Upcoming: New releases (CD/DVD/Bluray) 2026

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January 2026

2nd

DEVON ALLMAN ‘nightvision’ Create Records

7th

NANOWAR OF STEEL ‘The Genghis Khan EP to End All Genghis Khan EPs?’ Napalm Records

9th

ALTER BRIDGE s/t Napalm Records

BEYOND THE BLACK ‘Break The Silence’ Nuclear Blast

ZACH BRYAN ‘With Heaven On Top’

BULLET ‘Kickstarter’ SPV/Steamhammer

THE CRIBS ‘Selling a Vibe’ PIAS

VENGER ‘Times Of Legend’ Silver Lining Music

16th

ELLES BAILEY ‘Can’t Take My Story Away’ Cooking Vinyl & Outlaw Music

CAVETOWN ‘Running with Scissors’ Futures Music Group

EDENBRIDGE ‘Set The Dark On Fire’ Steamhammer/SPV

KID KAPACHI ‘Fearless Nature’ Spinefarm Records

KREATOR ‘Krushers of the World’ Nuclear Blast

MARIANAS REST ‘The Bereaved’ Noble Demon

RICHARD MARX ‘After Hours’ BMG

SLEAFORD MODS ‘The Demise of Planet X’ Rough Trade

SOEN ‘Reliance’ Silver Lining Music

STREETLIGHT ‘Night Vision’ (deluxe edition) Frontiers

THUNDER ‘Live’ earMusic (reissue with extra tracks)

YOUNG GUN SILVER FOX ‘Live from The Troubadour and Paradiso’ Candelion Music

23rd

AUTUMN’S CHILD ‘Melody Lane’ Pride & Glory

CRYSTAL LAKE ‘The Weight of Sound’ Century Media

THE DAMNED ‘Not Like Everybody Else’ earMusic (covers album)

Michael de Albuquerque ‘Stalking The Sleeper’ (reissue) Think Like A Key Music

Eddie & The Hot Rods ‘Teenage Depression/Life On The Line’ Cherry Red Records

FIREBORN ‘Dreamcatcher’ El Puerto Records

THE HARA ‘The Fallout’ Mascot Records

HELIX ‘Scrap Metal’

LAURENCE JONES ‘On My Own’ (acoustic album)

MEGADETH ‘Tipping Point’ BLKIIBLK/Frontiers (final studio album)

NITE STINGER ‘What the Nite is All About’ Pride & Joy Music

PANIC! AT THE DISCO ‘A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out’ (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)

POPPY ‘Empty Hands’ Sumerian Records

THE POWER STATION S/t (40th anniversary edition)

TEXTURES ‘Genotype’ Kscope

LUCINDA WILLIAMS ‘World’s Gone Wrong’ Highway 20 Records

30th

BUZZCOCKS ‘Attitude Adjustment’ Cherry Red Records

CAMEL ‘Earthrise – Live at the Marquee 1974′ Cherry Red Records

CAST ‘Yeah Yeah Yeah’ Scruff of the Neck Records

COURSE OF FATE ‘Behind The Eclipse’ ROAR!

ANDREW GOLD ‘Lonely Boy – The Asylum Years Anthology’ (6CD/DVD) Cherry Red Records

HALLAS ‘Panaroma’ Äventyr Records

IQ ‘Live From London – Camden Palace 1985′ Cherry Red Records

HOWARD JONES ‘Live at the Marquee’ Cherry Red Records

JOYCE MANOR ‘I Used to Go to This Bar’ Epitaph

KULA SHAKER ‘Wormslayer’

MAYHEM MAVERICKS S/t Street Symphonies Records

McAuley Schenker Group ‘Bad Boys – The McAuley Schenker Group Story 1987-1992′ (4CD) Cherry Red Records

MINDFEELS ’2WO’ Art Of Melody Music

FRANCIS ROSSI ‘The Accidental’ earrMusic

THERIOIN ‘Con orquesta’ Napalm Records (live album)

ROBIN TROWER ‘One Moment in Time – Live in the USA’

TBA

PERFECT BEASTS S/t (features DARREN REDICK & JOHN MITCHELL)

WARRIOR SOUL ‘Rock ‘Em, Sock ‘Em’

