Heavy Metal Album Release Calendar

Release Calendar LogoHere’s a rundown of heavy metal and hard rock album release dates. They are supplied by record companies and subject to change. If you’d like to submit information for an album not listed, send us an email.

December 13, 2024

Afflicta – Origin Of Sorrow (Self)
Alberto Rigoni – Nemesis Call (Eclipse)
Asenheim – Wolkenbrecher (Dominance Of Darkness)
At The Altar Of The Horned God – Elements EP (I, Voidhanger)
August Moon – Something Eldritch And Macabre (Personal)
An Axis Of Perdition – Apertures (Apocalyptic Witchcraft)
Bazooka Troopaz – Scandinavian Head Splitter (SElf)
Birkental – Peccatum Mortiferum (Void Wanderer)
Blue Oyster Cult – 50th Anniversary Live – Third Night (Frontiers)
Boreal Grave – I Am Your Bane (Inverse)
Caressing Misery – Lost And Serene (The Circle)
Crestfallen Queen – Horns (Vocem Interiorem)
Darkat Yuuyamihn – eu sou a v​í​tima e o carrasco (Syrup Moose)
A Dead Poem – Abstract Existence (Personal)
Dear Deceased – Dear Deceased Re-Release (Ripple)
Deep River Acolytes – Procession Of The Damned EP (Argonauta)
Detest – A World Drowning In Detest (Emanzipation)
Electric Wizard – Black Magic Rituals And Perversions, Vol. 1 (Spinefarm)
Gingerbass – More Or Less EP (Self)
Harkane – Argo (Dusktone)
Hellgo – Etiquette (Octopus Rising)
Helloween – Live At Budokan (Reigning Phoenix)
Hermh – Oremus Peccatum (Refaim) Re-Release (Via Nocturna)
Hostilia – All The Blood Spilt EP (Gruesome)
Illusion Force – Halfana (Frontiers)
In We Fall – Inner Self (Eclipse)
Jarl – Trümmerfestung (Trollzorn)
JJ Pinestone – Break The Chain (Self)
Jon Harris – Parallel Heart (Epictronic)
Kildonan – Embers (Caligari)
KillerKorp – Vices EP (Self)
Liquid Flesh – Vestiges Abrutissants EP (Self)
Lord Sin – Confessions (Larvae)
Luring – Malevolenty Lycanthropic Heresy (Iron Bonehead)
Magic Kingdom – Blaze Of Rage (Massacre)
Mesarthim – Anthropic Bias/Departure (Avantgarde)
Mirrorshield – Visions From The Crystal Light (Self)
Misanthropy – The Ever-Crushing Weight Of Stagnance (Transcending Obscurity)
Monte Penumbra – Austere Dawning (NoEvDia)
Mörk Gryning – Fasornas Tid (Season Of Mist)
Nogothula – Telluric Sepsis (Blood Harvest)
Orbiter – Distorted Folklore (Salvaged)
Perdition’s Mire – Into A Dark Heartland EP (Headkick)
Ponte Del Diavolo – Tre – The EP Collection (Time To Kill)
Residual Self – Reseed (Sliptrick)
Reviver – Carnival Of Chaos (No Dust)
Runopatia – Archaistia EP (T.D.M. Archivist)
The Sabians – Shiver Re-Release (Ripple)
Schatten Muse – Schicksalsweg (The Circle)
Shatterface – Deviate EP (Self)
Storace – Live And Let Live Re-Release (Frontiers)
Sullest – Self Titled (Armageddon)
Sumo – III (Self)
SVN – King Of Deathmatches 2024 (HPGD)
Todestrieb – Corona Tenebra (Avantgarde)
Tony Tears – La Societa degli Eterni (I, Voidhanger)
Trouble County – Blacken The Sky (Epictronic)
Weapon Of Surface – Beneath The Pride (Wormholedeath)
Wedingoth – Five Stars (A)Live (Self)
Whispers – Yom-Ma-Lok EP (Flatspot)
Wings Of Steel – Live In France (RFL)
Wuldorgast – Cold Light (Iron Bonehead)
Zen Disdain – Inanition (Self)

