It’s officially spooky season, baby! As you hang your Halloween decor and thrift for new seasonal finds, you can make your playlists perfect with these alternative October albums.
From Green Day‘s iconic Nimrod and Bring Me The Horizon‘s debut LP Count Your Blessings to Twenty One Pilots‘ Trench and My Chemical Romance‘s beloved The Black Parade, these 40 alternative album anniversaries will give you something to celebrate all month long.
We the Kings — We The Kings
Released on: October 2, 2007, via S-Curve.
Standout Tracks: “Check Yes Juliet” & “Skyway Avenue”
Green Day — Warning
Released on: October 3, 2000, via Reprise Records.
Standout Tracks: “Warning” & “Minority”
AFI — Silver Bleeds the Black Sun…
Released on: October 3, 2025, via Run for Cover Records.
Standout Tracks: “Holy Visions” & “The Bird Of Prey”
Gully Boys — Gully Boys
Released on: October 3, 2025, via Smartpunk Records.
Standout Tracks: “TTML” & “Mother”
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus — X’s For Eyes
Released on: October 3, 2025, via Better Noise Music.
Standout Tracks: “Always The King” & “Worth It”
Mayday Parade — Sad
Released on: October 3, 2025, via Miscellaneous Recordings.
Standout Tracks: “Under My Sweater” & “Breakup Song”
Thrice — Horizons / West
Released on: October 3, 2025, via Epitaph.
Standout Tracks: “Holding On” & “Gnash”
Mayday Parade — Mayday Parade
Released on: October 4, 2011, via Fearless Records.
Standout Tracks: “Stay” & “Oh Well, Oh Well”
Bring Me The Horizon — There Is a Hell…
Released on: October 4, 2010, via Visible Noise.
Standout Tracks: “It Never Ends” & “Anthem”
Trash Boat — Heaven Can Wait
Released on: October 4, 2024, via Hopeless Records.
Standout Tracks: “Are You Ready Now?” & “Better Than Yesterday”
Twenty One Pilots — Trench
Released on: October 5, 2018, via Fueled By Ramen.
Standout Tracks: “Jumpsuit” & “My Blood”
Mayday Parade — Anywhere But Here
Released on: October 6, 2009, via Fearless Records.
Standout Tracks: “Kids In Love” & “Anywhere But Here”
Sum 41 — 13 Voices
Released on: October 7, 2016, via Hopeless Records.
Standout Tracks: “Fake My Own Death” & “War”
Chloe Moriondo — SUCKERPUNCH
Released on: October 7, 2022, via Fueled By Ramen.
Standout Tracks: “Fruity” & “Knockout”
Panic! At The Disco — Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die!
Released on: October 8, 2013, via Decaydence and Fueled By Ramen.
Standout Tracks: “This Is Gospel” & “Miss Jackson”
State Champs — The Finer Things
Released on: October 8, 2013, via Pure Noise.
Standout Tracks: “Elevated” & “Critical”
Yellowcard — Better Days
Released on: October 10, 2025, via Better Noise Music.
Standout Tracks: “Better Days” & “Bedroom Posters”
The Offspring — Supercharged
Released on: October 11, 2024, via Concord Records.
Standout Tracks: “Light It Up” & “Make It All Right”
Alkaline Trio — Goddamnit!
Released on: October 13, 1998, via Asian Man Records.
Standout Tracks: “Cringe” & “San Francisco”
The Summer Set – Love Like This
Released on: October 13, 2009, via Razor & Tie.
Standout Tracks: “Chelsea” & “Punch-Drunk Love”
Green Day – Nimrod
Released on: October 14, 1997, via Reprise Records.
Standout Tracks: “Nice Guys Finish Last” & “Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)”
State Champs — Around The World And Back
Released on: October 16, 2015, via Pure Noise.
Standout Tracks: “Secrets” & “Losing Myself”
Maggie Lindemann — I Feel Everything
Released on: October 17, 2025, via Swixxzaudio.
Standout Tracks: “2022″ & “spine”
Bishop Briggs —Tell My Therapist I’m Fine
Released on: October 18, 2024, via Terry Eighteen.
Standout Tracks: “Woman Is King” & “My Serotonin”
blink-182 — One More Time…
Released on: October 20, 2023, via Columbia Records.
Standout Tracks: “Edging” & “One More Time”
Boys Like Girls — Sunday At Foxwoods
Released on: October 20, 2023, via Fearless Records.
Standout Tracks: “Blood And Sugar” & “Language”
AFI — Burials
Released on: October 22, 2013, via Republic Records.
Standout Tracks: “17 Crimes” & “I Hope You Suffer”
Smashing Pumpkins — Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Released on: October 23, 1995, via Virgin Records.
Standout Tracks: “1979″ & “Bullet With Butterfly Wings”
My Chemical Romance — The Black Parade
Released on: October 23, 2006, via Reprise Records.
Standout Tracks: “Dead!” & “Teenagers”
5 Seconds Of Summer — Sounds Good Feels Good
Released on: October 23, 2015, via Capitol Records.
Standout Tracks: “She’s Kinda Hot” & “Jet Black Heart”
Linkin Park — Hybrid Theory
Released on: October 24, 2000, via Warner Bros. Records
Standout Tracks: “Papercut” & “In The End
Taylor Acorn — Poster Child
Released on: October 25, 2025, via Fearless Records
Standout Tracks: “Crashing Out” & “Vertigo”
Beach Weather — Melt
Released on: October 25, 2024, via 8123 and Arista Records.
Standout Tracks: “High In Low Places” & “Hardcore Romance”
Simple Plan — Still Not Getting Any…
Released on: October 26, 2004, via Lava Records.
Standout Tracks: “Welcome To My Life” & “Shut Up!”
Black Veil Brides — Black Veil Brides
Released on: October 27, 2014, via Lava Records and Republic Records.
Standout Tracks: “Heart Of Fire” & “Faithless”
Frank Iero and the Patience — Parachutes
Released on: October 28, 2016, via Vagrant Records.
Standout Tracks: “Oceans” & “I’m A Mess”
Bring Me The Horizon — Count Your Blessings
Released on: October 30, 2006, via Visible Noise.
Standout Tracks: “Pray For Plagues” & “For Stevie Wonder’s Eyes Only (Braille)”
Weezer — Raditude
Released on: October 30, 2009, via DGC Records, Geffen Records, and Interscope Records
Standout Tracks: “(If You’re Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To” & “I’m Your Daddy”
Poppy — Am I A Girl?
Released on: October 31, 2018, via Mad Decent.
Standout Tracks: “Play Destroy” & “X”
Creeper —Sanguivore II: Mistress of Death
Released on: October 31, 2025, via Spinefarm Records.
Standout Tracks: “Prey For The Night” & “Parasite”
