Os colaboradores do Headbangers News se reuniram para eleger a já tradicional lista dos 10 melhores lançamentos de rock e metal de 2025, com base em suas opiniões, vivências e paixões musicais. Redatores, fotógrafos e colaboradores dedicados selecionaram os álbuns que mais se destacaram ao longo do ano, oferecendo um panorama consistente e representativo do que realmente marcou a cena.
Agradecemos a todos que estiveram conosco em 2024 e seguimos juntos para um 2025 ainda mais intenso, barulhento e cheio de grandes lançamentos. Stay heavy e feliz Ano Novo!

Carlos Pupo – Editor-chefe e fotógrafo
- Sodom – The Arsonist
- Castle Rat – The Bestiary
- Helloween – Giants & Monsters
- Wardruna – Birna
- Paradise Lost – Ascension
- Behemoth – The Shit ov God
- Dropkick Murphys – For The People
- Machine Head – Unatoned
- Agnostic Front – Echoes In Eternity
- Grave Digger – Bone Collector

Jéssica Marinho – Redatora e fotógrafa
- Sleep Token – Even in Acardia
- Ghost – Skeletá
- Deftones – Private Music
- Castle Rat – The Bestiary
- Spiritbox – Tsunami Sea
- Steven Wilson – The Overview
- UNDO – UNDO
- Traste – Rastros, Resquícios y Otras Cositas Mas
- Testament – Para Bellum
- Bruxax – Do Céu ao Inferno
Filipe Moriarty – Redator
- Dark Angel – Extinction Level Event
- Creatures – Creatures II
- FM – Brotherhood
- Pentagram – Lightning in a Bottle
- Spiders – Sharp Objects
- Udo Dirkschneider – Balls to the Walls Reloaded
- Hawkwind – There Is No Space for Us
- Crematory – Destination
- Vader – Humanihility
- Sodom – The Arsonist

Pedro Bertasso – Redator
- Deafheaven – Lonely People with Power
- Desalmado – Monopoly of Violence
- Decline of the I – Wilhelm
- Dawn of Ouroboros – Bioluminescence
- Vauruvã – Mar da Deriva
- Panopticon – Laurentian Blue
- … And Oceans – The Regeneration Itinerary
- Ghost – Skeletá
- Imperium Triumphant – Goldstar
- Messa – The Spin

Marcos Franke – Redator
- Paradise Lost – Ascension
- Conjurer – Unself
- Battle Beast – Steelbound
- Testament – Para Bellum
- Behemoth – The Shit Ov God
- Defheaven – Lonely People With Power
- Stellar Circuits – Phantom :: Phoenix
- Grave Digger – Bone Collector
- Maestrick – Espresso Della Vita: Lunare
- Naimaculada – A Cor Mais Próxima do Cinza

Marcos Gonçalves – Redator
- Between The Buried And Me – The Blue Nowhere
- Behemoth – The Shit Ov God
- Scour – Gold
- Killswitch Engage – The Consequence
- Deftones – private music
- Orbit Culture – Death Above Lies
- Testament – Para Bellum
- Spiritbox – Tsunami Sea
- Arch Enemy – Blood Dynasty
- Ghost – Skeletá

Patrícia Araújo – Redatora
- Messa – The Spin
- Deafheaven – Lonely People With Power
- Steven Wilson – The Overview
- Anna von Hausswolf – Iconoclasts
- Paradise Lost – Ascencion
- Deftones – Private Music
- King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Phanton Island
- De Carne e Flor – Em teus olhos vejo fendas
- The Mars Volta – Lucro Sucio; Los Ojos del Vacio
- Desalmado – Monopoly Of Violence

Fabiano Miranda – Redator
- Suede – Antidepressants
- Deftones – private music
- Paradise Lost – Ascension
- Epica – Aspiral
- Machine Head – UNATØNED
- Turnstile – Never Enough
- Deafheaven – Lonely People With Power
- Messa – The Spin
- Katatonia – Nightmares as Extensions of the Waking State
- Menores Atos – Fim do Mundo

Carlos Ferracin – Redator
- Ghost – Skeletá
- Paradise Lost – Ascencion
- Helloween – Giants & Monsters
- The Hellacopters – Overdriver
- Castle Rat – The Bestiary
- Billy Idol – Dream Into It
- Behemoth – The Shit Ov God
- Destruction – Birth Of Malice
- Testament – Para Bellum
- Sodom – The Arsonist

Flávio Farias – Redator
- Coroner – Dissonance Theory
- Drowned – Brasil Visceral
- Violator – Unholy Retribution
- Benediction – Ravage of Empires
- Biohazard – Divided We Fall
- Warbringer – Wrath and Ruin
- Testament – Para Bellum
- Endrah – Bloodshed and Violence
- Melvins – Thunderball
- Facada – Truculence

Maria Clara Goé – Redatora
- Paradise Lost – Ascension
- Dropkick Murphys – For The People
- Yungblud – Idols
- Desalmado – Monopoly of Violence
- Deftones – private music
- … And Oceans – The Regeneration Itinerary
- Behemoth – The Shit Ov God
- Brutus – Live In Brussels
- Manger Cadavre? – Como Nascem os Monstros
- The Damnation – Eyes of Despair

Tamires Lopes – Redatora e fotógrafa
- Messa – The Spin
- Steven Wilson – The Overview
- Deafheaven – Lonely People With Power
- Deftones – Private Music
- Paradise Lost – Ascension
- Health – Conflict Dlc
- Cras – A Gentil Indiferença Do Mundo
- Desalmado – Monopoly Of Violence
- Panopticon – Laurentian Blue
- Pelica – Flickering Resonance
Mário Pescada – Redator
- Deftones – Private Music
- Cancer – Inverted World
- Pesta – The Craft Of Pain
- Savage Master – Dark & Dangerous
- Pombajira – Sabbatical Spells
- Year Of The Cobra – Year Of The Cobra
- Diamond Head – Live And Electric
- Glenn Hughes – Chosen
- Luna Kills – Deathmatch
- Outlaw – Opus Mortis

Maria Correia – Redatora e Editora do site parceiro Metal no Papel
- Creatures – Creatures II
- Paradise Lost – Ascencion
- The Mist – The Dark Side Of The Soul (An Anatomy Of The Soul)
- Behemoth – The Shit Ov God
- Desalmado – Monopoly of Violence
- Testament – Para Bellum
- Manger Cadavre? – Como Nascem Os Monstros
- Inferno Nuclear – Amazônia Em Chamas
- Maestrick – Espresso Della Vita: Lunare
- Sodom – The Arsonist