2025 Best of Metal: #2 Psychonaut-World Maker

Release date: October 24, 2025
Origin: Antwerp, Belgium
Personnel: Stefan de Graef-guitar/vox, Thomas Michiels-bass/vox, Harm Peters-drums

Psychonaut are another relatively new band that is really producing some inspired metal. I guess you would throw these guys in the post-metal camp musically. Strong instrumentals and creative song structures. Nice balance of harsh and harmonized clean vocals. This is another one of these little bands that I can’t champion enough. I feel the ceiling is very high for them.

The list so far:
2. Psychonaut-World Maker
3. Pelican-Flickering Resonance
4. Rivers of Nihil-Rivers of Nihil
5. Paradise Lost-Ascension
6. Baest-Colossal
7. Messa-The Spin
8. Kadavar-I Just Want To Be A Sound
9. Harakiri For The Sky-Scorched Earth
10. 16-Guides For The Misguided
11. Lo-Pan-Get Well Soon
12. Hooded Menace-Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration
13. Byzantine-Harbingers
14. Wretched-Decay
15. Green Carnation-A Dark Poem Part I: The Shores of Melancholia
16. Scorpion Child-I Saw The End As It Passed Right Through Me
17. Benediction-Ravage of Empires
18. Testament-Para Bellum
19. In Mourning-The Immortal
20. Allegaeon-The Ossuary Lens