Best Metal Albums of 2026

Neurosis
An Undying Love for a Burning World

4.29
696 votes

Archvile King
Aux Heures Désespérées

4.1
20 votes

Karnivool
In Verses

4.02
251 votes

Cryptic Shift
Overspace & Supertime

3.99
393 votes

The Silver (US)
Looking Glass Hymnal Blue

3.97
78 votes

Miserere Luminis
Sidera

3.96
130 votes

Triumpher
Piercing The Heart Of The World

3.93
45 votes

Haste the Day
Dissenter

3.93
15 votes

Ultha
A Light So Dim

3.93
44 votes

Immolation
Descent

3.89
158 votes

Converge
Love Is Not Enough

3.88
386 votes

Rosa Faenskap
Ingenting Forblir

3.88
16 votes

Iron Firmament
In The Land of Pre-Human Kings

3.87
18 votes

Ordh
Blind in Abyssal Realms

3.87
46 votes

Concealer
This Room Could Be Heaven

3.87
23 votes

Poison the Well
Peace In Place

3.86
163 votes

Archspire
Too Fast To Die

3.84
326 votes

Fossilization
Advent of Wounds

3.84
130 votes

Gorrch
Stillamentum

3.83
66 votes

Tailgunner
Midnight Blitz

3.83
62 votes

Invictus (JPN)
Nocturnal Visions

3.82
27 votes

Ponte del Diavolo
De Venom Natura

3.82
22 votes

Gutvoid
Liminal Shrines

3.81
76 votes

Irreversible
Vessel

3.81
16 votes

Woe
Legacies of Human Frailty

3.81
50 votes

Hellripper
Coronach

3.79
198 votes

Mors Verum
Canvas

3.79
41 votes

Ethereal Darkness
Echoes

3.79
57 votes

Egregore
It Echoes In The Wild

3.79
66 votes

Hallas
Panorama

3.78
61 votes

The Supervoid Choral Ensemble
EP1

3.78
32 votes

Power Paladin
Beyond the Reach of Enchantment

3.78
18 votes

Hrob
Brána Chladu

3.78
16 votes

Crippled Black Phoenix
Sceaduhelm

3.77
43 votes

Protrusion
The Last Suppuration

3.77
15 votes

Bosse-de-Nage
Hidden Fires Burn Hottest

3.77
52 votes

Growth (AUS)
Under the Under

3.77
32 votes

Killing Pace
HCPM

3.77
15 votes

Reeking Aura
On the Promise of the Moon

3.76
117 votes

Cruel Force
Haneda

3.76
54 votes

Scimitar (DK)
Scimitarium II

3.75
20 votes

Lovebites
Outstanding Power

3.75
16 votes

Aversio Humanitatis
To Become the Endless Static

3.74
18 votes

Moodring
Death Fetish

3.74
116 votes

Domhain
In Perfect Stillness

3.73
26 votes

Rob Zombie
The Great Satan

3.72
110 votes

At The Gates
The Ghost of a Future Dead

3.72
222 votes

The Hirsch Effekt
Der Brauch

3.71
28 votes

Mega Colossus
Watch Out!

3.71
21 votes

Leatherhead
Violent Horror Stories

3.71
21 votes

Worm
Necropalace

3.71
306 votes

Blackwater Holylight
Not Here Not Gone

3.71
52 votes

Bekor Qilish
Consecrated Abysses of Dread

3.71
30 votes

Drudkh
Thaw

3.7
28 votes

Corrosion of Conformity
Good God / Baad Man

3.7
70 votes

Black Label Society
Engines of Demolition

3.7
30 votes

Exxul
Sealed Into None

3.7
102 votes

Wildhunt
Aletheia

3.69
54 votes

Coscradh
Carving the Causeway to the Otherworld

3.69
50 votes

Old Sorcery
The Outsider

3.65
13 votes

Enshine
Elevation

3.64
168 votes

Marianas Rest
The Bereaved

3.64
40 votes

Witch Ripper
Through The Hourglass

3.64
33 votes

Chamber (USA)
This Is Goodbye...

