The New Rock + Metal Albums Out Today (June 30)
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 2023 releases in one convenient location.
Check back often or bookmark this page, because this list is updated on a regular basis. Dates are supplied by record labels and are subject to change.
Keep up with the best songs from this year with our playlists for 2023’s Best Metal Songs and 2023’s Best Rock Songs.
June 30, 2023
Antirope – Amnesia (Eclipse)
Before The Dawn – Stormbringers (Napalm)
Calico Jack – Isla de la Muerte (Rockshots)
Death Ray Vision – No Mercy From Electric Eyes (Metal Blade)
East Of The Wall – A Neutral Second (Translation Loss)
Grafvitnir – Into The Outer Wilderness (Shadow/Regain)
The Hu – Rumble Of Thunder Deluxe Edition (Better Noise)
Melvins – At The Stake: Atlantic Recordings 1993-1996 (HNE)
Night Legion – Fight Or Fall (Massacre)
Pestilence – Consuming Impulse Re-Release (Agonia)
Pestilence – Malleus Maleficarum Re-Release (Agonia)
Pestilence – Spheres Re-Release (Agonia)
Pestilence – Testimony Of The Ancients Re-Release (Agonia)
Raven – All Hell’s Breaking Loose (Silver Lining)
Schattenmann – Dia de Muertos (AFM)
Shakra – Invincible (AFM)
Static Abyss – Aborted Reality (Peaceville)
Throw The Fight – Strangeworld (Long Branch)
Virgin Steele – The Passion Of Dionysus (Napalm)
July 7, 2023
Blackbraid – Blackbraid II (Self)
Bloodbound – Tales From The North (AFM)
Butcher Babies – Eye For An Eye/…Til The World’s Blind (Century Media)
Defreed – Publix Address (Frontiers)
Emma Ruth Rundle – Engine Of Hell – Live At Roadburn 2022 (Self)
Feuerchwanz – Fegefeuer (Napalm)
Hatebreed – The Rise Of Brutality/Supremacy Re-Release (Dissonance)
A Life Divided – Down The Spiral Of A Soul (AFM)
Nita Strauss – The Call Of The Void (Sumerian)
Various Artists – Steel Bars: A Tribute To Michael Bolton (Frontiers)
Withering Scorn – Prophets Of Demise (Frontiers)
July 14, 2023
Atheist – Elements Re-Release (Nuclear Blast)
Atheist – Jupiter Re-Release (Nuclear Blast)
Atheist – Piece Of Time Re-Release (Nuclear Blast)
Atheist – Unquestionable Presence Re-Release (Nuclear Blast)
Calligram – Position | Momentum (Prosthetic)
Deitus – Irreversible (Candlelight)
Edge Of Paradise – Hologram (Frontiers)
Eleine – We Shall Remain (Atomic Fire)
End Reign – The Way Of All Flesh Is Decay (Relapse)
Evile – The Unknown (Napalm)
Freedom Call – The M.E.T.A.L. Fest (Napalm)
Houston – Relaunch III (Frontiers)
Kikimora – For A Broken Dime (Frontiers)
Moodring – Your Light Fades Away EP (UNFD)
The Neal Morse Band – An Evening Of Innocence & Danger: Live In Hamburg (InsideOut)
Robledo – Broken Soul (Frontiers)
Scream Maker – Land Of Fire (Frontiers)
Tailgunner – Guns For Hire (Fireflash)
Various Artists – Superunknown Redux (Magnetic Eye)
Vendetta – Black As Coal (Massacre)
Voyager – Fearless In Love (Season Of Mist)
Winterstorm – Everfrost (AFM)
July 21, 2023
Akercocke – Decades Of Devil Worship (Peaceville)
Cadaver – The Age Of The Offended (Nuclear Blast)
Greta Van Fleet – Starcatcher (Lava/Republic)
Mizmor – Prosaic (Profound Lore)
Outer Heaven – Infinite Psychic Depths (Relapse)
Oxbow – Love’s Holiday (Ipecac)
Pelican – The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw Re-Release (Thrill Jockey)
Saint Agnes – Bloodsuckers (Spinefarm)
Thunder Horse – After The Fall (Ripple)
Voivod – Morgöth Tales (Century Media)
The Zenith Passage – Datalysium (Metal Blade)
July 28, 2023
Astralborne – Across The Aeons (Prosthetic)
Girlschool – WTFortyfive? (Silver Lining)
The Gorge – Mechanical Fiction (Pelagic)
Iron Savior – Riding On Fire – The Noise Years 1997-2004 (Dissonance)
James Rivera’s Metal Wave – New Wave Gone Metal (Massacre)
Mutoid Man – Mutants (Self)
Nuclear Power Trio – Wet Ass Plutonium (Metal Blade)
Saul – This Is It…The End Of Everything (Spinefarm)
Sevendust – Truth Killer (Napalm)
Sign Of The Swarm – Amongst The Low & Empty (Century Media)
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats – Slaughter On First Avenue (Rise Above)
August 4, 2023
1914 – Eschatology Of War Re-Release (Napalm)
An Autumn For Crippled Children – Closure (Prosthetic)
Crypta – Shades Of Sorrow (Napalm)
