Power Metal Albums

DragonForce's tenth album and first self-titled record, with a release date of 19 March 2027: the first with Alissa White-Gluz and Alessio Garavello sharing the vocals.

A 2026 tie-in single: the title song and "No time to fall", each with an instrumental, across four tracks.

DRAGONLAND's seventh album, with a release date of 23 October 2026 on Scarlet Records. Produced, mixed and mastered by Fredrik Nordström at Studio Fredman, it contains the final recorded contributions of long-time guitarist Olof Mörck (AMARANTHE), who left the band in July 2026.

Set The Dark On Fire finds EDENBRIDGE shaping symphonic-metal fantasy and clear melodic-metal uplift into a 2026 album with a clear sense of identity.

The Legend Of The Six Kings is a useful way to hear FROZEN CROWN from a different angle within the 2026 catalogue.

The fourteenth full-length album by Galneryus and their first in about two years, after the twentieth-anniversary record The Stars Will Light the Way. This is the standard edition: nine songs and about sixty-five minutes on a single CD, with the same track list as every other format.

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.

Dark Asylum is a useful way to hear KAMELOT from a different angle within the 2026 catalogue.

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…

Metalmorphosis finds MASTERPLAN shaping European melodic power-metal uplift and thick hard-rock-leaning groove into a 2026 album with a clear sense of identity.

The fifth Metalite album, released worldwide on 25 September 2026 by Perception, a division of Reigning Phoenix Music. It is a concept record set in 2058, three years after the departure from Earth that Expedition One left off in 2055, and runs to twelve songs. Ward Records issued the Japanese edition the same day with a Japanese booklet and translated lyrics.

The sixth album, released on 3 June 2026 as the companion piece to Gate of Heaven: the band's own announcement calls it the darkest and most chaotic world they have written. It gathers the two songs of the December 2025 single, "Zen'aku no Higan" and "∞", and re-records "affected" and "Get Revenge On The Tyrant" from the 2014 debut. Eleven tracks.

Here Be Dragons finds AVANTASIA shaping rock-opera theatricality and the large uplift of melodic and power metal 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.

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.

Game Of Faces finds DYNAZTY shaping Scandinavian melodic-metal clarity and the momentum of modern synths and rhythms into a 2025 album with a clear sense of identity.

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

Giants & Monsters finds HELLOWEEN shaping German power-metal speed, bright humor and huge choruses into a 2025 album with a clear sense of identity.

A three-CD, forty-two-track anthology for the band’s fortieth year, running from the 1985 debut to the 2021 reunion album.

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

In The Vanishing Echoes Of Goodbye finds LABYRINTH shaping Italian power metal speed and progressive architecture into a 2025 album with a clear sense of identity.

Gravity finds LEVERAGE shaping Finnish melodic-metal melancholy and strong hard-rock-leaning riffs into a 2025 album with a clear sense of identity.

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.

The fifth album, released by FABTONE on 26 November 2025 and the first half of a concept pair completed by Gate of Hell in June 2026. Its ten songs include the title tracks of the three singles that preceded it — Sekai Rinne, SAKURA chevalier and Convergent Rays — and close with a re-recording of "Satsuriku no Miseria" from the 2014 debut.

The Catalyst sharpens AMARANTHE’s defining contrast of three distinct vocal colors.

A Japan-only, limited-pressing CD: the title track plus three songs from their Tokyo shows of May 2024. Four tracks, about seventeen minutes.

Blind Guardian's complete re-recording of their 1992 album Somewhere Far Beyond, released in August 2024 on the day they played Wacken Open Air.

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.

DragonForce's ninth album, from March 2024: the first with Alicia Vigil as a full member on bass, and the last Marc Hudson sang on.

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

Stand United presents FIREWIND’s guitar-led power metal with an emphasis on melodic strength.

Silver Romance is a bright, affirmative power-metal record worthy of FREEDOM CALL’s twenty-fifth anniversary.

War Hearts channels FROZEN CROWN’s new-lineup momentum into direct, aggressive power metal.

The Stars Will Light the Way ties GALNERYUS’s virtuosity and melodic instinct together with unusual density.

An EP that reignites HAGANE’s melody, speed and optimistic force around the theme of survival and forward motion.

The first record the current five-piece wrote from nothing — five songs that swallow the raw drive of the debut EP.

The fourth Metalite album, released by AFM Records on 19 January 2024. It is a concept record set on Earth in 2055, following five commanders and a renegade crew trying to carry humanity off a ruined planet, and it runs to sixteen songs including "Utopia", the band's first instrumental. Marquee Inc. put the Japanese edition on sale two days earlier, on 17 January.

Yesterwynde is NIGHTWISH’s tenth album, a vast symphonic-metal work shaped around time, memory, and the question of how human beings receive the world.