Here is your 2024 hard rock + metal album release calendar and all of this week’s newest titles!
With so many new metal and hard rock albums being released each week, it can be difficult to keep up. We’re making things a lot easier for you by keeping track of all the 2024 releases in one convenient location.
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December 20, 2024
Beneath Moonlight – Beneath Moonlight EP (Debemur Morti)
Canis Dirus – By The Grace Of Death (Bindrune)
Deadly Magic – …As Nightmares Gorged The Earth EP (Dying Victims)
Epitaph – Path To Oblivion (My Kingdom)
Pandemic – Phantoms (Dying Victims)
Subway To Sally – Post Mortem (Napalm)
December 27, 2024
Dominum – The Dead Don’t Die (Napalm)
Genocide Kommando – Third World War (Osmose)
Lament In Winter’s Night – Whereunto The Twilight Leads (Hells Headbangers)
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)
Albums That Already Came Out
January 5, 2024
Cancer Christ – God Is Violence (Seeing Red)
Dunwich Ritual – The Weird Tapes Sessions (Jawbreaker)
Haywire – Conditioned For Demolition (Daze)
Lastworld – Beautiful Ilusion (Perris)
Morgue Terror – Morgue Terror (Self)
The Oddeven – Darkness (Eclipse)
Panzerchrist – All Witches Shall Burn EP (Emanzipation)
January 12, 2024
Alluvial – Death Is But A Door EP (Nuclear Blast)
Artificial Heaven – Digital Dreams (My Kingdom)
The Awesome Machine – …It’s Ugly Or Nothing Re-Release (Ripple)
Casey – How To Disappear (Greyscale)
The Clamps – Megamouth (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Domination Campaign – A Storm Of Steel (Prosthetic)
Drown In Sulphur – Dark Secrets Of The Soul (Scarlet)
Emil Bulls – Love Will Fix It (Arising Empire)
Engulf – The Dying Planet Weeps (Everlasting Spew)
Escuela Grind – Ddeeaaatthhmmeettaall EP (MNRK Heavy)
Exit Eden – Femmes Fatales (Napalm)
Extinction A.D. – Ruthless Intent EP (Unique Leader)
The Grandmaster – Black Sun (Frontiers)
Iron Front – Hooked (Creator-Destructor)
Jim Peterik & World Stage – Roots & Shoots Vol. 1 (Frontiers)
Last In Time – Too Late (Rockshots)
Magnum – Here Comes The Rain (Napalm)
Mourning Dawn – The Foam Of Despair (Aesthetic Death)
Neal Morse – The Restoration – Joseph: Part Two (Frontiers)
Nobody’s Fool – Time (Battlegod)
No Terror In The Bang – Heal (Klonosphere)
Oathbringer – Tales Of Valor (RTR)
Psycho Ward – Committed (Battlegod)
Ravenstine – 2024 (Massacre)
Russell/Guns – Medusa (Frontiers)
Ruthless – The Fallen (Fireflash)
Ryujin – Ryujin (Napalm)
Splitknuckle – Breathing Through The Wound (Daze)
Ultimatum – Among Potential States Re-Release (Loud Rage)
Walk The Plank – Loathe EP (Mt. Crushmore)
January 19, 2024
Abhoria – Depths (Prosthetic)
Advocacy – The Path Of Decoherence (Uprising)
Andracca – To Bare The Weight Of Death (Vendetta)
Avenger – Steel On Steel: The Complete Avenger Recordings (Dissonance)
Boundless Chaos – Sinister Upheaval (Dying Victims)
CobraKill – Serpent’s Kiss (Frontiers)
Cold In Berlin – The Body Is The Wound EP (New Heavy Sounds)
Corvus – Immortals (Pride & Joy)
Gotus – Gotus (Frontiers)
Grand – Second To None (Frontiers)
Green Day, Saviors (Reprise)
Kontact – Full Contact (Dying Victims)
Lord Dying – Clandestine Transcendence (MNRK Heavy)
Master – Saints Dispelled (Hammerheart)
MesaVerde – All Is Well (Apollon)
Methedrine – No Solution, No Salvation (Time To Kill)
Neck Deep – Neck Deep (Hopeless)
Nick Oliveri – N.O. Hits At All Vol. 8 (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Nick Oliveri – N.O. Hits At All Vol. 9 (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Ribspreader – Reap Humanity (Xtreem)
The Rods – Rattle The Cage (Massacre)
Saxon – Hell, Fire And Damnation (Silver Lining)
Sovereign – Altered Realities (Dark Descent)
Touché Amoré -Survived By: Revived (Deathwish)
Upon Stone – Dead Mother Moon (Century Media)
Vemod – The Deepening (Prophecy)
Verona On Venus – Popular Delusions (Self)
The Vice – Dead Canary Run (Noble Demon)
January 26, 2024
Alcatrazz – Rock Justice: Complete Recordings 1983-1986 (HNE)
Alkaline Trio – Blood, Hair, And Eyeballs (Rise)
Almost Dead – Destruction Is All We Know (Innerstrength)
Any Given Day – Limitless (Arising Empire)
Blood Red Throne – Nonagon (Soulseller)
Caligula’s Horse – Charcoal Grace (InsideOut)
Carnal Savagery – Into The Abysmal Void (Moribund)
Cerulean – Carrion Angel (I, Voidhanger)
Cognizance – Phantazein (Willowtip)
Command – Resver (Jawbreaker)
Corax B.M. – Pagana (The Circle)
Dead Poet Society – Fission (Spinefarm)
Dipygus – Dipygus (Memento Mori)
Dissimulator – Lower Form Resistance (20 Buck Spin)
Dripping Decay – Ripping Remains EP (Satanik Royalty)
Drowned – Procul His (Sepulchral Voice)
Dymytry – Five Angry Men (AFM)
Exocrine – Legend (Season Of Mist)
Eye Flys – Eye Flys (Thrill Jockey)
Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes – Dark Rainbow (Self)
Funeral Winds – 333 (Osmose)
The Gems – Phoenix (Napalm)
Greengoat – A.I. (Argonauta)
Guhts – Regeneration (Seeing Red)
Hearts & Hand Grenades – Where I Begin (Eclipse)
Hiraes – Dormant (Napalm)
The Infernal Sea – Hellfenlic (Candlelight)
Jenner – Prove Them Wrong (Fighter)
Junta – Junta (Sentient Ruin)
Kalt Vindur – Magna Mater (The Circle)
Kill The Thrill – Autophagie (Season Of Mist)
Lucifer – Lucifer V (Nuclear Blast)
Luciferian Rites – Oath Of Midnight Ashes (Moribund)
Manticora – Mycelium (Mighty)
Mega Colossus – Showdown (Cruz Del Sur)
Merrimack – Obsecrations To The Horned Re-Release (Moribund)
Metalite – Expedition One (AFM)
Midnatt/Overture – Swedish Metal Splilt (Gates Of Hell/Jawbreaker)
Mountain Caller – Chronicle II: Hypergenesis (Church Road)
Necrotum – Defleshed Exhumation (Memento Mori)
New Model Army – Unbroken (earMusic)
Olhava – Sacrifice (Avantgarde)
Slower – Slower (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Static-X – Project Regeneration: Vol. 2 (Self)
Stone Horns – Age Of Chimairas (Rockshots)
Stuporous – Asylum’s Lament (Void Wanderer)
Temple Of Void – The First Ten Years (Hammerheart)
Thunder – Live At Islington Academy (earMusic)
Thunder – Live At Leeds (earMusic)
Various Artists – Mesmerized – A Tribute To Celtic Frost (A Time To Kill)
Vipassi – Lightless (Season Of Mist)
Vitriol – Suffer & Become (Century Media)
Whitechapel – Live In The Valley (Metal Blade)
February 2, 2024
Artillery – Raw Live (In Copenhell) (Mighty)
Banks Arcade – Death 2 EP (UNFD)
Being As An Ocean – Death Can Wait (Out Of Line)
Big Scenic Nowhere – The Waydown (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Bipolar Architecture – Metaphysicize (Pelagic)
