Heavy Metal 2020s Albums

A 50th-anniversary collection of re-recorded ACCEPT classics, each featuring a cast of guest musicians.

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

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.

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.

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

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 finds IRON SAVIOR shaping Iron Savior’s hard space-metal pressure and approachable anthem spirit into a 2026 album with a clear sense of ide

A career-spanning greatest-hits compilation reaching from the 1974 debut Rocka Rolla to 2024's Invincible Shield, gathering signature songs such as "Breaking…

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 identity.

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.

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.

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.

バンド自身が18作目のスタジオ・アルバムと数える最新作。Frontiers Music Srlから2026年9月25日に発売される。

The fourteenth studio album, following Bloodlines (2023). Mighty Music issues it internationally on 11 September 2026 as PMZ437CD; Marquee Inc.

An archival live album capturing Van Halen's 27 August 1986 show at the New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum on the 5150 tour, with the Sammy Hagar-fronted l…

The Dominators Last Standing 2025 is a live album of Aldious’ final one-man show, held at Toyosu PIT on August 13, 2025, ahead of 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.

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 finds MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP shaping classic hard-rock structure and Michael Schenker’s unmistakably singing guitar melodies into a 2025 album w

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.

長く待たれていたクリスマス・アルバムとして2025年に発表された作品。

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.

The second chapter of Forbidden Fruit, preserving the debut’s vivid impact while deepening the groove, darkness and dramatic interaction of the five-piece.