Sly, in your face, and rule book thrown into the fire, Approaching Translucence has a return to form that Art himself has shown how far he’s come.

It’s way too early to say that Panorama will probably be the album of the year for 2026. But it is an excellent way to start the new year off with a big bang.

Russell has gone beyond to prove to himself that he’s more than just an electronic artist, but a visionary composer, creating the world’s inside his head.

Greyhawk are letting the heavy metal community know that metal isn’t dead, but it’s alive and kicking ass then and now.

A mixture of ‘80s pop, Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, Todd Rundgren, Goldfrapp, and Roxy Music’s Avalon-era rolled into one.

With all of the sounds that gave her ears an idea for The Spinning Wheel, she sets up each of the compositions for each month of the year. Each of those months that you have in your hand, represents a goddess to be worshiped.

With its nod to not just the Berlin School of Music, it gives us the satisfaction and imaginative wonders we have just witness to make it worth the trip alone.

While I’m very new to the world of Textures’ music, their new album is like a massive volcanic eruption, waiting to explode at the right time, at the right place to kick 2026 off with a bigger bang.

All in all, The Ballad of General Jupiter is a great way to kick 2026 off with a big bang and hopefully we’ll get to see more from Anton’s next adventure that will be waiting for us in the years to come in the late 2020’s. And what an album it is.

The Floyd themselves had accomplished their goal between the live recording you have in your hand and they weren’t just an incredible progressive rock band; they were the band that were philosophical and unique in their own way to capture the vision and the sonic alchemy that is brought to their listeners.

Yes, it’s not the same, yes, it is different, but you can’t deny what Thorsten, Hoshiko, and Paul have captured the wonders and mysteries behind the Dream’s atmosphere.

This is a crazy, yet insane album Benthos have released to display the powerful force of metallic core with incredible electrical juice, ready to raise hell like there’s no tomorrow!

It is a real corker that’ll get your fist pumping with sheer electricity.

Neverland has a powerful, yet mind-blowing amazement which showcases Ulver at their best to prove how far they’ve come since their formation in 1993.

This is not just a perfect album, it is powerful and rich in its metallic defiance of how progressive and symphonic metal is supposed to sound; crisp, epic, and straight to the point on where the next chapter will take them into.

While they called it a day on August 5th, 1971, they were very much ahead of their time.

I can’t wait to see and hear what she’ll come up with next for the next adventure by continuing where she has left off in her debut release. We’ll have to keep (no pun intended) a watch out for her to see what 2026 has in store for Bobbie Dazzle.

Tense, chill factors, and electronic-orchestrations, Jo’s new album is set with a mesmerising set of unknown worlds that she has unfolded to bring 2025 to a standstill.

A Flying Fish it is one of the most wackiest, stirring, avant-rock, and an animated rock opera that’s brought to life.

All in all, it is great to see these two Crimson albums come back with vengeance, and come back with more fury and more vibrant imaginations to see what other adventures will lay ahead in the Crimson catalog in 2026.

Intense, classical, and post-apocalyptic, Lifeblood fills the heaviness into the void of unknown parallel universes that pushes listeners into opened doors to see what chances you will take and how you will change your own timeline. And the result, it is up to you that figures out what to do next.