November Releases
U2 Light Up Their 50th Year with Carnaval de Luz
Fifty years after Larry Mullen Jr. pinned a note to the board at Mount Temple Comprehensive School in Dublin asking for musicians to form a band, U2 are marking the anniversary with Carnaval de Luz, their 16th studio album and first album of new material in nine years. It arrives November 13, 2026 on Island Records.
Produced by Jacknife Lee, the 12-song set explores spirituality, friendship, freedom and endurance “in the face of dark, encroaching forces.” The band describe echoes of their most experimental work alongside tight songwriting on tracks like “The Greatest Show on Earth,” “Glorify” and “Midnight Sunshine,” plus “Silencio,” a 2:35 burst of surf-punk energy that is out now with a video shot in Mexico City.
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Brighton, England
Release date: November 6, 2026
Royal Blood are back on November 13 with Dead Company, out on Warner. The Brighton duo built their name on a huge, riff-heavy sound made with just bass and drums, and they have stayed one of the most distinctive acts in modern British rock. Dead Company arrives as the latest step for a band that has never needed a guitarist to sound enormous. Check the links below to pre-order and hear the singles as they arrive.
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England
Release date: November 6, 2026
Asia return on November 6 with Indigo, out on Frontiers Music Srl. Keyboardist Geoff Downes leads a new lineup with drummer Virgil Donati, guitarist John Mitchell and bassist/vocalist Harry Whitley. Recorded throughout 2025, the album includes some of the final compositions written by the late John Wetton, including “Tattoo Indigo (Parts 2 & 3)” and “Chesapeake Bay,” the latter featuring Steve Howe on acoustic guitar. Mike Portnoy guests on a bonus version of “Tattoo Indigo (Part 3).” The first single is “The Traveller (Into The Light),” and a North American tour is planned for late 2026.
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London, England
Release date: November 6, 2026
Django Django release their sixth studio album, Doveland, on November 6 via Clouds Hill. Named after an online urban myth about a town that appears on no maps, the 12-track record was produced by Nick McCarthy (Franz Ferdinand) and Polly Ester, and features guests Hak Baker and Max Pope.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Release date: November 13, 2026
Heavens Edge follow up Get It Right with Philadelphia, out November 13 on Frontiers Music Srl. Named for the city where the hard rock band started nearly four decades ago, the 11-track album includes the singles “What’s He Got” and “Definite Maybe.”
Release date: November 13, 2026
Minute After Midnight, the project of Derrick Ryan, release Matter of Time on November 13 via Fearless Records. The 12-track album includes the singles “It Was Never a Phase,” “Infamous” and “The Hatman.”
Jacksonville, Florida
Release date: November 27, 2026
Molly Hatchet release Lost Horizon, their first studio album in 16 years, on November 27 via Steamhammer. All 12 tracks were recorded in Studio 2 at London’s Abbey Road Studios, with guitarist Bobby Ingram producing. It is the Southern rockers’ first album with vocalist Parker Lee and drummer Garrett Ramsden.
Orlando, Florida
Release date: November 20, 2026
Trivium release their 11th studio album, Crown in the Grave, on November 20 via Roadrunner Records. It is the band’s first full-length since 2021’s In the Court of the Dragon, their first with drummer Alex Rudinger, and their first recorded at The Hangar, their own studio in Orlando. Produced with Josh Wilbur, the album draws on Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood and Japanese horror and cinema of the 1950s through the 1970s, an influence that shaped its music, lyrics and artwork. The singles so far are “Dead Inside of Me” and the title track, and the band are touring North America with In Flames through December 19.
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October Releases
Fuel Release Their 7th Studio Album and First with New Vocalist
Fuel has released their seventh studio album, Pendulum. It is the group’s first album in five years since the 2021 release Anomaly as well as their first with vocalist Aaron Scott, who joined Fuel in 2022. Scott got the gig after he famously performed the group’s classic “Hemorrhage (In My Hands)” on the popular television show “The Voice”. The record is a showcase for Fuel in the mid 2020s as they embrace both their established identity and a new evolution towards further musical horizons.
Southern California
Release date: October 2, 2026
Dead Poet Society released Monarch on October 2 via Spinefarm. Produced by Mutemath frontman Paul Meany, the album follows the singles “Cold,” “Roach” and “Sinner Systems,” and the band has issued visualizers for every remaining track. “I just wanted to swing for the fences with this one,” says vocalist and guitarist Jack Underkofler. The band joins Muse in the UK and Europe from November 12 through December 8.
Release date: October 2, 2026
Butcher Babies released Nightbloom on October 2 via Judge & Jury Records. The album was produced by Howard Benson (My Chemical Romance, Skillet, Halestorm). Frontwoman Heidi Shepherd says the songs grew out of a year of therapy that unearthed long-suppressed memories, and that “while reliving and experiencing some of my darkest moments, I started to finally bloom.” The latest single is “Blame It On The Wind.”
Release date: October 30, 2026
Queens of the Stone Age return on October 30 with Perfecth, their ninth album, out on Matador Records. Produced by Joshua Homme and Michael Shuman, the nine-song set was tracked in sessions from New Orleans to Los Angeles, and its songs map different forms of love: of family, friends and others both significant and insignificant. Homme broke the word “perfect” to make the title, explaining, “Nothing in this world is perfect, but everything seems to be ‘perfecth.’” The album includes “Easy Street” (featuring Nikki Lane), the band’s first new music since 2023’s In Times New Roman…, along with the single “Insignificant Other.” Perfecth is available on CD, standard black vinyl and a limited deluxe gatefold LP.
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Hanna, Alberta, Canada
Release date: October 30, 2026
Nickelback return on October 30 with Everything Under the Sun, a new full-length on Virgin. The hard rock hitmakers from Alberta are one of the biggest-selling rock bands of the last 25 years, and this new album adds the next chapter.
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Los Angeles, California
Release date: October 30, 2026
45 years after releasing their 1981 debut album Too Fast for Love, Motley Crue has released a deluxe box set celebrating the album. Included is an original vinyl copy of the album (rare with a different mix and tracklist) along with never-before-released live recordings, demo sessions, a hardback photobook and more.
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