Heavy Metal 2020s Albums

Saxon's twenty-fifth album, with a release date of 22 January 2027. The title track came with a video on 2 September 2026.

A fiftieth-anniversary album: re-recordings of the band's best-known songs, each with a long list of guest musicians.

Cursum Perficio is a useful way to hear ANTHRAX from a different angle within the 2026 catalogue.

BAND-MAID's first single in four years and seven months: the title track plus 'Days' and 'CAGE', with footage from the 2024 Zepp tour on the limited editions.

Engines Of Demolition finds BLACK LABEL SOCIETY shaping Southern-rock grit, doom-leaning weight and bluesy guitar cries into a 2026 album with a clear sense of identity.

Dir En Grey's twelfth album, released on 8 April 2026, their newest record and fourteen tracks long.

A five-track EP that balances open, refreshing melodies with loud-rock weight and presents the second chapter of East Of Eden through Ayasa’s violin-led identity.

Goliath finds EXODUS shaping rough Bay Area thrash riffs, confrontational energy and heavyweight sound pressure into a 2026 album with a clear sense of identity.

Gus G.'s fifth solo album, about five years after Quantum Leap. He wrote and produced all of it, and it sets guitar instrumentals beside songs sung by Doro Pesch, Matt Barlow, Ronnie Romero and Dino Jelusick. The Japanese edition (KICP-4117) adds a radio edit of "Dancing With Death" for eleven tracks.

A melodic-metal EP that links fantasy-adventure imagery with bright speed, heroic guitar work and the renewed identity of HAGANE.

The second full-length album since HAGANE regrouped in 2024: eleven songs, two of them from the METAL QUEST EP, issued in Japan as a CD + Blu-ray and as a CD.

The eighth album and the first with new singer Ângelo Parisotto — Seneca's On the Shortness of Life as its subject, released in the band's thirtieth year.

Awesome Anthems Of The Galaxy is IRON SAVIOR's covers album, turning anthems, many from 1980s pop and new wave, into cosmic power metal.

A career-spanning compilation running from the 1974 debut Rocka Rolla to 2024's Invincible Shield, released through Sony Music.

The ninth album, the first release on the band's own Kissin' Dynamite Records and the last with Hannes Braun as singer. Six new songs stand beside seven re-recordings from the first two albums.

Lonesome_Blue’s second full-length album, produced with Mao, in the standard edition containing the ten main tracks.

Outstanding Power finds LOVEBITES shaping Japanese power/speed-metal drive and the shine of classical twin guitars into a 2026 album with a clear sense of…

Released on January 23, 2026, Megadeth is MEGADETH’s seventeenth and final studio album.

Dead To Rights finds METAL CHURCH shaping hard-edged US power metal and thrash-leaning riffs into a 2026 album with a clear sense of identity.

The 2026 remaster of Metallica's 1997 seventh album, cut by Reuben Cohen at Lurssen Mastering with Greg Fidelman overseeing, issued in Japan as a single SHM-CD.

The 2005 covers album expanded for 2026 with five newly added bonus tracks: fifteen songs on a single SHM-CD.

NEMOPHILA's second EP: five songs including the single "-GOU-", self-produced like GOZO and billed as the four-piece's last original recording.

A five-song 2026 EP that condenses the four-piece NEMOPHILA’s physical groove, self-written material and renewed identity.

A second maxi single built on the theme of setting out, led by “Starlight Voyage” — three songs, with a DVD on the limited edition.

A nine-CD anthology of Rainbow in 1975 and 1976: the first two albums, three complete German concerts, tour rehearsals and rarities.

Announced as SINNER's final studio album and released by Reigning Phoenix Music. Seven guest vocalists appear, among them Ronnie Romero and Michael Bormann, and Jacob Hansen mixed and mastered it at Hansen Studios in Denmark.

The band counts this as its eighteenth studio album, released by Frontiers Music Srl on 25 September 2026.

The fourteenth studio album and the first since Bloodlines (2023). Mighty Music issued it internationally on 11 September 2026 as PMZ437CD, and Marquee Inc. in Japan on 9 September as MICP-12044. It is the first studio record to feature guitarist John Foottit, who joined in January 2026.

An archival live album of the 5150 tour's New Haven show of 27 August 1986, the Sammy Hagar line-up issued as a standalone CD for the first time.

A two-disc live CD of Aldious' final one-man show at Toyosu PIT on August 13, 2025, carrying every song performed before the band's indefinite hiatus.

A 2025 EP that compresses BAND-MAID’s sharp riffs, modern impact and hook-driven songwriting into a focused statement.

Released on September 24, 2025, After Rain is BLINDMAN’s twelfth full-length album, issued in the band’s thirtieth-anniversary year.

A mini album on which the current line-up re-records six songs from 2013-2016 that had stayed in the live set ever since.

East Of Eden’s first full album, recorded entirely by the MINA-era five-piece and uniting metal, loud rock and melodic drama across ten core songs plus the standard-edition instrumental bonus.

Ghost's sixth studio album, from April 2025, and the first of their records to reach number one on the Billboard 200.

A full-length statement from HAGANE’s renewed line-up, combining Japanese melodic color, speed, weight and direct choruses.

Reforged – Machine World revisits familiar material through the voice, production weight and arrangement sense of its recording period.

A focused digital single that strips Lonesome_Blue down to the force of three performers and a direct, resilient melodic core.

Lonesome_Blue’s second EP condenses the renewed three-member lineup into six songs balancing weight, pop immediacy and emotional range.

Don't Sell Your Soul is a 2025 MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP album of classic hard rock, with Michael Schenker's singing guitar at the center of every song.

In August 1976 Lemmy, Eddie Clarke and Phil Taylor recorded together for the first time at Manticore Studio in Fulham. The tape was lost for decades; restored, it came out on 27 June 2025 for the band's fiftieth anniversary.

NEMOPHILA’s fourth album, written by the four members and renewing the band’s heaviness, emotional vocals and free-form mixture.

A second full album arriving in the band's second year, closing on the four-part suite “Shisha no Sho.”

A first maxi single sold at the venues from the opening night of the band's first national tour, its sleeve the artist photograph that had been shot before the songs existed.

Domination finds PRIMAL FEAR shaping steel-plated German heavy/power-metal riffs and battle-ready choruses into a 2025 album with a clear sense of identity.

A New World Rising finds RAGE shaping the direct drive of German power metal and hard riffs rooted in thrash into a 2025 album with a clear sense of identity.

An eight-track EP marking the band's fiftieth year, issued by Silver Lining Music on 14 February 2025: five new songs, plus three live recordings that between them feature three different Raven drummers.

A two-CD, thirty-one-track anthology for the band’s sixtieth year, laid out in order from 1972 to 2022.

The long-awaited Christmas album, released in 2025.

Para Bellum finds TESTAMENT shaping Bay Area thrash sharpness and the weight of modern heaviness into a 2025 album with a clear sense of identity.

Humanoid looks at contemporary anxieties, but its core is unmistakably ACCEPT: steel-hard riffs, straight-ahead beats, and heavy metal built for immediate impact.

A 2024 full-length that channels BAND-MAID’s global experience into technical hard rock, strong songs and cinematic scale.

Recorded in Gothenburg with producer Fredrik Nordström; its opener "Still Burning" placed 42nd in Metal Hammer's readers' poll for the best song of 2024.

Their seventh studio album and the first in seven years, after Six. The Japanese pressing adds a bonus track for eleven in all.