EclipseJP edition: AmazonThe new album from German symphonic metal band Xandria, released by Napalm Records on 7 August 2026.…RELEASE CALENDAR — August 2026
Metal and hard rock CDs released in August 2026. The calendar is grouped by Japanese street date, so a title whose import edition reached shops in another month is still listed here — each card states both dates. Every album links to its track list, music videos and CD details.
EclipseJP edition: AmazonThe new album from German symphonic metal band Xandria, released by Napalm Records on 7 August 2026.…
On the Shortness of LifeAmazonThe 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.
EquinoxJP edition: AmazonThe seventh album from Germany's Equilibrium, a band that has built a world of its own by fusing melodic death metal with traditional folk.…
CathedralAmazonJohn Carpenter — the director and composer behind Halloween and Escape from New York — releases Cathedral through Sacred Bones Records on 7 August 2026.…
Live at Gothenburg Film StudiosAmazon
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ImportThe Swedish band's first live album, drawing on Kids In A Ghost Town and Teenage Rebel, recorded at Gothenburg Film Studios for Napalm Records.
走って!ガチって!ドゲンジャーズ!AmazonAmazon
DeluxeA 2026 tie-in single: the title song and "No time to fall", each with an instrumental, across four tracks.
Filth Hounds of Hades – Deluxe EditionAmazon
2CDA deluxe reissue of Filth Hounds of Hades, the 1982 debut by Tank, one of the definitive N.W.O.B.H.M. names,…
Consecrated GroundAmazonThe second studio album by Ann Wilson, co-founder of Heart, with her band Tripsitter, following 2023's Another Door.…
Initium MortisJP edition: AmazonAmazon
ImportLeft To Die's first album rerecords ten songs from the demo and rehearsal years of Death and its forerunner Mantas,…
Guilty PleasureAmazonThe third album by Grand, the melodic rock / AOR band from the southern outskirts of Stockholm, Sweden.…
Boom Bang GoodbyeJP edition: AmazonAmazon
Digipak ImportSinner's last studio album. Mat Sinner has led the German band on bass and vocals since 1982,…
Gravity 2.0Amazon"Gravity 2.0" is the album that British melodic rock / AOR project First Light release through Pride & Joy Music on 21 August 2026 (cat. no. PJM15006).…
Destroys Anaheim '76Amazon
Limited + BonusAmazon
LimitedThe Anaheim Stadium show of 20 August 1976, released for the first time for KISS's fiftieth anniversary and newly mixed by Eddie Kramer.
Mi'rajAmazonA new album from Brazilian singer Edu Falaschi, who came up through ANGRA and ALMAH and now leads a band under his own name.…
箱庭AmazonThe first solo EP in five years from Fami., bassist of LOVEBITES — six tracks including one written for her by NayutalieN, in the standard edition.
FOURTH DIMENSIONAmazonAmazon
LimitedLonesome_Blue’s second full-length album, produced with Mao, in the standard edition containing the ten main tracks.
Long Hard Road: 1980-1985Amazon
5CDA five-disc box set surveying the early years of Nightwing, the British band formed in 1978 who came up alongside the rising N.W.O.B.H.M. scene.…
Rats in the TempleAmazonThe sixteenth album from Arizona's dramatic thrash metal band Flotsam and Jetsam, their first in two years after 2024's I Am the Weapon,…
Fire and IceAmazonA studio album from Norwegian singer Issa (Issa Oversveen), released by Frontiers Music Srl on 28 August 2026. Eleven songs built around her open,…
Legacy of EmpiresAmazonIan Parry — a Liverpool-born singer who moved to the Netherlands in the early 1980s and made his name across the Dutch metal scene with Hammerhead,…
A Cold ParadiseAmazonThe debut album from A COLD PARADISE, the modern alternative metal band founded in 2025 by vocalist Antonio Calanna (ex-ALL FOR METAL) and signed to Percep…
The Never Ending SearchAmazonAschen are a melodic black metal duo based in Pamplona, Navarre, in the Spanish Basque region, active since 2022. The line-up is Mikel Telletxea (vocals,…
Bastard SkullAmazonBastard Skull is a four-piece thrash metal band that came together on 13 November 2022 in the lobby of the Kings Theatre in Brooklyn, New York,…
Perceptions of RealityAmazonThe debut album by BRINICLE, a five-piece formed in Bogotá, Colombia in 2018. The line-up is Camilo Ernesto Reina García (vocals),…
Gods of TomorrowAmazonThe debut album by GODS OF TOMORROW, a five-piece melodic hard rock band from Germany and Greece.…
In MadnessAmazonSAUERKRAUT are a six-piece from Krosno/Jedlicze, Poland, active since 2019. They followed their 2022 EP "Bloody Stew" with this record,…
Everything's FallingAmazonThe fifth studio album by The Warning, the Mexican rock band from Monterrey formed in 2013 by the Villarreal Velez sisters — Daniela (lead vocals,…
Another Nail in the CoffinAmazonSha-Boom came up in Stockholm in 1987 and were on festival bills beside Europe and Treat inside a year; the debut single "R.O.C.K." went to No.…
Best OfAmazonA best-of collecting the band's signature songs as 2026 versions — re-recorded, remixed and remastered.
Dark AsylumAmazonAmazon
BonusDark Asylum is a useful way to hear KAMELOT from a different angle within the 2026 catalogue.
Marrow DeepAmazonThe ninth studio album, and the first made after Brent Hinds left the band in March 2025 and died that August. It is also the first with Nick Johnston (gui…