February

6th

BIG BIG TRAIN ‘Woodcut’ InsideOut Music

JAY BUCHANAN (RIVAL SONS) ‘Weapons of Beauty’ Sacred Tongue Records

DREAM NAILS ‘You Wish’ Marshall Records

EPINIKION ‘The Force Of Nature’ Dr. Music Records

FAMILY ‘Bandstand’ (Remastered and Expanded) Cherry Red Records

INDUCTION ‘Love Kills!’ Reigning Phoenix Records

KARNIVOOL ‘In Verses’ Cymatic Records

KMFDM ‘Enemy’ Metropolis Records

SANANDA MAITREYA ‘JUVENILIA: The Columbia Years’ (box set)

MAYHEM ‘Liturgy Of Death’ Century Media

PUSCIFER ‘Normal Isn’t’ Puscifer Entertainment/Alchemy Recordings

RENAISSANCE ‘Azure D’Or – Expanded 2CD/Blu-Ray Set’ Cherry Red Records

JOHN RENBOURN ‘Unpentangled – The Sixties Albums’ (6CD) Cherry Red Records

MICK RONSON ‘Only After Dark – The Complete Mainman Recordings’ (4CD) Cherry Red Records

TAILGUNNER ‘Midnight Blitz’ Napalm Records

VARIOUS ‘B.B. King’s Blues Summit 100’ (double album) KTBA Records

VARIOUS ‘Can The Glam!’ Cherry Red Records

VARIOUS ‘Surrender To The Rhythm – The London Pub Rock Scene Of The Seventies’ (3CD Digipak) Cherry Red Records

VISIONS OF ATLANTIS ‘Armada – An Orchestral Voyage’ Napalm Records

WICKED SMILE ‘When Night Falls’ No Dust Records

ROBBIE WILLIAMS ‘Britpop’ (delayed from October 10)

WOLVERINE ‘Anomalies’ Music Theories Recordings

YES ‘Tales From Topographic Oceans’ (box set)

13th

ANGEL DUST ‘Cold 2 the Touch’ Run for Cover

BLACK SWAN ‘Paralyzed’ Frontiers

THE HELLACOPTERS ‘Cream Of The Crap! Collected Non-Album Works – Volume 3′ Nuclear Blast

MICHAEL MONROE ‘Outerstellar’ Silver Lining Music

MUMFORD & SONS ‘Prizefighter’ Island Records

RUNNING WILD ‘Death Or Glory’, ‘Blazon Stone’ (limited vinyl picture discs) Hammerheart Records

AUSTIN STARR ‘I am the Enemy’ Frontiers

STORY OF THE YEAR ‘A.R.S.O.N.’ SharpTone

WILD HORSES ‘Standing Our Ground – Complete Recordings 1978-1981′ (6CD) Cherry Red Records

20th

CLAWFINGER ‘Before We All Die’ Perception

THE ENEMY ‘Social Disguises’

EYE OF MELIAN ‘Forest of Forgetting’ Napalm Records

LOVEBITES ‘Outstanding Power’

SPENCER MACKENZIE ‘Empty Chairs’ Gypsy Soul Records

NEW FOUND GLORY ‘Listen Up!’ Pure Noise

ROSE TATTOO ‘The Albums 1981-84′ (4CD) Cherry Red Records

SHAM 69 ‘The Albums 1978-80′ (4CD) Cherry Red Records

SYLOSIS ‘The New Flesh’ Nuclear Blast

TEMPLE BALLS S/t Frontiers

27th

BLACKRAIN ‘Orphans Of The Light’

BLACKWATER DROWNING ‘Obscure Sorrows’

PAUL GILBERT ‘WROC!’ Music Theories Records

JOEL HOEKSTRA’S 13 ‘From the Fade’ Frontiers

IT’sALIE ‘Wild Games’ Frontiers

MOUNTAIN ‘Don’t Look Around – The Recordings 1969-1974′ (7CD) Cherry Red Records

SODOM ‘Get What You Deserve’ BMG (reissue)

A THOUSAND HORSES ‘White Flag Down’

WILLE & THE BANDITS ‘Salt Roots’

ROB ZOMBIE ‘The Great Satan’ Nuclear Blast

March

6th

BLACK STONE CHERRY ‘Celebrate’ (EP) Mascot Records

POWERWOLF ‘Wildlive (Live At Olympiahalle)’ Napalm Records

KATHERINE PRIDDY ‘These Frightening Machines’

SQUEEZE’Trixies’ BMG

13th

THE GEMS ‘Year of the Snake’ Napalm Records

GOTTHARD ‘More Stereo Crush’

