RedAmazonThe fourth album by April Art, the alternative metal band formed in Germany in 2014. Built around frontwoman Lisa-Marie Watz,…RELEASE CALENDAR — October 2026
Metal and hard rock CDs released in October 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.
RedAmazonThe fourth album by April Art, the alternative metal band formed in Germany in 2014. Built around frontwoman Lisa-Marie Watz,…
The Allfather AwakensAmazonThe thirteenth studio album by Amon Amarth, the melodic death / Viking metal band formed in Tumba, Sweden in 1992,…
AnnihilistPelagic Records issues Annihilist on 2 October 2026, on CD in a digisleeve under the label's own SKU PEL338CD,…
Birth of RiotAmazonAmazon
BonusZilqy's first full-length album follows Vacant Throne, the five-track EP the band issued on 5 November 2025.…
The Gathering of DreamsJP edition: AmazonThe second album by Fallen Sanctuary, the project of Serenity vocalist Georg Neuhauser and Temperance / Serenity guitarist-vocalist Marco Pastorino,…
Steel Burning LiveAmazonAmazon
BonusSteel Burning Live is a Japan-only EP by the Greek guitarist Gus G., known as the guitarist of Firewind,…
DecayJP edition: AmazonDecay is the tenth Godflesh album, made by Justin K. Broadrick and Ben Green.…
Greatest Hits RelaunchedJP edition: AmazonGreatest Hits Relaunched is a sixteen-track set of re-recorded Starship hits, with covers of a Journey song and a Kansas song, sung by Mickey Thomas.…
憂愁録 - 素戔嗚AmazonYusyuroku - Susano, written 「憂愁録 - 素戔嗚」 in Japanese, is a four-track EP by the Tokyo Japanesque Metal band Rakshasa and the first record they made after co…
Gargoyle of the Garden StateJP edition: AmazonAmazon
ImportThe first solo album under his own name from Rachel Bolan, Skid Row's co-founder and bassist, after some forty years. Nick Raskulinecz produced it, and ear…
AshesAmazonAshes is the fifth studio album by the Swedish melodic power metal band Tungsten, with a release date of 9 October 2026.…
Space 1993: Wrath of Kor-VirliathJP edition: AmazonThe fifth album by Gloryhammer, the Scottish power metal band formed in 2010.…
Palace for the PeopleJP edition: AmazonAmazon
BonusPalace for the People is Greta Van Fleet's first album since 2023's Starcatcher,…
Power To SurviveJP edition: AmazonAmazon
ImportPower To Survive is the third studio album by Burning Sun, the melodic power metal band from Hungary.…
Come This MadnessJP edition: AmazonAmazon
BonusCome This Madness is a useful way to hear EUROPE from a different angle within the 2026 catalogue.
TMG III SAYONARAAmazonAmazon
CD+Blu-rayTMG's third album: six songs, including the title track with Ado, a Beatles cover and “DOOM”, the theme of the film Yatsuhakamura.
Artificial IconsFormed in 2019, British melodic metalcore five-piece Defects follow their 2024 debut Modern Error with this second full-length,…
Mer Ström Åt FolketJP edition: AmazonThe third album by Ström, a five-piece from Växjö in the Småland region of southern Sweden. Black Lodge Records, through Sound Pollution,…
Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa (Mid-Price Edition)AmazonPeaceville reissue Cradle Of Filth's ninth album, first released on 1 November 2010, as a single-disc mid-price CD.…
The UK A's and B's 1972-80Amazon
2CDAmazon
ImportThe UK A's and B's 1972-80 gathers the A- and B-sides of the singles NAZARETH, the Scottish hard rock band,…
Chaos ControlAmazonThe third full-length album by CHAOS CONTROL, and a self-titled one, released by Repentless on 21 October 2026 as a CD (RETS-0048, ¥3,500 incl. tax).…
Stand Up For The FutureAmazonRAILROAD, a melodic hard rock band formed in Tokyo's live-house circuit in 1995, release their first full-length album, Stand Up For The Future,…
Out For BloodJP edition: AmazonOut For Blood is the fifth studio album by MYSTERY, the Melbourne hard rock band that Rocky Ravić started in 2010, when he was thirteen.…
PropheciesAmazonDragonland's seventh studio album arrives on Scarlet Records, the Milan label that announced a multi-album deal with the Swedish band in December 2025.…
HOPEAmazonAmazon
CD+Blu-rayHOPE is the eighteenth studio album by The Flower Kings, the Swedish progressive rock band that grew out of the group Roine Stolt formed to take his 1994 s…
ForbiddenAmazonForbidden, the self-titled sixth studio album by the San Francisco Bay Area thrash band FORBIDDEN, is their first full-length since Omega Wave in 2010.…
LAST WAY FORWARDAmazonVALKYRIE ZERO are a four-piece thrash metal band from Osaka: Aya Ozeki on guitar and vocals, MIHO on guitar, COR on bass and backing vocals,…
SPINAmazonAmazon
CD+Blu-rayBAND-MAID's single SPIN, released by Pony Canyon on 28 October 2026. The title track is the ending theme of the new arc of the anime BEYBLADE X,…
Madness Reigns From The Gutter (1990)JP edition: Amazon
2CDMadness Reigns From The Gutter (1990) is a Savatage concert recorded at the Palace in Los Angeles on 29 June 1990,…
Beyond EternityJP edition: AmazonBeyond Eternity changes its singer from song to song. Aitor Arrastia of Metal de Facto opens it with "Crooked Carnival" and comes back for the closing "Han…
KOIAI LIVE TOUR 2026「Starting Over」in TOKYO -HEAVY KAWAII FES 2026-AmazonAmazon
Blu-ray+PhotobookA live Blu-ray of the Tokyo date of the Starting Over tour - all 21 songs from Heavy Kawaii Fes 2026 Day 1, played at Meijiza in Tokyo on 31 July 2026.
