RELEASE CALENDAR — January 2026

Metal and hard rock CDs released in January 2026. Every album links to its track list, music videos and CD details.

5 releases / updated 2026-07-27

Haus of the Rising FunJ.B.O. / 2026-01-09The fifteenth album by J.B.O., the Erlangen-based band who have been Germany's foremost humour metal act since 1989,…→ Set The Dark On FireEDENBRIDGE / 2026-01-16Set The Dark On Fire is a 2026 work EDENBRIDGE refined around symphonic metal’s fantastical beauty and melodic metal’s clear elation. The guitar keeps a me…→ 五臓 -GOZO-NEMOPHILA / 2026-01-21GOZO presents the four-piece NEMOPHILA as a band creating from its own physical center. The five songs feel like different organs of one body: each has a s…→ MegadethMEGADETH / 2026-01-23Released on January 23, 2026, Megadeth is MEGADETH’s seventeenth and final studio album. Bearing the band’s own name, it is not a retrospective that merely…→ HOT TOPICHANABIE. / 2026-01-28HOT TOPIC is a compact statement from a band that has learned how to project its personality across festival stages and international tours without smoothi…→