December 20, 2024

Ardeat – Apotheosis (Wormholedeath)
Becerus – Troglodyte (Everlasting Spew)
Beneath Moonlight – Beneath Moonlight EP (Debemur Morti)
Canis Dirus – By The Grace Of Death (Bindrune)
Charles East – Dislocated (Self)
Culak – Ens Astrale (Self)
Deadly Magic – …As Nightmares Gorged The Earth EP (Dying Victims)
Dekay – Start The Rot (Sliptrick)
Despised Cruelty – Niech Zdycha (Talheim)
Disinter – Laments Of The Unborn (Pest)
Epitaph – Path To Oblivion (My Kingdom)
Fragmentary Solid Abyss – Concento Pavor Nocturnus (Wormholedeath)
Hexenbrett – Dritte Beschwörung: Dem Teufel eine Tochter (Dying Victims)
Horse Butcher – Horse Butcher EP (Sentient Ruin)
Katharein – Lucky Shots (Self)
Lacolpa – In Absentia Lucis (Self)
Mind Control – Ghosts Of Past And Present EP (Self)
Moondark – The Abysmal Womb (Pulverised)
Myrholt – Blandede Meninger Og Aforismer (Self)
Othismos – Sottrazione (Self)
Pandemic – Phantoms (Dying Victims)
Revolting – Night Of The Horrid (Xtreem)
Sorceress Of Sin – Ennea (Wormholedeath)
Subway To Sally – Post Mortem (Napalm)
Tazer – 9001Volts EP (Self)
VM – There Is Something More – We Are Blind (Epictronic)
White Tyger – Back Of The Class (Self)
WTZ – Droga Do Domu (Devoted Art Propaganda)
Youth Pastor – Heavens (Syrup Moose)

December 27, 2024

6Deep – Dead In 5 EP (Self)
Ainzamkait – was des Lebens nicht wert (Purity Through Fire)
Antumbra – Days Of Future Ravaged Lands (Loud Rage)
Blazemth – Gehenna (Negra Nit)
Box – Born To Crawl EP (Miserable Pyre)
CMPT – Na Utrini (Osmose)
Dominum – The Dead Don’t Die (Napalm)
Druparia – The River Above (Self)
Final Siege – Nuclear Doom State (Wormholedeath)
Genocide Kommando – Third World War (Osmose)
Gnipah​å​lan – Folkstorm (Purity Through Fire)
Lament In Winter’s Night – Whereunto The Twilight Leads (Hells Headbangers)
Machtklang – Machtklang (Self)
Mavorim – In Ominia Paratus (Purity Through Fire)
Nefarious Dusk – Death Beneath A Starless Sky (Purity Through Fire)
Order Of Nosferat – Towards The Nightrealm Of Orlok (Purity Through Fire)
Úlfarr – Fornetes Folm (Purity Through Fire)
Voidwards – Balgulnik (Aesthetic Death)
Vspolokh – Mertvozem (Purity Through Fire)

January 3, 2025

Canaan – Some Last Echo (Eibon)
Decrepid – Suffered Existence Re-Release (Brutal)
Gihon – Iterations EP (Self)
Lord Agheros – Anhedonia (My Kingdom)
Megafauna – I Owe This Land A Body (Syrup Moose)
Mutagenic Host – The Diseased Machine (Memento Mori)
Paleface Swiss – Cursed (Self)
Patriarkh – ПРОРОК ИЛИЯ (Napalm)
Rotten Sound – Murderworks Re-Release (Time To Kill)

