The Goat Review presents an annual special: Metalligator’s Favorite Albums of 2025. Find out what our resident artist/writer deems worthy. Bon appétit!
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Inksterium’s Favorite albums of 2025
The Goat Review presents an annual special: Inksterium’s Favorite Albums of 2025.
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Bobo Dupla’s Favorite Albums of 2025
The Goat Review presents an annual special: Bobo Dupla’s Favorite Albums of 2025. Let’s take a bear’s-eye view of the year in music.
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Anti-Peat’s Favorite Albums of 2025
The Goat Review presents an annual special: Anti-Peat’s Favorite Albums of 2025. Find out what music our melodeath two-face can’t leave behind while he chucks 2025 into the garbage fire where it belongs.
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Pupil Slicer – Fleshwork Review
Fleshworks arrives with an album cover reminiscent of NIN’s art-style, and singles that sound even more commercial than Pupil Slicer’s sophomore album, Blossom. As someone who spun The Fragile on repeat for the entirety of their teenage years, the question sitting at the top of Croque’s mind then is: can Davies and co handle the commercial sound as well as a heroin-fueled Trent Reznor?
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Unsouling – Outward Streams Of Devotional Woe Review
There are many, many black/death metal bands. There are few of them claiming to incorporate the calm, contemplative somberness of darkwave into that. Can unsealing pull it off, or will Peat get gaslit again?
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This Week In Metal, 2025 Week 42
Another week, another round of metal reviews in the bag. Words are tough, so we assembled the highlights. And if you want to read the latest reviews for the new offerings from Smohalla, An Abstract Illusion, and Cult Burial, you can do that too! It’s that purple castle season again, friends.
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Cult Burial – Collapse of Pattern, Reverence of Dust Review
Collapse of Pattern, Reverence of Dust strikes more vicious in sound than previous albums with an added focus on big headbanging riffs. And at the end of the day, who doesn’t want a big, fat, honkin’ riff??
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Smohalla – Ruina Draconis Review
It’s always struck Anti-Peat as interesting how labels like avant-garde stop being a descriptor of being on the edge and become a set established sound of their own within a genre. Travel down the ruined dragon’s hole.
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Crypts of the Unknown: Incubator – McGillroy the Housefly
