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10,000 Days (Tool album)
10,000 Days is Tool's fourth studio album, released May 1-2, 2006 on Tool Dissectional/Volcano; self-produced with engineer Joe Barresi, mastered by Bob Ludwig, Grammy-winning stereoscopic packaging, never officially pressed on vinyl.
A Pale White Dot
A Pale White Dot is Periphery's eighth studio album, released May 15, 2026 on 3DOT Recordings. A 12-song, 47-minute concept album about loneliness, titled after Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot, and the band's first non-numbered release since Juggernaut (2015).
Ascension (Paradise Lost album)
Ascension is Paradise Lost's 17th studio album, released September 19, 2025 on Nuclear Blast, its first in five years after Obsidian, produced by Gregor Mackintosh, with UK chart peak No. 54 and Metal Hammer ranking it 12th of 2025.
Aspiral (album)
Aspiral is the ninth studio album by Dutch symphonic metal band Epica, released April 11, 2025 on Nuclear Blast; 11 tracks, 1:01:12, titled after a 1965 Szukalski statue, recorded at Sandlane, produced by Joost van den Broek.
Awake (Dream Theater album)
Awake is Dream Theater's third studio album, released October 4, 1994 on East West Records; last with keyboardist Kevin Moore, first with Petrucci's seven-string guitar, darker and heavier than Images and Words.
Be Not Afraid
Be Not Afraid: fifth studio album by Texas instrumental rock band Polyphia, released October 23, 2026 on Rise Records. Twelve tracks, about 45 minutes, no guest appearances, recorded 2024-2025 in Miami, Los Angeles, and Dallas; distinct from the 1975 Dufford hymn of the same name.
Bloody Kisses
Bloody Kisses is Type O Negative's third album, a gothic metal landmark released August 17, 1993 on Roadrunner; recorded in Brooklyn, produced by Peter Steele and Josh Silver, and the label's first US gold album.
Carolus Rex (album)
Carolus Rex (2012) is Sabaton's sixth studio album, a power metal concept album about the Swedish Empire, released by Nuclear Blast in parallel English and Swedish versions, produced by Peter Tägtgren, quadruple platinum in Sweden.
Crack the Skye
Crack the Skye is Mastodon's fourth studio album (2009, Reprise), a concept album about astral projection, Rasputin, and ether, produced by Brendan O'Brien in Atlanta; its title track honors drummer Brann Dailor's late sister Skye.
Dark Asylum
Dark Asylum is Kamelot's fourteenth studio album, a symphonic power metal concept album released August 28, 2026 on Napalm Records, set in the fictional neo-Victorian RavenHill Asylum, with guests Ignacia Fernández, Clémentine Delauney, and Tobias Sammet.
Eclipse (Xandria album)
Eclipse is the ninth studio album by German symphonic metal band Xandria, released August 7, 2026 on Napalm Records. Second album with vocalist Ambre Vourvahis; 11 tracks, 57:33, four singles including the title track.
Emperor of Sand
Emperor of Sand is Mastodon's seventh album (Reprise, March 31, 2017), a Grammy-nominated concept record about a man given a death sentence in the desert, written as a metaphor for cancer and grief, produced by Brendan O'Brien; distinct from Tasha Suri's novel Empire of Sand.
Empire (Queensrÿche album)
Empire (1990) is Queensrÿche's fifth studio album, produced by Peter Collins. Triple-platinum, No. 7 Billboard 200, six rock-chart singles including "Silent Lucidity" (#9 Hot 100), the band's biggest seller.
Endless Forms Most Beautiful (album)
Endless Forms Most Beautiful is Nightwish's eighth studio album (Nuclear Blast, March 2015), the first with vocalist Floor Jansen and Troy Donockley, a Darwin-inspired concept album on evolution featuring Richard Dawkins, which topped the Finnish chart.
Falling into Infinity
Falling into Infinity, Dream Theater's fourth studio album (EastWest, 1997), the only one with Derek Sherinian; Kevin Shirley production, label-driven radio push, Billboard No. 52, least-selling besides the debut.
