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 #6: ‘Tunnel Vision‘ by Calva Louise.

It’s math, metal, certainly a bit of latin too, and you could even call it a djent blend. It’s hyperactive yet streamlined, fully energetic but also has some beautifully calm moments. Multicultural rock band Calva Louise’s surprising third album ‘Edge of the Abyss’ turned out to be one of my favourite discoveries of this year and after seeing the band perform live at 2000trees, there was no turning back: I’m a fan!

It seemed liked Calva Louise knew exactly how to reel me in. With their chaotic hodgepodge of styles and sounds, ‘Edge of the Abyss’ in one hell of an introduction to this group. The album is a 40 minute wild ride not holding back one second. It showcases the band’s diversity and talents, Jess Allanic at the helm of it all. The Venezuelan born front woman doesn’t just impress with her multilingual vocals, guitar playing and the odd stunning piano bits, she’s also a visual artist crafting Calva Louise’s music videos herself. In the case of ‘Edge of the Abyss’, this means an amazing conceptual storyline through its music videos. Check out the video of today’s Jam ‘Tunnel Vision’ to grasp the start of this story and see Allanic’s outstanding talent. Honestly, I think it’s pretty awesome. Together with French bassist Alizon Taha and New-Zealand drummer Ben Parker, Calva Louise forms one of metal’s most exciting bands of the moment.

‘Edge of the Abyss’ jumps from one highlight to another and especially the first half of this album is near impeccable. Opener ‘Tunnel Vision’ followed by singles ‘W.T.F’ and ‘Aimless’ are all fantastic songs, and up until the almost techno inspired ‘The Abyss’ this album is pure bliss. The second half seems to slightly dip in energy just a little bit but by ways of ‘Hate in me’ and ‘Under The Skin’ still ends on a high. I dubbed Calva Louise ‘VUKOVI 2.0’ earlier this year but I feel like the eccentric trio might be miles ahead of the Scottish band already.