We've compiled our yearly "Best Of" List from staff, artists, and friends of Deathwish for 2025. Give it a read and check out some new things that may connect with you. 

Thank you for your continued support.

-J.


Jacob Bannon | Converge, Umbra Vitae , Blood From The Soul, Wear Your Wounds

Music & Merch:  dthw.sh/convergecult

All things Deathwish

Saddest Day 2025

Miltown "Tales Of Never Letting Go"

Leeway "Adult Crash" (Reissue)

Porridge Radio "The Machine Starts To Sing"

Erang "Tome Zero" 
Coroner "Dissonance Theory"

Smote "Songs from the Free House"

Smote "Clyppan"

Atomic Rule "With Skull Crushing Force"

Atomic Rule "The Golden Rose"

Hooded Menace "Lachrymose Monuments Of Obscuration"
Edge Of Sanity "Crimson" (Remaster 2025)
Heriot " Commander of Pain” Single
Blackbraid "III" 

Deadguy "Near Death Travel Services"

Blood For Blood "You're Gonna Have to Kill Me" Single

Romantic Dividends "GIALLO"
Waxed "Big Blind" Single

Candlemass "Black Star"

The Haunted "Songs Of Last Resort"

Scorpion Milk "Slime of The Times"

Gruesome "Silent Echoes"

Kathryn Joseph "WE WERE MADE PREY"

Home Front "Watch It Die" 

Kae Tempest "Self Titled"

Tre McCarthy | Deathwish

deathwishinc.com

Skinhead - It’s A Beautiful Day, What A Beautiful Day

Rosalia Ft Bjork & Yves Tumor - Berghain

The Cambridge Antique Market

Brutus - Live in Brussels 

Deafheaven - Lonely People With Power

The return of Blood For Blood with Pete Morcey on vocals

Wicca Phase Springs Eternal - Mossy Oak Shadow

Asunojokei - Think of You 

Ethel Cain - Willoughby Trucker, I’ll Always Love You

Fleshwater - 2000: In Search Of The Endless Sky

Jeremy Bolm |  Touche Amore, Secret Voice

Music & Merch: dthw.sh/toucheamore

1. Greet Death - Die in Love

2. Alex G - Headliights

3. Matt Berninger - Get Sunk

4. Deftones - Private Music

5. Turnstile - Never Enough

6. Geese - Getting Killed

7. Deafheaven - Lonely People with Power

8. Hotline TNT - Raspberry Moon

9. Big Thief - Double Infinity

10. They Are Gutting a Body of Water - Lotto


Kevin Baker | The Hope Conspiracy

Music & Merch: dthw.sh/hopecon

1-  Ukko's Hammer "S/T" LP  

2- Heritage "Blood And Tears" LP  

3- Nisemono "S/T" LP  

4- Puffer "Street Hassle" LP  

5- Alienator "Meat Locker" LP  

6- Home Front - "Watch It Die" LP  

7- Béton Armé "Renaissance" LP  

8- Hellshock "XXV" EP  

9- Lathe Of Heaven "Aurora" LP  

10- The Massacred "Nightmare Agitators" LP

Thomas Cantwell | Gouge Away

Music & Merch: dthw.sh/gougeaway

There were a lot of great records this year and some that I haven’t been able to listen to yet, but these I enjoyed very much!

1. Damion - I’m Gonna Lose Control 

Amazing songwriting from one of my favorite musicians and people

2. Cloakroom - Last Leg of the Human Table

The sounds on this record are insanely beautiful and dirty

3. Manslaughter 777 - God’s World

God tier drum and bass

4. Wednesday - Bleeds

Really cool songs and really cool lyrics 

5. Turnstile - Never Enough

What can I say about this band that everyone else hasn’t already said? Fantastic  

6. Hotline TNT - Raspberry Moon

Sounds nostalgic and modern and cool as hell

7. Bar Italia - Some Like it Hot

Great vocals and more great songs 

8. AFI - Silver Bleeds the Black Sun

This record is the perfect vibe for what I wanted from AFI in 2025

9. BlankFor.ms - After the Town Was Swept Away

Obsessed with the tape loops on this album. Experimental and awesome.

10. Militarie Gun - God Save the Gun

This band always impresses me with how they write hooks, more great songs on this one 

11. Superheaven - Superheaven 

Big fan of these guys, “Stare at the Void” is a perfect song. 

