Top 50 2026

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Top 50 2026

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A list by
Charlotbk
Created
January 06, 2026
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92
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The epic quest of making my top 50 2026
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Archspire - Too Fast To Die
[Technical death metal] [Canada🇨🇦]
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Frozen Soul - No Place Of Warmth
[Death metal] [USA 🇺🇲]
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Angine De Poitrine - Vol.II
[Rock expérimental, math Rock] [Canada🇨🇦]
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Carpenter Brut - Leather Temple
[Darksynth] [France 🇫🇷]
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Stormkeep - The Nocturnes Of Iswylm
[Melodic black metal] [USA 🇺🇲]
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At The Gates - The Ghost Of A Future Dead
[Gothenburg metal] [Sweden 🇸🇪]
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Worm - Necropalace
[Doom death metal] [USA 🇺🇲]
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Atavistia - Old Gods Awaken
[Melodic death metal, Extreme power metal] [Canada🇨🇦]
92.
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Immolation - Descent
[Death metal] [USA 🇺🇲]
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Devin Townsend - The Moth
[Progressive metal] [Canada🇨🇦]
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Neurosis - An Undying Love For A Burning World
| [Post-metal] [USA 🇺🇲]
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Blood Incantation - All Gates Open (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
[Ambient, Film score] [USA 🇺🇲]
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Miserere Luminis - Sidera
[Black metal] [Canada🇨🇦]
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Incandescence - Hors Temps
[Progressive black metal] [Canada🇨🇦]
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Archvile King - Aux Heures Désespérées
[Black metal] [France 🇫🇷]
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Panopticon - Det Hjemsøkte Hjertet
[Atmospheric black metal] [USA 🇺🇲]
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August Burns Red - Season Of Surrender
[Technical metalcore] [USA 🇺🇲]
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Vehemence - Assiégé Pour L'éternité
[Black metal] [France 🇫🇷]
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Converge - Love Is Not Enough
[Mathcore, Post hardcore, Metalcore] [USA 🇺🇲]
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Volcandra - Beyond The Will Of Mortals
[Melodic black metal, Melodic death metal] [USA 🇺🇲]
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Inferi - Heaven Wept
[Melodic death metal, Technical death metal] [USA 🇺🇲]
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Abandon Agony - Endbringer
[Melodic death metal] [Sweden 🇸🇪]
92.
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Bloody Valkyria - Requiem: Reveries Of The Dying
[Folk black metal, Melodic black metal] [Finland 🇫🇮]
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Non Est Deus - Blessings And Curses
[Black metal] [Germany 🇩🇪]
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Terror (USA-LA) - Still Suffer
[Hardcore] [USA 🇺🇲]
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The Holeum - Ensis
[Doom metal, Post-metal] [Spain🇪🇸]
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Yoth Iria - Gone With The Devil
[Melodic black metal] [Greece 🇬🇷
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Mutilation Barbecue - Flesh Regenerated
[EP] [Death metal] [USA 🇺🇲]
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Enshine - Elevation
[Gothic doom metal] [Sweden 🇸🇪]
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Exhumed - Red Asphalt
[Deathgrind] [USA 🇺🇲]
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Hellripper - Coronach
[Blackened speed metal] [United Kingdom 🇬🇧]
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Lamb Of God - Into Oblivion
[Groove thrash metal] [USA 🇺🇲]
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Dimmu Borgir - Grand Serpent Rising
[Symphonic black metal] [Norway 🇳🇴]
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Iron Reagan - Demonetization
[EP] [Punk, Hardcore, Crossover thrash metal] [USA 🇺🇲]
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Wrang - Verwording
[Black metal] [Finland 🇫🇮]
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Lionheart - Valley Of Death II
[Hardcore] [USA 🇺🇲]
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Pro-Pain - Stone Cold Anger
[Hardcore, Crossover thrash metal] [USA 🇺🇲]
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Winterfylleth - The Unyielding Season
[Atmospheric black metal, Pagan black metal] [United Kingdom 🇬🇧]
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Fuath - III
[Atmospheric black metal] [United Kingdom 🇬🇧]
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Tjaktjadálvve - Encompassing Nothingness
[Depressive black metal] [Sweden 🇸🇪]
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Converge - Hum Of Hurt
[Mathcore, Post hardcore, Metalcore] [USA 🇺🇲]
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Fires In The Distance - Circadian Promise
[Death doom metal, Melodic doom metal] [USA 🇺🇲]
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Mayhem - Liturgy Of Death
[Black metal] [Norway 🇳🇴]
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Kreator - Krushers Of The World
[Teutonic thrash metal] [Germany 🇩🇪]
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Marianas Rest - The Bereaved
[Melodic death metal, Melodic doom metal] [Finland 🇫🇮]
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Pure Wrath - Bleak Days Ahead
[Atmospheric black metal] [Indonesia 🇮🇩]
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Mammon's Throne - My Body To The Worms
[Doom metal, Sludge metal] [Australia 🇦🇺]
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Cnoc An Tursa - A Cry For The Slain
[Black metal, Folk metal] [United Kingdom 🇬🇧]
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As The Sun Falls - Songs From The Veil
[Melodic death metal] [Finland 🇫🇮]
92.
