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.
September 25, 2026
7 Miles To Pittsburgh – Beyond Repair (M-Theory)
Aborym – Metachaos (Avantgarde)
AJJ – Dirtry Old Power (Specialist Subject)
Albert Bouchard – Imaginos IV: Rhyme Of The Starclock (Deko)
Altarheart – Prone To Wander (Rottweiler)
Altera Doomonica – Angelic Doomology (Self)
Amarok – Overcome (Hypaethral)
Apöcalypse A.D. – Prototype: Zero Hour EP (Self)
Autumnfall – The Archaic Sins (Ardua)
Banks Arcade – Second Place Superstar (Arising Empire)
Barren – Verderf (Selfmadegod)
Birdlord – Dreams Lie In The Eagle’s Eye (Octopus Rising)
The Bitter Pills – The Bitter Pills (Self)
Bloodmother – Militant Black Magic (Time To Kill)
Bloodstain – Bloodstain (Threeman)
Brat – Manslayer (Prosthetic)
Burner – No One Is Coming To Save Us (Church Road)
Chemical Storm – Splintered, Crushed And Shattered EP (Self)
Cloven Hoof – Never A Prophet In Your Own Land (Highj Roller)
Coldrain – Optimize = Optdemise (Century Media)
Confusion Field – Resilience Remains (Self)
Consvmer. – Abgrund (Out Of Line)
Critical Defiance – Rivers Of Blood (Dying Victims)
Crown Magnetar – The Hollowing Of Godlesh (Unique Leader)
Deathchant – Kova (RidingEasy)
Death. Void. Terror. – To The Great Monolith III: Rifts (Sentient Ruin)
Eloizm – The Becoming EP (Self)
Equisetum – Cor Ex Putredine (My Kingdom)
Europe – Come This Madness (Silver Lining)
Flame – Ignis Draconis Daemonicus (Primitive Reaction)
Forsaken Eternity – Shades Of Existence (Rottweiler)
Funeral – Funeral EP (Black Legion)
Gameface – All My Friends EP (Iodine)
Gargant – Dead Night Defiance (Fireflash)
Gate – Sigil (Season Of Mist)
Girlschool – Nothin’ To Lose (Live In Reading 1981) (Cleopatra)
Goatest – Goatest (Time To Kill)
Godflesh – Decay (Relapse)
The Great White Nothing – Live At Motormusic EP (Self)
Gwar – Beyond Hell Re-Release (Pit)
Hænesy – Esentia (Fractions Of Life)
Hail Conjurer – Abyss & Ekstasis (Into Endless Chaos)
Invincia – Echoes From The Past (Escape)
Intercorpse – Intercorpse EP (Everlasting Spew)
Iskald – Curse Of The Mind (Dusktone)
James Legendforge – The Witchfinder’s Flame (Self)
Kongh – Dissolved In Time (Trust No One)
Krolok – Hričov-Súľov-Lietava (Osmose)
Lacrimas Profundere – Lay Me Down O Silent Fear (Steamhammer)
Lord Gryphus – Summoning The King Of Death (Nespithe)
Lost Relics – Monuments To The Useless EP (Golden Robot)
Love•Love•Love/Ølgod – Lovegod Split (Electric Valley)
Ludgar – Violent Visions (Dying Victims)
Machine Head – Unto The Locust 15th Anniversary Edition (Nuclear Blast)
Mama Doom – Eminent Womb (Argonauta)
Many Blessings – Acts Of Service (Translation Loss)
Mason – Edge Of Destruction (Eonian)
Massteron – Second In The Spheres (ATMF)
Metalite – Discovery (Perception)
Meurtrier – Messe de Fer (Jawbreaker)
Midnight Prey – Jenseitsritt (Dying Victims)
Mikey Ball & The Company – Keep The Fire Burning (Self)
Mindvile – Old Continent (Paragon)
Mister Earthbound – Mabon EP (Self)
Mistigo Varggoth Darkestra – Shattered Gates Of Apocalypse (Oriana)
Moloken – Moloken (Discouraged)
Montclair – Montclair EP (NMZ)
Mousecunt – Orgasmic Mouse (Infibulate)
Mr. Bison – The Garden Of Forgotten Dreams (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Mucosal – Amalgamated States EP (HPGD)
Myhrding – Echoes From The Past EP (Downfall)
Nail By Nail – Internal Inferno (War Anthem)
Night Laser – Rats In The Cradle (Steamhammer)
Noctule – Extinguish Thy Flame (Self)
Nokturnal Mortum – Біль | Hurt EP (Oriana)
Nuclearhammer – XAOS 333 EP (Iron Bonehead)
The Ocean – Solaris (Pelagic)
Ølyp – I(m)mortal (Klonosphere)
Oöhna Call – eKKo (Bitume)
Oskaal – (A)live (Wormholedeath)
Pain Of Truth – Pain Of Truth (Daze)
Paul Laine – The Long Road Back (Frontiers)
Profanation – Ultra-Noise Warfare (Iron Bonehead)
Pure Reason Revolution – Terrifying Angels (InsideOut)
Pyre Of Descent – Albedo (Swiss Dark Nights)
Raven – Wiped Out Re-Release (HNE)
Red Code – Traces Of Unease And Discomfort (Episode 1) EP (Epictronic)
Rorcal – Mahre (Humus)
Runereader – One Weekend In Keepvale EP (Self)
Sacreligious – Brutality Incarnated (Self)
Sans Roi – Écrits Corsaires (Self)
