Here is your 2026 hard rock + metal album release calendar and all of this week’s newest albums!
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April 24, 2026
Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell – The Trouble With The Shovell (Rise Above)
The Amity Affliction – House Of Cards (Pure Noise)
Armed For Apocalypse – The Earth Is Breathing Beneath Me (Church Road)
At The Gates – The Ghost Of A Future Dead (Century Media)
Atreyu – The End Is Not The End (Spinefarm)
Blindead 23 – Deuterium (Peaceville)
Creye – IV Aftermath (Frontiers)
Death Lens – What’s Left Now? (Epitaph)
Degreed – Curtain Calls (Frontiers)
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)
Roman Candle – Unadulterated (Sumerian)
The Saddest Landscape – Alone With Heaven (Iodine)
Sepultura – The Cloud Of Unknowing EP (Nuclear Blast)
Six Feet Under – Next To Die (Metal Blade)
Tabernis – Seasons Of The Dark Hive (Napalm)
Terror – Still Suffer (Flatspot)
Volcandra – Beyond The Will Of Mortals (Prosthetic)
May 1, 2026
-(16)- – Forgeries Vol 1 (1972-1984) (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Cage Fight – Exuvia (Spinefarm)
The Claypool Lennon Delirium – The Great Parrot-Ox And The Golden Egg Of Empathy (ATO)
Cognizance – In Light, No Shape (Willowtip)
Godsmack – Live At Mohegan Sun (Primary Wave)
Haste The Day – Dissenter (Solid State)
Lair Of The Minotaur – I Hail I (The Grind-House)
Obeyer – Pallor EP (3DOT)
Sevendust – One (Napalm)
UFO – The Wild, The Willing And The Innocent Re-Release (Chrysalis)
Venom – Into Oblivion (Noise/BMG)
May 8, 2026
Black Veil Brides – Vindicate (Spinefarm)
Darkthrone – Pre-Historic Metal (Peaceville)
Draconian – In Somnolent Ruin (Napalm)
A Forest Of Stars – Stack Overflow In Corpse Pile Interface (Prophecy)
Frozen Soul – No Place Of Warmth (Century Media)
Haggard Cat – The Pain That Orbits Life (Church Road)
Idle Threat – You’ll Forget The Sun (Tooth & Nail)
Ingested – Denigration (Metal Blade)
The Narrator – Phosphor (Nuclear Blast)
Panopticon – Det hjemsøkte hjertet (Bindrune)
The Quill – Master Of The Skies (Metalville)
Restless Spirit – Restless Spirit (Magnetic Eye)
sace6 – brutalist (Sumerian)
Social Distortion – Born To Kill (Epitaph)
Teramaze – The Silent Architect (Wells)
Testament – Practice What You Preach Re-Release (Nuclear Blast)
Torian – The Lost Legion Rising (Massacre)
War On Women – Time Under Tension (Smartpunk)
Youth Iria – Gone With The Devil (Metal Blade)
May 15, 2026
Artillery – Made In Hell EP (Mighty)
Borknagar – True North Re-Release (Season Of Mist)
Confess – Metalmorphosis (Frontiers)
Crematory – Greatest Hits (ROAR)
Crown Lands – Apocalypse (InsideOut)
Frontline – Rebirth (Frontiers)
The Ghoulstars – The Dark Overlords Of The Universe (Season Of Mist)
Gozu – Gozu VI (Blacklight)
Held – Grey (MNRK Heavy)
Jungle Rot – Cruel Face Of War (Unique Leader)
New Idea Society – Fire On The Hill (Relapse)
Peter Frampton – Carry The Light (UMe)
Port Noir – The Dark We Keep (InsideOut)
Pro-Pain – Stone Cold Anger (Napalm)
Robin Beck – Living Proof (Frontiers)
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)
Armored Saint – Emotion Factory Reset (Metal Blade)
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)