Drunemeton – Tir Nan Og (Heidens Hart)
Enterprise Earth – Death: An Anthology (MNRK Heavy)
Flight Mode – The Three Times (Tiny Engines)
Ghoul – Noxious Concoctions EP (Tankcrimes)
Hasturian Vigil – Unveiling The Brac’thal (Invictus)
Hollow Woods – Like Twisted Bones Of Fallen Giants (Signal Rex)
House Of Atreus – Orations EP (Iron Bonehead)
KMFDM – Let Go (Metropolis)
Levels – Pulse EP (SharpTone)
Litosth – Cesariana (Personal)
Meanstreak – Blood Moon EP (Step Off)
Meth – Shame (Prosthetic)
Myrath – Karma (earMusic)
Necrowretch – Swords Of Dajjal (Season Of Mist)
Night Fever – Dead End (Svart)
Persefone – Lingua Ignota: Part I EP (Napalm)
Perveration – Putrefaction Of Infinite Apogee (Comatose)
Reconciler – Art For Our Sake (Smartpunk)
Slope – Freak Dreams (Century Media)
Solbrud – IIII (Vendetta)
Stages Of Decomposition – Raptures Of Psychopathy (Gore House)
Transit Method – Othervoid (Brutal Panda)
Unaussprechlichen Kulten – Häxan Sabaoth (Iron Bonehead)
Valient Himself – Crooner Jukebox (Smokedoggg)
February 9, 2024
All This Filth – Will Tomorrow Be Better? (Brutal)
Aureole – Alunarian Ghosts Of Bellmaster (Lupus Lounge)
Blutgott – Dragongods (Massacre)
Chapel Of Disease – Echoes Of Light (Van)
The Chisel – What A Fucking Nightmare (Pure Noise)
Contaminated – Celebratory Beheading (Blood Harvest)
F.K.Ü. – The Horror And The Metal (Despotz)
Hulder – Verses In Oath (20 Buck Spin)
Infected Rain – Time (Napalm)
In Vain – Back To Nowhere (Fighter)
The Last Ten Seconds Of Life – No Name Graves (Unique Leader)
Lockdown – Step Over The Bodies (SelfMadeRecords)
Mean Jeans – Blasted (Fat Wreck Chords)
Morbid Saint – Swallowed By Hell (High Roller)
Petrification – Sever Sacred Light (Svart)
The Pineapple Thief – It Leads To This (Kscope)
Revolution Saints – Against The Winds (Frontiers)
Romuvos – Spirits (Hammerheart)
Seltsame Erden – Gedankentempeln (Chaos)
The Sleeveens – The Sleeveens (Dirtnap)
Smoking Snakes – Danger Zone (Frontiers)
Spectral Voice – Sparagmos (Dark Descent)
Spiritual Deception – Semitae Mentis (Amputated Vein)
Takida – The Agony Flame (Napalm)
February 16, 2024
Bloom – Maybe In Another Life (Pure Noise/Greyscale)
Bokassa – All Out Of Dreams (Indie)
Cercenatory – GoreSphere (Comatose)
Coltre – To Watch With Hands To Touch With Eyes (Dying Victims)
Crazy Lixx – Two Shots At Glory (Frontiers)
Darkspace – -II (Season Of Mist)
Dead Earth – Et Disperdam Illud (Chaos)
The Drowns – Blacked Out (Pirates Press)
Durbin – Screaming Steel (Frontiers)
Einar Solberg – The Congregation Acoustic (InsideOut)
Elettra Storm – Powerlords (Scarlet)
Far Beyond – The End Of My Road (Prosthetic)
Farsot – Life Promises Death (Lupus Lounge)
The Hellacopters – Grand Rock Re-Release (Nuclear Blast)
Honeymoon Suite – Alive (Frontiers)
Illumishade – Another Side Of You (Napalm)
Ihsahn – Ihsahn (Candlelight)
K’mono – Mind Out Of Mind (Apollon)
Laura Jane Grace – Hole In My Head (Polyvinyl)
Mr. Bison – Echoes From The Universe (Heavy Psych Sounds)
The Obsessed – Gilded Sorrow (Ripple)
Pestilength – Solar Clorex (Debemur Morti)
Ponte Del Diavolo – Fire Blades From The Tomb (Season Of Mist)
Praise The Plague – Suffocating In The Current Of Time (Lifeforce)
Profiler – A Digital Nowhere (SharpTone)
The Requiem – A Cure To Poison The World (Fearless)
Rick Wakeman – Live At The London Palladium 2023 (Cherry Red)
Samael – Passage – Live (Napalm)
Slayer – Show No Mercy Vinyl Re-Release (Metal Blade)
Steve Hackett – The Circus And The Nightwhale (InsideOut)
Toxikull – Under The Southern Light (Dying Victims)
February 23, 2024
Ace Frehley – 10,000 Volts (MNRK)
Amaranthe – The Catalyst (Nuclear Blast)
Atoll – Inhuman Implants (Unique Leader)
Austrian Death Machine – Quad Brutal (Napalm)
The Body & Dis Fig – Orchards Of A Futile Heaven (Thrill Jockey)
Borknagar – Fall (Century Media)
A Burial At Sea – Close To Home (Pelagic)
Craneium – Point Of No Return (The Sign)
CrossChains – Deathgrip (Drakkar)
Darkest Hour – Perpetual | Terminal (MNRK Heavy)
Decrowned – Persona Non Grata (Rockshots)
Disastroid – Garden Creatures (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Dust Bolt – Sound & Fury (AFM)
Ektomorf – Vivid Black (AFM)
Gen And The Degenerates – Anti-Fun Propaganda (Marshall)
Guiltless – Thorns EP (Neurot)
Hand Of Kalliach – Corryvreckan (Prosthetic)
Hypoxia – Defiance (Selfmadegod)
Iron Curtain – Savage Dawn (Dying Victims)
Job For A Cowboy – Moon Healer (Metal Blade)
Lionheart – The Grace Of A Dragonfly (Metalville)
Mick Mars – The Other Side of Mars (1313)
Monkey3 – Welcome To The Machine (Napalm)
Morta Skuld – Creation Undone (Peaceville)
Motorhead – The Lost Tapes Volume 1-5 (BMG)
North Sea Echoes – Really Good Terrible Things (Metal Blade)
Persher – Sleep Well (Thrill Jockey)
Pirate Queen – Ghosts (Despotz)
Rifforia – Axeorcism (Metalville)
Stygian Crown – Funeral For A King (Cruz Del Sur)
Sybris – Gold On Hold (Absolutely Kosher)
Timelost – Drained (Church Road)
Toadliquor – Back In The Hole (Southern Lord)
Toxikull – Under The Southern Light (Dying Victims)
Tvinna – Two – Wings Of Ember (By Norse)
Útgarðar – Fire Smoked Upon The Wolf’s Back (ATMF)
Vincent Crowley – Anthology Of Horror (Hammerheart)
March 1, 2024
Alienist – Love/Hate EP (UNFD)
Beyrevra – Echoes: Vanished Lore Of Fire (Trollzorn)
Big Big Train – The Likes Of Us (InsideOut)
Blind Channel – Exit Emotions (Century Media)
Bruce Dickinson – The Mandrake Project (BMG)
Clouds Taste Satanic – 79 A.E. (Majestic Mountain)
Defocus – There Is A Place For Me On Earth (Arising Empire)
Devastator – Conjurers Of Cruelty (Listenable)
Enslaved – Heimdal Deluxe Edition (Nuclear Blast)
Firewind – Stand United (AFM)
Liv Kristine – Deus ex Machina Re-Release (Metalville)
Mannequin Pussy – I Got Heaven (Epitaph)
Ministry – Hopiumforthemasses (Nuclear Blast)
Negative Prayer – Self // Wound (Chaos)
New Year’s Day – Half Black Heart (Century Media)
Saturnalia Temple – Revel In Dissidence (Listenable)
Sheer Mag – Playing Favorites (Third Man)
Suicidal Angels – Profane Prayer (Nuclear Blast)
Suldusk – Anthesis (Napalm)
Surgical Strike – 24/7 Hate (Metalville)
Tigers On Opium – Psychodrama (Heavy Psych Sounds)
T.S.O.L. – A-Side Graffiti (Kitten Robot)
Volcandra – The Way Of Ancients (Prosthetic)
Zakk Sabbath – Doomed Forever Forever Doomed (Magnetic Eye)
March 8, 2024
Agonista – Grey And Dry (Armageddon)
Alice Cooper – Billion Dollar Babies Re-Release (Rhino)
Alterium – Of War And Flames (AFM)
Apogean – Cyberstrictive (The Artisan Era)
Before The Dawn – Archaic Flame EP (Napalm)
Ecclesia – Ecclesia Militans (Aural)
