Episode 159: Top Albums of 2025, Holiday Break, and Amerika

00:01:22.201 – Happy New Year!

00:04:34.438 – New year but same bullshit from Amerika… Donald Trump, ICE, and the deaths of Rob & Michele Reiner

00:27:25.414 – Christmas break, terrible neighbours, and pot smokers

00:45:19.842 – Boxing Day sales, and technology updates

01:02:10.740 – Movies, ads, and Christmas horror

01:17:40.818 – Our top albums of 2025 (See lists below)

01:23:44.223 – Picks of the week: Music, and TV


Stephen’s Top Albums from 2025 (not meant to be “a best of” and in no particular order):

  • Testament – Para Bellum (Thrash metal from California)
  • Paradise Lost – Ascension (Doom metal from UK)
  • Deadguy – Near-Death Travel Services (Hardcore from New Jersey)
  • The Haunted – Songs Of Last Resort (Heavy metal from Sweden)
  • Coroner – Dissonance Theory (Thrash metal from Switzerland)
  • Gaahl’s Wyrd – Braiding The Stories (Black meta from Norway)
  • Igorrr – Amen (Black metal from France)
  • Warbringer – Wrath And Ruin (Thrash metal from California)
  • Messa – The Spin (Doom metal from Italy)

Adam’s Top Albums of 2025 (in no particular order):

  • Ed Sheeran – Play
  • Finger Eleven – Last Night On Earth
  • Big Wreck – The Rest Of The Story
  • White Reaper – Only Slightly Empty
  • Nine Inch Nails – TRON_ Ares
  • Spiritbox – tsunami sea
  • Deftones – Private Music
  • Her Last Sight – Seasons SUMMER
  • Killswitch Engage – This Consequence
  • Sleep Token – Even In Arcadia
Weedpecker – “Fading Whispers”
Taylor Momsen & Soundgarden – “Rusty Cage” Live | Rock Hall 2025 Induction
Judas Priest – “Diamonds And Rust” (Live Acoustic)
KMFDM – “Oubliette”
Megadeth – “Let There Be Shred”
Dust Bolt – “Ghost On My Screen”
The Handsome Devils – KISS Deep Cuts in Vegas

Recorded on Sunday, January 11, 2026.

Sources:

  • ‘People are worried’: Air travel from Vancouver to U.S. falls for 10 straight months | Vancouver Sun
  • Neil Young Scorches Donald Trump: ‘It’s ICE Cold Here in America’ | Rolling Stone
  • Trump repeats criticism of killed Hollywood director Rob Reiner | BBC

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