Here’s a rundown of heavy metal and hard rock album release dates. They are supplied by record companies and subject to change. If you’d like to submit information for an album not listed, send us an email.
January 2, 2026
Ellende – Zerfall (AOP)
Excavated Graves – Life Isn’t For Everyone (Selfmadegod)
Forever Autumn – The Lamentations (Self)
Fuath – III (Northern Silence)
Hologramah – Abyssus.Versus.Versiculos. (Living Temple)
Hursan – R.U.E. EP (Self)
Kevin Standridge – Sonic Hammer (Self)
Paleface Swiss – The Wilted EP (Self)
Ulver – Neverland (House Of Mythology)
Wildhunt – Aletheia (Jawbreaker)
January 9, 2026
Alter Bridge – Alter Bridge (Napalm)
Beyond The Black – Break The Silence (Nuclear Blast)
Bound To Prevail – Enthroned In Torment (Lethal Scissor)
Bruit – Monolith Re-Release (Pelagic)
Bullet – Kickstarter (Steamhammer)
Calling All Captains – The Things That I’ve Lost EP (New Damage)
Chaos Revealed – Foretold In Ashes EP (Self)
Cursed Sun – Rituals Of The Shattered Mind EP (Self)
Deadwood – Rituals Of A Dying Light EP (Innerstrength)
Denominate – Restoration (Dusktone)
Ectovoid – In Unreality’s Coffin (Everlasting Spew)
Hekseblad – The Fall Of Cintra Re-Release (Hypnotic Dirge)
Hrmülja – Dream Horizons EP (Self)
Iotunn – Waves Over Copenhell (Metal Blade)
Killgurls – Powder EP (Adventure Cat)
Krushor – Taste Of Hatred EP (Inverse)
Läjä Äijälä and Albert Witchfinder – Circle Of Pain (Svart)
Lionheart – Valley Of Death II (Arising Empire)
The Medea Project – Live At Dingwalls (Self)
Miasme – Keep Them At A Distance (Self)
Motljus – För evigt (Darkwoods)
Nanowar Of Steel – The Genghis Khan EP To End All Genghis Khan EPs (Napalm)
Nighnacht – Limb Service (Morbid And Miserable)
Oraculum – Hybris Divina (Invictus)
Orchid Throne – Buried In Black (Self)
The Promise Of Plague – The Earth Above, A Grave Beneath (Self)
The Protomen – Act III: This City Made Us (Self)
Push! – Plowing Ahead (Frozen)
Redivider – Sounds Of Malice (Self)
Sardonic Allegiance – Coast II EP (Self)
Semper Acerbus – Following Omens (Eclipse)
Sickle Of Dust – Across The Vultures Trail (Flowing Downward)
Six Going On Seven – Human Tears (Spartan)
Stranguliatorius – Flies Don’t Lie (HPGD)
Terror Garden – Terror Garden EP (Self)
Uuhai – Human Herds (Napalm)
Zu – Ferrum Sidereum (House Of Mythology)
January 16, 2026
Anti-Sapien – At The Mercy Of The Merciless EP (Terminus Hate City)
Arcanum Sanctum – Pax EP (Self)
Architectural Genocide – Malignant Cognition (Comatose)
Bimurta – All Skies Lead To The Sun EP (Self)
Blanket – True Blue (Adventure Cat)
Carrion Veal – Slay Utterly (Unique Leader)
David Boring – Liminal Beings And Their Echoes (Damnably)
Death Cult – Paradise Live (Beggars Banquet)
Demons My Friends – Demons Seem To Gather Re-Release (Ripple)
Dhärä – Elemental Four (Self)
Dvm Spiro – MMXXVI – Grave (My Kingdom)
Edenbridge – Set The Dark On Fire (Steamhammer/SPV)
The Eternal – Celestial EP (Reigning Phoenix)
Evoken – Embrace The Emptiness Re-Release (Hammerheart)
Evoken – Shades Of Night Descending Re-Release (Hammerheart)
Frozen Factory – Apocalypse Inc. (Wormholedeath)
Funeral Home – Your Funeral (Inverse)
