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Prog's 50 best albums of the year 2025
The prog genre has enjoyed an incredible year in 2025. Here are our top 50 albums of the past 12 months – did your favourite make the cut?
Debate: What’s the best prog album of 2025?
Steven Wilson, Dream Theater, Solstice, Cardiacs and IQ have delivered strong records this year. But what’s your number-one choice?
Every album by The Cramps ranked from worst to best
Celebrating the finest in American trash and kitsch culture, The Cramps played rock’n’roll at its delinquent, B-movie best
The best metal albums that you almost definitely missed in 2025
From psychedelic Brazilian black metal to space-faring tech-death, you won’t discover these excellent albums in many other places
Pagan band harnessed a fake feud, kickboxing and a Cornish faery, and it all ran out of control
After falling together by accident, making use of family talents and winning festival slots the hard way, their seventh album shows they’ve really arrived
The 10 best alt-metal and nu metal albums of 2025
Babymetal, Bloodywood and Sleep Token pulled influence from some esoteric places this year, and they lifted metal to new heights in the process
The 10 best metalcore albums of 2025
From legends coming back strong to young artists pushing the genre forward, it's been a standout year for metalcore - and here's the proof
Jo Quail’s music education was free. She believes yours should be too
Virtuoso on pushing her boundaries with latest album Notan and upcoming companion Ianus, and how she acts on her belief that music training is a right, not a privilege