Devin Townsend – Devolution #3: Empath Live In America (InsideOut)
Edward Reekers – The Liberty Project (Music Theories)
High On Fire – The Art Of Self Defense Re-Release (MNRK Heavy)
Mammoth WVH – Mammoth II (BMG)
Skindred – Smile (Earache)
Teenage Wrist – Still Love (Epitaph)
August 11, 2023
Bees Made Honey – Aion (Magnetic Eye)
Caskets – Reflections (SharpTone)
The Hives – The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons (Fuga)
Kataklysm – Goliath (Nuclear Blast)
Lancer – Tempest (Fireflash)
To Kill Achilles – Recovery (Arising Empire)
Megaherz – In Teufels Namen (Napalm)
The Mystical Hot Chocolate Endeavors – Clock Without A Craftsman (Massacre)
Neal Morse – The Dream – Joseph: Part One (Frontiers)
Tarja – Rocking Heels: Live At Metal Church (earMusic)
Urne – A Feast On Sorrow (Candlelight)
Werewolves – My Enemies Look And Sound Like Me (Prosthetic)
August 18, 2023
Boris – Heavy Rocks (2002) Re-Release (Third Man)
Creak – Depth Perception (Prosthetic)
Cyhra – The Vertigo Trigger (Nuclear Blast)
The Dead Daisies – Best Of (Self)
Godthrymm – Distortions (Profound Lore)
Imperial Tide – Existence In Crisis EP (Mascot)
Movements – Ruckus! (Fearless)
Oblivion Protocol – The Fall Of The Shires (Atomic Fire)
Ringworm – Seeing Through Fire (Nuclear Blast)
Seraina Telli – Addicted To Color (Metalville)
Skalmold – Ýdalir (Napalm)
Spirit Adrift – Ghost At The Gallows (Century Media)
August 25, 2023
Asphodelus – Sculpting From Time (Hammerheart)
Blood Money – Complete Execution (Svart)
Blut Aus Nord – Disharmonium – Nahab (Debemur Morti)
Darsombra – Doomsday Book (Pnictogen)
Destroyer 666 – To The Devil His Due (Season Of Mist)
Dethklok – Dethalbum IV (WaterTower)
Exmortus – Necrophony (Nuclear Blast)
Heimdall – Hephaestus (Pride & Joy)
Holding Absence – The Noble Art Of Self Destruction (SharpTone)
Hot Milk – A Call To The Void (Music For Nations)
Knife – Heaven Into Dust (Napalm)
Love Sex Machine – Asexual Anger Re-Release (Pelagic)
Magnum – Great Adventure: The Jet Years 1978-1983 Box Set (HNE)
Nixil – From The Wound Spilled Forth Fire (Prosthetic)
Sherinian/Phillips – Sherinian/Phillips Live (InsideOut)
Tegmentum – Evolvement (M-Theory)
U.D.O. – Touchdown (Atomic Fire)
Vandenberg – Sin (Mascot)
September 1, 2023
Eclipse – Megalomanium (Frontiers)
Empire State Bastard – Rivers Of Heresy (Roadrunner)
GWAR – Battle Maximus 10th Anniversary Edition (Pit)
Outergods – A Kingdom Built Upon The Wreckage Of Heaven (Prosthetic)
Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons – Kings Of The Asylum (Nuclear Blast)
Polaris – Fatalism (SharpTone)
Primal Fear – Code Red (Atomic Fire)
Silent Skies – Dormant (Napalm)
Soen – Memorial (Silver Lining)
September 8, 2023
Conquer Divide – Slow Burn (Mascot)
Domkraft – Sonic Moons (Magnetic Eye)
Kvelertak – Endling (Rise/Petroleum)
Royal Blood – Back To The Water Below (Warner)
Starmen – Starmenized (Melodic Passion)
Sylosis – A Sign Of Things To Come (Nuclear Blast)
September 15, 2023
Alkaloid –
Blind Equation – Death Awaits (Prosthetic)
Bring Me The Horizon – Post Human: NeX GEn (Sony/RCA)
Corey Taylor – CMF2 (Decibel Cooper)
Danko Jones – Electric Sounds (AFM)
Resolve – Human (Arising Empire)
Shining – Shining (Napalm)
Static Dress – Rouge Carpet Disaster Re-Release (Roadrunner)
Thy Art Is Murder – Godlike (Human Warfare)
September 22, 2023
Cannibal Corpse – Chaos Horrific (Metal Blade)
Freya – Fight As One (Upstate)
Hexvessel – Polar Veil (Svart)
KEN Mode – Void (Artoffact)
September 29, 2023
Blackbriar – A Dark Euphony (Nuclear Blast)
Black Stone Cherry – Screamin’ At The Sky (Mascot)
Filth Is Eternal – Find Out (MNRK Heavy)
Grove Street – The Path To Righteousness (UNFD)
Of Virtue – Omen (Arising Empire)
Taproot – Scssrs (THC)
October 6, 2023
Iron Savior – Firestar (AFM)
Various Artists – No Future, No Past: Finnish Speed & Thrash Metal Explosion 1986-1992 (Svart)
October 13, 2023
Creeper – Sanguivore (Spinefarm)
October 20, 2023
Duff McKagan – Lighthouse (The World Is Flat)
October 27, 2023
Doro – Conqueress – Forever Strong And Proud (Nuclear Blast)
November 3, 2023
Static-X – Project Regeneration: Vol. 2 (Self)
December 8, 2023
