As every year comes to an end, the editors and producers of Metalwar.gr once again publish their lists featuring the best albums of the year that is drawing to a close.
2025 was a year full of strong and high-quality releases, which made compiling the Top 20 lists a difficult task. Selection is, of course, a personal matter, as are the criteria each individual uses.
Albums that do not appear on any list do not mean that they are not good or undeserving of inclusion.
Our beloved music is here, alive and well, and continues to offer works of exceptional quality.
Let’s hope that 2026 will be just as powerful!
Below you will find the lists in alphabetical order.
At the top is the overall list, based on how many times each album appears across all lists.
Metalwar:
1.Coroner – Dissonance Theory
2.Paradise Lost – Ascension
3.Blackbraid – Blackbraid III.
4.Nightfall – Children of Eve
5.Saor – Amidst the Ruins
6.Messa – The Spin
7.Grima – Nightside
8.Cradle of Filth – The Screaming of the Valkyries
9.Amorphis – Borderland
10.Lacuna Coil – Sleepless Empire
11.Dream Theater – Parasomnia
12.Havukruunu – Tavastland
13.Lucifer’s Child – The Illuminant
14.Testament – Para Bellum
15.Acid Death – Evolution
16.Harakiri for the Sky – Scorched Earth
17.Darklon – Mind Reaper
18.Wildfire – Rise
19.Blut aus Nord – Ethereal Horizons
20.Destruction – Birth of Malice
Rania Balou:
1.Blut aus Nord – “Ethereal Horizons”
2.Paradise Lost – “Ascension”
3.Blackbraid – “Blackbraid III”
4.Messa – “The Spin”
5.GRIMA – “Nightside”
6.Cradle of Filth – “The Screaming of the Valkyries”
7.Nine Inch Nails – “Tron: Ares”
8.Saor – “Amidst the Ruins”
9.Harakiri for the Sky – “Scorched Earth”
10.Havukruunu – “Tavastland”
Konstantinos Birbilis:
1.Saor – Amidst the Ruins
2.Sad – Fullmoon’s Bestial Awakening
3.Grima – Nightside
4.Penthos – Erevos
5.Ostracist – King of Nothing Slave to Noone
6.Abadir – Antikosmos
7.Necrochakal – Golgothian Orgies of Bestial Lust
8.Hesperia – Fra li Monti Sibillini
9.Nite – Cult of the Serpent Sun
10.Exilium Noctis – Pactum Diaboli
11.Gràb – Kremess
12.Αχέροντας – The Necromantic Patterns
13.Cradle of Filth – The Screaming of the Valkyries
14.Nightfall – Children of Eve
15.Ereb Altor – Hälsingermörker
16.Zeicrydeus – La Grande Heresie
17.Hellmoat – Odes of Exilation
18.Sarkom – Exceed i 2 Chaos
19.Helvitnir – Wolves of the Underworld
20.Helloween – Giants and Monsters
Kostas Boudoukos:
1.Lacuna Coil – Sleepless Empire
2.Coroner – Dissonance Theory
3.Paradise Lost – Ascension
4.Kaunis Kuolematon – Kun Valo minussa kuoli
5.Forbidden Seed – In Shadows Deep, Shadow of the Crow Pt. II
6.Acid Death – Evolution
7.Katatonia – Nightmares as extensions of the waking state
8.Messa – The Spin
9.Herta – Crossing the illusion
10.Blackbraid – Blackbraid III
11.Amorphis – Borderland
12.Wildfire – Rise
13.Darklon – Mind Reaper
14.Fallen Letters – MindFractures
15.Still Dusk – Chronicles of Dystopia
16.Epica – Aspiral
17.Mors Principium Est – Darkness Invisible
18.The Halo Effect – March of the unheard
19.In Mourning – The immortal
20.Dream Theater – Parasomnia
Napoleon Gkouvis:
1.Coroner – Dissonance Theory
2.Paradise Lost – Ascension
3.Nightfall – Children of Eve
4.Wildfire – Rise
5.Ildaruni – Divinum Sanguinem
6.Temple of Katharsis – Worshipers of the Ancient Necromancy
7.Penthos – Erevos
8.Ostracist – King of Nothing Slave to Noone
9.Hope Behind the Hills – The Realm of Ideas and Shadows
10.Passengers In Panic – And Temple of the
