Fediverse AOTY List – So Fedi, what albums got your attention in 2025?
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Fediverse AOTY List – So Fedi, what albums got your attention in 2025?
Hey, so once again we’re compiling a Fediverse-wide, community-sourced Albums-of-The-Year (AOTY) list, of the albums – from any year – that rocked our worlds and got us through the last 12 months!
About 60 of us joined in last year and people seemed to like the idea of doing another round this year, so here we are! The call is open from now until the end of the year, then around New Years I’ll do up a blog post here with the final list, complete with links to find the albums. You in?
The Rules:
- Anyone with an account in the Fediverse (e.g., Mastodon) can participate. I’ll include each submitter’s username in the final list, leaving off the instance unless asked to keep it in (e.g., mine will be tagged just “buffyleigh”).
- Reply to this post (or the parallel toot on the 1001 Other Albums linernotes.club account) with your top album(s) of the year, to a maximum of 3 per person. I also accept emails (johnmastodon@1001otheralbums.com) if you include your Fediverse username, or DMs to the linernotes.club account. (Note that, if you’re reading this in the Fediverse, this automated account cannot accept DMs.)
- “Top” is absolutely however you want to define it – favourite, most listened to, most personally important, most thought about, most surprising find, representative of an artist you really got into, etc.
- “Of the year” does not have to mean the album was released in 2025. Your submissions can come from any year, so long as it was key in your 2025 listening.
- The final list won’t be ranked or voted on, and will simply be ordered alphabetically. Multiple entries for the same album are most welcome and will be noted in the final list.
- Notes/reasons for your picks aren’t necessary but totally welcome, and if included with your submission, I’ll probably put them in the footnotes like last year.
We’ll see you back here in a couple weeks! Until then, hope you’re all enjoying AOTY season and (re)finding some great albums to get you through the rest of the year.
P.S. Unfamiliar with the 1001 Other Albums project? Check out this post, and The List. We’re still taking submissions for The List, so if there’s an album you feel everyone should hear that isn’t yet included, please let me know!
#Musodon #AOTY #AOTY2025 #AskFedi #BestOf2025 #ListenToThis #music #musicDiscovery #YearInReview
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Fediverse AOTY List – So Fedi, what albums got your attention in 2025?
Hey, so once again we’re compiling a Fediverse-wide, community-sourced Albums-of-The-Year (AOTY) list, of the albums – from any year – that rocked our worlds and got us through the last 12 months!
About 60 of us joined in last year and people seemed to like the idea of doing another round this year, so here we are! The call is open from now until the end of the year, then around New Years I’ll do up a blog post here with the final list, complete with links to find the albums. You in?
The Rules:
- Anyone with an account in the Fediverse (e.g., Mastodon) can participate. I’ll include each submitter’s username in the final list, leaving off the instance unless asked to keep it in (e.g., mine will be tagged just “buffyleigh”).
- Reply to this post (or the parallel toot on the 1001 Other Albums linernotes.club account) with your top album(s) of the year, to a maximum of 3 per person. I also accept emails (johnmastodon@1001otheralbums.com) if you include your Fediverse username, or DMs to the linernotes.club account. (Note that, if you’re reading this in the Fediverse, this automated account cannot accept DMs.)
- “Top” is absolutely however you want to define it – favourite, most listened to, most personally important, most thought about, most surprising find, representative of an artist you really got into, etc.
- “Of the year” does not have to mean the album was released in 2025. Your submissions can come from any year, so long as it was key in your 2025 listening.
- The final list won’t be ranked or voted on, and will simply be ordered alphabetically. Multiple entries for the same album are most welcome and will be noted in the final list.
- Notes/reasons for your picks aren’t necessary but totally welcome, and if included with your submission, I’ll probably put them in the footnotes like last year.
We’ll see you back here in a couple weeks! Until then, hope you’re all enjoying AOTY season and (re)finding some great albums to get you through the rest of the year.
P.S. Unfamiliar with the 1001 Other Albums project? Check out this post, and The List. We’re still taking submissions for The List, so if there’s an album you feel everyone should hear that isn’t yet included, please let me know!