The Funeral Portrait – Live From Suffocate City (Better Noise)
Gluecifer – Same Drug New High (Steamhammer/SPV)
Godzillionaire – Negative Balance Re-Release (Ripple)
Gran Moreno – El Sol (Self)
Hagetisse – To Wither Beneath Thy Radiance (Void Wanderer)
Hyperion – Cybergenesis (Fighter)
In A House Of Heartbeats – Divination Of Dreams (Ripcord)
I Promised The World – I Promised The World EP (Rise)
Kreator – Krushers Of The World (Nuclear Blast)
The Last Sound Revelation – The Proximity Effect (Octopus Rising)
Marianas Rest – The Bereaved (Noble Demon)
Moon Wisdom – Let Water Flow (Hypnotic Dirge)
Neapolitan – The Fool EP (Golden Robot)
Ov Sulfur – Endless (Century Media)
Pavic – Live To Thrive (Self)
Philippe Drouin Obvurt – Le Chemin Du Gaucher (Brutal Mind)
Soen – Reliance (Silver Lining)
Soulbound – sYn (Metalville)
Through Mists – The Thought That Swallowed All (Self)
Total Annihilation – Mountains Of Madness (Testimony)
Under – What Happened In Roundwood (APF)
Valiant Sentinel – Neverealm (Theogonia)
Vesseles – Home (Self)
Viserion – Fire And Blood (Self)
Voice Of Glass – Epos (Rexius)
Void Monuments – Posthumous Imprecation (Blood Harvest)
Void Sinker – Depth (Self)
January 23, 2026
54-40 – Porto (Self)
Alkaloid – Bach Out Of Bounds (Season Of Mist)
Archvile King – Aux Heures Désespérées (LADLO)
Asaru – V.O.I.D. (Schwarzdorn)
Autumn’s Child – Melody Lane (Pride & Joy)
Backengrillen – Backengrillen (Svart)
Bad Lizard – Power Of Destruction Re-Release (Relics From The Crypt)
Barbarian – Reek Of God (Dying Victims)
Casket – In The Long Run We Are All Dead (Neckbreaker)
Coranatus – Dreadful Waters (Massacre)
The Crawling – Live In Belfast MMXXIV (Grindscene)
Crystal Lake – The Weight Of Sound (Century Media)
The Damned – Not Like Everybody Else (earMusic)
Death Dealer – Reign Of Steel (Massacre)
Deathraiser – Forged In Hatred (Xtreem)
Destiny’s End – Breath Deep The Road (Live & Unreleased) (Nameless Grave)
Draag – Miracle Drug EP (Smoking Room)
Dreamkillers – Proiphys Cunninghamii (XMusic)
Elwood Stray – Descending (Out Of Line)
Furi Helium – No Altar Stands Eternal (Self)
Fyres – Like Waves (LDP)
Gavial – Thanks, I Hate It (Exile On Mainstream)
Gros Enfant Mort – Le Sang des Pierres (Moment Of Collapse)
HamaSaari – Pictures (Klonosphere)
Handful Of Hate – Soulless Abominations (Dusktone)
Helix – Scrap Metal (Perris)
Karloff – Revered By Death (Dying Victims)
Ligation – After Gods (Personal)
Megadeth – Megadeth (Tradecraft)
Meteora – Dissonance EP (H-Music)
New Mexican Doom Cult – Zaggurat (Majestic Mountain)
New Miserable Experience – Gild The Lily (Pelagic)
Nite Stinger – What The Nite Is All About (Pride & Joy)
Pagan Altar – Lord Of Hypocrisy Re-Release (Dying Victims)
Pelican – Ascending EP (Run For Cover)
Poppy – Empty Hands (Sumerian)
Ritual Arcana – Ritual Arcana (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Rocky & The Sweden – Early Years Singles Collection 1997-1999 (Relapse)
Rocky & The Sweden – God Save The Green Re-Release (Relapse)
Rocky & The Sweden – Punks Pot Heads (Relapse)
Rocky & The Sweden – Total Hard Core Re-Release (Relapse)
Rotting Christ – Aealo (Re-Recorded) (Season Of Mist)