3.64
65 votes

Fire Magic
Memories of Fire

3.63
46 votes

Lamb of God
Into Oblivion

3.63
376 votes

Nightmarer
Hell Interface

3.63
32 votes

Green Carnation
A Dark Poem, Part II: Sanguis

3.62
30 votes

The Ruins of Beverast
Tempelschlaf

3.62
218 votes

Mol
Dreamcrush

3.62
312 votes

Exhumed
Red Asphalt

3.61
45 votes

Xenobiotic
Dante

3.59
22 votes

Stabbing
Eon of Obscenity

3.59
48 votes

Inferi (USA)
Heaven Wept

3.58
80 votes

Blackbraid
Nocturnal Womb

3.58
38 votes

Plini
An Unnameable Desire

3.58
19 votes

Misotheist
De Pinte

3.58
17 votes

Speglas
Endarkenment, Being And Death

3.57
42 votes

Black Usurper
Echoes From Beneath

3.57
15 votes

Sunn O)))
Sunn O)))

3.57
82 votes

The Gloom in The Corner
Royal Discordance

3.56
26 votes

Ellende
Zerfall

3.55
86 votes

Powerplant (UK)
Bridge of Sacrifice

3.54
19 votes

Antropoceno
No Ritmo da Terra

3.54
13 votes

Spirit Adrift
Infinite Illumination

3.53
48 votes

Crush Your Soul
Ice Water

3.52
14 votes

Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean
Let Us Not Speak Of Them But Look And Pass On

3.51
18 votes

Monstrosity
Screams From Beneath The Surface

3.51
25 votes

Varials
Where the Light Leaves

3.5
50 votes

Cold Night For Alligators
With All That's Left

3.5
24 votes

Mammon's Throne
My Body to the Worms

3.5
15 votes

Temple of Void
The Crawl

3.5
40 votes

I Promised the World
I Promised the World

3.49
80 votes

Vomitory
In Death Throes

3.47
17 votes

Bizarrekult
Alt Som Finnes

3.46
36 votes

Nekrogoblikon
The Boiling Sea

3.44
18 votes

Portrayal of Guilt
...Beginning of the End

3.44
49 votes

Skaphos
The Descent

3.43
14 votes

Phasma
Purgatory

3.43
22 votes

Predatory Void
Atoned In Metamorposis

3.42
39 votes

Sisyphean
Divergence

3.42
18 votes

Night of the Vampire
Enchanting Winds of the Dreamweaving Masquerade

3.41
20 votes

I, Forlorn
Requiem

3.41
22 votes

Metal Church
Dead to Rights

3.39
42 votes

Urne
Setting Fire To The Sky

3.39
102 votes

Devoid of Thought
Devoid of Thought

3.39
22 votes

Ectovoid
In Unreality's Coffin

3.38
15 votes

Wage War
It Calls Me By Name

3.37
30 votes

Foetorem
Incongruous Forms Of Evergrowing Rot

3.36
14 votes

Iridium (UK)
HELL IS JUST A HALFWAY HOUSE

3.36
14 votes

Above, Below
I Guess It Was Nowhere

3.35
60 votes

Pelican
Ascending

3.35
46 votes

Dir En Grey
Mortal Downer

3.34
86 votes

ERRA
Silence Outlives the Earth

3.33
240 votes

Textures
Genotype

3.33
82 votes

Defacing God
Darkness Is My Crown

3.33
14 votes

Terror
Still Suffer

3.32
28 votes

Kreator
Krushers of the World

3.32
174 votes

Venom
Into Oblivion

3.31
24 votes

Nervosa
Slave Machine

3.3
20 votes

Eternal Champion
Friend of War

3.3
20 votes

Before I Turn
Immoral and Malevolent Happenings

3.3
18 votes

Sepultura
The Cloud Of Unknowing

3.29
34 votes

Sylosis
The New Flesh

3.29
204 votes

Serpent Column
Aion of Strife

3.28
24 votes

Bodysnatcher
Hell Is Here, Hell Is Home

3.28
27 votes

Atreyu
The End Is Not the End

3.28
18 votes

As Everything Unfolds
DID YOU ASK TO BE SET FREE?

3.25
32 votes

Crimson Glory
Chasing The Hydra

3.25
24 votes

The Amity Affliction
House of Cards

3.24
21 votes

Mayhem
Liturgy of Death

3.23
154 votes

Fuath
III

3.21
14 votes

Blanket
True Blue

3.21
24 votes

Myrath
Wilderness of Mirrors

3.18
22 votes

Poppy
Empty Hands

3.18
111 votes

Ov Sulfur
Evermore

3.17
30 votes

Alter Bridge
Alter Bridge

3.14
68 votes

Atlas (FIN)
Sunder

3.14
22 votes

Overtoun
Death Drive Anthropology

3.1
15 votes

Dead Air Divine
The Answer

3.08
26 votes

Threat Signal
Revelations

3.07
42 votes

Wolverine
Anomalies

3.07
14 votes

Good Tiger
The Most Negative Day Of The Year

3.07
33 votes

Paleface Swiss
The Wilted

3.04
13 votes

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