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.
May 8, 2026
2 Again – Coins, Currency, Tokens, And Other Related Objects EP (Daze)
Abuser – Blood Marks (Xtreem)
Acolythus – Unearthly Kingdoms ‘Neath Lifeless Stars (Inverse)
Aghalmar – Ruin (The Crawling Chaos)
Angel Names – Angel Names (Dischi Sotterranei)
Baratro – No Comply (Supernatural Cats)
Beyond Awareness – Reflections (Self)
Beyond The Styx – Divid (Innerstrength)
Bjørn Berge – Morphine (Apollon)
Black Orchid Empire – Lore (Year Of The Rat)
Black Sea Of Trees – Cult Of The Sun (Self)
Black Veil Brides – Vindicate (Spinefarm)
Bong Voyage – Hedonistic Hard Rock (Ripple)
Civil Villains – A Sleeper, Underneath (Thundersnuff)
Conjuring – Memento Mori (Hypnotic Dirge)
Cyborg Zero – Zero (Go Down)
Darkthrone – Pre-Historic Metal (Peaceville)
Dazr – Do Or Die (Self)
Draconian – In Somnolent Ruin (Napalm)
Electric Sun Defence – Estuary (Road To Masochist)
Endless Floods – Passages (Permafrost)
Eradikated – Wiring Of Violence (Indie)
Exploding Head Syndrome – Deathbeds (Vestkyst)
The Family Men – Co/de/termination (Welfare Sounds)
The Flatliners – Cold World (Equal Vision/Dine Alone)
A Forest Of Stars – Stack Overflow In Corpse Pile Interface (Prophecy)
Frozen Soil – No Place Of Warmth (Century Media)
Gadget – Coerced EP (De:Nihil)
Galibot – Catabase (LADLO)
General Chaos – Can’t Please ‘Em All (Stomp)
Goholor – Locus Damnatorum (Personal)
Grievance – Lúgubres Devaneios De Abismos E Sombras (Haloran)
Haggard Cat – The Pain That Orbits Life (Church Road)
Harms – Rebirth Of The Cold (Time To Kill)
High Fade – Twice As Nice (RPN)
Hillbilly Vegas – A La Mode (Quarto Valley)
Hocico – Unseen Horror Scenes (Out Of Line)
Howler – Beyond Mortal Control (CDN)
Iatt – Etheric Realms Of The Night (Black Lion)
Idle Threat – You’ll Forget The Sun (Tooth & Nail)
In 2 Again – Coins, Currency, Tokens And Other Related Objects EP (Daze)
Ingested – Denigration (Metal Blade)
Ivoire – Uragano (Self)
Karcius – Black Soul Sickness (Self)
The Keating Contingency – Scream Into The Void EP (Self)
Kurt Deimer – A Grog Is Born (Bald Man)
laCasta – Olibanvm (Argonauta)
Lauren Lakis – Deadlights (RidingEasy)
Lloth – Archees Legeones (Ancient Legions) (Theogonia)
Lonely Crowd – By The Time You Read This (Apollon)
Lyrre – Nothing Is Promised (Self)
Möhrkvlth – Gwenojennoù An Ankounac’h (Antiq)
Mörkekraft – Fragments (Octopus Rising)
Motus Tenebrae – In Sorrow’s Requiem (My Kingdom)
The Narrator – Phosphor (Nuclear Blast)
Night Vigil – The Ritual (Self)
Nocturnal Departure – Spiritual Cessation (Hells Headbangers)
Old Moon – Home To Nowhere (M-Theory)
Panopticon – Det hjemsøkte hjertet (Bindrune)
A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers – Towers Of Silence EP (Lay Bare)
The Quill – Master Of The Skies (Metalville)
Restless Spirit – Restless Spirit (Magnetic Eye)
Rexoria – Fallen Dimension (Black Lodge)
Saasta – Cesspool (Inverse)
Sabotør – Første Aksjon (Dark Essence)
sace6 – brutalist (Sumerian)
Sacriversum – Before The Birth Of Light (Fireflash)
Scarab – Transmutation Of Fate EP (Brutal)
Scraper – Infinite Journey (Metalloscope)
Sins Of Shadow – The Last Frontier (Self)
Social Distortion – Born To Kill (Epitaph)
Solar Mantra – State Of Joyful Lightness (Argonauta)
Still Living – Ashes (Rock Company)
Sungrave – Afterglow (No Need Name)
Teloch Vovin – Towards The Inevitable (An Eastern Temple)
Telomyras – Duskfall (Self)
Teramaze – The Silent Architect (Wells)
Thee Johnny Casino Syndicat – Une Nuit A Rennes (Golden Robot)
Thin Ice – Happiness Ain’t Meant For All EP (Dits)
Thrownness – Marrow Part II: A Fire Through The Ether EP (Raging Planet)
