2025 on The Last Exit started with loss, that of our co-Host Fidget. She passed away in Jan from cancer. We did a show in Tribute to her, and we replayed her birthday show from a few years back. We also had Lance's 50 Years of Metal Show, Christy's 2nd Anniversary, an Upstate NY band feature, Katie's 5th Anniversary, a couple of We Love Satan shows, had some bands co-host shows, as well as doing some remote shows on site from various concerts. We hit our 31st anniversary, which included a single live broadcast. We brought back the Z-Ha-Dum show for a night, there were, unfortunately, more Tribute shows to those who passed in 2025, Lovecraft and Samhain themed shows, and another Thrash Til Death edition. Beyond this, live in studio performances, and plenty of new music. 

We also started our Metal Forces series. Lance and Seriah started on issue #20 as a trial run, and it evolved from there. We received a lot of positive response to those, so we did more. Go through an old issue of Metal Forces (which published from 1983 - 1993), and read every review, and play a song from every album reviewed, in this way making it sort of a time machine, where you get to see what they thought of these classic or unknown albums back when they came out. The issue covered is also in the archive with the show. 

Less slapstick in the talk breaks, more movie and TV show reviews, and hopefully a lot of fun as well. 

All the 2025 Shows are Here for your listening Pleasure.

Creating a quick list from all the playlists for the year, it looks like the most played artists were; High Council, Goblin Hovel, Worm Quartet, At The Gates, Nuclear Assault, Savatage, Détente, Metal Church, Psyche Corporation, Tower, Behemoth, Aversed, Helloween, Mercyful Fate, Overkill, Queensrÿche, The Sisters Of Mercy, Carnivore, Sacrifice, Witch Club Satan, Tiamat, Hades, Destruction, and Devo Spice. Some for more obvious reasons than others, but mostly you heard very different stuff week to week.

Here you can find the whole year's worth of playlists, and you will find a playlist in every folder of the archive...

Most played bands in 2025...

• High Council
• Goblin Hovel
• Worm Quartet
• At The Gates 
• Détente 
• Nuclear Assault 
• Savatage 
• Aversed 
• Behemoth 
• Helloween 
• Mercyful Fate 
• Metal Church 
• Overkill 
• Psyche Corporation 
• Tower 
• Carnivore
• Destruction
• Devo Spice
• Hades
• Ozzy Osbourne
• Queensryche
• Sacrifice
• The Sisters of Mercy
• Tiamat
• Witch Club Satan
• Anathema
• Fates Warning
• Fear of God
• Fields of the Nephilim