The New Rock + Metal Albums Out Today

Here is your 2026 hard rock + metal album release calendar and all of this week’s newest albums!

Each week is loaded with new rock and metal releases and keeping track of it all can be pretty difficult. Bookmark this page because we’ll be updating this all year and you can check back each Friday to see what’s out that day and go check it all out!

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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)
The Gloom In The Corner – Royal Discordance (SharpTone)
It’sAlie – Wild Games (Frontiers)
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)
Nothing – A Short History Of Decay (Run For Cover)
Rob Zombie – The Great Satan (Nuclear Blast)
Sigh – Hail Horror Hail Re-Release (Peaceville)
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)

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)
Monstrosity – Screams From Beneath The Surface (Metal Blade)
Moon Far Away – Acou (Lupus Lounge)
Rush – Grace Under Fire: Super Deluxe Edition (Ume/Mercury)
Schattenmann – Besser als der Rest (Perception)
UnityTX – Somewhere, In Between… (Better Noise)
Vicious Rain – The Anatomy Of Surviving (Arising Empire)
Witchcraft – A Sinner Child EP (Heavy Psych Sounds)

March 20, 2026
Abrogation – Widerschein (Massacre)
Aerosmith – Aerosmith (Legendary Edition) (Capitol)
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)
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)
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)
Lion’s Share – Inferno (Metalville)
Lou Gramm – Released (HNE)
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)
Samurai Pizza Cats – Press Start (Century Media)
Sons Of Eternity – Human Beast (Massacre)
Winterfylleth – The Unyielding Season (Napalm)

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)
No Terror In The Bang – Existence EP (Klonosphere)
Poison Ruin – Hymns From The Hills (Relapse)
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)
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)
Truckfighters – Masterflow (Fuzzorama)
Uada – Interwoven EP (Eisenwald)
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)
The Last Ten Seconds Of Life – The Dead Ones (Metal Blade)
Thundermother – Live’n’Alive (Napalm)
Victorious – World War Dinosaur (Perception)

April 18, 2026 – Record Store Day
Rock and Heavy Metal Record Store Day Releases

April 24, 2026
The Amity Affliction – House Of Cards (Pure Noise)
Armed For Apocalypse – The Earth Is Breathing Beneath Me (Church Road)
Blindead 23 – Deuterium (Peaceville)
Death Lens – What’s Left Now? (Epitaph)
Devil’s Cut – Roadkill (MNRK Heavy)
Einar Solberg – Vox Occulta (InsideOut)
John Corabi – New Day (Frontiers)
The Saddest Landscape – Alone With Heaven (Iodine)
Tabernis – Seasons Of The Dark Hive (Napalm)

May 1, 2026
-(16)- – Forgeries Vol 1 (1972-1984) (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Cage Fight – Exuvia (Spinefarm)
Haste The Day – Dissenter (Solid State)
Sevendust – One (Napalm)

May 8, 2026
Draconian – In Somnolent Ruin (Napalm)
A Forest Of Stars – Stack Overflow In Corpse Pile Interface (Prophecy)
Haggard Cat – The Pain That Orbits Life (Church Road)
Ingested – Denigration (Metal Blade)
The Narrator – Phosphor (Nuclear Blast)
Restless Spirit – Restless Spirit (Magnetic Eye)
War On Women – Time Under Tension (Smartpunk)

May 15, 2026
Artillery – Made In Hell EP (Mighty)
Confess – Metalmorphosis (Frontiers)
Crown Lands – Apocalypse (InsideOut)
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)

May 22, 2026
Boys From Heaven – The Wanderer (Frontiers)
Marmozets – CO.WAR.DICE (Nettwerk)

May 29, 2026
Saint Agnes – Your God Fearing Days Are About To Begin (Spinefarm)

June 5, 2026
Evergrey – Architects Of A New Weave (Napalm)
Jared James Nichols – Louder Than Fate (Frontiers)

June 12, 2026
Stitched Up Heart – Medusa (Judge & Jury)

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)