Bastards – Arctic Hardcore: Complete Studio Recordings & Rare Rehearsal Tapes (Svart)
2023 Albums Already Released
Jan. 6, 2023
Anti-Flag – Lies They Tell Our Children (Spinefarm)
Serenity – Memoria DVD/CD (Napalm)
Sons Of Cult – Back To The Beginning (Xtreem)
Throat Locust – Dragged Through Glass EP (Self)
Varmia – Prolog EP (M-Theory)
Jan. 13, 2023
Ahab – The Coral Tombs (Napalm)
Antimozdebeast – Vision (Self)
Anubis – Decreation Day EP (Self)
Beyond The Black – Beyond The Black (Nuclear Blast)
Crom – The Era Of Darkness (From The Vaults)
Defy The Curse – Horrors Of Human Sacrifice (Hammerheart)
Draken – Book Of Black (Majestic Mountain)
Endtime/Cosmic Reaper – Doom Sessions Vol. 7 EP (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Jared James Nichols – Jared James Nichols (Black Hill)
Kommandant – Titan Hammer (ATMF)
Obituary – Dying Of Everything (Relapse)
Screamer – Kingmaker (Steamhammer/SPV)
Turmion Katilot – Omen X (Nuclear Blast)
Ville Valo – Neon Noir (Spinefarm)
Jan. 20, 2023
Atrocity – Okkult III (Massacre)
Big City – Sunwind Sails (Frontiers)
Black Star Riders – Wrong Side Of Paradise (Earache)
Celestial Wizard – Winds Of The Cosmos (Scarlet)
Dryad – The Abyssal Plain (Prosthetic)
Gypsy Chief Goliath/End Of Age – Turned To Stone Chapter 7 Split (Ripple)
Half Life – Like A Jungle (Club Inferno)
Heroes And Monsters – Heroes And Monsters (Frontiers)
Imperium Dekandez – Into Sorrow Evermore (Napalm)
Issa – Lights Of Japan (Frontiers)
Katatonia – Sky Void Of Stars (Napalm)
Laura Cox – Head Above Water (earMusic)
Maneskin – Rush! (Epic/Sony)
Natt – Natt (Edged Circle)
Riverside – ID.Entity (InsideOut)
Seether – Disclaimer Re-Release (Craft)
Slegest – Avstand (Dark Essence)
Ten – Something Wicked This Way Comes (Frontiers)
Tidal Wave – The Lord Knows (Ripple)
Tribunal – The Weight Of Remembrance (20 Buck Spin)
Twilight Force – At The Heart Of Wintervale (Nuclear Blast)
U.F.O. – No Heavy Petting Re-Release (Chrysalis)
Jan. 27, 2023
…And Oceans – As In Gardens, So In Tombs (Season Of Mist)
Anzillu – Ex Nihilo (M-Theory)
Arctic Rain – Unity (Frontiers)
Bizarrekult – Den Tapte Krigen (Season of Mist)
Conjureth – The Parasitic Chambers (Memento Mori)
Crowne – Operation Phoenix (Frontiers)
Dismal – Via Entis (Aural)
Dokken – The Elektra Albums 1983-1987 Box Set (BMG)
Dust Prophet – One Last Look Upon The Sky (Self)
Electric Mob – 2 Make U Cry & Dance (Frontiers)
Girish And The Chronicles – Back On Earth (Frontiers)
Girlschool – The School Report 1978-2008 (HNE)
Green Day – Nimrod Re-Release (Warner)
Holocaust – Heavy Metal Mania: The Complete Recordings Volume 1 – 1980-1984 (HNE)
Hour Of Penance – Misotheism Re-Release (Agonia)
Iron Void – IV (Shadow Kingdom)
Knogjarn – Mera Bedövning EP (Indie)
Liv Sin – Kali Yuga (Mighty)
Love Gang – Meanstreak (Heavy Psych Sounds)
The Lucid – Saddle Up and Ride (SpilerHead Records)
New Miserable Experience – Philosophy On Pessimism (Translation Loss)
Obelyskkh – Ultimate Grace Of God (Exile On Mainstream)
Ominous Scriptures – Rituals Of Mass Self-Ignition (Willowtip)
Oozing Wound – We Cater To Cowards (Thrill Jockey)
Pelican – City Of Echoes Re-Release (Thrill Jockey)
Ronnie Romero – Raised On Heavy Radio (Frontiers)
Smashing Pumpkins – ATUM: A Rock Opera in Three Acts: Act Two (Martha’s Music/Thirty Tigers)
Soen – Cognitive Re-Release (Silver Lining)
Soen – Tellurian Re-Release (Silver Lining)
Steve Vai – Vai/Gash (Mascot)
Suasion – The Infinite (Atomic Fire)
The Tangent – Pyramids, STars & Other Stories: The Tangent Live Recordings 2004-2017 (InsideOut)
Uriah Heep – Chaos & Colour (Silver Lining)
White Reaper – Asking for a Ride (Elektra)
You Me at Six – Truth Decay (AWAL Recordings)
Feb. 3, 2023
All Out War – Celestial Rot (Translation Loss Records)
Fvnerals – Let The Earth Be Silent (Prophecy)
Holy Water – Holy Water (The Flenser)
Lansdowne – Medicine (AFM)
Leprous – Aphelion Tour Edition (InsideOut)
Memorium – Rise To Power (Reaper)
Mithridatum – Harrowing (Willowtip)
Nervochaos – Chthonic Wrath (Emanzipation)
Rexoria – Imperial Dawn (Sound Pollution/Black Lodge)
Russkaja – Turbo Polka Party (Napalm)
