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Cloak's best of 2025

My personal top 10 albums of the year and some honourable mentions. Top 10 are ranked, rest is random.

Messa
The Spin

Every single song off this thing has been stuck in my head at some point this year. Cannot praise this album enough, it's so damn good.
Rating: 5/5

Deafheaven
Lonely People With Power

Rating: 4.9/5

Der Weg Einer Freiheit
Innern

Choosing between this and Deafheaven for no2 was hard but this narrowly lost out (sorry Hawks lol). Still a fantastic album though, both albums are pretty much neck-and-neck for me.
Rating: 4.9/5

Kauan
Wayhome

Rating: 4.8/5

Novembre
Words of Indigo

Rating: 4.7/5

Crippling Alcoholism
Camgirl

Rating: 4.7/5

An Abstract Illusion
The Sleeping City

Rating: 4.6/5

Paradise Lost
Ascension

Rating: 4.5/5

Blut Aus Nord
Ethereal Horizons

Late entry. Rules though.
Rating: 4.5/5

Novembers Doom
Major Arcana

Slept on death-doom release tbh. Rating: 4.5/5

Vildhjarta
+ där sjunger under evighetens granar +

Rating: 4.3/5

Thornhill
Bodies

I know a lot of people probably hate this but idc it bangs, one of my most listened to albums from this year for sure.
Rating: 4.1/5