It’s time to reflect on the year in music! This month, we’ll be highlighting Jam of Today’s favourite albums of 2025. Working our way up to the #1 album, which will be revealed on the 31st of December, we’ll go one by one past this year’s favourites. Today, our #19: ‘Red Sky Mourning‘ by Soul Blind.

A few days ago, I filled in a questionnaire asking me about the amount of hours I listen to music each day. ‘8+’, I answered, mainly due to me working in music so by default spending most of my hours listening to the stuff. I obviously spin the Jam of Today playlist a lot, too. This playlist features a big deal of my favourite songs though it still manages to surprise me every now and then, like that time it shuffled former Jam ‘Misplaced’ by Soul Blind into the queue. This song sparked me listening to more of the Americans’ catalogue only for them to release their second album ‘Red Sky Mourning’ shortly after. I’ve been playing this ultimate 90s alt. metal revival album regularly ever since.

“Here we go again. Another 90s metal revival.” Well, yes. I know it’s a topic that has been very present on Jam of Today lately (spoilers: there’s more to come this month, too) but I can’t hide from the fact that I’ve been enjoying these specific (sub) genre comebacks a lot. See, we’ve had quite some of sh*t revivals over the last few years that I couldn’t care less for but now there’s finally one that I do enjoy. Being born in the 90s myself, I’ve never actively witnessed the likes of Nirvana, Catherine Wheel, or Soundgarden being around and releasing new music. All those groups appeared on my radar as I grew older so all there was left for me to discover were their (classic) albums that had been released way in the past. Now that we have bands like Soul Blind dropping albums such as ‘Red Sky Mourning’, I finally get that first hand experience of artists releasing this type of music.

So, yeah, I suppose you can kind of guess where this review is going. ‘Red Sky Mourning’ is filled with sludgy alternative metal songs with a strong touch of grunge and the odd hint of shoegaze. It’s a bit heavier than most of the genre comebacks we’ve seen this year and certainly leans towards a bit of that Alice In Chains and Stone Temple Pilots sound. If anything, somewhere online I read this album was a “(..) better Alice In Chains release than the last Alice In Chains album” and to be fair, I don’t think I could’ve worded it any better. Right from the get go, this album features many songs that sound like they could be dropped in any 90s metal compilation without you ever guessing them to be released in 2025. It’s great, I dig it a lot but then again, I don’t just want to label Soul Blind as yet another band jumping on the 90s revival train. The music on this album is genuinely really good and while it might sound like stuff you’ve heard before, it doesn’t take anything away from the solid quality and overall perfect blend of these alternative metal songs.