Scorpion Milk – Flesh Masks For Skulls EP (Peaceville)
Sicksense – Funderals EP (Self)
Skald – Ørlǫg (Napalm)
Skumstrike – Flawless Intrigue From Hell (Dying Victims)
Slaughtercult – Devoured By Perversion (Vicious Instinct)
Sons Of Cult – Revenge (Black Night)
Spiders – Crystal Eyes (Wild Kingdom)
Stay For Tomorrow – When Hope’s Gone (Self)
Stellar Rot – Where The Formless Ones Dwell (Hypnotic Dirge)
Storm Force – Truth (BraveWords)
Stryper – Throne Of Thorns (Frontiers)
Suffering Quota – Sisyphean Life (Tartarus)
Sunroad – Eclipse Of The Rising Sun (Roxx)
Sweat – In Dreams (Tee Pee)
Taethen – Illusory Sensations (Self)
Tenebrae Annex – The Rise Of Psychic Violence (Parts I-III) (Philip K Discs)
Theosophy – Line Before The Event Horizon (Apocalyptic Witchcraft)
Till Lindemann – Live In Krakow (Out Of Line)
Tombstalker – Chaos Monolith (Awakening)
Überchriist – Daemonic Apotheosis (Deanwell Global)
Uburen – Dødsdans I Aske (Dusktone)
Vättar – Dehumanized EP (Northern Spire)
Vendanges – La Danse du Souvenir (Self)
Victims Of Contagion – Egregore (Self)
Volucrine – Chapter V: Renewal (Inverse)
Watcher – Mistress Of Our Time (Dying Victims)
Wednesday 13 – Live At Pol’and Rock (Napalm)
Wharflurch – Mycodeath And Rebirth In The Outer Clusters (Personal)
Windswept – A Sign Of The Cloven Hoof (Primitive Reaction)
Wodos – From The Grave (Self)
Yarotz – Resurgence (Self)
October 2, 2026
Amon Amarth – The Allfather Awakens (Metal Blade)
Asomvel – Set Your World On Fire (Self)
Bela Fool – Fool Me Once EP (Self)
Bobbie Dazzle – Star Power (Rise Above)
Bombstrap – Big Enemy (Tartarus)
Brymir – What We Leave Behind (Napalm)
Butcher Babies – Nightbloom (Judge & Jury)
Clegane – Ocean Of Black Thoughts (Almost Famous)
Convulsif – Anatomy Of Rage (Ramble)
The Crawling – What We Leave Behind EP (Grindscene)
Crimson Steel – Show No Fear (Heaven And Hell)
The Crystal Teardrop – Love You More (Rise Above/Popclaw)
Crystal Throne – Chantry Of Sacrifice (Self)
Cursed To Occult – I: Suffering In A Wonderful, Horrible Life (Crawling Chaos)
Datura Lodge – Datura Lodge (Arquen)
Dead Poet Society – Monarch (Spinefarm)
Deathcult – Cult Of The Dog (Soulseller)
Deconsekrated – The Inexorable Transcendence Of Death (Nuclear Winter)
Dethonator – The Last Realm Of Magic (Self)
Dissimulator – Artifice Dissolves (20 Buck Spin)
Division: Dark – The Eternal Baptism (Metalville)
Doctor Nez – Nothing Short Of Silver EP (Self)
Dumal – The Trials Of Existence (Bolverk)
Einvigi – Latent (Self)
Endspace – First Contact (Transcending Obscurity)
Enterré Vivant – Kurogoku (Transcendance)
Escape The Fate – The Last Goodbye (Big Noise)
Eshtadur – In Darkness All Shadows Gone (Rockshots)
Eternal – Conspiracy Of Warheads (Floga)
Feline Melinda – Duets II EP (Diotima)
Firtan – Helios (AOP)
Foreshadow – Here Down To Earth EP (Self)
From First To Last – We Were Bleeding Anyway EP (Fearless)
Frozen Crown – The Legend Of The Six Kings (Napalm)
Ghostkid – Follow The White Rabbit (Century Media)
The Green Goblins – The Green Goblins (Metalville)
Hard Feelings – No One Is Going To Save You (Heroes & Martyrs)
Hardiesse – Tristesse Vesperale EP (Antiq)
Haywire – I Don’t Wanna Say Goodbye (Roadrunner)
Hekatoxen – Obsidian Majesty (Nuclear Winter)
Hippotraktor – Annihilist (Pelagic)
Imminence – Axis Mundi (Sumerian)
Inherited – All 4 One EP (Mascot)
Kat – Death Is Not Enough (Self)
Leisure Hour – …That One Day (Civilians)
The Light Superior – Dayspring (Rottweiler)
Lustmord Lombardo – The Pulse Of Atoms (Ipecac)
The Machine – Another Sun (Blues Funeral)
Materializer – As The Body Flies (Self)
Methane – Demolate (Fireflash)
Michael Bormann’s Jaded Hard – South West (RMB)
Miss May I – No Place For Me (Solid State)
Morbid Stench – Doom Metastasis (Nuclear Winter)
Morkgrim – Sǫgur frá Norðfirð (Soulseller)
A New Day – Held Under An Incandescent Sky EP (Daze)
Noswal – Dreams Of Floating Away (Self)
Of Virtue – Death Of The Altar (Arising Empire)
Orbital Soul System – Nightwing (Self)
Our Ceasing Voice – The Origin Of Everything (Argonauta)
Ovoo – Obsidian (Day Off)
Pegzilla – Disobedience (Ripple)
Pohl/Ogives Big Band – Split (Ripcord)
