Releases

By popular demand, we’ve put together an on-going list of release dates for upcoming new albums of interest for 2026! The below list is accurate at the time of writing and in a constant state of change as release dates get changed!

February 2026

5th – Paganizer – “As Mankind Rots”
6th – Agenbite Misery – “Remorse of Conscience”*
6th – Full House Brew Crew – “Glasgow Grin”
6th – Cartoons Can’t Lie – “Rebirth”
6th – Blossoms Fall – “La Alma”
6th – Mayhem – “Liturgy of Death”
6th – Karnivool – “In Verses”
6th – Visions Of Atlantis – “Armada – An Orchestral Voyage”
6th – I Am Mook – “Hollow Allegory” EP*
6th – Mount Palatine – “Wormholy World”
6th – Shatterheart – “Infernal Symphony”
6th – Cattle Hammer – “Dark Thoughts With Lights Out”
6th – Phendrana – “Cathexis”
6th – Demonic Resurrection – “Apocalyptic Dawn” EP*
11th – The Browning – “Burn This World [EVOLVED]”
13th – Angel Du$t – “Cold 2 The Touch”
13th – Malefic – “Impertinence”
13th – No Worth Of Man – “The Killing Streets”*
13th – DeathAssault – “Self Titled”
13th – Diespnea – “Radici”
13th – Overtoun – “Death Drive Anthropology”
13th – Fossilization – “Advent Of Wounds”
13th – Borrower – “Killerdemons”
13th – Kubika – “Disorders”
13th – Moonchapel – “Three Faced Trinity For A Two-Faced World”
13th – DeathAssault – “Self Titled”
13th – Skin Stripper – “Brutality Is Supremacy”
13th – Deathraw – “Reduced To Ashes” EP*
13th – When We Meet – “The Killing Game”
15th – Kill All The Gentlemen – “At War With The Minotaur” EP
16th – Death of Youth – “Nothing Is The Same Anymore”
18th – Troglodyte – “Anthropoid Effigy”
19th – Iron Bones – “Poison Riot”
20th – Sylosis – “The New Flesh”
20th – Clawfinger – “Before We All Die”
20th – Falling Below – “Holding Out for Hope” EP
20th – Kaiju – “Dissentience” EP*
20th – Darklore – “The Great Elven War”
20th – Necronomicon Ex Mortis – “Zombie Blood Nightmare” EP*
20th – Domhain – “In Perfect Stillness”
20th – Abstracted – “Hiraeth”
20th – Soul of Anubis – “Ritual”
20th – Crowen – “Through the Dying Mist” EP
20th – Tiempos De Ira – “Una vida de locxs” EP*
20th – AmongRuins – “Advent of Chaos”
20th – Shadowspawn – “Cadaver Dogs”
20th – Worm Shepherd – “Dawn Of The Iconoclast”
20th – Game Over – “Crimes Against Reality” (2026 Remaster)
25th – Morrath – “Obscure Abominations” EP*
26th – Distorted Reflection – “Doom Zone”
26th – Fayenne – “The Calling from the Depth”
27th – Phoenix Lake – “Seraphina: The Fall From Eden”
27th – Unburier – “As Time Awaits” EP*
27th – Varials – “Where The Light Leaves”
27th – Necrofier – “Transcend Into Oblivion”
27th – Ennui – “Qroba”
27th – Matador – “Above, Below and So”
27th – Plagued – “Rotting Dominions” EP
27th – Hela – “A Reign To Conquer”
27th – Cryptic Shift -“Overspace & Supertime”
27th – Scratch One Grub – “Self titled”
27th – CrusHuman – “Imperial”
27th – Marlugubre – “Per Amor Nymphae”
27th – Ruoska – “Kade”
27th – Gladium Regis – “Quest”
27th – Grave Heist – “Fate Of The World“ EP
27th – Mývalyĭr – “The Past Tales”
27th – Spreading The Disease – “Purgatory Carnival” EP

