Each week, Ghost Cult Magazine rounds up the most essential heavy metal, hardcore, and extreme music releases. Here’s your guide to the best new albums and singles dropping on February 20, 2026.
Who has the heaviest album this week?
Abstracted – Hiraeth (M-Theory Recordings)
Aeon Gods – Reborn To Light (Scarlet Records)
Amongruins – Advent Of Chaos (Theogonia Records)
Brahmashiras – Trinitite (Caligari Records)
Clawfinger – Before We All Die (Perception Records)
Clive Nolan – The Mortal Light (Crime Records)
Crowen – Through The Dying Mist EP (Inverse Records)
Daidalos – Dante (Rockshots Records)
Darklore – The Great Elven War (Self-Released)
Death Of Youth – Nothing Is The Same Anymore (Sell The Heart Records)
– Kaiju EP (Self-Released)
Domhain – In Perfect Stillness (These Hands Melt Records)
Dusk – Bunker (Self-Released)
Eye Of Melian – Forest Of Forgetting (Napalm Records)
The Magus – Daemonosophia (The Circle Records)
Michael Monroe – Outerstellar (Silver Lining Music)
Necronomicon Ex Mortis – Zombie Blood Nightmare EP (Self-Released)
Nytt Land – Aba Khan (Prophecy Productions)
Phasma – Purgatory (Transcending Obscurity Records)
Random Hearts – Love PTSD (MA Saret Records)
Rozario – Northern Crusaders (Pride & Joy Records)
Soul Of Anubis – Ritual (Time To Kill Records)
Struck/Down – Queue For The Cure (Self-Released)
Suplecs – Hymns Under A Blood Red Sky (Ripple Music)
Sylosis – The New Flesh (Nuclear Blast Records)
Temple Balls – Temple Balls (Frontiers SRL)
The Veer Union – Reinvention (Arising Empire Records)
We All Rise – The Beginning Of The End (Golden Robot Records)
W.E.B. – Darkness Alive (Metal Blade Records)
Wreck-Defy – Dissecting The Leech (Massacre Records)
AND
Zahn – Purpur (Crazysane Records)
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