Sacri Suoni – Time To Harvest (Electric Valley)
Sad Whisperings – The Hermit (Vidar)
Shadowmass – Wastelands (Floga)
Sigh – Ghastly Funeral Theatre Re-Release (Peaceville)
Sky Valley Mistress – Luna Mausoleum (New Heavy Sounds)
Slowrepeat – Aqua Haze (Electric Desert)
Spiral Fracture – Grace In Decay (Wormholedeath)
Stalwart – Tempvs Edax Rervm (Wormholedeath)
Temptress – Hear (Blues Funeral)
Textures – Genotype (Kscope)
Trash Pillow – Raw EP (Self)
Turbo’s Tribunal – Mills Of Tribunal (Jawbreaker)
Virtue In Vain – Nothing Is All I Am EP (Self)
Visceral Evisceration – Incessant Desire For Palatable Flesh Re-Release (Hammerheart)
January 30, 2026
Abissi – Paramagia (Octopus Rising)
Amenspear – Ego’s Carrion (Self)
Blackwater Holylight – Not Here Not Gone (Suicide Squeeze)
Bödel – Dödsbringaren (Distat)
Buddah – Amyotrophy (Gods Ov War)
Course Of Fate – Behind The Eclipse (ROAR)
D.A.M. – Inside The Wreckage (Dissonance)
Defaced – Icon (Massacre)
Evil Damn – Sons Of Horror EP (Hells Headbangers)
Eximperitus – Meritoriousness Of Equanimity (Willowtip)
Francis Rossi – The Accidental (earMusic)
Gorrch – Stillamentum (Avantgarde)
Hällas – Panorama (Aventyr)
Hellmaze – Dead Flesh Rising (Cornhole)
Indica Blues – Universal Death Heat (Majestic Mountain)
Invictus – Nocturnal Visions (Memento Mori)
It It Anita – Hi Hi Ha Ha (Vicious Circle)
Jagged City – There Are More Of Us, Always (Pelagic)
Kosuke Hashida – Moment Of Silence (HPGD)
Krateros – Lost In Translation EP (Inverse)
Lone Wanderer – Exequiae (High Roller)
Lord Elephant – Ultra Soul (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Malignant Aura – Where All Of Worth Comes To Wither (Memento Mori)
McAuley Schenker Group – Bad Boys: The McAuley Schenker Group Story 1987-1992 (HNE)
Noirnoise – Plant Resilience (Club Inferno)
Obscurity – Ascheregen (Trollzorn)
Our Mirage – Fractured Minds (Arising Empire)
Pits – Macabre Luxuria (Self)
Planet Hunter – Soothsayer (Sharkhound)
Profane Elegy – Herezjarcha (Self)
Qasu – A Bleak King Cometh (Phantom Limb)
Red Sands – Evocations EP (Self)
Red Vox – Retcon (Self)
Roth – Alles Endet (Massacre)
Santvs – De l’Abîme au Plérôme (Osmose)
Scruda – Extreme Speed Violence (Godz Ov War)
Shields – Death & Connection (Long Branch)
Shine – Wrathcult (Dark Descent)
Skulld – Abyss Calls To Abyss (Time To Kill)
Stabbing – Eon Of Obscenity (Century Media)
Summer Of Hate – Blood & Honey (Tee Pee)
Sweatmaster – More! (Svart)
Syberia – Quan Tot S’apagui (Moment Of Collapse)
Tarlung – Axis Mundi (Argonauta)
Therion – Con Orquesta (Napalm)
Tjaktjadálvve – Encompassing Nothingness (Flowing Downward)
Udreka – Nieistnienie (Godz Ov War)
Urne – Setting Fire To The Sky (Spinefarm)
Wicked Leather – Season Of The Witch (Lost Realm)
Witch – The Hex Is On… And Then Some (Lost Realm)
Wolfenstein – Death Brigade (CDN)
Wstret – Enlightened Misanthropy (Gods Ov War)
February 6, 2026
Agenbite Misery – Remorse Of Conscience (Self)
All The Damn Vampires – Vicecore (Self)
Ashes Awaken – Rise (MTS)
Assignment – With The End Comes Silence (Massacre)
AtteroTerra – Guillotine EP (Self)
Big Big Train – Woodcut (InsideOut)
Bitterness – Hallowed Be The Game (G.U.C.)
