Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Going through all of my favorite metal albums from this past month! I will list the albums below, as I am sure to mispronounce a few of them.

Honorable Mentions (not ranked - in alphabetical order):

Aspen Sanctum - To Withhold the Need to Conquer
Gorod - The Ember Gone
Hibria - On the Shortness of Life
Invocation Ritual - Altered Reality
Kamelot - Dark Asylum
Ninth Realm - Damnation's Veil
Noumena - Maanaari
Sev Lezu - Blood Conscript
Spectre - A Procession of the Dead
The Night Eternal - Cold Velvet

EPs:

Wormwood - A

Top 10 (Listed in alphabetical order, but if you want to see my ranked order, you will have to watch the video!):

Dymna Lotva - Vyraj
Dysthymia - The Morning Darkness
Fen - Elemental (Part 1: Mourning Earth)
Hanternoz - A Hed an noz, A noz, A noz
Hesperia - Picenum (True Marchigan Black Metal Renaissance)
Hulder - Verbolgen
Ironflame - Worlds to Conquer
Rapid - Enter the Realm of Fire
Shabti - Haze, Cacophony and White Light
Xandria - Eclipse