The End Machine – The Quantum Phase (Frontiers)
Exhorder – Defectum Omnium (Nuclear Blast)
Floya – Yume (Arising Empire)
Goat Major – Ritual (Ripple)
Gost – Prophecy (Metal Blade)
Grey Skies Fallen – Molded By Broken Hands (Profound Lore)
Isenordal – Requiem For Eirene (Prophecy)
The Jesus And Mary Chain – Glasgow Eyes (Fuzz Club)
Judas Priest – Invincible Shield (Epic)
Kill The Lights – Death Melodies (Fearless)
Kim Gordon – The Collective (Matador)
Meatbodies – Flora Ocean Tiger Bloom (In The Red)
Merrimack – Of Grace And Gravity (Season Of Mist)
Midas Fall – Cold Waves Divide Us (Monotreme)
Midnight – Hellish Expectations (Metal Blade)
The Rolling Stones – Live At The Wiltern (Mercury)
Skeletal Remains – Fragments Of The Ageless (Century Media)
Slimelord – Chytridiomycosis Relinquished (20 Buck Spin)
Sonata Arctica – Clear Cold Beyond (Atomic Fire)
Too Close To Touch – For Keeps (Epitaph)
Turbulence – Binary Dream (Frontiers)
Vlad In Tears – Relapse (Metalville)
March 15, 2024
Aardvark – Tough Love (Dying Victims)
Aborted – Vault Of Horrors (Nuclear Blast)
Armagh – Exclamation Point (Dying Victims)
Atrophy – Asylum (Massacre)
The Black Crowes – Happiness Bastards (Silver Arrow)
Bongzilla – Dabbing (LIVE) Rosin In Europe (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Brat – Social Grace (Prosthetic)
Comeback Kid – Trouble EP (SharpTone)
DragonForce – Warp Speed Warriors (Napalm)
Iterum Nata – From The Infinite Light (Nordvis)
Kid Kapichi – There Goes The Neighbourhood (Spinefarm)
Leather Lung – Graveside Grin (Magnetic Eye)
Lords Of Black – Mechanics Of Predacity (Frontiers)
Lipz – Changing The Melody (Frontiers)
Lustmord – Much Unseen Is Also Here (Pelagic)
Lutharo – Chasing Euphoria (Atomic Fire)
Malsten – The Haunting of Silvåkra Mill – Rites of Passage (Svart)
Mike Tramp – Mand Af En Tid (Target)
Necrophobic – In The Twilight Grey (Century Media)
Night Verses – Every Sound Has A Color In The Valley Of Night: Part 2 (Equal Vision)
Per Wiberg – The Serpent’s Here (Despotz)
The Progressive Souls Collective – Sonic Rebirth (Metalville)
Scott Stapp – Higher Power (Napalm)
Shock Withdrawal – The Dismal Advance (Brutal Panda)
Silver Mountain – Shakin’ Brains Re-Release (Regain)
Silver Mountain – Universe Re-Release (Regain)
Udad – Udad (Peaceville)
Vltimas – Epic (Season Of Mist)
March 22, 2024
Apparition – Disgraced Emanations From A Tranquil State (Profound Lore)
Avralize – Freaks (Arising Empire)
Boris/Coaltar Of The Deepers – hello there Split (Dog Knights)
Brodequin – Harbinger Of Woe (Season Of Mist)
Civerous – Maze Envy (20 Buck Spin)
Cruzh – The Jungle Revolution (Frontiers)
Fall Of Serenity – Open Wide, O Hell (Lifeforce)
The Gaslight Anthem – History Books – Short Stories EP (Rich Mahogony)
Ghostkid – Hollywood Suicide (Century Media)
Hamferð – Men Guðs hond er sterk (Metal Blade)
Hammer King – König und Kaiser (Napalm)
Keygen Church – Nel Nome Del Codice (Metal Blade)
Leaves Eyes – Myths Of Fate (AFM)
Mastiff – Deprecipice (MNRK Heavy)
Moon Incarnate – Hymns To The Moon (Iron Bonehead)
Snuff – Off On The Charabanc (Sbam)
Sylvaine – Eg Er Framand EP (Season Of Mist)
Thor – Ride Of The Iron Horse (Cleopatra)
Thornbridge – Daydream Illusion (Massacre)
Velcros – Strange News From The Vault (Crazysane)
Zombi – Direct Inject (Relapse)
March 29, 2024
The Absence – The Absence (Listenable Insanity)
Ana – The Art Of Letting Go EP (Eclipse)
Boundaries – Death Is Little More (3Dot)
CNTS – Thoughts & Prayers (Ipecac)
Coffins – Sinister Oath (Relapse)
Coffin Storm – Arcana Rising (Peaceville)
Darkestrah – Nomad (Osmose)
Ivory Tower – Heavy Rain (Massacre)
Lillian Axe – The Box Volume Two: The Quickening (Cherry Red)
Malphas – Portal (M-Theory)
The Prog Collective – Dark Encounters (Cleopatra)
Puscifer/A Perfect Circle/Primus – Sessanta E.P.P.P. (Puscifer)
The Quill – Wheel Of Illusion (Metalville)
Rage – Afterlifelines (Steamhammer/SPV)
The Rocky Valentines – Erase (Tooth & Nail)
Sum 41 – Heaven :X: Hell (Rise)
While She Sleeps – Self Hell (Spinefarm)
Wristmeetrazor – Degeneration (Prosthetic)
April 5, 2024
Alpha Wolf – Half Living Things (Greyscale/SharpTone)
Bayside – There Are Worse Things Than Being Alive (Hopeless)
The Black Keys – Ohio Players (Nonesuch)
Blacktop Mojo – Pollen (Self)
Disbelief – Killing Karma (Listenable)
Erra – Cure (UNFD)
Five Finger Death Punch – Afterlife Deluxe Edition (Better Noise)
Friends Of Hell – God Damned You To Hell (Rise Above)
Hood Rats – Crime, Hysteria & Useless Information (Dirt Cult)
Horndal – Head Hammer Man (Prosthetic)
Ingested – The Tide Of Death And Fractured Dreams (Metal Blade)
Iron Monkey – Spleen & Goad (Relapse)
Kobra Paige – Like No Other (Self)
Korpiklaani – Rankarumpu (Nuclear Blast)
Locrian – End Terrain (Profound Lore)
Old 97’s – American Primitive (ATO)
Temple Of The Fuzz Witch – Apotheosis (Ripple)
White Dog – Double Dog Dare (Rise Above)
Witch Vomit – Funeral Sanctum (20 Buck Spin)
April 12, 2024
About Us – Take A Piece (Frontiers)
Belmont – Liminal (Pure Noise)
Benighted – Ekbom (Season Of Mist)
Blue Oyster Cult – Ghost Stories (Frontiers)
Exist – Hijacking The Zeitgeist (Prosthetic)
Greyhaven – Stereo Grief EP (Solid State)
Heavy Temple – Garden Of Heathens (Magnetic Eye)
Imminence – The Black (Self)
Jakobs Castle – Enter: The Castle (Epitaph)
Johnny Thunders – Cosa Nostra: Live At The Mudd Club, Gothenburg 1983 (Golden Robot)
King Zebra – Between The Shadows (Frontiers)
Linkin Park – Papercuts (Singles Collection 2000-2023) (Warner)
Necrot – Lifeless Birth (Tankcrimes)
Nest – Endeavors (Housecore)
Northlane – Mirror’s Edge EP (Self)
Riot V – Mean Streets (Atomic Fire)
Seigman – Resonans (Indie)
Setyoursails – Bad Blood (Napalm)
Tarot – Glimpse Of The Dawn (Cruz Del Sur)
Tyr – Battle Ballads (Metal Blade)
The Vision Bleak – Weird Tales (Prophecy)
Vulture – Sentinels (Metal Blade)
April 19, 2024
Big|Brave – A Chaos Of Flowers (Thrill Jockey)
Billy Morrison – The Morrison Project (TLG)
Blaze Of Perdition – Upharsin (Metal Blade)
Bloodbound – The Tales Of Nosferatu – Two Decades Of Blood (2000-2024) (AFM)
Cloud Nothings – Final Summer (Pure Noise)
Couch Slut – You Could Do It Tonight (Brutal Panda)
Dayseeker – Replica (Spinefarm)
Don Jamieson – No Sleep ‘Til McSorley’s (Metal Blade)
Dool – The Shape Of Fluidity (Prophecy)
Dvne – Voidkind (Metal Blade)
Feuerschwanz – Warriors (Napalm)
Folterkammer – Weibermacht (Century Media)
The Ghost Inside – Searching For Solace (Epitaph)
High on Fire – Cometh the Storm (MNRK)
Lightworker – How The Beautiful Decay (Solid State)
