- Mannequins For Friends: “Transmissions”
- Etched in Embers: “Asking for Nothing”
- Shelter in Place: “Catch My Breath”
- 9th Evolution: “The New Witches”
- Calvaria: “Ghost”
Honorable mention:
new music
Five Songs I’m Obsessed With [9/28 – 10/4]
Five Songs I’m Obsessed With [9/21 – 9/27]
Five Songs I’m Obsessed With [9/14 – 9/20]
Five Songs I’m Obsessed With [9/7 – 9/13]
Five Songs I’m Obsessed With [8/31 – 9/6]
Albums Released July/August 2026
- Devil-M – Titanomachie (The Remixes) [7/3]
- The Mercury Seed – Depth Perception [7/3]
- The Shim Shams – Here We Go [7/10]
- downside – Plant Me Elsewhere [7/14]
- Sleeping on a Pedestal – Mind Cremation [7/17]
- Them Waves – Hurt People, Hurt People [7/24]
- Somehow Still – Stop & Let It In [7/24]
- Scarecrow Hill – Over Everything [7/24]
- Glis – Green Silence [7/24]
- Echo of Dissent – Diary of Pain [8/6]
- Xandria – Eclipse [8/7]
- Illusion of One – Illusion of One [8/11]
- Marilyn Manson – One Assassination Under God, Chapter 2 [8/14]
- If Not For Me – Where the Light Begins to Fade [8/14]
- Fallweather – Because You Were There [8/19]
- Divisionaries – Monarchist [8/19]
- The Band Feel – What Of Now [8/20]
- Violent Brides – Buried Light [8/21]
- Beautiful Skeletons – Pulse Line Scar [8/21]
- The Lacs – Still on Them Country Roads [8/21]
- ema sid – Send Me Spiral [8/21]
- Edge of Destiny – Forsaken [8/21]
- Make Fire – Make Fire [8/28]
- Surf Trash – No Chaser [8/28]
- Hotel Leo – Everybody You Know [8/28]
- Embrace the Silence – Lies of Empathy [8/28]
EPs Released July/August 2026
- Hex Divided – Hex Divided I [7/3]
- husk – Jigsaw [7/9]
- Dekay – Burn It Down EP [7/10]
- Antagonïzer – I Am The End [7/10]
- Shoot to Kill – Heretic to Yourself [7/10]
- Hollow Light – Begin Again [7/15]
- Noir Addiction – Pretty Things Don’t Last [7/16]
- Kickpenny – Letters [7/17]
- Avenged Sevenfold – STATICA [7/23]
- Grizzly Ironside – Overdrive [7/24]
- Gasoline Invertebrate – ALL CAPS ARE BASTARDS [7/24]
- Liteweight Champion – When It Gets Bad [7/24]
- It Ends With Me – Daggers [7/31]
- Ghost of Rucker – Descent [8/3]
- I C RED – Thermal [8/7]
- Wraithlurk – Conspiracies [8/7]
- drift – Carve Out Your Lies [8/8]
- Buried Away – Buried Away [8/13]
- Hooked Like Helen – Lend Me Your Ear [8/14]
- Dearest – Forever and the Fear of Letting Go [8/14]
- Circus Kid – Omission [8/14]
- No Honor Among Thieves – Hell is the Truth Seen Too Late [8/19]
- Spiritless – Everything the Darkness Eats [8/20]
- Hooked Like Helen – Lend Me Your Ear (Deluxe) [8/21]
- Darlah – Smoke & Mirrors [8/21]
- Tour Tomb – Veins [8/21]
- The Look of Avarice – Interim [8/26]
- Alura – Chameleon [8/28]
- Titans – Bright Lights [8/31]
