | |
| Gaahls Wyrd | Braiding the Stories [338] | |
| Katatonia | Nightmares as Extensions of the Waking State [339] | |
| King Parrot | A Young Person's Guide to King Parrot [340] | |
| Mystic Circle | Kriegsgötter MMXXV (compilation album) [341] | |
| Ophiolatry | Serpent's Verdict [342] | |
| Orthodox | A Door Left Open [343] | |
| Volbeat | God of Angels Trust [344] | |
| 9 | King 810 | Rustbelt Nu Metal [345] |
| 13 | Byzantine | Harbingers [346] |
| Fairyland | The Story Remains [347] | |
| Fallujah | Xenotaph [348] | |
| The Hu | Echos of Thunder (EP) [349] | |
| Ice Nine Kills | I Heard They Kill Live 2 (live album) [350] | |
| King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard | Phantom Island [351] | |
| Saxon | Eagles Over Hellfest (live album) [352] | |
| Sigh | I Saw the World's End – Hangman's Hymn MMXXV (re-recorded album) [353] | |
| 20 | Alestorm | The Thunderfist Chronicles [354] |
| Black Majesty | Oceans of Black [355] | |
| Cryptopsy | An Insatiable Violence [356] | |
| Helheim | HrabnaR / Ad Vesa [357] | |
| Jamie's Elsewhere | Alchemical (EP) [358] | |
| Malevolence | Where Only the Truth Is Spoken [359] | |
| 27 | Botch | 061524 (live album) [360] |
| Crystal Viper | The Live Quest (live album) [361] | |
| Deadguy | Near-Death Travel Services [362] | |
| Heaven Shall Burn | Heimat [363] | |
| Higher Power | There's Love in This World if You Want It [364] | |
| Lord Belial | Unholy Trinity [365] | |
| Motörhead | The Manticore Tapes (compilation album) [366] | |
| Shadow of Intent | Imperium Delirium [367] | |
| Sodom | The Arsonist [368] | |
| Warlord | The Lost Archangel (compilation album) [369] |
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | Visions of Atlantis | Armada Live Over Europe (live album) [370] |
| Warkings | Armageddon [371] | |
| Wytch Hazel | V: Lamentations [372] | |
| 11 | Beartooth | I Was a... Live (live album) [373] |
| Born of Osiris | Through Shadows [374] | |
| Bring Me the Horizon | Lo-Files (remix album) [375] | |
| Calva Louise | Edge of the Abyss [376] | |
| Diamond Head | Live and Electric (live album) [377] | |
| Enter Shikari | Live at Wembley (live album) [378] | |
| Hell | Submersus [379] | |
| Split Chain | Motionblur [380] | |
| 18 | Abigail Williams | A Void Within Existence [381] |
| Ashes of Ares | New Messiahs [382] | |
| Daron Malakian and Scars on Broadway | Addicted to the Violence [383] | |
| Five Finger Death Punch | Best Of – Volume 1 (re-recorded compilation album) [384] | |
| Obituary | Godly Beings (box set) [385] | |
| Slaughter to Prevail | Grizzly [386] | |
| 22 | Heaven Below | The Majestic Twelve [387] |
| 25 | Beheaded | Għadam [388] |
| Black Magnet | Megamantra [389] | |
| Enuff Z'Nuff | Xtra Cherries [390] | |
| Gwar | The Return of Gor Gor (EP) [391] |
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | Agriculture | The Spiritual Sound [480] |
| Author & Punisher | Nocturnal Birding [481] | |
| Bloodred Hourglass | We Should Be Buried Like This [482] | |
| Hooded Menace | Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration [483] | |
| Michael Schenker Group | Don't Sell Your Soul [484] | |
| Kirk Windstein | Ethereal Waves [485] | |
| Ofermod | Drakosophia [486] | |
| Orbit Culture | Death Above Life [487] | |
| OvO | Gemma [488] | |