January 10, 2025

Alt Blk Era – Rave Immortal (Earache)
Barshasketh – Antinomian Asceticism (W.T.C.)
Bergthron – Neu Asen Land (Trollzorn)
Beriedir – Liminal Spaces (Rockshots)
The Cimmerian – An Age Undreamed Of… (Hyborian Rage)
Crucial Velocity – Controller (Self)
Exiled Hope/Steel Forge – Realm Of The Exiled EP (Self)
Faithxtractor – Loathing & The Noose (Redefining Darkness)
The Halo Effect – March Of The Unheard (Nuclear Blast)
Hanry – Disruption EP (Pelagic)
Haunted Horses – Dweller (Three One G)
Jarnbord – Filmer för blinda (Self)
Magnum – Live At KK’s Steel Mill (Steamhammer/SPV)
Maw – The Humble Collapse (Argonauta)
Moon Wizard – Sirens (Hammerheart)
Nine Treasures – Awakening From Dukkha Re-Release (Metal Blade)
Nine Treasures – Wisdom Eyes Re-Release (Metal Blade)
Plaguewielder – In Dust & Ash (Self)
Rise Of Tyrants – Trauma Re-Release (Brutal)
Sarkasm – Carnival Of Atrocities (Xtreem)
Second Day – Flamboyance (Self)
Sight Of Theia – The Great Dreamer (Self)
Sisters Of… – Marie/Michel EP (Crowquill)
Slaughtersun – Black Marrow EP (Self)
Stick To Your Guns – Keep Planting Flowers (SharpTone)
Tremonti – The End Will Show Us How (Napalm)
Urfeind – Dauþalaikaz (Nine To Zero)
Wyatt E. – zamāru ultu qereb ziqquratu Part 1 (Heavy Psych Sounds)

January 17, 2025

Aeon Of Awareness – The Embracing Light Of Rarohenga (Self)
Aevum – Kaleidoscope (DarkTunes)
Blood Lemon – Petite Deaths EP (Self)
Cerebral Hemorrhage – Exempting Reality (Comatose)
Ckraft – Uncommon Grounds (Self)
Crimson Storm – Livin’ On The Bad Side (Fighter)
Dark Fortress – Pulling At Threads (Live In Europe 2023) (Century Media)
Datura – Visions For The Celestial Re-Release (Ripple)
Day By Day – Dust And Ashes EP (Flatspot)
Deus Sabaoth – Cycle Of Death (Self)
Dragonknight – Legions (Scarlet)
Eidola – Mend (Blue Swan)
Godzillionaire – Diminishing Returns (Ripple)
Grave Digger – Bone Collector (Reigning Phoenix)
Häxkapell – Om Jordens Blod Och Grepp (Nordvis)
Hazzerd – The 3rd Dimension (M-Theory)
Hesperia – Fra Li Monti Sibillini (Hammerheart)
Hierarchies – Hierarchies (Transcending Obscurity)
Howling Giant – Howling Giant EP Re-Release (Self)
Landfall – Wide Open Sky (Frontiers)
Necrodeath – Arimortis (Time To Kill)
Necromaniac – Sciomancy, Malediction & Rites Abominable (The Ajna Offensive)
Nesdam – Find The Truth (Xovr)
Onirophagus – Revelations From The Void (Personal)
Pestilent Scars – Meadows Of Misfortune (Inverse)
Putrid Defecation – Tales From The Toilet (Stadin)
Sarcator – Swarming Angels & Flies (Media)
Shutdown – By Your Side EP (Equal Vision)
Steve Hackett – Live Magic At Trading Boundaries (InsideOut)
Thy Kingdom Will Burn – The Loss And Redemption (Scarlet)
Tokyo Blade – Time Is The Fire (Dissonance)
Tumenggung – Back On The Streets (Jawbreaker)
Vertex – The Purest Light (Le Cri Du Charbon)
Vitriolic – Black Steel Vengeance (Dying Victims)
W.A.S.P. – The 7 Savage: 1984-1992 Box Set (Madfish)

