What to know about the 2026 release calendar
- Release schedule The calendar lists hard rock and metal releases by date throughout 2026.
- Weekly updates New albums and other releases are grouped by their scheduled release Fridays.
- Release formats The listings include albums, EPs, live records, reissues, box sets and anniversary editions.
- Release details Each listing names the artist, title and label when those details are provided.
This 2026 hard rock and metal album release calendar lets readers check upcoming releases by date and browse the albums already released. Use the weekly listings to find an album, EP, reissue or other release.
Canonical claim: The calendar organizes 2026 hard rock and metal releases by scheduled date.
New rock and metal releases arrive throughout the year, so keeping track of them can be difficult. This calendar groups releases by Friday and is updated as new listings are added.
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Browse the dated listings below to see which albums are scheduled for each week.
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November 6, 2026
Absolute Power – Needs Must When The Devil Drives (Time To Kill)
Afterlife – The Pain That Shapes Us (Mascot)
Asia – Indigo (Frontiers)
Big Wreck – The Pleasure And The Greed 25th Anniversary Edition (Round Hill)
Carnifex – More Than Misery (Sumerian)
Comeback Kid – Chosen Hell (SharpTone)
Deux Visages – Call It Goodbye (Pure Noise)
Electric Valley – Echo (Small Stone)
Eternity’s End – Titanblood (Scarlet)
Evanescence – The Open Door 20th Anniversary Edition (Craft)
Extol – Aura Of Decay (Solid State)
Hatebreed – Fatal Paradox (BLKIIBLK)
John Sykes – One Way EP (Golden Robot)
King Satan – Black Magick Abraxas (Blood Blast)
KISS – Rock And Roll Over 50th Anniversary Box Set (Ume)
Konvent – Firesky (Napalm)
Mawiza – In Mongeletew EP (Season Of Mist)
Midnight – Satanic Attack Live! (Metal Blade)
Motorhead – Orgasmatron 40th Anniversary Edition (BMG)
Prong – Prong (Napalm)
Saor – Caledonia (Season Of Mist)
Thrown – Unwanted (Arising Empire)
Underdark – O Come Forth Annihilation (Church Road)
Various Artists – A Tribute To Kreator (Antichrist)
We Came As Romans – All Is Beautiful…Because We’re Doomed: Circularity (SharpTone)
November 13, 2026
Anberlin – Currency (Equal Vision)
Artificial Brain – Antillia (Profound Lore)
Assumption – Paradox Of The Arrow (20 Buck Spin)
The Body & Cel Genesis – Whole Wide World (Thrill Jockey)
Chastity – I Built This Prison Myself (Deathwish)
Cro-Mags – The Age Of Quarrel: 40 Years Of Quarrel (BLKIIBLK)
Dangerous Toys – Dangerous Toys Re-Release (Kenyon)
Def Leppard – Volume 4 Box Set (Ume)
Delain – Frozen Silhouettes: 2006-2009 (HNE)
Dirty Tricks – Not Gonna Stop (High Roller)
GWAR & Joe Bob Briggs – GWAR And The Last Drive-In Stein (Pit)
Hanoi Rocks – The Complete Collection 1981-1984 (BMG)
Heavens Edge – Philadelphia (Frontiers)
Ice Nine Kills – A Very Vicious Christmas EP (Fearless)
Iron Savior – Deathbringer (Frontiers)
Kingdom Of Giants – Usurper (SharpTone)
Liily – Wax (Atlantic)
Minute After Midnight – Matter Of Time (Fearless)
Necropanther – The Book Of Change (Self)
Royal Blood – Dead Company (Warner)
Rwake – Built From Stardust – The Return Of Magik Live (Relapse)
Sable Hills – Homura (Arising Empire)
Serpent – The Pit And The Pendulum (Hammerheart)
Silvertomb – The Interpretation Of Nightmares (Steamhammer)
Sinister – Lucid Nightmares (Massacre)
Temple Of Bones – Walk The Winds (Relapse)