Boys From Heaven – The Wanderer (Frontiers)
Dimmu Borgir – Grand Serpent Rising (Nuclear Blast)
Elder – Through Zero (Blues Funeral)
Fireball Ministry – The Second Great Awakening Re-Release (Ripple)
Gorerotted – Mutilated In Minutes Re-Release (Hammerheart)
Impure Wilhelmina – Le Sanglot (Season Of Mist)
Marmozets – CO.WAR.DICE (Nettwerk)
Midnight Rider – Limited Infinity (Massacre)
Moonlight Haze – Interstellar Madness EP (Scarlet)
Varg – Live At Wolfszeit Festival 2024 (Napalm)
Various Artists – XXX Anniversary Compilation (Frontiers)
May 29, 2026
All Them Witches – House Of Mirrors (BMG)
Cavity – Human Abjection Re-Release (Reptilian)
Dark Millennium – Come (Massacre)
Devin Townsend – The Moth (InsideOut)
Dogstar – All In Now (Dillon Street)
Erdve – Epigrama (Season Of Mist)
Eternal Evil – Forever Feared (Listenable)
Godthrymm – Projections (Profound Lore)
Jayler – Voices Unheard (Silver Lining)
Saint Agnes – Your God Fearing Days Are About To Begin (Spinefarm)
Serpent Lord – The Once Forgotten Ways Of Old (Eisenwald)
Shinedown – Ei8ht (Atlantic)
Sparta – Cut A Silhouette (Equal Vision)
Trelldom – …by the word… (Prophecy)
Violet Grohl – Be Sweet To Me (Aurora/Republic)
The Who – Live At Eden Project (earMusic)
June 5, 2026
The 69 Eyes – I Survive (BLKIIBLK)
A.A. Williams – Solstice (Reigning Phoenix)
August Burns Red – Season Of Surrender (Fearless)
Bad Stuff – Bad Stuff (Relapse)
Belushi Speed Ball – Toxic Waste Was Everywhere In The ’80s (Self)
Converge – Hum Of Hurt (Deathwish/Epitaph)
Cyhra – Requiem For A Pipe Dream (Reigning Phoenix)
Dopelord – Sign Of The Devil Re-Release (Season Of Mist)
Drowning Pool – Sinner Re-Release (Craft)
Embryonic Autopsy – Rise Of The Mutated (Massacre)
Evanescence – Sanctuary (BMG)
Evergrey – Architects Of A New Weave (Napalm)
Guilt Trip – Armour Of Angels (Roadrunner)
Jared James Nichols – Louder Than Fate (Frontiers)
Shane Embury – Bridge To Resolution (Dissonance)
Voivod – Symphonique (Century Media)
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)
Big D and the Kids Table – The Good Ole American Saturday Night (SideOneDummy)
Bloodhunter – Sons Of The Abandoned (ROAR)
The Bobby Lees – New Self (Epitaph)
Bolan – Gargoyle Of The Garden State (earMusic)
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)
Genghis Tron – Signal Fire (Relapse)
Hawkwind – Psychedelic Selection (Cherry Red)
Khemmis – Khemmis (Nuclear Blast)
Piebald – Tales For The Rages (Iodine)
Spread Eagle – The Brutal Divine (Frontiers)
Stitched Up Heart – Medusa (Judge & Jury)
Tarja – Frisson Noir (earMusic)
Triumph – The Best Of Triumph (Craft)
Vanden Plas – AcCult II (Frontiers)
June 19, 2026
Axemaster – Of Beasts And Plagues (Cosmic Fire)
Down – Over The Under Re-Release (Nuclear Blast)
Liminal Sky – All Tomorrow’s Darkness (Karisma)
Marillion – Marillion.com Re-Release (earMusic)
Mattador – III (Frontiers)
Prince Of Failure – Prince Of Failure (Kscope)
Quiet Fear – La Tierra Arriba/El Abismo Abajo (Iodine)
Shadowborne – Heaven’s Falling (Scarlet)
There Were Wires – Vessel (Iodine)
Warning – Rituals Of Shame (Relapse)
June 26, 2026
Amberian Dawn – Temptation’s Gate (Napalm)
Butthole Surfers – After The Astronaut (Sunset Blvd.)