The Melvins – Tarantula Heart (Ipecac)
Moonspell – Under The Moonspell (The Early Years Collection) (Alma Mater)
My Dying Bride – A Mortal Binding (Nuclear Blast)
Nocturna – Of Sorcery And Darkness (Scarlet)
NOFX – Half Album (Fat Wreck Chords)
Pearl Jam – Dark Matter (Monkeywrench)
Praying Mantis – Defiance (Frontiers)
Quantum – Down The Mountainside (Black Lodge)
Selbst – Despondency Chord Progressions (Debemur Morti)
Tomorrow’s Rain – Ovdan (AOP)
Unpeople – Unpeople EP (SharpTone)
Vanden Plas – The Empyrean Equation Of The Long Lost Things (Frontiers)
Winter – Live In Brooklyn NY (Svart)
April 26, 2024
Accept – Humanoid (Napalm)
ACxDC – G.O.A.T. (Prosthetic)
Arð – Untouched By Fire (Prophecy)
Black Tusk – The Way Forward (Season Of Mist)
Darkthrone – It Beckons Us All (Peaceville)
Def Leppard – Pyromania Expanded Edition (UMe)
Deicide – Banished By Sin (Reigning Phoenix)
Disillusion – Back To Times Of Splendor Re-Release (Metal Blade)
Full Of Hell – Coagulated Bliss (Closed Casket)
Glassing – From The Other Side Of The Mirror (Pelagic)
Hacavitz – Muerte (Moribund)
Inter Arma – New Heaven (Relapse)
Lee Aaron – Tattoo Me (Metalville)
Ou – II: Frailty (InsideOut)
Six By Six – Beyond Shadowland (InsideOut)
Transatlantic – Live At Morsefest 2022 (InsideOut)
Tygers Of Pan Tang – Live Blood (Mighty)
Waysted – Won’t Get Out Alive: Waysted Volume 1 1983-1986 (HNE)
May 3, 2024
Brume – Marten (Magnetic Eye)
Dååth – The Deceivers (Metal Blade)
Death Lens – Cold World (Epitaph)
Feuerschwanz – Warriors (Napalm)
Frank Turner – Undefeated (Xtra Mile)
Gothminister – Pandemonium II – Battle Of The Underworlds (AFM)
Imperial Triumphant – Vile Luxury Re-Release (Century Media)
Keith Wallen – Infinity Now (Rise)
Mob Rules – Celebration Day – 30 Years Of Mob Rules (Steamhammer/SPV)
Pirate Queen – Pirate Queen (Despotz)
P.O.D. – Veritas (Mascot)
Terminal Nation – Echoes Of The Devil’s Den (20 Buck Spin)
Tiamat – Clouds Re-Release (Metal Scrap)
Unearthly Rites – Ecdysis (Prosthetic)
Unleashed – Before The Creation Of Time (Darkness Shall Rise)
Wheel – Charismatic Leaders (InsideOut)
May 10, 2024
Anette Olzon – Rapture (Frontiers)
Big Special – Postindustrial Hometown Blues (So)
Black Sabbath – Anno Domini 1989-1995 Box Set (Rhino)
Bossk – .4 (Deathwish)
Crownshift – Crownshift (Nuclear Blast)
D-A-D – Greatest Hits (1984-2024) (AFM)
Dodsferd – Wrath (Hypnotic Dirge)
Freedom Call – Silver Romance (Steamhammer/SPV)
Handheld – Live At 25 (Thousand Islands)
Ivanhoe – Healed By The Sun (Massacre)
Knocked Loose – You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To (Pure Noise)
Like Moths To Flames – The Cycles Of Trying To Cope (UNFD)
Mandoki Soulmates – A Memory Of Our Future (InsideOut)
Necrophagia – Moribundis Grim (Time To Kill)
Powerman 5000 – Abandon Ship (Cleopatra)
Sebastian Bach – Child Within The Man (Reigning Phoenix)
Six Feet Under – Killing For Revenge (Metal Blade)
Sonic Universe – It Is What It Is (earMusic)
Stretch Arm Strong – The Revealing EP (Iodine)
Syk – eartHFlesh (Season Of Mist)
Svneatr – Never Return (Prosthetic)
The Tangent (For One) – To Follow Polaris (InsideOut)
The Treatment – Wake Up The Neighbourhood (Frontiers)
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats – Nell Ora Blu (Rise Above)
Unleash The Archers – Phantoma (Napalm)
Warlord – Free Spirit Soar (High Roller)
May 17, 2024
Babylon A.D. – Rome Wasn’t Built In A Day (Perris)
Bat – Under The Crooked Claw (Nuclear Blast)
Botanist – Paleobotany (Prophecy)
Cage The Elephant – Neon Pill (RCA)
Cognitive – Aborrence (Metal Blade)
Combichrist – CMBCRST (Out Of Line)
Demon – Invincible (Frontiers)
Elvellon – Ascending In Synergy (Napalm)
Gatecreeper – Dark Superstition (Nuclear Blast)
Göden – Vale Of The Fallen (Svart)
Guster – Ooh La La (Ocho Mule)
Insanity Alert – Moshemian Trashody EP (Season Of Mist)
Jasta – And Jasta For All (Perseverance)
Jinjer – Live In Los Angeles DVD/Blu-ray (Napalm)
Kerry King – From Hell I Rise (Reigning Phoenix)
Marty Friedman – Drama (Frontiers)
Nocturnal AD – Unicursal (Profound Lore)
Pain – I Am (Nuclear Blast)
Pallbearer – Mind Burns Alive (Nuclear Blast)
Shark Island – Memento Mori – Live On The Strip (Deko)
Slash – Orgy Of The Damned (Gibson)
Suck Brick Kid – The End Is What I Want (Smartpunk)
Ufomammut – Hidden (Neurot/Supernatural Cat)
Zombeast – Heart Of Darkness (Massacre)
May 24, 2024
Bring Me the Horizon – POST HUMAN: NeX GEn (Sony)
Capstan – The Mosaic (Fearless)
Dopethrone – Broke Sabbath (Totem Cat)
Evildead – Toxic Grace (Steamhammer/SPV)
Kati Rán – SÁLA (Svart)
Khanate – Capture & Release Re-Release (Sacred Bones)
Khanate – Clean Hands Go Foul Re-Release (Sacred Bones)
Clint Lowery – Clint Lowery (self-released)
Mortal Wound – Anus of the World (Dark Descent)
Night Laser – Call Me What You Want (Steamhammer/SPV)
Peeling Flesh – 3 Year Peeling Spree (compilation) (Unique Leader)
Red Handed Denial – A Journey Through Virtual Dystopia (Paid Vacation Records)
Rotting Christ – Pro Xristoy (Season Of Mist)
Summoner’s Circle – Cult (Black lion Records)
Teramaze – Eli: A Wonderful Fall From Grace (Wells)
Vale Of Pnath – Between The Worlds Of Life And Death (Willowtip)
May 31, 2024
Bad Nerves – Still Nervous (Lowly)
Bad Omens – Concrete Jungle [The OST] (Sumerian)
Bloodbound – The Tales Of Nosferatu – Two Decades Of Blood (AFM)
Chve – Kalvarie (Relapse)
Enuff Z’Nuff – The 1987 Demos (Cleopatra)
Exodus – British Disaster: The Battle Of ’89 (Live At The Astoria) (Nuclear Blast)
Four Stroke Baron – Data Diamond (Prosthetic)
Hellbutcher – Hellbutcher (Metal Blade)
High Desert Queen – Palm Reader (Magnetic Eye)
The Hope Conspiracy – Tools Of Oppression/Rule By Deception (Deathwish)
Lowlives – Freaking Out (Spinefarm)
Nestor – Teenage Rebel (Napalm)
Psychotic Waltz – Bleeding Re-Release (InsideOut)
Psychotic Waltz – A Social Grace Re-Release (InsideOut)
Reliqa – Secrets Of The Future (Nuclear Blast)
Rhapsody Of Fire – Challenge The Wind (AFM)
Saltpig – Saltpig (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Shrapnel – In Gravity (Candlelight)
Thou – Umbilical (Sacred Bones)
Tyr – Best Of – The Napalm Years (Napalm)
Witherfall – Sounds Of The Forgotten (Deathwave)
Wormwood – The Star (Black Lodge)
June 7, 2024
Apocalyptica – Apocalyptica Plays Metallica Vol. 2 (Throwdown)
Bon Jovi – Forever (Island)
Candy – It’s Inside You (Relapse)
Carnivore – Carnivore Re-Release (Dissonance)
Dvrk – Infinite Reminiscence EP (Season Of Mist)
Enter Shikari – Dancing On The Frontline (SO)
Evergrey – Theories Of Emptiness (Napalm)