January 24, 2025

Abduction – Existentialismus (Candlelight)
Alfavrak – Kass Kontroll (Self)
AnāʻAnā – Aura Of Blood (Darkwoods)
Avatarium – Between You, God, The Devil And The Dead (AFM)
Axestasy – Withering Tides (Dying Victims)
Beneath A Steel Sky – Cleave (Ripcord)
Blacktoothed – Headway (Arising Empire)
Bonfire – Higher Ground (Frontiers)
Bumblefoot – Bumblefoot…Returns! (Self)
Century – Sign Of The Storm (Dying Victims)
Clear Sky Nailstorm – Problem Solved (Kernkraftritter)
Dax Riggs – 7 Songs For Spiders (Self)
Disrupted – Stinking Death (Trust No One)
Expurgate – Nynas Death (Nomad Snakepit)
The Ferrymen – Iron Will (Frontiers)
Fleshbore – Painted Paradise (Transcending Obscurity)
Goatlord Corp. – Temple Of Serpent Whores (Nomad Snakepit)
The Great Old Ones – Kadath (Season Of Mist)
Harakiri For The Sky – Scorched Earth (AOP)
Haven – Causes (Argonauta)
Ice War – Feel The Steel (Hooked On Metal)
The Kartetch – The Fallacy EP (Self)
Labyrinth – In The Vanishing Echoes Of Goodbye (Frontiers)
Loss Becomes – Sonder (Self)
Marko Bojkovic – Powercore (Forerunner)
Martyrion – Gaia Uprising (Self)
Membaris – Black Plasma Armour (W.T.C.)
Michael Erlandsson – The Second 1 (Pride & Joy)
Oni – Genesis EP (Self)
Putred – Megalit al Putrefacției (Memento Mori)
Retador – Earendel (Xtreem)
Riverside – Live ID. (InsideOut)
A Terre – Embrasser La Nuit (Self)
Tigertailz – For A Few Dollarz More (The Archives Vol 1: 1984-1991) (HNE)
Time Rift – In Flight (Dying Victims)
Tormentor Tyrant – Excessive Escalation (Everlasting Spew)
Trishula – Becoming The Enemy (Pride & Joy)
Umbersound – If The Flies Can Sing (Dark Skies Coming)
Unreqvited – A Pathway To The Moon (Prophecy)
Voidfallen – The Rituals Of Resilience (Noble Demon)
Vukovi – My God Has Got A Gun (SharpTone)
Wardruna – Birna (By Norse)

January 31, 2025

Admire The Grim – Resist (Inverse)
All That Remains – Antifragile (Self)
Balefire – Balefire EP (Iron Bonehead)
TheCityIsOurs – Will You Still Love Me? (Arising Empire)
Confess – Destination Addiction (EVIN)
Great American Ghost – Tragedy Of The Commons (SharpTone)
Grief Ritual – Collapse (Church Road)
Hawkwind – Live At The Royal Albert Hall (Cherry Red)
The Hellacopters – Overdriver (Nuclear Blast)
Jaye Jayle – After Alter (Pelagic)
Kelsey Karter + The Heroines – Love Made Me Do It (Self)
Kilmara – Journey To The Sun (RPM ROAR)
Lunar – Tempora Mutantur (Saibot Reigns)
Maceration – Serpent Devourment (Emanzipation)
Mad Parish – The Dust Of Forever (Self)
moe. – Circle Of Giants (Self)
Moon Fever – Forever Sleep (Astro)
Nachash – Eschaton Magicks (Signal Rex)
Naked Whipper – Chapel Defilement (Iron Bonehead)
Nest – Woodsmoke Re-Release (Avantgarde)
The Night Flight Orchestra – Give Us The Moon (Napalm)
Pentagram – Lightning In A Bottle (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Pyre – Where Obscurity Sways (Osmose)
Rats Of Gommorrah – Infectious Vermin (Testimony)
Relics Of Humanity – Absolute Dismal Domain (Willowtip)
Selvans – Saturnalia (Avantgarde)
Shrieking Demons – The Festering Dwellers (Transcending Obscurity)
Skaldr – Samsr (Avantgarde)
Tayne – Love (Inside Job/MNRK)
Tyran – Tyran’s Oath (Listenable)
Void Of Hope – Proof Of Existence (Avantgarde)
Wrath – Children Of The Wicked: The Early Years (Dissonance)
Zangoma – Faka Mulilo (Svart)
Zero Absolu – La Saignee (AOP)

