Episode 159: Top Albums of 2025, Holiday Break, and Amerika

New year but same bullshit from Amerika; Holiday Break: Christmas, Boxing Day and New Year’s; Top albums of 2025; Plus tunes, movies, and TV.  00:01:22 – Happy New Year! 00:04:34 – New year but same bullshit from Amerika… Donald Trump, ICE, and the deaths of Rob & Michele Reiner 00:27:25 – Christmas break, terrible neighbours, and pot smokers 00:45:19 – Boxing Day sales, and technology updates 01:02:10 – Movies, ads, and Christmas horror 01:17:40 – Our top albums of 2025 (See lists below) 01:23:44 – Picks of the week: Music, and TV Recorded on Sunday, January 11, 2026. Stephen’s Top Albums from 2025 (not meant to be “a best of” and in no particular order): Testament – Para Bellum (Thrash metal from California)  Paradise Lost – Ascension (Doom metal from UK)  Deadguy – Near-Death Travel Services (Hardcore from New Jersey)  The Haunted – Songs Of Last Resort (Heavy metal from Sweden)  Coroner – Dissonance Theory (Thrash metal from Switzerland)  Gaahl’s Wyrd – Braiding The Stories (Black meta from Norway)  Igorrr – Amen (Black metal from France)  Warbringer – Wrath And Ruin (Thrash metal from California)  Messa – The Spin (Doom metal from Italy)  Adam’s Top Albums of 2025 (in no particular order): Ed Sheeran – Play Finger Eleven – Last Night On Earth Big Wreck – The Rest Of The Story White Reaper – Only Slightly Empty Nine Inch Nails – TRON_ Ares Spiritbox – tsunami sea Deftones – Private Music Her Last Sight – Seasons SUMMER Killswitch Engage – This Consequence Sleep Token – Even In Arcadia Sources: ‘People are worried’: Air travel from Vancouver to U.S. falls for 10 straight months | Vancouver Sun  Neil Young Scorches Donald Trump: ‘It’s ICE Cold Here in America’ | Rolling Stone  Trump repeats criticism of killed Hollywood director Rob Reiner | BBC