I like when r/metal’s top ten of the year comes out because then I can see if I missed something.
Some of my picks are on here, some are not
Some of my picks are on here, some are not
January 21, 2026 at 10:42 PM
I like when r/metal’s top ten of the year comes out because then I can see if I missed something.
Some of my picks are on here, some are not
Some of my picks are on here, some are not
3.) Havukruunu - Tavastland
This is my favorite metal record of the year. As much as I hate the descriptor, this is the type of shit I wish every dork who's ever tried to talk to me about "Viking metal" actually had in mind. Very reminiscent of late Bathory. My official review: shit fuckin rips
This is my favorite metal record of the year. As much as I hate the descriptor, this is the type of shit I wish every dork who's ever tried to talk to me about "Viking metal" actually had in mind. Very reminiscent of late Bathory. My official review: shit fuckin rips
January 10, 2026 at 5:11 PM
3.) Havukruunu - Tavastland
This is my favorite metal record of the year. As much as I hate the descriptor, this is the type of shit I wish every dork who's ever tried to talk to me about "Viking metal" actually had in mind. Very reminiscent of late Bathory. My official review: shit fuckin rips
This is my favorite metal record of the year. As much as I hate the descriptor, this is the type of shit I wish every dork who's ever tried to talk to me about "Viking metal" actually had in mind. Very reminiscent of late Bathory. My official review: shit fuckin rips
im quite enjoying tavastland
January 9, 2026 at 1:17 AM
im quite enjoying tavastland
Hi Rich. Here are my nominations for #5albums25.
Yugen Blakrok - The Illusion Of Being (5pts)
Djrum - Under Tangled Silence
Rosalía – Lux
Havukruunu - Tavastland
Cold Specks - Light For The Midnight (1pt)
Yugen Blakrok - The Illusion Of Being (5pts)
Djrum - Under Tangled Silence
Rosalía – Lux
Havukruunu - Tavastland
Cold Specks - Light For The Midnight (1pt)
January 2, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Hi Rich. Here are my nominations for #5albums25.
Yugen Blakrok - The Illusion Of Being (5pts)
Djrum - Under Tangled Silence
Rosalía – Lux
Havukruunu - Tavastland
Cold Specks - Light For The Midnight (1pt)
Yugen Blakrok - The Illusion Of Being (5pts)
Djrum - Under Tangled Silence
Rosalía – Lux
Havukruunu - Tavastland
Cold Specks - Light For The Midnight (1pt)
i know I am not alone in this, but Havukruunu's Tavastland was one of my favorite records of 2025: https://havukruunu.bandcamp.com/album/tavastland
January 1, 2026 at 10:58 PM
i know I am not alone in this, but Havukruunu's Tavastland was one of my favorite records of 2025: https://havukruunu.bandcamp.com/album/tavastland
#AOTY 1/2
Blut aus Nord - Ethereal Horizons
Nite - Cult of the serpent sun
Dawn Treader - Bloom & Decay
Phantom Corporation - Time and tide
Christian Mistress - Children of the earth
Havukruunu - Tavastland
Hooded Menace- Lachrymose monuments of obscuration
K.I.Z - Görlitzer Park (Live aus Leipzig)
Blut aus Nord - Ethereal Horizons
Nite - Cult of the serpent sun
Dawn Treader - Bloom & Decay
Phantom Corporation - Time and tide
Christian Mistress - Children of the earth
Havukruunu - Tavastland
Hooded Menace- Lachrymose monuments of obscuration
K.I.Z - Görlitzer Park (Live aus Leipzig)
December 31, 2025 at 6:29 PM
#AOTY 1/2
Blut aus Nord - Ethereal Horizons
Nite - Cult of the serpent sun
Dawn Treader - Bloom & Decay
Phantom Corporation - Time and tide
Christian Mistress - Children of the earth
Havukruunu - Tavastland
Hooded Menace- Lachrymose monuments of obscuration
K.I.Z - Görlitzer Park (Live aus Leipzig)
Blut aus Nord - Ethereal Horizons
Nite - Cult of the serpent sun
Dawn Treader - Bloom & Decay
Phantom Corporation - Time and tide
Christian Mistress - Children of the earth
Havukruunu - Tavastland
Hooded Menace- Lachrymose monuments of obscuration
K.I.Z - Görlitzer Park (Live aus Leipzig)
Meus 25 álbuns preferidos do ano
3 primeiras fileiras: álbuns de metal em ordem de preferência
