Top 50 Albums Of 2026

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Top 50 Albums Of 2026

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ChrisWinther94
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January 06, 2026
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Greetings everybody, and happy new year!

New year, new list! As usual.

I am happy to once again dive head first into a new year of great metal music!
Things have changed a lot since the last time I created a year list. 2025 has been a year of amazing concert, personal development but also bad things which we all have to overcome once in a while.
And when the bad times are upon me then I can always count on music. Either by listening or by creating, and this website is my go-to place for discovering new music.

Here's to another year of great metal music!

Top 50 Albums of 2025
Top Releases of 2024
Top 50 Albums of 2023
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1.
Fires In The Distance - Circadian Promise
Rating: 8,5 - Country: USA - Genre: Melodic Death / Doom Metal - Best songs: To You Author of My Fade, By This Time Tomorrow, Agonal Dreaming
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Blindead 23 - Deuterium
Rating: 8,5 - Country: Poland - Genre: Progressive / Post-Metal - Best songs: Immersion I, Worst Laid Plans, Deuterium
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Hällas - Panorama
Rating: 8,5 - Country: Sweden - Genre: Progressive Hard Rock - Best songs: Above the Continuum, The Emissary, At the Summit
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Immolation - Descent
Rating: 8,4 - Country: USA - Genre: Death Metal - Best songs: The Ephemeral Curse, Bend Towards The Dark, False Ascent
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At The Gates - The Ghost Of A Future Dead
Rating: 8,4 - Country: Sweden - Genre: Melodic Death Metal - Best songs: The Dissonant Void, Of Interstellar Death, The Unfathomable
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Ethereal Darkness - Echoes
Rating: 8,3 - Country: Germany - Genre: Melodic Death / Doom Metal - Best songs: The Cycle, IV, Realization
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Elder - Through Zero
Rating: 8,3 - Country: Germany - Genre: Psychedelic / Stoner Metal - Best songs: Sigil to Ruin, Capture/Release, Strata
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8.
Desert Storm - Buried Under The Weight Of Reason
Rating: 8,2 - Country: England - Genre: Stoner Metal - Best songs: Newfound Respect, Rot to Ruin, Twelve Seasons
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Hellripper - Coronach
Rating: 8,2 - Country: Scotland - Genre: Blackened Speed Metal - Best songs: Kinchyle (Goatkraft & Granite), Blakk Satanik Fvkkstorm, Sculptor’s Cave
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IATT - Etheric Realms Of The Night
Rating: 8,2 - Country: USA - Genre: Symphonic Black / Progressive Death Metal - Best songs: Drift Away, Pavor Nocturnus, Quietus
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Zørza - Twilight Of The Golden Star
Rating: 8,1 - Country: Poland - Genre: Post-Black Metal - Best songs: Twilight of the Golden Star (feat Harakiri for the Sky & Karg), Death III, Stormspell
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Mansvara - Sable Odes To Nihility
Rating: 8,1 - Country: Poland - Genre: Death / Black Metal - Best songs: Lingering Void's Echo, Obsidianize, Sable Ode to Nihility
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Tjaktjadálvve - Encompassing Nothingness
Rating: 8,1 - Country: Sweden - Genre: Depressive Black Metal - Best songs: The Solitude of Abject Darkness, Longing, Encompassing Nothingness
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Redshift - Down The Wire
Rating: 8,1 - Country: England - Genre: Progressive Metal - Best songs: The Routine, The Machine, The Rogue (feat. Derek Sherinian)
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Draconian - In Somnolent Ruin
Rating: 8,0 - Country: Sweden - Genre: Gothic Doom Metal - Best songs: The Monochrome Blade, The Face of God, Lethe
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Worm - Necropalace
Rating: 8,0 - Country: USA - Genre: Symphonic Black Metal - Best songs: The Night Has Fangs, Witchmoon: The Infernal Masquerade (feat. Marty Friedman)
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Khemmis - Khemmis
Rating: 8,0 - Country: USA - Genre: Doom Metal - Best songs: Beneath the Scythe, Gilded Chambers, Carrion King
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Cryptic Shift - Overspace & Supertime
Rating: 8,0 - Country: England - Genre: Technical Death / Thrash Metal - Best songs: Stratocumulus Evergaol, Hexagonal Eyes (Diverity Trepaphymphasyzm), Overspace & Supertime
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Endseeker - Coffin Born
Rating: 8,0 - Country: Germany - Genre: Death Metal - Best songs: Enemies of Peace, Coffin Born, Life Breeds Death
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SolNegre - Anthems For The Grand Collapse
Rating: 8,0 - Country: Spain - Genre: Death Doom Metal - Best songs - Best songs: The Hollow Inside, For All That Could Have Been, A Path of Aloneness (Pt. I & II)
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Loneshore - Nothing Left To Deconstruct
Rating: 8,0 - Country: Brazil - Genre: Melodic / Progressive Doom Metal - Best songs: Straylight, Birth of a Mountain, Of Lost Waters
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Marlugubre - Per Amor Nymphae
Rating: 8,0 - Country: Italy - Genre: Post-Black / Progressive Death Metal - Best songs: Lips Scented Spring Roses, She Nigh His Death, Iphigenia
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Enshine - Elevation
