Our team has gone back and forth and has decided on these releases for the Sick Drummer Magazine Favorite Drumming Albums of 2025. They are NOT in any particular order of most to least or least to most favorite. Just a list alphabetized by the drummer’s first name… There is no best album or drummer; just what our team enjoyed collectively in 2025.
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When compiling our lists, our team considers creativity, groove, originality, musicality, finesse, speed, technicality, and a few other factors. We apologize in advance to those we may not have heard… or overlooked. It’s been another crazy year!
Ian Macdonald, Anton Hefele, Jeff Grindstopher, Jeanne Thomas, Tomasz Pilasiewicz, Matt DeGroot, and Charles Mattingly reviewed and selected these albums.
Let’s all show our appreciation for the outstanding performances of these drummers. We are honored and excited to have these records to listen to and learn from. Please share the links to your favorites, and if you can, purchase some records and/or merchandise from these artists. Every little bit helps.
This is the 7th consecutive year Adam Jarvis has made this list – and with four different bands this year! If you don’t know, now you know. That’s pretty insane. This year also features Mike Heller on four different releases and Robin Stone on three!
Thanks to all these Sick Drummers for creating amazing works we can enjoy, learn from, and share!
Sick Drummer Magazine – Favorite Drumming Albums of 2025
Abe Cunningham | Deftones | Private Music
Adam Jarvis | Bludgeoned By Deformity | Epoch of Immortality – EP
Adam Jarvis | Human Corpse Abuse | Mortify | From The Cradle to the Ladle / Rotting and Plotting – Split
Adam Jarvis | Scour | Gold
Adam Jarvis | Shock Narcotic | My Flesh is Afraid But I am Not
Alex ‘Grind’ Pelletier | Despised Icon | Shadow Work
Ash Pearson | Revocation | New Gods, New Masters
Austin Archey | Lorna Shore | I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me
Blake Richardson | Between the Buried and Me | The Blue Nowhere
Brad Vanderzee | Handsome Prick | Entry Level Blood Excretion
Brandon Zackey | Whitechapel | Hymns In Dissonance
Bryan Fajardo | Barren Path | Grieving
Bryce Butler | Shadow of Intent | Imperium Delirium
Carlos Cruz | Warbringer – Wrath and Ruin
Cédric Malebolgia | Putridity | Morbid Ataraxia
Charlie Koryn | Decrepisy | Deific Mourning
Chason Westmoreland | Dormant Ordeal | Tooth and Nail
Chris Barkensjö | Lik | Necro
Chris Kontos | Forbidden | Divided by Zero – Single
Chris Kontos | Forbidden | Mutually Assured Dysfunction – Single
Cody Davidson | Sanguisugabogg | Hideous Aftermath
Coady Willis | Nuclear Dudes | Skeletal Blasphemy
Daniel Moilanen | Katatonia | Nightmares As Extensions of the Walking State
Daniel Tracy | Deafheaven | Lonely People with Power
Dave Bland | Full of Hell | Broken Sword, Rotten Shield
Derek Roddy | Imperishable | Revelation in Purity
Diego Rapacchietti | Coroner | Dissonance Theory
Dirk Verbeuren | Bent Sea | The Dormant Ruin
Dobber Beverly | Terror Corpse | Ash Eclipses Flesh
Flo Mounier | Cryptopsy | An Insatiable Violence
Gobinda Senchury | Chepang | Jhyappa
Gus Rios | Gruesome | Silent Echoes
Justin Gogan | Kallias | Digital Plague
James Nicademus | Misfire | Product of the Environment
Jared Klein | Rivers Of Nihil | Rivers Of Nihil
Jared Roberts | MUNT | The World Is Not Yours
Jeff Morgan | Rwake | The Return of Magik
Joe Pelletier | Peeling Flesh | PF Radio 2
John Ensminger | In The Blind | Sulphur Moon
John Glassbrenner | Concrete | Chains of Oppression – Single
John Longstreth | Malefic Throne | The Conquering Darkness
KC Howard | Retromorphosis | Psalmus Mortis
Kenny Grohowski | Imperial Triumphant | Goldstar
Kevin Alexander | Fallujah | Xenotaph
Marco Pitruzzella | A Circle of Crows | When A Split Becomes A Schism
Marco Pitruzzella | Wrath of Logarius | Crown of Mortis
Matt DeGroot | Beneath The Hollow | Heads & Hooves – EP
Matt Guglielmo | The Acacia Strain | You Are Safe From God Here
Maximillian Panzer | Cytotoxin | Biographyte
Mike Heller | Defigurement | Endbryo
Mike Heller | Defigurement | Godtopsy – EP
Mike Heller | Changeling | Changeling
Mike Heller | Azure Emote | Cryptic Aura
Navene Koperweis | Entheos | Empty on the Inside – Single
Nikhil Talwalkar | Anal Stabwound | Enshrining The Many-Fingered Grasp – Solo EP
Pierce Williams | Morbikon | Lost Within The Astral Crypts
Rémi Serafino | Igorrr | Amen
Robin Stone | Chestcrush | Ψυχοβγάλτης
Robin Stone | Conspiracy X | Blood Aggression – EP
Robin Stone | Conspiracy X | Ground Zero – EP
Scott Osment | Deaf Club | We Demand a State of Happiness
Sean Lang | Kardashev | Alunea
Stef Broks | Textures | Genotype (2026 release)
Tim Powell | Squassation | Decorated With Feculent Appurtenances
Todd ‘Crikey’ Hansen | King Parrot | A Young Person’s Guide To
Tomasz Pilasiewicz | Gorgasm | Ravaged Corpse Decor – Single
Travis Regnier | Spite | New World Killer
Trey Williams | Dying Fetus | Into The Cesspool – Single
Trynt Kelly | Unmerciful | Devouring Darkness
Zebulun Lokaj | Aposticum | Sounding the Seven Horns
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