Playgroundz Rocks Top 27 Albums of 2025

2025 was a wild year for heavy music. Doom, fuzz, psych, stoner, post-rock, sludge, and crossover bands kept refining their sound while new voices broke through with fresh production ideas and weird creative choices we love to see. This list is not about hype or streams, it’s about albums that stuck with us, records we kept coming back to because the riffs hit, the tones were honest, and the songwriting lived in our heads.

After a year of listening, reviewing, and talking about music online, here are the Top 27 Albums of 2025

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1. Kal - El - Astral Voyager Volume 1 (Blues Funeral Recordings/Majestic Mountain Records)

2. Dunes - Land Of The Blind (Ripple Music)

3. Castle Rat - The Bestiary

4. You Guitarprayer - I Am The Light/The Light I Am (Worst Bassist Records)

5. Black Magic Tree - Terra (Majestic Mountain Records)

6. Brimstone Coven - The Light Shines Not For Thee

7. Clouds Taste Satanic- Birmingham 2024

8. Kryptograf - Kryptonomicon (Apollon Records AS)

9. Supernaughty - Apocalypso (Ripple Music)

10. Warcoe - Upon Tall Thrones (Ripple Music)

11. The Lunar Effect - Fortune's Always Hiding (Svart Records)

12. Bygone - Bygone (Svart Records)

13. Mooch - Kin (Black Throne Productions)

14. Hog - Blackhole (Riding Easy Records)

15. Black Tongue Reverend - Upstate Of Mind

16. Lommi - 667788 (Majestic Mountain Records)

17. Borracho - Ouroboros (Ripple Music)

18. Giant Lungs - Praise The Laze

19. Black Water Rising - The Edge

20. Wolftooth - Wizard's Light (Ripple Music)

21. Ikitan - Shaping The Chaos 

22. Gin Lady - Before The Dawn Of Time (Ripple Music)

23. The Great Lie - Songs For a Monday Morning (Lemmis Records)

24. Mountain Dust - Mountain Dust

25. Mount Hush - II

26. Paralyzed - Rumble & Roar (Ripple Music)

27. Sheev (Ripple Music)