From Ashes To New – Blackout Deluxe (Better Noise)
Grand Slam – Wheel Of Fortune (Silver Lining)
Holy Mother – Rise (Massacre)
The Hu – The Hu Live at Glastonbury (Better Noise)
Huntsmen – The Dry Land (Prosthetic)
Insect Ark – Raw Blood Singing (Debemur Morti)
Issa – Another World (Frontiers)
Loverboy – Live In ’82 (earMusic)
Missing Link – Watch Me Bleed (Triple B)
Mythraeum – Oblivion Aeternam (M-Theory)
Nightmare – Encrypted (AFM)
Rendezvous Point – Dream Chaser (Long Branch)
Sect – Plagues Upon Plagues (Southern Lord)
Severe Torture – Torn From The Jaws Of Death (Season Of Mist)
Ulcerate – Cutting The Throat Of God (Debemur Morti)
Umbra Vitae – Light Of Death (Deathwish)
Voidgazer – Dance Of The Undesirables (Reigning Phoenix)
June 14, 2024
96 Bitter Beings – Return To Hellview (Nuclear Blast)
Angel Sword – World Fighter (Dying Victims Productions)
Axel Rudi Pell – Risen Symbol (Steamhammer/SPV)
Black Country Communion – V (Self)
Crypt Sermon – The Stygian Rose (Dark Descent)
Drought – Drought EP (Iodine)
The Early November – The Early November (Pure Noise)
Eivør – ENN (Season Of Mist)
Embryonic Autopsy – Origins Of The Deformed (Massacre)
Fu Manchu – The Return Of Tomorrow (At The Dojo)
Julie Christmas – Ridiculous And Full Of Blood (Red Crk)
Malignancy – …Discontinued (Willowtip)
Me First And The Gimme Gimmes – Blow It…At Madison’s Quinceanera! (Fat Wreck Chords)
UFO – Ain’t Misbehavin’ Re-Release (Cleopatra)
Ulcerate – Cutting The Throat Of God (Debemur Morti)
June 21, 2024
Alcest – Les Chants De L’Aurore (Nuclear Blast)
Black Veil Brides – Bleeders EP (Spinefarm)
Cavalera – Schizophrenia (Nuclear Blast)
Danava – Live (Heavy Psych Sounds)
The Dangerous Summer – Gravity (Rude)
earthtone9 – In Resonance Nexus (Candlelight)
Foreign Hands – What’s Left Unsaid (SharpTone)
Hyperdontia – Harvest Of Malevolence (Dark Descent)
Kittie – Fire (Sumerian)
Kvaen – The Formless Fires (Metal Blade)
Marillion – An Hour Before It’s Dark: Live in Port Zélande 2023 (earMusic)
Portrait – The Host (Metal Blade)
Replacire – The Center That Cannot Hold (Season Of Mist)
Seven Spires – A Fortress Called Home (Frontiers)
The Story So Far – I Want To Disappear (Pure Noise)
Sumac – The Healer (Thrill Jockey)
Thornhill – Live On Tour (UNFD)
Wage War – Stigma (Fearless)
June 28, 2024
200 Stab Wounds – Manual Manic Procedures (Metal Blade)
Alexisonfire – Live Born & Raised 2022, St Catharines ON (Dine Alone)
Anvil – One And Only (AFM)
Banks Arcade – A Muse EP (UNFD)
Chaser – Small Victories (Thousand Islands)
Crossfaith – AЯK (UNFD)
Crystal Viper – The Silver Key (Listenable)
The Eternal – Skinwalker (Reigning Phoenix)
The Exies – Closure EP (Self)
Illdisposed – In Chambers Of Sonic Disgust (Massacre)
Ill Nino – Ill-Mortals Vol. 1 EP (Godsize)
Kaipa – Sommargryningsljus (InsideOut)
Limbonic Art – Opus Daemonical (Kyrck)
Love Letter – Everyone Wants Something Beautiful (Iodine)
MakeWar – A Paradoxical Theory Of Change (Fat Wreck Chords)
My Epic – Loriella (Tooth & Nail)
Naera – All Is Dust (Metal Blade)
Nothing More – Carnal (Better Noise)
Sunbomb – Light Up The Sky (Frontiers)
White Stones – Memoria Viva (Reigning Phoenix)
Wraith – Fueled By Fear (Prosthetic)
X-Cops – Xcab EP (Pit)
July 5, 2024
Aeons – The Ghosts Of What We Knew (Sliptrick)
Aposento – No Safe Haven (Xtreem)
The Dreaded Laramie – Princess Feedback (Smartpunk)
Duel – Breakfast With Death (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Kissin’ Dynamite – Back With A Bang (Napalm)
Kryptos – Decimator (AFM)
Liminal Shroud – Visions Of Collapse (Willowtip)
Nifelheim – Unholy Death (Darkness Shall Rise)
Octoploid – Beyond The Aeons (Reigning Phoenix)
Orden Ogan – The Order Of Fear (Reigning Phoenix)
Satan’s Satyrs – After Dark (Tee Pee)
Sumac – The Keeper’s Tongue EP (Thrill Jockey)
Thunder Horse – Dead Alive In Texas (Ripple)
Visions Of Atlantis – Pirates II – Armada (Napalm)
Vulvodynia – Entabeni (Unique Leader)
Wormed – Omegon (Season Of Mist)
Xasthur – Disharmonic Variations (Lupus Lounge)
July 12, 2024
Amorphis – Tales From The Thousand Lakes (Live At Tavastia) (Reigning Phoenix)
Ananda Mida – Live At Duna Jam (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Axxis – Coming Home (Phonotraxx Publishing)
Black Capricorn – Sacrifice Darkness…and Fire (Majestic Mountain)
Budderside – White Flame (Self)
Forgotten Tomb – Nightfloating (Agonia)
In Hearts Wake – Incarnation (UNFD)
Kommandant – Exhibition Of Conquest (ATMF)
Lord Buffalo – Holus Bolus (Blues Funeral)
Mr. Big – Ten (Frontiers)
Northbound – Juniper (Smartpunk)
Obscene – Agony and Wounds (Nameless Grave Records)
Plutocracy Planet – Plutocracy Planet (Self)
Psychotic Waltz – Into The Everflow Re-Release (InsideOut)
Psychotic Waltz – Mosquito Re-Release (InsideOut)
Psychotic Waltz – To Chase The Stars (Demos 1987-1989) (InsideOut)
Seth – La France des Maudits (Season Of Mist)
Skelethal – Within Corrosive Continuums (Hells Headbangers)
Speed – Only One Mode (Flatspot)
Testament – The Legacy Re-Release (Nuclear Blast)
Testament – The New Order Re-Release (Nuclear Blast)
Tim Montana – Savage (BMG)
Totengott – Beyond The Veil (Hammerheart)
Turin – The Unforgiving Reality In Nothing (MNRK Heavy)
Vanhelgd – Atropos Doctrina (Dark Descent)
Windwalker – Hyperviolence (Fearless)
July 19, 2024
Act Of Creation – Moments To Remain (Massacre)
Arka’n Asrafokor – Dzikkuh (Reigning Phoenix)
Beasto Blanco – Kinetica (COP International)
Black Lava – The Savage Winds Of Wisdom (Season Of Mist)
The Chris Slade Timeline – Timescape (BraveWords)
Deep Purple – =1 (earMusic)
Excel – Seeking Refuge Re-Release (Southern Lord)
Falcon Trails – Coming Home (Metalville)
Flat Black – Dark Side Of The Brain (Fearless)
Her Head’s On Fire – Strange Desires (Iodine)
Jupiter Cyclops – Age Of The UFOnaut (Rockshots)
Orange Goblin – Science, Not Fiction (Peaceville)
Patriarchs In Black – Visioning (Metalville)
Paul Di’Anno’s Warhorse – Paul Di’Anno’s Warhorse (BraveWords)
Sable Hills – Odyssey (Arising Empire)
Shallow Side – Reflections (Thermal Entertainment)
SSD – Get It Away Re-Release (Trust)
Trail Of Lies – Only The Strong (Triple B)
Worshipper – One Way Trip (Magnetic Eye)
July 26, 2024
Category 7 – Category 7 (Metal Blade)
Death Racer – From Gravel To Grave (Dying Victims)
Dream Evil – Metal Gods (Self)
Ghost – Rite Here Rite Now: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Loma Vista)
Harvestman – Triptych: Part Two (Neurot)
Ill Nino – Ill-Mortals Vol. 2 EP (Godsize)
Imperia – Dark Paradise (Massacre)
Iress – Sleep Now, In Reverse (Church Road)
Ironflame – Kingdom Torn Asunder (High Roller)
