2026 Releases I have listened to so far

Got a fucking warning because I forgot to censor one of the band's name so I re-posting this blog entry. Fuck you Google!

My current Best of 2026 releases list right now:
01. Kamelot - Dark Asylum
02. The Linda Lindas - Gotta Get Out
03. Bunny X - Love On A High Floor
04. Margo Price - Days of Unrest
05. The Rose - Rose
06. Xandria - Eclipse
07. Stare Away - In Absence
08. Casket Cassette - Reducer
09. copperplate - rue
10. Lights of Euphoria - Future Unknown
11. The Hu - HUN
12. The Foreign Resort - Endurance
13. LOR3L3I - Peace by Proxy
14. Chelsea Wolfe - The Dark
15. Pirate Queen - Travelling Around the World
16. Shelajit - Tang Dynasty
17. Traitrs - Possessor
18. Belle Sisoski - ETHNOSPHERE
19. First Contact - Earth Nation
20. Lovebites - Outstanding Power

My current Best Songs of 2026:
01.  Deportee (Woody Guthrie cover) by Margo Price, Joan Baez, Memphis Mariachi
02. Lyxion by Pirate Queen
03. Sanctuary by Kamelot (featuring Clementine Delauney, Ignacia Fernandez)
04. Walking On Clouds by The Rose
05. Lost Boy by Tulip
06. Sanctuary by Evanescence
07. True Confession by Bunny X, SelloRekt/LA Dreams
08. The Shannon's Home by Xandria
09. Feeding Your Monsters by Ayria
10. Dead Ringer by Hoaxed
11. My Own Design by Madeline Goldstein
12. Echoes of My Father by The Hu
13. Rockets by Third Realm
14. KOREAKUMBIA by La Coreanera
15. Lucky Again by Lykke Li
16. Sorry by Chernaya Rechka
17. Growing Pains by Monsta X
18. Reckless Sailor - Black Flag Rises by Saltatio  Mortis, Visions of Atlantis
19. Prefab (feat. Combichrist) by Ignea
20. Holy Water by C Z A R I N A

As of 09.18.2026

Albums
2D Cat - Salvation Will Not Come
2D Cat - Eat the Rich

Aki Azuma - 2026 The First Album
Akmu - Flowering 
Alan Walker - World of Walker, Season 1-Rise of the Drones 
Alhambra - Skyward Pray
Ali Project - Underground Insanity 
Allison Russell - In the Hour of Chaos
Amberian Dawn - Temptation's Gates 
Angie K. - Whiskey and Hemmingway
Anna Fiori - Metztli
Apnoie - Sad Living + Sad Mind
Arae - ACHEBOUND 
Artesia - Le monde d'hier
Attic Ocean - I Promise I'll Try Everyday
Ave Mujica - Ave Mujica
Aryem - Agnes
Ayria - Vicious World

Basementzerofloor - Laplace
B--stial Mouth - Dead Lines
Belle Sisoski - Ethnosphere https://bellesisoski.bandcamp.com/album/ethnosphere
Big Ocean - The Greatest Battle
Bragolin: I don't Like What It Does to Me
The Bride soundtrack
Brigitte Calls Me Baby - Irreversible https://brigittecallsmebaby.bandcamp.com/album/irreversible
BT - Arirang
Bunny X - Love On a High Floor

Camp Crush - Bite the Bullet
Carved Souls - Silent Chaos https://carvedsouls.bandcamp.com/album/silent-chaos
Casket Cassette - Reducer
Cathedral Bells - Parallel Dreams Parallel Dreams
Charlie XCX - Wuthering Height
Chelsea Wolfe - The Dark 
Chernaya Rechka - Loveland Loveland
Chinese American Bear - Dim Sum & Then Some
ChRocktikal - We break, you awake
ChRocktikal - Gloom & Gloom
clubdrugs - lovesick lovesick
CZARINA - Holy Water single

Dana Salah - Bent Bladna
Defacing God - Darkness is my God
Della Mae - Magic Accident https://dellamae.bandcamp.com/album/magic-accident
Draag - Miracle Drug

East in Eden - Rising in Bloom
Eihwar - Hugrheim https://eihwar.bandcamp.com/album/hugrheim
Ekaterina Shelevoa - Fables, Act II
Emily Scott Robinson - Appalachia https://emilyscottrobinson.bandcamp.com/album/appalachia
Evanescence - Sanctuary 

