My Favorite Albums 2026

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My Favorite Albums 2026

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Vellichor
Created
January 01, 2026
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Will this be the year I find another perfect 10? Join me on my quest as I rank all the albums I listen to in 2026. I will only be making time for albums that I am anticipating beforehand this year, so I expect a few less than usual.

To celebrate the sweet list updates by corrupt, we’re bumping the number of artworks up to 9:
144.
1.
Neurosis - An Undying Love For A Burning World
🇺🇸 9 (Post-Metal)
144.
2.
Blackwater Holylight - Not Here Not Gone
🇺🇸 8.5 (Doomgaze, Psychedelic Rock)
144.
3.
Scimitar - Scimitarium II
🇩🇰 8.5 (Blackened Heavy)
144.
4.
Muse - The WOW! Signal
🇬🇧 8.5 (Alternative Rock, Synth Rock)
144.
5.
Ghinzu - W.O.W.A.
🇧🇪 8.5 (Alternative Rock, Synthpop)
144.
6.
Converge - Love Is Not Enough
🇺🇸 8 (Metalcore, Post-Hardcore)
144.
7.
Miserere Luminis - Sidera
🇨🇦 8 (Atmospheric Post-Black)
144.
8.
A.A. Williams - Solstice
🇬🇧 8 (Alternative Rock, Post-Rock)
144.
9.
Crippled Black Phoenix - Sceaduhelm
🇬🇧 8 (Progressive, Post-Rock)
144.
10.
DeadTrees - New World
🇨🇳 8 (Instrumental Post-Metal)
144.
11.
A Forest Of Stars - Stack Overflow In Corpse Pile Interface
🇬🇧 8 (Atmospheric Black)
144.
12.
Warning - Rituals Of Shame
🇬🇧 8 (Epic Doom)
144.
13.
Witch Ripper - Through The Hourglass
🇺🇸 8 (Sludge)
144.
14.
Elder - Through Zero
🇺🇸 8 (Stoner, Psychedelic Rock)
144.
15.
Abstracted - Hiraeth
🇧🇷 8 (Progressive Death, Technical Thrash)
144.
16.
Karnivool - In Verses
🇦🇺 8 (Progressive Rock)
144.
17.
Weedpecker - V
🇵🇱 8 (Psychedelic Stoner, Grunge)
144.
18.
Ram-Zet - Sapien
🇳🇴 8 (Extreme Avantgarde)
144.
19.
Immolation - Descent
🇺🇸 8 (Death)
144.
20.
Eartheater - Heavenly Body: If I'm the Bottle You're the Message
🇺🇸 8 (Trip Hop, Experimental Pop)
144.
21.
Big Brave - In Grief Or In Hope
🇨🇦 8 (Post-Rock, Drone)
144.
22.
Fires In The Distance - Circadian Promise
🇺🇸 8 (Melodic Death-Doom)
144.
23.
Marlugubre - Per Amor Nymphae
🇮🇹 8 (Sypmhonic Black, Gothic, Progressive Death, Post-Black)
144.
24.
Angine de Poitrine - Vol. II
🇨🇦 8 (Math Rock, Funk Rock, Jazz Fusion)
144.
25.
Mire - Pale Reflection
🇺🇸 7.5 (Groove Metalcore)
144.
26.
Gavran - The One Who Propels
🇳🇱 7.5 (Sludge, Doom, Post-Metal)
144.
27.
Irreversible - Vessel
🇺🇸 7.5 (Atmospheric Sludge, Post-Metal)
144.
28.
Lyrre - Nothing Is Promised
🇵🇱 7.5 (Celtic Folk)
144.
29.
Snag. - All the Cages Holding Us Will One Day Turn to Dust
🇺🇸 7.5 (Hardcore, Screamo, Emoviolence)
144.
30.
To Athena - Have I Lost My Magic?
🇨🇭 7.5 (Baroque Pop)
144.
31.
Harboured - We're Only The Love That We Lead
🇺🇸 7.5 (Atmospheric Black, Post-Metal)
144.
32.
Converge - Hum Of Hurt
🇺🇸 7.5 (Post-Hardcore, Metaclore, Noise Rock)
144.
33.
The Hardkiss - Grey Hound
🇺🇦 7.5 (Alternatve Rock)
144.
