2026 Metal And Hard Rock New Releases

January 2026

January 2, 2026

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)
Denominate – Restoration (Dusktone)
Iotunn – Waves Over Copenhell (Metal Blade)
Läjä Äijälä and Albert Witchfinder – Circle Of Pain (Svart)
Nanowar Of Steel – The Genghis Khan EP To End All Genghis Khan EPs (Napalm)
Oraculum – Hybris Divina (Invictus)
Semper Acerbus – Following Omens (Eclipse)
Uuhai – Human Herds (Napalm)
Zu – Ferrum Sidereum (House Of Mythology)

January 16, 2026

Carrion Veal – Slay Utterly (Unique Leader)
Death Cult – Paradise Live (Beggars Banquet)
Dvm Spiro – MMXXVI – Grave (My Kingdom)
Edenbridge – Set The Dark On Fire (Steamhammer/SPV)
The Eternal – Celestial EP (Reigning Phoenix)
The Funeral Portrait – Live From Suffocate City (Better Noise)
Gluecifer – Same Drug New High (Steamhammer/SPV)
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)
Marianas Rest – The Bereaved (Noble Demon)
Neapolitan – The Fool EP (Golden Robot)
Ov Sulfur – Endless (Century Media)
Soen – Reliance (Silver Lining)
Soulbound – sYn (Metalville)
Total Annihilation – Mountains Of Madness (Testimony)

January 23, 2026

Alkaloid – Bach Out Of Bounds (Season Of Mist)
Backengrillen – Backengrillen (Svart)
Coranatus – Dreadful Waters (Massacre)
Crystal Lake – The Weight Of Sound (Century Media)
The Damned – Not Like Everybody Else (earMusic)
Death Dealer – Reign Of Steel (Massacre)
Helix – Scrap Metal (Perris)
Megadeth – Megadeth (Tradecraft)
New Miserable Experience – Gild The Lily (Pelagic)
Pelican – Ascending EP (Run For Cover)
Poppy – Empty Hands (Sumerian)
Ritual Arcana – Ritual Arcana (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Rotting Christ – Aealo (Re-Recorded) (Season Of Mist)
Sigh – Ghastly Funeral Theatre Re-Release (Peaceville)
Sky Valley Mistress – Luna Mausoleum (New Heavy Sounds)

January 30, 2026

Course Of Fate – Behind The Eclipse (ROAR)
D.A.M. – Inside The Wreckage (Dissonance)
Defaced – Icon (Massacre)
Francis Rossi – The Accidental (earMusic)
Invictus – Nocturnal Visions (Memento Mori)
Jagged City – There Are More Of Us, Always (Pelagic)
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)
Qasu – A Bleak King Cometh (Phantom Limb)
Roth – Alles Endet (Massacre)
Shields – Death & Connection (Long Branch)
Stabbing – Eon Of Obscenity (Century Media)
Summer Of Hate – Blood & Honey (Tee Pee)
Sweatmaster – More! (Svart)
Therion – Con Orquesta (Napalm)
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)

February 2026

February 6, 2026

Assignment – With The End Comes Silence (Massacre)
Big Big Train – Woodcut (InsideOut)
Full House Brew Crew – Glasgow Grin (ROAR)
Induction – Love Kills (Reigning Phoenix)
Jack Harlon & The Dead Crows – Inexorable Opposites (Magnetic Eye)
Karnivool – In Verses (Cymatic)
Mayhem – Liturgy Of Death (Century Media)
Paganizer – As Mankind Rots (Xtreem)
Puscifer – Normal Isn’t (BMG)
Silversun Pickups – Tenterhooks (New Machine)
Tailgunner – Midnight Blitz (Napalm)
Visions Of Atlantis – Armada – An Orchestral Voyage (Napalm)