Torian – The Lost Legion Rising (Massacre)
Torchia – They Are Born Under Rules of The Darkness (Rockshots)
Trip Villain – Dose (Seeing Red)
Twin Serpent – True Norwegian Blackgrass (Svart)
Vile Desolation – Annihilating The Consciousness (Comatose)
Voidthrone – Dreaming Rat (Self)
War On Women – Time Under Tension (Smartpunk)
Warside – Cognitive Extinction (Gruesome)
Without Mercy – Infinite Loss EP (Self)
Who On Earth – It Takes The Village (Self)
Wounded Touch – They Promised Eden (Vol 1) EP (Smartpunk)
Yoth Iria – Gone With The Devil (Metal Blade)
Yoyo Club 66 – Yoyo Club 66 EP (Self)
Zaraza – …And You Will Remember This Winter EP (Self)
May 15, 2026
Acid Reign – Daze Of The Week (Back On Black)
Advent Horizon – Falling Together (Self)
Alt. – Nevermoree EP (SharpTone)
Angellore – Nocturnes (Ardua)
Antimozdebeast – The Vagrant Unkempt Grave (Self)
Arroganz – Death Doom Punks (Testimony)
Artillery – Made In Hell EP (Mighty)
Atavistia – Old Gods Awaken (Blood Blast)
Blue Tears – Live In The UK (Pride & Joy)
Borknagar – True North Re-Release (Season Of Mist)
Confess – Metalmorphosis (Frontiers)
Crematory – Greatest Hits (ROAR)
Crown Lands – Apocalypse (InsideOut)
Crown The Beast – Judgement EP (Emanzipation)
Daffodil Pill – Live At NCPP (Interstellar Smoke)
Defect Designer – Depressants (Transcending Obscurity)
Desiccation – Legatum Mortuorum (Carbonized)
Desolus – Dwellers Of The Twilight Void (Hells Headbangers)
Doppler – Pourquoi Ce Disque? (Atypeek)
Dromos – Failing Light (Argonauta)
Empire Of None – Keepsake (Self)
Exhumed/Iron Reagan – Split Re-Release (Tankcrimes)
Faded Remembrance – The Blessing Of Downfall (Bitume)
Frontline – Rebirth (Frontiers)
The Ghoulstars – The Dark Overlords Of The Universe (Season Of Mist)
Goldfish Kaseem – For A Bryter Future (Morbid And Miserable)
Gozu – Gozu VI (Blacklight)
Gravery – Purified In Blood EP (Upstate)
Heavenfall – Thorn (Rockshots)
Held – Grey (MNRK Heavy)
Inthraced – Constellation Zero (Inverse)
Intrusive – Die On That Hill EP (Static Era)
Jungle Rot – Cruel Face Of War (Unique Leader)
Junon – The Golden Citadel Of The Astral Sphere (I, Voidhanger)
Lorn – Searing Blood (I, Voidhanger)
Louder – Devil’s Night (Fighter)
Mad Honey – Bridge Over Cumberland (Deathwish)
Makkmat – Syke Fantasier (Self)
Maximum Robot – Away With The Fairies (Epictronic)
Melancholost – Tales From The Poisoned Apple (Self)
Midnight Odyssey – A Mass Of Fallen Stars – Live In Toulon (I, Voidhanger)
Molosser – Molosser EP (Gutter Prince Cabal)
My Heart, An Inverted Flame – My Death Is More Beautiful Than Your Life (Crucial Blast)
New Idea Society – Fire On The Hill (Relapse)
Noosed – Misery EP (Road To Masochist)
Opensight – The Outfit (Inertial)
Orphan Donor – Ailments EP (Zegema Beach)
Peter Frampton – Carry The Light (UMe)
Phoschydeux – 4 Days Of Bliss In Hell (I, Voidhanger)
Port Noir – The Dark We Keep (InsideOut)
Profaned – The Human Condition (Self)
Pro-Pain – Stone Cold Anger (Napalm)
Pvrgatorii – Profane Rites For Cursed Times EP (Night Terror)
Revenge Ritual – Arbitrary Punishment (HPGD)
Rhododendron – Ascent Effort (The Flenser)
Robin Beck – Living Proof (Frontiers)
Savage Mania – Demonic Assault (Fireflash)
Self Deception – One Of Us (Napalm)
See You Next Tuesday & Chop7x – Brothers EP (Sundown)
Slayer – Hell Awaits 40th Anniversary Edition (Metal Blade)
Solemnity – Opus Barbaricum (Self)
A Static Lullaby – …And Don’t Forget To Breathe (Smartpunk)
Stefano Panunzi – Caravaggio (SP)
Sum Of Seven – Echoes Of The Hypermind (Inverse)
Tyrannus – Mournhold (True Cult)
Verba – Torchbearers EP (Self)