Sanguisugabogg – Homicidal Ecstasy (Century Media)
Smashing Pumpkins – ATUM – Act II (Thirty Tigers)
The Winery Dogs – III (Three Dog)
WuW – L’Orchaostre (Pelagic)
Xandria – The Wonders Still Awaiting (Napalm)
Feb. 10, 2023
Darkthrone – Goatlord: Original (Peaceville)
Delain – Dark Waters (Napalm)
Distant – Heritage (Century Media)
eMolecule – The Architect (InsideOut)
Infinite & Divine – Ascendancy (Frontiers)
In Flames – Foregone (Nuclear Blast)
Integrity – Humanity Is The Devil Re-Release (Relapse)
Jenner – To Live Is To Suffer Re-Release (Fighter)
Khymera – Hold Your Ground (Frontiers)
Luger – Revelations Of The Sacred Skull (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Motive Black – Auburn (AFM)
Oak – Disintegrate (Season Of Mist)
Paramore – This Is Why (Atlantic)
Pierce The Veil – The Jaws Of Life (Fearless)
Stormo – Endocannibalismo (Prosthetic)
T3nors – Naked Soul (Frontiers)
Wig Wam – Out Of The Dark (Frontiers)
Feb. 17, 2023
All My Shadows – Eerie Monsters (Frontiers)
Avatar – Dance Devil Dance (Thirty Tigers)
Creye – III: Weightless (Frontiers)
Darkspace – Darkspace I Re-Release (Season Of Mist)
Darkspace – Darkspace II Re-Release (Season Of Mist)
Darkspace – Darkspace III Re-Release (Season Of Mist)
Darkspace – Darkspace -I Re-Release (Season Of Mist)
Darkspace – Darkspace III I Re-Release (Season Of Mist)
Deicide – Bible Bashers (Dissonance)
First Signal – Face Your Fears (Frontiers)
Half Me – Soma (Arising Empire)
Hail The Void – Memento Mori (Ripple)
Hellripper – Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags (Peaceville)
Jack Harlon & The Dead Crows – Hail To The Underground (Blues Funeral)
Motley Crue – Crücial Crüe: The Studio Albums 1981-1989 (BMG)
Robin McAuley – Alive (Frontiers)
See You Next Tuesday – Distractions (Good Fight)
Siege Of Power – This Is Tomorrow (Metal Blade)
Skillet – Dominion: Day Of Destiny Deluxe Edition (Atlantic)
Solence – Hope Is A Cult (Hopeless)
Tithe – Inverse Rapture (Profound Lore)
Tramalizer – Fumes Of Funeral Pyres (Soulseller)
Transatlantic – The Final Flight: Live At L’Olympia (InsideOut)
UFO – Werewolves Of London Re-Release (Cleopatra)
Ulthar – Anthronomicon (20 Buck Spin)
Ulthar – Helionomicon (20 Buck Spin)
Feb. 24, 2023
Air Raid – Fatal Encounter (High Roller)
Big|Brave – Nature Morte (Thrill Jockey)
Bodyfarm – Ultimate Abomination (Edged Circle)
Dark Embrace – Dark Heavy Metal (Massacre)
Death Pill – Death Pill (New Heavy Sounds)
Dope – Blood Money Part Zer0 (Self)
Godsmack – Lighting Up The Sky (BMG)
Heidevolk – Wederkeer (Napalm)
Host – IX (Nuclear Blast)
Hypno5e – Sheol (Pelagic)
Insomnium – Anno 1696 (Century Media)
Megaton Sword – Might & Power (Dying Victims)
Motorhead – Bad Magic: Seriously Bad Magic (Silver Lining)
No Spill Blood – Eye Of Night (Svart)
Omega Infinity – The Anticurrent (Season Of Mist)
Siena Root – Revelation (Atomic Fire)
Steel Panther – On The Prowl (Self)
Stoner – Boogie To Baja (Heavy Psych Sounds)
March 3, 2023
Ace Of Spades – Born To Booze, Live To Sin – A Tribute To Motorhead (Cleopatra)
Blak29 – The Waiting (Cleopatra)
Earth Groans – Tongue Tied EP (Solid State)
Enslaved – Heimdal (Nuclear Blast)
Entheos – Time Will Take Us All (Metal Blade)
Eyes – Congratulations (Indisciplinarian)
Fake Names – Expendables (Epitaph)
Haken – Fauna (InsideOut)
Lord Sonny The Unifier – America’s Newest Hitmaker (Interstellar Smoke)
Nuclear Holocaust – Sailing The Seas Of Nuclear Waste (Selfmadegod)
Redlight King – In Our Blood (AFM)
Sortilege – Apocalypso (Season Of Mist)
Stargazer – Life Will Never Be The Same (Mighty)
Stoned Jesus – Father Light (Season Of Mist)
Temptress – See (Metal Assault)
Tragedy – I Am Woman (Napalm)
Villagers Of Ioannina City – Through Space And Time (Alive In Athens 2020) (Napalm)
Witch Ripper – The Flight After The Fall (Magnetic Eye)
March 10, 2023
The Atomic Bitchwax – Live At Freak Valley Fest (Heavy Psych Sounds)
The Banishment – Machine And Bone (Frontiers)
Blackmore’s Night – Shadow Of The Moon 25th Anniversary Edition (earMusic)
Demons Down – I Stand (Frontiers)
Duel – Live At Hellfest (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Excelerate – Arrival (From The Vaults)
