Best Albums of 2026

Neurosis
An Undying Love for a Burning World

4.25
410 votes

Boards of Canada
Inferno

4.19
226 votes

Saidan
Fangdriller: Scars Beneath Memory's Wrist

4.19
122 votes

Panopticon
Det Hjemsøkte Hjertet

4.17
101 votes

Elder (USA-MA)
Through Zero

4.13
162 votes

Static Dress
Injury Episode

4.11
239 votes

WU LYF
A Wave That Will Never Break

4.09
32 votes

The Twilight Sad
It's The Long Goodbye

4.09
104 votes

letterstoyou
...maybe someday became today

4.09
34 votes

Hammock
The Second Coming Was A Moonrise

4.08
93 votes

Tigran Hamasyan
Manifeste

4.07
41 votes

Sallow Moth
Hydrophilous Brood

4.06
49 votes

Sex Prisoner
Cautionary Tale

4.03
21 votes

Kaatayra
Caminhos de Água

4.03
23 votes

Miserere Luminis
Sidera

4.02
80 votes

Karnivool
In Verses

4
270 votes

Forest Drive West
Mantis 1920

3.99
22 votes

The Silver (US)
Looking Glass Hymnal Blue

3.98
32 votes

Cryptic Shift
Overspace & Supertime

3.97
150 votes

REZN
Cycles in the Infinite Dream

3.95
43 votes

Funebrarum
Beckoning the Void of Eternal Silence

3.95
77 votes

Nedgravd
Ascension

3.94
26 votes

Roman Candle (USA-NV)
Unadulterated

3.93
79 votes

A Forest of Stars
Stack Overflow In Corpse Pile Interface

3.93
116 votes

Chalk Hands
The Line That Shapes the Coast of Us

3.92
33 votes

Protest the Hero
Within

3.92
163 votes

Fake Dust
Decrepitizing Din Of The Cerebral Psyopticon

3.92
30 votes

Together to the Stars
Iridescence

3.91
35 votes

Hammok
When Does This Place Become Our Scene

3.91
46 votes

Converge
Hum of Hurt

3.91
259 votes

Immolation
Descent

3.9
191 votes

Pharmacist
Vertebrae After Vertebrae

3.9
22 votes

Love Rarely
Pain Travels

3.9
22 votes

Warning
Rituals of Shame

3.89
93 votes

Ultha
A Light So Dim

3.89
58 votes

Karmanjakah
Diamond Morning

3.89
95 votes

Ronker
Respect The Hustle, I Won’t Be Your Dog Forever

3.88
77 votes

Friko
Something Worth Waiting For

3.88
44 votes

Converge
Love Is Not Enough

3.87
429 votes

Ordh
Blind in Abyssal Realms

3.87
41 votes

The Saddest Landscape
Alone With Heaven

3.87
69 votes

Genesis Owusu
Redstar Wu and the Worldwide Scourge

3.85
60 votes

Poison the Well
Peace In Place

3.85
183 votes

Archspire
Too Fast To Die

3.84
192 votes

Fossilization
Advent of Wounds

3.84
74 votes

Gutvoid
Liminal Shrines

3.84
41 votes

Ostraca
Thread

3.83
41 votes

mary in the junkyard
Role Model Hermit

3.83
23 votes

Darko (US)
Oni 2

3.82
63 votes

letterstoyou
a promise

3.82
21 votes

Woe
Legacies of Human Frailty

3.82
29 votes

letterstoyou
moonlight

3.81
27 votes

Slift
Fantasia

3.81
58 votes

Egregore
It Echoes In The Wild

3.8
29 votes

Gorrch
Stillamentum

3.8
38 votes

All Them Witches
House Of Mirrors

3.8
39 votes

Archive
Glass Minds

3.8
30 votes

Einar Solberg
Vox Occulta

3.8
27 votes

A Wilhelm Scream
Cheap Heat

3.8
85 votes

Tailgunner (UK1)
Midnight Blitz

3.79
33 votes

Devourment
Pious Impiety

3.79
28 votes

Cruel Force
Haneda

3.79
31 votes

Invictus (JPN)
Nocturnal Visions

3.79
30 votes

Ethereal Darkness
Echoes

3.79
26 votes

Soft Curse