Von Groove – Born To Rock (Frontiers)
May 22, 2026
Abandon Agony – Endbringer (Self)
Agusa – Panacea (Karisma)
Amyl And The Sniffers – Giddy Up/Big Attraction Re-Release (Virgin)
Armored Saint – Emotion Factory Reset (Metal Blade)
Ataraxia – Sylfaera The Fair (The Circle)
At The Gates – The Red In The Sky Is Ours Re-Release (Peaceville)
At The Gates – Terminal Spirit Disease Re-Release (Peaceville)
At The Gates – With Fear I Kiss The Burning Darkness Re-Release (Peaceville)
Baphomet’s Blood – Satanic Metal Attack Re-Release (Dying Victims)
Barren Canyon – A Virulent Stream (Avantgarde)
Bear – Anhedonia EP (Pelagic)
Blindead 23 – Deuterium (Peaceville)
Blke – Blke (Tonzonen)
Blossom Death – Spirit (The Circle)
Boys From Heaven – The Wanderer (Frontiers)
Burial Clouds – Burn Holy (Self)
Caught In A Mirror – Neoncore (Bleeding Nose)
The Circle Of The Elect – Kaoskarma (Archaic Sound)
Corpse Water – …Something In The Water (Grindscene)
Crimson Day – Dark Dimension (Wormholedeath)
Dan Byrne – This Is Where The Show Begins (Frontiers)
Dark Millennium – Come (Massacre)
Dead Register – Fiber Re-Release (AVR)
Deathstorm – Cascophonies (Dying Victims)
Desecresy – The Secret Of Death (Xtreem)
Dimhav – Ondine (Self)
Dimmu Borgir – Grand Serpent Rising (Nuclear Blast)
Downfall Of Nur – And The Firmament Will Burn… (Avantgarde)
Embrace Of Souls – The Battle Of The Dead (Rockshots)
Ersedu – Gore EP (Self)
Escaping Aghartha – Lurkers Of Languid Waters (Hypnotic Dirge)
Fable – Long Hath The Night Dwelt EP (Dying Victims)
Fatal Vision – Four Sides To Every Story (Escape)
Fireball Ministry – The Second Great Awakening Re-Release (Ripple)
Goddess – Ritual Of The Cloven Hoof (Majestic Mountain)
Gorerotted – Mutilated In Minutes Re-Release (Hammerheart)
Hellevate – Killicon Valley (Self)
Hexenaltar – Descending Curse (Godz Ov War)
Horrific Visions – Remnants Of Atrophy (Comatose)
Impure Wilhelmina – Le Sanglot (Season Of Mist)
Isegrim – Isegrim Re-Release (Fireflash)
JPT Scare Band – Live At Crosstown Station (Ripple)
Kottonmouth Kings – California Burning EP (Kottonmouth)
Kurnugia – Carmina Inferorum (Godz Ov War)
Maebe – Brain Paint (Ripcord)
Maliciouz – Sympathypnotic Intercession (Self)
Mansvara – Sable Odes To Nihility (Godz Ov War)
Marmozets – CO.WAR.DICE (Nettwerk)
Moonlight Haze – Interstellar Madness EP (Scarlet)
Mott – Best Is Yet To Come (Self)
Musth – Jollysad EP (Self)
Night Spectre – Night Spectre (Dying Victims)
Not Richard & Her Majesty – Success & Fulfillment (Agricultural)
Oracle Of Worms – Cult Of Suffering (FDA)
Piolun – Exolvuntur (Malignant Voices)
Requiem In White – The Visible Heaven (The Circle)
Rival Cults – Our Gods Need Blood (Seeing Red)
Sandstorm – Dungeon Of Death EP (Dying Victims)
Sauvageoness – A Maze Deep In (Self)
Shewolff – We’re All Gonna Fukking Die EP (Dying Victims)
Skip Danko B-Movie Road Club – Trippin’ On A Chinese Market (Aalzorp)
Skellig – Abasement Through Reverence (Cursed Monk)
Sonus – Planes Of Torment (Self)
Varg – Live At Wolfszeit Festival 2024 (Napalm)
Various Artists – XXX Anniversary Compilation (Frontiers)
Vision Divine – A Clockwork Reverie EP (Scarlet)
Witching Hour – Descending…Where Time Has Ceased To Exist (Dying Victims)
Wrex – Sadworld EP (Self)
XCIII – In Puncto Ad Inferna Descendunt (Club Inferno)
Xcomm – Time To Burn (Blowed Out)
Your Spirit Dies – It Is Well… EP (MNRK Heavy)
May 29, 2026
Abrasive Trees – Light Remaining (Argonauta)
Acacia Avenue – Chapter V (Pride & Joy)
Albion – It Was In The Month Of May (Self)
Ana – Motivated By Death (Eclipse)
Ater Era – Sinistria (On Parole)
