2026 Hard Rock & Metal Album Release Calendar

 

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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Ov Sulfur – Endless (Century Media)
• Soen – Reliance (Silver Lining)
• Soulbound – sYn (Metalville)

 

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)
• 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)
• Visceral Evisceration – Incessant Desire For Palatable Flesh Re-Release (Hammerheart)

 

January 30, 2026

• Buzzcocks – Attitude Adjustment (Cherry Red)
• Course Of Fate – Behind The Eclipse (ROAR)
• D.A.M. – Inside The Wreckage (Dissonance)
• Defaced – Icon (Massacre)
• Francis Rossi – The Accidental (earMusic)
• Indica Blues – Universal Death Heat (Majestic Mountain)
• Invictus – Nocturnal Visions (Memento Mori)
• 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)
• 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)
• Earthless – Live At Roadburn Re-Release (Heavy Psych Sounds)
• Ensanguinate – Death Saturnalia (Soulseller)
• Full House Brew Crew – Glasgow Grin (ROAR)
• 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)
• Black Swan – Paralyzed (Frontiers)
• Bloodred – Colours Of Pain (Massacre)
• The Browning – Burn This World [Evolved] (Fixt)
• 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)
• Dusk – Bunker (Self)
• 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)
• 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)

 

February 27, 2026

• 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)
• 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)
• Weedpecker – V (Heavy Psych Sounds)

 

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)
• Godsmack – Awake Re-Release (UMe)
• Kaleidobolt – Karakuchi (Svart)
• Rainbow – The Temple Of The King 1975-1976 Box Set (Edsel)
• Vreid – The Skies Turn Black (Indie)

 

March 13, 2026

• The Gems – Year Of The Snake (Napalm)
• Gluttony – Eulogy To Blashphemy (FDA)
• Gotthard – More Stereo Crush (Reigning Phoenix)
• Moon Far Away – Acou (Lupus Lounge)
• Schattenmann – Besser als der Rest (Perception)
• Witchcraft – A Sinner Child EP (Heavy Psych Sounds)

 

March 20, 2026

• Axel Rudi Pell – Ghost Town (Steamhammer)
• Gaerea – Loss (Century Media)
• Ignescent – Eternal (Frontiers)
• 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)
• Jon Anderson – Earth Mother Earth Re-Release (Frontiers)
• Jon Anderson – Survival & Other Stories Re-Release (Frontiers)
• Lion’s Share – Inferno (Metalville)
• Myrath – Wilderness Of Mirrors (earMusic)

 

April 3, 2026

• Jarboe – Sightings (Consouling Sounds)

 

April 10, 2026

• Archspire – Too Fast To Die (Self)

 

April 17, 2026

• Victorious – World War Dinosaur (Perception)

 

April 24, 2026

• John Corabi – New Day (Frontiers)

 

May 15, 2026

• Slayer – Hell Awaits 40th Anniversary Edition (Metal Blade)