February 13, 2026

Austen Starr – I Am The Enemy (Frontiers)
Bloodred – Colours Of Pain (Massacre)
The Browning – Burn This World Evolved
Converge – Love Is Not Enough (Deathwish/Epitaph)
The Hellacopters – Cream Of The Crap! Collected Non-Album Works – Volume 3 (Nuclear Blast)
Hoaxed – Death Knocks (Relapse)
Ponte Del Diavolo – De Venom Natura (Season Of Mist)
Slaughterday – Dread Emperor (Testimony)
Space Of Variations – Poisoned Art (Napalm)
TX2 – End Of Us (Hopeless)
Worm – Necropalace (Century Media)

February 20, 2026

Abstracted – Hiraeth (M-Theory)
Bizarrekult – Alt Some Finnes (Season Of Mist: Underground Activists)
Clawfinger – Before We All Die (Perception)
Exhumed – Red Asphalt (Relapse)
Eye Of Melian – Forest Of Forgetting (Napalm)
Michael Monroe – Outerstellar (Silver Lining)
Nytt Land – Aba Khan (Prophecy)
Suplecs – Hymns Under A Blood Red Sky (Ripple)
Sylosis – The New Flesh (Nuclear Blast)
Temple Balls – Temple Balls (Frontiers)
W.E.B. – Darkness Alive (Metal Blade)
Wreck-Defy – Dissecting The Leech (Massacre)
Zepter – Zepter (High Roller)

February 27, 2026

Black Swan – Paralyzed (Frontiers)
Carpenter Brut – Leather Temple (No Quarter)
The Gloom In The Corner – Royal Discordance (SharpTone)
Joel Hoekstra’s 13 – From The Fade (Frontiers)
Necrofier – Transcending Into Oblivion (Metal Blade)
Necrosexual – Road To Rubble (Black Metal Archives)
NMB – L.I.F.T. (InsideOut)
Rob Zombie – The Great Satan (Nuclear Blast)
Sodom – Get What You Deserve Re-Release (Noise/BMG)
Templar – Conquering Swords (Jawbreaker)
Unverkalt – Héréditaire (Season Of Mist)
Varials – Where The Light Leaves (Fearless)
A Wilhelm Scream – Cheap Heat (Creator-Destructor)

March 2026

March 6, 2026

Black Lung – Forever Beyond (Magnetic Eye)
Desert Storm – Buried Under The Weight Of Reason (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Full House Brew Crew – Glasgow Grin (ROAR)
Kaleidobolt – Karakuchi (Svart)
Prong – Live And Uncleansed (Steamhammer)
Rainbow – The Temple Of The King 1975-1976 Box Set (Edsel)

March 13, 2026

The Gems – Year Of The Snake (Napalm)
Gluttony – Eulogy To Blashphemy (FDA)
Gotthard – More Stereo Crush (Reigning Phoenix)
Schattenmann – Besser als der Rest (Perception)
Vicious Rain – The Anatomy Of Surviving (Arising Empire)
Witchcraft – A Sinner Child EP (Heavy Psych Sounds)

March 20, 2026

Axel Rudi Pell – Ghost Town (Steamhammer)
Gaerea – Loss (Century Media)
Ignescent – Eternal (Frontiers)
Mystfall – Embers Of A Dying World (Scarlet)
Tyketto – Closer To The Sun (Silver Lining)
Veil Of The Serpent – Born To Burn (Self)

March 27, 2026

Chez Kane – Reckless (Frontiers)
Iron Savior – Awesome Anthems Of The Galaxy (Perception)
Lion’s Share – Inferno (Metalville)
Myrath – Wilderness Of Mirrors (earMusic)

April 2026

April 3, 2026

Corrosion Of Conformity – Good God/Baad Man (Nuclear Blast)
Grade 2 – Talk About It (Hellcat)
Green Carnation – A Dark Poem, Part II: Sanguis (Season Of Mist)
Jarboe – Sightings (Consouling Sounds)
Lantlos – Nowhere In Between Forever (Prophecy)
Michael Sweet – The Master Plan (Frontiers)
Nervosa – Slave Machine (Napalm)
Poison Ruin – Hymns From The Hills (Relapse)