February 7, 2025

Bikini Beach – Cursed (La Pochette Surprise)
Dead Air – Elements EP (Fly Tip)
Dream Theater – Parasomnia (InsideOut)
Dymna Lotva – The Land Under The Black Wings: Swamp Re-Release (Prophecy)
Dymna Lotva – Wormwood Re-Release (Prophecy)
Facs – Wish Defense (Trouble In Mind)
Fumes – Skeletal Wings Threshold (Personal)
Fvzz Popvli – Melting Pop (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Gyasi – Here Comes The Good Stuff (Alive Naturalsound)
Jinjer – Duel (Napalm)
Juliet’s Not Dead – King And Queen (TMR)
Marko Hietala – Roses From The Deep (Nuclear Blast)
Midlife Crisis – 45 Turns 33 (Wild Kingdom)
Neurostrike – Neon Uprising (Self)
Neverland Ranch Davidians – Shout It On The Mountain (Heavy Medication)
Obscura – A Sonication (Nuclear Blast)
Pathogenic – Crowned In Corpses (Skepsis)
Rise Of Tyrants – The Abnormality In Structure Re-Release (Brutal)
Saber – Lost In Flames (ROAR)
Saber – Without Warning Re-Release (ROAR)
Saor – Amidst The Ruins (Season Of Mist)
Sarkasm – Carnival Of Atrocities (Xtreem)
Thundermother – Dirty & Divine (AFM)
Tumbleweed Dealer – Dark Green (Self)

February 14, 2025

Amber Asylum – Ruby Red (Prophecy)
Bleeding Through – Nine (SharpTone)
Collignon – Bicicleta (Gris Gris)
Crazy Lixx – Thrill Of The Bite (Frontiers)
Dawn Of Solace – Affliction Vortex (Noble Demon)
Dead American – Attention Deficit (Velocity)
Diamond Dogs & Chris Spedding – Macon Georgia Giants (Wild Kingdom)
Dynazty – Game Of Faces (Nuclear Blast)
Ginger Evil – The Way It Burns (Frontiers)
Greybeards – Out Of The Red EP (Rexius)
Hangman’s Chair – Saddiction (Nuclear Blast)
Lacuna Coil – Sleepless Empire (Century Media)
Leadfeather – Roll The Dice EP (Self)
Loanshark – No Sins To Confess (RPM-ROAR)
Love Is Noise – To Live In A Different Way (Century Media)
Mantar – Post Apocalyptic Depression (Metal Blade)
Mouth – Global Warning (Bonebag)
Obscureviolence – Refuting The Flesh (Transcending Obscurity)
Pothamus – Abur (Pelagic)
Prehistoria – Cryptic Halo (StormSpell)
Rescue Cat – Flesh & Weapon (Time To Kill)
Rioghan – Kept (Inverse)
Savage Lands – Army Of Trees (Season Of Mist)
Scorpion Child – I Saw The End As It Passed Right Through Me (Noize In The Attic)
Serpents Of Pakhangba – Air And Fire (Self)
Sicksense – Cross Me Twice (Earache)
Sounds Of New Soma – The Story Of Sam Buckett (Tonzonen)
Venus Bleue – Infame Nectar (Wormholedeath)
Warlung – The Human Touch (Heavy Psych Sounds)

February 21, 2025

The 7th Guild – Triumviro (Scarlet)
Abduction – Existentialismus (Candlelight)
Acid Magus – Scatterling Empire (Mongrel)
Airforce – Acts Of Madness (RPM-ROAR)
Anxious – Bambi (Run For Cover)
Cages – Better Mistakes (New Knee)
The Deadnotes – Rock ‘n’ Roll Saviour (Grand Hotel Van Cleef)
Defiled Serenity – Within The Slumber Of The Mind (Inverse)
Ellis Mano Band – Morph (SPV)
Exision – Uhreina Ajassa (Inverse)
Fractured Insanity – Age Of Manipulation (Xtreem)
Grab – Kremess (Prophecy)
Killswitch Engage – This Consequence (Metal Blade)
Manntra – Titans (Napalm)
Matalobos – Phantasmagoria: Hexed Lands (Concreto)
Nachtblut – Todschick (Napalm)
Necronomicon Ex Mortis/Bloodfeast Ritual – You’ve Got Red On You (Split) Self)
One OK Rock – Detox (Fueled By Ramen)
Retromorphosis – Psalmus Mortis (Season Of Mist)
Scour – Gold (Housecore)
Scumripper – For A Few Fixes More (Dying Victims)
Seventh Station – On Shoulders Of Giants EP (Layered Reality)
Shadow Of The Talisman – As Above, So Below (Eclipse)
Stinky – Solace (M-Theory)
SweetBeast – Illusions (Humalien)
Traitors – Phobias (Self)
Twins Crew – Chapter IV (Scarlet)
Wrekmeister Harmonies – Flowers In The Spring (Thrill Jockey)
Wren – Black Rain Falls (Church Road)