34.
Fjørt - Belle Époque
🇩🇪 7.5 (Post-Hardcore)
144.
35.
Jessie Ware - Superbloom
🇬🇧 7.5 (Dance Pop)
144.
36.
Impure Wilhelmina - Le Sanglot
🇨🇭 7.5 (Post-Hardcore, Post-Metal)
144.
37.
Klimt 1918 - Àmor
🇮🇹 7.5 (Shoegaze, Post-Rock)
144.
38.
The Ruins Of Beverast - Tempelschlaf
🇩🇪 7.5 (Black, Doom)
144.
39.
Lantlôs - Nowhere In Between Forever
🇩🇪 7.5 (Indie Rock, Post-Rock)
144.
40.
Mandy, Indiana - URGH
🇬🇧 7.5 (Experimental, Noise Pop)
144.
41.
Limbs - Like A Poet, Keen To The Rustle Of Leaves
🇵🇭 7.5 (Screamo, Post-Metal)
144.
42.
Chullachaqui - Epiphanic Perdition
🇬🇧 7.5 (Extreme Progressive)
144.
43.
Hecate Enthroned - The Corpse Of A Titan, A Lament Long Buried
🇬🇧 7.5 (Synphonic Black, Blackened Death)
144.
44.
Bosse-De-Nage - Hidden Fires Burn Hottest
🇺🇸 7.5 (Black, Post-Metal)
144.
45.
Truck Violence - The Weathervane Is My Body
🇨🇦 7.5 (Post-Hardcore, Noise Rock)
144.
46.
Tjaktjadálvve - Encompassing Nothingness
🇸🇪 7.5 (Ambient, Depressive Black)
144.
47.
The Moon And The Nightspirit - Seed Of The Formless
🇭🇺 7.5 (Gothic Doom)
144.
48.
Softcult - When a Flower Doesn’t Grow
🇨🇦 7.5 (Grunge, Shoegaze)
144.
49.
Urne - Setting Fire To The Sky
🇬🇧 7.5 (Sludge)
144.
50.
Green Carnation - A Dark Poem, Part II: Sanguis
🇳🇴 7.5 (Gothic, Progressive)
144.
51.
Lost In Kyiv - We're All Going To Be Fine
🇫🇷 7.5 (Post-Rock, Post-Metal)
144.
52.
Karcius - Black Soul Sickness
🇨🇦 7.5 (Rock)
144.
53.
Bizarrekult - Alt Som Finnes
🇳🇴 7.5 (Post-Black)
144.
54.
Bong-Ra - Esoterik
🇳🇱 7.5 (Avant-Garde, Industrial)
144.
55.
Abrams - Loon
🇺🇸 7.5 (Alternative, Sludge, Post-Metal)
144.
56.
Archspire - Too Fast To Die
🇨🇦 7.5 (Ultra Technical Death)
144.
57.
Corrosion Of Conformity - Good God / Baad Man
🇺🇸 7.5 (Stoner, Progressive)
144.
58.
Kolm - Yūgen
🇺🇸 7.5 (Aternative, Progressive)
144.
59.
Monstrosity - Screams From Beneath The Surface
🇺🇸 7.5 (Death)
144.
60.
Ectovoid - In Unreality's Coffin
🇺🇸 7.5 (Death)
144.
61.
At The Gates - The Ghost Of A Future Dead
🇸🇪 7 (Melodic Death)
144.
62.
Textures - Genotype
🇳🇱 7 (Djent, Progressive Math)
144.
63.
Long Distance Calling - The Phantom Void
🇩🇪 7 (Post-Rock)
144.
64.
Møl - Dreamcrush
🇩🇰 7 (Shoegaze, Atmospheric Black, Post-Metal)
144.
65.
Portrayal Of Guilt - …Beginning Of The End
🇺🇸 7 (Screamo, Sludge, Black)
144.
66.
Junius - Sotera
🇺🇸 7 (Alternative, Post-Rock)
144.
67.
Turnover - Down on Earth
🇺🇸 7 (Indie Rock)
144.
68.
Zintnieks - Ilgas Pēc Vasaras Rītiem
🇱🇻 7 (Stoner, Doom)
144.
69.