ANGUS McSIX ‘Angus McSix and the All-Seeing Astral Eye’ Naplam Records

THE SCRATCH ‘Pull Like a Dog’ Music for Nations/Sony Music Ireland

SOFT MACHINE ‘Thirteen’ Dyad Records

YONAKA ‘Until You’re Satisfied’

20th

GORILLAZ ‘The Mountain’ KONG

HAIRCUT 100 ‘Boxing The Compass’

IGNESCENT ‘Eternal’ Frontiers

TYKETTO’Closer to the Sun’ Silver Lining Music

27th

CHEZ KANE ‘Reckless’ Frontiers

LION’S SHARE ‘Inferno’ Metalville Records

DAN LUCAS ‘Age Is Just A Number’ Pride & Joy Music

MASSIVE WAGONS ‘Live at the Great Hall’ Earache

MYRATH ‘Wilderness Of Mirrors’ earMusic

SCOUTING FOR GIRLS ‘These Are the Good Days’

TBA

GONG ‘Bright Spirit’

IRON SAVIOR ‘Awesome Anthems of the Galaxy’ PERCEPTION/Reigning Phoenix Music.

IAN PARRY ‘Consortium Project VI – Legacy Of Empires5′ Frontiers

SHINEDOWN

April

8th

ATTILA ‘Concrete Throne’

17th

BROTHER CANE ‘Magnolia Medicine’ Double Dragon Records/Virgin

GYPSY PISTOLEROS ‘Dark Faerie Tales’

JOE JACKSON ‘Hope and Fury’

SKINDRED ‘You Got This’ Earache Records

VICTORIUS ‘World War Dinosaur’ Preception/Reigning Phoenix Music

24th

REVERAND AND THE MAKERS ‘Is this Happiness Feels?’

TBA

ARMORED SAINT Metal Blade Records

May

16th

THE KARMA EEFECT ‘Cruel Intentions’ Earache Records

22nd

DAN BYRNE ‘This Is Where the Show Begins’ Frontiers

TBA

DODGY ‘Hello Beautiful’

PRIDE OF LIONS Frontiers

September

TBA

EUROPE

2026 TBA

ACCEPT

ACID REIGN

THE ALARM ‘Transformation’ (Apr/May TBC)

ALCATRAZZ Bravewords Records

TORI AMOS ‘In Times of Dragons’

ANTHRAX Nuclear Blast

ASIA featuring John Payne ‘Aviana’

ASIA Frontiers

AUDREY HORNE (autumn)

GARY JOHN BARDEN Frontiers

BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION (live album)

BLACK LABEL SOCIETY MNRK Heavy/Spinefarm Records

BOULEVARD ‘Talk Without Listening’

BUTCHER BABIES

FRANCK CARDUCCI ‘Sheeple’ Esoteric Recordings/Cherry Red Records

CLUTCH

COLD

DANGEROUS TOYS (two studio albums, first due early 2026)

DEATH DEALER ‘Reign Of Steel’ Massacre Records

DEF LEPPARD

DEGREED Frontiers

DIE KRUPPS Dependent Records

DISTURBED

DOWN Nuclear Blast

EVANESCENCE

EXODUS Napalm Records

FLOTSAM AND JETSAM Napalm Records

FREEDOM CALL SPV/Steamhammer (summer 2026)

GORJIA

GRAND DESIGN GMR Music

HARD-FI

HARDLINE

KERRY KING

KING KING ‘Light Up the Sky’

MAD MAX ROAR

MAGNUM

METAL CHURCH Rat Pak Records

MINISTRY

MUSE

OVERKILL

PAPA ROACH

QUEENSRYCHE

RUNNING WILD

SACRED REICH Metal Blade Records

SARACEN ‘Crusader’ (live album)

SAVATAGE

SAXON (Sep/Oct)

SEPULTURA (EP)

SOILWORK

STEEL PANTHER

SYMPHONY X

TOOL

TRIVIUM

U.D.O.

