2025 in heavy metal music

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2025.

Bands disbanded

 * Lynch Mob
 * Sepultura
 * Sum 41

Events

 * On January 30, Sum 41 is scheduled to play the final date of their farewell tour at the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto.
 * Lynch Mob is scheduled to wrap up what was announced as a year-long farewell tour, titled "The Final Ride".
 * Sepultura is scheduled to wrap up what was announced as an eighteen-month farewell tour, titled "Celebrating Life Through Death".

Artists with material in production
• Ace Frehley – Origins Vol. 3 (covers album)

• Adema

• Agent Steel

• Amorphis

• Armored Saint

• Avatar

• Biohazard

• Black Label Society

• Blind Illusion

• Caliban

• Clutch

• Cradle of Filth

• Crimson Glory

• Dark Angel

• Death Angel

• Def Leppard

• Destruction

• Dismember

• Disturbed

• Doro (live DVD)

• Epica

• Europe

• Excel

• Exciter

• Exodus

• Exumer

• Fear Factory

• Finger Eleven

• Five Finger Death Punch

• Forbidden

• Glenn Hughes

• Hatebreed

• Heathen

• Helloween

• Iron Maiden

• Joe Lynn Turner

• King Diamond – The Institute

• L.A. Guns

• Last in Line

• Living Colour

• Lord of the Lost

• Lordi

• Manowar

• Megadeth

• Mercyful Fate

• Metal Church

• Michael Schenker

• Ministry

• Misery Index

• Moonspell

• Mötley Crüe

• Nine Inch Nails

• Onslaught

• Overkill

• Paradise Lost

• Primus

• Running Wild

• Sacrifice – Volume Six

• Soulfly

• Testament

• Tony Iommi

• Triptykon

• Trouble

• Unleashed

• Volbeat

• W.A.S.P.

• Wednesday 13

• Whiplash – Old School American Way

• Xentrix