Upcoming Metal Releases
In following metal news on a daily basis, we maintain this list of upcoming metal releases to the best of our ability. However, we make no guarantees about its accuracy. Oftentimes newsletters and press releases do not specify the territory that the announced release date applies to and we do our best to research it or make educated guesses in such cases.
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US / North America
| Date | Band/Release |
|---|---|
| Released May 14, 2021 |
Grave Miasma "Abyss Of Wrathful Deities" (CD) |
| Released May 14, 2021 |
Wreche "All My Dreams Came True" (CD) |
| Released May 14, 2021 |
Internal Organs External "Apocalyptic Monstrosity" (CD/EP) |
| Released May 14, 2021 |
Our Last Enemy "As Above, So Below" (CD/EP) |
| Released May 14, 2021 |
Canvas Solaris "Chromosphere" (CD) |
| Released May 14, 2021 |
Grief Collector "En Delirium" (CD) |
| Released May 14, 2021 |
Balmog "Eve" (CD) |
| Released May 14, 2021 |
Dordeduh "Har" (CD) |
| Released May 14, 2021 |
Hedonihil "II - Symptomatic" (CD) |
| Released May 14, 2021 |
Scar of the Sun "Inertia" (CD) |
| Released May 14, 2021 |
Bala "Maleza" (CD) |
| Released May 14, 2021 |
Subterranean Masquerade "Mountain Fever" (CD) |
| Released May 14, 2021 |
Cadaveric Incubator "Nightmare Necropolis" (CD) |
| Released May 14, 2021 |
Crawling Manifest "Radical Absolution" (CD) |
| Released May 14, 2021 |
Solanum "Ruled By The Cruel" (CD) |
| Released May 14, 2021 |
Throat "Smile Less" (CD) |
| Released May 14, 2021 |
Flayed God "Symbols Of Hatred" (CD) |
| Released May 14, 2021 |
Luna's Call "Void" (CD) |
| Released May 14, 2021 |
Siniestro "Vortexx" (CD) |
| Released May 14, 2021 |
Caliban "Zeitgeister" (CD) |
| May 21, 2021 |
Monster Magnet "A Better Dystopia" (CD) |
| May 21, 2021 |
Slithering Decay "Aeons Untold" (CD) |
| May 21, 2021 |
Lord Of Pagathorn "Age Of Curse" (CD) |
| May 21, 2021 |
Majestic Downfall "Aorta" (CD) |
| May 21, 2021 |
Illusory "Crimson Wreath" (CD) |
| May 21, 2021 |
Vexed "Culling Culture" (CD) |
| May 21, 2021 |
Vulture "Dealin' Death" (CD) |
| May 21, 2021 |
Sabhankra "Death To Traitors" (CD) |
| May 21, 2021 |
Tooth And Claw "Dream Of Ascension" (CD) |
| May 21, 2021 |
In Mourning "Live at Z7" (CD/EP) |
| May 21, 2021 |
Nadja "Luminous Rot" (CD) |
| May 21, 2021 |
Debauchery "Monster Metal" (CD) |
| May 21, 2021 |
Liquid Steel "Mountain Of Madness" (CD) |
| May 21, 2021 |
Zgard "Place Of Power" (CD) |
| May 21, 2021 |
Hanging Garden "Skeleton Lake" (CD) |
| May 21, 2021 |
Borgne "Temps Morts" (CD) |
| May 21, 2021 |
Yautja "The Lurch" (CD) |
| May 21, 2021 |
Havamal "The Shadow Chapter" (CD) |
| May 21, 2021 |
Hagel "Veneration Of The Black Light" (CD) |
| May 28, 2021 |
Mental Cruelty "A Hill To Die Upon" (CD) |
| May 28, 2021 |
Khandra "All Occupied By Sole Death" (CD) |
| May 28, 2021 |
Cross Vault "As Strangers We Depart" (CD) |
| May 28, 2021 |
Svneatr "Chinook" (CD) |
| May 28, 2021 |
Bloodbound "Creatures Of The Dark Realm" (CD) |
| May 28, 2021 |
Silver Talon "Decadence And Decay" (CD) |
| May 28, 2021 |
Iron Jaws "Declaration Of War" (CD) |
| May 28, 2021 |
Impaled Nazarene "Eight Headed Serpent" (CD) |
| May 28, 2021 |
Armnatt "Eternal Flame" (CD) |
| May 28, 2021 |
Cirith Ungol "Half Past Human" (CD/EP) |
| May 28, 2021 |
Alestorm "Live In Tilburg" (CD) |
| May 28, 2021 |
Alestorm "Live In Tilburg" (Blu-ray) |
| May 28, 2021 |
Tygers Of Pan Tang "Majors And Minors" (CD) |
| May 28, 2021 |
