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Emeritus
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Last Active 01-01-70 12:00 am
Joined 01-01-70
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| Dewinged's AOTY 2025 (Countdown begins...)
Hi, hi. Yet another year. I've been off the site for most of the year and even off the radar for new music, busy with life et all, but nobody ever truly leaves Sput, we all know that. I've made an effort this last month, which combined with what I've already heard on the first half of the year turned out to be a pretty decent list. I'll add 10 albums a day, until I publish the top 10 on the 31st if I don't forget! Here we go! (Let's see if I remember how to post lists here) | | 14 |  | Dolmen Gate
Echoes of Ancient Tales
So here's the thing. I've evolved, fam. No more witchy doom for me, I'm past that already. My new fixation is lady fronted heavy metal revival. And god, we had some really good albums this year. The genre is booming and I couldn't be happier. This band from Portugal knows how to do it, this is their second album, out on No Remorse Records. | | 13 |  | Skunk Anansie
The Painful Truth
The Painful truth is indeed, that this album is not good at all. Still, I find myself going back to some songs. | | 12 |  | Midnite City
Bite the Bullet
Kings of Hair Metal? Ummm... quite a stretch considering they are 100 cans of hair spray away from being anything close to stuff like Pretty Boy Floyd. Still, solid AOR, Hard Rock album, I'm digging the revival, some bands are doing it better than others. These guys got the sound down, the hooks, even if some of them look lime my aunt after 3 bottles of wine. | | 11 |  | Mansur
Pentatonic Ruins
If I talk to you about The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble or The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation you probably know where I'm going at. This is yet one more project of Jason Kohnen, the man behind all these projects, plus the Love Sextet, Bong-ra, etc. Pretty much in the vein of all the above, ethnic downtempo featuring Hungarian vocalist Martina Hórvath, who you may have heard as frequent collaborator of Thy Catafalque. Cool album. | | 10 |  | Nightfall
Children Of Eve
A bit overlooked imo. I mean, it does sound like Behemoth worship but still... | | 9 |  | Spellling
Portrait of My Heart
The title track is one of my favorite songs this year, but this album is a bit all over the place. I'm not sure she has figured out what she wants to be. | | 8 |  | Lady Beast
The Inner Alchemist
The cover promised a bit more and it's a good album, but they've done better. | | 7 |  | Nuclear Daisies
First Taste of Heaven
Pretty nice 90s revival music. Never heard of this band before. | | 6 |  | Post Animal
Iron
Another solid album by this band but I only heard it once otherwise it'd probably be higher. If you like Stranger Things this is John Keery's (Steve) former band. | | 5 |  | Mean Mistreater
Do or Die
Warning: You're gonna see a lot of hard rock and heavy metal this year. A LOT. | | 4 |  | Morcheeba
Escape the Chaos
Another lovely album by Skye and co. It is what it is. Nothing more, nothing less. | | 3 |  | Void (USA-LA)
Forbidden Morals
Love the concept, I think this band will go places. They're like prog thrash ala Savatage meets Watchtower or Voivod? I don't know, weirdos. They also dress as the Phantom of the Opera. | | 2 |  | Grails
Miracle Music
They would have ranked way higher in years past but for some reason their last couple of albums don't really grab me as they used to. Still, great band, and interesting album to say the least. | | 1 |  | Avatarium
Between You, God, The Devil And The Dead
I actually reviewed this at the beginning of the year. Always liked this band, but never truly loved it. | |
Dewinged
12.22.25 | I hope you're ready. | Hawks
12.22.25 | LETS GOOOO!!! | farmerobama
12.22.25 | Yee wazzup | Demon of the Fall
12.22.25 | today I learnt that Grails still exist. Nice
good to see you around still Dewi! | Azazzel
12.22.25 | ah so you did get some new listening done this year, and now you're gonna drip feed us?! a most welcome advent calendar. keen to see what you came up with for non-metal and of course witchy front-women. also enjoyed Grails but yeah didn't stick with me | Dewinged
12.23.25 | Cheers Azazzel, yeah I did get some jamming done for this year, not as much as I would have liked though, I think around summer and until november or so I completely neglected new releases and I was just listening to stuff from the 60s, and a lot of 80s metal, I don't know, it was a weird time. |
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