Avertat – Dead End Life (Lifeforce)
Balmora – These Graven Halls (Daze)
Belialed – The Echoless Chasm (Trollzorn)
Bjørn Riis – Lifandi EP (Karisma)
BlackMarket – Radical Views EP (Self)
Brian Robertson – Diamonds And Dirt Re-Release (HNE)
Cambrian – Oceans Away (Self)
Cavity – Human Abjection Re-Release (Reptilian)
Chroma – 25 Forever (Alcopop)
Chronic Hate – Defeating The Oblivion Of Life (Time To Kill)
Consecration – Exanimis (Nuclear Winter)
Crocell – Swarm Of Insects (Emanzipation)
The Cruel Intentions – All Hail Hypocrisy (Indie)
Dauþuz – Todeswerk: Uranium II (Amor Fati)
Deafkids – Cicatrizes Do Futuro (Neurot)
Deus Saboath – Distortion Of Lies (Paragon)
Devin Townsend – The Moth (InsideOut)
Dogstar – All In Now (Dillon Street)
Eaten By Sharks – The Undertow Of Hate (CDN)
Elder – Through Zero (Blues Funeral)
Erdve – Epigrama (Season Of Mist)
Eternal Evil – Forever Feared (Listenable)
The Fifth Alliance – Stenahoria (Tartarus)
The Freqs – No God On The Gold Coast (Self)
Funebrarum – Beckoning The Void Of Eternal Silence (Pulverised)
Furnace – Echoes Of A Distant Future (Emanzipation)
Galvanist – The Silence Between Stars (ATMF)
Godthrymm – Projections (Profound Lore)
Graveir – The Festering Triad (Apocalyptic Witchcraft)
Hanry – What Came From Silence (Pelagic)
Harboured – We’re Only The Love That We Lead (Lost Future)
Hecate Enthroned – The Corpse of A Titan, A Lament Long Buried (M-Theory)
Horizon Of Aeons – Timeless Forms Of Desolation (Inverse)
Hypnosaur – Afterlife (Self)
Jayler – Voices Unheard (Silver Lining)
Kid Feral – 2019 (Backpack)
Kristoffer Gildenlöw – [Humanised] (New Joke)
Lazara – Lazara EP (Self)
Leatherwitch – First Spell (Listenable)
Lock Up – Brethren Of The Pentagram (Dissonance)
Lowcard De La Morte/Killseduction – Kill De La Morte Split (HPGD)
Lufeh – Overwhelmed (Self)
Maladie – The Dance Of Tragedies (Apostasy)
Malebeste – Monestherou (Antiq)
Malummeh – Malummeh EP (Inverse)
Mandy Manala – Something Wicked (Argonauta)
Manraze – Lock, Stock & Barrel (Complete Recordings 2008-2011) (HNE)
Masquerage – Atomic Spies (Stormspell)
Melting – A Pathetic Excuse For A Life EP (Greyscale)
Monolord – Neverending (Relapse)
Narnia – X (Self)
Necrobeast – Iron Baphomet (Self)
Nidelgret – Traüerlarm (Frozen)
Oathbreaker – Rheia (Redux) (Deathwish)
On Borrowed Time – In The Dark Before The Dawn (Omen)
Pharmacist – Vertebrae After Vertebrae (Hells Headbangers)
Rakinua – Esi Um Nina – Heal Us, Mother (Dusktone)
Redshift – Down The Wire (Pale Wizard)
Red Sky – Nostalgia del Futuro (Epictronic)
Saint Agnes – Your God Fearing Days Are About To Begin (Spinefarm)
Sarcasm – Lifeforce Omnibound (Hammerheart)
The Scalar Process – Agnomysticism (Transcending Obscurity)
Se, Josta Ei Puhuta – Syvyyden Portit On Saatava Auki (Inverse)
Serpent Lord – The Once Forgotten Ways Of Old (Eisenwald)
Seven Crowns – Haunted Head (Pale Wizard)
SeventhString – An Ocean Laced With Glass (Self)
Shinedown – Ei8ht (Atlantic)
Somnia Finem – Desassossego (Signal Rex)
Sparta – Cut A Silhouette (Equal Vision)
TDW – Bane Of The Talebearer OST (Layered Reality)
Tooms – Karst (Cursed Monk)
Treacher – Hibernation Of Death (Self)
Trelldom – …by the word… (Prophecy)
Trueandtrue – Nosedive (Self)
Tyrann – Tyrann Forever (Dying Victims)
Victory Kid – Catalyst (Sbam)
Vimbullnat – Der Dunklen Tugenden; Echos (Void Wanderer)
Vintregal – Назустріч Останньому Світанку EP (ATMF)
The Who – Live At Eden Project (earMusic)
Wyrmhaven – Seasons Of Gloom (Self)
Yawning Balch – Volume Four (Heavy Psych Sounds)
June 5, 2026
100 Demons – Embrace The Black Light (Closed Casket)
The 69 Eyes – I Survive (BLKIIBLK)
