Tony Maim – Personal Top 20 of 2025

 

Tony Maim – Personal Top 20 of 2025

The first of the Personal Top 20 lists to go live this year! Madman Tony Maim was too late sending his list this year. So, it wasn't added to the Top 20 Countdown of 2025. But since he did write one review for the HiVe in 2025, we still count Madman Tony Maim as a team member. And if not that, than as family... Working to hard at the hospital made him reduce his extracurricular activities. So, he's no longer involved with the Doom Charts and no longer doing his own Black Insect Laughter blog. He spends his time on the more important things in life. But he still listens and still knows best about all the good stuff being release on a daily basis... And he explained his busy life through his last musical release for his Guitars On Drugs project called: Spiral. Always diligent when it comes to punk and noise and righteous ruckus. Well, it’s Madman Tony Maim; and he’s right, we’re wrong. And when the Madman speaks, we listen! So, here's his choice list of 20 favorite albums of 2025! 

And just like last year, below his list... That one mad review...

 

1. HEDVIG MOLLESTAD TRIO - BEES IN THE BONNET

2. SONIC DEMON - PLANET TERROR

3. ATOMIC FOSSIL - ATOMIC FOSSIL (not on Bandcamp)

4. ORCUTT SHELLY MILLER - S/T

5. HöG - BLACKHOLE

6. PALE HORSE RITUAL - DIABOLIC FORMATION

7. BALL - SATANIC ECSTASY

8. MARGARITA WITCH CULT - STRUNG OUT IN HELL

9. MARMALADE KNIVES - PARADIGM LOST

10. PSYCHEDELIC PORN CRUMPETS - POGO RODEO

11. ICARUS BURNS - S/T

12. GOYA - IN THE DAWN OF NOVEMBER

13. SLOMATICS - ATOMICULT

14. MESSA - THE SPIN

15. MOTORBIKE - KICK IT OVER

16. PELICAN - FLICKERING RESONANCE

17. HOWLING GIANT - CRUCIBLE & RUIN

18. SPACE WITCH - MOUNTAINS OF NEPTUNE

19. PIGS X 7 - DEATH HILARIOUS

20. URANUS SPACE CLUB - SPACE PLEASURES

 

And check out the one review he wrote in January last year here:

 

Tojo Yamamoto – Turning Face! 

Tojo Yamamoto – Turning Face!

 

 

Tojo Yamamoto – Turning Face!
Forbidden Place Records - 2025
Rock, Noise, Punk, Kraut, Core
Rated: the Madman doesn't rate...

Tojo Yamamoto play noise rock/post-hardcore - their own tag of "dancey noise rock" does not do justice to the explosion of power, aggression and raw slabs of sonic destruction that emerge when the play button is pressed. Dark rumbling bass which sounds like it is played through a distortion pedal or just turned up fucking loud mixes with the pounding drums to produce the platform from which the fuzzed up, on the edge-of-constant-feedback guitars can riff off. Ah man, the riffs in the songs are groove ridden monsters that make me want to break things while laughing like a maniac. Such evil joy and wanton glee are in the tunes - they lodge deep in your brain and make other music seem dull and insipid. Crooning, shouting, yelling - the vocals sound like David Yow performing under the influence of un-tested drugs, ranting about self loathing with the world and maybe oneself. The entire sound is deep, sludgey but with the uncomplicated song passages that contains all I love about noise rock. So much denseness is contained in these 6 tracks that when this album stops, the silence seems almost deafening.

(Written by Tony Maim)

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