Far from God
Far from God is a 2026 studio album by the Portuguese gothic metal band Moonspell. Released by Napalm Records, it is the band's first new material in five years.
Fear Inoculum
Fear Inoculum is Tool's fifth studio album, released August 30, 2019 on RCA after 13 years. The 85-minute, seven-song progressive metal record debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, set a Hot 100 length record with its title track, and won a Grammy for "7empest."
Frisson Noir
Frisson Noir is the tenth studio album by Finnish soprano Tarja Turunen (ex-Nightwish), released 12 June 2026 on earMUSIC; her heaviest record and first metal album since In the Raw (2019), with guests Dani Filth, Apocalyptica, Marko Hietala, and Chad Smith.
Giants & Monsters
Giants & Monsters (ジャイアンツ＆モンスターズ) is Helloween's 17th studio album, released August 29, 2025 on Reigning Phoenix Music; second album by the seven-member Pumpkins United lineup with Kai Hansen and Michael Kiske, featuring the singles This Is Tokyo and Universe (Gravity For Hearts).
Hand. Cannot. Erase.
Hand. Cannot. Erase. is Steven Wilson's fourth solo album (Kscope, 2015), a concept record inspired by Joyce Carol Vincent, recorded at AIR Studios with Guthrie Govan, praised as possibly his masterpiece.
Heroes (Sabaton album)
Heroes (2014) is the seventh studio album by Swedish power metal band Sabaton, released by Nuclear Blast, produced by Peter Tägtgren, and the first with the Rörland, Englund, and van Dahl lineup, telling stories of individual World War II heroes.
Hun (album)
Hun (HUN) is the 2026 third album by Mongolian folk metal band The Hu, released July 24 on Better Noise Music; 11 tracks, 51 minutes, mostly Mongolian lyrics, guest Jonny Hawkins on "Lost Soul". Distinct from Trell's 2026 single "Hun".
Images and Words
Images and Words (1992) is Dream Theater's second studio album, first with vocalist James LaBrie, released on ATCO Records; gold-certified, with the top-10 hit "Pull Me Under".
Impera
Impera (IMPERA) is the fifth studio album by Swedish band Ghost, released March 11, 2022 on Loma Vista. A 12-track concept album on the rise and fall of empires, produced by Klas Åhlund, it scored 84 on Metacritic and topped the US album chart.
In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3, Coheed and Cambria's second album (2003, Equal Vision/Columbia), third Amory Wars chapter; peaked at No. 52 Billboard 200, RIAA Gold, singles A Favor House Atlantic and Blood Red Summer.
In Verses
In Verses is the fourth studio album by Australian progressive metal band Karnivool, released 6 February 2026 on Cymatic Records/Sony, their first album in 13 years after Asymmetry, with 10 tracks and guests Guthrie Govan and bagpipes on Salva.
Into the Electric Castle
Into the Electric Castle (A Space Opera) is Ayreon's 1998 double concept album by Arjen Lucassen: eight characters from different eras quest through an alien experiment, with Fish, Sharon den Adel, and Anneke van Giersbergen among the cast.
Legends (Sabaton album)
Legends is Swedish power metal band Sabaton's eleventh studio album, released October 17, 2025 on Better Noise Music. Its eleven songs each portray a legendary historical figure, from Senusret III and Genghis Khan to Napoleon and Gustavus Adolphus.
Marrow Deep
Marrow Deep is Mastodon's ninth studio album, released August 28, 2026 on Loma Vista. Its first without Brent Hinds and with guitarist Nick Johnston and keyboardist João Nogueira, it mourns Hinds and Dailor's mother, with guests Geezer Butler, Josh Homme, and Neil Fallon.
Meliora (album)
Meliora is the third studio album by Swedish band Ghost, released August 21, 2015 on Loma Vista. Produced by Klas Åhlund, themed on the absence of God, it reached number one in Sweden and won a Grammy for Cirice.