Best of 2025

[Cranial Blast]

Also huge that we finally got Con-Dom's Colour of a Man's Skin as 2XCD from Tesco

I am in love with this. Maybe I look in the wrong places, but I'm surprised that this isn't seen as a masterpiece of "narrative noise" (my term). It's brilliant.

Definitely a good one! I'm glad Tesco did a CD version of this one and also a proper CD reissue of The Grey Wolves - Punishment album as well.

[Fistfuck Masonanie]

I had a really tough time narrowing it down, but settled on a tight 11! Couldn't get it to 10. I originally had a top 20, as there were so many good releases this year.

In alphabetical order:

New Releases
Bizarre SS – II
Black Leather Jesus / Moth Drakula – Knife Roughplay/As Skin Flies
Carousel – Awakened Spirits Of Ancient Mischief
Commando 15 x Nuori Veri – Kuovia Tuijottavat Miehet
Government Alpha – Apophenia
Grunt - Karike and the collab with Gelsomina
IESKADULLA – Apuvälinekeskus
Kiran Arora – Virgin Forest
Erik Nystrand – Brain Damaged By Head Meat
Priest In Shit – Virgin Martyr
Worth – Me Vexat Pede

Reissues
Dead Body Love – Annihilation Devices
Dead Body Love – Annihilation Devices Part 2
K2 + Dead Body Love – Traumantra
Macronympha – Relentless Agony
People's Person – People's Person
Richard Ramirez – Tracking Device

[prolapsedlielack]

Agonal Lust - Unabridged Suffering
Âmes Sanglantes – La Dame De Fer: Fête Foraine 1889
Coldship Passage - F.A.T.A.L. Game
Detonation Day - Rebuilding Self
Eroticism - Anal Summer (Split with Richard Ramirez, reissued with extra material on CD format)
Frontier - Tissues In Refusal
Genocide Organ - Operations With Contempt and Maggots on the Cliffside (with Prurient)
Golden Purifier - Iron Age Paranoia
M.I.A. - One Man's Trash Is Another Man's Pleasure
Never Sorry - Problematic, collab with Junkyard Burial, To Whom It May Concern
Straight Panic - One Perfect Day
Prurient – Black Table With The Two Griffins Attacking

[BirdBolt]

Another fantastic year for new releases.

Sverige På 80-Talet - Tre Små Rätter
Ruusuriimu - Tánc a Rothadásért
Kartio - Alkeis
Robert Fuchs - Shutters & Anchors
Primitive Isolation Tactics - All Pressures Past
Skärgård / BRYSKT / Heppakirjat - Hurrinoise Samling
Carousel - Awakened Spirits of Ancient Mischief
Skullflower & Culver - Poison for the Fairies
Kristian Olsson - Molna I Mull
Giärmäi - Boreaaliset Syvät Vedet
Tyhjä Pää - High Magnetic Intensity
Erik Nystrand - Brain Damaged By Head Meat
Moss Harvest - Redux Amalgam
Haaska - Akrasia
Kadef / Star - Wer Seinen Spaß Hat, Vermißt Die Träne Im Augenwinkel Nicht

Still waiting on the new Spring of Life 12" - sure that will be amazing, too.

Reissues:

Total / Merzbow - Merzbow Mixed Total
Redneck - Bloodcraving
The Day of the Antler - Rural Industrial
People's Person - People's Person
Richard Ramirez - Tracking Device
Odal - Lenin Stinkt
Dead Body Love - Lo-Fi Power Carnage

[Balor/SS1535]

Another fantastic year for new releases.

Sverige På 80-Talet - Tre Små Rätter
Ruusuriimu - Tánc a Rothadásért
Kartio - Alkeis
Robert Fuchs - Shutters & Anchors
Primitive Isolation Tactics - All Pressures Past
Skärgård / BRYSKT / Heppakirjat - Hurrinoise Samling
Carousel - Awakened Spirits of Ancient Mischief
Skullflower & Culver - Poison for the Fairies
Kristian Olsson - Molna I Mull
Giärmäi - Boreaaliset Syvät Vedet
Tyhjä Pää - High Magnetic Intensity
Erik Nystrand - Brain Damaged By Head Meat
Moss Harvest - Redux Amalgam
Haaska - Akrasia
Kadef / Star - Wer Seinen Spaß Hat, Vermißt Die Träne Im Augenwinkel Nicht

Still waiting on the new Spring of Life 12" - sure that will be amazing, too.

Reissues:

Total / Merzbow - Merzbow Mixed Total
Redneck - Bloodcraving
The Day of the Antler - Rural Industrial
People's Person - People's Person
Richard Ramirez - Tracking Device
Odal - Lenin Stinkt
Dead Body Love - Lo-Fi Power Carnage

I feel like I have heard little about the Kadef/Star split, so it is cool to see it here.  What makes it so strong for you?  (For context, I have not heard it!)