Best of 2026

Genre: Electro-Pop
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Genre: Psychedelic Rock
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Genre: Jazz Fusion
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Genre: Emo-Pop
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Genre: Post-Rock/Post-Punk
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Genre: Progressive Rock
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Standout Tracks: Square Breath // When Death First Approaches // Sweet Decay // Pink Clouds Pink Trees // Maybe Hope

Genre: Post-Rock
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Genre: Psychedelic Rock/Microtonal Rock
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Genre: Psychedelic Rock
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Genre: Neo-Psychedelia
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Genre: Progressive Metal
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Standout Tracks: An Unnameable Desire // Ciel // Vespertine

Genre: Alternative Rock
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Genre: Metalcore
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Genre: Shoegaze
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Genre: Progressive Metal
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Genre: Progressive Metal
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Standout Tracks: At The Edge of Winter // Nautical Dusk // Walls Of The Soul

Genre: Mathcore
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Genre: Indie Rock
Rating: 5.0
Standout Tracks: Dine N’ Dash, Going Shopping, Liar’s Remorse

Genre: Synthpop
Rating: 5.5
Standout Tracks: the beginning of the end, head, shoulders, knees and ankles, sense (is)

Genre: Technical Death Metal
Rating: 6.0
Standout Tracks: Liminal Cypher // Carrion Ladder // Limb of Leviticus

Genre: Groove Metal
Rating: 6.0
Standout Tracks: Into Oblivion // Parasocial Christ // Sepsis // Blunt Force Blues

Genre: Alt-Pop
Rating: 6.5
Standout Tracks: 2007 // Yeah // Persona // Magic Metal Montana

Genre: Doom Metal
Rating: 6.5
Standout Tracks: Rituals of Shame // Landing Lights // Teacher

Genre: Psychedelic Rock
Rating: 6.5
Standout Tracks: HECATE’S REFLECTION IS A TRICK // THE BRUTE ON HIS KNEES

Genre: Progressive Rock
Rating: 6.5
Standout Tracks: The Wasteland // The Glass Desert I // The Glass Desert II // The Glass Desert III

Genre: Metalcore
Rating: 7.0
Standout Tracks: gore of being // cicada siren // echo sonata // spiral (of liminal infinity)

Genre: Art Pop/Neo-Psychedelia
Rating: 7.0
Standout Tracks: The Mountain // The Moon Cave // The Happy Dictator // The Hardest Thing // The God of Lying // The Empty Dream Machine // Damascus // The Sweet Prince

Genre: Metalcore/Beatdown
Rating: 7.0
Standout Tracks: Skies cast amber black // May this pain never leave // Torn wide open // The leper’s bell // Nothing, gathered // Yearning, the unbeautiful after

Genre: Psytrance/Acid Techno
Rating: 7.0
Standout Tracks: Alien Metal // Superheavy, Supercritical // Level 5 // Atomic Collapse

Genre: Indie Rock
Rating: 7.0
Standout Tracks: In a Lake // I’ll Change for You // Lightning

Genre: Stoner Metal/Progressive Metal
Rating: 7.0
Standout Tracks: Sigil To Ruin // Through Zero

Genre: Progressive Metal/Djent
Rating: 7.0
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Genre: Technical Death Metal
Rating: 7.0
Standout Tracks: Feed Me Your Fear // Eternally Lie // Heaven Wept // Godless Sky

Genre: Progressive Metal
Rating: 7.5
Standout Tracks: Der Brauch // Der Faden // Der Doppelganger // Der Nachsehen // Der Heimkehr

Genre: Alternative Metal/Nugaze
Rating: 7.5
Standout Tracks: Adapter // Nostalgia Kills // lip critic // dull blade disguise // Adult Diamond

Genre: Jazz
Rating: 7.5
Standout Tracks: Prelude For All Seekers // Seven Sorrows // Dardahan // A Eye - The Digital Leviathan

Genre: Heavy Psychedelic Rock
Rating: 7.5
Standout Tracks: Dungeon Vision // Flashlight // Body of Water // Orbit of a Witch // Symmetry Dripper // Silver Eye // Harvester

Genre: Emo/Math Rock
Rating: 6.5
Standout Tracks: Shameless // Glow // Smoke Screen // Makes Me Sick // Rotten // Tough Love // Holding On

Genre: Post-Punk
Rating: 7.5
Standout Tracks: Hit My Head All Day // Let Me Grow and You’ll See The Fruit // The Cute Things // Joy

Genre: Sludge Metal
Rating: 7.5
Standout Tracks: First Red Rays // Seething and Scattered // In the Waiting Hours // Last Light

Genre: Psychedelic Rock
Rating: 7.5
Standout Tracks: In Search of Yang // Spirit Adapter // Yata Yata // Night in Taipei

Genre: Indie Rock
Rating: 7.5
Standout Tracks: Tractor Beam // Agony Freak // Butterfly // Hell // Ricochet // Reverie

Genre: Alternative Rock
Rating: 8.0
Standout Tracks: Cryogen // Hexagons // The Sickness In You & I // Space Debris

Genre: Progressive Metal
Rating: 8.0
Standout Tracks: Ghost // Conversations // Reanimation // All It Takes // Opal

Genre: Pop
Rating: 8.0
Standout Tracks: drop dead // honeybee // the cure // what’s wrong with me

Genre: Doomgaze
Rating: 8.5
Standout Tracks: Involuntary Haze // Heavy, Why? // Void to Be // Fade

Genre: Stoner Rock
Rating: 8.5
Standout Tracks: Red Rocking Chair // Culling Line // Turn On The Light // Angel On The Wayside // The Welterweight

Genre: Alternative Metal/Nugaze
Rating: 8.5
Standout Tracks: Fortress Down // The Way it Breaks // Fangs // Gifted Every Strength

Genre: Math Rock
Rating: 9.0
Standout Tracks: Action // High fever // Expansion // Super-crit // Slow Motion Perception

Genre: Dark Folk/Doom Metal
Rating: 9.0
Standout Tracks: Cold // Swallower // The Dark // Turn The Key // Death Is Not The End

Genre: Doom Metal
Rating: 9.0
Standout Tracks: You Bastard // Inside a Collider // Oozing Wound // It’s Neverending

Genre: Post Metal/Stoner Metal
Rating: 9.0
Standout Tracks: Rites of Passage // Transient // Escher // Primal Thread // Terra Preta