Category: Best Of Lists

Best of 2025: Chris C – Finding Renewal In A Cyclical Escapism

As cyclical as it is — the experience of being a listener of heavy metal — it is exciting, truly, how every new year brings a surprise or two or three. And it doesn’t have

Best of 2025: Seth Buttnam – All Bosses Rando No Hit Speedrun

Is this the final album I’m ever going to listen to? That has been on my mind a lot this year. Eventually, whether it be tomorrow or years from now, there will be a final

Best of 2025: Isaac Hams – The Big Short

Hello! Thank you for being here. I know you have a lot going on with work, family, responsibilities of many shapes, sizes and decibel levels. Taking five minutes of your valuable time to glaze over

Best Of 2025: Blizzard Of Jozzsh – Your Anger Is A Gift

In these end-of-year recaps, I try to wrap up with an overarching takeaway that extends beyond just music. Last year, I parodied the idea of extraterrestrial life because it was dominating headlines. This year, I

Best of 2025: Lone Watie – Hey There. Look At These Nice Rocks.

Like most people, I keep lots of things around the house that mean something to me and nothing to anyone else at all. I hold on to these things because they represent some meaningful time

Best Of 2025: Spencer Hotz – Slowly Smoothing Brain Syndrome

Dearest Reader(s?), I firmly believe the noodle soup in the can called my skull is starting to go bad. More than likely, you will agree with that sentiment when you finish reading this rather unhinged

Best Of 2025: Dan Obstkrieg – Have A Wonderful Day

Ranking junk: we love it. And yes, folks, usually I’d love to whip up some fanciful theory for you about how the human propensity to rank things is evolutionarily adaptive instead of decadent, but there

Best Of 2025 – Zach Duvall: The Never-Ending Goldrush

Hello and welcome back to the heart of another List Season. Tired yet of seeing these things peppered all over the internet? Of course you aren’t! So below I present my top albums of the