Junius – Sotera (Prosthetic)
Masterplan – Metalmorphosis (Frontiers)
Monument Of Misanthropy – Washington State Charm (Listenable)
Mortiis – Ghosts Of Europa (Prophecy)
Nunslaughter – Satanic Chaos Legions (BLKIIBLK)
Phantom – Not Midnight Yet (High Roller)
The Pretty Reckless – Dear God (Fearless)
Prime Creation – Souls Of The Fallen (ROAR)
Savatage – Madness Reigns From The Gutter (1990) (earMusic)
July 3, 2026
Dominum – Night Is Calling (Napalm)
Lockhart – City Pulse (High Roller)
Moonspell – Far From God (Napalm)
Solace – Fading Failing Ruin (Magnetic Eye)
July 10, 2026
DevilDriver – Strike And Kill (Napalm)
Eva Under Fire – Villainous (Better Noise)
The Plot In You – The Volumes Series (Fearless)
Smoking Snakes – All Lights On (Frontiers)
July 17, 2026
Beyond Creation – The Aura Re-Release (Season Of Mist)
Her Head’s On Fire – Am I Not Your Girl? (Iodine)
Ruthless – Curse Of The Beast (Fireflash)
Tesla – Homage (Frontiers)
July 31, 2026
Iconic – II (Frontiers)
The Limit – Another Drop (Silver Lining)
Southpaw FLHC – The Standard (Spinefarm)
August 7, 2026
Electric Callboy – Tanzeid (Century Media)
August 21, 2026
Axty – The Pain Made Me Who I Am (Napalm)
Mob Rules – Stories From The Verdant Vale (ROAR)
August 28, 2026
Black Spikes – Ydos (Napalm)
2026 Albums Already Released
January 2, 2026
Ellende – Zerfall (AOP)
Excavated Graves – Life Isn’t For Everyone (Selfmadegod)
Fuath – III (Northern Silence)
Hologramah – Abyssus.Versus.Versiculos. (Living Temple)
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)
Bruit – Monolith Re-Release (Pelagic)
Bullet – Kickstarter (Steamhammer)
Ectovoid – In Unreality’s Coffin (Everlasting Spew)
Effluence – Anticholinergic Derangement (Inpdendent)
For My Pain – Buried Blue (Spinefarm)
Iotunn – Waves Over Copenhell (Metal Blade)
Läjä Äijälä and Albert Witchfinder – Circle Of Pain (Svart)
Lionheart – Valley Of Death II (Arising Empire)
The Medea Project – Live At Dingwalls (Self)
Nanowar Of Steel – The Genghis Khan EP To End All Genghis Khan EPs (Napalm)
Push! – Plowing Ahead (Frozen)
The Ruins of Beverast – Tempelschlaf (Vàn)
Semper Acerbus – Following Omens (Eclipse)
Six Going On Seven – Human Tears (Spartan)
Uuhai – Human Herds (Napalm)
January 16, 2026
Architectural Genocide – Malignant Cognition (Comatose)
Blanket – True Blue (Adventure Cat)
Carrion Veal – Slay Utterly (Unique Leader)
Death Cult – Paradise Live (Beggars Banquet)
Demons My Friends – Demons Seem To Gather Re-Release (Ripple)
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)
The Funeral Portrait – Live From Suffocate City (Better Noise)
Gluecifer – Same Drug New High (Steamhammer/SPV)
Godzillionaire – Negative Balance Re-Release (Ripple)
I Promised The World – I Promised The World EP (Rise)
Kreator – Krushers Of The World (Nuclear Blast)
Marianas Rest – The Bereaved (Noble Demon)
Ov Sulfur – Endless (Century Media)
Soen – Reliance (Silver Lining)
Soulbound – sYn (Metalville)
Total Annihilation – Mountains of Madness (Testimony Records)
Valiant Sentinel – Neverealm (Theogonia Records)
January 23, 2026
Alkaloid – Bach Out Of Bounds (Season Of Mist)
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)
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)
Karloff – Revered By Death (Dying Victims)
Kyle Gass Band – Live In Palmdale (Aspecialthing)
Megadeth – Megadeth (Tradecraft)
New Mexican Doom Cult – Zaggurat (Majestic Mountain)
New Miserable Experience – Gild The Lily (Pelagic)
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)