A.A. Williams – Solstice (Reigning Phoenix)
Abysmal Growls Of Despair – Torn (Wormholedeath)
Aetere – Theogonie (Octopus Rising)
Alunah/Samavayo – Embers Of Relief Split EP (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Art|est – Evil Embodiment (Self)
August Burns Red – Season Of Surrender (Fearless)
Baalzagoth – No God, No Savior (Putrid Cult)
Bad Stuff – Bad Stuff (Relapse)
Blood Incantation – All Gates Open (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Century Media)
Callous Faulter – Callous Faulter EP (Gutter Prince Cabal)
Chullachaqui – Epiphanic Perdition (Self)
Converge – Hum Of Hurt (Deathwish/Epitaph)
Cyhra – Requiem For A Pipe Dream (Reigning Phoenix)
Devilz By Definition – Devilz Knight (SelfMadeRecords)
The Dharma Chain – Some Kind Of Pure State (Spinda)
Ditheist – Cosmic Liar (Self)
Dopelord – Sign Of The Devil Re-Release (Season Of Mist)
Drowning Pool – Sinner Re-Release (Craft)
Dutch Elm – Dutch Elm (Ripcord)
Dwarves – Jenkem (Greedy)
Embryonic Autopsy – Rise Of The Mutated (Massacre)
Evanescence – Sanctuary (BMG)
Evergrey – Architects Of A New Weave (Napalm)
Fournier – Fournier EP (Caligari)
Frusen Sorg – Smärtpunkter (Widsith)
Godless – Adversus Parousia (Nuclear Winter)
Grabunhold – Frostheim (Iron Bonehead)
Guilt Trip – Armour Of Angels (Roadrunner)
Gurt – Survival Of The Shittest EP (When Planets Collide)
Halcyon Days – Nothing To No One // Something To Someone (Inside)
Iron Kingdom – Shadows And Dust (Self)
Iselder – The 38th Division (Marwolaeth)
Jared James Nichols – Louder Than Fate (Frontiers)
Kybalion – Make The World Bleed EP (Non Serviam)
Lovelost – Picking Petals By Your Graveside EP (Year Of The Rat)
Magefa – Legion (Self)
Maneating Orchid – Cold Logic (Subcontinental)
Medusa’s Wrath – The Seventh Plague Of Babylon (Self)
Midnight Rider – Limited Infinity (Massacre)
Mithotyn – In The Sign Of The Ravens Re-Release (Hammerheart)
My Own Will – Misery EP (Blood Blast)
Nachtheem – Waan Van De Leegte (Terratur)
Nights Of Malice – Chaos Exordium< (Bleeding Art Collective)
No Vale Nada – Quidam (Itawak)
Oh Hiroshima – And The Dead Tree Gives No Shelter (Pelagic)
Omit All – Lights Up On The End Stage EP (Self)
Pretext – Riot Of The Ruined (Darkside)
Riena – Miekka ja Varjo EP (Signal Rex)
Revolting – Supernatural Anthems (Xtreem)
Rotten Tomb – Vestiges Of Tortured Souls (Nuclear Winter)
Seven Metal Sins – Legacy Of Chaos (Rockshots)
Shane Embury – Bridge To Resolution (Dissonance)
Shooting Daggers – The Real Life Thing EP (New Heavy Sounds)
Sleepbomb – Songs In The Key Of Conan (Koolarrow)
Sleeping Pulse – Dreams & Limitations (Prophecy)
Sons Of Ghidorah – Raining Fire (Argonauta)
Soul Exchange – Slow Descent EP (1126)
Space Parasites – Make Me Evil (Fetzner Death)
Stranded By Choice – Marooned In Stone (Self)
Thorium – Suburban Rot (Emanzipation)
Tidal Wave – Volume Tree (Ripple)
Together To The Stars – Iridescence (Self)
Üga Büga – Valley Of The Wolf (Self)
Urkraft – Naturens Skrik (Dusktone)
Urzah – A Tranquil Void (APF)
Veins – A New Forever (Self)
Vithial – Awakened Ancient Spirits (Self)
Voivod – Symphonique (Century Media)
Wes Parker – Super Rare (Big Machine Rock)
Xenosis – Hermetic Transmutation (Transcending Obscurity)
June 12, 2026
Absu – The Temples Of Offal/Return Of The Ancients 35th Anniversary Edition (ATMF)
Big|Brave – In Grief Or In Hope (Thrill Jockey)
Bloodhunter – Sons Of The Abandoned (ROAR)
The Bobby Lees – New Self (Epitaph)
Bolan – Gargoyle Of The Garden State (earMusic)
The Chronicles Of Manimal And Samara – Misantropi (Self)
Cripple Bastards – La Tua Foto Sul Marmo EP (F.O.A.D.)
