2026 Metal & Hard Rock Albums

The fourth studio album and the second with Eugent Bushpepa.

The fourteenth studio album, following Bloodlines (2023). Mighty Music issues it internationally on 11 September 2026 as PMZ437CD; Marquee Inc.

A second maxi single built on the theme of setting out, led by “Starlight Voyage” — three songs, with a DVD on the limited edition.

Lonesome_Blue’s second full-length album, produced with Mao, in the standard edition containing the ten main tracks.

The fourteenth full-length album by Galneryus and their first in about two years, after the twentieth-anniversary record The Stars Will Light the Way. This is the standard edition: nine songs and about sixty-five minutes on a single CD, with the same track list as every other format.

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.

The 55th-anniversary edition of Thin Lizzy's 1971 debut: three SHM-CDs and an audio Blu-ray, carrying Richard Whittaker's new stereo mixes and fifteen previously unreleased recordings.

The sixth album, and the first the band made as a five-piece after Joel Hokka's departure, following roughly a year and a half away.

Announced as SINNER's final studio album and released by Reigning Phoenix Music. Seven guest vocalists appear, among them Ronnie Romero and Michael Bormann, and Jacob Hansen mixed and mastered it at Hansen Studios in Denmark.

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.

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。

KOIAI's fourth EP and the first release by the settled five-piece line-up with vocalist Mirei Sakurada; the title track became the August 2026 ending theme for Nippon TV's DayDay.

"Reimei" — the word means daybreak — is the first new song LUMiRiSE released under its current lineup, issued as a streaming-only single at midnight JST on 2…

The 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.

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…

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…

A career-spanning greatest-hits compilation reaching from the 1974 debut Rocka Rolla to 2024's Invincible Shield, gathering signature songs such as "Breaking…

The 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 Gothenbu…

A 50th-anniversary collection of re-recorded ACCEPT classics, each featuring a cast of guest musicians.

Asia's 14th studio album and their first in twelve years, led by the single “The Traveller (Into The Light).”

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

A five-track EP that condenses HANABIE.’s current Harajuku-core sound into metalcore impact, digital pop color, streetwise energy and unapologetic self-affirmation.

A five-track EP that balances open, refreshing melodies with loud-rock weight and presents the second chapter of East Of Eden through Ayasa’s violin-led identity.

A ten-song independent hard-rock statement that turns recovery, major-band experience and renewed creative freedom into Erik Grönwall’s first original solo album in sixteen years.

A melodic-metal EP that links fantasy-adventure imagery with bright speed, heroic guitar work and the renewed identity of HAGANE.

A five-song 2026 EP that condenses the four-piece NEMOPHILA’s physical groove, self-written material and renewed identity.

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.

Art Of Chaos finds CRASHDIET shaping sleazy glam-metal attitude and catchy hard-rock hooks into a 2026 album with a clear sense of identity.

SPLAT! finds DEEP PURPLE shaping classic hard-rock improvisation, blues warmth and the conversation between keyboard and guitar into a 2026 album with a clear sense of id

The Moth finds DEVIN TOWNSEND shaping huge progressive-metal sound design, ambient space and introspective melody into a 2026 album with a clear sense of identity.

Set The Dark On Fire finds EDENBRIDGE shaping symphonic-metal fantasy and clear melodic-metal uplift into a 2026 album with a clear sense of identity.

Come This Madness is a useful way to hear EUROPE from a different angle within the 2026 catalogue.

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.

The Legend Of The Six Kings is a useful way to hear FROZEN CROWN from a different angle within the 2026 catalogue.

More Stereo Crush is a useful way to hear GOTTHARD 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.

Awesome Anthems Of The Galaxy finds IRON SAVIOR shaping Iron Savior’s hard space-metal pressure and approachable anthem spirit into a 2026 album with a clear sense of ide

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

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.

Outstanding Power finds LOVEBITES shaping Japanese power/speed-metal drive and the shine of classical twin guitars into a 2026 album with a clear sense of identity.

Metalmorphosis finds MASTERPLAN shaping European melodic power-metal uplift and thick hard-rock-leaning groove into a 2026 album with a clear sense of identity.

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.

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.

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