2026 - Top 50 Albums

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2026 - Top 50 Albums

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jet_cba
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January 06, 2026
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Top 50 2026 albums - Only full records. Let's hope for a great year in metal!
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Ethereal Darkness - Echoes
Atmospheric Melodic Death/Black Metal. 9+/10. Best Song: The Cycle.
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2.
Fires In The Distance - Circadian Promise
Death/Doom Metal. 9+/10. Best Song: Once The Silence Takes Your Place.
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Hellripper - Coronach
Blackened Speed Metal. 9+/10. Best Song: Hunderprest.
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Panopticon - Det Hjemsøkte Hjertet
Atmospheric Black Metal. 9/10. Best Song: A Culture of Wilderness.
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Cryptic Shift - Overspace & Supertime
Technical/Progressive Thrash-Death Metal. 8.5+/10. Best Song: Stratocumulus Evergaol.
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Tjaktjadálvve - Encompassing Nothingness
Depressive/Atmospheric Black Metal. 8.5/10. Best Song: Encompassing Nothingness.
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A Forest Of Stars - Stack Overflow In Corpse Pile Interface
Avant-Garde/Progressive Black Metal. 8.5/10. Best Song: Sway, Draped In Vague.
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At The Gates - The Ghost Of A Future Dead
Melodic Death Metal. 8.5/10. Best Song: In Dark Distortion.
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Worm - Necropalace
Blackened Doom Metal. 8.5/10. Best Song: Dragon Dreams.
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10.
Power Paladin - Beyond The Reach Of Enchantment
Power Metal. 8.5/10. Best Song: Sword Vigor.
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Bloody Valkyria - Requiem: Reveries Of The Dying
Atmospheric/Melodic Black Metal. 8+/10. Best Song: Symphony Of Silence.
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Green Carnation - A Dark Poem, Part II: Sanguis
Progressive/Gothic Metal. 8+/10. Best Song: Fire in Ice.
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Miserere Luminis - Sidera
Black Metal. 8+/10. Best Song: De Cris & De Cendres.
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14.
Cnoc An Tursa - A Cry For The Slain
Black/Folk Metal. 8+/10. Best Song: Am Fear Liath Mòr.
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Véhémence - Assiégé Pour L'éternité
Medieval/Folk Black Metal. 8+/10. Best Song: En Quête du Graal.
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Draconian - In Somnolent Ruin
Gothic/Doom Metal. 8/10. Best Song: Misanthrope River.
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Apolaustic - No Plenitude Without Suffering
Blackened Death Metal. 8/10. Best Song: Fragments from a Misty Journey.
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18.
Void Of Light - Asymmetries
Post Metal. 8/10. Best Song: Ends.
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Archvile King - Aux Heures Désespérées
Black/Thrash Metal. 8/10. Best Song: Le Carneval du Roi des Vers.
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20.
Antrisch - Expedition III : Renitenzpfad
Atmospheric Black Metal. 8/10. Best Song: Nattern & Narren.
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Immolation - Descent
Death Metal. 8/10. Best Song: Attrition.
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22.
Archspire - Too Fast To Die
Technical Death Metal. 8/10. Best Song: Limb Of Leviticus.
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Enshine - Elevation
Melodic Death/Doom Metal. 8/10. Best Song: Heartbliss.
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24.
Ponte Del Diavolo - De Venom Natura
Blackened Doom/Avant-Garde Metal. 7.5+/10. Best Song: Lunga Vita Alla Necrosi.
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25.
The Holeum - Ensis
Doom/Post Metal. 7.5+/10. Best Song: Spontaneous Synchronization.
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26.
Marlugubre - Per Amor Nymphae
Progressive Death/Post Black Metal. 7.5+/10. Best Song: Undine on a Lake Garden.
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Monstrosity - Screams From Beneath The Surface
Death Metal. 7.5+/10. Best Song: The Colossal Rage.
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Winterfylleth - The Unyielding Season
Atmospheric Black Metal. 7.5+/10. Best Song: A Hollow Existence.
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Angellore - Nocturnes
Atmospheric Doom/Gothic Doom metal. 7.5+/10. Best Song: Black Sun River.
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Juodvarnis - Tėkmės
Progressive/Black Metal. 7.5+/10. Best Song: Dvasios Ligos.
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The Silver - Looking Glass Hymnal Blue
Progressive/Post Black Metal. 7.5+/10. Best Song: Two Candles.
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Spirit Adrift - Infinite Illumination
Doom/Heavy Metal. 7.5+/10. Best Song: White Death.
