HEAVY ROTATION: Top Tracks of 2025 Edition December 30, 2025
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These are the songs that MI DJs and blog contributors past and present listened to the most in 2025. You can stream Malicious Intent every Wednesday from 10 p.m. to 12 a.m. on the KJHK website. You can stream the Butt Metal Blast Cast (featuring former MI DJs and current blog contributors Wulf and Judge Dredd) wherever you stream podcasts!

Judge Dredd

  • “Just Ghosts,” BURSTING, Bursting
  • “Já Sám,” Decultivate, Decultivate
  • “Away Above,” single, House of Harm
  • “Gifted Every Strength,” single, Loathe
  • “face.,” single, Static Dress
  • “Bluejacket,” Unsolved Miracles, Lafayette
  • “The Usher,” Hoaxes, Hoaxes
  • “Hawk,” Trying Not to Have a Thought, Algernon Cadwallader
  • “ツェッペリン (Zeppelin),” 明日の叙景 (Think of You), Asunojokei

Gorn

  • “Rose Thorn Necklace,” Rose Thorn Necklace, Ghostbath
  • “Voice of Bitter Epiphany,” Confessing Darkness, Imha Tarikat
  • “Wardrums at Dawn on the Day of my Death,” Blackbraid III, Blackbraid
  • “Precipice of Stone,” spelewithiipi, Nechochwen
  • “Shallow Ecstasy,” Beyond Obsidian Euphoria, Tómarúm
  • “Inner Mountain,” Duskborn, Indren
  • “Utterance of the Formless,” Cloven Tongues of Fire, The Ominous Circle
  • “Hagrah Gurres,” Uihtis, Arkhaaik
  • “Forlorn,” Innern, Der Weg einer Freiheit

Wulf

  • “Dakhma Curse,” Helljjin Combat, Sijjin
  • “The Grave Sworn Lords,” The Black Swords of Winter, Ninkharsag
  • “The Muttering Derelict,” Apex Violator, Valdrin
  • “Catechesis I,” Catecthesis, Patristic
  • “Curse of Undeath,” Zaklínání posledí zimy, Isen
  • “Hategate (The Dream-Master’s Realm),” The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy, Lamp of Murmuur
  • “Ramming Speed,” Unbound Triumph, Sintage
  • “No More Room in Hell,” Metalectric, Blizzen
  • “Levicticus,” Thy Will Be Done, $uicideboy$

Mark of the Beast

  • “To Not Grow Old,” Infinite Presence, Genune
  • “Rift in Reality,” Rift in Reality, Labyrinthus Stellarum
  • “The Thirst,” Shadow Play, Drudkh
  • “Defenders of the Crown,” Whispers of War, Crimson Shadows
  • “Amidst the Ruins,” Amidst the Ruins, Saor
  • “And He Became the Burning Stars…,” Blackbraid III, Blackbraid
  • “Age of Chains,” Dawn of the Iron Shadow, One of Nine
  • “A Legacy of Sores,” Existentialismus, Abduction
  • “Contrepoint,” Utopie, Aephanemer