March 2026

1st – Novomundo – “The Cursed Cult”
4th – Mother Crone – “Inner Keep”
5th – Tardigrade Inferno – “Hush”
6th – Cogadh – “Kingmaker”
6th – Oathbound – “Colors In Grey“
6th – Turpentine Valley – “Veuel”
6th – Desert Storm –  “Buried Under The Weight Of Reason”
6th – Temple of Void – “The Crawl”
6th – Qwälen – “Veri Virtaa Edelleen”
6th – From Ashes Reborn – “Chasing Euphoria”
6th – Sermon To The Lambs – “Self Titled”
6th – Prong – “Live And Uncleansed”
6th – Legionary – “Never-Ending Quest for Purpose”
6th – Evilborn – “The Ascension” EP
6th – Mega Colossus – “Watch Out”
6th – Erra – “silence outlives the earth”
6th – Cogadh – “Kingmaker”
6th – Rotnest – “Torture Portrait Pt. II”
6th – Azken Auzi – “Infernua”
6th – Rotnet – “Torture Portrait, Pt. 2” EP
6th – Gravemass – “This Is The Way”
10th – Salos – “A Slaughter for the Empire”
12th – Ravenspell – “Obsidian King”
13th – Against I – “Anti Life”
13th – Wolfbastard – “Satanic Scum Punks”
13th – Monosphere – “Amnesia”
13th – Know//Suffer – “The Curse of Care”
13th – Glass Grave – “Memento Mori” EP
13th – Bound In Fear – “A Mind Too Sick To Heal”
13th – What the Fire Left – “Self Titled” EP
13th – Vanta – “Perpetual Selection”
13th – Monstrosity – “Screams From Beneath The Surface”
13th – Kingsphere – “Inertia”
20th – Night Thieves – “Metaxis”
20th – Hautajaisyö – “Surun Paino”
20th – Gaerea – “Loss”
20th – Mystfall – “Embers Of A Dying World”
20th – Putred – “Blestemul Din Adânc”
20th – Diatribes – “Degenerate”
20th – Veil Of The Serpent – “Born To Burn”
20th – Karmian – “Horror Vacui”
20th – The Holeum – “Ensis”
20th – Papa Necrose – “Anthropomorphy Execution”
20th – Graufar – “Via Necropolis”
20th – Night Thieves – “Metaxis”
20th – Nihilanth – “Detritus Of Ruin” EP
20th – Dragsholm – “From The Bloodlines of Bram”
20th – Turbowitch – “Under Haunted Skies”
20th – Exodus – “Goliath”
20th – Hanging Garden – “Isle of Bliss”
20th – Following The Signs – “Evolve” EP
20th – Abyssius – “VERMIN: A Descent into the Heavy Atmospheres of Nihilism”
20th – Cultist – “Spiritual Atrophy”
20th – Lord of Confusion – “The Weight of Life”
25th – Hegeroth – “Soaked In Rot”
26th – Horion – “Doom” EP
27th – Mallavora – “What If Better Never Comes?”
27th – Acidosis – “Arrival”
27th – Hellripper – “Coronach”
27th – Miserate – “Weaver Of Witchery” EP
27th – Obscure Fate – “Shades of a Dying World”
27th – Foetorem – “Incongruous Forms Of Evergrowing Rot”
27th – Party Cannon – “Subjected To A Partying” EP
27th – Growth – “Under The Under”
27th – Total Maniac – “Love Overdrive”
27th – Divine Chaos – “Hate Reactor”
27th – Varmia – “Lauks”
27th – Threat Signal – “Revelations”
27th – Dystopia – “De Verboden Diepte II: De Weg van de Meeste Weerstand”
27th – Iron Slug – “Deceit And Misery”
27th – Chamber – “this is goodbye…”

April 2026

3rd – Rats Will Feast – “An Evocation” EP
3rd – Dust – “Thoughts Of A Falling Man”
3rd – ForeignWolf – “Merely Mortal” EP
3rd – Akem Manah – “Threnodies”
3rd – Nervosa – “Slave Machine”
3rd – Graveborn – “Metempsychosis”
3rd – Splendidula – “Absentia”
3rd – Corrosion of Conformity – “Good God / Baad Man”
3rd – Towering – “The Oblation of Man”
3rd – Ailurophobia –  “Contemplation of a Declining World”
3rd – No Terror in The Bang – “Existence” EP
3rd – SolNegre – “Anthems For The Grand Collapse”
8th – Melechesh – “Sentinels of Shamash” EP
9th – Worship The Sacrifice – “Veil Of Revelations”
10th – Riket – “Self Titled”
10th – Silaera – “An Aberration of the Void”
10th – Bodysnatcher – “Hell Is Here, Hell Is Home”
10th – Chronicler Of Ardul – “Sounds of Ardul”
10th – Immolation – “Descent”
17th – Rise Of Kronos – “Slaves Of Time”
17th – The Last Ten Seconds of Life – “The Dead Ones”
17th – Nekrogoblikon – “The Boiling Sea” EP
17th – Master’s Ashes – “How The Mighty Have Fallen”
17th – Kill The Silence – “The Final Word” EP
17th – Resumption – “The Respite”
18th – Since the Fire – “Remains Embraced” EP
23rd – Heathen – “Never A God” EP
23rd – Ural – “Anthropic Genetic Involution”
24th – Anubis – “Anthromorphicide”
24th – Armed For Apocalypse – “The Earth Is Breathing Beneath Me”
24th – Waste – “The Weight Of Everything” EP
24th – Cnoc An Tursa – “A Cry For The Slain”
24th – Golgotha – “Hubris”
24th – Blindead 23 – “Deuterium”
24th – Dyecrest – “Defying Gravity”
24th – Heiden – “CMA”
24th – At The Gates – “The Ghost of a Future Dead”
28th –  Fifth Alliance – “Stenahoria”