Liminal Ritual

3.79
58 votes

Thaetas
The Irredeemable Age

3.79
21 votes

Concealer
This Room Could Be Heaven

3.78
37 votes

Mors Verum
Canvas

3.78
44 votes

Reeking Aura
On the Promise of the Moon

3.78
58 votes

Still Remains
Spirit Breaker

3.78
28 votes

Crippled Black Phoenix
Sceaduhelm

3.78
57 votes

Carpenter Brut
Leather Temple

3.78
40 votes

Johnny Blue Skies
Mutiny After Midnight

3.77
33 votes

Hallas
Panorama

3.77
68 votes

underscores
U

3.77
89 votes

Haste the Day
Dissenter

3.76
100 votes

Kelela
New Avatar

3.76
36 votes

Rob Zombie
The Great Satan

3.76
112 votes

August Burns Red
Season of Surrender

3.76
138 votes

Hellripper
Coronach

3.75
82 votes

Slayyyter
Wor$t Girl In America

3.75
104 votes

The Field
Now You Exist

3.75
26 votes

Worm
Necropalace

3.75
115 votes

Bosse-de-Nage
Hidden Fires Burn Hottest

3.74
58 votes

Stormkeep
The Nocturnes Of Iswylm

3.74
50 votes

Monolord
Neverending

3.74
42 votes

Corrosion of Conformity
Good God / Baad Man

3.73
41 votes

Joyce Manor
I Used To Go To This Bar

3.73
129 votes

American Football
American Football (LP4)

3.72
140 votes

Muse
The Wow! Signal

3.72
185 votes

Kneecap
Fenian

3.71
21 votes

Marmozets
CO.WAR.DICE

3.7
22 votes

Khemmis
Khemmis

3.7
47 votes

Draconian
In Somnolent Ruin

3.7
62 votes

Genghis Tron
Signal Fire

3.69
74 votes

Exxul
Sealed Into None

3.69
36 votes

Madonna
Confessions II

3.68
60 votes

Downfall of Nur
And the Firmament will Burn to Quench the Pain...

3.68
23 votes

Blackwater Holylight
Not Here Not Gone

3.68
60 votes

At The Gates
The Ghost of a Future Dead

3.68
149 votes

Tigers Jaw
Lost on You

3.68
81 votes

Green Carnation
A Dark Poem, Part II: Sanguis

3.68
35 votes

By Storm
My Ghosts Go Ghost

3.68
57 votes

The Hirsch Effekt
Der Brauch

3.67
32 votes

Moodring
Death Fetish

3.66
69 votes

Erdve
Epigrama

3.66
23 votes

Quicksand
Bring on the Psychics

3.66
41 votes

Olivia Rodrigo
You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love

3.66
155 votes

Misotheist
De Pinte

3.65
22 votes

Lip Critic
Theft World

3.65
27 votes

Enshine
Elevation

3.65
58 votes

Drudkh
Thaw

3.64
44 votes

The Ruins of Beverast
Tempelschlaf

3.64
119 votes

Searows
Death in the Business of Whaling

3.64
21 votes

Mol
Dreamcrush

3.64
167 votes

Coscradh
Carving the Causeway to the Otherworld

3.64
28 votes

Koyo (US)
Barely Here

3.63
27 votes

Modest Mouse
An Eraser and a Maze

3.63
84 votes

Truck Violence
The Weathervane Is My Body

3.63
28 votes

Iceage
For Love of Grace & the Hereafter

3.63
36 votes

Zu
Ferrum Sidereum

3.62
31 votes

Marianas Rest
The Bereaved

3.62
23 votes

Fires in the Distance
Circadian Promise

3.62
60 votes

trauma ray
Carnival

3.62
25 votes

Angine de Poitrine
Vol. II

3.62
146 votes

Fire Magic
Memories of Fire

3.62
26 votes

No Pressure
NP Style

3.62
22 votes

The Plot In You
The Plot In You

3.62
40 votes

100 Demons
Embrace The Black Light

3.61
22 votes

Ethic
Demo

3.61
31 votes

Ratboys
Singin’ to an Empty Chair

3.61
47 votes

Chamber (USA)
This Is Goodbye...

