Metalcore 2020s Albums

The End Is Not The End, ATREYU's tenth album, ties the ferocity of metalcore to the openness of modern rock with a forward-looking spirit.

A five-track EP that condenses HANABIE.’s current Harajuku-core sound into metalcore impact, digital pop color, streetwise energy and unapologetic self-affirmation.

Hatebreed's ninth studio album and their first in six years, produced by Zeuss: eleven songs in about thirty-five minutes.

Into Oblivion finds LAMB OF GOD shaping physical groove-metal weight, thrash-sharp riffing and modern aggression into a 2026 album with a clear sense of identity.

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.

TRIVIUM's eleventh studio album, born of Kurosawa's Throne of Blood and steeped in Japanese horror film; Josh Wilbur produced it and Jacob Hansen mixed it.

Zilqy's first full-length album: ten songs, every lyric by Anna, mixed and mastered by Lance Prenc, including “World's End”, “CAVEAT” and “RUN”.

Antifragile finds ALL THAT REMAINS shaping metalcore riffing and emotionally direct melodic-metal hooks into a 2025 album with a clear sense of identity.

BABYMETAL’s 15th-anniversary album, using ten globally connected tracks to push beyond established metal boundaries.

This Consequence finds KILLSWITCH ENGAGE shaping metalcore weight and a melodic-death/heavy-metal sense of melancholy into a 2025 album with a clear sense of identity.

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

Zilqy’s first EP, presenting the Japanese all-female metal band’s post-melodic nu-metal identity with global ambition.

Bring Me the Horizon's seventh studio album, surprise-released in May 2024 as part two of the Post Human series.

The band’s first major-label EP, packing Tokyo identity, otaku culture, transformation-heroine imagery and modern romance into fierce breakdowns and vivid pop hooks.

Knocked Loose's third studio album, from May 2024, with Poppy and Chris Motionless as guests.

NEMOPHILA’s third album, concentrating scale, technique, melody and modern heaviness ahead of the band’s Budokan milestone.

The Beautiful Dark of Life collects ATREYU’s three 2023 EPs and adds new songs to complete a larger statement.

Life Is But a Dream... pushes AVENGED SEVENFOLD far beyond a simple metal framework and into an intensely experimental, existential space.

A concept album announcing BABYMETAL’s return through ten parallel worlds of reflection, loss and renewal.

The major-label breakthrough that expands Harajuku-core through space, games, escape, everyday anxiety and rebirth, establishing HANABIE. on an international scale.

A cover EP that rebuilds songs by Metallica, System of a Down, Slipknot and Limp Bizkit through NEMOPHILA’s own attack.

Omens puts Lamb of God’s interlocking riffs, groove and Randy Blythe’s raw roar directly in the listener’s path.

Lorna Shore's fourth studio album, from October 2022, closing on a title track in three parts.

A second album capturing NEMOPHILA’s international momentum through heavy riffs, wide melodies and an unrestricted mixture.

After a major shift in its vocal setup, Atreyu move toward more open melodies and larger choruses on Baptize.

The seventh Bullet for My Valentine album, released worldwide by Spinefarm on 5 November 2021 and presented by the band as their heaviest. The Japanese edition adds "Stitches" for eleven tracks, and its limited pressing carries a second disc of five songs recorded at Summer Sonic 2018.

Converge's tenth studio album, from November 2021, made as a seven-piece with Chelsea Wolfe.

The first full album turns miso soup, dating apps, sweets and obsessive everyday life into a reform manifesto powered by metalcore and electronic color.

An international early compilation collecting NEMOPHILA’s three independent singles plus an English version of “DISSENSION.”

NEMOPHILA’s debut album, rebuilding its early independent songs into a worldwide statement of the band’s “hellishly heavy, otherwise fluffy” sound.

Spiritbox's debut album, from September 2021, by the two members who left Iwrestledabearonce to form the band.

Trivium’s tenth album integrates thrash sharpness, metalcore aggression and progressive structure at high density.

BABYMETAL’s first best-of collection, tracing ten years of transformation from early shock to global-scale metal spectacle.

Code Orange's fourth studio album, from March 2020, built around glitches and noise as much as around riffs.

The eighth album and the third for Nuclear Blast: twelve songs that never let the tempo or the pressure drop.

By choosing a self-title for its tenth album, Lamb of God reasserts the band’s core.

Loathe's second studio album, from February 2020, pulling shoegaze texture into metalcore.

Trivium’s ninth album tightly connects thrash sharpness, metalcore aggression and progressive movement, even within compact songs.