Swampy, sludgy, and searingly relevant: Buzzard's Twisted Love from Mean Bone is a catchy doom-folk takedown of narcissism with a nihilist twist — "powerful, swampy, dirgy and cool as fuck" and landing at #15 on The Obelisk's Best of 2025. Murder Hornets' Shakes arrives loosely inspired by media manipulation exposé Trust Me I'm Lying. Wooden Crates' In My Head delivers crunchy punk about political divides becoming irreconcilable moral ones, while Heathen Tongues' Neurogenesis conjures a dimension just unsettling enough to make you squirm.

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