Best Albums June 2026

Another amazing month of releases with mostly black metal and some death metalfor my favorites.

For the first time this year I think, I was able to get through all of the month’s releases in a reasonable time and get this list out a bit earlier. This year has been super solid for new metal and I’m not sure how I’m going to narrow it down for the year end list.

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Black Galactic by Dissentient

Progressive Death Metal from Canada

Top notch progressive death metal. Some really nasty riffs with great drum and bass work. Any fans of progressive or technical death metal don’t miss this one.

The Silent Abscission by Inherits the Void

Melodic Black Metal from France

Fourth album from this solo project. I think it’s his best album and it’s quite amazing. From his Bandcamp: “For this opus, AS surrounded himself with exceptional musicians, for the first time expanding Inherits The Void to a full recording lineup: Romain Negro (Apolaustic, ex-Stortregn) on vocals and Nicolas Müller (Akiavel, ex-Artefact, ex-Svart Crown) on drums give shape and power to this vision.”

VI by Walg

Melodic Black Metal from the Netherlands

This duo formed in 2020 and have released an album every year since. I discovered them in 2024 when IV released and every one since then has been on my year end list with last year’s release being my AOTY. They are very consistent with releases and have not had a bad one. This one is again some incredible melodic black metal and should not be missed.

World of Decay by Suicide Forest

Atmospheric Depressive Black Metal from the US

Some of you may know that it’s been kind of a rough time for me lately so doom and depressive black metal have been fitting right in with me. This one came out right at the right time and it’s been helping. I’m not a huge fan of all depressive black metal but this one with the atmospheric elements is perfect.

The Roots Of My Neglect by Woewarden

Atmospheric Depressive Black Metal from Australia

I’ll echo the comments from the previous one on this list. This one came out a week later and it’s still in my regular rotation.

Miasmic Solitude by Goreworm

Technical Melodic Death Metal from Canada

Fantastic album blending technical, melodic and brutal death metal in a way that works extremely well.

Brenndar Rústir & Fuðrandi Fjörur by Forsmán

Black Metal from Iceland

Incredible album from Iceland. For a smaller country with a relatively low population, some really good metal comes out of there. Debut album from these guys and a definite listen for black metal fans.

And a few honorable mentions:

Blackened Death Metal from Germany

Black Metal from Norway

Melodic Black Metal from Greece