Ghost, Halestorm, Babymetal, Spiritbox, Sleep Token, Killswitch Engage… 2025 has been stacked with killer albuns so far. And there are more to come, from Deftones’ Private Music and Sabaton’s Legends to the return of AFI with Silver Bleeds The Black Sun and rap-metal heavyweights Biohazard with Divided We Fall.
To help you keep on top of things, here’s a list of all the big metal albums still to be released this year (and few for 2026). And check back regularly, because we’ll be updating it whenever we hear of anything new…
August 15, 2025
Auri – III: Candles & Beginnings Pre-Order
Baest – Colossal Pre-Order
Chevelle – Bright As Blasphemy Pre-Order
Ellefson-Soto - Unbreakable Pre-Order
Incite – Savage New Times Pre-Order
Martyr – Dark Believer Pre-Order
Panopticon - Laurentian Blue Pre-Order
Patriarchs In Black – Home Pre-Order
Plaiins – Happy Faces Pre-Order
Rise Against - Richochet Pre-Order
Unleashed – Fire Upon Your Lands Pre-Order
Warmen - Band Of Brothers Pre-Order
Witchrider - Metamorph EP Pre-order
August 22, 2025
Arcadea – The Exodus Of Gravity Pre-Order
Bask – The Turning Pre-Order
Blackbriar – A Thousand Little Deaths Pre-Order
Burning Witches – Inquisition Pre-Order
Crowne – Wonderland Pre-Order
Deftones – Private Music Pre-Order
Desaster – Kill All Idols Pre-Order
Dragonsclaw – Moving Target Pre-Order
Feuerschwanz – Knightclub Pre-Order
Hundreds Of Au – Life In Parallel Pre-Order
Innumerable Forms – Pain Effulgence Pre-Order
Iron Savior – Reforged – Machine World Pre-Order
Mob Rules – Rise Of The Ruler Pre-Order
Myrath - Reflections Pre-Order
Panzerchrist – Meleficium Part 2 Pre-Order
Reinforcer – Ice And Death Pre-Order
Signs Of The Swarm – To Rid Myself Of Truth Pre-Order
The Smashing Pumpkings – Machina/The Machines of God / Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music Pre-Order
We Came As Romans – All Is Beautiful...Because We're Doomed Pre-Order
Zetra - Believe EP Pre-Order
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August 29, 2025
Årabrot – Rite Of Dionysus Pre-Order
Asymmetric Universe – A Memory And What Came After Pre-Order
Helloween – Giants And Monsters Pre-Order
Ihlo – Legacy Pre-Order
Kingdom Of Giants – Burning Chrome EP
Manegarm – Edsvuren Pre-Order
Nova Twins – Parasites & Butterflies Pre-Order
Pinkshift – Earthkeeper Pre-Order
Sowulo – Niht Pre-Order
Vicious Rumors – The Devil's Asylum Pre-Order
Wucan – Axioms Pre-Order
September 5, 2025
Before The Dawn – Cold Flare Eternal Pre-Order
blessthefall – Gallows Pre-Order
Eleine – We Stand United EP Pre-Order
Green Carnation – A Dark Poem, Part I: The Shores Of Melancholia Pre-Order
Modern Life Is War – Life On The Moon Pre-Order
Nailed To Obscurity – Generation Of The Void Pre-Order
Pestilential Shadows – Wretch Pre-Order
Primal Fear – Domination Pre-Order
Slipknot – Slipknot (25th Anniversary Edition) Pre-Order
Still In Love – Recovery Language Pre-Order
Swollen Teeth – Ask Nothing Pre-Order
September 12, 2025
Barrens – Corpse Lights Pre-Order
Between The Buried And Me – The Blue Nowhere Pre-Order
Crippling Alcoholism - Camgirl Pre-Order
Demon Hunter - There Was a Light Here Pre-Order
Der Weg Einer Freiheit – Innern Pre-Order
Lorna Shore – I Feel the Everblack Festering Within Me Pre-Order
Mötley Crüe – From The Beginning Pre-Order
Nevertel – Start Again Pre-Order
The Rasmus – Weirdo Pre-Order
Spinal Tap – The End Continues Pre-Order
Sweet Savage – Bang Pre-Order
