Best Heavy Albums of Q2 - 2025

Phil's Honorable Mentions: Changeling - Changeling - https://changelingofficial.bandcamp.com/album/changeling Sleep Token - Even in Arcadia - https://www.sleep-token.com/ Allegeaon - The Ossuary Lens - https://www.facebook.com/Allegaeon/ Cryptopsy - An Insatiable Violence - https://www.facebook.com/cryptopsyofficial/ Ghost - Skeleta - https://ghost-official.com/   Phil's Top Five =  5 - And Oceans - The Regeneration Itinerary - https://www.season-of-mist.com/bands/and-oceans/ 4 - Rivers of Nihil - Rivers of Nihil - https://riversofnihil.com/ 3 - Fallujah - Xenotaph - https://www.facebook.com/fallujahofficial/ 2 - Labyrinthus Stellarum - Rift in Reality - https://labyrinthusstellarum.bandcamp.com/album/rift-in-reality 1 - Buried Realm - The Dormant Darkness - https://buriedrealm.bandcamp.com/album/the-dormant-darkness   Alex's Honorable Mentions: Glare - Sunset Funeral - https://glaretx.bandcamp.com/ Messa - The Spin - https://messa.bandcamp.com/ Crawling Chaos - Wyrd - https://www.instagram.com/crawling_chaos_band/?hl=en Lik - Necro - https://www.metalblade.com/us/artists/lik/ Thornhill - BODIES - https://thornhillmelb.bandcamp.com/album/bodies Bleed from Within - Zenith - https://www.bleedfromwithin.com/ Magnolia Park - VAMP - https://www.magnoliaparkband.com/ Nightfall - Children of Eve - https://nightfall.gr/ Nydvind - Tetramental I and II - https://nydvind.bandcamp.com/ Nechochwen - Spelewithiipi - https://nechochwen.bandcamp.com/music Buried Realm - The Dormant Darkness - https://buriedrealm.bandcamp.com/album/the-dormant-darkness Tomarum - Beyond Obsidian Euphoria - https://tomarum.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-obsidian-euphoria Valhalore - Beyond the Stars - https://www.valhalore.com/ Fractal Universe - The Great Filters - https://fractaluniverseband.bandcamp.com/album/the-great-filters Beholder - In the Temple of the Tyrant - https://beholderblacklion.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-temple-of-the-tyrant Cave Sermon - https://cavesermon.bandcamp.com/album/fragile-wings Absolva - Justice - https://www.absolva.com/band   Top Five for Alex =  5 - Labyrinthus Stellarum - Rift in Reality - https://labyrinthusstellarum.bandcamp.com/album/rift-in-reality 4 - Rivers of Nihil - Rivers of Nihil - https://riversofnihil.com/ 3 - Ghost - Skeleta - https://ghost-official.com/ 2 - In the Woods... - Otra - https://www.facebook.com/inthewoodsomnio/ 1 - Allegaeon - The Ossuary Lens - https://www.facebook.com/Allegaeon/