Panopticon - Det Hjemsøkte Hjertet
🇺🇸 7 (Neofolk, Atmospheric Black)
144.
70.
Hellripper - Coronach
🇬🇧 7 (Speed, Blackened Thrash)
144.
71.
Marianas Rest - The Bereaved
🇫🇮 7 (Melodic Doom, Melodic Death)
144.
72.
Enshine - Elevation
🇸🇪 7 (Melodic Death, Death-Doom)
144.
73.
PVA - No More Like This
🇬🇧 7 (Experimental Trip Hop, Electronica)
144.
74.
Mono - Snowdrop
🇯🇵 7 (Post-Rock)
144.
75.
Gorillaz - The Mountain
🇬🇧 7 (Progressive Pop, Alternative Hip Hop)
144.
76.
Ernte - Der Schwarzen Flamme Vermächtnis
🇨🇭 7 (Black)
144.
77.
Poison The Well - Peace In Place
🇺🇸 7 (Post-Hardcore, Metalcore)
144.
78.
Wazzara - Arbor
🇨🇭 7 (Blackgaze, Post-Metal)
144.
79.
Effluence - Anticholinergic Derangement
🇺🇸 7 (Avantgarde, Brutal Death)
144.
80.
horsegiirL - Nature Is Healing
🇩🇪 7 (Electropop, Dance Pop)
144.
81.
Slow Goat - Where The Wisest Fear To Tread
🇺🇸 7 (Heavy, Stoner, Doom)
144.
82.
A Dream Of Poe - Katabasis: A Marriage Among Ashes
🇬🇧 7 (Gothic, Atmospheric Doom)
144.
83.
Ellende - Zerfall
🇦🇹 7 (Atmospheric Black, Post-Black)
144.
84.
Death Cab for Cutie - I Built You a Tower
🇺🇸 7 (Indie Rock)
144.
85.
Iceage - For Love of Grace & the Hereafter
🇩🇰 7 (Dance-Punk)
144.
86.
If These Trees Could Talk - The Hidden Hand
🇺🇸 7 (Post-Rock)
144.
87.
Fatima - Primal
🇫🇷 7 (Stoner, Doom, Grunge)
144.
88.
Blood Mother - Blood Mother
🇺🇸 7 (Blackened Sludge)
144.
89.
Mayhem - Liturgy Of Death
🇳🇴 7 (Black)
144.
90.
Gaerea - Loss
🇵🇹 6.5 (Black Metalcore)
144.
91.
Port Noir - The Dark We Keep
🇸🇪 6.5 (Alternative, Progressive)
144.
92.
Atreyu - The End Is Not The End
🇺🇸 6.5 (Alternative, Melodic Metalcore)
144.
93.
Dimmu Borgir - Grand Serpent Rising
🇳🇴 6.5 (Symphonic Black)
144.
94.
Show Me the Body - Alone Together
🇺🇸 6.5 (Hardocore Punk)
144.
95.
Lamb Of God - Into Oblivion
🇺🇸 6.5 (Groove)
144.
96.
Puscifer - Normal Isn't
🇺🇸 6.5 (Alternative Rock)
144.
97.
Tardigrade Inferno - Hush
🇷🇺 6.5 (Avantgarde)
144.
98.
Sundecay - The Blood Lives Again
🇨🇦 6.5 (Psychedelic Doom)
144.
99.
Erra - Silence Outlives The Earth
🇺🇸 6.5 (Metalcore)
144.
100.
Madison Beer - locket
🇺🇸 6.5 (Pop)
144.
101.
Zu - Ferrum Sidereum
🇮🇹 6.5 (Avant-Garde, Jazz, Experimental)
144.
102.
Monovoth - To Live In The Breath Of Worship
🇦🇷 6.5 (Drone Doom)
144.
103.
Kathryn Mohr - Carve
🇺🇸 6.5 (Experimental Rock, Ambient)
144.
104.
Loathe - A Stranger To You
🇺🇸 6.5 (Alternative, Metalcore)
144.
105.
Devin Townsend - The Moth
🇨🇦 6.5 (Symphonic Progressive)
144.
106.
Dawn Of Ashes - Anatomy Of Suffering
🇺🇸 6.5 (Aggrotech, Industrial)
144.
107.
Sylosis - The New Flesh
🇬🇧 6.5 (Progressive Metalcore, Groove Thrash)
144.