3.61
73 votes

Hemlocke Springs
the apple tree under the sea

3.6
43 votes

Temple of Void
The Crawl

3.6
28 votes

Inferi (USA)
Heaven Wept

3.6
51 votes

Lamb of God
Into Oblivion

3.6
195 votes

Vince Staples
Cry Baby

3.59
41 votes

Stabbing
Eon of Obscenity

3.59
51 votes

Exhumed
Red Asphalt

3.59
49 votes

Blackbraid
Nocturnal Womb

3.59
44 votes

Failure
Location Lost

3.59
86 votes

Bill Callahan
My Days of 58

3.58
24 votes

Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore
Tragic Magic

3.58
38 votes

DevilDriver
Strike and Kill

3.58
26 votes

Winterfylleth
The Unyielding Season

3.57
40 votes

Sweet Pill (USA-PA)
Still There’s a Glow

3.56
36 votes

Ellende
Zerfall

3.55
43 votes

I Promised the World
I Promised the World

3.55
82 votes

Seahaven
Seahaven

3.55
24 votes

James Blake
Trying Times

3.55
44 votes

Yoth Iria
Gone With The Devil

3.54
25 votes

RAYE
This Music May Contain Hope

3.54
26 votes

Death Cab for Cutie
I Built You A Tower

3.54
76 votes

Nothing
A Short History of Decay

3.54
91 votes

Isaiah Rashad
It's Been Awful

3.53
23 votes

Dimmu Borgir
Grand Serpent Rising

3.53
86 votes

Motorpsycho
The Gaia II Space Corps

3.53
25 votes

Gorillaz
The Mountain

3.53
140 votes

Spirit Adrift
Infinite Illumination

3.52
24 votes

Courtney Barnett
Creature Of Habit

3.52
27 votes

Flea
Honora

3.52
27 votes

Plini
An Unnameable Desire

3.51
34 votes

Powerplant (UK)
Bridge of Sacrifice

3.51
24 votes

Jessie Ware
Superbloom

3.51
44 votes

Feels Like Heaven
Within Dreams

3.51
28 votes

Pipe Bomb
Hell Hole

3.51
30 votes

Black Label Society
Engines of Demolition

3.5
28 votes

Mitski
Nothing's About to Happen to Me

3.5
45 votes

Varials
Where the Light Leaves

3.5
29 votes

Kacey Musgraves
Middle Of Nowhere

3.5
42 votes

The Rolling Stones
Foreign Tongues

3.49
36 votes

Portrayal of Guilt
...Beginning of the End

3.48
70 votes

Iron And Wine
Hen's Teeth

3.48
23 votes

Monstrosity
Screams From Beneath The Surface

3.47
29 votes

Jack White
Frozen Charlotte

3.47
34 votes

The Menzingers
Everything I Ever Saw

3.47
50 votes

Left To Die
Initium Mortis

3.47
31 votes

Psycroptic
The Pulse of Annihilation

3.46
32 votes

Kurt Vile
Philadelphia’s Been Good To Me

3.46
24 votes

Above, Below
I Guess It Was Nowhere

3.45
37 votes

Guilt Trip (UK)
Armour Of Angels

3.45
42 votes

Sunn O)))
Sunn O)))

3.45
51 votes

Ariana Grande
Petal

3.44
25 votes

Mandy, Indiana
URGH

3.44
55 votes

Haken
In a Fever Dream

3.43
40 votes

Lower Definition
The Purpose of the Moon

3.42
72 votes

Snail Mail
Ricochet

3.42
26 votes

Robyn
Sexistential

3.41
35 votes

Loathe (UK)
A Stranger to You

3.41
154 votes

Don Broco
Nightmare Tripping

3.41
55 votes

Black Veil Brides
Vindicate

3.4
31 votes

Night of the Vampire
Enchanting Winds of the Dreamweaving Masquerade

3.4
23 votes

Darkthrone
Pre-Historic Metal

3.39
74 votes

Urne
Setting Fire To The Sky

3.39
34 votes

Fuming Mouth
The Ringing Bell

3.39
21 votes

Wage War
It Calls Me By Name

3.39
27 votes

Metric
Romanticize the Dive

3.39
27 votes

No Cure
It Is Going To Get Dark Out

3.39
52 votes

Boundaries
Yearning: The unbeautiful after

3.38
76 votes

The Format
Boycott Heaven

3.38
37 votes

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