Rapidly Aging – You’re Not Yourself Lately (Fig On Wrist)
Razorvoid – Into The Void (Jawbreaker)
Rebel Rose – In The Dark She Grows (Self)
Ruled By Raptors – A Shadow That Never Moves EP (Self)
Servant – Lux Ex Inferis (AOP)
Sorcery – The Immaculate Sin (Xtreem)
Souls Of Diotima – Arcade (Self)
Spere – Blotters In Saline Water (Self)
Spider Kitten – God Don’t Sleep (APF)
Spirit Possession – Cathedral Speech (Profound Lore)
Sponge – Recuerda Tu Muerte (Self)
Ström – Mer Ström Åt Folket (Black Lodge)
Swans – Newly Sentient Being (Young God)
Tårfödd – En Känsla Av Hopplöshet (Purity Through Fire)
Tear Dungeon – Squirm (Todo)
Temic – Ceiba (Season Of Mist)
Thede – Whet The Keen Axes (Self)
To The Grave – Liberation Front (BLKIIBLK)
Travo – Wasteland (Fuzz Club)
Urisk – Call (Vendetta)
Valley Of The Sun – The Blacklight Sessions (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Wizard Tattoo – When God Had Hands (Garage Fire)
Wraithstorm – Revenant (Fiadh)
Xasthur – Open To Misinterpretation (Prophecy)
Zornheym – Descending Into Madness (Noble Demon)
October 9, 2026
Amaseffer – When The Lions Leave Their Den (Self)
Ashes Of Autumn – The Darker Side Of Now (Golden Robot)
Avrak – Avrak (Peaceville)
AWAP – Clown Carousel EP (Self)
Carceral – Descending Reprisal (I, Voidhanger)
Cardinals Folly – Let The Posers Fall! (Cruz Del Sur)
Chained Saint – Rise To Fall EP (Self)
Cordyceps Corpse – Perverse Craving For Rotting Corpses (Gore House)
Crimson Coven – -I- The Forge (Cruz Del Sur)
Cultus Sanguine – Tears Painted Sky (My Kingdom)
Dawn Of Demise – Feed My Absurdity (Unique Leader)
Deathrow Bodeen – Lost EP (Self)
Desolat – People As Idiots & Idiots As Leaders (Reptilian)
Detresse – Misères (Vendetta)
Div3r – Bad Cry Loud (Equal Vision)
Doom Scroll – Exhausted Dialogue (Self)
Doomtrigger – Circles: Part II (Self)
Esoctrilihum – Annochiül Xar Sorthïlazur (I, Voidhanger)
Evon Rose – Do You Wanna (Timbits)
Fall The Enemy – Sandcastles EP (Self)
Feldspar – Soft Side (Stage Dive)
Gassed – Mental (Uprising)
Goatburner – Time Of Danger (Time To Kill)
Gore. – …Then You Cannot Love Me EP (Spinefarm)
Graveyard – Fever (Nuclear Blast)
Greta Van Fleet – Palace For The People (Republic)
HateSphere – Guillotine (Scarlet)
Heavy Temple – Live From The Inner Sanctum (Magnetic Eye)
Hell-Born – VII (Deformeathing)
Hellucination – Penumbral (Self)
Hexabrot – Self-Similarity (Aenima)
Hills Like White Lions – CDanary (Self)
Hollow Bone – Onar (Octopus Rising)
The Howlers – Heavy (FLG)
Humulus – Smuggler’s Cave (Ripple)
Hyver – La Fête de la Forêt Enchantée (Antiq)
In Luna – The Architecture Of Negativity (Talheim)
In Obscurity Revealed – Caustic Maelstrom (Personal)
In This Hell – Bliss (Trollzorn)
John Coffey – Not Alone (Long Branch)
Leach – Psychosomatic EP (Self)
Leper Colony – Back To Primal Sludge (Testimony)
Liveconformdie – Die In My Prime EP (Self)
Mad Painter – Island Poetry (Epictronic)
Marea – A Caress Of Autumn For All The Lost (Hypnotic Dirge)
Margarita – Abysses Of Melancholia (Electric Valley)
Methedrine – Death Punk EP (Self)
Mutation – Esoteric Order Of Debauchery (Hells Headbangers)
Netherwilds – Peasant Rising (King Volume)
Odious Spirit – The Sourceless Scourge (I, Voidhanger)
Old Man’s Will – At Last (Small Stone)
Orbita – Farewell To All We’ve Lost (Aural)
Pegzilla – Disobedience (Ripple)
The Pineapple Thief – Far And Wide (InsideOut)
Quemasantos – Stranded In Hell (Digmetalworld)
Ram – Against (Metal Blade)
Sagittarius – Abomination Of Mind (Wormholedeath)
Sectarium – Mud Teeth (Self)
Selfish Things – Receptivity (FLG)
Semuta – Thoughtless/Dreamless (Accident Prone)
Shiner – The Y Section (Spartan)
Sickmind – Babel Tower (Self)
Signum Regis – Beyond Spacetime (Fireflash)
Skillet – After The Storm EP (Self)
Smoulder – Witch Wife In An Alien World (Cruz Del Sur)
Steak – Steak (Ripple)
Taufpatin – Les Malfaisances de la Taufpatin (Antiq)
This Everless Autumn – Storm Ended, Sea Calm… (Diotima)
Thronehammer – Slay Kill Erase (Supreme Chaos)
Tungsten – Ashes (Perception)
Unpeople – We Are Unpeople (SharpTone)
Urzirkel – In Silbernen Sprachen (Self)
Veil Piercer – This Will Not Be Painless… EP (Prog On!)