2 últimas fileiras: álbuns de não-metal em ordem de preferência
3 primeiras fileiras: álbuns de metal em ordem de preferência
2 últimas fileiras: álbuns de não-metal em ordem de preferência
December 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Meus 25 álbuns preferidos do ano
3 primeiras fileiras: álbuns de metal em ordem de preferência
2 últimas fileiras: álbuns de não-metal em ordem de preferência
3 primeiras fileiras: álbuns de metal em ordem de preferência
2 últimas fileiras: álbuns de não-metal em ordem de preferência
Darkenhold - Le Fleau Du Rocher
Suspect - Send The Bombs
Delobos - Cabal
Havukruunu - Tavastland
Vultures Vengeance - Dust Age
Suspect - Send The Bombs
Delobos - Cabal
Havukruunu - Tavastland
Vultures Vengeance - Dust Age
December 28, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Darkenhold - Le Fleau Du Rocher
Suspect - Send The Bombs
Delobos - Cabal
Havukruunu - Tavastland
Vultures Vengeance - Dust Age
Suspect - Send The Bombs
Delobos - Cabal
Havukruunu - Tavastland
Vultures Vengeance - Dust Age
in case you needed a reminder what my 2025 AOTY even is, let there be no confusion
in a year of incredible new music, Havukruunu's Tavastland really defined it for me. monta kiitokset
have a wonderful end of the year, everybody
in a year of incredible new music, Havukruunu's Tavastland really defined it for me. monta kiitokset
have a wonderful end of the year, everybody
December 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
in case you needed a reminder what my 2025 AOTY even is, let there be no confusion
in a year of incredible new music, Havukruunu's Tavastland really defined it for me. monta kiitokset
have a wonderful end of the year, everybody
in a year of incredible new music, Havukruunu's Tavastland really defined it for me. monta kiitokset
have a wonderful end of the year, everybody
Silver Knife - Silver Knife
Mutterlein - Amidst the Flames, May Our Organs Resound
Grey Aura - Zwart vierkant Slotstuk
Lightless - A Foreseen Loss
Ter Ziele - Embodiment of Death
Havakruunu - Tavastland
Mutterlein - Amidst the Flames, May Our Organs Resound
Grey Aura - Zwart vierkant Slotstuk
Lightless - A Foreseen Loss
Ter Ziele - Embodiment of Death
Havakruunu - Tavastland
December 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Silver Knife - Silver Knife
Mutterlein - Amidst the Flames, May Our Organs Resound
Grey Aura - Zwart vierkant Slotstuk
Lightless - A Foreseen Loss
Ter Ziele - Embodiment of Death
Havakruunu - Tavastland
Mutterlein - Amidst the Flames, May Our Organs Resound
Grey Aura - Zwart vierkant Slotstuk
Lightless - A Foreseen Loss
Ter Ziele - Embodiment of Death
Havakruunu - Tavastland
Havukruunu - Tavastland
Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter - Forever, I've Been Being Born
Kayo Dot - Every Rock, Every Half-Truth Under Reason
Mara - Sword Of Vengeance
Marissa Nadler - New Radiations
Melvins - Thunderball
Nattverd - Tidloes Naadesloes
Penelope Trappes - A Requiem
Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter - Forever, I've Been Being Born
Kayo Dot - Every Rock, Every Half-Truth Under Reason
Mara - Sword Of Vengeance
Marissa Nadler - New Radiations
Melvins - Thunderball
Nattverd - Tidloes Naadesloes
Penelope Trappes - A Requiem
December 27, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Havukruunu - Tavastland
Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter - Forever, I've Been Being Born
Kayo Dot - Every Rock, Every Half-Truth Under Reason
Mara - Sword Of Vengeance
Marissa Nadler - New Radiations
Melvins - Thunderball
Nattverd - Tidloes Naadesloes
Penelope Trappes - A Requiem
Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter - Forever, I've Been Being Born
Kayo Dot - Every Rock, Every Half-Truth Under Reason
Mara - Sword Of Vengeance
Marissa Nadler - New Radiations
Melvins - Thunderball
Nattverd - Tidloes Naadesloes
Penelope Trappes - A Requiem
Hoppas det inte blir lika illa som lovats, där eller här... Har familjen i bilen på väg mot sydvästra Finland där det är värre än här i Tavastland...
