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1. At the Gates
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The 20 Best Scandinavian Melodic Death Metal Bands of All Time
Posted in Lists, Videos with tags Amon Amarth, Amorphis, At the Gates, Children of Bodom, Dark Tranquillity, In Flames, In Mourning, Insomnium, Kalmah, Orbit Culture on 12/13/2025 by Kurt OrzeckThe Bad Penny’s Top 50 Best LPs of 2025, Pt. 2: Drain, Castle Rat, SOM, Mawiza, Blackbraid, Bleed
Posted in Album Reviews, Lists, Reviews with tags Blackbraid, Bleed, Castle Rat, Cave Sermon, Der Weg Einer Freiheit, Drain, In Mourning, Malevich, Mawiza, SOM on 12/09/2025 by Kurt Orzeck
A lot of fucked-up up shit happened in the U.S. this year. Way, way too much of it. For many of us Americans who actually carry values in our hearts instead of bloviating about them or slapping bumper stickers on our monster trucks, it was almost too much to bear.
Fortunately, 2025 also saw the release of a staggering number of stellar records, which made the year a little more … well, bearable. Hence, for the first time ever, The Bad Penny is deviating from its usual annual tradition of limiting out favorite listens to just 10 and breaking them into a five-part series containing 10 records per installment.
What follows is the second batch. (Go here for The Bad Penny‘s favorite albums, #41 through #50.)
31. Blackbraid – III (Wolf Mountain)
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