Day 40 – Phenomenon (Self)
Defiled – Altered State (Season Of Mist)
Des Rocs – To Hell And Back (Sumerian)
Dirty Heads – 7 Seas (Better Noise)
Fires In The Distance – Circadian Promise (Prosthetic)
Fleshcrawl – Epitome Of Carnage (Distortion)
Genghis Tron – Signal Fire (Relapse)
Goetia – Mortuary Cult (Carbonized)
Goreworm – Miasmic Solitude (Transcending Obscurity)
Hawkwind – Psychedelic Selection (Cherry Red)
Heavenwood – The Tarot Of The Bohemians – Part II (Mighty)
The Heavy Eyes – Focus (Magnetic Eye)
Joseph Tholl – It Might Be Art (High Roller)
Khemmis – Khemmis (Nuclear Blast)
King Potenaz – Arcane Desert Rituals Vol. 2 (Majestic Mountain)
Klimt 1918 – Àmor (Prophecy)
La Sécurité – Bingo! (Mothland)
Make – Exegesis At The End Of Time (Accident Prone)
Malist – Eternal Echo Of The Fall (Flowing Downward)
Mirror Of My Soul – October Is Rising (Majestic Mountain)
Non Serviam – La Lune Dont Mon Âme Est Pleine (Lay Bare)
Nuclear Tomb – Epoch Inhumane (Rotted Life)
Numen – Hustasuna – Oroitzapen Galduen Putzua (LADLO)
OK Goodnight – stop/go (Self)
Piebald – Tales For The Rages (Iodine)
Sahhar – Migja ta Mohh Mignun (Time To Kill)
Soulburn – Quantifying Cosmic Doom (Testimony)
Spread Eagle – The Brutal Divine (Frontiers)
Stitched Up Heart – Medusa (Judge & Jury)
Stormkeep – The Nocturnes Of Iswylm (Vesperian)
Sweet – Live At The Capitol (Hannover 1991) (Metalville)
Tarja – Frisson Noir (earMusic)
Tombal – Grave Of The Damned EP (Blood Harvest)
Triumph – The Best Of Triumph (Craft)
Twist Lock – Surplus Citizen EP (Self)
Vanden Plas – AcCult II (Frontiers)
Véhémence – Assiégé pour l’Eternité (Antiq)
Woewarden – The Roots Of My Neglect (Dusktone)
June 19, 2026
Avarice – Perpetual Ruin (Mighty)
Axemaster – Of Beasts And Plagues (Cosmic Fire)
Bantoriak – Vol. II (Argonauta)
Baphomet’s Blood – Second Strike Re-Release (Dying Victims)
Belvedere – Seven Years Of Bad Luck (Thousand Island)
Blood Mother – Blood Mother (Self)
The Carburetors – We Ride At Night (Fast Forward)
Cutthroat – Invoking Terror EP (Dying Victims)
Down – Over The Under Re-Release (Nuclear Blast)
Drakkar – Invasion (Wormholedeath)
Endseeker – Coffin Born EP (Metal Blade)
Eternal Recurrence – Eternal Recurrence EP (Self)
False Messiah – Seven (Semetery)
Flykt – Sinister Strain (Hammerheart)
Gin Lady – Toads & Diamonds Volume One: Live In Spain (Ripple)
Green Desert Water – Eerie Meadows (Small Stone)
Hyena/Risingfall – Heavy Metal Heroes Split EP (Dying Victims)
Inherits The Void – The Silent Abscission (Avantgarde)
Innuendo – Not Lost (XLR8)
Iron Kobra – Eternal Dagger (Dying Victims)
Judas Priest – The Best Of Judas Priest (Sony)
Kerry King – From Hell I Rise: Extended Deluxe Edition (Reigning Phoenix)
Kilter – Ten Billion Years (Excursus>
Liminal Sky – All Tomorrow’s Darkness (Karisma)
Loneshore – Nothing Left To Deconstruct (Willowtip)
Lost In Kyiv – We’re All Going To Be Fine (Pelagic)
Marillion – Marillion.com Re-Release (earMusic)
Mattador – III (Frontiers)
Plaindrifter – Gestalt (Ripple)
Prince Of Failure – Prince Of Failure (Kscope)
Quiet Fear – La Tierra Arriba/El Abismo Abajo (Iodine)
Saidan – Fangdriller: Scars Beneath Memories Wrist (Avantgarde)
Scordatura – Led Into Oblivion (Everlasting Spew)
Shadowborne – Heaven’s Falling (Scarlet)
Stupidity – Beyond Stupidity (Wicked Cool)
Various Artists – Ride The Rainbow: The Ultimate Tribute To Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow (Cleopatra)
Warning – Rituals Of Shame (Relapse)
Warthrash – No Light Shall Remain (Awakening)
Witching Hour – Past Midnight Re-Release (Dying Victims)
June 26, 2026
Amberian Dawn – Temptation’s Gate (Napalm)
Astriferous – Atavistic Unraveling (Pulverised)
Blood Of Angels – Les Angst ov Thanatou (Self)
Butthole Surfers – After The Astronaut (Sunset Blvd.)