| Today Is the Day | Never Give In [489] | |
| Vernon Reid | Hoodoo Telemetry [490] | |
| Vimic | Open Your Omen [491] | |
| 10 | 40 Below Summer | Untethered [492] |
| John 5 | Ghost [493] | |
| Nils Patrik Johansson | War and Peace [494] | |
| Sanguisugabogg | Hideous Aftermath [495] | |
| Testament | Para Bellum [496] | |
| 14 | Sunn O))) | Eternity’s Pillars b/w Raise the Chalice & Reverential (EP) [497] |
| 17 | Age of Ruin | Nothingman [498] |
| Battle Beast | Steelbound [499] | |
| Biohazard | Divided We Fall [500] | |
| Carach Angren | The Cult of Kariba (EP) [501] | |
| Coroner | Dissonance Theory [502] | |
| Erdling | Mana [503] | |
| Evoken | Mendacium [504] | |
| Extortionist | Stare into the Seething Wounds [505] | |
| Human Fortress | Stronghold [506] | |
| Immortal Disfigurement | Hell Is Right in Front of Us (EP) [507] | |
| Internal Bleeding | Settle All Scores [508] | |
| Sabaton | Legends [509] | |
| Tombs | Feral Darkness [510] | |
| Unto Others | I Believe in Halloween II (EP) [511] | |
| Wretched | Decay [512] | |
| 23 | Krallice | No Hope (EP) [513] |
| 24 | The Acacia Strain | You Are Safe from God Here [514] |
| Adept | Blood Covenant [515] | |
| Bangalore Choir | Rapid Fire Succession: On Target Part II [516] | |
| Coldrain | Optimize (EP) [517] | |
| Conjurer | Unself [518] | |
| Dayseeker | Creature in the Black Night [519] | |
| Doro | Warriors of the Sea (compilation album) [520] | |
| Ektomorf | Heretic [521] | |
| Five Finger Death Punch | Best Of – Volume 2 (compilation album of re-recordings) [522] | |
| Leprous | An Evening of Atonement (live album) [523] | |
| Nine Treasures | Seeking the Absolute [524] | |
| Ronnie Romero | Backbone [525] | |
| Seraina Telli | Green [526] | |
| Serj Tankian | Covers, Collaborations & Collages (compilation album) [527] | |
| Soulfly | Chama [528] | |
| Sumo Cyco | Neon Void [529] | |
| Warrant | The Speed of Metal [530] | |
| Wino | Create or Die [531] | |
| 31 | Aria | When Tomorrow Comes [532] |
| Avatar | Don't Go in the Forest [533] | |
| Aviana | Void [534] | |
| Chimaira | Creepers Vol. 1 (compilation album) [535] | |
| Currents | All That Follows (EP) [536] | |
| Despised Icon | Shadow Work [537] | |
| King 810 | Rustbelt Numetal 2 [538] | |
| Mägo de Oz | Malicia: la noche de las brujas [539] | |
| Moonspell | Opus Diabolicum (live album) [540] | |
| Mystic Circle | Hexenbrand 1486 [541] | |
| Primitive Man | Observance [542] | |
| Runemagick | Cycle of the Dying Sun (Dawn of Ashen Realms) [543] | |
| Smash into Pieces | Armaheaven [544] | |
| Solence | Angels Calling [545] | |
| Stephen Brodsky | Cut to the Core Vol. 1 (covers album) [546] | |
| Trivium | Struck Dead (EP) [547] | |
| Unprocessed | Angel [548] |
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | Blood Red Throne | Siltskin [582] |
| Enthroned | Ashspawn [583] | |
| Persefone | Live in Andorra (live album) [584] | |
| Tesseract | Radar (live album) [585] | |
| Upon a Burning Body | Blood of the Bull [586] | |
| 9 | Sakis Tolis | Everything Comes to an End [587] |
| 12 | Dangerous Toys | Demolition (compilation album) [588] |
| Lord of the Lost | Opvs Noir Vol. 2 [589] | |
| Rotten Sound | Mass Extinction (EP) [590] | |
| Volumes | Mirror Touch [591] | |
| Walk in Darkness | Gods Don't Take Calls [592] |