Sigh – Ghastly Funeral Theatre Re-Release (Peaceville)
Sky Valley Mistress – Luna Mausoleum (New Heavy Sounds)
Textures – Genotype (Kscope)
Vanishment – And Now We Die (M-Theory)
Visceral Evisceration – Incessant Desire For Palatable Flesh Re-Release (Hammerheart)
January 30, 2026
Banisher – Metamorphosis (Selfmadegod Records)
Blackwater Holylight – Not Here Not Gone (Suicide Squeeze Records)
Buzzcocks – Attitude Adjustment (Cherry Red)
Course Of Fate – Behind The Eclipse (ROAR)
D.A.M. – Inside The Wreckage (Dissonance)
Defaced – Icon (Massacre)
Eximperitus – Meritoriousness of Equanimity (Willowtip)
Francis Rossi – The Accidental (earMusic)
Hällas – Panorama (Aventyr Records)
Indica Blues – Universal Death Heat (Majestic Mountain)
Invictus – Nocturnal Visions (Memento Mori)
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)
Møl – Dreamcrush (Nuclear Blast)
Nightmarer – Hell Interface EP (Total Dissonance Worship)
Old Sorcery – The Outsider (Avantgarde Music)
Rave In Fire – Square One (High Roller)
Roth – Alles Endet (Massacre)
Santvs – De l’Abîme au Plérôme (Osmose)
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)
Therion – Con Orquesta (Napalm)
Urne – Setting Fire To The Sky (Spinefarm)
Wolfenstein – Death Brigade (CDN)
February 6, 2026
Assignment – With The End Comes Silence (Massacre)
Big Big Train – Woodcut (InsideOut)
Cyclone – Known Unto God EP (M-Theory)
Earthless – Live At Roadburn Re-Release (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Ensanguinate – Death Saturnalia (Soulseller)
Full House Brew Crew – Glasgow Grin (ROAR)
Hanabie – Hot Topic EP (Sony)
Hermano – Clisson, France (Ripple)
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
Angel Du$t – Cold 2 The Touch (Run For Cover)
Austen Starr – I Am The Enemy (Frontiers)
Bloodred – Colours Of Pain (Massacre)
The Browning – Burn This World [Evolved] (Fixt)
Converge – Love Is Not Enough (Deathwish/Epitaph)
Defaced – Icon (Massacre)
Enuff Z’Nuff – Covered In Gold Re-Release (Cleopatra)
The Hellacopters – Cream Of The Crap! Collected Non-Album Works – Volume 3 (Nuclear Blast)
Hoaxed – Death Knocks (Relapse)
Mariachi El Bronx – Mariachi El Bronx IV (ATO)
Ponte Del Diavolo – De Venom Natura (Season Of Mist)
Slaughterday – Dread Emperor (Testimony)
Space Of Variations – Poisoned Art (Napalm)
Temple Balls – Temple Balls (Frontiers)
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)
Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean – Let Us Not Speak of Them But Look and Pass On EP (Redscroll Records)
Clawfinger – Before We All Die (Perception)
Coscradh – Carving The Causeway To The Otherworld (20 Buck Spin)
Dangerous Toys – Pissed Re-Release (Cleopatra)
Defaced – Icon (Massacre)
Dusk – Bunker (Self)
Exhumed – Red Asphalt (Relapse)
Eye Of Melian – Forest Of Forgetting (Napalm)
Game Over – Crimes Against Reality Re-Release (Scarlet)
Holosade – Hellhouse Re-Release (Hammerheart)
Immortalis – Indicium De Mortuis Re-Release (Hammerheart)
Incandescence – Hors Temps (Profound Lore)
Lead Injector – Witching Attack (High Roller)
Michael Monroe – Outerstellar (Silver Lining)
Misotheist – De Pinte (Terratur Possessions)
New Found Glory – Listen Up! (Pure Noise)
Nytt Land – Aba Khan (Prophecy)
Six Feet Under – Bringer Of Blood Re-Release (Brutal Planet)
Six Feet Under – Unburied Re-Release (Brutal Planet)
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)
Cryptic Shift – Overspace & Supertime (Metal Blade)
Final Gasp – New Day Symptoms (Relapse)