VICTORY SPV/Steamhammer

===2027===

TBA

EXHORDER

SLASH fetauring MYLESKENNEDY & THE CONSPIRATORS

In the works – no set date as yet

AGENT STEEL

AIRBOURNE

ALICE IN CHAINS BMG

AMMUNITION

JON ANDERSON & THE BAND OF GEEKS

AT THE MOVIES ‘Soundtrack To Your Life Vol.3′

Bachman Turner Overdrive (live album from 1976)

BATON ROGUE Frontiers

DAVE BICKLER (ex-SURVIVOR) Radio City (demos)

BIG COUNTRY

BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION

BLACK VEIL BRIDES

BLIND GUARDIAN

BLONDIE

GRAHAM BONNET & JEFF LOOMIS

BUCKETS REBEL HEART

LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM

BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE

BULLETBOYS

GLEN BURTNICK

BIFF BYFORD (SAXON)

CAMEL

VIVIAN CAMPBELL (DEF LEPPARD)

THE CARS

CHELSEA

DESMOND CHILD & ROUGE

COLDSPELL

JOHN CORABI Frontiers

CORROSION OF CONFORMITY

Crashdïet Ninetone

CREDO

CROWN LANDS InsideOut Music

CRYPTA Napalm Records

DANTE FOX

DEATH ANGEL

DEEP PURPLE

DIAMOND HEAD

DIRTY THRILLS Frontiers

DOMAIN

DORO ‘Rock To Death’ (Lemmy tribute)

DURAN DURAN (NILE RODGERS producing)

DVNE Metal Blade Records

EASY ACTION

ELECTRIC MARY

ELIXIR Dissonace Productions

ENFORCER Napalm Records

THE ENID

ENTOMBED A.D.

EXCITER

THE FACES

FAITH NO MORE

FEAR FACTORY

FIREHOUSE

FOGHAT

FOO FIGHTERS

LITA FORD (album recorded, no label)

ACE FREHLEY ‘Origins Vol.3′

THE GATHERING

GENERATION RADIO Frontiers

GHOSTSEEKER

LOU GRAMM & MICK JONES (working on older FOREIGNER songs not previously released)

LOU GRAMM

GRAND

ROB HALFORD (blues album or Tony Bennett covers album!)

THE HAUNTED

HEART (acoustic album)

HEAVY PETTIN’

INTRONAUT Metal Blade Records

TONY IOMMI

JANE’S ADDICTION

ELTON JOHN

JUDAS PRIEST

KELLY KEAGY (NIGHT RANGER)

KILLER DWARFS EMP

KING CRIMSON

KING’S X

LAST TEMPTATION

LAWLESS

LEATHERWOLF

LIFESIGNS

LIVING COLOUR

MANOWAR ‘Sign of the Hammer’ (re-recorded with new songs)

ERIC MARTIN (MR BIG)

MASTERPLAN AFM Records

MATTADOR Frontiers

PAUL McARTNEY

JOHN MELLANCAMP

MOONSPELL

MY BLOODY VALENTINE

STEVIE NICKS

THE NIGHT ETERNAL Metal Blade Records

JOHN NORUM Frontiers

CHRIS OUSSEY Escape Music

TIM ‘Ripper’ OWENS

JIMMY PAGE (archive material release)

PANIC ROOM

STEVE PERRY

PINK CREAM 69 SPV/Steamhammer

THE PLEASURES

TED POLEY Frontiers

QUARTZ Battlegod Productions

QUIET RIOT

RADIO CITY (features ex-SURVIVOR vocalist DAVE BICKLER)

RADIO EXILE Mighty Music

RADIOHEAD

RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE

RATT

RING OF FIRE

NILE RODGERS (guests include ROBERT PLANT)

THE ROLLLING STONES

STEVE ROTHERY (MARILLION) ‘Revontulet’

ROXY BLUE

RICHIE SAMBORA

SANCTUARY

SARAYA

SHADOWSFALL

SHADOWSPELL Frontiers

TOMMY SHAW (STYX)

SICK OF IT ALL

SILVER (MICHAEL VOSS on vocals)

SOIL

SOUNDGARDEN

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN (soul & Motown covers volume 2)

MICHAEL STIPE (R.E.M.)

STORM FORCE

NINA STRAUSS

21 GUNS

TANGIER

TANK

GEOFF TATE ‘Operation Mindchrime III’

TESLA (covers album)

TNT

TOOL

TOWERS OF LONDON

TRIXTER

TYPE O NEGATIVE (live album)

VAN CANTO

VANA

VENOM INC.

VICTORIOUS Perception

VON GROOVE (album re-issues & new music) Frontiers

JOHN WAITE

WARNING Relapse Records

W.A.S.P.

THE WILDHEARTS

MICHAEL WILTON (QUEENSRYCHE)

THE YARDBIRDS

JOHN YOUNG (LIESIGNS)

XYZ


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