Music reviewed in 2025

 January 2025:

Detailed reviews:
 

- Fabulae Dramatis: Violenta (2024) - 88/100
- Etienne Manchon Trio: Weird Life (2025) - 84/100
- Various Artists: Codroephenia (2024)  - 81/100
- Murky Red: No Pocus Without Hocus [Special Edition] (2015) - 81/100
- Kyle Jones: Dualities (2025) - 80/100
- Positive Wave: Metsälapsi (2024)  - 80/100
- Lonny Ziblat: Dream Hunting (2019) - 80/100
- Jeremy Beck: Song of the Sky (2025) - 80/100
- Antero Mentu: N​ä​in Unta Kaukaisesta Maasta (2024) - 80/100
- Artefacts: The Titan Chronicles Part II. Lucius (2024) - 80/100
- Dan Roman and Cuarteto Latinoamericano: DVXNS (2024) - 80/100
- Juraj Kojs & Pioneer Winter Collective: Birds of Paradise (2025) - 80/100
- Petra Onderuf Quartet: An Odd Time of Day (2025) - 78/100
- Transport Aerian: Live in Ghent (2024) - 75/100
- Philip Blackburn: Ordo (2023) - 74/100
- Sailor Free: Spiritual Revolution Part 3 (2025) - 74/100
- Painted Scars: Kintsugi (2024) - 67/100
- Pan Project: Borderless Flows (2024) - 67/100
- MC Maguire: Dystophilia (2024) - 60/100


Mini-reviews:

