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2. Brutal Assault Anniversary This year was the 30th anniversary of the 4 day long metal festival that is held in a medieval Fortress and therefor has a Legendary Status in the Underground Metal szene

Last Catagory: a Lot more (other stuff) 1. Soundgarden in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame The band was announced as an inductee for the Class of 2025

3. Last Megadeth Album Dave Mustaine anounced that the next Studio Album of the band will be the Last one wich will be followed by a farewell tour

2. Children of Bodom One Off confirmed After ending their Carrer in 2019 the band has confirmed they will reunite for a Tribute Concert to Honor Alexi Laiho in February of 2026

Fifth Catagory: Big Announcements 1. SOAD are coming to europe After not performing in Europe for almost a decade SOAD has announced a Tour throuh Europe together with Queens of the Stone Age & acid bath in 2026 with a total of 10 concerts

Fourth Catagory: Ian watkins getting killed 1. Much hated idiot fucking dies The Former Singer of Lostprophets Ian watkins who was sentenced to 29 years of prison do to multiple realy disgusting sexual offences Against children and animals was stabbed in prison

5. System of a Down In Brasil and Peru I dont even know how to explain that insanity you need to watch that Shit urself

4. Linkin Park at Wembley Stadium After their Comeback together with Emily Armstrong in 2024 the band played their biggest Show of all time this Summer in the Legendary Wembley Stadium with Spiritbox and the rapper JPEGMAFIA as Support acts

3. Spiritbox on Jimmy Kimmel After a Lot of Christians were very pissed of after the knocked loose Performance Last year Jimmy Kimmel brought Spiritbox on the Show this yesr to piss them of again wich is Just realy funny

2. Ozzy's Back to the beginning After multiple short Performances of the biggest Metal Bands of today the Prince of darkness and founding father of heavy Metal Performed one Last Time for His fans to end His carreer and died 2 weeks later

Third Catagory: Legendary Live Performances 1. Saltatio Mortis 25th anniversary Show at Wacken The Band Celebratedtheir anniversary With a realy Long set on one of the mainstages with old Song Like "Loki" all the way to new hits Like "Finsterwacht" and Covers Like "hypa hypa"

8. Honorable mentions Jinjer - Duel Spiritbox - Tsunami Sea Ministry - The Squirrely Years Revisited Behemoth - The Shit Ov God Sleep Token - Even in Arcadia Lorna Shore - I Feel the Everblack Festering Within Me Killswitch Engage - This Consequence

7. I Prevail - Violent Nature The Album does Not realy have any Change to the Style of their music but that is defintly Not a bad Thing as they Just continue to do the Style they are so good at but with a few more emotional Songs Mixed in there

6. Volbeat - God Of Angels Trust To be honest I didnt listen to the Album but I have been told its one of their best Albums so I thought they belong in here

5. Heaven Shall Burn - Heimat This Album is Just consistend in every aspect and exactly what you want to hear when you put on Heaven Shall Burn: aggressive and unique with the almost Melodic deathmetal Style + Bonus Points for the clear antifashist messeges

4. Dream Theater - Parasomnia To me the Album seems way less overly complex as dream Theater usally is and more straightforwardness and witch a Lot of catchy moments wich I peronally Like but I would think that Fans of the band will probably miss the their old unpredictability

3. Architects - The Sky, The Earth & All Between With this Album they are going away from metalcore Style even more and make their music mainly melody driven with cleaner vocals and eich make the music even more Suitable for the mainstream wich Works in their favor

2. Whitechapel - Hymns In Dissonance With my Favorite Album this year Whitechapel is coming Back to their brutal deathcore roots and Show that they still got it. The Album is a Concept Album that follows the Story of a cult that want to resurrect a Dark lord

Second Catagory: Crazy New Music 1. Babymetal - Metal Forth The new Album mainly lives from the Features as babymetal is highly collaborative with other artists but its also full of Energy and the distinctive musical style that they Always had