Twisted Sister – Totally Twisted – The Studio Albums 1982-1987 (Rhino)
Walls Of Jericho – System Error: Humanity (Napalm)
Wraith – Descent Into Darkness (Prosthetic)
November 20, 2026
Angelus Apatrida – The Reckoning EP (Napalm)
Ankor – I See Red (UNFD)
Azarath – Scorn Eternal (Agonia)
Creed – Weathered Re-Release (Craft)
Disfear – The Last Nail (Relapse)
Domkraft – Night Songs (Magnetic Eye)
Down – Volume V (Nuclear Blast)
Eidola – The Will To Power (3Dot)
Endless Chain – Nothingness (M-Theory)
The Foreshadowing – Ozymandias (Lifeforce)
Girish And The Chronicles – Disintegrate (Frontiers)
Golgothan Remains – Born From Darkness Absolute (Dark Descent)
Grymheart – Wake Not The Beast (Scarlet)
The Last Decade – Rebirth Of Suffering (Metalville)
Laura Cox – Trouble Coming To Paris: Live At Le Trianon (earMusic)
Sex Pistols – Filthy Lucre (UMR)
Slayer – Reign In Blood Vinyl Re-Release (Sound Of Vinyl)
Suicide Silence – Graceless (Self)
Thy Catafalque – XIII: Sárga erdő (Season Of Mist)
Trivium – Crown In The Grave (Roadrunner)
Wolf – Hour Of The Wolf (Fireflash)
November 27, 2026
Devastator – Goathammer EP (Listenable)
King 810 – La Grande Mort Or Silence Of God (Self)
Molly Hatchet – Lost Horizon (Steamhammer)
Mystic Prophecy – In Metal (Perception)
Neal Morse & The Resonance – River Of Light (InsideOut)
Pungent Stench – Dirty Rhymes And Psychotronic Beats Re-Release (Hammerheart)
Revnoir – Sometimes I Feel You, Sometimes I Don’t (Arising Empire)
Sacral Rage – Ark Of Cosmic Resonance (No Remorse)
Sarlic Bliss – Melodies Of A Dying Dawn (MDD)
Various Artists – Doom Shall Rise: A Tribute To Saint Vitus (Witching Buzz)
December 4, 2026
Alcest – Live At Hellfest 2022 (Nuclear Blast)
At The Gates – Gardens Of Grief Re-Release (Dissonance)
Avulsed – Eminence In Putrescence 2026 Redux (Xtreem)
Catalyst Crime – Acquired Immunity (Massacre)
Drive, She Said – Pass The Torch (Frontiers)
Eleine – The Water Taste Of Blood (Algoth)
Humankind – Perfect World (ROAR)
Iron Maiden – Somewhere In Time Vinyl Re-Release (UMe)
Jim Peterik & World Stage – River Of Music: The Power Of Duets Vol. 2 (Frontiers)
Parkway Drive – Home – Live At The Sydney Opera House (Epitaph)
Starbreaker – Starbreaker (XXX Anniversary Remix Edition) (Frontiers)
Tigertailz – A Fist Full Of Dollarz: 1992-2011 (HNE)
UFO – Mechanix Re-Release (Chrysalis)
Vlad In Tears – Undead (Metalville)
December 11, 2026
Aether Realm – Season Of Bloodshed (Napalm)
Alfonzetti – Going For The Kill (Frontiers)
Archon Angel – Beyond The Grave (Frontiers)
Bush – Razorblade Suitcase Re-Release (Craft)
Dalton – Rock Will Never Die (Frontiers)
Dopelord – Magick Rites Re-Release (Season Of Mist)
Doro – Wild At Heart (Rare Diamonds)
Dosser – Born For Nothing/Born By Mistake (Iodine)
Heilung – Sagas (Season Of Mist)
Iron Maiden – 50th Anniversary Studio Album Collection Part 1: 1980-1992 Color Vinyl Box (UMe)
Jorn – Return Of The Jorniverse (Black Lodge)
Nightwish – The Greatest 30 Years On Earth (Nuclear Blast)
Obituary – Darkest Day Re-Release (Relapse)
Obituary – Xecutioner’s Return Re-Release (Relapse)
Ozzy Osbourne & Black Sabbath – Back To The Beginning (Mercury)
Void Sector Zero – Dead Space Enigma (Season Of Mist)
December 18, 2026
Brother Against Brother – The Legion Awakens (Frontiers)
Smashing Pumpkins – The Aeroplane Flies High Vinyl Re-Release (UMe)
Sonata Arctica – Live In Latin America (Reigning Phoenix)
December 25, 2026
Manntra – Wild Hunt (Napalm)
2026 Albums Already Released