Year Of The Goat – Trivia Goddess Pre-Order
September 19, 2025
Ded - Resent Pre-Order
Dusted Angel – This Side Of The Dirt Pre-Order
Igorrr – Amen Pre-Order
I Prevail - Violent Nature Pre-Order
Kamelot - Ascension 1995-1998 Pre-Order
Novembers Doom – Major Arcana Pre-Order
Paradise Lost – Ascension Pre-Order
Scorpion Milk - Slime Of The Times Pre-Order
Stoned Jesus - Songs To Sun Pre-Order
Tithe - Communion In Anguish Pre-Order
September 26, 2025
Amorphis – Borderland Pre-Order
Beyond Extinction – Where They Gather Pre-Order
Cosmic Reaper – Bleed The Wicked, Drown The Damned Pre-Order
Dying Wish - Flesh Stays Pre-Order
Fauna – Ochre & Ash Pre-Order
From Fall To Spring - Entry Wounds
Korypheus - Gilgamesh Pre-Order
Mors Principium Est – Darkness Invisible Pre-Order
Paradox - Mysterium Pre-Order
President - King Of Terrors EP
Rage – A New World Rising Pre-Order
Revocation – New Gods, New Masters Pre-Order
Septicflesh - Live At The Acropolis II - Prometheus Unchained Scorpions – From The First Sting Pre-Order
Terra Atlantica – Oceans Pre-Order
The Vintage Caravan – Portals Pre-Order
Uragh – Stalemate Pre-Order
Vintersorg – Vattenkrafternas Spel Pre-Order
October 3, 2025
AFI - Silver Bleeds The Black Sun Pre-Order
Agriculture – The Spiritual Sound Pre-Order
Author & Punisher - Nocturnal Birding Pre-Order
Bloodred Hourglass – We Should Be Buried Like This Pre-Order
Dirkschneider And The Old Gang – Babylon Pre-Order
Dissona - Receptor Pre-Order
Hooded Menace - Lachrymose Monuments Of Obscuration Pre-Order
Orbit Culture – Death Above Life Pre-Order
Solence – Angels Calling Pre-Order
Tenacious D - The Complete Masterworks Vol. 3 Blu-ray/DVD Pre-Order
Oct 10, 2025
Frayle - Heretics & Lullabies Pre-Order
Greyhaven - Keep It Quiet Pre-Order
Incubus – Something in the Water
John 5 – Ghost
Linx – Annihilation Pre-Order
Pertubator – Age Of Aquarius Pre-Order
Sanguisugabogg – Hideous Aftermath Pre-Order
October 17, 2025
Battle Beast - Steelbound Pre-Order
Biohazard - Divided We Fall Pre-Order
Dayseeker – Creature In The Black Night Pre-Order
Mammoth – The End Pre-Order
Our Oceans – Right Here, Right Now Pre-Order
Psychonaut – World Maker Pre-Order
Sabaton – Legends Pre-Order
Tombs - Feral Darkness Pre-Order
Wretched - Decay Pre-Order
October 24
The Acacia Strain - You Are Safe From God Here Pre-Order
Adept - Blood Covenant Pre-Order
Dayseeker - Creature In The Black Night Pre-Order
Mammoth - The End Pre-Order
Our Oceans - Right Here, Right Now Pre-Order
Psychonaut - World Maker
Seraina Telli - Green Pre-Order
Sumo Cyco - Neon Void
Wino - Create Or Die Pre-Order
October 31
Despised Icon – Shadow Work Pre-Order
Howling Giant - Crucible & Ruin Pre-Order
ODC - Twisted Love Pre-Order
Stillbirth - Survival Protocol Pre-Order
Trivium - Struck Dead EP
Witch Fever – Fevereaten Pre-Order
November 7, 2025
Bogwife - From Ashes Pre-Order
Caskets - The Only Heaven You'll Know Pre-Order
Drain – ...Is Your Friend Pre-Order
Finger Eleven - Last Night On Earth Pre-Order
Omnium Gatherum - May The Bridges We Burn Light The Way Pre-Order
Unwell - Allegoria Pre-Order
November 14, 2025
Of Mice & Men – Another Miracle Pre-Order
Scorpions - Coming Home Live Pre-Order
November 21, 2025
Danko Jones – Leo Rising Pre-Order
January 9, 2026
Alter Bridge - Alter Bridge Pre-Order
Beyond The Black – Break The Silence Pre-Order
March 26, 2026
Powerwolf – Wildlive (Live at Olympiahalle) Pre-order
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