The brave leader of Goat Review, Scuttlegoat, weighs in on the albums that stuck with him most from the 2025.
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Cosmo’s Favorite Albums of 2025
The Goat Review presents an annual special: Cosmo’s Favorite Albums of 2025. Find out what music got our hype-flying bat out of 2025 hell.
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Metalligator’s Favorite Albums of 2025
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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This Week In Metal, 2025 Week 13
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 Imperial Triumphant, Délirant, and Savage Master, you can do that too!
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Imperial Triumphant – Goldstar Review
EXTRA! EXTRA! Hot off the presses, New York Avant Legends Imperial Triumphant seen catering to the masses. Shorter songs. Shorter album. Numerous guest features. Gator gives it a gold star. Wait, what??
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Urfeind – Dauþalaikaz Review
Today on the chopping block: Urfeind, with third album Dauþalaikaz. Urfeind are new to me, yet I try to approach any new thing with an open mind, and I can appreciate a good slab of pagan black metal, so long as it’s done correctly. Is this my new obsession, or is Dauþalaikaz yet another of the countless black metal albums not worthy of your time and attention?
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Ingurgitating Oblivion – Ontology of Nought Review
Some albums require the help from a friend. The harrowing dissonance and existential deathly throes of Ingurgitating Oblivion’s newest offering required such assistance from a mysterious figure named Scoopmeister…. which all begs the question, who up Ingurgitatin’ they Oblivion?
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Malconfort – Humanism Review
The term “avant-garde” gets thrown around a lot in music whenever a band releases something even slightly off-kilter. The reality is, however, that only a handful of bands actually meet that mark, and do it well — but do newcomers Malconfort have the necessary skills?
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Alkaloid – Numen Review
Alkaloid have not changed much of their formula of Morbid Angel meets Yes in 2023. New to the mix is a slight push towards Heavy Metal leads that crop up here and there, as seen in “A Fool’s Desire” that opens with some acoustics recalling Caprae Idolum’s Matches EP before mixing and matching Heavy Metal with Death Metal outbursts. It doesn’t have any viola da gamba though.
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Crypts of the Unknown: Loss – Horizonless
