The 13 Best Metal Songs of 2025 (Ranked)

With thousands of metal songs released in 2025, here's a ranking of the 13 best.

Just trying to keep up with the dozens (sometimes hundreds) of new tracks dropping each week is a gauntlet. We all have our favorite new music playlists to keep us informed and, fortunately, metal fans are ravenous for new music, no matter how much there is to sift through.

If you've been following closely, you may know that we already named the No. 1 metal song of 2025. So, that may not be much of a mystery, but the other dozen remaining songs that appear below are! Not for long, though.

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Of course, one of the most challenging aspects of cutting down an entire year's worth of songs to just the 13 best is considering the overwhelming amount of subgenres vying for representation. Metalcore, black metal, crossover/hardcore, thrash, prog metal, power metal and more... it's all here.

We know you have your favorites that you've come back to over and over this year. Take a look and see if your most-played tracks are among the 13 best metal songs of 2025!

Now take a look at our ranking of this year's 13 best metal albums!

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