Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week 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):

Ambrotos - Atrocious Chants
Chamber of Unlight - Avernus
Deep Purple - Splat!
Escumergamet - Apparebat Eidolon Senex
Galneryus - A Cry from the Sky Above
Into Darkness - Route to the Outer Side
Left to Die - Initium Mortis
Lucid Dreaming - Upon the Barricades
NovaReign - Shifting the Axis of the World

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

Coffin Hunters - Cosmic Dawn
Finsterforst - Still
Iron Slaught - Metallic Torments
Jordsjo - Pestkronikene
Niveous - Cult of the Void Star
Sellsword - ...with Might and Vengeance
Sojourner - Gateways
Taake - En skog av nidstang
The Scepter - Shadows in the Tower
Torpor - Dungeon Descent