Wardrum "Mavericks" (CD) |
| May 28, 2021 |
Ghastly "Mercurial Passages" (CD) |
| May 28, 2021 |
Gosudar "Morbid Despotic Ritual" (CD) |
| May 28, 2021 |
Doedsrit "Mortal Coil" (CD) |
| May 28, 2021 |
Mosara "Mosara" (CD) |
| May 28, 2021 |
This Ending "Needles Of Rust" (CD) |
| May 28, 2021 |
Sadistik Forest "Obscure Old Remains" (CD/EP) |
| May 28, 2021 |
Alastor "Onwards And Downwards" (CD) |
| May 28, 2021 |
Eclipser "Pages" (CD/EP) |
| May 28, 2021 |
Infest "Psychosis" (CD) |
| May 28, 2021 |
Noctiferia "Reforma" (CD) |
| May 28, 2021 |
Satanic Planet "Satanic Planet" (CD) |
| May 28, 2021 |
King of Asgard "Svartrviðr" (CD) |
| May 28, 2021 |
Schismopathic "The Human Legacy" (CD) |
| May 28, 2021 |
Burning Witches "The Witch Of The North" (CD) |
| Jun 4, 2021 |
Ancient Wisdom "A Celebration In Honor Of Death" (CD) |
| Jun 4, 2021 |
Red Fang "Arrows" (CD) |
| Jun 4, 2021 |
Flotsam and Jetsam "Blood In The Water" (CD) |
| Jun 4, 2021 |
Desaster "Churches Without Saints" (CD) |
| Jun 4, 2021 |
Crimson Dimension "Crimson Dimension" (CD) |
| Jun 4, 2021 |
Myronath "Djevelkraft" (CD) |
| Jun 4, 2021 |
Boss Keloid "Family The Smiling Thrush" (CD) |
| Jun 4, 2021 |
Code "Flyblown Prince" (CD) |
| Jun 4, 2021 |
T.O.M.E. "I-III" (CD) |
| Jun 4, 2021 |
Rhapsody Of Fire "I'll Be Your Hero" (CD/EP) |
| Jun 4, 2021 |
Winter Eternal "Land Of Darkness" (CD) |
| Jun 4, 2021 |
Sordide "Les Idées Blanches" (CD) |
| Jun 4, 2021 |
Absentees "Liars Do Leaders Make" (CD) |
| Jun 4, 2021 |
Ossaert "Pelgrimsoord" (CD) |
| Jun 4, 2021 |
Sojourner "Perennial" (Digital EP) |
| Jun 4, 2021 |
Graveripper "Radiated Remains" (CD/EP) |
| Jun 4, 2021 |
Inhuman Condition "Rat God" (CD) |
| Jun 4, 2021 |
Cloak Of Altering "Sheathed Swords Drip With Poisonous Honey" (CD) |
| Jun 4, 2021 |
Necronemesis "Some Things Should Stay Underground" (CD) |
| Jun 4, 2021 |
Decapitated "The First Damned" (CD) |
| Jun 4, 2021 |
Through The Oculus "Through The Oculus" (CD) |
| Jun 4, 2021 |
Van Canto "To The Power Of Eight" (CD) |
| Jun 11, 2021 |
Metalwings "A Whole New Land" (CD) |
| Jun 11, 2021 |
Distant "Aeons Of Oblivion" (CD) |
| Jun 11, 2021 |
Mother Of All "Age Of The Solipsist" (CD) |
| Jun 11, 2021 |
Witch Cross "Angel Of Death" (CD) |
| Jun 11, 2021 |
Eremit "Bearer Of Many Names" (CD) |
| Jun 11, 2021 |
Sepiroth "Condemned To Suffer" (CD) |
| Jun 11, 2021 |
Dornenreich "Du Wilde Liebe Sei" (CD) |
| Jun 11, 2021 |
Crypta "Echoes Of The Soul" (CD) |
| Jun 11, 2021 |
Hammer King "Hammer King" (CD) |
| Jun 11, 2021 |
Pig Destroyer "Pornographers Of Sound: Live In NYC" (CD) |
| Jun 11, 2021 |
Interloper "Search Party" (CD) |
| Jun 11, 2021 |
Mr. Bungle "The Night They Come Home" (CD) |
| Jun 11, 2021 |
Path of Destiny "The Seed Of All Evil" (CD) |
| Jun 11, 2021 |
Gorgon "Traditio Satanae" (CD) |
| Jun 11, 2021 |
Varego "Varego" (CD) |
| Jun 18, 2021 |
Alustrium "A Monument To Silence" (CD) |
| Jun 18, 2021 |
Fear Factory "Aggression Continuum" (CD) |
| Jun 18, 2021 |
Chalice Of Sin "Chalice Of Sin" (CD) |
| Jun 18, 2021 |
Subway to Sally "Eisheilige Nacht - Back To Lindenpark" (DVD) |
| Jun 18, 2021 |
Entierro "El Camazotz" (CD/EP) |
| Jun 18, 2021 |
Helloween "Helloween" (CD) |
| Jun 18, 2021 |
Season Of Dreams "Heroes" (CD) |
| Jun 18, 2021 |
Hacktivist "Hyperdialect" (CD) |
| Jun 18, 2021 |
The Day Of The Beast "Indisputably Carnivorous" (CD) |
| Jun 18, 2021 |
Demon Incarnate "Leaves Of Zaqqum" (CD) |
| Jun 18, 2021 |
Heavy Temple "Lupi Amoris" (CD) |
| