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Andy's Top 2026
Another year, another list. Let's find out what exciting new metal releases lie ahead.
My top rated songs:
1. Tjaktjadálvve - "Encompassing Nothingness"
2. Cnoc An Tursa - "Address…
My top rated songs:
1. Tjaktjadálvve - "Encompassing Nothingness"
2. Cnoc An Tursa - "Address…
| 1. | Cnoc An Tursa - A Cry For The Slain |
| 2. | Immolation - Descent |
| 3. | Fires In The Distance - Circadian Promise |
| 4. | Blindead 23 - Deuterium |
| 5. | Panopticon - Det Hjemsøkte Hjertet |
| + 433 more |
2026: Jan-Jun
Likely going to be a slower year than 2025, which was slower than 2024 but still had me checking out over 1000 albums - let's see if I can approach that total again.
| 1. | Neurosis - An Undying Love For A Burning World |
| 2. | Elder - Through Zero |
| 3. | Miserere Luminis - Sidera |
| 4. | A Forest Of Stars - Stack Overflow In Corpse Pile Interface |
| 5. | Weedpecker - V |
| + 433 more |
My Favorite Albums 2026
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…
| 1. | Neurosis - An Undying Love For A Burning World |
| 2. | Blackwater Holylight - Not Here Not Gone |
| 3. | Scimitar - Scimitarium II |
| 4. | Ghinzu - W.O.W.A. |
| 5. | Converge - Love Is Not Enough |
| + 123 more |
One New Album Per Day 2026
I want to listen to a new album every day this year, 2026. I hope I don't forget it.
Top 10:
1. Devoid Of Thought - Devoid Of Thought
2. Junon - The Golden Citadel Of The Astral Sphere
3. Cryptic…
Top 10:
1. Devoid Of Thought - Devoid Of Thought
2. Junon - The Golden Citadel Of The Astral Sphere
3. Cryptic…
| 1. | Anna Pest - Dark Arms Reach Skyward With Bone White Fingers II: Be (Not) Afraid |
| 2. | Ellende - Zerfall |
| 3. | Enshine - Elevation |
| 4. | Wildhunt - Aletheia |
| 5. | Blasfemador - Malleus Maleficarum |
| + 162 more |
Top 2026
My personal taste
| 1. | Atronos - Gram |
| 2. | Lömsk - Act II - Of Iron And Blood |
| 3. | Fires In The Distance - Circadian Promise |
| 4. | Aversio Humanitatis - To Become The Endless Static |
| 5. | Ellende - Zerfall |
| + 108 more |
Ch'ti 2026
I'm still alive, that means I must continue my annual top of metal albums, I guess.
| 1. | Ethereal Darkness - Echoes |
| 2. | Neurosis - An Undying Love For A Burning World |
| 3. | Elder - Through Zero |
| 4. | DeadTrees - New World |
| 5. | Archspire - Too Fast To Die |
| + 93 more |
2026 Album & Ep Ranking
| 1. | DeadTrees - New World |
| 2. | Bloody Valkyria - Requiem: Reveries Of The Dying |
| 3. | Fires In The Distance - Circadian Promise |
| 4. | Petrichor (Sgah’gahsowáh) - Seduced By Conquering Darkness |
| 5. | Drudkh - Thaw |
| + 279 more |
2026 Top
Number of albums by country:
🇺🇸USA - 16
🇸🇪Sweden - 10
🇩🇪Germany - 6
🇫🇮Finland - 5
🇳🇴Norway - 5
🇬🇧UK - 5
🇨🇦Canada - 4
🇬🇷Greece - 4
🇷🇺Russia - 4
🇧🇷Brasil - 3
🇫🇷France - 3
🇮🇹Italy - 3
🇪🇸Spain…
🇺🇸USA - 16
🇸🇪Sweden - 10
🇩🇪Germany - 6
🇫🇮Finland - 5
🇳🇴Norway - 5
🇬🇧UK - 5
🇨🇦Canada - 4
🇬🇷Greece - 4
🇷🇺Russia - 4
🇧🇷Brasil - 3
🇫🇷France - 3
🇮🇹Italy - 3
🇪🇸Spain…
| 1. | Hällas - Panorama |
| 2. | Exxûl - Sealed Into None |
| 3. | Cryptic Shift - Overspace & Supertime |
| 4. | Triumpher - Piercing The Heart Of The World |
| 5. | Draconian - In Somnolent Ruin |
| + 84 more |
2026 Top 20+
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EP of the Year
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Debut of the Year
🥇 - Void Of Light - Asymmetries
🥈 - Northern Graves - Derelict Heart
🥉 - De L'Abîme Naît…
2025
2024
Time for another list...
EP of the Year
🥇 -
🥈 -
🥉 -
Debut of the Year
🥇 - Void Of Light - Asymmetries
🥈 - Northern Graves - Derelict Heart
🥉 - De L'Abîme Naît…
| 1. | Miserere Luminis - Sidera |
| 2. | DeadTrees - New World |
| 3. | Hällas - Panorama |
| 4. | Enshine - Elevation |
| 5. | At The Gates - The Ghost Of A Future Dead |
| + 100 more |
Bold's 2026
Trying to listen to as many records from this year as I can!
| 1. | Fires In The Distance - Circadian Promise |
| 2. | Hällas - Panorama |
| 3. | Neurosis - An Undying Love For A Burning World |
| 4. | The Silver - Looking Glass Hymnal Blue |
| 5. | Møl - Dreamcrush |
| + 225 more |
Upcoming Albums
These are all future releases that are on my radar
| 1. | Opera IX - Veneficium |
| 2. | Dimmu Borgir - Grand Serpent Rising |
| 3. | Evergrey - Architects Of A New Weave |
| 4. | Embryonic Autopsy - Rise Of The Mutated |
| 5. | Véhémence - Assiégé Pour L'éternité |
| + 43 more |
My Top Of 2026
| 1. | Hellripper - Coronach |
| 2. | Cryptic Shift - Overspace & Supertime |
| 3. | Enshine - Elevation |
| 4. | Immolation - Descent |
| 5. | Darkthrone - Pre-Historic Metal |
| + 2 more |
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