- Doug MacDonald: Santa Monica Session (2024)
- Benjie Porecki: All That Matters (2024)
- Groovology: Almost Home (2025)
- Noel Okimoto: Ho Ihi (2024)
- Vincenzo Virgillito: Precondition (2024)
- Gapminder: Elements (2024)
- The Red Barn: The Red Barn (2024)
- Nicola Alesine & Saro Cosentino: More Cities (2024)
- Steve Leon & The Accusations: Borrowed Time Bonanza (2024)
- Ketherot: Full Blown Messiah (2024)
- Rod Rodrigues: Tales Of A Changing Life Part II (2024)
- Giacomo Pedicini: Hard Boiled (2024)
- Albatre: Bruxas (2024)
- Heaven-Gemini: Luonnonoikku (2024)
- Blacksmith Tales: Pathway to Hamlet’s Mill (2024)
- Lord Agheros: Anhedonia (2025)
- Allamedah: Alameda (2024)
- Hollow: Modern Cathedral (1997)
- Hollow: Architect of the Mind (1999)
- Alarum: Recontinue (2024)
- Three Dead Fingers: For The Next Species Pt. 1 (2024)
- Farewell: Banjo Rainbow (2024)
- Megaton Communion: Red Sky Warning (2024)
- Bloodbark: Sacred Sound of Solitude (2025)
- Ashlands: III (2025) 
- Jessica Jones Quartet: Edible Flowers (2025)
- Dan Roman and Cuarteto Latinoamericano: DVXNS (2024)
- Drew Whiting: All In (2024) 
- Pan Project Ensemble: Borderless Flows (2024)
- Todd Gaffke: Locally Sourced (2024) 
- Steam Theory: Chrysalis (2024)
- Carnosus: Wormtales (2024) 
- Jae Sinnett: The Blur The Lines Project (2024)
- Black Aleph: Apsides (2024) 
- Gigan: Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus (2024)
- Sleepless: Through Endless Black (2024)
- Black Elephant: The Fall Of The Gods (2024) 
- Second Day: Flamboyance (2025) 
- The Lightbringer: Quintessence of Dawn (2010)
- Plaguewielder: In Dust & Ash (2025) 
- Abacaxi: Quetzal (2024)
- Nathan Hudson and Ben Loory: Music for Falling and Flying (2024) 
- Nick Fletcher: A Longing For Home (2024) 
- Julius Lind: Lights (2024) 
- Antipope: Doors of the Dead (2024) 
- Electric High: Colorful White Lies (2024)
- Urbanfailure: ShortCutsHarshMellow (2024)
- Eva: Opia (2024)
- Blood Druid: Cannibalistic Tendencies (2024)
- Brian Kingsland: Translation (2025)
- PRP: Red Bending Nights (2024) 
- Exiled Hope & Steel Forge: Realm Of The Exiled (2025)
- Beriedir: Liminal Spaces (2025)
- Dave Stryker: Stryker with Strings Goes to the Movies (2025)
- Slaughtersun: Black Marrow (2025)
- Sisters Of...: Marie / Michel (2025) 
- The Cimmerian: An Age Undreamed Of (2025)
- Tacet Tacet Tacet: Fickle (2025)
- Maw: The Humble Collapse (2025)
- Krokofant: 6 (2025) 
- Ex Deo: Year Of The Four Emperors (2025)
- Void Born: In Throes Of Rage (2025)
- LLL: Shaping Colours (2025)
- Clean Lines: Nuisance (2025)
- Crucial Velocity: Controller (2025)
- Visado: 3rd World Anthems (2024)
- Ascend In Misery: I Feel Fine (2025)
- Dgm: Endless (2024) 
- Crest of Darkness: My Ghost (2024) 
- Exodus Rising: The Book Of Life (2023) 
- Deceiveth: Cords (2024) 
- Hate Angel: Extinction Ritual (2024)
- Crimson Storm: Livin' On the Bad Side (2025)
- Kevin Kastning, Carl Clements, Soheil Peyghambari: Triple Helix (2025)
- Daedalean Complex: The Void of Chaos (2024)
- Tria Prima: Three Primes of Alchemy (2025)
- Raven Sad: Polar Human Circle (2024) 
- Embrace By Dark: Extrasensory (2024) 
