RELEASE CALENDAR — June 2026
Metal and hard rock CDs released in June 2026. Every album links to its track list, music videos and CD details.
RebirthThe comeback record from Frontline, the accomplished German melodic hard rock band. They debuted in 1994,…
SymphoniqueA live album recorded in June 2025, when Voivod performed with the Québec Symphony Orchestra in their home province.…
Requiem for a Pipe DreamThe fourth album, and the first in three years, from Cyhra — the Nordic melodic modern metal band built around Jesper Strömblad (formerly of In Flames and…
SanctuarySanctuary, released on 5 June 2026, is the sixth album, honed around gothic/alternative metal shading and dramatic melody including piano. It is their firs…
Rising In BloomRising In Bloom advances the cohesion established on the first album into a more open and three-dimensional five-track EP. “Our Fate” places heavy guitars …
XThe tenth album from Narnia, the Swedish band who play classically shaded Nordic power metal, released on 12 June 2026 to mark thirty years together.…
Frisson NoirA solo album from Tarja Turunen, formerly of Nightwish, released by earMUSIC. Dani Filth of Cradle of Filth, Apocalyptica,…
Accult IIAn acoustic album from Vanden Plas, long a leading name in German progressive metal,…
Sons of the AbandonedThe fourth album by Bloodhunter, the extreme metal band from Galicia in Spain, released by ROAR (Rock of Angels Records) on 12 June 2026.…
The Best of Judas PriestA career-spanning greatest-hits compilation reaching from the 1974 debut Rocka Rolla to 2024's Invincible Shield, gathering signature songs such as "Breaki…
Get What You DeserveA reissue on SHM-CD of Get What You Deserve, the sixth album that Sodom — among the defining names of German thrash metal — released in January 1994,…
Live '83An archive live album from Alcatrazz, the Graham Bonnet-led band, recorded in 1983 while Yngwie Malmsteen was in the ranks.…
LossThe fifth album by Gaerea, the masked post-black and extreme metal band from Portugal, and their first for Century Media Records,…
Live in New Haven 1986An archival live album capturing Van Halen's 27 August 1986 show at the New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum on the 5150 tour, with the Sammy Hagar-fronted…
Bridge to ResolutionThe first solo album Shane Embury — bassist and songwriter of Napalm Death — has released under his own name.…
Reload (Remastered)Reload is the album on which Metallica deepened the rock feel carried over from Load, built on thick, rolling riffs, low-slung groove and a raw vocal.…
Souls of the FallenThe fourth album by Prime Creation, the Swedish melodic power metal band, released through ROAR, a division of Reigning Phoenix Music,…
MetalmorphosisMetalmorphosis is the album Masterplan polished as a 2026 release, built on the lift of European melodic power metal and a thick, hard-rock-leaning groove.…