The Punk Site 2025 Top 40: Part Two – 30-21

It’s the second instalment of The Punk Site‘s romp through the best releases of 2025, the old, the new, the loud, the quiet, and the downright strange, have all been present and correct so far, which is just as it oughta be. The second instalment of our countdown of our collective favourites from 2025 continues to demonstrate the diversity that exists in the Punk scene, both geographically and musically, tomorrow will see the countdown of 11 -20 before we finally reveal our top 10 releases from ’25.

30. Apes Of The State – What’s Another Night? (Self Released)

Lancaster, PA folk punks Apes Of The State self released their third album, What’s Another Night, as a name your price download in April. Despite their growth Apes of the State remains fiercely independent and practices a DIY ethos and serve as an example that you can achieve success outside of the traditional music industry framework. In singer songwriter April Hartman’s words, “we don’t beg for anyone to pay attention to us and give us opportunities, we create them for ourselves and our community.”

29. The Dollheads – Adol Essence (Bottles To The Ground)

Las Vegas teenage trio The Dollheads released their debut full length this Summer and The Punk Site caught them in full flow at this years Rebellion Festival just ahead of the album’s release; “Forget their youth, forget any novelty value / this is power pop punk 101 made to look easy. Bags of fun and brimming with a ferocious, precocious talent that puts some of the veteran outfits here this festival to shame.” (Peter Hough)

28. Laura Jane Grace – Adventure Club (Polyvinyl Records)

Laura Jane Grace talks often about her age, about nearing the second half of her 40s after a lifetime as a Punk. What does it mean, really, to remain a punk for 44 years? For Grace, it is the same as it’s always been, a resolve to question everything about oneself and the world around you and to allow yourself to evolve within that framework. Adventure Club epitomizes that spirit the way that the best of Laura Jane Grace’s music always has.

27. NOFX – A-H (Fat Wreck Chords)

“I look forward to the next two instalments of the A-Z of NOFX. The demo versions are pretty typical demo versions, the EP cuts are probably already known to their established fans, but the rare and unreleased cuts are what makes this compilation series intriguing, and for those of us who are long time fans it eases the withdrawal after their final tour concluded last Summer.” (Phinky)

26. PEST– Bootleg Vol. 1 (Self Released)

Bootleg Vol. 1 is PEST‘s full discography so far, all in one place. Every release they’ve put out up to now, plus a few extras: a sneak peek at their next record, and five demos they figured were too good (or too weird) to keep to themselves. It’s rough in places, loud in others, and totally PEST.

25. Shame – Cutthroat (Dead Oceans) 

Cutthroat is a joyride. It’s for the inexperienced driver. The one who wants to go fast for no reason other than it’s fun. It’s driven by hunger. Hunger for something better. For something you’ve been told you don’t deserve. It’s primal. It’s raw. It’s unapologetic. It’s the person who turns up to the party uninvited. ’Cause when you’ve been pushed down, there’s nowhere to go but up. When you ain’t got nothing, you ain’t got nothing to lose.

24. Dead Bars – All Dead Bars Go To Heaven (Iodine Recordings)

Seattle’s Dead Bars have been making life affirming hard rock for over a decade, earning them both national accolades and a reputation as a local institution. Their newest record, All Dead Bars Go To Heaven, reaffirms that gift in ten hook-laden hitters about love, loss, grief and self-acceptance.

23. TV Face – Wolf Rents Bark (Self Released)

“With Wolf Rents Bark, TV Face delivers what Hella Fuzz once called their “sonic fury with a satirical edge” at its most refined. It’s darker, harder and funnier than its predecessor, pulling influence from Pinocchio, Goya‘s Saturn Devouring His Son, the Ouroboros, and soundtracks as diverse as Killing Eve, Yellowjackets, and Mika Levi‘s Under the Skin. A record of cultural collapse and species-wide self-sabotage, it’s not just noise for the end times, it’s satire you can dance to.” (Gary Hough)

22. Anna Von Hausswolff – Iconoclasts (Year 0001)

Iconoclasts is Anna Von Hausswolff‘s first album in five years. Centered around her incomparable voice and expressive organ playing, the album features Iggy Pop and Ethel Cain among others. Together with producer Filip Leyman, she has crafted a true epic of experimental rock music, full of bombast and emotion. Iconoclasts is the work of a singular artist at the absolute height of her powers.

21. Turnstile – Never Enough (Roadrunner Records)

Since forming in 2010, Turnstile have never stopped moving forward and they recently released their latest album, Never Enough, that featured the restless and exhilarating evolution of Turnstile‘s genre-defying sound. Never Enough was recorded between Los Angeles and their homes in Baltimore, the album was produced by frontman Brendan Yates and follows on from their 2021 full length, Glow On.