Friday, August 28, 2026, and together we will take a look at the most important releases of the week.
Kamelot – “Dark Asylum”
The American progressive/melodic power metallers are releasing their 14th album through Napalm Records.
Flotsam and Jetsam – “Rats in the Temple”
The American heavy/power/thrash metallers are releasing their 17th album through Napalm Records.
Mastodon – “Marrow Deep”
The American progressive metallers are releasing their 9th album through Loma Vista Recordings.
Exumer – “Death Mask Messiah”
The German thrash metallers are releasing their 6th album through Metal Blade Records.
Airbourne – “Airbourne”
The Australian hard rockers/heavy metallers are releasing their 6th album through Universal/Spinefarm.
Gorod – “The Ember Gone”
The French progressive/technical death metallers are releasing their 8th album through Base Productions.
In This Moment – “Witch”
The American alternative metallers/metalcore band are releasing their 9th album through Better Noise Music.
Beseech – “Future. Present. Past.”
The Swedish gothic metallers are releasing their 7th album through Despotz Records.
Triosphere – “Oceans Above, Stars Below”
The Norwegian progressive/power metallers are releasing their 4th album through Frontiers Records.
Kulk – “Choosing to Die”
The British sludge/drone/doom metallers are releasing their 3rd album through Church Road Records.
Russian Circles – “Nine”
The American post-metallers are releasing their 9th album through Sargent House.
Nephila – “Huldra”
The Swedish psychedelic/hard rockers are releasing their 4th album through Majestic Mountain Records.
The Warning – “Everything’s Falling”
The Mexican heavy metallers are releasing their 5th album through Lava/Republic.
Beartooth – “Pure Ecstasy”
The American alternative metallers/metalcore band are releasing their 6th album through Fearless Records.
Sortilège – “Larmes des héros: Meme les dieux pleurent”
The French heavy metallers are releasing their 4th album through Verycords.
Black Door – “In the Shadows of a Funerary Gleam”
The Dutch black metallers are releasing their 2nd album through Chronos Defied.
Azgaal – “Divine Hitman”
The French black metallers are releasing their 9th album through Fetzner Death Records.
Ninth Realm – “Damnation’s Veil”
The American thrash metallers are releasing their 2nd album through Transcending Obscurity Records.
Besvärjelsen – “Till glömskan ad oblivionem”
The Swedish stoner/doom/psychedelic metallers are releasing their 3rd album through Magnetic Eye Records.
Talia Hoit – “When the Skies Fall”
The American symphonic metal artist is releasing her 2nd album.
Miscreance – “Reminiscence”
The Italian technical death/thrash metallers are releasing their 2nd album through Season of Mist.
Epicardiectomy – “Dismal Landscapes of Voluptuous Pustular Cadaverosis”
The Czech slam/brutal death metallers are releasing their 4th album through New Standard Elite.
Hesperia – “Picenum (True Marchigian Black Metal Renaissance)”
The Italian atmospheric pagan black metallers are releasing their 9th album through Hammerheart Records.
Enemies Everywhere – “Enemies Everywhere”
The Finnish melodic deathcore band are releasing their debut album through Ranka Kustannus.
Djevelsort – “Peril of Freedom”
The Norwegian black metallers are releasing their debut album through Dusktone.
Petrosa – “Roadburn Chronicles”
The Italian stoner metallers are releasing their debut album through Octopus Rising.
Nekomeshi(222) – “Convergent Evolution”
The Japanese melodic death/thrash metallers are releasing their 2nd album through Black-listed Productions.
Static Abyss – “The Dying Hunt”
The American doom/death metallers are releasing their 3rd album through Peaceville Records.
Morgued – “Ordnance Obscenum”
The American death metallers are releasing their debut album through Iron Fortress Records.
Atomic Aggressor – “The Occult Forces”
The Chilean thrash/death metallers are releasing their 2nd album through Hells Headbangers Records.
Svorght – “Svart lerret”
The Norwegian black metallers are releasing their 3rd album through Attractor Records.
Noekk – “Vergessenes”
The German doom metallers are releasing their 6th album through House of Inkantation.
Consortium Project – “Consortium Project VI – Legacy of Empires”
The Dutch progressive/power metallers are releasing their 6th album through Frontiers Records.
Projector – “Before the Last Light”
The Chilean melodic death metallers are releasing their 2nd album through NoiseBangers Extreme Recordings.