Child – Rebirth (Heavy Psych Sounds)
CJ Wildheart – Devil (Self)
Crying Steel – Agent Steel (Pride & Joy)
Dead Sleep – Repulsion EP (Self)
Druidess – Trip Meadow (Self)
Duir – Catarsi (AOP)
Entropist – The Vision (Self)
Exploring Birdsong – Every House We Built (Long Branch)
Fai Laci – Elephant In The Room (Easy Eye)
Far From Refuge – Pillars Of Language (Self)
Feralia – Ultima Requies (ATMF)
Gracie – Miss Misfortunately (Tooth & Nail)
Haggus – The Mincecore Manifesto EP (Tankcrimes)
Hoc Est Bellum – Filth Majesty (Time To Kill)
Junius – Sotera (Prosthetic)
Krystal System – Da Punch (Alfa Matrix)
Masterplan – Metalmorphosis (Frontiers)
Mayhem – Live In Marseille 2000 Re-Release (Season Of Mist)
Metallica – ReLoad Re-Release (Blackened)
Million Moons – You Be Good, I Love You (Ripcord)
Miracle – The Living Likeness Of My Electric Daemon (Relapse)
Missoula – Death Doula (Org)
Monument Of Misanthropy – Washington State Charm (Listenable)
Mortiis – Ghosts Of Europa (Prophecy)
Mount Turmoil – Peak Living (Self)
Nunslaughter – Satanic Chaos Legions (BLKIIBLK)
Okay You Win – End Of Days (Blues Funeral)
Onsegen Ensemble – A Tale (Karisma)
Orga Mecha – Humanity.exe (Self)
Outshine – Truthsayer (Eclipse)
Phantom – Not Midnight Yet (High Roller)
The Pretty Reckless – Dear God (Fearless)
Prime Creation – Souls Of The Fallen (ROAR)
Rockett Love – Wired For Sound (Pride & Joy)
Sans Froid – Back Into The Womb (Church Road)
Savatage – Madness Reigns From The Gutter (1990) (earMusic)
Scheff Tolle Adriaens – Let’s Stop The World (Pride & Joy)
Shane Embury – Bridge To Resolution (Cherry Red)
Siamese – Dissolution (Long Branch)
Speedslut – Cimbrian Rites (Listenable)
Swanwriter – Melodies Of Despair (Self)
Temple Ov Ahriman – Heretics Of Consensual Reality (Self)
Thaetas – The Irredeemable Age (Profound Lore)
There Were Wires – Vessel (Iodine)
This Is Me Breathing – Serenity In Suffering (Self)
Truck Violence – The Weathervane Is My Body (The Flenser)
Vampyriia – Luxuria Sanguis Plenilunium EP (Void Wanderer)
Verdun – Abyssal Womb (Transcending Obscurity)
Vorax – Volcano Shock (Self)
July 3, 2026
Agarwaen – The Murder Trend (Over The Border)
Coprolith – Putrescence (Me Saco Un Ojo)
Deep Purple – Splat! (earMusic)
The Devil Wears Nada – In Lust We Thrust (Eonian)
Dichotomy – Lucifer Owns The Fence (Rottweiler)
Dominum – Night Is Calling (Napalm)
Harsh – Feels (Fireflash)
He Didnt – Dark Making (Done Alone)
Hex Divided – Hex Divided I EP (Self)
Illwind – The Unfolding At The End Of Light (Personal)
Lockhart – City Pulse (High Roller)
Missio – Love & Heartbreak (Nettwerk)
Moonspell – Far From God (Napalm)
Solace – Fading Failing Ruin (Magnetic Eye)
Troy The Band – (Des) (Self)
Witchsorrow – The Devil And All His Works (Church Road)
July 10, 2026
Arise From Worms – A Bleeding Tree Hanging Self Destruction (Church Road)
As Oceans Divide – As Oceans Divide EP (Self)
Beware Of Gods – Upon Whom The Last Descends III: Behead The Oracle (Self)
Cranial Osteotomy – Vortex Of The Dark Knowledge (Comatose)
DevilDriver – Strike And Kill (Napalm)
Dysgnostic – End Whispers (Transcending Obscurity)
Electric Mob – 2 Make U Cry & Dance Deluxe Edition (Frontiers)
Eva Under Fire – Villainous (Better Noise)
Haserot – Advent Of Suffering (Redefining Darkness)
Healer – Desolation EP (Fleau)
Hrothgar – Tales Of Valholl (Self)
If These Trees Could Talk – The Hidden Hand (Metal Blade)
Master Massive – White Shadows (Fireflash)
Necromonger – Emanation Of The Dying Perceptions (Xtreem)
The Plot In You – The Volumes Series (Fearless)
Pride Of Lions – Unbridled (Frontiers)
Ravaged By The Yeti – Snowbound Horror (Testimony)
