As with the topics this debut album addresses, the music is harsh and uncompromising. Huge suffocating walls of industrial noise and incredible operatic vocals make for a vital perspective on escaping control and ultimately finding peace.

One of the hardest working metallic hardcore bands in the UK add to their flawless catalogue with this intensive and immense EP.

Hope Scars is an incredible triumph and another sensational UK post-metal debut album.

This exceptional atmospheric and sludgy blend of post-metal and post-rock has decimated most of the competition on my end of year list.

This is so much more than just an anti-fascist black metal record. The rage, depth and intelligence makes this one of 2025’s most vital listens.

For those in the realms of post-rock, ambient and doomgaze this is going to be one of the best to drop this year.

If you miss Leviathan era Mastodon then Trudger have you covered. This is a stunning return.

At times frantic, others serene. Malevich makes a cacophony of anger and beauty seem stunningly easy.

Gary Davidson caught up with the four members of post-metal band Dimscûa to chat through the crazy events of their ‘viral’ day thanks to a glowing review on a Two Promoters One Pod episode only two weeks after the release of the debut.

Abrasive, beautiful, emotional, manic, heavy and calm. Requiem is one of the finest summations of the boundless possibilities of avant-garde.

If you like your sludge noisy yet expansive then Row of Ashes really is the band for you. Tide Into Ruin is fantastic.

Rich and powerful atmospheric post-metal which really deserves to be heard. This could be one of the best in 2025.

Sorrows has claws, it holds on and follows you around, reappearing in your mind when least expected. Debut album of the year? I’d put money on it.

Embodiment of Death is a wonderful doom laden atmospheric post-metal album from end to end, and on repeat.

The droning, doomed post-rock of Eimuria doesn’t demand the listeners attention but it most certainly deserves it. Quite possibly my favourite of the year so far.

For the last 20 years France has produced some of the finest post-metal around. With Soma, BÅKÜ do a tremendous job of continuing that legacy with an astoundingly powerful debut album.

Tagli/Talee oozes a screamo creativity, passion and energy that really deserves attention.

Kodok is a true expansion and a beautiful execution of the, mainly, instrumental genre.

Over the six tracks the band never goes wrong and K L P S has put a real marker down in the Swedish post-metal sound.

Four long months ago Gary Davidson caught up with Fraser and Jack of UK blackened post-hardcore trio Still. We went deep on the roots of the band, the progress to the second album, A Theft, and our collective love of Joe Clayton.

The UK’s finest purveyors of sludged up post-metal return with another extraordinary album which manages to step up from a previous point of perfection.