February 28, 2025

Architects – The Sky, The Earth & All Between (Epitaph)
Avantasia – Here Be Dragons (Napalm)
Bronco – Bronco (Magnetic Eye)
Cannibal Accident – Disgust (Inverse)
Christ Dismembered – Ov Vampiricy (Self)
Crown Of Madness – Memories Fragmented (Transcending Obscurity)
Dark Chapel – Spirit In The Glass (MNRK Heavy)
Death Chapel – Ichor (Self)
David Judson Clemmons – Everything A War (7 People)
The Dead And Living – Damage EP (Rexius)
Dimman – Consciousness (Inverse)
Enemy Inside – Venom (Reigning Phoenix)
Grima – Nightside (Napalm)
Hell Militia – Canonisation Of The Foul Spirit Re-Release (Darkness Shall Rise)
Oversize – Vital Signs (SharpTone)
Public Grave – Grotesque Mutations (Self)
Risen Crow – Requiem For A Damned Love (Rockshots)
Rise Of Tyrants – The Chronicles Of Cardinal Pablo Mendoza (Brutal)
Telma – Awakening (Self)
Vision Of Disorder – Vision Of Disorder/Imprint Re-Release (Dissonance)
Year Of The Cobra – Year Of The Cobra (Prophecy)
You, Infinite – You, Infinite (Pelagic)

March 7, 2025

Avulsed – Phoenix Cryptobiosis (Xtreem)
Deathless Legacy – Damnatio Aeterna (Scarlet)
Destruction – Birth Of Malice (Napalm)
Edyakaran – Pantheon (My Kingdom)
Smith/Kotzen – Black Light/White Noise (BMG)
Spiritbox – Tsunami Sea (Pale Chord)
The Wildhearts – Satanic Rites Of The Wildhearts (Snakefarm)

March 14, 2025

Ade – Supplicium (Time To Kill)
Bambara – Birthmarks (Bella Union/Wharf Cat)
Derision Cult – Mercenary Notes Pt. 2 EP (Glitch Mode)
Ricky Warwick – Blood Ties (Earache)
Som – Let The Light In (Pelagic)
Soren Andersen – Live In The Homeland (Mighty)
Trold – I Skovens Rige (Mighty)

March 21, 2025

As The World Dies – Nebula (Reaper)
Aversed – Erasure Of Color (M-Theory)
Big Big Train – Bard Re-Release (English Electric)
Euphrosyne – Morus (Black Lion)
Ghostsmoker – Inertia Cult (Art As Catharsis)
Gnod & White Hills – Drop Out III (Thrill Jockey)
Gotthard – Stereo Crush (Reigning Phoenix)

March 28, 2025

Arch Enemy – Blood Dynasty (Century Media)
Memphis May Fire – Shapeshifter (Rise)
Sick Puppies – Wave The Bull (oneRPM)
The Slime – Crabwalk To Oblivion (Self)
Tyrmfar – Symbiosis EP (Wormholedeath)

April 4, 2025

Bleed From Within – Zenith (Nuclear Blast)
Luna Kills – Deathmatch (SharpTone)
Stoic Suffering – All Tomorrows (Self)

April 11, 2025

Cabal – Everything Rots (Nuclear Blast)
Elvenking – Reader Of The Runes – Luna (Reaper)
Exiled Hope – Apocrypha (Self)
Miss Vain – Sempiternal Drive EP (Inverse)

April 25, 2025

Liv Kristine – Amor Vincit Omnia (Metalville)
Society Of Villains – Good & Evil EP (CloudKid)

May 2, 2025

Crematory – Destination (ROAR)

May 16, 2025

Bury Tomorrow – Will You Haunt Me, With That Same Patience (Self)
Joviac – Autofiction Pt. 1 – Shards (Inverse)

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