Rating: 8,0 - Country: Sweden - Genre: Melodic Death / Doom Metal - Best songs: Shimmering, Where the Sunlight Is Felt, Reignite
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Psycroptic - The Pulse Of Annihilation
Rating: 7,9 - Genre: Technical Death Metal - Best songs: A Sword of Me, Our Pillars Fall, Forging the Crown
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Void Of Light - Asymmetries
Rating: 7,9 - Country: Scotland - Genre: Post-Metal - Best songs: Silver Mask, Ends, Mirrorings
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Miserere Luminis - Sidera
Rating: 7,9 - Country: Canada - Genre: Black Metal - Best songs: Les Fleurs De L’exil, De Cris & De Cendres, À La Douleur De L’aube
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Vafurlogi - Gneisti Af Eldi Guðs
Rating: 7,9 - Country: Iceland - Genre: Black Metal - Best songs: Af Heilagri Heift, Vafurlogi, Vitjun
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The Holeum - Ensis
Rating: 7,8 - Country: Spain - Genre: Post-Doom Metal - Best songs: Macrocosm + Microcosm, Spontaneous Synchronization, Esoteric Futuristic Visions
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Dimhav - Ondine
Rating: 7,8 - Country: Sweden - Genre: Progressive Power Metal - Best songs: Tides Immemorial, Pilgrimage, The Sunken Star
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Walg - VI
Rating: 7,8 - Country: The Netherlands - Genre: Melodic Black Metal - Best songs: 1597, De Eenlonkste, Het Klooster Van Ter Apel
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The Biscuit Merchant - Golden Age
Rating: 7,8 - Country: USA - Genre: Melodic / Progressive Death Metal - Best songs: Face of Faith, Ubiquitous Gaze, Paradox Bomb
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32.
Angellore - Nocturnes
Rating: 7,8 - Country: France - Genre: Atmospheric / Gothic Doom Metal - Best songs: Black Sun River, Forsaken Fairytale, Martyrium
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33.
Left To Die - Initium Mortis
Rating: 7,8 - Country: USA - Genre: Death Metal - Best songs: Archangel, Rise of Satan, Mantas
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34.
Lex Legion - Lex Legion
Rating: 7,8 - Country: Lex Legion - Genre: Heavy Metal - Best songs: Gypsy Tears, Saviours, Life Eternal
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35.
Neurosis - An Undying Love For A Burning World
Rating: 7,8 - Country: USA - Genre: Post-Metal - Best songs: First Red Rays, Blind, Seething and Scattered
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Juodvarnis - Tėkmės
Rating: 7,8 - Country: Lithuania - Genre: Progressive Black Metal - Best songs: Laiku Varvant, Tamsiausias Nušvitimas, Tékmés
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Exhumed - Red Asphalt
Rating: 7,8 - Country: USA - Genre: Deathgrind - Best songs: Red Asphalt, Crawling from the Wreckage, Symphorophilia
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Abyssian - Let Me Die Under The Stars
Rating: 7,7 - Country: Italy - Genre: Gothic Doom Metal - Best songs: Let Me Die Under the Stars I, Let Me Die Under the Stars II, Let Me Die Under the Stars III
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Solace - Fading Failing Ruin
Rating: 7,7 - Country: USA - Genre: Doom / Stoner Metal - Best songs: Spiral Will, Fettered to a Stone, Beyond Below
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Together To The Stars - Iridescence
Rating: 7,7 - Country: Sweden - Genre: Atmospheric Blackgaze - Best songs: Ichor, Malachite, Pale Asters
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Gorrch - Stillamentum
Rating: 7,7 - Country: Italy - Genre: Black Metal - Best songs: Nimbus, Vorago, Angor
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Wolfbastard - Satanic Scum Punks
Rating: 7,7 - Country: England - Genre: Crust Punk / Black Metal - Best songs: Let The Bastards Burn, Drink For Hell, Fuck The Bastards
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Antrisch - Expedition III : Renitenzpfad
Rating: 7,7 - Country: Germany - Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal - Best songs: Nattern & Narren - Los Marañones I, Bittergrün - Los Marañones II, Canis Lvpvm Edit - Wolfsfalle | Verratener Verräter
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Winterfylleth - The Unyielding Season
Rating: 7,7 - Country: England - Genre: Atmospheric / Pagan Black Metal - Best songs: Heroes of a Hundred Fields, Perdition's Flame, Towards Elysium
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45.
Møl - Dreamcrush
Rating: 7,7 - Country: Denmark - Genre: Shoegaze / Post-Black Metal - Best songs: Små Forlis, Dissonance, Crush
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Spirit Adrift - Infinite Illumination
Rating: 7,7 - Country: USA - Genre: Doom / Heavy Metal - Best songs: Infinite Illumination, Born In A Bad Way, White Death (feat. Steve Jansson)
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47.
Green Carnation - A Dark Poem, Part II: Sanguis
Rating: 7,7 - Country: Norway - Genre: Progressive Gothic Metal - Best songs: Sanguis, Sweet to the Point of Bitter, I Am Time
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Spell - Wretched Heart
Rating: 7,6 - Country: Canada - Genre: Heavy Metal / Hard Rock - Best songs: Lilac, Take My Life, Wretched Heart
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Corrosion Of Conformity - Good God / Baad Man
Rating: 7,6 - Country: USA - Genre: Stoner Metal - Best songs: The Handler, Run For Your Life, Handcuff Country
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Exxûl - Sealed Into None
Rating: 7,6 - Country: Canada - Genre: Epic Heavy / Power / Doom Metal - Best songs: Blighted Deity, Labyrinthine Fate, The Screaming Tower
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