For The Fallen Dreams – For The Fallen Dreams (Arising Empire)
Gorod – The Orb (Self)
Judiciary – Flesh + Blood (Closed Casket)
Läjä Äijälä & Albert Witchfinder – Ordeal And Triumph (Svart)
Nanowar Of Steel – Dislike To False Metal (Napalm)
Otherwise – Gawdzillionaire (Mascot)
Periphery – Periphery V: Djent Is Not A Genre (3DOT)
Roadrunner United – The All-Star Sessions Re-Release (Roadrunner)
Roadrunner United – The Concert (Roadrunner)
Seventh Crystal – Wonderland (Frontiers)
Suicide Silence – Remember… You Must Die (Century Media)
Unfelled – Fall Of Endless Perdition (Season Of Mist)
March 17, 2023
All Time Low – Tell Me I’m Alive (Fueled By Ramen)
The Answer – Sundowners (Golden Robot)
Ardent Nova – Ardent Nova (Wise Blood)
Chelsea Grin – Suffer in Heaven (ONErpm)
Cross Country Driver – The New Truth (Frontiers)
Downfall Of Gaia – Silhouettes Of Disgust (Metal Blade)
Ecstatic Vision – Live At Duna Jam (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Entropia – Total (Agonia)
Foretoken – Triumphs (Prosthetic)
Gideon – More Power. More Pain. (Equal Vision)
Hanoi Rocks – Oriental Beat Re-Release (Svart)
Invent Animate – Heavener (UNFD)
John Diva & The Rockets Of Love – The Big Easy (Steamhammer/SPV)
Kamelot – The Awakening (Napalm)
Kruelty – Untopia (Profound Lore)
The Lords Of Altamont – To Hell With Tomorrow The Lords Are Now (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Night Demon – Outsider (Century Media)
Phantom Elite – Blue Blood (Frontiers)
Redemption – I Am The Storm (AFM)
RPWL – Crime Scene (The Gentle Art Of Music)
Pop Evil – Skeletons (MNRK Heavy)
Seven Spires – Live At ProgPower USA XXI (Frontiers)
Stormwarning – Stormwarning (Frontiers)
Theory Of A Deadman – Dinosaur (Roadrunner)
Transworld Identity – Seven Worlds (Frontiers)
March 24, 2023
Acid King – Beyond Vision (Blues Funeral)
August Burns Red – Death Below (SharpTone)
Babymetal – the Other One (Self)
Bouncing Souls – Ten Stories High (Pure Noise)
Cruachan – The Living And The Dead (Despotz)
Dawn Ray’d – To Know The Light (Prosthetic)
Fake Names – Expendables (Epitaph)
Fall Out Boy – So Much (For) Stardust (Fueled By Ramen/Elektra)
Floor Jansen – Paragon (Self)
Hatesphere – Hatred Reborn (Scarlet)
Ihsahn – Fascination Street Sessions EP (Candleight)
Keep Of Kalessin – Katharsis (Back On Black)
Liturgy – 93696 (Thrill Jockey)
Marianas Rest – Auer (Napalm)
Mork – Dypet (Peaceville)
Ne Obliviscaris – Exul (Season Of Mist)
Ov Sulfur – The Burden Ov Faith (Century Media)
Saxon – More Inspirations (Silver Lining)
Seven Spires – Live At ProgPower USA XXI (Frontiers)
Subway To Sally – Himmelfahrt (Napalm)
Woe Unto Me – Along The Meandering Ordeals, Reshape The Pivot Of Harmony (M-Theory)
March 31, 2023
Ad Infinitum – Chapter III – Downfall (Napalm)
Archetypes Collide – Archetypes Collide (Fearless)
Behemoth – Grom Re-Release (Metal Blade)
Bury Tomorrow – The Seventh Sun (Music For Nations)
Cave In – Until Your Heart Stops Re-Release (Relapse)
Crown Lands – Fearless (Spinefarm)
Demonstealer – The Propaganda Machine (Black Lion)
Empyre – Relentless (Kscope)
Hawkwind – Days Of The Underground – The Studio And Live Recordings 1977-1979 Box Set (Cherry Red)
Last In Line – Jericho (earMusic)
Lordi – Screem Writers Guild (Atomic Fire)
Lotan – Lotan (Uprising)
Meshuggah – ObZen Re-Release (Atomic Fire)
The Netherlands – Severance (Svart)
Nervochaos – Chthonic Wrath (Emanzipation)
Nothing, Nowhere – Void Eternal (Fueled By Ramen)
The Ongoing Concept – Again (Solid State)
Puscifer – Existential Reckoning: Re-Wired (Puscifer/Alchemy/BMG)
Rotten Sound – Apocalypse (Season Of Mist)
Samiam – Stowaway (Pure Noise)
Sermon – Of Golden Verse (Prosthetic)
Visions Of Atlantis – Pirates Over Wacken (Napalm)
April 7, 2023
Angel Vivaldi – Away With Words Part 2 EP (Self)
Devangelic – Xul (Willowtip)
Discreation – Iron Times (Massacre)
Dropout Kings – Riot Music (Suburban Noize)
Healthyliving – Songs Of Abundance, Psalms Of Grief (Self)
Heathen Foray – Oathbreaker (Massacre)
Johnny Thunders – From The Beginning To The End Box Set (Cleopatra)
Kärbholz – Kapitel 11: Barrikaden (Metalville)
KISS – Off The Soundboard: Poughkeepsie, New York 1984 (UMe)
