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The title of this post tells it all. But some of the bands on “The Bad Penny’s Top 10 Most Popular Stories of 2025” might surprise you.

1. The 20 Best Scandinavian Melodic Death Metal Bands of All Time

2. On Tyranny: An Epic Conversation With Anarchist Art Collective and Cursive Collaborators INDECLINE About Fascism And How You Can Fight It

3. Friends of The Bad Penny Share Their Top 10 Lists of 2025 Best Albums

4. On Tyranny: Nightrage Guitarist Scolds Complicit Public for ‘Looking the Other Way’ as Democracy Dies

5. Pet Sounds #76: Cat Lovers Psychic Pigs Named Their Band as a Derogatory Slur Jabbing the Police

6. Boise Friends of The Bad Penny Share Their 2025 Top 10 Lists

7. Pet Sounds #75: Brokedowns’ Drum Kit Player Can’t Get Enough of His Kitty Cats

8. On Tyranny: Jesus Lizard Vocalist David Yow Ditches US for Portugal

9. From the Vault: Everclear’s Art Alexakis Recounts Every Detail of ‘Santa Monica’ While Revisiting the Place That Inspired the Hit Song

10. 10 Best Free Bandcamp Downloads #6: Death Pose, Softcult, Hull of Light, Scott Lucas

Don’t miss these other 2025 roundups:

• The Bad Penny’s Top 50 Best LPs of 2025, Pt. 1: Sharon Van Etten, Spy, Turnstile, Swans, Cloakroom

• The Bad Penny’s Top 50 Best LPs of 2025, Pt. 2: Drain, Castle Rat, SOM, Mawiza, Blackbraid, Bleed

• The Bad Penny’s Top 50 Best LPs of 2025, Pt. 3: Keep, Florist, Pharaoh Overlord, Gaupa, Igorrr

• The Bad Penny’s Top 50 Best LPs of 2025, Pt. 4: Wode, Floating, Jason Isbell, Glare, Havukruunu

• The Bad Penny’s Top 50 Best LPs of 2025, Pt. 5: Deafheaven, Orbit Culture, Agriculture, Mclusky, Messa

• Best 10 Psychedelic Albums of 2025 for Treble #10: BLKE’s ‘Living Without Expectations’ EP

• Friends of The Bad Penny Share Their Top 10 Lists of 2025 Best Albums

• Boise Friends of The Bad Penny Share Their 2025 Top 10 Lists

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