Toilet Radio 597 – The 25 Most Popular Metal Songs of 2025

We continue our annual tradition of crunching the numbers and determining the most popular “hard rock” and “heavy metal” singles of the year. It is dire, as is tradition. This year is even worse than expected. While you argue about which Bandcamp band with 200 purchases is most overrated, we’re tapping right into the mainstream to understand what tasteless drek the masses are actually consuming. The biggest bands continue to lean in to a faux-R&B style that is, frankly, just terrible. Over the next 90 minutes we talk about the biggest songs of the year and play you short snippets of each of these 25 songs so that you can also experience the pain we feel. Enjoy?

Music featured on this show:
Real trash

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