Villain Press – No Return EP (Golden Robot)
Wage War – Landfall (Fearless)
Werewolves – You’re Weak And You Know You’re Weak (Back On Black)
Witchthroat Serpent – Demons Left To Roam (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Wolfbrigade – Howl From The Underground (Metal Blade)
October 16, 2026
Amthyra – Onnen (Ad Noctem)
Antania – The Unholy 33 (Argonauta)
Apophasis – Apophasis (Fast Speaking)
Arcanaut – Memories EP (Self)
Black Mask – Vestige Of Mercy (Static Era)
The Black Thunder – Time Obliteration (Pagan)
Blind Illusion – Stage Flight: Live At The UC Theatre (Hectic/Bleeding Priest)
Body Stuff – Body Stuff 5 (The Chain)
Boguslaw Balcerak’s Crylord – Birds Of Steel (Self)
Buzzard – Hush Now (Self)
Carnal Desecration – Ancient Malediction (Thrash)
Carnation – Symphony Of Flesh (Redefining Darkness)
Caspian – Caspian (Wax Bodega)
Cloudy Skies – Bury Me Beneath The Stars (Argonauta)
Cÿanide – 21 Gun Salute (Eonian)
Defects – Artificial Icons (Mascot)
Dominion – Mortification Of Thy Flesh (Sinistrari)
Eivør – Tungl (Nuclear Blast)
Elysion – Guardian Angel (Massacre)
Erase This Earth – Horror Unearthed EP (Inverse)
Fate Unburied – Neraspeme (Time To Kill)
Fervence – Constructs (Metal Blade)
Firebreather – Blood That I Spill Turns To Fire (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Fracturus – The Synthetic Path (Self)
Fugit – Where Foxes Say Goodnight (Self)
Generation Steel – Steelmachine (Fireflash)
Gloryhammer – Space 1993: Wrath Of Kor-Virliath (Napalm)
Gorgonaut – Ayame EP (Self)
Grant The Sun – Biomes (Mas-Kina)
Great Falls – The Bite That Grows Up (Neurot)
Iapetus – The Mother Void (Willowtip)
Insomnium – Netherworlds (Century Media)
Jason Michael Moore – Flying Blind (Self)
Joe Stump – Lord Of The Strings (Silver Lining)
John Diva & The Rockets Of Love – Your Favorite Drug (Frontiers)
The Keening – Devotion (Relapse)
Kid Bookie – Cheaper Than Therapy II (FLG)
Kinetic – Liminal (Eclipse)
Leadbelcher – Heaven’s Bloated Corpse (Apocalyptic Witchcraft)
Les Batards Du Roi – Ici Meurt ma Joie (LADLO)
The Lovecraft Sextet – Penance (Debemur Morti)
Lugubrious Garment – In The Wide Vale Of Uncreated Night (20 Buck Spin)
Master – Among The Seeds Of Death (Hammerheart)
The Monsters – Off The Road We Go! (Voodoo Rhythm)
Morgue – Herald The Dawn (Godz Ov War)
Mother Of Graves – The Light That Keeps Us (Profound Lore)
Nekus/Bloodsoaked Necrovoid – Funerary Rites Of Ancient Doom Split (Caligari)
Night Hag – Great Dismal Darkness (Rotted Life)
The Number Twelve Looks Like You – Howls From The Holographic Heart (Equal Vision)
Of Spite – Raisu EP (Inverse)
Otras – Na Kridlach Morovida (Into Endless Chaos)
Paerish – Rita (Side One Dummy)
Plusminuszero – Illusions Of Life (Downfall)
Salvation – The Haunted (Reptilian)
Save Us – Death To Something (Solid State)
A Secret Revealed – The Ruin I Summoned Forth (Lifeforce)
Sergeant Steel – Golden Absolution (Metalapolis)
Shy, Low – Purity Spiral (Pelagic)
Shores Of Null – Homesick (Dusktone)
Stoned Jesus – Songs To Moon (Season Of Mist)
Sundowner – Cesspool (Disdain)
Temperance – Arcani (Napalm)
Thrakian – The Way (Aonair)
Threestepstotheocean – Death Of Permanence (Subsound)
Throes – The Colorless Light Of Emptiness (Church Road)
Throneum – Love Is The Law But Death Is The Frame (Godz Ov War)
Tokio Hotel – Encore (Believe)
Umus – Voidlit (Aesthetic Death)
Unteachers – Under Bright Sadness (Rottweiler)
Urarv – Nychta Psychis (Darkness Shall Rise)
Urna – The Great Jihad (ATMF)
Veilburner – All That Glimmers Is Gloam (Transcending Obscurity)
Worm Altar – Pillars Of Eternal Dusk (Dawnbreed)
Zero Hour – No Man’s Land EP (CynNormal Labs)
October 23, 2026
Absolute Darkness – Witness To A Dying World (Self)
Abyssus – The Reign (Fireflash)
After Infinity – Beyond Eternity (Rockshots)
Ala – The Dragon’s Return (Wormholedeath)
Anagnorsis – Caregiver (Bolverk)
Armory – Echoes Of The Astrolith (Dying Victims)
Baphomet’s Blood – In Satan We Trust Re-Release (Dying Victims)
Beaten To Death – Vntrve (Mas-Kina)
Bokkerijdeers – Crush Kill Destroy (Personal)
Boneyard – Black Static (Self)
Boss Keloid – Float & Aperture (Church Road)
Callider – The Explorer (Motor)
Casket Dweller – River Of Slumber (Nuclear Winter)
Ceremonial Oath – Carpet Re-Release (Dissonance)
City Of Lights – City Of Lights (Pride & Joy)
Colepitz – The Time Between (High River)
Could Seed – Terminal (Klonosphere)
Crystal Ball – Reset (Massacre)
Cursebinder – Psychohazard (Avantgarde)
Delfoi Road – Red Monster (Inverse)
DET/Critical Alliance – Bloodsurge Split EP (Dying Victims)
Diamond Rain – Chapter One (Pride & Joy)
Dragonland – Prophecies (Scarlet)