108.
Lorn - Searing Blood
🇮🇹 6.5 (Atmospheric Black)
144.
109.
Periphery - Pale White Dot
🇺🇸 6 (Djent, Progressive Math, Metalcore)
144.
110.
As Everything Unfolds - Did You Ask To Be Set Free?
🇬🇧 6 (Post-Hardcore, Melodic Metalcore)
144.
111.
Nishaiar - Lumira
🇪🇹 6 (Neofolk)
144.
112.
Big D and the Kids Table - The Good Ole American Saturday Night
🇺🇸 6 (Ska)
144.
113.
The Last Ten Seconds Of Life - The Dead Ones
🇺🇸 6 (Deathcore)
144.
114.
Myrath - Wilderness Of Mirrors
🇫🇷 6 (Progressive, Heavy, Oriental Folk)
144.
115.
Fabienne Erni - Starveil
🇨🇭 6 (Alternative, Folk)
144.
116.
Wolverine - Anomalies
🇸🇪 6 (Progressive)
144.
117.
Genus Ordinis Dei - The Land East Of Eden
🇮🇹 6 (Death)
144.
118.
Sevendust - One
🇺🇸 6 (Alternative)
144.
119.
Crystal Lake - The Weight Of Sound
🇯🇵 6 (Metalcore)
144.
120.
For My Pain - Buried Blue
🇫🇮 5.5 (Gothic)
144.
121.
She Past Away - Mizantrop
🇹🇷 5.5 (Darkwave, Post-Punk)
144.
122.
Soen - Reliance
🇸🇪 5 (Alternative, Progressive)
144.
123.
Modest Mouse - An Eraser and a Maze
🇺🇸 5 (Indie Rock) Really disappointing effort from one of my favorite bands
144.
124.
The Amity Affliction - House Of Cards
🇦🇺 5 (Melodic Metalcore, Post-Hardcore)
144.
125.
SDH - Rider
🇪🇸 5 (Darkwave, Synthpop)
144.
126.
Poppy - Empty Hands
🇺🇸 5 (Electropop, Alternative)
144.
127.
Varials - Where The Light Leaves
🇺🇸 4.5 (Hardcore, Metalcore)
144.
128.
Nibiru - H Y P Ó S T A S I S
🇮🇹 4 (Psychedelic Sludge, Drone)
144.
129.
Canaan - For A Bird That Never Flew
🇮🇹 4 (Darkwave)
144.
130.
Deafkids - Cicatrizes Do Futuro
🇧🇷 4 (Industrial Rock, Noise Rock)
144.
131.
Sunn O))) - Sunn O)))
🇺🇸 2 (Drone Doom, Dark Ambient)
144.
132.
——— EPs and Splits ———
144.
133.
Anneke Van Giersbergen - La Mort
🇳🇱 8.5 (Art Pop, Soft Rock)
144.
134.
Predatory Void - Atoned In Metamorphosis
🇧🇪 8.5 (Blackened Sludge, Doom, Post-Metal)
144.
135.
No Terror In The Bang - Existence
🇫🇷 8 (Progressive Post-Hardcore)
144.
136.
Swords Of Dis - From The Waters Of Death
🇺🇳 8 (Blackened Doom, Folk, Post-Metal)
144.
137.
Melechesh - Sentinels Of Shamash
🇳🇱 8 (Melodic Black, Oriental Folk)
144.
138.
Trauma Ray - Carnival
🇺🇸 8 (Alternative, Post-Rock, Shoegaze)
144.
139.
Pelican - Ascending
🇺🇸 7.5 (Post-Metal)
144.
140.
Blackbraid - Nocturnal Womb
🇺🇸 7 (Atmospheric Black)
144.
141.
Devenial Verdict - Old Blood - Fresh Wounds
🇫🇮 6.5 (Progressive Death)
144.
142.
Chained To The Bottom Of The Ocean - Let Us Not Speak Of Them But Look And Pass On
🇺🇸 6.5 (Noise, Sludge, Doom)
144.
143.
Elvenking - Rites Of Disclosure
🇮🇹 6 (Folk, Power)
144.
144.
Blood Incantation - All Gates Open (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
🇺🇸 N/A (Ambient, Film Score)
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