December 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Hoppas det inte blir lika illa som lovats, där eller här... Har familjen i bilen på väg mot sydvästra Finland där det är värre än här i Tavastland...
![1 - Barren Path - Grieving
2 - Floating - Hesitating Lights
3 - Violator - Unholy Retribution
4 - Vauruvã - Mar da Deriva
5 - Terror Corpse - Ash Eclipses Flesh
6 - One of nine - Dawn Of The Iron Shadow
7 - Jade - Mysteries Of A Flowery Dream
8 - Coltaine - Brandung
9 - Haggus - Destination Extinction
10 - Blood Abscission - I I
11 - Messa - The Spin
12 - Vacuous - In His Blood
13 - Ancient Death - Ego Dissolution
14 - Ossuary - Abhorrent Worship
15 - Evoken - mendacium
16 - Skjolden - Insouciant Metaphysical Grandeur
17 - Caustic Wound - Grinding Mechanism of Torment
18 - Facada - Truculence
19 - Oskoreien - Hollow Fangs
20 - Rothadás - Töviskert… A Kísértés Örök Érzete… Lidércharang
21 - Clan dos Mortos Cicatriz - Técnicas de Morte
22 - BLOOD MONOLITH - The Calling of Fire
23 - Havukruunu - Tavastland
24 - Mörtual - Altar of Brutality
25 - Morbific - Bloom of the Abnormal Flesh
26 - Qrixkuor - The Womb of the World
27 - Nachash - Eschaton Magicks
28 - Proscription - Desolate Divine
29 - UNSOULING - Outward Streams Of Devotional Woe
30 - Sijjin - Helljjin Combat
31 - Vile Apparition - Malignity
32 - Open The Coffin - Once Alive Always Dead
33 - RUINOUS POWER - EXTREME DANGER: Prototype Weaponry
34 - Blackbraid - Blackbraid III
35 - Mutagenic Host - The Diseased Machine
36 - DEFIGUREMENT - Endbryo
37 - Reekmind - Mired in the Reek of Grief
38 - Dephosphorus - Planetoktonos
39 - Venomous Breath - Abysm [Explicit]
40 - RITUAL ASCENSION - Profanation of the Adamic Covenant
41 - Grave Infestation - Carnage Gathers
42 - Podridão - Coffin of the Corrupted Dead
43 - Der Weg einer Freiheit - Innern
44 - Insineratehymn - Disembodied
45 - MENTAL DEVASTATION - The Delusional Mystery of the Self Part II
46 - WOE BATHER - SWALLOWED BY THE CHAINS OF SPIRIT LOSS
47 - Devouring Famine - Theatre Of Pain
48 - Diabolizer - Murderous Revelations
49 - Lamp Of Murmuur - The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy
50 - Malphas - Extinct
51 - Escarnium - Inexorable Entropy
52 - TRAUMA BOND](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dhp2akgupet3hu2olykuopg5/bafkreifgjxw27avvdb2ef7xwj4gvy575a6726gpszdebristnbzjpemkla@jpeg)
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #SeekAndDestroy
Havukruunu:
🎵 Tavastland
#Havukruunu
▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify
▶️ Song/Cover on #Bandcamp:
Tavastland, by Havukruunu
8 track album
havukruunu.bandcamp.com
December 21, 2025 at 8:16 AM
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #SeekAndDestroy
Havukruunu:
🎵 Tavastland
#Havukruunu
▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify
▶️ Song/Cover on #Bandcamp:
“Tavastland” Havukruunu — Tavastland (2025)
December 21, 2025 at 8:16 AM
“Tavastland” Havukruunu — Tavastland (2025)
Some albums I liked this year #metalsky
Imperialist - Prime
1914 - Viribus Unitas
Graceless - Icons of Ruin
Havukruunu - Tavastland
Morbikon- Lost Within the Astral Crypts
In Mourning - The Immortal
Structure- Heritage
Atlantic - Timeworn
Dormant Ordeal - Tooth & Nail
Ancient Death -Ego Dissolution
Imperialist - Prime
1914 - Viribus Unitas
Graceless - Icons of Ruin
Havukruunu - Tavastland
Morbikon- Lost Within the Astral Crypts
In Mourning - The Immortal
Structure- Heritage
Atlantic - Timeworn
Dormant Ordeal - Tooth & Nail
Ancient Death -Ego Dissolution
December 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Some albums I liked this year #metalsky
Imperialist - Prime
1914 - Viribus Unitas
Graceless - Icons of Ruin