The Gloom In The Corner – Royal Discordance (SharpTone)
It’sAlie – Wild Games (Frontiers)
Joel Hoekstra’s 13 – From The Fade (Frontiers)
Necrofier – Transcend Into Oblivion (Metal Blade)
Necrosexual – Road To Rubble (Black Metal Archives)
NMB – L.I.F.T. (InsideOut)
Nothing – A Short History Of Decay (Run For Cover)
Rob Zombie – The Great Satan (Nuclear Blast)
Sigh – Hail Horror Hail Re-Release (Peaceville)
Slagmaur – Hulders Ritual (Prophecy Productions)
Sodom – Get What You Deserve Re-Release (Noise/BMG)
Templar – Conquering Swords (Jawbreaker)
Unverkalt – Héréditaire (Season Of Mist)
Varials – Where The Light Leaves (Fearless)
Various Artists – The Ultimate Tribute To Rush Re-Release (Cleopatra)
Weedpecker – V (Heavy Psych Sounds)
A Wilhelm Scream – Cheap Heat (Creator-Destructor)
March 6, 2026
Black Lung – Forever Beyond (Magnetic Eye)
Bosse-de-Nage – Hidden Fires Burn Hottest (The Flenser)
Darkthrone – The Fist In The Face Of God Box Set (Peaceville)
Desert Storm – Buried Under The Weight Of Reason (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Full House Brew Crew – Glasgow Grin (ROAR)
Godsmack – Awake Re-Release (UMe)
Kaleidobolt – Karakuchi (Svart)
Leaves Eyes – Song Of Darkness EP (Reigning Phoenix)
Lost Society – Hell Is A State Of Mind (Nuclear Blast)
Miserere Luminis – Sidera (Debemur Morti)
Prong – Live And Uncleansed (Steamhammer)
Rainbow – The Temple Of The King 1975-1976 Box Set (Edsel)
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus – X’s For Eyes Deluxe Edition (Better Noise)
Temple Of Void – The Crawl (Relapse)
Vreid – The Skies Turn Black (Indie)
Wreck-Defy – Dissecting The Leech (Massacre)
March 13, 2026
Angus McSix – Angus McSix And The All-Seeing Astral Eye (Napalm)
Dream Theater – Live In Tokyo, 2010 (InsideOut)
Eihwar – Hugrheim (Season Of Mist)
The Gems – Year Of The Snake (Napalm)
Gluttony – Eulogy To Blashphemy (FDA)
Gotthard – More Stereo Crush (Reigning Phoenix)
Lamb Of God – Into Oblivion (Epic)
Mammon’s Throne – My Body to the Worms (Hammerheart)
Monstrosity – Screams From Beneath The Surface (Metal Blade)
Moon Far Away – Acou (Lupus Lounge)
No/Más – No Peace (Redefining Darkness)
Rush – Grace Under Fire: Super Deluxe Edition (Ume/Mercury)
Schattenmann – Besser als der Rest (Perception)
Transilvania – Magia Posthuma (Invictus Productions)
UnityTX – Somewhere, In Between… (Better Noise)
Vicious Rain – The Anatomy Of Surviving (Arising Empire)
Witchcraft – A Sinner Child EP (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Wolfbastard – Satanic Scum Punks (Apocalyptic Witchcraft)
March 20, 2026
Abrogation – Widerschein (Massacre)
Aerosmith – Aerosmith (Legendary Edition) (Capitol)
Assignment – With The End Comes Silence (Massacre)
Axel Rudi Pell – Ghost Town (Steamhammer)
Cronos – Dancing In The Fire Re-Release (Dissonance)
Egregore – It Echoes In The Wild (20 Buck Spin)
Exodus – Goliath (Napalm)
Gaerea – Loss (Century Media)
Gutvoid – Liminal Shrines (Profound Lore)
Ignescent – Eternal (Frontiers)
Kate’s Acid – Hellbender (High Roller)
Lost In Hollywood – Lost In Hollywood (Arising Empire)
Mclusky – I Sure Am Getting Sick Of This Bowling Alley EP (Ipecac)
Mystfall – Embers Of A Dying World (Scarlet)
Poison The Well – Peace In Place (SharpTone)
Pungent Stench – For God Your Soul…For Me Your Flesh Re-Release (Hammerheart)
S8nt Elektric – Off The Edge (Long Branch)
The Silver – Looking Glass Hymnal Blue (Gilead)
Stainless – Lady Of Lust & Steel (High Roller)
Temptress – See Re-Release (Ripple)
Tusmørke – Balderdom (Karisma)
