We Count down the 16 albums that shaped the future of Tyne and Queer, and knighting one Album Of The Year...

Our 16 best albums of 2025

16
Artist: King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard
Album: Flight B741
Relase: 2024
Label:  KGLW (King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard)
Song: Hog Calling Contest

15
Artist: Conan
Album: Evidence Of Immortality
Relase: 2022
Label: Napalm Records
Song: Levitation Hoax

14
Artist: The White Stripes
Album: Elephant
Relase: 2003
Label: V2 Records Japan Inc.
Song:Ball and Biscuit

13
Artist: Red Fang
Album: Whale and Leaches
Relase: 2013
Label: Relapse Records
Song: Blood like Cream

12
Artist: GNOD
Album: Just Say No to the Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine
Release: 2017
Label: Rocket Recordings (UK)
Song: People

11
Artist:Smote
Album: Songs from the Free House
Relase: 2025
Label: Rocket Recordings (UK)
Song:The Linton Wyrm

10
Artist: Sunn O)))
Album: Eternity’s Pillars b/w Raise the Chalice & Reverential - EP
Release: 2025
Label: Sub Pop (USA)
Song: Raise the Chalice

9
Artist: Geese
Album: Getting Killed: 100 Horses
Release: 2025
Label: Partisan Records UK/USA)
Song:
100 Horses

8
Artist: wine lips
Album: Mushroom Death Sex Bummer Party
Release: 2021
Label: Stomp Records CA
Song: Suffer The Joy

7
Artist: Black Country New Road
Album: Ants From Up There
Release: 2022
Label: Ninja Tune
Song:
Concorde

by Beck Carol they/she

5
Artist: Slayer
Album: Diabolus In Musica
Release: 1998
Label: American Recordings US
Song: In The Name Of God

6
Artist: PIGS X7
Album: King of Cowards
Release: 2018
Label: Rocket Recordings (UK
Song:
Shockmaster

3
Artist: Jackie O Motherfucker
Album: Flags of the Sacred Harp (20th

Anniversary Edition)
Release: 2025
Label: Fire Records UK/USA
Song: Good Morning Kaptain

4
Artist: Frankie And The Witch Fingers
Album: Data Doom
Release: 2023,
Label: Greenway Records USA
Song: Burn Me Down

1
Artist: Black sabbath
Album: Born Again
Release: 1983
Label: Vertigo Records UK
Song: Zero The Hero

2
Artist: Suburban Scum
Album: Ultimate Annihilation
Release: 2016
Label: Flatspot Records USA
Song: Forced Through Fire

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