Fiammetta Corvi  - Joe Hisaishi: Piano Collection
FIRST CONTACT - Earth Nation
Floraleda Sacchi/Joe Hisaishi- Joe Hisaishi by FloraledaSacchi
Flowerleaf - Dreamerie 
The Foreign Resort - Endurance
Frankie Rose - Hila 

GAI - Glass Angels Initiative: Code Orange

Hagane - Gogensyoku
Hagane - Metal Quest
Hannah Lew - Hannah Lew Hannah Lew
Harry Styles - Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally. 
Hoaxed - Death Knocks https://hoaxed.bandcamp.com/album/death-knocks
The Hu - Hun
Huir - State of Light

In This Moment - Witch
Infinitas - Inguma 
Insun Park and Generals - Be Water, My Friends
Ist Ist - Dagger https://ististmusic.bandcamp.com/album/dagger

Jenny On Holiday - Quicksand Heart
Jessie Ware - Superbloom
Josh Vietti - Flow State

Kamalot - Dark Asylum

Ladytron - Paradises Paradises
Landroid - Constellation
Lights of Euphoria - Future Unknown
Lila Downs - Cambias Mi Mundo
The Linda Lindas - Gotta Get Out
Lonesome Blue - Fourth Dimension (+2)
Loreena - Wildfire 
LOR3L3I - Peace by Proxy Peace by Proxy
Lovebites - Outstanding Power
The Luna Sequence - Rifts Become Passages https://thelunasequence.bandcamp.com/album/rifts-become-passages
Lykke Li - The Afterparty The Afterparty

Madeline Goldstein - Speaking to the Body Speaking to the Body
Maggie Tra -Family Tra
Makthaverskan - Glass and Bones https://makthaverskan.bandcamp.com/album/glass-and-bones
Margo Price - Days of Unrest
Mari Froes - Esquina do Sol
Matenrou Opera - Cinematographe
Mediaeval Baebes - The Spinning Wheel https://mediaevalbaebes.bandcamp.com/album/the-spinning-wheel
Melissa Bonny - Cherry Red Apocalypse
Melody and Christine - Tides
Metric - Romanticize the Dive 
Mitski - Nothing's About to Happen to Me Nothing's About to Happen to Me
Mon Rovia - Bloodlinez
Mondtraume - Mind Games 
Monsta X - Unfold
Monsta X - The Phase *
Muna - Dancing on the Wall
Mysterain - 2026 EP

New Constellations - It Comes in Waves 
Nightsister - After Me
Niyaz - Seven Realms of Attar
Noah Kahan - The Great Divide
Nouri - No Place Like Home

Obsoletha - Anemoia Vol.2
Obsoletha - Neon Paranoia Vol. 1
Obsoletha - Neon Paranoia Vol.2
Oceanside85 - Strong Heart
Olivia Rodrigo - You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl in Love
Orkid - In All of My Tomorrows

Personz - Reload Best
Pirate Queen - Traveling Around the World
Poison Girl Friend - reprises
Pussy Riot - CYKA
Putumayo - Love Songs Around the World

R.Missing - Turning Off Lights is My Destiny 
Robyn - Sexistential
Rolling Quartz - Roll the Dice
Roon - A Blend of Scars and Healing 

Saki - Pluvia
Scandal - Echo
She's Green - close your eyes
She's Green - Swallowtail
The Sheila Divine - The Middle Ages
Shelajit - Tang Dynasty
Shye - The Doves Came Home The Doves Came Home
Softcult - When a Flower Doesn't Grow https://softcult.bandcamp.com/album/when-a-flower-doesnt-grow
Social Distortion - Born to Kill Born to Kill
SPC ECO - Broken https://spceco.bandcamp.com/album/broken-lp
The Spoiled - When it Rains
Starbenders - And the Beast Goes On https://sumerianrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-beast-goes-on
Stare Away - In Absence
STAYC - Stay Alive
Suki Waterhouse - Loveland
Sypha - Bad Choices

Tania Cassette - The Death of Me
Third Realm - Escape Sequence
Tove Lo - Estrus 
Traitrs - Possessor 
Tulip - The Depths *

Uuhai - Human Heards https://uuhai.bandcamp.com/album/human-herds
Uz:ME - rondo

verycoybunny - Bunny Tales
Vioflesh - Melancolia

The Warning - Everything's Falling

Xandria - Eclipse

Yumi Zouma - No Love Lost to Kindness 

Zyana - Agua Que No Regresa
Zyana - Donde Correnlos Suenos