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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 [335] |
| Dawn of Ashes | Infecting the Scars [336] | |
| Gaahls Wyrd | Braiding the Stories [337] | |
| Katatonia | Nightmares as Extensions of the Waking State [338] | |
| King Parrot | A Young Person's Guide to King Parrot [339] | |
| Mystic Circle | Kriegsgötter MMXXV (compilation album) [340] | |
| Ophiolatry | Serpent's Verdict [341] | |
| Orthodox | A Door Left Open [342] | |
| Volbeat | God of Angels Trust [343] | |
| 9 | King 810 | Rustbelt Nu Metal [344] |
| 13 | Byzantine | Harbingers [345] |
| Fairyland | The Story Remains [346] | |
| Fallujah | Xenotaph [347] | |
| The Hu | Echos of Thunder (EP) [348] | |
| Ice Nine Kills | I Heard They Kill Live 2 (live album) [349] | |
| King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard | Phantom Island [350] | |
| Saxon | Eagles Over Hellfest (live album) [351] | |
| Sigh | I Saw the World's End – Hangman's Hymn MMXXV (re-recorded album) [352] | |
| 20 | Alestorm | The Thunderfist Chronicles [353] |
| Black Majesty | Oceans of Black [354] | |
| Cryptopsy | An Insatiable Violence [355] | |
| Helheim | HrabnaR / Ad Vesa [356] | |
| Jamie's Elsewhere | Alchemical (EP) [357] | |
| Malevolence | Where Only the Truth Is Spoken [358] | |
| 27 | Botch | 061524 (live album) [359] |
| Crystal Viper | The Live Quest (live album) [360] | |
| Deadguy | Near-Death Travel Services [361] | |
| Heaven Shall Burn | Heimat [362] | |
| Higher Power | There's Love in This World If You Want It [363] | |
| Lord Belial | Unholy Trinity [364] | |
| Motörhead | The Manticore Tapes (compilation album) [365] | |
| Shadow of Intent | Imperium Delirium [366] | |
| Sodom | The Arsonist [367] | |
| Warlord | The Lost Archangel (compilation album) [368] |
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | Visions of Atlantis | Armada Live Over Europe (live album) [369] |
| Warkings | Armageddon [370] | |
| Wytch Hazel | V: Lamentations [371] | |
| 11 | Beartooth | I Was a... Live (live album) [372] |
| Born of Osiris | Through Shadows [373] | |
| Bring Me the Horizon | Lo-Files (remix album) [374] | |
| Calva Louise | Edge of the Abyss [375] | |
| Diamond Head | Live and Electric (live album) [376] | |
| Enter Shikari | Live at Wembley (live album) [377] | |
| Hell | Submersus [378] | |
| Split Chain | Motionblur [379] | |
| 18 | Abigail Williams | A Void Within Existence [380] |
| Ashes of Ares | New Messiahs [381] | |
| Daron Malakian and Scars on Broadway | Addicted to the Violence [382] | |
| Five Finger Death Punch | Best Of – Volume 1 (re-recorded compilation album) [383] | |
| Obituary | Godly Beings (box set) [384] | |
| Slaughter to Prevail | Grizzly [385] | |
| 22 | Heaven Below | The Majestic Twelve [386] |
| 25 | Beheaded | Għadam [387] |
| Black Magnet | Megamantra [388] | |
| Enuff Z'Nuff | Xtra Cherries [389] | |
| Gwar | The Return of Gor Gor (EP) [390] |
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | Agriculture | The Spiritual Sound [479] |
| Author & Punisher | Nocturnal Birding [480] | |
| Bloodred Hourglass | We Should Be Buried Like This [481] | |
| Hooded Menace | Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration [482] | |
| Michael Schenker Group | Don't Sell Your Soul [483] | |
| Kirk Windstein | Ethereal Waves [484] | |
| Ofermod | Drakosophia [485] | |
| Orbit Culture | Death Above Life [486] | |
| OvO | Gemma [487] | |
| Today Is the Day | Never Give In [488] | |
| Vernon Reid | Hoodoo Telemetry [489] | |
| Vimic | Open Your Omen [490] | |
| 10 | 40 Below Summer | Untethered [491] |
| John 5 | Ghost [492] | |
| Nils Patrik Johansson | War and Peace [493] | |
| Sanguisugabogg | Hideous Aftermath [494] | |
| Testament | Para Bellum [495] | |
| 14 | Sunn O))) | Eternity’s Pillars b/w Raise the Chalice & Reverential (EP) [496] |
| 17 | Age of Ruin | Nothingman [497] |
| Battle Beast | Steelbound [498] | |
| Biohazard | Divided We Fall [499] | |
| Carach Angren | The Cult of Kariba (EP) [500] | |
| Coroner | Dissonance Theory [501] | |
| Erdling | Mana [502] | |
| Evoken | Mendacium [503] | |
| Extortionist | Stare into the Seething Wounds [504] | |
