Best METAL Albums of the Year ft. Recorruptor’s Clint Franklin! | Death Metal, Avant-Garde & Underground Picks

Welcome back to Episode 133 of The Metal Maniacs Podcast with your hosts Jay Ingersoll and Modd, and today we’re closing out the year with a massive guest appearance from one of Michigan’s deadliest voices in death metal. We’re joined once again by Clint Franklin, vocalist of the brutal mid-Michigan beast Recorruptor, for a full breakdown of **his Top Metal Albums of the Year! 🤘💀🔥

Clint brings a vocalist’s perspective, a die-hard fan’s ear, and a metalhead’s honesty as we jump onto a Zoom call and tear apart the year’s releases. From underground filth to experimental insanity, he breaks down the records that stood above the rest, hit the hardest, and ripped his speakers to shreds.

🎙️ FEATURING PICKS FROM CLINT FRANKLIN (Recorruptor)

Here’s just a sample of the chaos he brought to the list:

Sanguisugabogg – Hideous Aftermath

Filthy, swamp-soaked death metal that drags you face-first through the sewer.

Igorrr – (Latest Release)

A bizarre, genre-mutating circus of opera, breakcore, baroque insanity, and metal carnage.

Dormant Ordeal – (Latest Release)

Crushing, technical, atmospheric death metal drenched in dark emotion and cold precision.

And that’s just the beginning… Clint’s list dives into the weird, the crushing, the groovy, the ugly, the brain-melting, and the truly genius.**

🧠 WHAT WE COVER IN THIS EPISODE:

✔ Clint Franklin’s Album of the Year rankings

✔ Hidden gems from the underground and international scene

✔ Albums that pushed death metal into terrifying new places

✔ How experimental music like Igorrr fits beside brutal death metal

✔ Bands dominating 2025 + those we NEED more from

This isn’t just a list — it’s a discussion about what makes a record stick with metalheads, long after the breakdown fades.

💬 FROM THE STUDIO TO THE ONLINE ABYSS

Even through Zoom, the energy was rowdy, the takes were honest, and the laughs were nonstop. Clint brought knowledge, passion, opinions, and chaos — in other words, exactly what makes heavy music fun to talk about.

🤘 JOIN THE CONVERSATION

We want YOUR list. Drop it in the comments:

🔥 What’s your Metal Album of the Year?

🔪 Who got snubbed?

🎤 Which extreme vocalist destroyed the scene this year?

Let’s argue like family. Let’s praise the underrated. Let’s drag the disappointing.

That’s metal

🥀 SPECIAL GUEST: CLINT FRANKLIN

🎤 Vocalist of **Recorruptor**

💀 Michigan Brutal Death Metal

👊 Support them, stream them, and catch them live — they’re one of the Midwest’s heaviest forces.

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Stay brutal. Stay opinionated. Stay metal. 🤘🔥🎧

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