Earthbong – Salutations To The Cultivators (The Lasting Dose)
Embryectomy – Vitriolic Baptism (Unique Leader)
Ensemble Tikoro – Tortoise (Jangjang)
Entheos – Empty On The Inside (Metal Blade)
Esertor – Evil Black Church (Black Lion)
Fake Names – Punk Ruins (Epitaph)
The Flower Kings – Hope (InsideOut)
Forbidden – Forbidden (BLKIIBLK)
Fvneral Fvkk – Indecent Idols (Dying Victims)
Get The Shot – Crucifixion Depiction EP (Arising Empire)
Glasswaves – (while) True (SharpTone)
Goat Major – Death Comes Twice (Ripple)
Godzilla In The Kitchen – Termination Sequence (Tonzonen)
Go Forward In Flames – Liminal Spaces (Self)
Half Me – Dogma (Arising Empire)
Henfald – Fortael Mig Om Dit Dogn EP (Target)
Hexecutioner – Ascension Rock (Self)
High On Blood – The Bloodrite Doctrine EP (Helter Skelter)
Hostilia – The Curse Of Khamun (Hammerheart)
Ian Blurton’s Future Now – Imperial Filth (Pajama Party)
Ignea – Monumental (Napalm)
In Pain – My Knife Cuts Flesh (Helter Skelter)
Janvs – Fatum Est (Avantgarde)
Kant – Echoes Of Unfortunate Times (Liberation)
Killed By Sorrow – Empire Of Excess (Self)
Leadfeather – Catch The Silvertrain EP (Self)
Madame Orange – Parallax (Amalgam)
Maison Dieu – Citta Nascosta (Octopus Rising)
Mason Hill – World So Wonderful (7Hz)
Mental Cruelty – Echoes Of A Forlorn Land (Century Media)
Messier 16 – Shouts From The Cliffs Of Heterodoxy (Time To Kill)
Moni Jitchell – Aware (Self)
Mortualia – Cold In The Earth (Moribund)
My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade (20th Anniversary) (Reprise)
Neon Rider – Keepers Of The Flame (Pride & Joy)
Niis – Play Niis EP (Rise)
Obscura Qalma – Immortality Through Ashes (Dusktone)
Paul Di’Anno’s Battlezone – Children Of Madness Re-Release (Deko)
Phil Vincent – Passive Aggressive (Self)
Pilotinthepicture – While We Escape (Self)
Porcelain – Today’s Minor Victories (Todo)
Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol – Ca$h Grab (Permanent Teeth)
Saprobiontic – Of Fire And Bloodshed (Black Lion)
Satan – Out Of The Fire 81-85 (HNE)
Sathanas – Black Earth (Original Unreleased Version) (Moribund)
Savage Grace – Underworld (Back On Black)
Sick Saints – BrutalGlam (Self)
Sigilo – Gloria ad Inferi (Alma Mater)
Snake Mountain Revival – The Divide (Ripple)
Strange Pink – Guest Room EP (Desert Mine)
Street Justice – Rules Are For Suckers (Dying Victims)
Sweet – Live 25 (Metalville)
Swervedriver – Raise: Demos (Outer Battery)
Tony Iommi – From The Dark (BMG)
Turmion Kätilöt – Resodance (Nuclear Blast)
Twin Temple – Doomed Lovers (Pentagrammaton)
Uhritulet – Ruumissavotta (Purity Through Fire)
Viper Queen – Munich City Nights (Pride & Joy)
Vrsty – Icon (Spinefarm)
Windwaker – Smile, You’re On Camera (Fearless)
Wolfshead – Wolfshead (Jawbreaker)
Wolves In The Throne Room – Estuary (Relapse)
Wyrm Chasm – Wyrm Chasm (Self)
October 30, 2026
Absolute Power – Needs Must When The Devil Drives (Time To Kill)
Abyssal Decay – Call Of The Abyss (Self)
Acherontas – For the Blood of Tiamat – Praxis I – XXX Years Anniversary of Magick and Metamorphosis EP (Osmose)
Arckanum – Beswærilsin (Darkness Shall Rise)
The Astral Prophets – Invasion (Self)
Atheist Alien – A Mass Of Candles (Self)
Atreyu – A Death-Grip On Yesterday Re-Release (Craft)
The Berserker – The Reawakening (Apocalyptic Witchcraft)
Black Royal – Abyssian (M-Theory)
Blatant Disarray – The Ashes Where Our Hopes Lie (Self)
Blind Channel – Painstream (Century Media)
Blutgott – Death Of The Bloodking – Die Schlacht Um Knochenheim Teil 1 (Self)
Boarhammer – Instruments Of Fungal Intent (Self)
Carmeria – Ex Cathedra (Self)
Catharsis – Ithnaynb (Gio Smet)
Cirith Ungol – All The Shadows (No Remorse)
Cryptorium – Through The Bowels Of Ceaseless Dissonance (Transcending Obscurity)
Crystal Eyes – Thunder God (Massacre)
Darkest Hour – Suffer Divine (MNRK Heavy)
Deathwards – Realms Of Sin (Sepulchral Voice)
Dethwish – Ruby (Self)
Dread Witch – Cult (DHU)
Dungeon Serpent – Lamentations Of The Shadowkingdoms (Profound Lore)
Edventured – Symmetry In Chaos (Self)
Electric Guitars – What Are We Waiting For (Mighty)
Enslaved – Mið (Nuclear Blast)
Ereboros – From Oblivion To The Grave (Self)
Erosions/Palm – Split (Space Goat)
Exhumed/Nunslaughter/Molder/Traffic Death – Split (Redefining Darkness)
Foghat – Live & Loud Across The U.S.A. (Self)
Genital Shame – Wellness Plan (The Flenser)
Grotesqueries – Nightmare Delirium EP (Caligari)
Heimdalls Wacht – Sphärenschänder: Echoes Of An Old Belief – Part I (Talheim)
Holy Terror – Total Terror Re-Release (Dissonance)
Kingdom Collapse – Survivor (Mascot)
Korrupt – The Weight We Carry (Holler)
Lee Richards And Friends – Songs For A Broken World (Metalville)
