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Mandy's Favorite Releases of 2025

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Nothing here is in any particular order but I'll put a * by albums that I think are absolute MUST listens


Rap


Key Glock - Glockaveli

Indie


* kitchen - Blue heeler in ugly snowlight, grey on grey on gery on white.
Care For - demo/ntration di/stance
Really Great - Be The Light On

Metalcore/Deathcore


* The Acacia Strain - You Are Safe From God Here
heavenscoldhands - s/t
* anvilchandelier - s/t
Silent Spring - Tears of Denial
uponbrokenapologies - Silence and Sorrow
Long Goodbye - to reconcile with death for the sake of a beautiful ending

Metal


Eternal Darkness - s/t
Evoken - Mendacium
Silent Tombs - Mourning Hymns From Beyond
Ataraxie - Le Déclin
Vin de Mia Trix - PALIMPSESTS
The Outlourdes - Humanity Is Killing Us All

Vin de Mia Trix - PALIMPSESTS

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I came here after listening to their very good latest album This Landscape Is Alive and I strongly recommend you go ahead and listen to that one as well.

In many ways this is funeral doom in the vein of Esoteric, though not nearly as psychedellic, but at it's core this is incredibly gothic. The vocals, song structure and dynamics are very similar to My Dying Bride. After Turn Loose The Swans, I could have easily seen a world where MDB became a band more akin to this, lengthening their songs and becoming a bit more extreme.

Regardless this is a very pretty album and while I wrote this mostly just as a placeholder for whats to come here, I still strongly recommend listening to this phenomenal band!

Listen here: Vin de Mia Trix - PALIMPSESTS