| Human Fortress | Stronghold [505] | |
| Immortal Disfigurement | Hell Is Right in Front of Us (EP) [506] | |
| Internal Bleeding | Settle All Scores [507] | |
| Sabaton | Legends [508] | |
| Tombs | Feral Darkness [509] | |
| Unto Others | I Believe in Halloween II (EP) [510] | |
| Wretched | Decay [511] | |
| 23 | Krallice | No Hope (EP) [512] |
| 24 | The Acacia Strain | You Are Safe from God Here [513] |
| Adept | Blood Covenant [514] | |
| Coldrain | Optimize (EP) [515] | |
| Conjurer | Unself [516] | |
| Dayseeker | Creature in the Black Night [517] | |
| Doro | Warriors of the Sea (compilation album) [518] | |
| Ektomorf | Heretic [519] | |
| Five Finger Death Punch | Best Of – Volume 2 (compilation album of re-recordings) [520] | |
| Leprous | An Evening of Atonement (live album) [521] | |
| Nine Treasures | Seeking the Absolute [522] | |
| Ronnie Romero | Backbone [523] | |
| Seraina Telli | Green [524] | |
| Serj Tankian | Covers, Collaborations & Collages (compilation album) [525] | |
| Soulfly | Chama [526] | |
| Sumo Cyco | Neon Void [527] | |
| Warrant | The Speed of Metal [528] | |
| Wino | Create or Die [529] | |
| 31 | Aria | When Tomorrow Comes [530] |
| Avatar | Don't Go in the Forest [531] | |
| Aviana | Void [532] | |
| Chimaira | Creepers Vol. 1 (compilation album) [533] | |
| Currents | All That Follows (EP) [534] | |
| Despised Icon | Shadow Work [535] | |
| King 810 | Rustbelt Numetal 2 [536] | |
| Mägo de Oz | Malicia: la noche de las brujas [537] | |
| Moonspell | Opus Diabolicum (live album) [538] | |
| Mystic Circle | Hexenbrand 1486 [539] | |
| Primitive Man | Observance [540] | |
| Runemagick | Cycle of the Dying Sun (Dawn of Ashen Realms) [541] | |
| Smash into Pieces | Armaheaven [542] | |
| Solence | Angels Calling [543] | |
| Stephen Brodsky | Cut to the Core Vol. 1 (covers album) [544] | |
| Trivium | Struck Dead (EP) [545] | |
| Unprocessed | Angel [546] |
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 7 | Agnostic Front | Echoes in Eternity [547] |
| Alcatrazz | Prior Convictions [548] | |
| Astronoid | Stargod [549] | |
| Beastwars | The Ship // The Sea [550] | |
| Centinex | With Guts and Glory [551] | |
| Drain | ...Is Your Friend [552] | |
| Esprit D'Air | Aeons [553] | |
| Finger Eleven | Last Night on Earth [554] | |
| Novembre | Words of Indigo [555] | |
| Omnium Gatherum | May the Bridges We Burn Light the Way [556] | |
| Primordial | Live in New York City (live album) [557] | |
| Pupil Slicer | Fleshwork [558] | |
| 14 | 1914 | Viribus Unitis [559] |
| The Devil Wears Prada | Flowers [560] | |
| Of Mice & Men | Another Miracle [561] | |
| Rise of the Northstar | Chapter 4: Red Falcon Super Battle! Neo Paris War!! [562] | |
| Scorpions | Coming Home Live (live album) [563] | |
| 20 | AngelMaker | This Used to Be Heaven [564] |
| Born from Pain | Siege Mentality (EP) [565] | |
| 21 | Bloodbound | Field of Swords [566] |
| Def Leppard | Diamond Star Heroes: Live from Sheffield (live album) [567] | |
| Dream Theater | Dream Theater Vol. 3 (box set) [568] | |
| The Studio Albums 1992–2016 (box set) [568] | ||
| The Halo Effect | We Are Shadows (covers EP) [569] | |
| My Ticket Home | Pure to a Fault [570] | |
| Sister | The Way We Fall [571] | |
| Sortilège | Le Poids de L’Âme [572] | |
| Stryper | The Greatest Gift of All [573] | |
| Treat | The Wild Card [574] | |
| 26 | Master's Hammer | Maldorör Disco [34] |
| 28 | 1349 | Winter Mass (live album) [575] |
| Blut Aus Nord | Ethereal Horizons [576] | |
| Dream Theater | Quarantième: Live à Paris (live album) [577] | |
| Equilibrium | Equinox [578] | |
| Lynch Mob | Dancing with the Devil [579] |
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | Blood Red Throne | Siltskin [580] |
| Enthroned | Ashspawn [581] | |
| Persefone | Live in Andorra (live album) [582] | |
| Tesseract | Radar (live album) [583] | |
| Upon a Burning Body | Blood of the Bull [584] | |
| 9 | Sakis Tolis | Everything Comes to an End [585] |
| 12 | Dangerous Toys | Demolition (compilation album) [586] |
| Lord of the Lost | Opvs Noir Vol. 2 [587] | |
| Rotten Sound | Mass Extinction (EP) [588] | |
| Volumes | Mirror Touch [589] | |
| Walk in Darkness | Gods Don't Take Calls [590] |