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Metal Forth
Metal Forth is BABYMETAL's fourth original album, released August 8, 2025 on Capitol Records; a 10-track, 35-minute collaboration-heavy record with Poppy, Electric Callboy, Spiritbox, and Tom Morello that debuted at No. 9 on the Billboard 200, a first for a Japanese act.
Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory is a 1999 concept album by Dream Theater, its first with keyboardist Jordan Rudess, telling a story of past lives and murder.
Once (Nightwish album)
Once is the fifth studio album by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish, released June 7, 2004; its last with Tarja Turunen, it reached number 1 in Germany, Finland, Norway, and Greece.
Once More 'Round the Sun
Once More 'Round the Sun is Mastodon's sixth studio album, released June 24, 2014 on Reprise, produced by Nick Raskulinecz; it debuted at No. 6 on the Billboard 200, continued The Hunter's accessible hard-rock direction, and earned the band's third Grammy nomination.
Pale Communion
Pale Communion is the eleventh studio album by the Swedish band Opeth, released on August 26, 2014 by Roadrunner Records, moving fully into 1970s-style progressive rock.
Paradise Metal
Paradise Metal is the 2026 debut album by Father Dionysios Tabakis, a Greek Orthodox priest in Nafplio who plays Byzantine hymns as fretless eight-string drone and doom metal; released on Heat Crimes/Elhellel as a 150-cassette run that sold out in hours, also a Work Out Music track name.
Parasomnia (album)
Parasomnia is Dream Theater's sixteenth studio album, released February 7, 2025 on InsideOut Music. Its first album with founding drummer Mike Portnoy since 2009, it is a concept work about sleep disorders across eight tracks and 71 minutes.
PowerNerd
PowerNerd is Devin Townsend's 2024 solo album on InsideOut Music, written in 11 days, recorded after his planned lineup collapsed, with Darby Todd on drums; first of a four-album cycle. Not the Viennese synthwave artist Powernerd.
Prequelle
Prequelle is the fourth studio album by Swedish rock band Ghost, released June 1, 2018 on Loma Vista, produced by Tom Dalgety. A Black Plague concept album introducing Cardinal Copia, it hit No. 3 on Billboard, No. 10 in the UK, and scored 81 on Metacritic.
Primo Victoria
Primo Victoria is Sabaton's first released studio album (March 4, 2005, Black Lodge Records, produced by Tommy Tägtgren), defining the Swedish power metal band's history-based war theme, with the title track about the 1944 D-Day landings.
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (SDOIT) is Dream Theater's sixth studio album, a 2002 Elektra double CD whose 42-minute, eight-section title track portrays six mental health conditions.
Skeletá
Skeletá is Ghost's sixth studio album, released April 25, 2025 on Loma Vista, featuring Papa V Perpetua; it gave the band its first US Billboard 200 No. 1.
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Iced Earth album)
Something Wicked This Way Comes, the 1998 fifth album by American heavy metal band Iced Earth on Century Media, recorded at Morrisound Studios, Tampa; best known for the closing Something Wicked trilogy introducing Set Abominae and starting the band's Something Wicked concept saga.
The Astonishing
The Astonishing is a 2016 two-act rock opera by Dream Theater, its thirteenth studio album, set in a dystopian future where rebels fight an empire with music.
The Great War (Sabaton album)
The Great War (2019) is Swedish power metal band Sabaton's ninth studio album and first full World War I concept album, released on Nuclear Blast, produced by Jonas Kjellgren, with 11 tracks, a History Edition with narration, and a 2022 follow-up, The War to End All Wars.
The Human Equation
The Human Equation is a 2004 double concept album by the Dutch progressive rock project Ayreon, created by Arjen Lucassen, telling the story of a comatose man.
The Last Will and Testament
The Last Will and Testament is Opeth's fourteenth studio album, a concept album released on November 22, 2024, marking the return of Mikael Åkerfeldt's death metal growled vocals.
The Moth (Devin Townsend album)
The Moth is Devin Townsend's 30th album, a 24-track symphonic rock opera released May 29, 2026 via InsideOut Music, recorded with the North Netherlands Orchestra and a 65-person choir, distinct from his Ziltoid and straight metal records.
The Stage (album)
The Stage (album) is the seventh studio album by Avenged Sevenfold, featuring drummer Brooks Wackerman. Released in 2016, the album explores themes of artificial intelligence and humanity.
The Thunderfist Chronicles
The Thunderfist Chronicles is the eighth studio album by Scottish pirate metal band Alestorm, released June 20, 2025 on Napalm Records; eight tracks, 45 minutes, with a 17-minute closer and guests Patty Gurdy and Russell Allen.
Train of Thought (Dream Theater album)
Train of Thought (2003) is Dream Theater's seventh studio album, its heaviest, written in three weeks, mixed by Kevin Shirley, with As I Am, Stream of Consciousness, and In the Name of God.
Valley of the Damned
Valley of the Damned is DragonForce's 2003 debut power metal album (also the title of its 2000 DragonHeart demo), released on Noise/Sanctuary, produced by Herman Li and Sam Totman, remixed in 2007.
Vaxis – Act III: The Father of Make Believe
Vaxis – Act III: The Father of Make Believe is Coheed and Cambria's eleventh studio album, released March 14, 2025; third of five Vaxis acts in The Amory Wars saga, with the four-part suite The Continuum.
Vol. II (Angine de Poitrine album)
Vol. II is the second album by masked Quebec microtonal math-rock duo Angine de Poitrine (Khn and Klek de Poitrine), released April 3, 2026 after their viral KEXP session; six tracks including Fabienk, Sarniezz, and Angor.
When Dream and Day Unite
When Dream and Day Unite is the 1989 studio debut by American progressive metal band Dream Theater, released on Mechanic/MCA Records and its only album with vocalist Charlie Dominici.
Within (Protest the Hero album)
Within (2026) is the sixth studio album by Canadian progressive metal band Protest the Hero, their first in six years after Palimpsest and their first fully self-owned, independent release, with artwork by Martin Wittfooth.
Yesterwynde
Yesterwynde is Nightwish's tenth studio album, released September 20, 2024 on Nuclear Blast; third part of the trilogy begun with Endless Forms Most Beautiful, themed on time, history, and mortality, and never toured live.
Z²
Z² (Z squared) is Devin Townsend's 2014 double album on InsideOut Music, pairing the Devin Townsend Project disc Sky Blue with Dark Matters, the sequel to 2007's Ziltoid the Omniscient; guests include Chris Jericho and Anneke van Giersbergen.