- One With The Riverbed: Succumb (2024) 
- Greh: Dysphoric Devotion (2025)
- Neamh-Mharbh: Neamh-Mharbh (2018)
- Peacemaker: Internal Revolution (2024)
- Distant Relatives: Distant Relatives (2025)
- Athiria: Bash Of The Beast (2025)
- Xaon: The Lethean (2022)
- Sublind: The Cenosillicaphobic Sessions (2023)
- Dark Reflection: Under the Sign of Vlad Tepes (2025)
- BloodSong: Season of the Dead (2025)
- Zodomy: Only Death Is Real (2023)
- The 5 Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique: In Transit (2024) 
- Chasmhead: Chasmhead (2024) 
- Night Dream: Heart In Fury (2024)
- Weep Wave: Speck (2024)
- Zabus: Automatic Writhing (2024)
- Alphataurus: 2084. Viaggio Nel Nulla (2024)
- Vettor N'the Insurrectos: For Everyone But Not! (2024)
- Melehan: Immaterial Eden (2024)
- Ozora: Litanie (2024)
- Belling The Tiger: Awareness (2024)
- Sink To The Sea: A Gift Carried by the Left Hand (2024)
- Infested Angel: Threnodies to Eternal Despair (2025)
- Cerebral Hemorrhage: Exempting Reality (2001)
- Thy Kingdom Will Burn: The Loss And Redemption (2025)
- Putrid Defecation: Tales from the Toilet (2025)
- 20/20: Back To California (2025)
- Dragonknight: Legions (2025)
- Aevum: Kaleidoscope (2025)
- Deus Sabaoth: Cycle of Death (2025)
- Karl Latham: Living Standards II (2025)
- Hazzerd: The 3rd Dimension (2025)
- Timbeau: Sensitiv (2025)
- A.M.E.N.: Argento (2025) 
- Medusian: Library (2025)
- AntiMozdeBeast: The Alien Machine (2025)
- Mick Clarke: Bad Whisky Blues (2025)
- Vestamaran: A Touch of Class (2025) 
- Amaro: Guerrera (2025)
- The Big Deal: Electrified (2025)
- Landfall: Wide Open Sky (2025)
- Highway Queen: Extendead Play (2025)
- The Ironfist: Akumalize (2025)
- Skyhooks: Living in the 70's (1974)
- Rzwd: Gaps (2024)
- Bloodshot Cyclops: Here’s Blood In Your Eye (2025)
- Blacksun: Karma Somnium (2025)
- Dan Fortin: Cannon (2024)
- Ethereal Wound: Trauma | Divine (2024)
- Orion: The Lightbringers (2024)
- Chemosphere: Atropos (2024)
- Huge Molasses Tank Explodes: III (2024)
- Innerverse: Awakenings (2024)
- Embertears: Red Chapter (2024)
- Beledo: Flotando en el Vacío (2024)
- Eugenie Jones: Eugenie (2025)
- Malauriu / Sinoath: Malauriu / Sinoath (2025)
- Misanthropik Torment: Make Assassinations Great Again (2025)
- Kaivs: After the Flesh (2024)
- Quartet Diminished: Deerand (2024)
- Mark Wingfiled: The Gathering (2024)
- Luca Calabrese: I Shin Den Shin (2024)
- Sea Saw: Surf Simulation (2024)
- Retador: Earëndel (2025)
- Ana'Ana: Aura of Blood (2024)
- Dark Star: Artefacts (2025)
- Tarantula: Muestrame El Camino (2024)
- Gernotshagen: Mein Trusetal (2024)
- Despised Cruelty: Niech Zdycha (2024)
- Soniq Circus: Cursed Cruise (2025) 
- Age of Fire: From the Forge (2024)
- Reichenhall: Spiegelmacher (2025)
- Deveikuth: What You Are, We Were, What We Are, You'll Become (2024)
- Exceptet: Tree Lines (2025)
- Will Mason Quartet: Hemlocks, Peacocks (2025)
- The Slime: Crab-Walk To Oblivion (2025)
- Nekomata: Euphoria (2025)
- Marko Bojkovic: Powercore (2025) 
- Corroding Soul: Corroding Soul (2025)
- Scitalis: Maledictum (2025)
- Haven: Causes (2025)  