Linkin Park – Meteora 20th Anniversary Edition (Warner)
Lo! – The Gleaners (Pelagic)
Paul Gilbert – The Dio Album (Music Theories)
Powerwolf – Interludium (Napalm)
Raider – Trial By Chaos (Self)
Rise Of The Northstar – Showdown (Atomic Fire)
Savage Hands – Rock Bottom EP (SharpTone)
Scowl – Psychotic Dance Routine EP (Flatspot)
Sunrot – The Unfailing Rope (Prosthetic)
Tribulation – Hamaratia EP (Century Media)
Various Artists – The Aggression Sessions EP (Nuclear Blast)
April 14, 2023
1782 – Clamor Luciferi (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Archon Angel – II (Frontiers)
Atreyu – The Hope Of A Spark EP (Spinefarm)
Biohazard – Urban Discipline/No Holds Barred – Live In Europe (Dissonance)
Black Orchid Empire – Tempus Veritas (Season Of Mist)
Dodheimsgard – Black Medium Current (Peaceville)
From Fall To Spring – Rise (Arising Empire)
The Hellfreaks – Pitch Black Sunset (Napalm)
Holy Moses – Invisible Queen (Fireflash)
Hollywood Undead – Hotel Kalifornia Deluxe Edition (BMG)
Infected Rain – The Devil’s Dozen DVD/CD (Napalm)
The Infinity Ring – Nemesis & Nativity (Profound Lore)
Jesus Piece – …So Unknown (Century Media)
L.A. Guns – Black Diamonds (Frontiers)
Lucifer Star Machine – Satanic Age (The Sign)
Macabre – Sinister Slaughter Re-Release (Nuclear Blast)
Magnus Karlsson’s Free Fall – Hunt The Flame (Frontiers)
Metallica – 72 Seasons (Blackened)
Mike Tramp – Songs Of White Lion (Frontiers)
Morta Skuld – Of Dying Remains Re-Release (Peaceville)
Overkill – Scorched (Nuclear Blast)
Poison Ruin – Harvest (Relapse)
Voidceremony – Threads Of Unknowing (20 Buck Spin)
Zozobra – Savage Masters Re-Release (Brutal Panda)
April 21, 2023
40 Watt Sun – The Inside Room Re-Release (Svart)
40 Watt Sun – Wider Than The Sky Re-Release (Svart)
The 69 Eyes – Death Of Darkness (Atomic Fire)
Angel – Once Upon A Time (Cleopatra)
Anthem – Crimson & Jet Black (Reaper)
As Everything Unfolds – Ultraviolet (Long Branch)
Axel Rudi Pell – The Ballads VI (Steamhammer/SPV)
Brutal Youth – Rebuilding Year (Stomp)
Dawn Of Ouroboros – Velvet Incandescence (Prosthetic)
Dorthia Cottrell – Death Folk Country (Relapse)
Enter Shikari – A Kiss For The Whole World (SO/Ambush Reality)
Grave Pleasures – Plagueboys (Century Media)
Hirax – Hate, Fear And Power Re-Release (Armageddon)
Hirax – Raging Violence Re-Release (Armageddon)
Jethro Tull – RökFlöte (InsideOut)
Liv Kristine – River Of Diamonds (Metalville)
Magnus Rosen – It’s Tome To Rock The World Again (Sound Pollution)
Mecca – Everlasting (Frontiers)
MMXX – The New Wave EP (Candlelight)
One Desire – Live With The Shadow Orchestra DVD/CD (Frontiers)
Predatory Void – Seven Keys To The Discomfort Of Being (Century Media)
Revolution Saints – Eagle Flight (Frontiers)
Saint Deamon – League Of The Serpent (AFM)
Smackbound – Hostage (Frontiers)
Tanith – Voyage (Metal Blade)
Texas Hippie Coalition – The Name Lives On (MNRK)
These Beasts – Cares, Wills, Wants (Magnetic Eye)
Through Fire – Devil’s Got You Dreamin’ (Sumerian)
Windhand – Windhand Re-Release (Relapse)
April 22, 2023
Record Store Day – Check out all the rock and metal releases here
April 28, 2023
Alcest – Les Voyages de l’âme Re-Release (Prophecy)
Chrome Waves – Earth Will Shed Its Skin (M-Theory)
Cradle Of Filth – Trouble And Their Double Lives (Napalm)
The Crown – The Burning/Eternal Death Re-Release (Dissonance)
Crown The Empire – Dogma (Rise)
The Damned – Darkadelic (earMusic)
Danava – Nothing But Nothing (Tee Pee)
Defiled – The Highest Level (Season Of Mist)
Elvenking – Reader Of The Runes – Rapture (AFM)
Enforced – War Remains (Century Media)
Fires In The Distance – Air Not Meant For Us (Prosthetic)
Graveworm – Killing Innocence (AFM)
HammerFall – Crimson Thunder 20th Anniversary Edition (Nuclear Blast)
Hawkwind – The Future Never Waits (Cherry Red)
Ignea – Dreams Of Lands Unseen (Napalm)
King’s X – In The New Age: The Atlantic Recordings 1988-1995 (HNE)
Messa – Messa: Live At Roadburn (Svart)
Ross The Boss – Legacy Of Blood, Fire & Steel (AFM)
Sass Jordan – Live In New York Ninety-Four (Deko)
Sinner – Born To Rock – The Noise Years ’84-’87 (Dissonance)