Blossoms Fall – La Alma (Eclipse)
Cartoons Can’t Die – Rebirth (Self)
Cattle Hammer – Dark Thoughts With Lights Out (Road To Masochist)
Earthless – Live At Roadburn Re-Release (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Ensanguinate – Death Saturnalia (Soulseller)
Epimetheus – Perseus 9 (Self)
Epinikion – The Force Of Nature (Dr. Music)
Evoked Eclipse – The Cries Of Evil (Club Inferno)
Full House Brew Crew – Glasgow Grin (ROAR)
Hermano – Clisson, France (Ripple)
In Aeturnum – …Of Death And Fire (Soulseller)
Induction – Love Kills (Reigning Phoenix)
Jack Harlon & The Dead Crows – Inexorable Opposites (Magnetic Eye)
Karnivool – In Verses (Cymatic)
Lily Löwe – Beautiful Disaster (Self)
Lomor – Sabouk Ridge (Rockshots)
Magnadur – Shaman Lord (Metal Madness)
Mayhem – Liturgy Of Death (Century Media)
Mors Verum – Canvas (Transcending Obscurity)
Mount Palatine – Wormholy World (Octopus Rising)
Paganizer – As Mankind Rots (Xtreem)
Phendrana – Cathexis (Self)
Predatory Void – Metamorphosis EP (Pelagic)
Puscifer – Normal Isn’t< (BMG)
Shatterheart – Infernal Symphony (Art Gates)
Silversun Pickups – Tenterhooks (New Machine)
Sleeping Giant – The Beauty Of Obliteration (Octopus Rising)
Stress Spells – Hearts Never Tire (Fuzz)
Supralunar – Dead Come To Dance (Supralunatic)
Tailgunner – Midnight Blitz (Napalm)
Uncultivates – This Will Become Clear Later, Like The French Revolution (Horsebox)
Visions Of Atlantis – Armada – An Orchestral Voyage (Napalm)
Wicked Smile – When Night Falls (Self)
February 13, 2026
Angel Du$t – Cold 2 The Touch (Run For Cover)
Ashbringer – Subglacial (Bolverk)
Austen Starr – I Am The Enemy (Frontiers)
Black Swan – Paralyzed (Frontiers)
Blazoner – Sonic Chambers EP (Self)
Bloodred – Colours Of Pain (Massacre)
Borrower – Killerdemons (Octopus Rising)
The Browning – Burn This World [Evolved] (Fixt)
Converge – Love Is Not Enough (Deathwish/Epitaph)
Diespnea – Radici (Code666)
Ernte – Der Schwarzen Flamme Vermächtnis (Purity Through Fire)
Eye Of Purgatory – Darkborne (Apostasy)
Forcefed Horsehead/Shaving The Werewolf – From Horrid To Worse Split EP (Self)
Fossilization – Advent Of Wounds (Everlasting Spew)
Frostmorner – Orbital Kaos (Wormholedeath)
Frozen Ocean – Askdrömmar (Apocalyptic Witchcraft)
Glassbone – Ruthless Savagery EP (Frozen)
Greyhawk – Warriors Of Greyhawk (Cruz Del Sur)
The Hellacopters – Cream Of The Crap! Collected Non-Album Works – Volume 3 (Nuclear Blast)
Hoaxed – Death Knocks (Relapse)
Malefic – Impermanence (Terminus Hate City)
Muertissima – Prophecy (Fetzner Death)
No Worth Of Man – The Killing Streets (Brutal)
Overtoun – Death Drive Anthropology (Time To Kill)
Pilgrims – Gemini (Self)
Ponte Del Diavolo – De Venom Natura (Season Of Mist)
Ravenspell – Obsidian King (Fighter)
Slaughterday – Dread Emperor (Testimony)
Space Of Variations – Poisoned Art (Napalm)
Sundecay – The Blood Lives Again (Self)
TX2 – End Of Us (Hopeless)
Winter Eternal – Unveiled Nightsky (Hells Headbangers)
Worm – Necropalace (Century Media)
February 20, 2026
Abstracted – Hiraeth (M-Theory)
Aeon Gods – Reborn To Light (Scarlet)
Amongruins – Advent Of Chaos (Theogonia)
