This Week in Metal | Top 5 New Releases
Jon Barbas of Heavy Metal Philosophy is breaking down the best new metal albums of the weekend, from July 24th, 2026! From Hardcore Punk, Folk Metal, Industrial Metal, Sludge Metal, Thrash Metal, Death Metal, Doom Metal, Progressive Metal, Classic Heavy Metal, and everything in between! If you want some new metal to listen to, check out this week’s lineup! Also, every weekend, I always show off my favorite album cover art of the week! Check it out!!
July Book Recommendation Link – https://amzn.to/4wID4rK
Bands;
Madball – https://madballshop.com/
The Hu – https://www.thehuofficial.com/
Combichrist – https://combichrist.bandcamp.com/album/the-venom-in-the-mouth-of-god
Transformers – https://shopus.reigningphoenixmusic.com/products/transformers-the-transformers-the-movie-soundtrack-the-reformatted-edition-cd?srsltid=AfmBOoo-mDQK1EXyXP8U-Sn4nif3R5iSkDNOC_x_rammo1G-gkeLE0Gm
Calyss – https://calyss.bandcamp.com/album/vessel-of-theseus
Brutal Blast – https://brutalblast.bandcamp.com/album/global-warming
Sallow Moth – https://sallowmoth.bandcamp.com/album/hydrophilous-brood-2
Decapitated Prophet – https://vomitabomination.bandcamp.com/album/sublimium
Yeti On Horseback – https://yetionhorseback.bandcamp.com/album/traditional-addictions
Vice Business Only – https://www.vbomusic.com/
Rezn – https://rezzzn.bandcamp.com/album/cycles-in-the-infinite-dream
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@swrswrswr
July 26, 2026 at 12:44 pm
New Taake is good.
@DashieNegan41
July 26, 2026 at 12:44 pm
Great albun from Rezn
@georgejaniec
July 26, 2026 at 12:44 pm
Jon, thank you extremely for this remarkable top 5 albums of the week. I must recognise that all of your authorial selections are incredible and fit in neatly with my taste. I need to name, especially Yeti on Horseback, Decapitated Prophet, and Sallow Moth. Hats off 🤘🤝✌️👍💪👌
@DrunkenWerewolves
July 26, 2026 at 12:44 pm
What a great video to start my morning, thank you man, good and fun as always 🤘
@josephconstantine1799
July 26, 2026 at 12:44 pm
Thanks for the bringing the metal brother! 🤘🤘
@jeremysanders8766
July 26, 2026 at 12:44 pm
Ready for the new 200 Stab Wounds, new Cattle Decaptitation, and the release of the new Shadows Fall, my favorite metalcore band.
@scarybear31
July 26, 2026 at 12:44 pm
Dude! Yeti on Horseback is freaking insane!!! Thanks for the heads up! 🤘🏼🤘🏼
@CarlosSilva-qn5ge
July 26, 2026 at 12:44 pm
SLAYEEEEERR 🤘🤘😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
@BrandonM.N
July 26, 2026 at 12:44 pm
Sallow Moth rippppps! Nice!! Also, you know I hyped the vid my king 🤘❤️
@ericschwartz1421
July 26, 2026 at 12:44 pm
I like to think of a dichotomy between good trip stoner metal (for instance Sleep) and bad trip stoner metal (for instance Electric Wizard). Yeti on Horseback is most definitely of the bad trip variety. Great stuff! 🤘
@oleksandrbyelyenko435
July 26, 2026 at 12:44 pm
Combichrist 🎉 not my favourite Aggrotech band, but I like what they're doing with Metal
@sasakanjuh7660
July 26, 2026 at 12:44 pm
Rezn album is fantastic – as expected 🙂
@agingerich95
July 26, 2026 at 12:44 pm
Thanks for including Sallow Moth on here! Really proud of what we did on this record!
@abandonbourbon
July 26, 2026 at 12:44 pm
Namu and Sallow Moth two of my favs this week so far
@JacobsmusicchannelRanders
July 26, 2026 at 12:44 pm
Thanks for bringing some new names for me to the tabel.
@willlabuffalo6679
July 26, 2026 at 12:44 pm
7:02 Hellll No bro spent 1 second talking about new MADBALL but more on this shit😂😂😂 wow
@wxmaggot5669
July 26, 2026 at 12:44 pm
Thanks as always Jon! Love this segment. Rezn and Sallow Moth were my favorites this week and that Rezn release was one I was waiting on this year. Have a great weekend!
@loonyman83
July 26, 2026 at 12:44 pm
REZN was a great album. Glad it got mentioned at the end. Going to have to checkout Yeti on Horseback… never thought I'd type out that sentence in my life lol.
