Editorial · updated Sep 8, 2026

The charts

Editorial picks, ranked by what we are actually playing. No sales data, no stream counts, no paid positions. The Blegh 40 is tracks, Heavy Rotation is records, Emerging 10 is who is next.

The Blegh 40 Heavy Rotation Emerging 10

The Blegh 40

The tracks the scene is actually screaming along to right now. Editorial — weighted by Blegh List plays and saves, argued over, not paid for.

Editorial · not sales

#	Artist	Track	Move
01	Spiritbox	Soft Spine	No change
02	Sleep Token	Caramel	No change
03	Lorna Shore	Oblivion	Up
04	Bad Omens	Specter (feat. ERRA)	Down
05	Architects	Whiplash	No change
06	Dayseeker	Pale Moonlight	Up
07	I Prevail	Violent Nature	Up
08	Falling in Reverse	God Is a Weapon	Down
09	Knocked Loose	Suffocate (feat. Poppy)	No change
10	Landmvrks	Creature	Up
11	Bring Me The Horizon	Kool-Aid	Down
12	The Devil Wears Prada	Ritual	Up
13	Wage War	Magnetic	No change
14	Bleed From Within	Zenith	No change
15	Sleep Theory	Stuck in My Head	Up
16	Motionless In White	Werewolf	Down
17	Whitechapel	A Visceral Retch	No change
18	ERRA	Blue Reverie	Down
19	Polaris	Inhumane	No change
20	Make Them Suffer	Ghost of Me	Down
21	Bilmuri	Better Hell	Up
22	Ice Nine Kills	Hip to Be Scared	No change
23	Silent Planet	Antimatter	Down
24	Kublai Khan TX	Theory of Mind	No change
25	Boundaries	Turning Me Blue	Up
26	Invent Animate	Immolation of Night	No change
27	Counterparts	Whispers of Your Death	Down
28	Alpha Wolf	Sucks 2 Suck (feat. Ice-T)	No change
29	Currents	Vengeance	Down
30	Loathe	Two-Way Mirror	No change
31	Thornhill	Casanova	No change
32	Fit for a King	Reaper	Down
33	Beartooth	Riptide	No change
34	Northlane	Miasma	Down
35	Of Mice & Men	Warpaint	No change
36	Chelsea Grin	Origin of Sin	Down
37	Kingdom of Giants	Bleached	No change
38	Void of Vision	Hell Hell Hell	New entry
39	Vended	Am I the Only One	New entry
40	Emmure	Pig's Ear	Down

Heavy Rotation

Full-lengths and EPs living on the office speakers. Editorial picks, ranked by playlist plays and how often we hit repeat.

Editorial · not sales

#	Artist	Album	Move
01	Spiritbox	Tsunami Sea	No change
02	Lorna Shore	I Feel the Everblack Festering Within Me	Up
03	Sleep Token	Even in Arcadia	Down
04	Dayseeker	Creature in the Black Night	Up
05	The Devil Wears Prada	Flowers	Up
06	Architects	The Sky, The Earth & All Between	Down
07	Landmvrks	The Great Unknown	No change
08	Whitechapel	Hymns in Dissonance	No change
09	Bleed From Within	Zenith	Down
10	Sleep Theory	Afterglow	Up
11	Knocked Loose	You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To	No change
12	Wage War	Stigma	Down
13	Falling in Reverse	Popular Monster	No change
14	Make Them Suffer	Make Them Suffer	Down
15	Kublai Khan TX	Exhibition of Prowess	No change
16	Boundaries	Death Is Little More	No change
17	ERRA	Cure	Down
18	Alpha Wolf	Half Living Things	No change
19	Bring Me The Horizon	POST HUMAN: NeX GEn	Down
20	Bad Omens	Concrete Jungle [The OST]	No change

Emerging 10

Bands that are one tour away from the big font on the poster. Send us yours: emerging@nthescene.com.

Editorial · not sales

#	Artist	From	Move
01	Sleep Theory	Memphis, TN	No change
02	Thrown	Gothenburg, SE	Up
03	House of Protection	Los Angeles, CA	Up
04	Bilmuri	Columbus, OH	Down
05	Vended	Des Moines, IA	Up
06	Wind Walkers	Boston, MA	No change
07	Foreign Hands	Wilmington, DE	No change
08	Dying Wish	Portland, OR	Down
09	Paledusk	Fukuoka, JP	Up
10	Bloom	Sydney, AU	New entry

Methodology: staff picks weighted by what is getting played in the office, at shows and in the group chat. Movement arrows compare to the previous update; NEW marks a first appearance. Not affiliated with Billboard or any sales chart.