The Best And Worst New Metal Albums Of June 2026

Also highly recommend the new Zao EP ‘Pillars.’ 4 sick covers of bands that inspired them back in the 90’s.

Saludos des de Mexico!

Saidan aren’t actually Japanese. They’re just weebs lol

Yes, Converge own this year! BTW, I'm a doom girl, but also not into Warning. I appreciate its unique sonic despair, but it's too weepy, lacking the darkness & heaviness, which I adore in doom metal.

Love is Not Enough is a solid output by Converge that blends well in their catalog but Hum of Hurt has this cohesive rawness and grit that runs throughout it that makes it stand apart from all their other albums.

Ok, there's some stuff here I was not aware of that I'm going to have to check out. Even though I did a lot of relistens this month, there were some insanely good albums I heard this month as well. Here are my favorites of the month.
1. Genghis Tron – Signal Fire (cybergrind/mathcore/electronica/dream pop/emo)
2. Goreworm – Miasmic Solitude (technical melodic death metal/brutal death metal/progressive death metal)
3. Quiet Fear – La Tierra Arriba / El Abismo Abajo (screamo/post-hardcore/grindcore)
4. Vithial – Awakened Ancient Spirits (melodic black metal/melodic death metal)
5. Lumen Ad Mortem – A Grave Ascent (atmospheric black metal)
6. Stormkeep – The Nocturnes Of Iswylm (symphonic black metal)
7. Fires in the Distance – Circadian Promise (melodic death-doom/melodic death metal)
8. Converge – Hum of Hurt (metallic hardcore/sludge metal)
9. Khemmis – Khemmis (doom metal/heavy metal)
10. Temple Guard – Citadel in Flames EP (metallic hardcore/death metal)

Still Remains put out a really solid EP this month too! Great month for metalcore.

Iron Reagan!!!!!

Where Devourment EP? WHERE?!

Nunslaughter released one of the best albums of the year. Definitely one of our favorites🔥.

Maybe our new album, wich is coming this september, will be something for you😉🤘

I fully expected you to not be into Warning's newest album. That's fine; I personally enjoyed it a lot. They do one trick of making sorrowful, cathartic, and plodding songs… but they do that one trick extremely well! I also really enjoyed Saidan and Khemmis.

Khemmis album is awesome

Fires In The Distance – Circadian Promise you forgot, – recommend if you love Insomnium.

Yet another great month of metal! Here are my picks for June:

Top Albums of June:

Nights of Malice – Chaos Exordium
Xenosis – Hermetic Transmutation
Evergrey – Architects of a New Weave
WMD – Against All Warnings
Unlucky Morpheus – Gate of Hell
Art Est – Evil Embodiment
Bloody Falls – IV
Urzah – A Tranquil Void
Dissentient – Black Galatic
Fleshcrawl – Epitome of Carnage
Khemmis – Khemmis
Fires in the Distance – Circadian Promise
Goreworm- Miasmic Solitude
Nuclear Tomb – Epoch Inhumane
Loneshore – Nothing Left to Deconstruct
Inherits the Void – The Silent Abscission
Avarice – Perpetual Ruin
Halo of Teeth – Meditations On Dying
Amberian Dawn – Temptations Gates
Monuments of Misanthropy- Washington State Charm
Entgeist-Welk
Entropist – The Vision
Eternios – Requiem of the North
There Were Wires – Vessel
Walg- VI

Non – Metal:
Switchfoot – Forever Now

EP:
Still Remains – Spirit Breaker

HM:
Duir – Catarsi
Bloodhunter – Sons of the Abandoned

Mr. MetalTrenches, where is Warning new album? I think you have said somewhere, that you are not into doom, but this record is on other level and I think it is a worth a listen even you if are not into doom.

Drummer of Maneating Orchid here. Thanks for the shout out! Been following your channel for a long time so this means a lot 🤘🏾