Boneflower

Music & Merch: dthw.sh/boneflower

Playing the last show of the tour with The Fall Of Troy in Madrid (show/tour)

Syd de Palma - Paris (album) 

Crossed - Realismo Ausente (album)

Touring Scandinavia with Young Mountain (tour)

La Plata - Interzona (album) 

Ultralágrima show at Salt Mortal Fest (show)

Ann Annie - El prado (album) 

Guitarricadelafuente (show) 

Maruja Mallo (art exhibition)

Tom Begley | Bossk
Music & Merch: dthw.sh/bossk

instagram.com/tom_begley

Albums

1. Grails - Miracle Music

2. Katatonia - Nightmares As Extensions Of The waking State

3. Psychonaut - World Maker

4. We lost the sea - A Single Flower

5. Holy Fawn - Beneath A Lightless Star

Events

1. Oasis Wembley Stadium

2. High On Fire Damnation Festival

3. NIN at graspop festival

4. Bring Me The Horizon Leeds Festival 

5. Queens Of The Stone Age at Frequency Festival 

Brandon Williams |  Chastity

Music & Merch: dthw.sh/chastity

instagram.com/chastitysongs

My Top 10 2025 list of things i'm grateful I got to do

1. got to see a crocodile in the wild for the first time

2. got to see my brother get married, and my other brother raise a cool kid

3. got to play with Quicksand

4. got to see my favourite band from high school

5. got to see and play in Sweden and Norway for the first time

6. got to go to my town’s fair for the first time in a long time

7. got to meet my therapist, who i started seeing online during lockdowns, in real life

8. got to tour with my girl, my friends, eat good junk food together in America

9. got a costco membership

10. got closer with friends and family

Reid Haithcock |  Photographer

heartwork.gallery/haithcock

10. Fading Signal - Only an Echo

9. Catharsis - Hope Against Hope

8. Iron Lung - Adapting // Crawling

7. Pile - Sunshine and Balance Beams

6. Photo book - Jeff Dworsky - Sealskin

5. Photo book - Daniel Arnold - You Are What You Do

4. Carnaval de Québec

3. Traverse City Cherry Festival

2. Something In the Way Fest - Boston

1. Saddest Day Fest - Boston

Marco Walzel | Avocado Booking

instagram.com/marcowalzel

01. Grimm, Luna & Nadine Klein

02. Pound For Pound Munich

03. Mountains & Peace Of Mind

04. FC Bayern

05. Zach Bryan - 24 Live

06. Demon Hunter - There Was A Light Here

07. Lorna Shore - Pain Remains I-III

08. Skinhead - Kill Yourself

09. REM - Half A World Away

10. The Goo Goo Dolls - Better Days

Zach Weeks | God City Studio 

zachweeks.com / instagram.com/zachxweeks

ZACH'S TOP 10 OF 2025, split into…

5 RECORDS:

• Men I Trust - Equus Caballus / Equus Asinus

• Rosalía - Lux

• The Virgos - Road to Noxen and Lord Have Mercy (tied)

• CMAT - EURO-COUNTRY

• Alan Sparhawk & Trampled By Turtles collab LP

5 THINGS:

• Getting engaged to my fiancée (this is #1 for sure)

• Not Ya Mama’s Vegan Cafe in Salem, Massachusetts

• Working on a lot of great records, collaborating with a lot of great artists, and making a lot of new friends through music (Deafheaven, The Infinity Ring, Jay Weinberg, Shiver, Andy Pitcher, many many many more)

• Helping BIG KURT (Ballou) remodel our control room at God City Studio in Salem and completing the build-out & wiring of his home mix room — ton of work but very rewarding.

• Restoring/rebuilding my vintage 1970s Auditronics analog mixing console from the ground up (this could also be on my "bottom 10" of 2025…) 


Chris Bev | Wormwood, Sexless Marriage

instagram.com/wormwood_boston

Music:

Hedonist - Scapulimancy

Phrenelith - Ashen Womb

Nas/Premier - Light Years

Ghostface Killa - Supreme Clientele 2

Raekwon - The Emperors New Clothes 

Malefic Throne - The Conquering Darkness

Deadguy - Near Death Travel Services

Scorpion Milk - Slime Of The Times

Endless Joy - S/T

Iron Lung - Adapting//Crawling

Primitive Man - Observance

Hell - Submersus

Wiccans - Phase IV

Black Eyes - Hostile Design

Intercourse - How I Fell In Love With The Void

Innumerable Forms - Pain Effulgence

Laughing Corpse - Beyond Recognition

Planet On A Chain - Ritual Routine

Blut Aus Nord- Ethereal Horizons

Tropical Fuck Storm- Fairyland Codex

viagra boys - viagr aboys

Pile - Sunshine and balance

Stress positions - Human Zoo

Computer - Station on the hill

Kirby - miss black America

Books:

Born Human: the life and music of Chuck Schuldiner by David E. Gehlke 

The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Chronicles) - Bernard Cornell

Shogun - James Clavell

The Passenger - Cormac McCarthy