11.Behölder – In the Temple of the Tyrant
12.Exilium Noctis – Pactum Diaboli
13.Acid Death – Evolution
14.Blackbraid – “Blackbraid III”
15.LLOTH – Ancient Legions
16.Nightkill – Survive The Night
17.Darklon – Mind Reaper
18.Flames – Frequency Of Illusion
19.Damon Systema – Ate
20.Arch Enemy – Blood Dynasty
Vangelis Gogos:
01.CORONER – dissonance theory
02.TESTAMENT – para bellum
03.PARADISE LOST – ascension
04.DREAM THEATER – parasomnia
05.REFLECTION – the battles i have won
06.DYNAZTY – game of faces
07.LACUNA COIL – sleepless empire
08.SPIRIT BOX – tsunami sea
09.SLEEP TOKEN – even in arkadia
10.EPICA – aspiral
11.AMORFIS – dorderland
12.NIGHTFALL – children of eve
13.AVANTASIA – here be dragons
14.MACHINE HEAD – unatoned
15.DESTRUCTION – birth of malice
16.NIGHTSTALKER – return from the point
17.BLACKSUN – carma insomnium
18.ANGELOS PERLEPE’S MYSTERY – speeled by fire
19.SABATON – legends
20.JINJER – duel
Dinos Karras:
1.Orbit Culture – Death Above Life
2.Remina – The Silver Sea
3.CTHVN – Hymn
4.The Halo Effect – March Of The Unheard
5.Hooded Menace – Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration
6.Coroner – Dissonance Theory
7.Dormant Ordeal – Tooth And Nail
8.Lacuna Coil – Sleepless Empire
9.Havukruunu – Tavastland
10.Chainsword – Chapter XII
11.Messa – The Spin
12.Igorrr – Amen
13.Rivers Of Nihil – Rivers Of Nihil
14.Der Weg Einer Freiheit – Innern
15.Lamp of Murmuur – The Dreaming Prince In Ecstasy
16.An Abstract Illusion – The Sleeping City
17.Blut Aus Nord – Ethereal Horizons
18.The Haunted – Songs Of Last Resort
19.Lucifer’s Child – The Illuminant
20.Gruesome – Silent Echoes
Spiros Pseftoudis:
1. Testament – Para Bellum
2. Coroner – Dissonance Theory
3. Dream Theater -Parasomnia
4. Allegaeon – The Ossuary Lens
5. Amorphis – Borderland
6. Sacrosanct – Kidron
7. Mob Rules – Rise Of The Ruler
8. Paradise Lost – Ascension
9. Lucifers Child – The Illuminant
10. Darklon – Mind Reaper
11. Destruction – Birth Of Malice
12. Helloween – Giants & Monsters
13. Harakiri For The Sky – Scorched Earth
14. Wildfire – Rise
15. Brainstorm – Plague Of Rats
16. Avantasia – Here Be Dragons
17. Machine Head – Unatøned
18. Labyrinth – In The Vanishing Echoes Of Goodbye
19. Warkings – Armageddon
20. Cradle Of Filth – The Screaming Of The Valkyries
Spyros Tribos:
1.Paradise Lost – Ascension
2.Coroner – Dissonance
3.Blackbraid – Blackbraid III
4.Testament – Para Bellum
5.Nightfall – Children of Eve
6.Lucifer’s Child – The Illuminant
7.Lorna shore – I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me
8.Allegaeon – The Ossuary Lens
9….And Oceans – The Regeneration Itinerary
10.Destruction – Birth Of Malice
11.1914 – Viribus Unitis
12.Grima – Nightside
13.Lloth – Ancient Legions
14.Igorrr – Amen
15.Saor – Amidst the Ruins
16.The Man-Eating Tree – Night Verses
17.One of Nine – Dawn of the Iron Shadow
18.Orbid Culture – Death Above Life
19.Sodom – The Arsonist
20.Acid Death – Evolution
Evangelos Vagenas:
1)GRIM LOVE- SAFE AND SOUND (LP MATAROA)
2)JACKS FULL- BLACK SHEEP (LP LOUD MINORITY)
3)NEW ZERO GOD – ROOM 1316 (LP LOVE AND DEATH)
4)ART TELEPATHS – ΧΩΡΙΣ ΦΟΒΟ
5)ΚΕΡΑΙΕΣ- Η ΑΥΛΗ ΜΟΥ (LP ΤΗΣ ΓΗΣ ΤΟ ΚΑΡΝΑΒΑΛΙ)
6)ΡΕΥΜΑ 102- ΚΤΙΡΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΝΥΧΤΑ (LP ΔΑΚΡΥΑ ΑΠΟ ΤΣΙΜΕΝΤΟ)
7)ΤΣΙΜΕΝΤΟ – ΕΥΘΕΙΑ ΣΕ ΓΚΡΕΜΟ (LP 45’ ΥΠΟ ΣΚΙΑ)
8)ΝΙΚΟΣ ΓΚΕΚΑΣ – ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΙΑ (LP ΟΡΙΖΟΝΤΕΣ)
9)THE MAGIC BUS – ΤΟ ΚΑΣΤΡΟ (LP ΤΟ ΚΑΣΤΡΟ)
10) ΕΥΑΓΓΕΛΟΣ Χ. ΒΑΓΕΝΑΣ- ΑΣΥΓΓΝΩΣΤΗ ΠΛΑΝΗ (LP ΖΕΟΝ)
