Forthcoming albums - May 2026 - part 2

Check out second set of upcoming new albums in May 2026, including Periphery and Draconian.

On May 15th Periphery's new studio album "A Pale White Dot" will be released. It will be band's 8th studio album since 2005 when they were formed. At the Stef Metal Chart there is "" and "" was new entry on week 26, both taken from upcoming album.

Tracklist:

01 Obsession
02 Talk
03 Mr. God
04 Heaven on High
05 Unlocking
06 Subhuman (feat. Will Ramos)

07 Blackwall
08 Malevolent
09 Carry On
10 Neon Valley
11 Everyone Dies Alone
12 A Pale White Dot

The next album to be released on the same day, May 15th, 2026 is "Cruel Face of War" by American death metal band Jungle Rot. They started 1992 and have since released 11 studio albums with "A Call to Arms" (2022) being the last one. "" taken from upcoming album placed 24th on Stef Metal Chart's week 29.

Tracklist:

01 Intro
02 Apocalyptic Dawn
03 Cruel Face of War
04 Maniacal
05 Suffer In Silence
06 Radicalized
07 Blade Of Betrayal
08 When The Elders Rise
09 Horrors Vile (feat. Dave Ingram)
10 Legacy Of The Damned
11 Rot Riffs
12 Hollow Husk

Third album to be released on the same day, May 15th is "Stone Cold Anger" by Pro-Pain. The band is active since 1992 and has already released 16 studio albums. Promo single from upcoming 17th studio album "" places 33. last week at Stef Metal Chart.

Tracklist:

01 Oceans Of Blood
02 Stone Cold Anger
03 March Of The Giants
04 Uncle Sam Wants You!
05 Demonic Intervention

06 Rinse & Repeat
07 Hell Or High Water
08 Scorched Earth
09 Jonestown Punch
10 Frost Forged

On May 22nd Armored Saint will release "Emotion Factory Reset". The band is active since 1992 and has already released 16 studio albums. "" places 98. last week at Stef Metal Chart.

Tracklist:

01 Close to the Bone
02 Every Man-Any Man
03 Not on Your Life
04 Hit a Moonshot
05 Buckeye
06 Compromise
07 It's a Buzzkill
08 Throwing Caution to the Wind
09 Ladders and Slides
10 Bottom Feeder
11 Epilogue

On May 22, 2026 also Finnish melodic death metal band As The Sun Falls will release "Songs From The Veil" and it follows previous album "Kaamos" from 2024.
Finally another two albums will be released on May 29, 2026 - Masquerage's "Atomic Spies" and "EI8HT" by Shinedown.

Upcoming albums to be released during next months:
- June 5, 2026 - Cyhra - "Requiem For A Pipe Dream"
- June 5, 2026 - August Burns Red - "Season of Surrender"
- June 5, 2026 - Evanescence - "Sanctuary"
- June 6, 2026 - Iron Kingdom - "Shadows And Dust"
- June 12, 2026 - Tarja Turunen - "Frisson Noir"
- June 26, 2026 - Masterplan - "Metalmorphosis"
- June 26, 2026 - Amberian Dawn - "Temptation’s Gates"
- July 3, 2026 - Moonspell - "Far from God"
- July 10, 2026 - DevilDriver - "Strike And Kill"
- July 17, 2026 - Motionless in White - "Decades"
- August 7, 2026 - Xandria - "Eclipse"
- August 28, 2026 - Airbourne - "Airbourne"
- August 28, 2026 - Flotsam and Jetsam - "Rats in the Temple"
- September 18, 2026 - Anthrax - "Cursum Perficio"
- September 25, 2026 - Europe - "Come This Madness"