Music of 2025

At the start of the year I decided I wanted to try and listen to at least one new album a week and give them all ratings as I went, by the end of the year I had listened to 117 albums and got plenty of new music in to my ears. Below are all the albums I listened to and their ratings, will be doing the same for 2026 and making this a yearly post on here. All the ratings are based on first time listen, so as I've listened to them more some have moved up and down by the end, and not everything is a brand new album for the year, I'll mark those older albums with a * next to them.

We will start with the worst and then my favourite albums will wrap it all up.

0/10 (Really Don't Like This)

1/10 (Don't Like It)

2/10 (Not For Me At All)

Momma - Welcome To My Blue Sky

Park National - You Have To Keep Searching

3/10 (Disappointing)

Vended - Vended

4/10 (Meh)

Pet Symmetry - Big Symmetry

All Time Low - Everyone's Talking

5/10 (Middle Of The Road)

Shinedown - Planet Zero *

Sleep Token - Even In Arcadia

The Dirty Nil - The Lash

Good Charlotte - Motel Du Cap

The Starting Line - Eternal Youth

PRESIDENT - King Of Terrors

AFI - Silver Bleeds The Black Sun...

Cody Frost - Mechaeval

6/10 (Okay)

The Browning - Omni *

Landmvrks - Fantasy *

Punk Rock Factory - All Hands On Deck

Ice Nine Kills - Last Chance To Make Amends *

Mayday Parade - Sweet

PUP - Who Will Look After The Dogs

Green Day - Saviours (Edition De Luxe)

Scars On Broadway - Addicted To The Violence

Atreyu - The Curse 2025

We Came As Romans - All Is Beautiful... Because We're Doomed

Deftones - Private Music

Tallah - Primeval: Obsession/Detatchment

Yellowcard - Better Days

Nothing More - We're In This Together

Soulfly - Chama

Creeper - Sanguivore Part Two

Butcher Babies - Insincerity

The Hunna - Blue Transitions

Spanish Love Songs - A Brief Intermission In The Flattening Of Time

Annisokay - Abyss: The Final Chapter

Lord Of The Lost - OPVS Noir Vol 2

Caliban - Back From Hell

HEALTH - Conflict DLC

7/10 (Pretty Good)

Cane Hill - A Piece Of Me I Never Let You Find

Winona Fighter - Apologies To The Chef

Alien Weaponry - Te Ra

The Wonder Years - Burst & Decay Volume III

Bury Tomorrow - Will You Haunt Me With That Same Patience

Arms Length - There's A Whole World Out There

Soft Play - Heavier Jelly

House Of Protection - Outrun You All

Volbeat - God Of Angels Trust

Turnstile - Never Enough

Malevolence - Where Only The Trust Is Spoken

King 810 - Rustbelt Numetal

Dropkick Murphys - For The People

Higher Power - There's Love In This World If You Want It

Tetrarch - The Ugly Side Of Me

Fit For A King - Lonely God

Hot Mulligan - The Sound A Body Makes When It's Still

Pendulum - Inertia

Teenage Bottlerocket - Ready To Roll

Silverstein - Pink Moon

Iprevail - Violent Nature

Motion City Soundtrack - The Same Old Wasted Wonder World

Dying Wish - Flesh Stays Together

Coheed And Cambria - The Father Of Make Believe (New Entities Edition)

Silly Goose - Keys To The City

Dayseeker - Creature In The Black Night

Taylor Acorn - Poster Child

Avatar - Don't Go In The Forest

Rise Of The Northstar - Chapter 04: Red Falcon Supper Battle! Neo Paris War!!

Dead Eyes - Mad Ones

Currents - All That Follows

Grayscale - The Hart (Deluxe)

Volumes - Mirror Touch

8/10 (Good)

Poppy - Negative Spaces *

Stick To Your Guns - Keep Planting Flowers

Killswitch Engage - This Consequence

Spiritbox - Tsunami Sea

Bleed From Within - Zenith

Machine Head - Unatoned

Employed To Serve - Fallen Star

Heart Attack Man - Joyride The Pale Horse

Novelists - Coda

Stand Atlantic - Was Here

Stray From The Path - Clockwork

Hot Milk - Corporation P.O.P

Bleeding Through - Nine

Babymetal - Metal Forth

As December Falls - Everything Is On Fire But I'm Fine

I See Stars - The Wheel

DED - Resent

Solence - Angels Calling

King 810 - K7 Rustbelt Numetal 2

Spite - New World Killer

Frank Turner - The Next Ten Years

Of Mice & Men - Another Miracle

The Pretty Wild - Zero.Point.Genesis

AVOID - Cult Mentality *

Better Lovers - Highly Irresponsible

Magnolia Park - Vamp

AVOID - Creature Of Habit

Upon A Burning Body - Blood Of The Bull

9/10 (Great)

Make Them Suffer - Make Them Suffer *

Bilmuri - American Motor Sports *

Fever 333 - Darker White

Stray From The Path - Euthanasia *

Landmvrks - The Darkest Place I've Ever Been

The Callous Daoboys - I Don't Want To See You In Heaven

Rise Against - Ricochet

Twenty One Pilots - Breach

Biffy Clyro - Futique

Blackgold - EP Phone Home

DRAIN - ...Is Your Friend

Northlane - Node Reloaded

10/10 (Amazing)

Architects - The Sky, The Earth And All Between

A Day To Remember - Big Ole Album Volume 1

Letlive. - The Blackest Beautiful Revisited

Dinosaur Pile Up - I've Felt Better

Lorna Shore - I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me

Orbit Culture - Death Above Life

The Devil Wears Prada - Flowers

Overall a really good year for music, may 2026 be more of the same! My album of the year will have to go to Architects as I've listened to it so much and it's still a belter from start to finish every single time.