50.
Crippled Black Phoenix - Sceaduhelm
[Post-rock, Progressive rock] [United Kingdom 🇬🇧]
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Alter Bridge - Alter Bridge
[Hard rock, Rock] [USA 🇺🇲]
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Armored Saint - Emotion Factory Reset
[Heavy metal] [USA 🇺🇲]
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Carrion Vael - Slay Utterly
[Melodic death metal, Technical death metal] [USA 🇺🇲]
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Creeping Flesh - God's Acres Rife With Flesh Adorned
[Death metal] [Sweden 🇸🇪]
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Cryptic Shift - Overspace & Supertime
[Technical death metal, Technical thrash metal] [ [United Kingdom 🇬🇧]]
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Darko - Oni 2
[Djent, Deathcore] [USA 🇺🇲]
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Darkthrone - Pre-Historic Metal
[Crust punk, Black metal, Heavy metal] [Norway 🇳🇴]
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Draconian - In Somnolent Ruin
[Gothic doom metal] [Sweden 🇸🇪]
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Ectovoid - In Unreality's Coffin
[Death metal] [USA 🇺🇲]
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Ellende - Zerfall
[Black metal, Post-metal] [Austria 🇦🇹]
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Ethereal Darkness - Echoes
[Melodic death metal, Melodic doom metal] [Belgium 🇧🇪]
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Exodus - Goliath
[Thrash metal] [USA 🇺🇲]
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Full House Brew Crew - Glasgow Grin
[Groove metal, Heavy metal] [Greece 🇬🇷
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Gaerea - Loss
[Black metal, Metalcore] [Portugal 🇵🇹]
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Genus Ordinis Dei - The Land East Of Eden
[Symphonic death metal] [Italy🇮🇹]
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Hecate Enthroned - The Corpse Of A Titan, A Lament Long Buried
[Melodic black metal, Blackened death metal] [United Kingdom 🇬🇧]
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Impure Wilhelmina - Le Sanglot
[Post hardcore, Post-metal] [Switzerland 🇨🇭]
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Ingested - Denigration
[Brutal death metal, Deathcore] [United Kingdom 🇬🇧]
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Jungle Rot - Cruel Face Of War
[Death metal] [USA 🇺🇲]
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Khemmis - Khemmis
[Doom metal] [USA 🇺🇲]
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KMFDM - Enemy
[EBM, Industrial metal] [Germany 🇩🇪]
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Megadeth - Megadeth
[ Heavy metal, Thrash metal] [USA 🇺🇲]
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Moonspell - Far From God
[Gothic metal] [Portugal 🇵🇹]
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Night Of The Vampire - The Enchanting Winds Of The Dreamweaving Masquerade
[Synthwave, Black metal] [USA 🇺🇲]
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Opera IX - Veneficium - [Black metal, Folk metal] [Italy 🇮🇹]
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Ov Sulfur - Endless
[Deathcore] [USA 🇺🇲]
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Owl (USA) - On The Rocks
[Heavy metal, Psychedelic rock, Stoner rock] [USA 🇺🇲]
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Serpent Column - Aion Of Strife
[Black metal] [USA 🇺🇲]
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Soen - Reliance
[Alternative metal, Progressive metal] [Sweden 🇸🇪]
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The Ruins Of Beverast - Tempelschlaf
[Black metal, Doom metal] [Germany 🇩🇪]
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Uada - Interwoven
[Acoustic, Neofolk] [USA 🇺🇲]
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Undercroft - The Killer Sword
[Death metal] [Chile 🇨🇱]
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Venom - Into Oblivion
[Heavy metal] [United Kingdom 🇬🇧]
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Wildhunt - Aletheia [Thrash metal] [Austria 🇦🇹]
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Xorsist - Aberrations
[Death metal] [Sweden 🇸🇪]
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