February 2025:

Detailed reviews:
 

- Andorra: III (2025) - 94/100
- Hell.On: Shaman (2024)  - 85/100
- Rahel Talts: New and Familiar (2025) - 85/100
- Tonnen von Hall: Ein Abdruck vom Messer im Herzen (2025) - 82/100
- Onioroshi: Shrine (2025) - 80/100
- After Us All: Rebirthed (2025) - 80/100
- Fifth Daughter: Stellar Season (2025) - 80/100
- Deus Sabaoth: Cycle of Death (2025) - 80/100
- The John Irvine Band: Here Come the Robots! (2025) - 80/100
- Gayle Ellett & The Electromags: The Painted River of Light (2025) - 80/100
- Red Gazelle Trio: On a Human Level (2025) - 78/100
- Marton Juhasz: Metropolis (2025) - 75/100
- Rheinkaos: All My Being Is a Dark Verse (2024) - 70/100


Mini-reviews:

- Sarkasm: Carnival Of Atrocities (2025)
- Mephitic Corpse: Sickness Attracts Sickness (2025)
- A StateOfMind TX: Sanity Of Madness (2025)
- The Fods: The Ineffectuals / Shopping (2025)
- Remain Untamed: Pharmaceutical Madness (2025)
- Fulaing: An End Held Dear (2025)
- Cult Of Alcaeus () Necro Algorithm: Doomed Algorithms (2025)
- LowMad: Lost (2024)
- Sabhankra: Nocturnal Elegies (2025)
- Ludicra: The Tenant (2010)
- Midlife Crisis: 45 Turns 33 (2025)
- Legado de una Tragedia: Lovecraft (2025)
- Pathogenic: Crowned in Corpses (2025)
- Shagor: Lyksalver (2025)
- Andy Susemihl: Mihlstones (2025)
- Tumbleweed Dealer: Dark Green (2025)
- Inborn Suffering: Pale Grey Monochrome (2025)
- Days Of Jupiter: The World Was Never Enough (2025)
- Throne of Roaches: Chrysalis (2025)
- Neurostrike: Neon Uprising (2025)
- Phrenelith: Ashen Womb (2025)
- Prehistoria: Cryptic Halo (2025)
- Volt Ritual: Swamp Lake City (2025)
- The Ultimate Dreamers: Paradoxical Sleep (2025)
- Fotokiller: Eerie Nostalgia (2023)
- Open Kasket: Trials of Failure (2025)
- Death Structure: Le Deni (2025)
- Gustaf Ljunggren & Emil de Waal: Mikroklima (2025)
- Bourbon Kings: Pay To Win (2025)
- Sidewinder: March Of The Eternal Heretic (2025)
- Neverland Ranch Davidians: Shout It on the Mountain (2025)
- Berlial: Nourishing The Disaster To Come (2025)
- Ghost Hollow: Examinations of the Heart (2025)
- Ephemera: For Those Afraid to Die (2025)
- Kiji Suedo: Hypnosis (2025)
- Zack Keim: Battery Lane (2025)
- Clouds: Desprins (2025)
- TranscomaR: The Sea Of Trees (2023)
- Kristian Kaupang: Siste Sjanse (2025)
- Want of Sin: Hydrophobic (2025)
- The Yets: Pinup Girl (2025)
- The Names: Encore! (2025)
- Thundermother: Dirty & Divine (2025)
- Frolic: Live at the Great American Music Hall (2025)
- Ecce Shnak: Shadows Grow Fangs (2025)
- Medo: Fantasmasis (2009)
- Mortui Vultus: Distant Echoes (2025)
- Treverket: Et Bedre Sted (2025)
- Greybeards: Out of the Red (2025)
- Confess: Destination Addiction (2025)
- Lunar: Tempora Mutantur (2025)
- The Third Grade: Quadrivium. Resonances (2025)
- Mastord: Lemmon Lintu (2025)
- Sounds Of New Soma: The Story Of Sam Buckett (2025)
- Bloke: Living Without Expectations (2025)
- Pattern-Seeking Animals: Friend of All Creatures (2025)
- Toy Weather: Feathers in a Strange Wind (2025)
- The Wave and the Particle: Electric Sheep (2025)
- Rioghan: Kept (2025)
- Venus Bleue: Infame Nectar (2025)
- Dobbeltgjenger: Master Of Failure (2025)
- Mantric Momentum: Alienized (2025)
- Stephen Hamm: Theremin Man Live From Planet Earth (2025)
- Jumble Hole Clough: Potpourri or Popery (2025)
- Still Falling: Through Time and Flesh (2025)
- Neos Saint Just: Neos Saint Just (2024)
- Iron Wolf: Victim of the Dark (2024)
- Limite Acque Sicure: Un'Altra Mano Di Carte (2025)
- Untold Stories: Wind and Memories (2025)
- Nicolas de Renty: Retour au Bercail (2025)
- Fractured Insanity: Age Of Manipulation (2025)
- Leadfeather: Roll The Dice (2025)
- Diamond Dogs & Chris Spedding: Macon Georgia Giants (2025)
- Acid Magus: Scatterling Empire (2025)
- Seventh Station: On Shoulders of Giants (2025)
- Aitheer: The Serpent (2025)
- Sin of God: Blood Bound (2025)
- The Aurora Project: Evos12 (2025) 
- Jeff Myers: Goodnight (2025)
- Diamantide: Diamantide (2025)
- Shepherds of Cassini: In Thrall to Heresy (2025)
- Alyksir: Devourer (2025)
- Flor de Loto: Cosmos (2025)
- Conniption: The Theatre of Invention (2025)
- Ostoraton: Rehla (2020)

 

March 2025:

Detailed reviews:
 
- Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate: The Uncertainty Principle (2025) - 87/100
- Adam Ben Ezra: Heavy Drops (2025) - 84/100
- Meadows & Io: Above and Below (2024) - 84/100
- Circu5: Clockwork Tulpa (2025) - 82/100
- Soniq Theater: Explorer (2025)  - 69/100
- Romislokus: Lyon's Message (2003) - 60/100


Mini-reviews:

- University Of Nevada Las Vegas Jazz Ensemble 1: Let The Good Times Roll (2025)
- The Dead And Living: Damage (2025)
- Endless Dive: Souvenances (2025)
- Nebula Nine: The Last Sky Piercer (2025)
- Cult of Extinction: Nightmare Ascension (2025)
- Pale Epiphany: Pale Epiphany (2025)
- Eie: My Tongue Is Stuck to the Roof of My Mouth And That Is All I Can Think About (2025)
- World Sanguine Report: I Am Bunny (2025)
- Nicolas Meier Infinity Group: Last Sunset (2025)
- Patriarchy: Suffer With Me [Live In London] (2024)
- Maison Dieu: Herbacea (2025)
- Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate: The Uncertainty Principle (2025)
- Raging Speedhorn: Night Wolf (2025)
- Kryptograf: Kryptonomicon (2025)
- Ciconia: Synaesthetic Garbage (2025)
- Unitopia: Alive and Kicking (2025)
- Amenspear: A Casket of Relics (2025)
- Frogg: Eclipse (2025)
- Bruno Karnel: Villa Solitude (2025)
- Dessiderium: Keys to the Palace (2025)
- Halocraft: To Leave a Single Wolf Alive (2025)
- Edyakaran: Pantheon (2025)
- Alaghom: Return to the Beginner's Mind (2025)