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.
Symphonic Metal 2020s Albums
Browse 26 Symphonic Metal albums from the 2020s in the METAL BOOST catalog, with artist pages, track lists, Spotify players and English liner notes.
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.
Dark Asylum is a useful way to hear KAMELOT from a different angle within the 2026 catalogue.
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.
Cradle of Filth's fourteenth studio album, from March 2025 and their first for Napalm Records; the Japanese edition came out the same day.
Aspiral finds EPICA shaping symphonic-metal grandeur, progressive construction and weight rooted in extreme metal 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.
This follow-up revisits the spirit of Apocalyptica’s debut, Plays Metallica by Four Cellos, through the sound and experience of the band today.
Silver Romance is a bright, affirmative power-metal record worthy of FREEDOM CALL’s twenty-fifth anniversary.
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 Awakening is KAMELOT’s first studio record in five years and brings its symphonic shadows, progressive construction and dramatic melodies into especially clear focus.
A one-track digital single issued on 1 April 2023. The song had been written for the singer Tokoyami Towa under sponsorship by Nissin's Yakisoba U.F.O.; this is Unlucky Morpheus playing it themselves, the band whose Shiren composed it and whose Fuki wrote the words.
Bleed Out overlays WITHIN TEMPTATION’s symphonic beauty with modern-metal weight and electronic tension.
Tobias Sammet assembles a varied cast of singers and builds theatrical storytelling and oversized melody as a sequence of connected scenes.
DRAGONLAND's sixth album, released in 2022, a comeback after eleven years since Under the Grey Banner. A sci-fi concept album set in space and separate from The Dragonland Chronicles saga, it was released by AFM Records; the Japanese edition is on Marquee/Avalon (MICP-11706).
Shangri-La finds Edenbridge building a fantasy world around Sabine Edelsbacher’s clear voice and Lanvall’s grand arrangements.
Neptune Blue, Lana Lane’s long-awaited return, connects progressive structure with melodic accessibility around her expressive, soaring voice.
Lorna Shore's fourth studio album, from October 2022, closing on a title track in three parts.
The fourth album, distributed by Disk Union on 27 April 2022. It carries an album version of "“M” Revolution", the digital single from 2021, and four of its songs — "Amaryllis", "Welcome to Valhalla", "The Black Death Mansion Murders" and "“M” Anthem" — were given music videos. Ten tracks.
Cradle of Filth's thirteenth studio album, from October 2021, an existential record that looks squarely at the end of the species.
Omega expands Epica’s symphonic-metal scale to a grand, carefully controlled level.
Cell-0 places the sound of the cello itself at the center, with Apocalyptica working without a featured vocalist.
Human. :||: Nature. is Nightwish's ninth album, a two-disc story of humanity and nature that pairs a set of songs with an orchestral suite.
An original EP put into national distribution on 29 April 2020, its three songs built around Takiyashahime, the figure held to be the daughter of Taira no Masakado. The CD adds instrumental versions of all three for six tracks; the streaming release carries the three sung songs alone. The title track got a music video and "Tetsuou" a lyric video.
The third album, distributed by Disk Union on 29 July 2020. Six of its nine songs were given official films, more than any other Unlucky Morpheus record, and at Toyosu PIT the following year the band played all nine of them almost in album order.