Bizarrekult – Alt Some Finnes (Season Of Mist: Underground Activists)
Brahmashiras – Trinitite (Caligari)
Carpathian Forest – Defending The Throne Of Evil Re-Release (ATMF)
Carpathian Forest – F–k You All! (Caput Tuum In Ano Est) Re-Release (ATMF)
Carpathian Forest – Skjend Hans Like Re-Release (ATMF)
Clawfinger – Before We All Die (Perception)
Clive Nolan – The Mortal Light (Crime)
Crowen – Through The Dying Mist EP (Inverse)
Daidalos – Dante (Rockshots)
Darklore – The Great Elven War (Self)
Death Of Youth – Nothing Is The Same Anymore (Sell The Heart)
Dissentience – Kaiju EP (Self)
Domhain – In Perfect Stillness (These Hands Melt)
Dusk – Bunker (Self)
Eye Of Melian – Forest Of Forgetting (Napalm)
Game Over – Crimes Against Reality Re-Release (Scarlet)
Holosade – Hellhouse Re-Release (Hammerheart)
Horseman – No Surrender In Dark Days (Recordjet)
Immortalis – Indicium De Mortuis Re-Release (Hammerheart)
The Magus – Daemonosophia (The Circle)
Mantas – Winds Of Change Re-Release (Dissonance)
Michael Monroe – Outerstellar (Silver Lining)
Necronomicon Ex Mortis – Zombie Blood Nightmare EP (Self)
Nytt Land – Aba Khan (Prophecy)
Phasma – Purgatory (Transcending Obscurity)
Random Hearts – Love PTSD (MA Saret)
Rozario – Northern Crusaders (Pride & Joy)
Soul Of Anubis – Ritual (Time To Kill)
Struck/Down – Queue For The Cure (Self)
Suplecs – Hymns Under A Blood Red Sky (Ripple)
Sylosis – The New Flesh (Nuclear Blast)
Temple Balls – Temple Balls (Frontiers)
The Veer Union – Reinvention (Arising Empire)
We All Rise – The Beginning Of The End (Golden Robot)
W.E.B. – Darkness Alive (Metal Blade)
Wreck-Defy – Dissecting The Leech (Massacre)
Zahn – Purpur (Crazysane)
February 27, 2026
Blackwater Drowning – Obscure Sorrows (Bleeding Art Collective)
Bruecken – Years That Answer (Moment Of Collapse)
Burning Path – Burning Path (Dying Victims)
Chalice – Divine Spear (Dying Victims)
Distorted Reflection – Doom Zone (Iron Shield)
Farson – Ein Stumpfes Instrument (Total Dissonance Worship)
Fayenne – The Calling From The Depth (Void Wanderer)
The Gloom In The Corner – Royal Discordance (SharpTone)
Glorious Bankrobbers – Intruder (Wild Kingdom)
Harrowed – The Eternal Hunger (Dying Victims)
Hating Life – Revenge From Beyond EP (Pulverised)
Izzy And The Black Trees – Kisses To Chaos (Antena Krzyku)
Joel Hoekstra’s 13 – From The Fade (Frontiers)
Laughing Stock – Life In Seven Dreams (Apollon)
Melonball – Take Care (Thousand Island)
Necrofier – Transcending Into Oblivion (Metal Blade)
Necrosexual – Road To Rubble (Black Metal Archives)
Nerve Star – White Hot (Self)
Nibiru – Hypostatis (Argonauta)
NMB – L.I.F.T. (InsideOut)
Nothing – A Short History Of Decay (Run For Cover)
Pagan Altar – Mythical & Magical Re-Release (Dying Victims)
Philip Shouse – Side 1 EP (Wild Kingdom)
Pil & Blue – You Have Chosen Darkness (Self)
Prison Of Mirrors – De Depulchris Occultis et Igne Profanationis EP (ATMF)
Rob Zombie – The Great Satan (Nuclear Blast)
Sigh – Hail Horror Hail Re-Release (Peaceville)
Slagmaur – Hulders Ritual (Prophecy)
Sodom – Get What You Deserve Re-Release (Noise/BMG)
Speglas – Endarkenment, Being & Death (Trust No One)
