Best Metal Albums of 2026

Neurosis
An Undying Love for a Burning World

4.28
734 votes

Archvile King
Aux Heures Désespérées

4.14
22 votes

Panopticon
Det Hjemsøkte Hjertet

4.11
63 votes

Kaatayra
Caminhos de Água

4.05
13 votes

Roman Candle (USA-NV)
Unadulterated

4.01
59 votes

Karnivool
In Verses

4.01
260 votes

A Forest of Stars
Stack Overflow In Corpse Pile Interface

4
162 votes

Miserere Luminis
Sidera

3.98
138 votes

Karmanjakah
Diamond Morning

3.98
114 votes

Cryptic Shift
Overspace & Supertime

3.97
411 votes

The Silver (US)
Looking Glass Hymnal Blue

3.92
84 votes

Triumpher
Piercing The Heart Of The World

3.92
54 votes

IATT
Etheric Realms of the Night

3.9
15 votes

Immolation
Descent

3.89
170 votes

Darko (US)
Oni 2

3.88
44 votes

Converge
Love Is Not Enough

3.87
397 votes

Iron Firmament
In The Land of Pre-Human Kings

3.87
18 votes

Poison the Well
Peace In Place

3.87
170 votes

Ultha
A Light So Dim

3.86
50 votes

Ordh
Blind in Abyssal Realms

3.85
62 votes

Archspire
Too Fast To Die

3.84
350 votes

Fossilization
Advent of Wounds

3.84
130 votes

Concealer
This Room Could Be Heaven

3.84
25 votes

Aversio Humanitatis
To Become the Endless Static

3.84
26 votes

Hrob
Brána Chladu

3.82
20 votes

Gutvoid
Liminal Shrines

3.82
78 votes

Woe
Legacies of Human Frailty

3.82
52 votes

Irreversible
Vessel

3.81
16 votes

Mylingar
Út

3.8
15 votes

Ecchymosis
Thanatocorporeal Sculptures....

3.8
14 votes

Ethereal Darkness
Echoes

3.8
66 votes

Gorrch
Stillamentum

3.79
68 votes

Tailgunner
Midnight Blitz

3.79
66 votes

Invictus (JPN)
Nocturnal Visions

3.79
28 votes

Mors Verum
Canvas

3.79
41 votes

Crippled Black Phoenix
Sceaduhelm

3.79
51 votes

Reeking Aura
On the Promise of the Moon

3.79
132 votes

Protrusion
The Last Suppuration

3.79
16 votes

Growth (AUS)
Under the Under

3.78
34 votes

The Supervoid Choral Ensemble
EP1

3.78
32 votes

Hallas
Panorama

3.78
65 votes

Power Paladin
Beyond the Reach of Enchantment

3.78
18 votes

Rosa Faenskap
Ingenting Forblir

3.78
18 votes

Hellripper
Coronach

3.78
219 votes

Egregore
It Echoes In The Wild

3.77
75 votes

Bosse-de-Nage
Hidden Fires Burn Hottest

3.77
52 votes

Killing Pace
HCPM

3.77
15 votes

Draconian
In Somnolent Ruin

3.77
40 votes

Rob Zombie
The Great Satan

3.76
110 votes

Cruel Force
Haneda

3.76
62 votes

Haste the Day
Dissenter

3.75
85 votes

Ascended Master
Crepuscular Gloom

3.75
18 votes

Moodring
Death Fetish

3.74
120 votes

Worm
Necropalace

3.74
315 votes

Corrosion of Conformity
Good God / Baad Man

3.73
80 votes

Blackwater Holylight
Not Here Not Gone

3.72
54 votes

Leatherhead
Violent Horror Stories

3.71
21 votes

Mega Colossus
Watch Out!

3.71
21 votes

Palaces
Sun Hunting

3.71
14 votes

Cnoc An Tursa
A Cry for the Slain

3.71
15 votes

Bekor Qilish
Consecrated Abysses of Dread

3.71
30 votes

Green Carnation
A Dark Poem, Part II: Sanguis

3.7
34 votes

Wildhunt
Aletheia

3.69
54 votes

Ponte del Diavolo
De Venom Natura

3.69
26 votes

Drudkh
Thaw

3.68
38 votes

Domhain
In Perfect Stillness

3.67
30 votes

At The Gates
The Ghost of a Future Dead

3.67
276 votes

Coscradh
Carving the Causeway to the Otherworld

3.66
54 votes

Antropoceno
No Ritmo da Terra

3.66
16 votes

The Hirsch Effekt
Der Brauch

3.66
29 votes

Lovebites
Outstanding Power

3.65
20 votes

Exxul
Sealed Into None

3.65
105 votes

Black Label Society
Engines of Demolition

3.65
34 votes

Marianas Rest
The Bereaved

3.64
40 votes

Witch Ripper
Through The Hourglass

3.64
33 votes

Enshine
Elevation

3.63
171 votes

Chamber (USA)
This Is Goodbye...

