Fresh Finds: Class Of 2025 – Aussie Acts To Add To Your Playlist

Writer's Poll - Tom Hersey

Earth and Pig Destroyer made the year bearable for Tom Hersey.

ALBUM OF THE YEAR

1. Book Burner PIG DESTROYER
2. So, You Are A Magician? BLACKLISTED
3. Freak Puke THE MELVINS
4. Grey Matter White Matter SEX WIZARD
5. Dusk...Subside INVERLOCH
6. Utilitarian NAPALM DEATH
7. Blues Funeral MARK LANEGAN BAND
8. De Vermis Mysteriis HIGH ON FIRE
9. Blood For The Master GOATWHORE
10. Silencing Machine NACHTMYSTIUM

MISCELLANEOUS ALBUM OF THE YEAR

1. Dopesmoker SLEEP
2. Dopes To Infinity MONSTER MAGNET
3. Lawless OST VARIOUS

SONG OF THE YEAR

1. Houdini Blues BLACKLISTED
2. Burning Palm PIG DESTROYER
3. Year Of The Tiger FUCKED UP
4. Watch The Corners DINOSAUR JR.
5. Harborview Hospital MARK LANEGAN BAND

ARTIST OF THE YEAR

1. Pig Destroyer
2. Boris
3. Earth
4. Nachtmystium
5. Eyehategod

BEST WEBSITE

1. wikipedia.org
2. avclub.com
3. eztv.it
4. decibelmagazine.com/blog/
5. facebook.com

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCE

1. Earth
2. Boris
3. Raised Fist
4. Cathedral
5. Eyehategod

BEST AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCE

1. Blood Duster
2. I Exist
3. Sex Wizard
4. Psycroptic
5. Frenzal Rhomb

BEST TV SHOW

1. Community
2. Girls
3. Happy Endings
4. The Newsroom
5. Don't Trust the Bitch In Apartment 23

BEST MOVIE

1. The Comedy
2. The Master
3. From Rome with Love
4. Lola Versus
5. Moonrise Kingdom

2012 HIGHLIGHT

The mainstream resurgence of vinyl: major labels reissuing a bunch of cool albums that were never initially released on LP.

2013 PREDICTION

Another insanely good Fucked Up album.