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The New Rock + Metal Albums Out Today


Here is your 2024 hard rock + metal album release calendar.

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.

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.

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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)
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)
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)
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)
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
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)
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)
Turbokill – Champion (Steamhammer/SPV)
UFO – Landing In St. Louis (Cleopatra)
UFO – Seven Deadly (Cleopatra)

October 4, 2024
Allt – From The New World (Century Media)
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)
The New Roses – Attracted To Danger (Napalm)
Soror Dolorosa – Mond (Prophecy)
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)
Crucifiction – Will To Power (Rise)
De Mannen Broeders – Sober Maal (Relapse)
Dragony – Hic Svnt Dracones (Steamhammer/SPV)
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)
Opeth – The Last Will & Testament (Reigning Phoenix)
Vicious Rain – There Is Beauty In Letting Go (Arising Empire)
Vomit Forth – Terrified Of God (Century Media)

October 18, 2024
Ensiferum – Winter Storm (Metal Blade)
Escuela Grind – Dreams On Algorithms (MNRK Heavy)
Frozen Crown – War Hearts (Napalm)
Funeral – Gospel Of Bones (Season Of Mist)
Grand Magus – Sunraven (Nuclear Blast)
Immortal Bird – Sin Querencia (20 Buck Spin)
Jerry Cantrell – I Want Blood (Double J)
MC5 – Heavy Lifting (earMusic)
Swallow The Sun – Shining (Century Media)

October 25, 2024
Atreyu – The Pronoia Sessions (Spinefarm)
Better Lovers – Highly Irresponsible (SharpTone)
Entheos – An End To Everything EP (Metal Blade)
Gaerea – Coma (Season Of Mist)
Green Day – American Idiot 20th Anniversary Edition (Warner)
Pixies – The Night The Zombies Came (BMG)
Schammasch – The Maldoror Chants: Old Ocean (Prosthetic)

November 1, 2024
Nachtmystium – Blight Privilege (Lupus Lounge)
Paganizer – Flesh Requiem (Transcending Obscurity)
Skillet – Revolution (Self)
Tribulation – Sub Rosa In Aeturnum (Century Media)

November 8, 2024
Defences – Shadowlight (Long Branch)
Earthburner – Permanent Dawn (M-Theory)
Make Them Suffer – Make Them Suffer (SharpTone)
Molder – Catastrophic Reconfiguration (Prosthetic)
Solstafir – Helga Kvöl (Century Media)

November 15, 2024
Steel Panther – Feel The Steel 15th Anniversary Edition (Self)

November 22, 2024
Defeated Sanity – Chronicles Of Lunacy (Season Of Mist)
Polar – Five Arrows (Arising Empire)

November 29, 2024
Hidden Mothers – Erosion/Avulsion (Church Road)

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)

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

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