May 2026

1st – Cage Fight – “Exuvia”
1st – In Malice’s Wake – “The Profound Darkness”
6th – Black Sea Of Trees – “Cult of the Sun”
7th – Abuser – “Blood Marks”
8th – Old Moon – “Home To Nowhere”
8th – Madvice – “L’ottavo Giorno”
8th – Scarab – “Transmutation of Fate” EP
8th – Torchia – “They Are Born Under Rules of the Darkness”
8th – IATT – “Etheric Realms of the Night”
8th – Warside – “Cognitive Extinction”
8th – Madvice – “L’Ottavo Giorno”
8th – Ingested – “Denigration”
15th – Inthraced – “Constellation Zero”
15th – Sun of Seven – “Echoes of the Hypermind”
15th – Inthraced – “Constellation Zero”
15th – Pro-Pain – “Stone Cold Anger”
15th – Atavistia – “Old Gods Awaken”
22nd – As The Sun Falls – “Songs From The Veil”
23rd – Aexylium – “Myth of Mankind”
29th – Hecate Enthroned – “The Corpse of a Titan, A Lament Long Buried”
29th – Se, Josta Ei Puhut – “Syvyyden portit on saatava auki”
29th – Cambrian – “Oceans Away”
29th – Horizon of Aeons – “Timeless Forms of Desolation”

June 2026

15th – Evergrey – “Architects Of A New Weave”
21st – Blood Of Angels – “Les Agnst ov Thanatou”

July 2026

11th – Sonus Mortis – “Bodhran And Bones”
31st – Scarab – “Blinding the Masses [Reincarnated]”

August 2026

September 2026

October 2026

17th – Fate Unburied – “Neraspeme”

November 2026

December 2026

January 2026

2nd – Ellende – “Zerfall”*
7th – Bound To Prevail – “Enthroned in Torment”*
9th – Deadwood – “Rituals of a Dying Light”*
9th – Semper Acerbus – “Following Omens”*
9th – Redivider – “Sounds Of Malice”*
9th – Inborn Tendency – “Heritage”
9th – Krushor – “Taste of Hatred” EP*
9th – Orchid Throne – “Buried In Black”
9th – Sardonic Allegiance –  ‘Coast II’ EP*
9th – Stranguliatorius – “Flies Don’t Lie”
9th – Ectovoid – “In Unreality’s Coffin”*
9th – Fear Of Domination – “Katharsis”
9th – Denominate – “Restoration”*
10th – Terror Garden – “Self Titled” EP
10th – The Promise Of Plague – “The Earth Above, A Grave Beneath”
15th – Hagetisse – “To Wither Beneath Thy Radiance”
15th – HyperioN – “Cybergenesis”
16th – Funeral Home – “Your Funeral”
16th – Viserion – “Fire and Blood”*
16th – Kreator – “Krushers Of The World”
16th – Putridarium – “Natvm Ad Mortem”
16th – Ov Sulfur – “Endless”
16th – Vesseles – “Home”
16th – Hyshstral – “Ad Infinitum”
16th – Genus Ordinis Dei – “The Land East Of Eden”
16th – My Ruin – “Declaration Of Resistance”
16th – Carrion Vael – “Slay Utterly”*
16th – Crystal Lake – “The Weight of Sound”*
16th – Pacifist – “Five” EP
16th – Voice Of Glass – “Epos” EP*
16th – Architectural Genocide – “Malignant Cognition”
16th – Subjugated – “Inherent Belligerence”
19th – Sad Whisperings – “The Hermit”
22nd – Sanity Overdrive – “gods.append(human)”
22nd – Deathraiser – “Forged In Hatred”*
23rd – Virtue In Vain – “Nothing Is All I Am” EP*
23rd – Stalwart – “Tempvs Edax Rervm”
23rd – Meteora – “Dissonance” EP*
23rd – Cadavrul – “Necrotic Savagery”
23rd – Handful of Hate – “Soulless Abominations”
23rd – Duisternis – “Leichen des Krieges”*
23rd – Vanishment – “And Now We Die”*
30th – Profane Elegy – “Herezjarcha”
30th – Sidious – “Malefic Necropolis”*
30th – URNE – “Setting Fire To The Sky”
30th – Shields – “Death And Connection”
30th – Red Sands – “Evocations” EP
30th – Krateros – “Lost in Translation” EP
30th – Stabbing – “Eon of Obscenity”
30th – Skulld – “Abyss Calls To Abyss”*
30th – Course Of Fate – “Behind The Eclipse”
30th – The Hirsch Effekt – “Der Brauch”
30th – Shine – “Wrathcult”
30th – Survivalist – “A Place For Those Who Suffer, Alone”*
30th – Eximperitus – “Meritoriousness of Equanimity”
30th – Amenspear – “Ego’s Carrion”
30th – Crypt Watcher – “Necrotizing Omnipotence” EP*
30th – MØL – “Dreamcrush”
30th – Kosuke Hashida – “Moment Of Silence”
30th – Contrasts – “False Idol” EP*
31st – Mascharat – “Ars Aurea Mortis”*

*Reviewed by Metal Noise!
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