Suffocation – Jesus Wept: The Roadrunner Years (Dissonance)
Templar – Conquering Swords (Jawbreaker)
Unburier – As Time Awaits EP (Self)
Unverkalt – Héréditaire (Season Of Mist)
Varials – Where The Light Leaves (Fearless)
Venthiax – Rites Of Ra EP (Dying Victims)
Weedpecker – V (Heavy Psych Sounds)
March 6, 2026
Axe Dragger – Axe Dragger (Ripple)
Black Lung – Forever Beyond (Magnetic Eye)
Desert Storm – Buried Under The Weight Of Reason (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Full House Brew Crew – Glasgow Grin (ROAR)
Godsmack – Awake Re-Release (UMe)
Insect Inside – Reborn In Blight (Gore House)
Kaleidobolt – Karakuchi (Svart)
Novomundo – The Cursed Cult (Self)
Oathbound – Colors In Grey (Eclipse)
Qualen – Veri Virtaa Edelleen (Time To Kill)
Raibard – Postscript (Self)
Rainbow – The Temple Of The King 1975-1976 Box Set (Edsel)
Sermon To The Lambs – Sermon To The Lambs (Comatose)
Soul Meanders – Abysm Of Time EP (Self)
Vreid – The Skies Turn Black (Indie)
March 13, 2026
Against I – Anti Life (Twisted Flesh)
The Gems – Year Of The Snake (Napalm)
Gluttony – Eulogy To Blashphemy (FDA)
Gotthard – More Stereo Crush (Reigning Phoenix)
Harvey Rushmore & The Octopus – Mindsuckers (Taxi Gauche)
Messticator – Total Mastery (Testimony)
Monosphere – Amnesia (Self)
Moon Far Away – Acou (Lupus Lounge)
Schattenmann – Besser als der Rest (Perception)
Vitamin X – Ride The Apocalypse (Svart)
Witchcraft – A Sinner Child EP (Heavy Psych Sounds)
March 20, 2026
Axel Rudi Pell – Ghost Town (Steamhammer)
clâm – clâm (Self)
Clocktowers – Genesis (Self)
Engorgement – They Rot Beneath Our Floor (Comatose)
Gaerea – Loss (Century Media)
Holeum – Ensis (Lifeforce)
Ignescent – Eternal (Frontiers)
Karmian – Horror Vacui (Rockshots)
Persecutor – Casualties Of Violence (Self)
Tyketto – Closer To The Sun (Silver Lining)
Veil Of The Serpent – Born To Burn (Self)
March 27, 2026
Acidosis – Arrival (Self)
Chez Kane – Reckless (Frontiers)
Intoxicated – The Dome (Redefining Darkness)
Iron Savior – Awesome Anthems Of The Galaxy (Perception)
Jon Anderson – Earth Mother Earth Re-Release (Frontiers)
Jon Anderson – Survival & Other Stories Re-Release (Frontiers)
Kal-El – Astral Voyager Vol. 2 (Blues Funeral)
Lion’s Share – Inferno (Metalville)
Mallavora – What If Better Never Comes? (Church Road)
Midnatt – Skräckfylld Förtjusning (Jawbreaker)
Myrath – Wilderness Of Mirrors (earMusic)
April 3, 2026
Gus Drax – Theories Of Imperfection (Theogonia)
Jarboe – Sightings (Consouling Sounds)
Obey The Sun – Desert Ritual EP (Eclipse)
Vanir – Wyrd (Mighty)
April 10, 2026
Archspire – Too Fast To Die (Self)
Chronicler Of Ardul – Sounds Of Ardul (Self)
Nukem – The Grave Remains (Redefining Darkness)
April 17, 2026
Victorious – World War Dinosaur (Perception)
April 24, 2026
Heiden – Cma (Epidemie)
HighWay – Last Call For Rock’N’Roll (Self)
John Corabi – New Day (Frontiers)
May 8, 2026
Motus Tenebrae – In Sorrow’s Requiem (My Kingdom)
May 15, 2026
Slayer – Hell Awaits 40th Anniversary Edition (Metal Blade)
May 22, 2026
Dan Byrne – This Is Where The Show Begins (Frontiers)
June 5, 2026
Devilz By Definition – Devilz Knight (SelfMadeRecords)