Havukruunu - Tavastland
Morbikon- Lost Within the Astral Crypts
In Mourning - The Immortal
Structure- Heritage
Atlantic - Timeworn
Dormant Ordeal - Tooth & Nail
Ancient Death -Ego Dissolution
Imperialist - Prime
1914 - Viribus Unitas
Graceless - Icons of Ruin
Havukruunu - Tavastland
Morbikon- Lost Within the Astral Crypts
In Mourning - The Immortal
Structure- Heritage
Atlantic - Timeworn
Dormant Ordeal - Tooth & Nail
Ancient Death -Ego Dissolution
... and they've never disappointed, but Tavastland might be their best album yet.
December 20, 2025 at 5:12 AM
... and they've never disappointed, but Tavastland might be their best album yet.
...those albums, and Tavastland is no different. The guitars are raw but weighty, the vocals brim with power and fury, and every time I listen to this album I feel a compulsion to take up a sword and shield and charge into battle. It's beautiful. I've been a massive fan of the band for a while...
December 20, 2025 at 5:12 AM
...those albums, and Tavastland is no different. The guitars are raw but weighty, the vocals brim with power and fury, and every time I listen to this album I feel a compulsion to take up a sword and shield and charge into battle. It's beautiful. I've been a massive fan of the band for a while...
Ruiner Ranks: The Best Of 2025 #musicsky #metalsky
3- Havukruunu - Tavastland
It's not at all surprising that Havukruunu is heavily influenced by Bathory’s Blood Fire Death and Hammerheart albums. Their particular brand of epic, woodsy black metal has always felt like a direct descendent of...
3- Havukruunu - Tavastland
It's not at all surprising that Havukruunu is heavily influenced by Bathory’s Blood Fire Death and Hammerheart albums. Their particular brand of epic, woodsy black metal has always felt like a direct descendent of...
December 20, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Havukruunu Tavastland is what happens when black metal and power metal have a baby. It had been sitting in my “potentials” list for months, and when I went back and listened, I made enough stink faces for it to grab the final spot.
December 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Havukruunu Tavastland is what happens when black metal and power metal have a baby. It had been sitting in my “potentials” list for months, and when I went back and listened, I made enough stink faces for it to grab the final spot.
The list:
Deafheaven - Lonely People with Power
Blood Abscission - II
Cave Sermon - Fragile Wings
Saor - Amidst the Ruins
Walg - V
Dessiderium - Keys to the Palace
We Lost the Sea - A Single Flower
Lykke - Sunken
Lamp Of Murmuur - The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy
Havukruunu - Tavastland
Deafheaven - Lonely People with Power
Blood Abscission - II
Cave Sermon - Fragile Wings
Saor - Amidst the Ruins
Walg - V
Dessiderium - Keys to the Palace
We Lost the Sea - A Single Flower
Lykke - Sunken
Lamp Of Murmuur - The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy
Havukruunu - Tavastland
December 18, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The list:
Deafheaven - Lonely People with Power
Blood Abscission - II
Cave Sermon - Fragile Wings
Saor - Amidst the Ruins
Walg - V
Dessiderium - Keys to the Palace
We Lost the Sea - A Single Flower
Lykke - Sunken
Lamp Of Murmuur - The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy
Havukruunu - Tavastland
Deafheaven - Lonely People with Power
Blood Abscission - II
Cave Sermon - Fragile Wings
Saor - Amidst the Ruins
Walg - V
Dessiderium - Keys to the Palace
We Lost the Sea - A Single Flower
Lykke - Sunken
Lamp Of Murmuur - The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy
Havukruunu - Tavastland