Top 10 Metal Albums of 2026

Complicated year. Dangerous and deranged age. This list contains the most relevant and consistent metal albums unleashed in 2026. Go ahead and vote for your favorite ones. EPs are excluded.

The Top Ten

  1. Silence Outlives the Earth - Erra

  2. An Unnameable Desire - Plini

  3. Season of Surrender - August Burns Red

  4. Immoral and Malevolent Happenings - Before I Turn

  5. The New Flesh - Sylosis

  6. A Love I Hope Will Haunt Me Forever - Midwinter

  7. Sunder - Atlas

  8. Genotype - Textures

  9. Dissenter - Haste the Day

  10. The End Is Not the End - Atreyu

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