New music continues to pile its way through. Since our chunk last at the end of 2025, January has brought an extensive batch of fifty-three new tracks as well as fresh videos from already-existing albums or live performances. Metal Insider has collected songs from Mayhem, Archspire, Poppy, Converge, Exhumed, and many more. Dive in below to revisit what you’ve already heard or catch up on what you may have missed.
01) All the Damn Vampires – “Sunset Over The Final Chapter”
Album: VICECORE, out February 6, 2026.
Genre: synthwave-meets-alternative-metal
Location: Los Angeles
Note: The track features Miles Dimitri Baker (Ice Nine Kills) the forthcoming record marks the group’s overall debut album.
02) Archspire – “Limb of Leviticus”
Album: TOO FAST TO DIE, out April 10, 2026.
Genre: Extreme Technical Death Metal
Location: Canada
03) Bizarrekult – “Drøm” (Dream)
Album: Alt Som Finnes (All There Is), out February 20, 2026 via Season of Mist Underground Activists
Genre: Post-Black Metal
Location: Norway
04) Black Swan – “Paralyzed”
Album: Paralyzed, out February 13, 2026, via Frontiers Music SRL
Genre: Hard Rock
Note: Supergroup featuring Robin McAuley (McAuley Schenker Group), Reb Beach (Winger, Whitesnake), Jeff Pilson (Foreigner, The End Machine, ex-Dokken), and Matt Starr (Ace Frehley, Mr. Big).
05) Bloodstain – “Conspiracy”
Genre: Thrash Metal
Location: Sweden
Note: These thrash newcomers were formed in late 2023 by four teenagers, primarily inspired by early Bay Area thrash and classic heavy metal and later self-released their debut EP, I Am Death. The band are set to appear at Hellfest 2026.
06) Breaking Benjamin’s Keith Wallen – “A Thin Line”
Genre: Rock
Note: The Breaking Benjamin guitarist has been dropping singles over the course of the last twelve months. This next one promises to deliver a nostalgic sound of alt power ballads of the late ’90s.
07) Capsize – “Under a Hollow Sky”
Genre: Melodic Hardcore
Location: San Diego, CA
Note: The track is part of the group’s return who have released sporadic singles over the years. However, 2026 is promised to be their year when it comes to a new album, an overall follow-up to 2016’s The Essence of All That Surrounds Me.
08) Carpenter Brut – “The Misfits The Rebels”
Album: Leather Temple, out February 27, 2026 via No Quarter Prod / Virgin Records.
Genre: Darksynth
Location: France
09) Charlotte Wessels’ The Obsession – “After Us, The Flood”
Location: Netherlands
Note: The former Delain vocalist is ready for the next chapter, following the 2024 The Obsession album cycle. Since leaving Delain, Wessels hasn’t stopped making music, including the two full-length song compilations, Tales From Six Feet Under (2021) and Tales From Six Feet Under Vol. II (2022), to her full studio album, The Obsession (2024).
10) Claustrofobia – “AQUI NÃO”
Genre: Death/Thrash Metal
Location: Brazil
Note: Standalone single in the group’s native Portuguese language featuring the special surprise Brazilian guest, Ratos de Porao singer João Gordo.
11) Converge – “We Were Never The Same”
Album: Love Is Not Enough, out February 13, 2026 via Deathwish / Epitaph.
Genre: Metalcore
Location: Salem, MA
