United States Metal & Hard Rock Albums of the 2020s

Cursum Perficio is a useful way to hear ANTHRAX from a different angle within the 2026 catalogue.

The End Is Not The End finds ATREYU shaping metalcore aggression and the larger melodies of modern rock and post-hardcore into a 2026 album with a clear sense of identity

Engines Of Demolition finds BLACK LABEL SOCIETY shaping Southern-rock grit, doom-leaning weight and bluesy guitar cries into a 2026 album with a clear sense of identity.

Sanctuary finds EVANESCENCE shaping gothic/alternative-metal shade and dramatic melodies that include piano color into a 2026 album with a clear sense of identity.

Goliath finds EXODUS shaping rough Bay Area thrash riffs, confrontational energy and heavyweight sound pressure into a 2026 album with a clear sense of identity.

Legacy is a useful way to hear FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH from a different angle within the 2026 catalogue.

Shout finds HARDLINE shaping classic melodic hard rock and AOR-polished vocal drama into a 2026 album with a clear sense of identity.

II is a useful way to hear ICONIC from a different angle within the 2026 catalogue.

Dark Asylum is a useful way to hear KAMELOT from a different angle within the 2026 catalogue.

A 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 ann…

Into Oblivion finds LAMB OF GOD shaping physical groove-metal weight, thrash-sharp riffing and modern aggression into a 2026 album with a clear sense of identity.

The 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 (guitar) and João Nogueira (keyboards) as full members.

Released on January 23, 2026, Megadeth is MEGADETH’s seventeenth and final studio album.

Dead To Rights finds METAL CHURCH shaping hard-edged US power metal and thrash-leaning riffs into a 2026 album with a clear sense of identity.

The 2026 remaster of Metallica's 1997 seventh album, cut by Reuben Cohen at Lurssen Mastering with Greg Fidelman overseeing, issued in Japan as a single SHM-CD.

A best-of on which Night Ranger newly remixed, remastered and partly re-recorded their signature songs as 2026 versions.

WROC finds PAUL GILBERT shaping virtuoso rock guitar, pop-minded playfulness and bluesy humanity into a 2026 album with a clear sense of identity.

EI8HT finds SHINEDOWN shaping modern American hard-rock strength and large melodies that can reach pop listeners into a 2026 album with a clear sense of identity.

バンド自身が18作目のスタジオ・アルバムと数える最新作。Frontiers Music Srlから2026年9月25日に発売される。

Homage is best heard not simply as a covers-related entry, but as a record that shows how TESLA translates outside material into its own sense of

An 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 l…

Antifragile finds ALL THAT REMAINS shaping metalcore riffing and emotionally direct melodic-metal hooks into a 2025 album with a clear sense of identity.

Roar Like Thunder finds BUCKCHERRY shaping rough rock-and-roll heat and memorable hard-rock hooks into a 2025 album with a clear sense of identity.

Released on February 7, 2025, Parasomnia is DREAM THEATER’s sixteenth studio album and the first full-length studio record to feature drummer Mike Portnoy since 2009

Stand And Deliver finds GIANT shaping American hard-rock groove and AOR-polished melody into a 2025 album with a clear sense of identity.

This Consequence finds KILLSWITCH ENGAGE shaping metalcore weight and a melodic-death/heavy-metal sense of melancholy into a 2025 album with a clear sense of identity.

Unatoned by MACHINE HEAD: track list, Spotify player, music videos and English liner notes on METAL BOOST.

The End finds MAMMOTH WVH shaping a thick modern hard-rock sound and intimate melodies touched by alternative rock into a 2025 album with a clear sense of identity.

EvangelCore 1 finds PEYTON PARRISH shaping Viking/folk heroism, heavy modern-metal beats and cinematic choruses into a 2025 album with a clear sense of identity.

長く待たれていたクリスマス・アルバムとして2025年に発表された作品。

Para Bellum finds TESTAMENT shaping Bay Area thrash sharpness and the weight of modern heaviness into a 2025 album with a clear sense of identity.

Arriving in BON JOVI’s fortieth-anniversary year, Forever brings the band’s open-hearted spirit and life-affirming outlook to the front.

From Zero is LINKIN PARK’s first full album in its new lineup, and it restates the band’s core urgency with a contemporary outline.

Drama again shows how MARTY FRIEDMAN treats the guitar not simply as a vehicle for technique, but as a voice that tells stories.

Ten reconnects MR. BIG’s high-level musicianship with the strength of melodies anyone can carry away.

Kingdoms of Magical Rock is a large-scale release in which PEYTON PARRISH reshapes songs familiar from film, animation, and fantasy worlds with the weight of rock and met

Soul centers PEYTON PARRISH’s husky, forceful voice and connects rock’s direct emotional charge with hooks that stay in the ear.

Against the Winds delivers REVOLUTION SAINTS’ classic melodic-hard-rock approach with direct heat.

Mean Streets finds the band carrying RIOT’s lineage with the heat and melody of American metal fully intact.

Orgy of the Damned is a covers record in which SLASH goes deeply into the classic blues that forms part of his musical foundation.

バンド自身がアコースティック企画と位置づけている2024年の作品。

2024年発表。ビルボードのクリスチャン・アルバム・チャートで2位に入った。

Restless Fight brings SUNSTORM’s polished AOR sensibility together with the strength of melodic hard rock.

Servitude is THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER’s tenth album and the beginning of a new chapter after profound loss.

The Beautiful Dark of Life collects ATREYU’s three 2023 EPs and adds new songs to complete a larger statement.

Life Is But a Dream... pushes AVENGED SEVENFOLD far beyond a simple metal framework and into an intensely experimental, existential space.

Vol. 10 delivers BUCKCHERRY’s straight-ahead rock-and-roll instincts with no unnecessary detours.

Eleven years after its previous studio record, Heaven Comes Down returns to the shades of melody and guitar lyricism that define DOKKEN.

After a fifteen-year studio gap, Six makes it clear that EXTREME has always been far more than a one-hit story.

Lighting Up the Sky gathers GODSMACK’s muscular riffs, dry groove and large melodies into a well-balanced record.

The Awakening is KAMELOT’s first studio record in five years and brings its symphonic shadows, progressive construction and dramatic melodies into especially clear focus.

Mammoth II is the second MAMMOTH WVH record built around Wolfgang Van Halen’s all-instrument performance and songwriting.

Congregation of Annihilation by METAL CHURCH: track list, Spotify player, music videos and English liner notes on METAL BOOST.

72 Seasons looks back at the formative first eighteen years of life while using Metallica’s familiar language of heavy riffs and long-form construction to probe inward.

The Dio Album is Paul Gilbert’s instrumental tribute to Ronnie James Dio’s catalog across Rainbow, Black Sabbath and Dio.