2026 in heavy metal music

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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2026.

Contents

Bands disbanded

Events

Deaths

Albums expected

January

DayArtistAlbum
2 Paleface Swiss The Wilted EP (EP) [12]
7 Nanowar of Steel The Genghis Khan EP to End All Genghis Khan EPs (EP) [13]
9 Alter Bridge Alter Bridge [14]
Beyond the Black Break the Silence [15]
Bullet Kickstarter [16]
For My Pain... Buried Blue [17]
The Ruins of Beverast Tempelschlaf [18]
Uuhai Human Herds [19]
16 Edenbridge Set the Dark on Fire [20]
The Eternal Celestial (EP) [21]
Holy Dragons Guardians of Time – Part I [22]
Kreator Krushers of the World [23]
My Ruin Declaration of Resistance [24]
Ov Sulfur Endless [25]
Soen Reliance [26]
23 Coronatus Dreadful Waters [27]
Crystal Lake The Weight of Sound [28]
Helix Scrap Metal [29]
Megadeth Megadeth [30]
Melissa Bonny Cherry Red Apocalypse [31]
Pelican Ascending (EP) [32]
Poppy Empty Hands [33]
Textures Genotype [34]
28 Hanabie. Hot Topic (EP) [35]
30 Therion Con Orquesta (live album) [36]

February

DayArtistAlbum
6 Karnivool In Verses [37]
KMFDM Enemy [38]
Mayhem Liturgy of Death [39]
Tailgunner Midnight Blitz [40]
Wolverine Anomalies [41]
13 Converge Love Is Not Enough [42]
18 Lovebites Outstanding Power [43]
20 Clawfinger Before We All Die [44]
Exhumed Red Asphalt [45]
Michael Monroe Outerstellar [46]
Sylosis The New Flesh [47]
27 Cryptic Shift Overspace & Supertime [48]
Rob Zombie The Great Satan [49]
Varials Where the Light Leaves [50]

March

DayArtistAlbum
6 Leaves' Eyes Song of Darkness (EP) [51]
Lost Society Hell Is a State of Mind [52]
More Destructor [53]
Powerwolf Wildlive (Live at Olympiahalle) (live album) [54]
Prong Live and Uncleansed (live album) [55]
Vreid The Skies Turn Black [56]
Whiplash Thrashquake [57]
13 Angus McSix Angus McSix and the All-Seeing Astral Eye [58]
Lamb of God Into Oblivion [59]
Witchcraft A Sinner's Child (EP) [60]
20 Axel Rudi Pell Ghost Town [61]
Poison the Well Peace in Place [62]
Tyketto Closer to the Sun [63]
27 Black Label Society Engines of Demolition [64]
Hellripper Coronach [65]
Lion's Share Inferno [66]
Myrath Wilderness of Mirrors [67]

April

DayArtistAlbum
3 Michael Sweet The Master Plan [68]
Sunn O))) Sunn O))) [69]
8 Attila Concrete Throne [70]
10 Archspire Too Fast to Die [71]
Immolation Descent [72]
Lord of the Lost Opvs Noir Vol. 3 [73]
17 The Last Ten Seconds of Life The Dead Ones [74]
Skindred You Got This [75]
Victorius World War Dinosaur [76]
24 John Corabi New Day [77]

May

DayArtistAlbum
22 Masterplan Metalmorphosis [78]

June

DayArtistAlbum
12 Stitched Up Heart Medusa [79]

Artists with material in production

References

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