April 10, 2026

Archspire – Too Fast To Die (Self)
As Everything Unfolds – Did You Ask To Be Set Free? (Century Media)
Bodysnatcher – Hell Is Here, Hell Is Home (MNRK Heavy)
Fighter V – Deja Vu (Frontiers)
Frontside – Nemesis (Massacre)
Immolation – Descent (Nuclear Blast)
Inferi – Heaven Wept (The Artisan Era)
Long Distance Calling – The Phantom Void (earMusic)
Lord Of The Lost – Opvs Noir Vol. 3 (Napalm)
Melechesh – Sentinels Of Shamash EP (Reigning Phoenix)
The Melvins And Napalm Death – Savage Imperial Death March (Ipecac)
Metal Church – Dead To Rights (Rat Pak)
Nick Oliveri – N.O. Hits At All Vol. 10 (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Sweet – Reincarnation Re-Release (Metalville)
Truckfighters – Masterflow (Fuzzorama)
Vomitory – In Death Throes (Metal Blade)
Witch Ripper – Through The Hourglass (Magnetic Eye)

April 17, 2026

Crippled Black Phoenix – Sceaduheim (Season Of Mist)
From Ashes To New – Reflections (Better Noise)
Generation Radio – Take Two (Frontiers)
Godsnake – Inhale The Noise (Massacre)
Hardline – Shout (Steamhammer)
The Last Ten Seconds Of Life – The Dead Ones (Metal Blade)
Reeking Aura – On The Promise Of The Moon (Profound Lore)
Thundermother – Live’n’Alive (Napalm)

April 24, 2026

Atreyu – The End Is Not The End (Spinefarm)
At The Gates – The Ghost Of A Future Dead (Century Media)
Blindead 23 – Deuterium (Peaceville)
Creye – IV Aftermath (Frontiers)
Death Lens – What’s Left Now? (Epitaph)
Devil’s Cut – Roadkill (MNRK Heavy)
Einar Solberg – Vox Occulta (InsideOut)
Foo Fighters – Your Favorite Toy (Roswell/RCA)
Gus G – Steel Burner (Metal Department)
Hokka – Via Miseria IV (Nuclear Blast)
John Corabi – New Day (Frontiers)
Sepultura – The Cloud Of Unknowing EP (Nuclear Blast)
Tabernis – Seasons Of The Dark Hive (Napalm)
Volcandra – Beyond The Will Of Mortals (Prosthetic)

May 2016

May 1, 2026

Cage Fight – Exuvia (Spinefarm)
Cognizance – In Light, No Shape (Willowtip)
Haste The Day – Dissenter (Solid State)
Sevendust – One (Napalm)
UFO – The Wild, The Willing And The Innocent Re-Release (Chrysalis)

May 8, 2026

Draconian – In Somnolent Ruin (Napalm)
A Forest Of Stars – Stack Overflow In Corpse Pile Interface (Prophecy)
Frozen Soil – No Place Of Warmth (Century Media)
Idle Threat – You’ll Forget The Sun (Tooth & Nail)
Ingested – Denigration (Metal Blade)
The Narrator – Phosphor (Nuclear Blast)
The Quill – Master Of The Skies (Metalville)
Restless Spirit – Restless Spirit (Magnetic Eye)
Social Distortion – Born To Kill (Epitaph)
War On Women – Time Under Tension (Smartpunk)

May 15, 2026

Artillery – Made In Hell EP (Mighty)
Confess – Metalmorphosis (Frontiers)
Crown Lands – Apocalypse (InsideOut)
Frontline – Rebirth (Frontiers)
Held – Grey (MNRK Heavy)
Port Noir – The Dark We Keep (InsideOut)
Pro-Pain – Stone Cold Anger (Napalm)
Self Deception – One Of Us (Napalm)
Slayer – Hell Awaits 40th Anniversary Edition (Metal Blade)
Von Groove – Born To Rock (Frontiers)

May 22, 2026

Amyl And The Sniffers – Giddy Up/Big Attraction Re-Release (Virgin)
Boys From Heaven – The Wanderer (Frontiers)
Marmozets – CO.WAR.DICE (Nettwerk)
Varg – Live At Wolfszeit Festival 2024 (Napalm)