Lumsk – Einsemda (Karisma)
Master Boot Record – Computer Metal (Metal Blade)
Mastic Scum – Voiid (MDD)
Ministry – Hate To Go (Take Out Or Delivery) (Cleopatra)
Moonwraith – To The Woods (Apollon)
Mortgrim – Evangelium Luciferianum (Fetzner Death)
Motley Crue – Too Fast For Love 45th Anniversary Box Set (BMG)
Nitroverts – Under My Skin (Fixt)
No Man – Between The Sword And The Neck (Iodine)
Noothgrush – Man Is His Own Tormentor (Nespithe)
Norath/Mortual – Split (Goat Throne)
Ocean Of Illusions – Nexus EP (Bleeding Art)
Paara – Laulut tulen ja jään (Dusktone)
Pallas – A Song For Tomorrow (Esoteric Antenna)
Pantheist – Uncanny Times (Argonauta)
Powermönger – Powermönger EP (Jawbreaker)
PreHistoric Animals – Magic Love Destruction (Self)
Queens Of The Stone Age – Perfecth (Matador)
Radbraker – When The Mist Falls… (Osmose)
Rattlesnakes – Shadows In The Night (Listenable)
Red Light Acid Test – Little Death (Self)
The Samuel Jackson Five – A Passage To Elsewhere (Karisma)
Sarcator – The Ones We Follow (Reigning Phoenix)
Satanic Planet – Dead Deities (Relapse)
Scarblade – Guardians Of Time (Wormholedeath)
Sea Bastard – Cyclopean (Road To Masochist)
Sek – Wallensteins Garage (Exile On Mainstream)
Sledeon – Sovereign (Self)
Somnent – Heirloom (Ardua)
Thomas Miller’s Lazarus Effect – Thomas Miller’s Lazarus Effect (Sensory)
Traumatomy – Ascension Of The Ineffable (Gore House)
Trolldom – Tronen (Debemur Morti)
Unchained Vengeance – Unbound And Unforgiving (Nameless Graves)
Victoria Lies – Vendetta (Black Cat)
Vigil – Primordial Rites (Shadow Kingdom)
Vomitorial Corpulence – Martyrdomical Symphonanthem? (Rottweiler)
White Hills – Collected Consciousness (Argonauta)
Why Should I – Turn It Off (Self)
Within The Realm – …Of Systematic Decay (Self)
Xentrix – Allied With The Enemy (Listenable)
Yhwh – Baghavat EP (Wormholedeath)
November 6, 2026
Absolute Power – Needs Must When The Devil Drives (Time To Kill)
Active Intersection – Traveling Without Moving (Self)
Adversor – This Mortal Coil (Selvajaria)
Afterlife – The Pain That Shapes Us (Mascot)
Annihilus Mundi – The Dead Sea Scrolls (Self)
Architect Of Seth – Solitude Solaire (I, Voidhanger)
Arctos – A Path Apart (Northern Silence)
Asia – Indigo (Frontiers)
Besotten – Eye Of The Monolithicrypt (Transcending Obscurity)
Bosco Sacro – Inhabit (Supernatural Cat)
Carnifex – More Than Misery (Sumerian)
Cats In Space – Suit Of Armor (Cherry Red)
Coilguns – Everything We Love, We Destroy (Humus)
Comeback Kid – Chosen Hell (SharpTone)
Current Joys – Rosebud (They Are Evil)
Deux Visages – Call It Goodbye (Pure Noise)
Decision – Chaos (Gio Smet)
Dikajee – The Frame (Self)
Disembody – Awakening Of Ancient Evil (Helldprod)
Distant – Into Despair (Self)
Dreamspeed – Demo EP (Self)
E-L-R – Atropa (Prophecy)
Eternity’s End – Titanblood (Scarlet)
Extol – Aura Of Decay (Solid State)
Falsimonian – For Survival EP (Self)
Felt – Soil & Sky (Self)
Forgotten Shrine – Nox Aeterna (Self)
Future Static – Ornaments & Memories (Wild Thing)
Gates Of Kiev – Gates Of Kiev (The Laser’s Edge)
Hatebreed – Fatal Paradox (BLKIIBLK)
Hyperion – Elysia (Willowtip)
Hypno5e – Trame Noire (Pelagic)
i Helvete – Halla (Self)
In Spite Of Thunder – Collateral Damage EP (Self)
In Vain – Architects Of Mayhem (Xtreem)
John Sykes – One Way EP (Golden Robot)
Kavrila – Transcend (Self)
King Satan – Black Magick Abraxas (Blood Blast)
Kirner & Montcorbier AOR Project – Ride The Open Sky (Self)
KISS – Rock And Roll Over 50th Anniversary Box Set (UMe)
Konvent – Firesky (Napalm)
Lockslip – The Conversation (Bleakhouse)
Malignant Spirit – A Serpent To Devour, A Servant To Abhor (I, Voidhanger)
Midnight – Satanic Attack Live! (Metal Blade)
Mira Disconnect – Entangled EP (Self)
Mystical Death – Across (Rottweiler)
Night Gaunt – Rupture (Aural)
Nihilo – Abyss (Xtreem)
Nocturnis – Drangsal (Fetzner Death)
Nova Spei – Trinitas (Bam&Co-Heavy)
Obbrobrius – Usurped (Over The Border)
Outloved – Is This Letting Go (Out Of Line)
Ovate – Ruin (Soulseller)
Polderhaat – Klaagliederen (I, Voidhanger)
Prong – Prong (Napalm)
Ptolemea – The Antfarm Session (Raging Planet)
Rainburn – Thirty-seven (Self)
Rhino Proof – Light, Dark, The End (Astral Haven)
Saor – Caledonia (Season Of Mist)
Shakhtyor – Simulacron (Moment Of Collapse)
Shogun Mojo – Shogun Mojo (Frontiers)
Slain Thought – The Light Is A Nail EP (Self)
Sonic Moon – In Lack Of Clarity (Ripple)
Stricken – From Dark Dimensions An Unspeakable Presence Awakens (HPGD)
Sycomore – Degrade (Araki)
Tangerine Stoned – Faded Dreams (Go Down)
Troll Mother – A Tale For Two (Self)
Underdark – O Come Forth Annihilation (Church Road)
Veil Piercer – Veil Piercer EP (Prog On!)