Everything Under the SunAmazonAmazon
LimitedThe eleventh studio album by Nickelback, from Hanna, Alberta, out on 30 October 2026 through Virgin Music Group.…
PainstreamAmazonAmazon
LimitedThe sixth studio album by Blind Channel, the Finnish band formed in Oulu in 2013, released by Century Media Records on 30 October 2026.…
The Ones We FollowAmazonReigning Phoenix Music release the fourth Sarcator album worldwide on 30 October 2026, and Ward Records' Japanese edition lands the same day,…
The SchoolgirlsJP edition: AmazonAn album recorded in Florida in the mid-1990s and then shelved has finally been sold.…
In Lust We ThrustJP edition: AmazonIn Lust We Thrust is the second album by THE DEVIL WEARS NADA, from Falköping in Sweden.…
DEMOlish ThisJP edition: AmazonSERAIAH formed in Indiana in 1985. By the label's account, a set at the Metal Fest in Decatur, Illinois in the summer of 1988, shared with Bride,…
Ozzy / Sabbath - The Ultimate TributeJP edition: AmazonEonian Records, a US label founded in 2008, put this ten-song tribute out on CD worldwide on 10 July 2026; Bit Organization / Eonian Records issue it in Ja…
Rise Above It AllJP edition: AmazonRise Above It All is a fourteen-song melodic hard rock album by Jorge Canan, a singer from New Jersey,…
Hard To StopJP edition: AmazonThe second GASTEM album since the band reunited. GASTEM formed in Damascus, Maryland in 1985 and were active until 1989 on the Baltimore-Washington D.C.…
PerfecthAmazonPerfecth is the ninth studio album by Queens of the Stone Age,…
ArmagelionAmazonWard Records brings ARMAGELION to Japan on CD on 30 October 2026 as GQCS-91797, and diskunion bills the record as a Japan-first debut.…
Thomas Miller's Lazarus EffectAmazonAmazon
LPThomas Miller founded Symphony X with Michael Romeo in 1994, having met him in the mid-1980s, and played bass on the early records — Symphony X,…
ZornhauJP edition: AmazonZornhau is a Swedish atmospheric black metal project, and Hvitramn plays and sings all of it alone.…
SzilánkokJP edition: AmazonSenki are a Hungarian trio and Szilánkok is their third EP — four songs that move between metalcore, groove metal and progressive writing,…
Ecce MundusJP edition: AmazonLiva formed in Sherbrooke, Quebec in 1997 and call what they do symphonic power metal opera. The band is Nadine Guertin on soprano voice,…
Force Against The EndJP edition: AmazonFireFlame are a five-piece from Osaka and this is their worldwide debut album.…
ErneuerungJP edition: AmazonAkantophis are a German four-piece playing atmospheric black metal, formed in 1998, and Erneuerung is their fifth album.…
Too Fast For Love (45th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)AmazonToo Fast For Love (45th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) is BMG's limited box set for the 45th anniversary of Mötley Crüe's debut, out on 30 October 2026,…
Hate To Go - Take Out Or DeliveryAmazonAmazon
DeluxeHate To Go - Take Out Or Delivery is the album Ministry have named as their last, the seventeenth studio record from Al Jourgensen's band,…
Carnival WorldJP edition: AmazonCarnival World first came out in 1990 on Pure Metal Records; Eonian Records' reissue of 10 July 2026, which the label calls the definitive edition,…
The Story Of My LifeAmazon
8CDThe Story Of My Life collects Phil Lynott's solo recordings on eight CDs; the singer, bassist and songwriter of Thin Lizzy died in 1986,…
HempispheresAmazonHempispheres is the first album Sleep, the San Jose stoner metal band, have made without Matt Pike, their guitarist from the start. Al Cisneros,…
Total Terror (4CD/1DVD Clamshell Box Edition)Amazon
4CD+DVDTotal Terror puts Holy Terror's recordings on four CDs and a DVD.…
Won't Get Fooled AgainAmazonSKID ROW's first recording with new singer Justin Sargent: a cover of The Who's 1971 song, produced by Nick Raskulinecz and released on 30 October 2026.
The Guessing Game (Rethink)AmazonCathedral's The Guessing Game (2010), remixed in full from the original masters by Jaime Gomez Arellano, with alternate takes. Rise Above, 30 October 2026.