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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. | Blindead 23 - Deuterium |
| 4. | Panopticon - Det Hjemsøkte Hjertet |
| 5. | Ethereal Darkness - Echoes |
| + 494 more |
2026 Album & Ep Ranking
| 1. | DeadTrees - New World |
| 2. | Saidan - Fangdriller: Scars Beneath Memories Wrist |
| 3. | Bloody Valkyria - Requiem: Reveries Of The Dying |
| 4. | Days Ov Yore - The Tale Of Vlad Țepeș - Part 1 |
| 5. | Fires In The Distance - Circadian Promise |
| + 311 more |
2026 Top
Number of albums by country:
🇺🇸USA - 19
🇩🇪Germany - 10
🇸🇪Sweden - 10
🇬🇧UK - 7
🇫🇮Finland - 6
🇳🇴Norway - 5
🇷🇺Russia - 5
🇧🇷Brasil - 4
🇨🇦Canada - 4
🇫🇷France - 4
🇬🇷Greece - 4
🇯🇵Japan - 4
🇮🇹Italy…
🇺🇸USA - 19
🇩🇪Germany - 10
🇸🇪Sweden - 10
🇬🇧UK - 7
🇫🇮Finland - 6
🇳🇴Norway - 5
🇷🇺Russia - 5
🇧🇷Brasil - 4
🇨🇦Canada - 4
🇫🇷France - 4
🇬🇷Greece - 4
🇯🇵Japan - 4
🇮🇹Italy…
| 1. | Hällas - Panorama |
| 2. | Exxûl - Sealed Into None |
| 3. | Cryptic Shift - Overspace & Supertime |
| 4. | Triumpher - Piercing The Heart Of The World |
| 5. | Fires In The Distance - Circadian Promise |
| + 105 more |
2026 Top 50
Another year, another list.. Thanks for looking!
So much quality this year that I've gone from a Top 20 to a Top 50.
EP of the Year
🥇 - Mountainscape - Traversing Realms
🥈 - Predatory Void…
So much quality this year that I've gone from a Top 20 to a Top 50.
EP of the Year
🥇 - Mountainscape - Traversing Realms
🥈 - Predatory Void…
| 1. | Miserere Luminis - Sidera |
| 2. | Inherits The Void - The Silent Abscission |
| 3. | DeadTrees - New World |
| 4. | Kaatayra - Caminhos De Água |
| 5. | Hällas - Panorama |
| + 87 more |
2026: Jul-Dec
Just shy of 500 albums in the first half of the year, my consumption has dipped a bit this year, but let's see what the rest of the year holds on that front.
| 1. | Protest The Hero - Within |
| 2. | Volubilis - Theasterion |
| 3. | Inferno - The Anthropic Sophisms (On The Heights Of Despair) |
| 4. | Dysgnostic - End Whispers |
| 5. | Emptiness - Nowhere Speaks |
| + 36 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. | Big Brave - In Grief Or In Hope |
| + 62 more |
Oldy's 2026 Albums Ranked
| 1. | Hellripper - Coronach |
| 2. | Ethereal Darkness - Echoes |
| 3. | Draconian - In Somnolent Ruin |
| 4. | Spirit Adrift - Infinite Illumination |
| 5. | Immolation - Descent |
| + 191 more |
The 26 Of 2026
| 1. | Fires In The Distance - Circadian Promise |
| 2. | Draconian - In Somnolent Ruin |
| 3. | Bizarrekult - Alt Som Finnes |
| 4. | Miserere Luminis - Sidera |
| 5. | Yoth Iria - Gone With The Devil |
| + 14 more |
