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.
Immolation - Descent
Rating: 8,6 - Country: USA - Genre: Death Metal - Best songs: The Ephemeral Curse, Bend Towards The Dark, False Ascent
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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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Blindead 23 - Deuterium
Rating: 8,5 - Country: Poland - Genre: Progressive / Post-Metal - Best songs: Immersion I, Worst Laid Plans, Deuterium
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Ethereal Darkness - Echoes
Rating: 8,4 - Country: Germany - Genre: Melodic Death / Doom Metal - Best songs: The Cycle, IV, Realization
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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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Hellripper - Coronach
Rating: 8,3 - Country: Scotland - Genre: Blackened Speed Metal - Best songs: Kinchyle (Goatkraft & Granite), Blakk Satanik Fvkkstorm, Sculptor’s Cave
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Draconian - In Somnolent Ruin
Rating: 8,3 - Country: Sweden - Genre: Gothic Doom Metal - Best songs: The Monochrome Blade, The Face of God, Lethe
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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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Worm - Necropalace
Rating: 8,2 - Country: USA - Genre: Symphonic Black Metal - Best songs: The Night Has Fangs, Witchmoon: The Infernal Masquerade (feat. Marty Friedman)
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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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Dimhav - Ondine
Rating: 8,1 - Country: Sweden - Genre: Progressive Power Metal - Best songs: Tides Immemorial, Pilgrimage, The Sunken Star
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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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Cryptic Shift - Overspace & Supertime
Rating: 8,1 - Country: England - Genre: Technical Death / Thrash Metal - Best songs: Stratocumulus Evergaol, Hexagonal Eyes (Diverity Trepaphymphasyzm), Overspace & Supertime
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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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The Biscuit Merchant - Golden Age
Rating: 8,0 - Country: USA - Genre: Melodic / Progressive Death Metal - Best songs: Face of Faith, Ubiquitous Gaze, Paradox Bomb
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Neurosis - An Undying Love For A Burning World
Rating: 8,0 - Country: USA - Genre: Post-Metal - Best songs: First Red Rays, Blind, Seething and Scattered
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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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Abyssian - Let Me Die Under The Stars
Rating: 7,9 - 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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Spell - Wretched Heart
Rating: 7,9 - 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: 7,9 - Country: USA - Genre: Stoner Metal - Best songs: The Handler, Run For Your Life, Handcuff Country
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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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Exxûl - Sealed Into None
Rating: 7,9 - Country: Canada - Genre: Epic Heavy / Power / Doom Metal - Best songs: Blighted Deity, Labyrinthine Fate, The Screaming Tower
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Lago - Vigil
Rating: 7,9, - Country: USA - Genre: Death Metal - Best songs: Fodder, In A House of Ill Repute, The Land Was A Desert
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Møl - Dreamcrush
Rating: 7,9 - Country: Denmark - Genre: Shoegaze / Post-Black Metal - Best songs: Små Forlis, Dissonance, Crush
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Devoid Of Thought - Devoid Of Thought
Rating: 7,9 - Country: Italy - Genre: Death Metal - Best songs: Chronos, Putrescent Mireborn, Oblivionauts
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Angellore - Nocturnes
Rating: 7,8 - Country: France - Genre: Atmospheric / Gothic Doom Metal - Best songs: Black Sun River, Forsaken Fairytale, Martyrium
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Antrisch - Expedition III : Renitenzpfad
Rating: 7,8 - 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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Ordh - Blind In Abyssal Realms
Rating: 7,8 - Country: USA - Genre: Progressive Death Metal - Best songs: Apis Bull, Phlegraean Fields, Blind In Abyssal Realms
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Winterfylleth - The Unyielding Season
Rating: 7,8 - Country: England - Genre: Atmospheric / Pagan Black Metal - Best songs: Heroes of a Hundred Fields, Perdition's Flame, Towards Elysium
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Green Carnation - A Dark Poem, Part II: Sanguis
Rating: 7,8 - Country: Norway - Genre: Progressive Gothic Metal - Best songs: Sanguis, Sweet to the Point of Bitter, I Am Time
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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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Karnivool - In Verses
Rating: 7,8 - Country: Australia - Genre: Progressive / Alternative Metal - Best songs: Drone, Animation, All It Takes
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Zerre - Rotting On A Golden Throne
Rating: 7,8 - Country: Germany - Genre: Crossover Thrash Metal - Best songs: Mental Vacation, Concrete Hell, Tin God
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Void Of Light - Asymmetries
Rating: 7,7 - Country: Scotland - Genre: Post-Metal - Best songs: Silver Mask, Ends, Mirrorings
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Marianas Rest - The Bereaved
Rating: 7,7 - Country: Finland - Genre: Melodic Death / Doom Metal - Best songs: Divided, Burden, Diamonds In The Rough
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Juodvarnis - Tėkmės
Rating: 7,7 - Country: Lithuania - Genre: Progressive Black Metal - Best songs: Laiku Varvant, Tamsiausias Nušvitimas, Tékmés
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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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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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Gorrch - Stillamentum
Rating: 7,7 - Country: Italy - Genre: Black Metal - Best songs: Nimbus, Vorago, Angor
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Jungle Rot - Cruel Face Of War
Rating: 7,7 - Country: USA - Genre: Death Metal - Best songs: Apocalyptic Dawn, Suffer In Silence, Horrors Vile (feat. Benediction)
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Hecate Enthroned - The Corpse Of A Titan, A Lament Long Buried
Rating: 7,6 - Country: England - Genre: Melodic Black / Death Metal - Best songs: The Arcane Golem, Deathless In The Dryad Glade, A Gallery of Rotting Portraits
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Crocell - Swarm Of Insects
Rating: 7,6 - Country: Denmark - Genre: Blackened Death Metal - Best songs: Sarcophagus, Sculptor of Nations, Shredded Banners
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Monstrosity - Screams From Beneath The Surface
Rating: 7,6 - Country: USA - Genre: Death Metal - Best songs: Banished to the Skies, Spiral, The Thorns
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Atavistia - Old Gods Awaken
Rating: 7,6 - Country: Canada - Genre: Melodic Death / Extreme Power Metal - Best songs: Mystic Tavern, I Skogens Djup, Old Gods Awaken
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Urne - Setting Fire To The Sky
Rating: 7,6 - Country: England - Genre: Sludge Metal - Best songs: Weeping to the World, The Spirit Alive, Harken the Waves (feat. Troy Sanders)
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Bloody Valkyria - Requiem: Reveries Of The Dying
Rating: 7,6 - Country: Finland - Genre: Melodic Black / Folk Metal - Best songs: Life’s Worth, Mending Through Suffering, My Beloved North
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Ponte Del Diavolo - De Venom Natura
Rating: 7,6 - Country: Italy - Genre: Blackened Post-Doom Metal - Best songs: Every Tongue Has Its Thorns, Spirit, Blood, Poison, Ferment!, Silence Walk With Me
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Tailgunner - Midnight Blitz
Rating: 7,5 - Country: England - Genre: Heavy Metal - Best songs: Follow Me In Death, Barren Lands and Seas of Red, Night Raids
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Bosse-De-Nage - Hidden Fires Burn Hottest
Rating: 7,5 - Country: USA - Genre: Post-Black Metal - Best songs: Mementos, No Such Place, Underwater
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Hanging Garden - Isle Of Bliss
Rating: 7,5 - Country: Finland - Genre: Melodic Death / Gothic Doom Metal - Best songs: To The Gates Of Hel, The Death Upon Our Shoulders, Arise Black Sun
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