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Witch Ripper - Through The Hourglass
Sludge/Progressive Metal. 7.5+/10. Best Song: Echoes and Dust.
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De L'Abîme Naît L'Aube - Rituel : Initiation
Post Metal. 7.5+/10. Best Song: Le Vertige d'une Descendance.
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Vanir - Wyrd
Melodic Death/Viking Metal. 7.5+/10. Best Song: Boudica.
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SolNegre - Anthems For The Grand Collapse
Death/Doom Metal. 7.5+/10. Best Song: A Path Of Aloneness (I&II).
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Growth - Under The Under
Technical/Progressive Death Metal. 7.5+/10. Best Song: Slings That Shatter.
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Lömsk - Act II - Of Iron And Blood
Black Metal. 7.5/10. Best Song: Of Iron and Blood.
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Møl - Dreamcrush
Blackgaze/Post Black Metal. 7.5/10. Best Song: Young.
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Inferi - Heaven Wept
Technical Death Metal. 7.5/10. Best Song: The Rapture Of Dead Light.
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Non Est Deus - Blessings And Curses
Melodic Black Metal. 7.5/10. Best Song: Forgive Me.
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Triumpher - Piercing The Heart Of The World
Epic/Power Metal. 7.5/10. Best Song: The Flaming Sword.
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Galneryus - A Cry From The Sky Above
Neoclassical/Power Metal. 7.5/10. Best Song: Echoes Of Fate.
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Inborn Tendency - Let There Be Sin
Death/Groove Metal. 7.5/10. Best Song: Exiled.
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Yoth Iria - Gone With The Devil
Melodic Black Metal. 7.5/10. Best Song: Blessed Be He Who Enters.
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Sidious - Malefic Necropolis
Black Metal. 7.5/10. Best Song: Rotborn Terror.
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Jungle Rot - Cruel Face Of War
Old School Death Metal. 7.5/10. Best Song: When The Elders Rise.
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Bizarrekult - Alt Som Finnes
Post Black Metal. 7.5/10. Best Song: Avmakt.
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Zørza - Twilight Of The Golden Star
Post Black Metal. 7.5/10. Best Song: Against Theocracy.
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Volcandra - Beyond The Will Of Mortals
Melodic Blackened Death Metal. 7.5/10. Best Song: Beyond The Will Of Mortals.
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//// Best Songs from outside the top 50 (in alphabetical order of interpreter): ////
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Alkhemia - "Excressence"
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Arcane Frost - "A Glacier Soaked In Blood"
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Black Sites - "Silent Wars"
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Blackwater Holylight - "Poppyfields"
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Decipher - "Hail Death"
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Denominate - "Liminal"
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Desert Storm - "Rot to Ruin"
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Domhain - "My Tomb Beneath The Tide"
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Ellende - "Wahrheit Teil II"
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Evig Natt - "Når Lyset Svikte"
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Eximperitus - "Golden Chains for the Construction of Individual Greatness"
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Funebrarum - "Sa Nagba Amāru"
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Grief Collector - "Terminal Lucidity"
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Hanging Garden - "Beneath the Fallen Sky"
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In Aeternum - "To Those Who Have Rode On"
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Kreator - "Tränenpalast"
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Leatherhead - "The Visitors"
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Malefic - "Deserter"
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Mammon's Throne - "Elixir"
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Mansvara - "Lingering Void’s Echo"
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Marianas Rest - "Burden"
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Megadeth - "Tipping Point"
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Messticator - "Ruins of Reason"
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Mossgiver - "I Bring the Spring With Me"
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Moonspell - "Our Freedom To Fall"
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Necrofier - "Fires of the Apocalypse, Light My Path III"
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Neurosis - "Blind"
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Nifrost - "I stormens auge"
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Orchid Throne - "With Promise"
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Piolun - "Moribunda"
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Rave In Fire - "Untiring Eagles"
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Riverflame - "Through Mistlands of Unearthly Worlds"
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Saidan - "Stained Glass Sin // Fang Driller"
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Sojourner - "Dawnrays"
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Spell - "Lilac"
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The Duskfall - "Knee Deep In The Grave"
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The Ruins Of Beverast - "Cathedral Of Bleeding Statues"
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Tailgunner - "War in Heaven"
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Temple of Void - "Godless Cynic"
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Torchia - "Hellmouth"
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Ultha - "To Part The Abelia Springs"
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Void Monuments - "Ascent To The Crucifixion".
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Vomitory - "Forever Scorned"
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Walg - "De Eenlonkster"
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Winter Eternal - "Omen Of The Cosmic Order"
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