it recently occurred to me that I have 0 albums from the current year in my music library, and I need to amend that. so what are some good albums/singles/etc from 2026 that resonated with you?
it recently occurred to me that I have 0 albums from the current year in my music library, and I need to amend that. so what are some good albums/singles/etc from 2026 that resonated with you?
Bro, Karnivool finally released a new album after 13 years and it slaps. 2026 has been pretty stacked for me so far.
Cryptic Shift. Jazzy/proggy/space thrash modelled after Blood Incantation. This has probably been the biggest thing for me so far, just found these guys with this release.
Blood Incantation themselves. Another ambient synth release that’s the sountrack to an upcoming documentary.
Spirit Adrift with their final album. Really epic doomy sludge stuff. Again, why do I just find out about these guys at the end of their career?
Louie Zong just released Seal Of Approval, but he puts out new stuff all the time.
Good Tiger finally dropped their new album. Proggy, fast, ambient at times stuff. I really liked their last album, in my head it sounded like Protest The Hero but listening back it is not.
Plantoid released Flare. Very complimentary to Good Tiger.
Tofubeats. Found out about this guy from the music video to Dancefloor. Very Mother 2 inspired animated video.
Devin Townsend with The Moth. Got me listening to his recent releases again.
Frozen Soul with No Place For Warmth. Fun throwback kind of metal, the last track is really fun.
Squarepusher with Kammerkonzert. He’s more of an electronic guy but this is very jazzy and orchestral. I am embarrassingly late on this guy.
Plini has a new album but I haven’t listened to it yet. He does instrumental guitar stuff. I could go see him soon so I should get tickets.
Archspire with Too Fast To Die. The fastest band in the world is back and the are living up to the title.
Green Carnation. They do heavy, epic, proggy stuff. They released an album around the same time as Psychotic Waltz back in 2020 and it was great to bounce between the two.
Converge have released two albums this year already.
Tailgunner do Iron Maiden style dual guitar music and one of their guitarists is a woman.
Paul Gilbert released WROC. All the lyrics are from Washington’s Rules Of Engagement and it can either be seen as a Dad Album or even making fun of a slave owner for telling other people how to act.
Thanatotic Desire did a really good cover of Holy Wars so I’m going to check them out.
Iron Regan with a new EP, they seem cool.
Hellripper released Coronach. Just good heavy fun.
Monstrosity released a new album. I just found out Corpsegrinder used to be in the band.
Periphery released Pale White Dot, my favourite of theirs was IV so this isn’t as high for me.
Someone else mentioned Slift and I just checked them out, they’re cool.
Others have mentioned Angine de Poitrine so no need to expand on that aside from mentioning I listened to them too.
And that’s just albums this year. There are a bunch of singles from bands I like out but I just wait for the full release