@metalobsTV
July 26, 2026 at 12:44 pm
But anyway Not Your Kingdom is a very good album. And R.I.P. Lou Keller of SICK OF IT ALL at the same time…😈🤟
@metalobsTV
July 26, 2026 at 12:44 pm
Hey dude ! MADBALL is not metal music but hardcore actually, so it doesn't really fit well for a selection of top metal albums so. 🤔 Lol !! 😉
@thomasjames6680
July 26, 2026 at 12:44 pm
I adore the Yeti On Horseback – Traditional Addictions cover. Very distinctive and a bit different.
@G0atR1d3r
July 26, 2026 at 12:44 pm
That Transformers record might be more "Thed" Metal 😀
@scroy1975
July 26, 2026 at 12:44 pm
Those are some good picks, but The Reformatted Edition soundtrack for The Transformers: The Movie is where it's at. Takes me back to when I was only an 11 year-old boy. Great album!
@ryanguzman8709
July 26, 2026 at 12:44 pm
New Boundaries album slams.
@Ruzek92
July 26, 2026 at 12:44 pm
Glad you mentioned Combichrist. They've been a favorite of mine since 2010 when I was a junior in high school.
@lusky0311
July 26, 2026 at 12:44 pm
Rezn is amazing! New record is so darn good.
@isaj_mlody
July 26, 2026 at 12:44 pm
Barbs!!! I have two for you this week!!!! Mini Pony 🇪🇨 from Ecuador made me full body headbang so hard I almost did a full frontal summersault. And STAY DEAD! 🇺🇸 from California (I think) with guest spots from Matt Pike and Troy Sanders on a few songs!!!! And that Rezn, bro!!! Come for the art, stay for the hellyeah.
@PanicAtTheDiscourse
July 26, 2026 at 12:44 pm
Rezn was the drop I anticipated hardest 🖤 Few more drops to go this year. Also love the "wunderkammer" esthetic of Yeti on Horseback, which is not a bandname you come up without being high on a spaceship variety of cush😂
@tsalagi78
July 26, 2026 at 12:44 pm
🤘🏽💀🤘🏽
@wojtekapsik6668
July 26, 2026 at 12:44 pm
Arise from worms 🤘🤘🤘👹👹👹
@williamsmith286
July 26, 2026 at 12:44 pm
Thanks Jon, always a pleasure watching your videos.
@salgymbro7624
July 26, 2026 at 12:44 pm
Thanks for the video brother, I needed some new metal!!!
@daviddevilliers2828
July 26, 2026 at 12:44 pm
Thanks, John , my friend…
@GreggGardner
July 26, 2026 at 12:44 pm
Speaking of a duo for Dealers Choice I know they’ve been out for a while but if you haven’t heard of Angine Poitrine I’m sure you have but if not might wanna check em out microtonal awesomeness
@marcinmusial-j5e
July 26, 2026 at 12:44 pm
Sallow Moth's cover is also pretty cool
@ronaldmarshall5398
July 26, 2026 at 12:44 pm
MadBall do not make Heavy Metal music. I am so tried of you so called influencers putting out misinformation. Agnostic Front is not Heavy Metal either, these bands make Hard Core Punk not Heavy Metal. Automatic thumbs down!!!
@wojtekapsik6668
July 26, 2026 at 12:44 pm
Check prog metal band from Poland Blindead 23 " Deuterium" lp. 9/10 points for me
@OvenTender
July 26, 2026 at 12:44 pm
Slappin the shat out of the algorithm for that metal philosophy. 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
@gavintshepho9606
July 26, 2026 at 12:44 pm
Rezn my favorite release AOTY right there.
@FriendlyNeighborhoodUnclePete
July 26, 2026 at 12:44 pm
Got the Transformer Movie(METAKL) Soundtrack on Vinyl! Loved your talk with the guys who made the Album with Hasbro!
@FriendlyNeighborhoodUnclePete
July 26, 2026 at 12:44 pm
Highlight of my week as always! Thank you Very Much Jon! Hope you have an Amazing week.
@JustinK417
July 26, 2026 at 12:44 pm
Rezn is the reason I am so glad you kept the album art of the week. When you look at it several times and see something new and the music is amazing. Keep it coming 🤘🤘
@philippauli8162
July 26, 2026 at 12:44 pm
Glorious recommedations as always brother. I needed some new music to interupt having Gjallarhorn on repeat all week.
@cantkillcliffrose
July 26, 2026 at 12:44 pm
Madball isnt metal. How disrespectful to one of the goats.
Ps rip Lou
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