RELEASE CALENDAR — August 2026
Metal and hard rock CDs released in August 2026. Every album links to its track list, music videos and CD details.
On the Shortness of LifeA new album from Brazilian power metal band Hibria, aimed squarely at a second revival. The Japanese edition comes from Marquee Avalon on 5 August 2026,…
EclipseThe new album from German symphonic metal band Xandria, released by Napalm Records on 7 August 2026.…
CathedralJohn 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 StudiosThe first live album by Swedish melodic hard rockers NESTOR, drawing on their debut Kids In A Ghost Town and the charting Teenage Rebel, recorded at Gothen…
Filth Hounds of Hades – Deluxe EditionA deluxe reissue of Filth Hounds of Hades, the 1982 debut by Tank, one of the definitive N.W.O.B.H.M. names,…
Hoist the Colours HighThe fifteenth studio album by Tokyo Blade, the British metal veterans who stand among the defining names of the N.W.O.B.H.M. scene.…
Destroys Anaheim '76A live album documenting KISS's 20 August 1976 Anaheim Stadium concert before 42,000 fans, released officially for the first time to mark the band's 50th a…
箱庭 [通常盤]The first solo EP in five years from Fami., bassist of LOVEBITES — six tracks including one written for her by NayutalieN, in the standard edition.
箱庭 [デラックス・エディション]The six-track EP plus complete footage and a live CD of the solo show “Happy Birthday Live 2025” — a Victor-exclusive three-disc set.
FOURTH DIMENSION [初回限定盤]The limited first edition of FOURTH DIMENSION presents Lonesome_Blue’s second full-length album, released 26 August 2026 on King Records, in its most compl…
FOURTH DIMENSION [通常盤]The standard edition of FOURTH DIMENSION contains the ten main tracks of Lonesome_Blue’s second full-length album with nothing added around them. Roughly t…
Long Hard Road: 1980-1985A 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 TempleThe 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 IceA studio album from Norwegian singer Issa (Issa Oversveen), released by Frontiers Music Srl on 28 August 2026. Eleven songs built around her open,…
Marrow DeepThe ninth album from progressive sludge metal band Mastodon, their first since 2021's Hushed and Grim.…
Legacy of EmpiresIan 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,…
Best OfA best-of collecting the band's signature songs as 2026 versions — re-recorded, remixed and remastered.
Dark AsylumDark Asylum, released in 2026, is a record that carries on the appeal of KAMELOT — dramatic melody and symphonic drama. The elements built up over many yea…