Laceration – I Erode (20 Buck Spin)
Mean Mistreater – Razor Wire (Dying Victims)
Pete Townsend – Live In Concert 1985-2001 (UMe)
Powerwolf – Wake Up The Wicked (Napalm)
Respire – Hiraeth (Dine Alone)
Sacri Monti – Retrieval (Tee Pee)
Soulbound – obsYdian (Metalville)
Summoning The Lich – Under The Reviled Throne (Prosthetic)
Teardrops – Something To Cry About EP (Iodine)
Thousand Foot Krutch – The End Is Where We Begin: Reignited< (Endurance)
Verni – Dreadful Company (M-Theory)
Wormwitch – Wormwitch (Profound Lore)
August 2, 2024
A Night in Texas – Digital Apocalypse (Unique Leader)
Anberlin – Vega (Equal Vision)
Asenblut – Entfesselt (Massacre)
Blind Guardian – Somewhere Far Beyond Revisited (Nuclear Blast)
Blues Pills – Birthday (Pollinate Music)
Carnophage – Matter of a Darker Nature (Transcending Obscurity Records)
Footballhead – Before I Die EP (Tiny Engines)
Hirax – Faster Than Death EP (Doomentia Records)
Lord Of The Lost – Live At W:O:A: (Napalm)
Mister Misery – Mister Misery (AFM)
Mourners Lament – A Grey Farewell (Personal Records)
Poison Ruin – Confrere EP (Relapse)
Shadow Knell – Shadow Knell (Relapse)
The Smashing Pumpkins – Aghori Mhori Mei (Martha’s Music)
Steve Hackett – Bay Of Kings Re-Release (InsideOut)
Steve Hackett – Momentum Re-Release (InsideOut)
August 9, 2024
Alex Lifeson – Victor Re-Release (Rhino)
Blue Oyster Cult – 50th Anniversary Live – Second Night (Frontiers)
Dark Funeral – Dark Funeral (30th Anniversary Edition) (Century Media)
Fireball Ministry – Their Rock Is Not Our Rock Re-Release (Ripple)
Fulci – Duck Face Killings (20 Buck Spin)
Geddy Lee – My Favourite Headache Re-Release (Rhino)
HammerFall – Avenge The Fallen (Nuclear Blast)
Heilung – Lifa Iotungard (Season Of Mist)
In Aphelion – Reaperdawn (Century Media)
Jim Peterik & World Stage – Roots & Shoots Vol. 2 (Frontiers)
Mushroomhead – Call The Devil (Napalm)
Oxygen Destroyer – Guardian of the Universe (Redefining Darkness)
Pig Destroyer – Painter Of Dead Girls Re-Release (Relapse)
Prestige – Parasites In Paradise Re-Release (Massacre)
Siamese – Elements (Long Branch)
August 16, 2024
Avernus – Grievances (M-Theory)
Berenice – Berenice EP (APF)
Blind Monarch – The Dead Replenish The Earth (Dry Cough)
Creed – Human Clay 25th Anniversary Edition (Craft)
Dark Tranquillity – Endtime Signals (Century Media)
Eisregen – Abart (Massacre)
Extinction A.D. – To The Detested (Unique Leader)
Falling In Reverse – Popular Monster (Epitaph)
Gel – Persona (Blue Grape)
Hail Darkness – Death Divine (Vatican)
Ritual – The Story Of Mr. Bogd – Part 1 (Karisma)
Stoned Jesus – The Harvest Re-Release (Season Of Mist)
Stoned Jesus – Seven Thunders Roar Re-Release (Season Of Mist)
Thermality – The Final Hours (Black Lodge)
Thotcrime – Connection Anxiety (Prosthetic)
Trench – Between Inverted Worlds (New Damage)
Ulvehunger – Retaliation (Darkness Shall Rise)
August 23, 2024
All For Metal – Gods Of Metal (Reigning Phoenix)
Demiser – Slave To The Scythe (Blacklight)
Fleshgod Apocalypse – Opera (Nuclear Blast)
Gravenoire – Devant La Porte Des Etoiles (Season Of Mist)
Kingcrow – Hopium (Season Of Mist)
Knife – Live Leather Hounds EP (Napalm)
Koldbrann – Ingen Skansel (Dark Essence)
Mike Tramp – Songs Of White Lion – Vol. II (Frontiers)
Miss May I – Apologies Are For The Weak (Re-Recorded 15th Anniversary Edition) (Solid State)
My Fictions – Touch Of Glass (1126)
Nile – The Underworld Awaits Us All (Napalm)
The Oklahoma Kid – Featherminded EP (Arising Empire)
Paralydium – Universe Calls (Frontiers)
Rising Insane – Wildfires (Long Branch)
Simone Simons – Vermillion (Nuclear Blast)
Spectral Wound – Songs Of Blood And Mire (Profound Lore)
Virgin Steele – Virgin Steele I – The Anniversary Edition> (Steamhammer/SPV)
Virgin Steele – Guardians Of The Flame – The Anniversary Edition> (Steamhammer/SPV)
Warlord – From The Ashes To The Archives – The Hot Pursuit Continues (High Roller)
Zeal & Ardor – Greif (Self)
Zimmers Hole – Bound By Fire Re-Release (M-Theory)
Zimmers Hole – Legion Of Flames Re-Release (M-Theory)
August 30, 2024
Amiensus – Reclamation Pt. II (M-Theory)
Anciients – Beyond The Reach Of The Sun (Season Of Mist)
Concrete Winds – Concrete Winds (Sepulchral Voice)
Deceased – Children Of The Morgue (Hells Headbangers)
Demonical – Victorious Death – Live In Latin America (Agonia)
Elder – Live At BBC Maida Vale Studios (Stickman)
Lamb Of God – Ashes Of The Wake 20th Anniversary Edition (Epic/Legacy)
Leprous – Melodies Of Atonement (InsideOut)
Nails – Every Bridge Burning (Nuclear Blast)
Norna – Norna (Pelagic)
Oceano – Living Chaos (Sumerian)
Teeth – The Will Of Hate (Translation Loss)
Thrown – Excessive Guilt (Arising Empire)
To the Grace – Everyone’s a Murderer (Unique Leader)
Tusmørke – Dawn Of Oberon (Karisma)
Wintersun – Time II (Nuclear Blast)
September 6, 2024
40 Watt Sun – Little Weight (Fisher’s Folly)
Blitzkrieg – Blitzkrieg (Mighty)
Boston Manor – Sundiver (SharpTone)
The Cold Stares – The Southern (Mascot)
Elephant Tree – Habits Re-Release (Magnetic Eye)
Elephant Tree – Handful Of Ten (Magnetic Eye)
Elephant Tree – Theia Re-Release (Magnetic Eye)
Fame On Fire – The Death Card (Hopeless)
Fast Eddie Clarke – Make My Day: The Rock ‘N’ Roll Story Of Fast Eddie Clarke (BMG)
Future Palace – Distortion (Arising Empire)
God Dethroned – The Judas Paradox (Reigning Phoenix)
God Is An Astronaut – Embers (Napalm)
Jordan Rudess – Permission To Fly (InsideOut)
Laura Jane Grace & The Mississippi Medicals – Give An Inch EP (Dial Back Sound)
Many Eyes – The Light Age (Perseverance)
Mr. Big – The Big Finish Live (Evolution)
Pure Reason Revolution – Coming Up To Consciousness (InsideOut)
A Swarm Of The Sun – An Empire (Pelagic)
Various Artists – Surrender To Death: A History Of The Atlanta Metal Underground Vol. 1 (Boris)
Vestige – Janis (Season Of Mist)
September 13, 2024
156/Silence – People Watching (SharpTone)
The Bar Stool Preachers – Below The Static EP (Pure Noise)
Big Big Train – A Flare On The Lens (InsideOut)
Bones UK – Soft (Sumerian)
Chastity – Chastity (Deathwish)
Crobot – Obsidian (Megaforce)
Dale Crover – Glossolalia (Joyful Noise)
The Damned – AD 2022 – Live In Manchester (earMusic)
Cursive – Devourer (Run For Cover)
The Damned – AD 2022 – Live In Manchester (earMusic)
Flotsam And Jetsam – I Am The Weapon (AFM)
The Funeral Portrait – Greetings From Suffocate City (Better Noise)
Go Ahead And Die – Better Dead Than Mainstream: Live At The Marquee Theater (Nuclear Blast)
GWAR – Hell-O! 36th Anniversary Edition (Pit)
Horna – Nyx – Hymnejä Yölle (W.T.C.)
