Power Metal 2020s Albums

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 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

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 identity.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

The tenth studio album and Powerwolf's fourth German No. 1 — choir and organ intact, every song routed to its chorus by the shortest path.

Challenge the Wind brings RHAPSODY OF FIRE’s grand orchestration, racing rhythm, and heroic-story melody to the front without hesitation.

Clear Cold Beyond sees SONATA ARCTICA steering firmly back toward the rush of Nordic melodic power metal.

Cycles of Pain turns ANGRA’s Brazilian color, progressive construction and power-metal lift into one extended drama.

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

A live album from the band's London show — and the record whose release moved their Japanese home to IYT RECORDS.

Call of the North puts FROZEN CROWN’s bright twin-guitar harmonies and relentless speed at the front of an epic power-metal charge.

Between Dread and Valor compresses new songs, instrumentals and a re-recording into a special GALNERYUS release with the density of a short, sharp statement.

Firestar reignites IRON SAVIOR’s blend of cosmic narrative and straight-ahead German power metal.