(Find out why the new album from Zmarłym is one of Andy Synn‘s favourites of the year so far)
I may catch a little bit of flack for this… but… from my perspective the first third (since we’re almost a third of the way through the year now) of 2025 has been kind of slow, musically speaking.
I’m not saying it’s been a bad year, by any means, and if it’s been working for you then that’s not a bad thing either, but for me 2025 so far feels like a bit of a step down from 2024 (and 2023, and so on), with a lot of the “big” names or highly hyped new releases just coming across as “ok”.
That being said, there have definitely been a few notable stand-outs (some of which I’ve been able to write about and review here), and a lot more potential highlights to look forward to, so I wouldn’t exactly say we should be ready to write off the whole year just yet.
Especially when we’ve got bands like Zmarłym putting out such a distinct, dynamic, and deviously unorthodox take on Black Metal with their recently-released second album, Wielkie Zanikanie.