The Jesus Lizard – Rack (Ipecac)
A Killer’s Confession – Victim 1 (MNRK Heavy)
Nada Surf – Moon Mirror (New West)
Oceans Of Slumber – Where Gods Fear To Speak (Season Of Mist)
Satan – Songs In Crimson (Metal Blade)
Slomosa – Tundra Rock (MNRK Heavy)
Stryper – When We Were Kings (Frontiers)
Trelldom – …By The Shadows… (Prophecy)
Victory – Circle Of Life (AFM)
Winterfylleth – The Imperious Horizon (Candlelight)
Wolfbrigade – Life Knife Death (Metal Blade)
Zetra – Zetra (Nuclear Blast)
September 20, 2024
Brant Bjork Trio – Once Upon A Time In The Desert (Duna)
Charlotte Wessels – The Obsession (Napalm)
Crimson Veil – Hex (Reigning Phoenix)
Defiled – Horror Beyond Horror (Season Of Mist)
Dog Eat Dog – Walk With Me Re-Release (Metalville)
Dreamless Veil – Every Limb Of The Flood (Relapse)
Eclipse – Megalomanium II (Frontiers)
Eradicator – The Paradox (Metalville)
Giant Walker – Silhouettes (Church Road)
Glacial Tomb – Lightless Expanse (Prosthetic)
Kanonenfieber – Die Urkatastrophe (Century Media)
Kingdom Of Giants – Bleeding Star EP (SharpTone)
Kat Von D – My Side Of The Mountain (Self)
Kublai Khan TX – Exhibition Of Prowess (Rise)
The Last Gang – Obscene Daydreams (Fat Wreck Chords)
Michael Schenker – My Years With UFO (earMusic)
Mork – Syv (Peaceville)
Nightwish – Yesterwynde (Nuclear Blast)
Rainbow – Live In Munich 1977 (Mercury)
Seether – The Surface Seems So Far (Fantasy)
Skid Row – Live In London (earMusic)
Sweet – Full Circle (Metalville)
Unto Others – Never, Neverland (Century Media)
Vision Divine – Blood And Angels’ Tears (Scarlet)
Void Of Vision – What I’ll Leave Behind (UNFD)
September 27, 2024
The Amity Affliction – Let The Ocean Take Me (Redux) (Better Noise)
Arkona – Stella Pandora (Debemur Morti)
Awake The Dreamer – Holocene (Arising Empire)
The Bad Ups – Life Of Sin (Jump Start)
Bewitcher – Spell Shock (Century Media)
The Black Dahlia Murder – Servitude (Metal Blade)
Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows – Until God Shows (Velocity)
Heriot – Devoured By The Mouth Of Hell (Century Media)
Mirror Queen – Dying Days (Tee Pee)
Oceans – Happy (Nuclear Blast)
Our Hollow, Our Home – Hope & Hell (Arising Empire)
Pentagram – Review Your Choices Re-Release (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Pentagram – Sub-Basement Re-Release (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Psychlona – Warped Vision (Magnetic Eye)
Richie Kotzen – Nomad (BMG)
Ripped To Shreds – Sanshi (Relapse)
Serious Black – Rise Of Akhenaton (AFM)
Serj Tankian – Foundations EP (Gibson)
Storm Corrosion – Storm Corrosion Re-Release (Kscope)
Turbokill – Champion (Steamhammer/SPV)
UFO – Landing In St. Louis (Cleopatra)
UFO – Seven Deadly (Cleopatra)
October 4, 2024
Allt – From The New World (Century Media)
Antisect – In Darkness, There Is No Choice Re-Release (Rise Above)
The Barbarians Of California – And Now I’m Just Gnashing My Teeth (ONErpm)
Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere (Century Media)
Bobbie Dazzle – Fandabidozi (Rise Above)
Cosmic Putrefaction – Emerald Fires Atop The Farewell Mountains (Profound Lore)
D-A-D – Speed Of Darkness (AFM)
Drug Church – Prude (Pure Noise)
Hermano – When The Moon Was High… (Ripple)
Human Impact – Gone Dark (Ipecac)
Lords Of The Trident – V.G.E.P. EP (Self)
Mastodon – Crack The Skye 15th Anniversary Edition (Reprise)
Motley Crue – Cancelled EP (Big Machine)
The Native Howl – Sons Of Destruction (Sumerian)
The New Roses – Attracted To Danger (Napalm)
Rat Boy – Suburbia Calling (Hellcat)
Restless Spirit – The Doomed And The Dead…Live EP (Magnetic Eye)
Soror Dolorosa – Mond (Prophecy)
Texas Hippie Coalition – Gunsmoke (MNRK Heavy)
Torena – No Control (Daze)
Town Of Lake – Lilac (Self)
Wind Rose – Trollslayer (Napalm)
October 11, 2024
1349 – The Wolf And The King (Season Of Mist)
Ad Infinitum – Abyss (Napalm)
Amputate – Abysmal Ascent (Massacre)
Cleanbreak – We Are The Fire (Frontiers)
The Crown – Crown Of Thorns (Metal Blade)
Crucifiction – Will To Power (Rise)
Def Leppard – One Night Only Live At The Leadmill Sheffield – May 19, 2023 (Mercury)
De Mannen Broeders – Sober Maal (Relapse)
Doedsmaghird – Omniverse Consciousness (Peaceville)
Dragony – Hic Svnt Dracones (Steamhammer/SPV)
House Of Lords – Full Tilt Overdrive (Frontiers)
Jelly Roll – Beautifully Broken (BBR)
Leila Abdul-Rauf – Calls From A Seething Edge (Cyclic Law/Syrup Moose)
The Linda Lindas – No Obligations (Epitaph)
Master Boot Record – Hardwarez (Metal Blade)
Myles Kennedy – The Art Of Letting Go (Napalm)
The Offspring – Supercharged (Concord)
Oranssi Pazuzu – Muuntautuja (Nuclear Blast)
Radioactive – Reset (Frontiers)
Seven Hours After Violet – Seven Hours After Violet (Sumerian)
Smash Atoms – Smash Atoms (M-Theory)
Stoner – Hittin’ The Bitchin’ Switch (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Touche Amore – Spiral In A Straight Line (Rise)
Vicious Rain – There Is Beauty In Letting Go (Arising Empire)
Vomit Forth – Terrified Of God (Century Media)
October 18, 2024
Aries Descendant – From The Ashes Of Deceit (Frontiers)
Asking Alexandria – Where Do We Go From Here? The Remixes EP (Better Noise)
Astral Doors – The End Of It All (Metalville)
The Copyrights – New Ghosts (Fat Wreck Chords)
Dawnwalker – The Unknowing (Self)
DGM – Endless (Frontiers)
Ensiferum – Winter Storm (Metal Blade)
Escuela Grind – Dreams On Algorithms (MNRK Heavy)
Fate – Reconnect N’ Ignite (Frontiers)
Frost* – Life In The Wires (InsideOut)
Frozen Crown – War Hearts (Napalm)
Funeral – Gospel Of Bones (Season Of Mist)
Grand Magus – Sunraven (Nuclear Blast)
Hatchet – Leave No Soul EP (M-Theory)
Immortal Bird – Sin Querencia (20 Buck Spin)
Jerry Cantrell – I Want Blood (Double J)
MC5 – Heavy Lifting (earMusic)
Mother Of Graves – The Periapt Of Absence (Profound Lore)
Panopticon – …on the Subject Of Mortality Re-Release (Nordvis)
Prime Directive – The Fallout (Punkerton)
Sun & Sail Club – Shipwrecked (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Swallow The Sun – Shining (Century Media)
October 25, 2024
Acres – What It’s Like To Feel Worthless EP (Solid State)
Amyl And The Sniffers – Cartoon Darkness (Virgin)
Atreyu – The Pronoia Sessions (Spinefarm)
Behemoth – XXX Years Ov Blasphemy (Nuclear Blast)
Better Lovers – Highly Irresponsible (SharpTone)
Casandra’s Crossing – Garden Of Earthly Delights (Frontiers)
Chokecherry – Messy Star EP (Fearless)
Devin Townsend – PowerNerd (InsideOut)
dUg Pinnick – Thingamajigger (Rat Pak)
Enforced – A Leap Into The Dark EP (Century Media)
Entheos – An End To Everything EP (Metal Blade)
Fit For An Autopsy – The Nothing That Is (Nuclear Blast)
Gaerea – Coma (Season Of Mist)
Gigan – Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus (Willowtip)
Gore – A Bud That Never Blooms EP (Spinefarm)
Green Day – American Idiot 20th Anniversary Edition (Warner)
Hatchet – Leave No Soul EP (M-Theory)
HIM – When Love And Death Embrace – The Best Of HIM 1997-2003 (BMG)
Iotunn – Kinship (Metal Blade)
Kings Never Die – The Life & Times (Metalville)
Kings Of Mercia – Battle Scars (Metal Blade)
League Of Distortion – Galvanize (Napalm)
Living Gate – Suffer As One (Relapse)
Mindless Sinner – Metal Merchants (High Roller)
Motorhead – We Take No Prisoners: The Singles 1995-2006 (BMG)
Pixies – The Night The Zombies Came (BMG)
Pounder – Thunderforged (Shadow Kingdom)
Ratt – Out Of The Cellar 40th Anniversary Edition (BMG)
Schammasch – The Maldoror Chants: Old Ocean (Prosthetic)