Spotlights – Alchemy For The Dead (Ipecac)
Swollen Teeth – Swollen Teeth EP (Blowed Out)
Trapeze – Midnight Flyers: Complete Recording Volume 2 (1974-1981) (HNE)
May 5, 2023
Blood Ceremony – The Old Ways Remain (Rise Above)
Burning Witches – The Dark Tower (Napalm)
Currents – The Death We Seek (SharpTone)
Curse Of Cain – Curse Of Cain (Atomic Fire)
Dave Lombardo – Rites Of Percussion (Ipecac)
Death Goals – A Garden Of Dead Flowers (Prosthetic)
Deathstars – Everything Destroys You (Nuclear Blast)
The Devil Wears Prada – Color Decay Deluxe Edition (Solid State)
Die Humane – The Grotesque (WURMgroup)
Drain – Living Proof (Epitaph)
Enforcer – Nostalgia (Nuclear Blast)
Herod – The Iconoclast (Pelagic)
Hypocrisy – Abducted Re-Release (Nuclear Blast)
Hypocrisy – The Fourth Dimension Re-Release (Nuclear Blast)
Hypocrisy – Osculum Obscenum Re-Release (Nuclear Blast)
Hypocrisy – Penetralia Re-Release (Nuclear Blast)
Jerome’s Dream – The Gray In Between (Iodine)
The Modern Age Slavery – 1901 | The First Mother (Fireflash)
Smashing Pumpkins – ATUM: A Rock Opera in Three Acts: Act 3 (Martha’s Music)
Smokey Mirror – Smokey Mirror (Rise Above)
Teeth – A Biblical Worship Of Violence EP (Nuclear Blast)
Tygers Of Pan Tang – Bloodlines (Mighty)
Therapy? – Hard Cold Fire (Marshall)
Unearth – The Wretched; The Ruinous (Century Media)
Vintersea – Woven Into Ashes (M-Theory)
Weathers – Are We Having Fun? (Sumerian)
Winger – Seven (Frontiers)
May 12, 2023
The Acacia Strain – Failure Will Follow (Rise)
The Acacia Strain – Step Into The Light (Rise)
The Amity Affliction – Not Without My Ghosts (Pure Noise)
Battle Born – Blood, Fire, Magic And Steel (Prosthetic)
Black Spiders – Can’t Die, Won’t Die (Spinefarm)
Cattle Decapitation – Terrasite (Metal Blade)
Circus Of Rock – Lost Behind (Frontiers)
The Dark Side Of The Moon – Metamorphosis (Napalm)
DevilDriver – Dealing With Demons Vol. II (Napalm)
Dropkick Murphys – Okemah Rising (Dummy Luck)
Godsnake – Eye For An Eye (Massacre)
Heavens Edge – Get It Right (Frontiers)
Michael Thompson Band – The Love Goes On (Frontiers)
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult – Sinister Whisperz IV: The Bedroom Tapes (1987-1988) (Sleazebox)
Oreida – The Eternal (Debemur Morti)
ScreaMachine – Church Of The Scream (Frontiers)
Veil Of Maya – [m]other (Sumerian)
May 19, 2023
Alcatrazz – Take No Prisoners (Silver Lining)
Arjen Lucassen’s Supersonic Revolution – Golden Age Of Music (Music Theories)
Blindfolded And Led To The Woods – Rejecting Obliteration (Prosthetic)
Botanist – VIII: Selenotrope (Prophecy)
Def Leppard With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Drastic Symphonies (UMe)
Frozen Soul – Glacial Domination (Century Media)
Ghost – Phantomime EP (Loma Vista)
Gozu – Remedy (Blacklight)
Henget – Beyond North Star (Season Of Mist)
Khanate – To Be Cruel (Sacred Bones)
Miscreance – Convergence Re-Release (Season Of Mist)
Mystic Prophecy – Hellriot (Rock Of Angels)
Neal Schon – Journey Through Time (Frontiers)
The Ocean – Holocene (Pelagic)
Roadwolf – Midnight Lightning (Napalm)
Sleep Token – Take Me Back To Eden (Spinefarm)
Sweet & Lynch – Heart & Sacrifice (Frontiers)
Thulcandra – Hail The Abyss (Napalm)
The Used – Toxic Positivity (Big Noise)
Yakuza – Sutra (Svart)
May 26, 2023
Arrival Of Autumn – Kingdom Undone (Nuclear Blast)
Brodequin – Festival Of Death Re-Release (Season Of Mist)
Brodequin – Instruments Of Torture Re-Release (Season Of Mist)
Brodequin – Methods Of Execution Re-Release (Season Of Mist)
Dodsferd – Asphyxiating Late Night Sessions: Collaboration Album With Sarvok (FYC)
Elegant Weapons – Horns For A Halo (Nuclear Blast)
Hanoi Rocks – The Days We Spent Underground: 1981-1984 Box Set (HNE)
Immortal – War Against All (Nuclear Blast)
Incendiary – Change The Way You Think About Pain (Closed Casket)
Kings Never Die – All The Rats (Metalville)
Legion Of The Damned – The Poison Chalice (Napalm)
Metal Church – Congregation Of Annihilation (Rat Pak)
Mournful Congregation – The Exuviae of Gods – Part II (Osmose/20 Buck Spin)
Oceanlord – Kingdom Cold (Magnetic Eye)
Raven – Faster Than The Speed Of Light (HNE)
Sirenia – 1977 (Napalm)