Tyketto – Closer To The Sun (Silver Lining)
Veil Of The Serpent – Born To Burn (Self)
Venus 5 – March Of The Venus 5 (Frontiers)
Warsenal – Endless Beginnings… (Massacre)
March 27, 2026
The Academy Is… – Almost There (I Surrender)
Black Label Society – Engines Of Demolition (MNRK Heavy)
Carnivore A.D. – Transmutation EP (Apostasy)
The Casualties – Detonate (Hellcat)
Chamber – This Is Goodbye… (Pure Noise)
Chez Kane – Reckless (Frontiers)
Evildead – Annihilation Of Civilization Re-Release (Steamhammer)
Evildead – The Underworld Re-Release (Steamhammer)
Godsticks – Void (Kscope)
Hellripper – Coronach (Century Media)
Iron Savior – Awesome Anthems Of The Galaxy (Perception)
Jon Anderson – Earth Mother Earth Re-Release (Frontiers)
Jon Anderson – Survival & Other Stories Re-Release (Frontiers)
Kerrigan – Wayfarer (High Roller)
Life Cycles – No One Escapes Death EP (1126)
Lion’s Share – Inferno (Metalville)
Lou Gramm – Released (HNE)
Midryasi’s Kult – Italian Dark Sound (Dying Victims)
Moodring – Death Fetish (SharpTone)
Myrath – Wilderness Of Mirrors (earMusic)
Only Human – Planned Obsolescence (Season Of Mist)
The Order – Empires (Massacre)
Pariah – Blaze Of Obscurity Re-Release (Hammerheart)
Pariah – The Kindred Re-Release (Hammerheart)
Pariah – Unity Re-Release (Hammerheart)
Pet Needs – Elbows Out! This Is Capitalism (Xtra Mile)
Pop Evil – What Remains (Midnight Edition) (MNRK Heavy)
Power Paladin – Beyond The Reach Of Enchantment (ROAR)
Samurai Pizza Cats – Press Start (Century Media)
Sons Of Eternity – Human Beast (Massacre)
Therapy? – One Cure Fits All Re-Release (Mercury)
Threat Signal – Revelations (Agonia)
Winterfylleth – The Unyielding Season (Napalm)
April 3, 2026
Cactus – Temple Of Blues II (Cleopatra)
Corrosion Of Conformity – Good God/Baad Man (Nuclear Blast)
Dust – Thoughts Of A Falling Man (Rockshots)
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)
No Terror In The Bang – Existence EP (Klonosphere)
Poison Ruin – Hymns From The Hills (Relapse)
Toxic Shock – Future Is Calling (This Charming Man)
Ultrabomb – The Bridges That We Burn (DC-Jam)
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)
Levels – This Will Make You Feel Again (SharpTone)
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 + 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)
Uada – Interwoven EP (Eisenwald)
Vomitory – In Death Throes (Metal Blade)
Witch Ripper – Through The Hourglass (Magnetic Eye)
April 17, 2026
Abrams – Loon (Blues Funeral)
Crimson Glory – Chasing The Hydra (BraveWords)
Crippled Black Phoenix – Sceaduheim (Season Of Mist)
Doodswens – Doodswens (Svart)
From Ashes To New – Reflections (Better Noise)
Generation Radio – Take Two (Frontiers)
.Gif From God – Dissimulation (Prosthetic)
Godsnake – Inhale The Noise (Massacre)
Hardline – Shout (Steamhammer)
HateSphere – The Sickness Within Re-Release (Scarlet)
Holosoil – Animal EP (InsideOut)
The Last Ten Seconds Of Life – The Dead Ones (Metal Blade)
Leila Abdul-Rauf – Andros Insidium (20 Buck Spin)
Nekrogoblikon – The Boiling Sea EP (Self)
Reeking Aura – On The Promise Of The Moon (Profound Lore)
Thundermother – Live’n’Alive (Napalm)
Victorious – World War Dinosaur (Perception)
Wage War – It Calls Me By Name EP (Fearless)
April 18, 2026 – Record Store Day
Rock and Heavy Metal Record Store Day Releases
2026 Rock + Metal Tour Guide
These are the biggest rock and metal tours happening in 2026 so far, including Metallica, Iron Maiden, My Chemical Romance and more.
Gallery Credit: Lauryn Schaffner