Violence Only – Violence Only EP (Comatose)
Waylander – Mac Tire – Son Of The Land (Rockshots)
We Came As Romans – All Is Beautiful…Because We’re Doomed: Circularity (SharpTone)
Wingless – Vision Beyond Form (Selfmadegod)
Yoo Doo Right – Build And Rest By The Shepherd’s Light (Mothland)
November 13, 2026
Anberlin – Currency (Equal Vision)
Annicke Shireen – Delirium (Self)
Arkado – III (Pride & Joy)
Artificial Brain – Antillia (Profound Lore)
Asgrauw – Solips (Void Wanderer)
Asphodelia – Unfairy Tales (Kraempus)
Baby On A Rampage – Forgive My Figure EP (Self)
Bjorn Riis – Divergence EP (Karisma)
The Body & Cel Genesis – Whole Wide World (Thrill Jockey)
Carbellion – This Is Our Style (Eclipse)
Cerebral Curse – Abominant Incarnations Of Sepulchral Depths (Rotted Life)
Chastity – I Built This Prison Myself (Deathwish)
Cro-Mags – The Age Of Quarrel: 40 Years Of Quarrel (BLKIIBLK)
Crucivore – Desecration (Testimony)
Cutterred Flesh – The Shapes Of Hidden Malice (Transcending Obscurity)
Dangerous Toys – Dangerous Toys Re-Release (Kenyon)
Def Leppard – Volume 4 Box Set (UMe)
Delain – Frozen Silhouettes: 2006-2009 (HNE)
Die Sunde – Effemeridi (Time To Kill)
Dozer – Reflect To Rewind: A Rarities Collection (Blue Funeral)
Elfor/Hyver/Erroiak – Roi des Forêts – Basoen Jauna Split (Antiq)
Empath – Empath (Indisciplinarian)
Forsaken Age – Blackened Steel (Self)
Glass Bridges – Reverence To All That We Are EP (Year Of The Rat)
Goblyns – Who Do You Fight? (Crazysane)
Hanoi Rocks – The Complete Collection 1981-1984 (BMG)
Häven – Where Angels Fear To Tread (Pride & Joy)
Heavens Edge – Philadelphia (Frontiers)
Illt – Humanity (Self)
Iron Savior – Deathbringer (Frontiers)
Kalandra – The Other Side (By Norse)
A Killer’s Confession – Victim 3 (MNRK Heavy)
Kingdom Of Giants – Usurper (SharpTone)
Live Skull – What Could Go Wrong? (Bronson)
Maledictus – Lazarvs (Fireflash)
Minute After Midnight – Matter Of Time (Fearless)
NervoChaos – Chaosmongers (Black Lion)
Night In Gales – Bitter Harvest (Apostasy)
Niva – Stratospheric (Pride & Joy)
Obits – Cake Shop (Outer Battery)
Parius – Alchestronomy (Willowtip)
Phil Soussan – Cosmo Fighter Part One EP (BraveWords)
Raised On Candy – Play Marbles On The Turnpike (Magic Door)
Revlin Project – Rising Hope (Pride & Joy)
Royal Blood – Dead Company (Warner)
Serpent – The Pit And The Pendulum (Hammerheart)
Silvertomb – The Interpretation Of Nightmares (Steamhammer)
Sinister – Lucid Nightmares (Massacre)
Skyjoggers – Frag Nicht Nach Sonnenschein (Sound Of Liberation)
Swampfoot – Swampfoot (Permanent Teeth)
Temple Of Bones – Walk The Winds (Relapse)
Unnamed Feeling – Mellow Shades Of Green And Yellow (Secret)
Walls Of Jericho – System Error: Humanity (Napalm)
Weend’ô – Elveniga (Boh)
Wraith – Descent Into Darkness (Prosthetic)
November 20, 2026
Angelus Apatrida – The Reckoning EP (Napalm)
Apotheus – The Complex Permutation (Self)
Apple Sauce – Hybris (Self)
Arcane Allies – Aestesia (Crazysane)
Berlial – Des Crevettes Sans Tete (My Kingdom)
Bonjour Tristesse – Disaster Triumphant (AOP)
Creed – Weathered Re-Release (Craft)
Daedric Shryne – Galactic Pain (Cold Knife)
Devil’s Hour – Hellbound & Hammered (Crawling Chaos)
Domkraft – Night Songs (Magnetic Eye)
Down – Volume V (Nuclear Blast)
Echochamber – Dead To Me (Year Of The Rat)
Embertears – Songs For The Rain God Pt. 2 (Bitume)
Endless Chain – Nothingness (M-Theory)
The Foreshadowing – Ozymandias (Lifeforce)
Gerogot – Eidoloklas (Comatose)
Girish And The Chronicles – Disintegrate (Frontiers)
Grayscale Season – The Weight Of Things We Cannot Touch (Self)
Greyborn – Insoluble (Mrs Red)
Grymheart – Wake Not The Beast (Scarlet)
Herba Mate – Bolide I & II (Go Down)
Ion Vein – Beyond Tomorrow – 25th Anniversary Edition (Majesphere)
Jupiter Cyclops – One Eye Opens (Rockshots)
The Last Decade – Rebirth Of Suffering (Metalville)
Maceration – Mercy To The Miserable (Emanzipation)
No Retreat – Rise Of The Underdog (Quarter Century Warfare Edition) (Screaming Crow)
Obsidian Church – Stonebound (Dying Victims)
Overture – The Final Straw EP (Dying Victims)
Pekka Laine & The Enchanted – Astral Mood (Svart)