#Musodon #AOTY #AOTY2025 #AskFedi #BestOf2025 #ListenToThis #music #musicDiscovery #YearInReview
I listened to this album when it first came out in 2021 but for some reason it didn't click with me. But apparently 2021 Dana had horrible taste in music, because in early 2025 I randomly tried Dodsrit - Mortal Coil again and fell in love and have been obsessed with it all year, it's the perfect blend of crust punk and black metal and I love it.
Dodsrit - Mortail Coil rocked my world in 2025.
Mortal Coil, by Dödsrit
Mortal Coil by Dödsrit, released 28 May 2021 1. The Third Door 2. Shallow Graves 3. Mortal Coil 4. Apathetic Tongues Out from a concept of misery and suffering, our feeble and dying world is the subject of a new hymn to its demise. “Mortal Coil” is Dödsrit's third full-length, featured on a yet short career though wholly filled with soul-drenching moments. Featuring four tracks, Dödsrit's "Mortal Coil" hails the smothering ashes of purgatory's flames by forging a wall of soultearing riffing, blistering belligerence conjoining melody with aggression, a genuine blaze of cacophony and heart-wrenching melancholy. Consuming all in its path, this relentless maelstrom of grief finds its vision on the thunderous production - utterly powerful and blisteringly organic in all its dynamism. Such sonic virtues get sheerly enhanced by the lively rhythmic section and uncompromised ferocity. Whether on blastbeating outbreaks, D-beat infused vigour, or further atmospheric escapades, pulsing impulses carry an expression and sense of craftsmanship that amazingly translate emotions into cataclysmic beats. Drenched in anguish, a scourged narrator of tragedies spews every single word with the blood and fiery distress of a heart burdened by the weight of our sorrowed existence, a shivering performance of a tongue absorbed in the (dis)comfort of eternal grief. Out under the banner of Wolves of Hades on Vinyl & CD, and The Hell Command on Cassette, “Mortal Coil” is a eulogy to the world in flames - to the hell we call our home. (Text by Mário Souto)
Dödsrit (dodsrit.bandcamp.com)
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I listened to this album when it first came out in 2021 but for some reason it didn't click with me. But apparently 2021 Dana had horrible taste in music, because in early 2025 I randomly tried Dodsrit - Mortal Coil again and fell in love and have been obsessed with it all year, it's the perfect blend of crust punk and black metal and I love it.
Dodsrit - Mortail Coil rocked my world in 2025.
Mortal Coil, by Dödsrit
Mortal Coil by Dödsrit, released 28 May 2021 1. The Third Door 2. Shallow Graves 3. Mortal Coil 4. Apathetic Tongues Out from a concept of misery and suffering, our feeble and dying world is the subject of a new hymn to its demise. “Mortal Coil” is Dödsrit's third full-length, featured on a yet short career though wholly filled with soul-drenching moments. Featuring four tracks, Dödsrit's "Mortal Coil" hails the smothering ashes of purgatory's flames by forging a wall of soultearing riffing, blistering belligerence conjoining melody with aggression, a genuine blaze of cacophony and heart-wrenching melancholy. Consuming all in its path, this relentless maelstrom of grief finds its vision on the thunderous production - utterly powerful and blisteringly organic in all its dynamism. Such sonic virtues get sheerly enhanced by the lively rhythmic section and uncompromised ferocity. Whether on blastbeating outbreaks, D-beat infused vigour, or further atmospheric escapades, pulsing impulses carry an expression and sense of craftsmanship that amazingly translate emotions into cataclysmic beats. Drenched in anguish, a scourged narrator of tragedies spews every single word with the blood and fiery distress of a heart burdened by the weight of our sorrowed existence, a shivering performance of a tongue absorbed in the (dis)comfort of eternal grief. Out under the banner of Wolves of Hades on Vinyl & CD, and The Hell Command on Cassette, “Mortal Coil” is a eulogy to the world in flames - to the hell we call our home. (Text by Mário Souto)
Dödsrit (dodsrit.bandcamp.com)
But also based on listens I have to mention
Faetooth - Labrynthine
Castle Rat - The Bestiary -
But also based on listens I have to mention
Faetooth - Labrynthine
Castle Rat - The Bestiary@MetalheadDana @1001otheralbums.com that Faetooth album is so good.
