Best of industrial / electro / post-punk albums of 2025
Best of industrial / electro / post-punk albums of 2025
Traditionally, I close each year with my TOP 25 of the best industrial / electro / post-punk ALBUMS we’ve received at Side-Line and Inferno Sound Diaries. This TOP 25 does not include re-releases, live recordings, remix albums, or best-of compilations.
I usually write a long introductory text filled with thanks and reflections, but this year I wanted to take a risk. I asked a few readers familiar with Side-Line to pose some very critical questions about my work. You can read the results in a separate post published today. (Stéphane Froidcoeur)
So here it is: my Album TOP 25 of 2025.
- Fïx8:Sëd8 – “OctAgram” – Dependent Records
- Autodafeh – “Greed” – Scanner / Dark Dimensions
- The Young Gods – “Appear Disappear” – Two Gentlemen Records
- Das Ich – “Fanal” – Danse Macabre
- Paranoia Inducta – “Middle Of Nowhere” – Heerwegen Tod Production
- Dead Man’s Hill – “Born From The Black Cauldron” – Zazen Sounds
- Rotersand – “Don’t Become The Thing You Hated – Trisol / Metropolis Records
- Je T’Aime – “Useless Boy” – Manic Depression Records
- They Die – “Darkroom Session” – Swiss Dark Nights
- Rome – “The Dublin Session II” – Trisol
- The Birthday Massacre – “Pathways” – Metropolis Records
- Pink Panther Project – “Clinics And Models” – Assur Anshar
- Cosmo Brigade – “Hollow Obsessions” – Alice In… / Dark Dimensions
- First Aid 4 Souls feat. Diva’s Of The Dark – “Progenitrix” – Alfa Matrix
- God Body Disconnect – “Detune The Tragic Light” – Cryo Chamber
- Kristof Bathory – “Black Hole Expedition” – Cryo Chamber
- Rome – “Civitas Solis” – Trisol
- Ultra Sunn – “The Beast In you” – Artoffact Records
- Melkor – “Udkraxsha” – PharmaFabrik Recordings
- Blac Kolor – “Arca” – Ant-Zen
- Leila-Abdul Rauf – “Call From A Seething Edge” – Cyclic Law
- Fictional – “Some Great Constructions” – Repo Records
- Phragments & New Risen Throne – “Between Ecstasy & Death” – Winter Light
- Fernando’s Eyes – “Center Of Your World” – Icy Cold Records / Aenaos Records
- Panzerkampf – “Extermination Engineering” – Heerwegen Tod Production
I have been working for over 30 years with Side-line as the main reviewer. My taste is eclectic, uncoventional and I prefer to look for the pearls, even if the bands are completely unknown, thus staying loyal to the Side-Line philosophy of nurturing new talents.
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