Psychoparalysis – Spectrum Of Suffering (Inverse)
Replicant/Elitist – Indomitable Hostility Split (Transcending Obscurity)
Saccage – Chronophage (Caligari)
Saraksh – Abiram (Self)
Sex Pistols – Filthy Lucre (UMR)
Sickwood – May The Surface Be Condemned (This Charming Man)
Somn – Consecration (AOP)
Suicide Silence – Graceless (Self)
Thy Catafalque – XIII: Sárga erdő (Season Of Mist)
Traels – A Study Of Absence (Polder)
Whisper – Whisper/Liminal Spaces (Dying Victims)
Witching Hour – …and Silent Grief Shadows The Passing Moon Re-Release (Dying Victims)
Wolf – Hour Of The Wolf (Fireflash)
Wooden Shadow – Silverlake (Inverse)
November 27, 2026
The Aeons Torn – Void Artefakkts (Self)
Aggression – Forgotten Skeleton (Xtreem)
Aodon – Khamsin (Transcending Obscurity)
Claquedent – Power Reserve (Solium)
Devastator – Goathammer EP (Listenable)
Eeuwig – Older Than Fire And Prayer (FDA)
Empty Nesters – No Sad (Self)
Grid Theory – The Rewire (Self)
Jack Slamer – Mask Of Broken Glass (Radicalis)
Kalt Vindur – The Void Of Time (The Circle)
King 810 – La Grande Mort Or Silence Of God (Self)
Kings Winter – The Century Of The Self EP (Self)
Korpsesoturi – Korplish Sedamon (Brutal)
Mirrors – The Red Sky (Greyscale)
Molly Hatchet – Lost Horizon (Steamhammer)
Mother Morgana – Reflections Of A Sunken Mind (Argonauta)
Mystic Prophecy – In Metal (Perception)
Oakenthrone – Ad Silvam (Vendetta)
Ophis – Encased In Deathlike Layers (FDA)
Osyron – Osyron (Distortion)
Peeling Flesh – Peeling Flesh (Unique Leader)
Rosetta – Temporal Lapse (Pelagic)
Savage – Malignant Reveries (Hammerheart)
Whiplash – Roar (Time To Kill)
December 4, 2026
Arms – I Wish You Were Down Here With Me (Self)
At The Gates – Gardens Of Grief Re-Release (Dissonance)
Aurora View – Rot Star (Out Of Line)
Beleaguered – I: Mercy (Self)
Bloodlines – To A Thousand Generations (Facedown)
Eleine – The Water Taste Of Blood (Algoth)
Haxprocess – Endlessly Flowing Cascades Of Grief (Transcending Obscurity)
Henrik Palm – Idiot Plot (Svart)
Humankind – Perfect World (ROAR)
Iron Maiden – Somewhere In Time Vinyl Re-Release (UMe)
Ishtar Terra – My Wounds Existed Before Me EP (Self)
Jim Peterik & World Stage – River Of Music: The Power Of Duets Vol. 2 (Frontiers)
King Buffalo – Doomsayer (Self)
The Red Crow – It’s Alive EP (Sodeh)
Sifyn – Self-Encrypted EP (Self)
Tigertailz – A Fist Full Of Dollarz: 1992-2011 (HNE)
UFO – Mechanix Re-Release (Chrysalis)
Vlad In Tears – Undead (Metalville)
Xeelee – Consilience (Self)
December 11, 2026
Aether Realm – Season Of Bloodshed (Napalm)
Culak – Twelve Gates (Song & Silence)
Deathdotgov – Deathdotcom Re-Release (Lost Future)
Dosser – Born For Nothing/Born By Mistake (Iodine)
Garden Of Stone – For The World Of The Obsolete (Inverse)
Hellcowboys – Renew, Reborn, Return (Octopus Rising)
Iron Maiden – 50th Anniversary Studio Album Collection Part 1: 1980-1992 Color Vinyl Box (UMe)
Nightwish – The Greatest 30 Years On Earth (Nuclear Blast)
December 18, 2026
Knife – Into Your Nightmare (Napalm)
December 25, 2026
Manntra – Wild Hunt (Napalm)
January 8, 2027
Cascade Effect – The Weight Of Nothingness (Eclipse)
Cepheidae Variable – Primordial Reverie Ascendant (Self)
Takida – Numbers (Napalm)
U.D.O. – Voodoo Ranger (Reigning Phoenix)
January 15, 2027
Dystopia A.D. – Wasteland Empire (Self)
Gift – Frenzy For The Thrill (Captured Tracks)
Grave Digger – Faces Of Pain (Reaper)
Jaded Heart – Toxic (Frontiers)
Spiritus Mortis – No Human Contact (Svart)
January 22, 2027
Gates Of Ishtar – Murder The Light (The Circle)
Saxon – Gods Of Thunder (Silver Lining)
Streetlight – Shadows In Motion (Frontiers)
Violet Eternal – Azure Stardust (Rockshots)
January 29, 2027
Ater – Everlasting (Torque)
Flamestrike – The Unholy March (Rockshots)
Serious Black – Keeper Of The Light (Perception)
February 5, 2027
As I Lay Dying – As I Lay Dying (Napalm)
February 19, 2027
200 Stab Wounds – Lowest Form (Metal Blade)
Firewind – Gods, Myths & Titans (BLKIIBLK)
March 12, 2027
Dragged Under – Social Battery: Low (Mascot)
March 19, 2027
Bullet For My Valentine – Social Apocalypse (Spinefarm)
Dragonforce – Dragonforce (Napalm)
March 26, 2027
Vesseles – Home (Reclaimed) (Self)