Slow Goat – Where The Wisest Fear To Tread (Self)
Smoking Snakes – All Lights On (Frontiers)
Undertakers – Global Dominion (Time To Kill)
Wailin Storms – The Arsonist (Season Of Mist)
The Xcerts – I Think I Want To Go Home Now (FLG)
July 17, 2026
Bestia Arcana – Holókauston Re-Release (Debemur Morti)
Beyond Creation – The Aura Re-Release (Season Of Mist)
Black Sites – For Eternity (Self)
Boundaries – Yearning: The Unbeautiful (Sumerian)
Carbon Tomb – Passage To A Neutron Star (Transcending Obscurity)
Emptiness – Nowhere Speaks (Season Of Mist)
Her Head’s On Fire – Am I Not Your Girl? (Iodine)
Inferno – The Anthropic Sophisms (Debemur Morti)
Loathe – A Stranger To You (SharpTone)
The Menzingers – Everything I Ever Saw (Epitaph)
Motionless In White – Decades (Roadrunner)
Novareign – Shifting The Axis Of The World (M-Theory)
Parker Barrow – Hold The Mash (Self)
Quicksand – Bring On The Psychics (Equal Vision)
Ruthless – Curse Of The Beast (Fireflash)
Tesla – Homage (Frontiers)
Uada – Devoid Of Light (10th Anniversary Edition) (Eisenwald)
July 24, 2026
Bryan Eckermann – Return To Helmbrook (Bonespill)
Caelestia – Revelations In Black (Eclipse)
Castiel – All Returns To Hollow And Silence EP (Seek And Strike)
Changing Places In The Fire – Changing Places In The Fire (Wild Thing)
Combichrist – The Venom In The Mouth Of God (Out Of Line)
Divulsive – Spawned In Viscera (Comatose)
Into Darkness – Route To The Other Side (Dying Victims)
IX Of Blades – Way Of The Midnight Wave (Self)
Jordsjø – Pestkrønikene (Dying Victims)
V.B.O. – Vice Business Only (Reigning Phoenix)
July 31, 2026
Bear McCreary – The Singularity: Ekleipsis (Sparks & Shadows)
Disfiguring The Goddess – Bloom (Seek And Strike)
Dumb Waiter – Change (Ossein)
Element Of Fate – Dreamfall (Bravemusic)
Iconic – II (Frontiers)
Limbonic Art – Arcane Past: The Celestial Grimoire (Kyrck)
The Limit – Another Drop (Silver Lining)
Southpaw FLHC – The Standard (Spinefarm)
Viande – Monument Aux Morts (Transcending Obscurity)
August 7, 2026
Citizen – Halcyon Blues (Run For Cover)
Electric Callboy – Tanzeid (Century Media)
Todomal – Graveyards Of Joy (Season Of Mist)
August 14, 2026
Glu – Pony Boy EP (FLG)
Nestor – Live At Gothenburg Film Studios (Napalm)
August 21, 2026
Axty – The Pain Made Me Who I Am (Napalm)
Grand – Guilty Pleasure (Frontiers)
Mob Rules – Stories From The Verdant Vale (ROAR)
Nova Riot – Blood, Lies And Lullabies (Eclipse)
Rising Insane – Deathrace (Long Branch)
August 28, 2026
Airbourne – Airbourne (Spinefarm)
Black Spikes – Ydos (Napalm)
The Cocktail Slippers – Joyride (Wicked Cool)
Colorblind – Who Sold You This Truth ++ Was It Yours To Hold (Solid State)
Sha-Boom – Another Nail In The Coffin (Silver Lining)
Triosphere – Oceans Above, Stars Below (Frontiers)
September 4, 2026
Accept – Teutonic Titans 1976-2026 (Napalm)
Kingcrown – Moonfall (Rockshots)
The Unknown – Graveyard Of Empires (Mission 84)
Vanaheim – Roede voor de Borst (Fireflash)
September 11, 2026
The Meffs – Business (FLG)
Neolith – Inbir (Deformeathing)
September 18, 2026
Corella – A Beautiful World To Lose (FLG)
The Eternal – Obscured Horizons (Reigning Phoenix)
Sea Sleeper – Burden Of Antlers (Self)
Velveteen Queen – The Greater Good (Silver Lining)
September 25, 2026
Europe – Come This Madness (Silver Lining)
October 2, 2026
Souls Of Diotima – Arcade (Self)
Zornheym – Descending Into Madness (Noble Demon)
October 9, 2026
Signum Regis – Beyond Spacetime (Fireflash)
October 16, 2026
Carnation – Symphony Of Flesh (Redefining Darkness)
October 30, 2026
Blutgott – Death Of The Bloodking – Die Schlacht Um Knochenheim Teil 1 (Self)