Tigerwine – Toil & Spin (Tooth & Nail)
Turmion Katilot – Reset (Nuclear Blast)
Various Artists – American Psycho Comic Series Soundtrack (Sumerian)
November 1, 2024
Anomalie – Riverchild (AOP)
Arctis – Arctis (Napalm)
Assassin – Skullblast EP (Massacre)
Beardfish – Songs For Beating Hearts (InsideOut)
Bombus – Your Blood (Black Lodge)
Brothers Of Metal – Fimbulvinter (AFM)
Dead Icarus – Zealot (MNRK Heavy)
Deaf Lizard – The Last Odyssey (Electric Valley)
Electric Frankenstein – Reanimated Rock (Reptilian)
Evilon – A Warrior’s Way (Fetzner Death)
i Häxa – i Häxa (Pelagic)
Lifesick – Loved By None, Hated By All (Metal Blade)
Mitochondrion – Vitriseptome (Profound Lore)
Nachtmystium – Blight Privilege (Lupus Lounge)
Neon Nightmare – Faded Dream (20 Buck Spin)
New Skeletal Faces – Until The Night (Peaceville)
Paganizer – Flesh Requiem (Transcending Obscurity)
Planes Mistaken For Stars – Do You Still Love Me? (Deathwish)
Powerflo – Gorilla Warfare (New Damage)
Saltwound – The Temptation Of Pain (SharpTone)
Skillet – Revolution (Self)
Slower – Rage And Ruin (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Tribulation – Sub Rosa In Aeturnum (Century Media)
Various Artists – Brown Acid: The Nineteenth Trip (RidingEasy)
Vola – Friend Of A Phantom (Mascot)
November 8, 2024
200 Stab Wounds – Piles Of Festering Decomposition Re-Release (Metal Blade)
Bad Astronaut – Untethered (Fat Wreck Chords)
The Body – The Crying Out Of Things (Thrill Jockey)
The Browning – Omni (Fixt)
Crippled Black Phoenix – The Wolf Changes Its Fur But Not Its Nature (Season Of Mist)
Defences – Shadowlight (Long Branch)
Delain – Dance With The Devil EP (Napalm)
Earthburner – Permanent Dawn (M-Theory)
Impellitteri – War Machine (Frontiers)
Make Them Suffer – Make Them Suffer (SharpTone)
Massacre – Necrolution (Agonia)
Miracle Of Sound – Materia (Best Of 2011-2024) (Napalm)
Molder – Catastrophic Reconfiguration (Prosthetic)
Neal Morse & The Resonance – No Hill For A Climber (InsideOut)
No Escape – No Escape: 1990-1993 (Revelation)
Paragon – Metalation (Massacre)
The Pineapple Thief – Last To Run EP (Kscope)
Rivers Of Nihil – Hierarchy Re-Release (Metal Blade)
Seven Kingdoms – The Square EP (Reigning Phoenix)
Solstafir – Helga Kvöl (Century Media)
Suidakra – Darkanakrad (MDD)
November 15, 2024
As I Lay Dying – Through Storms Ahead (Napalm)
Empires Of Eden – Guardians Of Time (Massacre)
Full Of Hell + Andrew Nolan – Scraping The Divine (Closed Casket)
Furze – Cosmic Stimulation Of Dark Fantasies (Devoted Art Propaganda)
Iron Maiden – Powerslave 40th Anniversary Edition (BMG)
John Wetton – Concentus: The John Wetton Live Collection Volume One (Spirit Of Unicorn)
Less Than Jake – Uncharted (Pure Noise)
Linkin Park – From Zero (Warner)
Lionville – Supernatural (Frontiers)
Mammoth Grinder – Undying Spectral Resonance EP (Relapse)
Poppy – Negative Spaces (Sumerian)
Primal Code – Opaque Fixation (Relapse)
Seraina Telli – Black ‘n’ White Sessions (Metalville)
Sodom – Tapping The Vein Re-Release (Noise)
Starchaser – Into The Great Unknown (Frontiers)
Steel Panther – Feel The Steel 15th Anniversary Edition (Self)
Thrown Into Exile – Passageways EP (Self)
Thy Catafalque – XII: A gyönyörű álmok ezután jönnek (Season Of Mist)
Trapeze – Lost Tapes Vol. 2 (Metalville)
Voodoo Circle – Hail To The King (AFM)
Wasted Youth – Youth And Bored: The Complete Wasted Youth (Dissonance)
November 22, 2024
10,000 Years – All Quiet On The Final Frontier (Ripple)
Crossbone Skully – Evil World Machine (Better Noise)
Defeated Sanity – Chronicles Of Lunacy (Season Of Mist)
Distant – Tsukuyomi: The Origin (Century Media)
Gutless – High Impact Violence (Dark Descent)
Hail Of Bullets – Hail Of Bullets EP Re-Release (Agonia)
Judas Priest – Rocka Rolla 50th Anniversary (Exciter)
Kingcrown – Nova Atlantis (Rockshots)
Last Temptation – Heart Starter (Metalville)
Marillion – The Strange Engine Re-Release (earMusic)
Marilyn Manson – One Assassination Under God – Chapter 1 (Nuclear Blast)
Múr – Múr (Century Media)
Nothing More – Nothing More 10th Anniversary Edition (Better Noise)
Ocean Grove – Oddworld (SharpTone)
Opeth – The Last Will & Testament (Reigning Phoenix)
Polar – Five Arrows (Arising Empire)
Storace – Crossfire (Frontiers)
Sunstorm – Restless Fight (Frontiers)
Tygers Of Pan Tang – Animal Instinct Re-Release (Mighty)
Xandria – Universal Tales EP (Napalm)
November 29, 2024
Astral Doors – The End Of It All (Metalville)
Bedsore – Dreaming The Strife For Love (20 Buck Spin)
Dark Embrace – Land Of Witches (Massacre)
Eradicator – The Paradox (Metalville)
Fire Action – Until The Heat Dies (Steamhammer/SPV)
The Gates Of Slumber – The Gates Of Slumber (Svart)
Gorgon – For Those Who Stay (Osmose)
Hidden Mothers – Erosion/Avulsion (Church Road)
Mefitis – The Skorian//The Greyleer (Profound Lore)
Mezmerizer – Whispers Of Leviathan (Downfall)
Not Now Norman – Go Hard Or Go Home (Self)
Old Wainds – Stormheart (Darkness Shall Rise)
Pestilent Hex – Sorceries Of Sanguine & Shadow (Debemur Morti)
Sahg – More Of Nothing EP (Drakkar)
Salem UK – Outer Limits (Rude Awakening)
Shining – Feberdrömmar (Del Ett) (Odium)
Sweet – Isolation Boulevard Re-Release (Metalville)
Total Hate – Forthcoming Age Of The Reaper (War Anthem)
Ulver – Liminal Animals (House Of Mythology)
The Watcher – Out Of The Dark (Cruz Del Sur)
December 6, 2024
Alter Bridge – One Day Remains 20th Anniversary Edition (Craft)
Athena XIX – Everflow Part 1: Frames Of Humanity (Reigning Phoenix)
Brazen Abbot – Bad Religion Re-Release (Frontiers)
Brazen Abbot – Eye Of The Storm Re-Release (Frontiers)
Couch Slut – My Life As A Woman Re-Release (Brutal Panda)
Jethro Tull – The Jethro Tull Christmas Album – Fresh Snow At Christmas (InsideOut)
Nanowar Of Steel – XX Years Of Steel (Napalm)
Neckbreakker – Within The Viscera (Nuclear Blast)
No Cure – I Hope I Die Here EP (SharpTone)
Old Forest – Graveside (Soulseller)
Panzerchrist – Maleficum 1 (Emanzipation)
Powell-Payne – Voila (Frontiers)
Shotgun Sawyer – Shotgun Sawyer (Ripple)
Tak Matsumoto Group – TMG II (Frontiers)
Tarja – Rocking Heels: Live At Hellfest (earMusic)
Thulcandra – Live Demise (Napalm)
Until I Wake – Renovate (Fearless)
Various Artists – Aqualung Redux (Magnetic Eye)
Various Artists – Best Of Jethro Tull Redux (Magnetic Eye)
Will Haven – No Stars To Guide Me: 30 Years Of WHVN (Minus Head)
December 13, 2024
Alberto Rigoni – Nemesis Call (Eclipse)
At The Altar Of The Horned God – Elements EP (I, Voidhanger)
An Axis Of Perdition – Apertures (Apocalyptic Witchcraft)
Blue Oyster Cult – 50th Anniversary Live – Third Night (Frontiers)
Electric Wizard – Black Magic Rituals And Perversions, Vol. 1 (Spinefarm)
Helloween – Live At Budokan (Reigning Phoenix)
Illusion Force – Halfana (Frontiers)
In We Fall – Inner Self (Eclipse)
Magic Kingdom – Blaze Of Rage (Massacre)
Mesarthim – Anthropic Bias/Departure (Avantgarde)
Mörk Gryning – Fasornas Tid (Season Of Mist)
Ponte Del Diavolo – Tre – The EP Collection (Time To Kill)
Storace – Live And Let Live Re-Release (Frontiers)
Wings Of Steel – Live In France (RFL)
The Best Rock + Metal Albums of 2024 (So Far)
Loudwire’s writers recap the best rock and metal albums of the year so far. See which of your favorites are here!
Contributing Authors: Chuck Armstrong, Jordan Blum, Rob Carroll, Chad Childers, Joe DiVita, John Hill, Lauryn Schaffner
Gallery Credit: Loudwire Staff
PLAYLIST: Ultimate Groove Metal
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