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Scene Point Blank's Favorites: Year End (2025)

Music / Year End 2025 • December 23, 2025

Every year we diligently assemble a list of our favorite albums of the year. Each SPB staff member enters the large arena we nickname THE DOJO, and yells out the name of their top album of the year. Rival staffers quickly assemble and shout out their own highly-favored record, and quickly the battle begins. Whoever is left standing after surviving the onslaught of music-loving nerds is crowned and anointed as the SPB CHAMPION, and their album duly takes the #1 spot on our list (below). The second-place champ gets to call their preferred choice our #2 album, and so on and so forth. Some might say this is a needlessly brutal way to assemble a site-wide list of our favorite albums of the year, but we believe it's raw, democratic, and we can't really think of another way of deciding on the best albums of 2025. If you have any ideas, please email us. But for now, let's put our differences aside, stock up on anti-bruising medication, and read Scene Point Blank's Top 30 albums of 2025. Check out the final page for our individual staff lists, too. Read more

Pass The Mic: Artists and labels on 2025

Music / Year End 2025 • December 23, 2025

For many years now, Scene Point Blank has taken the opportunity as the year ends to formally "pass the mic" … Read more

2025: A Year In Review

Music / Year End 2025 • December 23, 2025

Another twelve months have passed. Even though it's our job to make predictions and call things before they happen, it … Read more

Pulley and Fire Sale - Double interview

Interviews • December 6, 2025

When two bands come together on a split release, it’s more than just sharing music on vinyl. It’s a conversation … Read more

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Floating Boy

Perfect Place
Independent (2026)

Sarasota, Florida’s Floating Boy have been grinding for seven years, quietly shaping themselves into a band that lives and breathes the ethics of Fugazi (if you couldn’t tell by their track inspired name) and the emotional chaos of DIY punk. Their debut full-length, Perfect Place, is the culmination of that time. There are ten tracks of anxious, politically charged emo-punk/post-hardcore … Read more

The Brokedowns

Let's Tips The Landlord
Red Scare Industries (2025)

I've reviewed a lot of Brokedowns records over the years. First, I'll say I love the band and I honestly feel like they keep getting better. Second, I'll say that this record threw a couple of surprises at me. The band play multi-vocalist poppish punk in the school of Dillinger Four or Errth, albeit more on the angry side. There … Read more

Dumbells

Up Late With
Mind Melt Records (2025)

When I started my end of year list this year I asked my pal Joel from Portland’s Dumpies to share his best of 2025 playlist with me. Several songs caught my attention which I, in turn, went and checked out the albums from which they had come. The one that has quickly climbed up my year end list over the … Read more

Osiah

Aion
Unique Leader (2025)

Deathcore is a genre that’s constantly threatening to eat itself alive. For every band trying to push boundaries, there are ten more content to recycle the same breakdowns, the same vocal gymnastics, the same studio-polished violence. Osiah, however, have never been interested in playing it safe and their latest EP Aion is proof that they’re still operating on a level … Read more

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Ramleh

Hyper Vigilance
Sleeping Giant Glossolalia (2025)

Ramleh is a cornerstone of the UK industrial and noise underground. Staring out in the early '80s, they are one of the pioneers of noise and power electronics alongside the … Read more

Crippling Alcoholism

Camgirl
Portrayal of Guilt Records (2025)

Crippling Alcoholism have always navigated a delicate balance between musical depth and immediacy. A blend that few bands attempt, let alone master, but Crippling Alcoholism's two previous full-length records, When … Read more

The Necks

Disquiet
Northern Spy (2025)

There are no signs of slowing down for Australian jazz masters The Necks. Following the release of the excellent Bleed in 2024, the legendary trio makes a return with their … Read more

The Eradicator

You Can Hate The Eradicator
Independent (2025)

Is The Eradicator a joke that's been going for 10 years (the band), or for 35 (the skit)? Does it matter? Well, only in the sense that I question how … Read more

Prayer Group

Strawberry
Reptilian Records (2025)

Standing between genres can act as a vantage point. For Prayer Group, sitting at the intersection between noise rock and hardcore has armed them with the necessary arsenal to propel … Read more

The Goslings

Plexuses, Planes
Independent (2025)

For experimental rock artists torn between noise-rock abrasion and torturous drone immersion, one side usually wins. It is either a certain sentimental and ethereal quality or an oppressive noise dimension … Read more

Bee Bee Sea

Stanzini Can Be Allright
Wild Honey Records (2025)

I believe the first I heard of this album was when Wild Honey released the limited edition It’s All About The Music concept 7” EP back in July. Exclusively released … Read more

Second Harbour

Coalesce EP
Sharptone (2025)

Formed around the tight-knit chemistry of brothers Xavier and Vincent Morency with drummer John Muggianu, Canada’s Second Harbour are that rare modern post-hardcore band that sound equally comfortable bleeding and … Read more

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Memorials duo

Posted in Records on January 10, 2026

Memorials, a duo of Verity Susman (Electrelane) and Matthew Simms (Wire), has announced the upcoming release of All Clouds Bring Not Rain, due out March 27 via Fire Records. The album was recorded in a secluded barn studio in southwestern France and is described as "both melodic and unconventional." The … Read more

Find Security with Fotocrime

Posted in Records on January 10, 2026

March 13 is the release date for Security, the latest album from Fotocrime, releasing via Auxiliary/Shirt Killer on vinyl and Artoffact on cd/digital. The new album blends anxiety and doom … Read more

Rarities from The Slackers

Posted in Records on January 10, 2026

Long-runnign New York rocksteady/ska group The slackers released Lost & Found Vol 2 last month on Pirates Press Recores, a collection spanning their career -- live tracks, remixes, limited release … Read more

The Bad Time Records Tour 2026

Posted in Tours on January 10, 2026

The Bad Time Records Tour returns this year, scheduled for spring, summer, and (almost) fall: a label showcase with multiple legs based on the performers' home regions. The 2023 tour … Read more

Place Position Went Silent

Posted in Records on January 10, 2026

The Dayton, OH based trio Place Position will release a new record this month: Went Silent. It's a joint release between Sweet Cheetah Records, Poptek Records, Bunker Park Records, and … Read more

Bitter Branches branch out with new record

Posted in Records on January 10, 2026

Bitter Branches, of Philadelphia, PA, has announced a new album on the way called Let's Give The Land Back To The Animals. The new record comes out on Equal Vision … Read more

Miracleworker is needed in 2026

Posted in Records on January 9, 2026

New Jersey punk meets power-pop band Miracleworker just released a 2 song EP "Tempory" w/ "Luck", out now. The band features Peter Hart (vocals/guitar), Travis Omilian (guitar/vocals), Dan Cav (bass) … Read more

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