Tesla – Full Throttle Live (Self)
Troller – Drain (Relapse)
Vomitory – All Heads Are Gonna Roll (Metal Blade)
Vonavibe – Bleed To Life (Eclipse)
June 2, 2023
Atlases – Between The Day & I (Lifeforce)
Avenged Sevenfold – Life Is But A Dream (Warner)
Black Sabbath – Live Evil 40th Anniversary Edition (Rhino)
Body Stuff – Body Stuff 4 (The Chain)
Bongzilla – Dab City (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Buckcherry – Vol. 10 (Round Hill)
Dieth – To Hell And Back (Napalm)
Don’t Sleep – See Change (End Hits)
Einar Solberg – 16 (InsideOut)
Foo Fighters – But Here We Are (Roswell/RCA)
Gloryhammer – Return To The Kingdom Of Fife (Napalm)
Graveworm – Killing Innocence (AFM)
Hollywood Vampires – Live In Rio (earMusic)
Karbholz – Kapitel 10: Wilde Augen (Metalville)
Necrofier – Burning Shadows In The Southern Night (Season Of Mist Underground Activists)
Omnium Gatherum – Slasher EP (Century Media)
Priors – Daffodil (Mothland)
Pupil Slicer – Blossom (Prosthetic)
Rancid – Tomorrow Never Comes (Hellcat)
Rival Sons – Darkfighter (Low Country Sound/Atlantic)
Thantifaxath – Hive Mind Narcosis (Dark Descent)
Tigercub – The Perfume Of Decay (Loosegroove)
June 9, 2023
The 69 Eyes – Blessed Be Re-Release (Svart)
Art Nation – Inception (Frontiers)
Avarice – Avarice (Uprising)
The Defiants – Drive (Frontiers)
Envy Of None – That Was Then, This Is Now EP (Kscope)
Extreme – Six (earMusic)
False Memories – Hybrid Ego System (Frontiers)
Gardner and James – No Strings (Pavement)
Geld – Currency // Castration (Relapse)
Glass Casket – Glass Casket EP (Silent Pendulum)
Godflesh – Purge (Avalanche)
Grand Slam – Slam Anthems Box Set (Cleopatra)
Johnny The Boy – You (Season Of Mist)
Legion Of The Damned – The Poison Chalice (Napalm)
McFly – Power To Play (BMG)
Pyrexia – System Of The Animal 25 (Gravitas)
Rammstein – Sehnsucht Re-Release (Island)
Ratt – The Atlantic Years Box Set (Rhino)
Ray Alder – II (InsideOut)
Scar Symmetry – The Singularity (Phase II – Xenotaph) (Nuclear Blast)
Shakra – Invincible (AFM)
Slipknot – Adderall EP (Roadrunner Records)
Stellar Circuits – Sight To Sound (Nuclear Blast)
June 16, 2023
Alt. – Abeyance (SharpTone)
Arkona – Kob (Napalm)
Avkrvst – The Approbation (InsideOut)
Boris and Uniform – Bright New Disease (Sacred Bones)
Church Of Misery – Born Under A Mad Sign (Rise Above)
Creeping Death – Boundless Domain (MNRK Heavy)
Fifth Angel – When Angels Kill (Nuclear Blast)
Frozen Land – Out Of The Dark (Massacre)
Joel Hoekstra’s 13 – Crash Of Life (Frontiers)
Motorhead – Live At The Montreaux Jazz Festival ’07 (BMG)
Nailbomb – 1000% Hate (Dissonance)
Pride Of Lions – Dream Higher (Frontiers)
Queens Of The Stone Age – In Times New Roman… (Matador)
Royal Thunder – Rebuilding The Mountain (Spinefarm)
Sammath – Grebbeberg (Hammerheart)
Saturnus – The Storm Within (Prophecy)
Silversun Pickups – Acoustic Thrills EP (New Machine)
Thy Catafalque – Alföld (Season Of Mist)
Varmia – nie nas widzę (M-Theory)
Vulture Industries – Ghosts From The Past (Dark Essence)
Vypera – Race Of Time (Frontiers)
Witchskull – The Serpent Tide (Rise Above)
Yawning Man – Long Walk Of The Navajo (Heavy Psych Sounds)
June 23, 2023
DeathCollector – Death’s Toll (Prosthetic)
Degrees Of Truth – Alchemists (Scarlet)
Fear Factory – Mechanize Re-Release (Nuclear Blast)
Fear Factory – Re-Industrialized Re-Release (Nuclear Blast)
Gary Moore – The Sanctuary Years Box Set (BMG)
Graf Orlock – End Credits EP (Vitriol)
High Priest – Invocation (Magnetic Eye)
Jag Panzer – The Hallowed (Atomic Fire)
Jegong – The Complex Inbetween (Pelagic)
Judas Iscariot – To Embrace The Corpses Bleeding Re-Release (Moribund)
Kabbalah – Spectral Ascent Re-Release (Ripple)
Mental Cruelty – Zwielicht (Century Media)
Off Road Minivan – May This Keep You Safe From Harm (Tooth & Nail)
Outlanders – Outlanders (earMusic)
The Pineapple Thief – How Did We Find Our Way: 1999-2006 (Kscope)
Power Trip – Live In Seattle (Southern Lord)
Pyramaze – Bloodlines (AFM)
Sigh – Live: Eastern Forces Of Evil 2022 (Peaceville)
Swans – The Beggar (Mute/Young Gods)
Tsjuder – Helvegr (Season Of Mist)
Vexed – Negative Energy (Napalm)
Xasthur – Inevitably Dark (Lupus Lounge)