3.63
68 votes

Mol
Dreamcrush

3.62
322 votes

The Ruins of Beverast
Tempelschlaf

3.62
226 votes

Lamb of God
Into Oblivion

3.62
374 votes

Exhumed
Red Asphalt

3.61
45 votes

Fire Magic
Memories of Fire

3.61
48 votes

Old Sorcery
The Outsider

3.61
14 votes

Scimitar (DK)
Scimitarium II

3.61
32 votes

Inferi (USA)
Heaven Wept

3.6
88 votes

Stabbing
Eon of Obscenity

3.59
50 votes

Xenobiotic
Dante

3.59
22 votes

Misotheist
De Pinte

3.59
20 votes

Nightmarer
Hell Interface

3.59
34 votes

Temple of Void
The Crawl

3.58
48 votes

Plini
An Unnameable Desire

3.57
28 votes

Yoth Iria
Gone With The Devil

3.57
28 votes

Speglas
Endarkenment, Being And Death

3.57
45 votes

Black Usurper
Echoes From Beneath

3.57
15 votes

Blackbraid
Nocturnal Womb

3.56
40 votes

Powerplant (UK)
Bridge of Sacrifice

3.56
21 votes

The Gloom in The Corner
Royal Discordance

3.56
26 votes

Ellende
Zerfall

3.55
86 votes

Crush Your Soul
Ice Water

3.52
14 votes

I Promised the World
I Promised the World

3.51
82 votes

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

3.51
20 votes

Varials
Where the Light Leaves

3.5
50 votes

Lividus
Scarabaeus

3.5
21 votes

Mammon's Throne
My Body to the Worms

3.5
21 votes

Foetorem
Incongruous Forms Of Evergrowing Rot

3.48
16 votes

Spirit Adrift
Infinite Illumination

3.47
54 votes

Monstrosity
Screams From Beneath The Surface

3.47
28 votes

Sunn O)))
Sunn O)))

3.47
90 votes

Portrayal of Guilt
...Beginning of the End

3.45
58 votes

Nekrogoblikon
The Boiling Sea

3.44
18 votes

Midwinter (US)
A Love I Hope Haunts Me Forever

3.43
14 votes

Skaphos
The Descent

3.43
14 votes

Phasma
Purgatory

3.43
22 votes

Predatory Void
Atoned In Metamorposis

3.42
39 votes

Bizarrekult
Alt Som Finnes

3.42
39 votes

Vomitory
In Death Throes

3.42
19 votes

Ectovoid
In Unreality's Coffin

3.42
16 votes

Sisyphean
Divergence

3.42
18 votes

Wage War
It Calls Me By Name

3.41
34 votes

I, Forlorn
Requiem

3.41
22 votes

Crimson Glory
Chasing The Hydra

3.4
30 votes

Night of the Vampire
Enchanting Winds of the Dreamweaving Masquerade

3.4
22 votes

Urne
Setting Fire To The Sky

3.39
102 votes

Metal Church
Dead to Rights

3.38
48 votes

Nervosa
Slave Machine

3.38
24 votes

ERRA
Silence Outlives the Earth

3.37
246 votes

Darkthrone
Pre-Historic Metal

3.36
110 votes

Black Veil Brides
Vindicate

3.35
24 votes

Pelican
Ascending

3.35
46 votes

Myrath
Wilderness of Mirrors

3.35
26 votes

Dir En Grey
Mortal Downer

3.34
86 votes

Serpent Column
Aion of Strife

3.33
25 votes

Devoid of Thought
Devoid of Thought

3.33
26 votes

Defacing God
Darkness Is My Crown

3.33
14 votes

Sylosis
The New Flesh

3.32
210 votes

Textures
Genotype

3.31
84 votes

Periphery
A Pale White Dot

3.31
190 votes

Above, Below
I Guess It Was Nowhere

3.31
62 votes

Terror
Still Suffer

3.31
36 votes

Bodysnatcher
Hell Is Here, Hell Is Home

3.3
30 votes

Kreator
Krushers of the World

3.3
176 votes

Sepultura
The Cloud Of Unknowing

3.29
34 votes

Before I Turn
Immoral and Malevolent Happenings

3.29
24 votes

Jungle Rot
Cruel Face of War

3.25
24 votes

Iridium (UK)
HELL IS JUST A HALFWAY HOUSE

3.25
16 votes

Melechesh
Sentinels of Shamash

3.25
16 votes

Atreyu
The End Is Not the End

3.24
25 votes

Mayhem
Liturgy of Death

3.23
154 votes

As Everything Unfolds
DID YOU ASK TO BE SET FREE?

3.22
18 votes

Fuath
III

3.21
14 votes

Blanket
True Blue

3.21
24 votes

Venom
Into Oblivion

3.2
45 votes

The Amity Affliction
House of Cards

3.19
32 votes

Cognizance
In Light, No Shape

3.19
32 votes

Ov Sulfur
Endless

3.17
30 votes

Poppy
Empty Hands

3.16
114 votes

Alter Bridge
Alter Bridge

3.14
68 votes

Eternal Champion
Friend of War

3.13
24 votes

Sevendust
One

3.1
58 votes

Overtoun
Death Drive Anthropology

3.1
15 votes

Incandescence
Hors Temps

3.1
15 votes

Dead Air Divine
The Answer

3.08
26 votes

Threat Signal
Revelations

3.07
42 votes

Carrion Vael
Slay Utterly

3.07
14 votes

Wolverine
Anomalies

3.07
14 votes

Atlas (FIN)
Sunder

3.04
24 votes

Paleface Swiss
The Wilted

3.04
13 votes

Ingested
Denigration

3.03
22 votes

Good Tiger
The Most Negative Day Of The Year

3.02
36 votes

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