The Owling You Don’t Bow You Will Learn

2025 READERS POLL RESULTS

Welcome to 2026 and another fantastic year of Audioeclectica! While 2025 was quite the interesting year for the world, musically it was a solid year of great albums from bands new and older. The amount of new music I heard, the shows I saw, I’m pretty stoked on what 2025 was for music. That being said, 2026 is already shaping up to be a great year for music. Before we start the fun of 26, here’s the results from the 2025 Readers Poll. Thank you to everyone that reposted, shared stories, told friends, and of course voted at the end of the day! Below are the results based on comments left and messages sent.

Cheers To A Wonderful 2026!!

See you all on here or at a show!
Brian

And Now The Results Of The 2025 Audioeclectica Readers Poll:

Best Bassist: Sunny Faris- Blackwater Holylight

Best Drummer: Art Quanstrom- The Owling

Best Guitarist: Kal Michael- The Owling

Best Guitar Duo: Mike Repasch-Nieves/Joel Reynolds- SOM

Best Vocalist: Sean Ingram- Idle Heirs

Best Producer: TIE: Josh Barber- Idle Heirs and James Hammontree/Sanford Parker- Black Magnet

Best Album: TIE: Idle Heirs- Life Is Violence and The Owling- You Don’t Bow, You Will Learn

NOW GO LISTEN TO THESE BANDS AND ALBUMS!!!!

2025 END OF THE YEAR LISTS: BEST ALBUMS

What a great year 2025 has been for music. So many great albums, tours, songs, you name it. And now the time has come for…

The 2025 Audioeclectica End Of The Year Lists end with the list for Best Album. As always the stipulation for this is that the Album or EP had to be released in 2025.

Vote for your favorite in the comments section. At the end of the month, I will release the results of the readers poll.

Please Note: 1-15 Are In Order!

01) Idle Heirs- Life Is Violence
02) AFI- Silver Bleeds The Black Sun
03) Heavy Halo- Damaged Dream
04) Black Magnet- Megamantra
05) Blood Vulture- Die Close
06) Nine Inch Nails- Tron: Ares
07) Guiltless- Teeth To Sky
08) SOM- Let The Light In
09) Blackwater Holylight- If You Only Knew
10) Deftones- Private Music
11) Coheed And Cambria- The Father Of Make Believe
12) The Owling- You Don’t Bow, You Will Learn
13) Machinekit- Goddamn Vanity
14) Reba Meyers- Clouded World
15) The Smashing Pumpkins- Machina: The Complete Album
16) Bush- I Beat Loneliness
17) Chevelle- Bright As Blasphemy
18) Deadguy- Near Death Travel Services
19) The Anti-Groupies- Pretty Vicious
20) H09909- Tomorrow We Escape
21) The Halo Effect- March Of The Unheard
22) The Haunted- Songs Of Last Resort
23) Nine Necks- Ritual/Demise
24) Jinjer- Duel
25) Greyhaven- Keep It Quiet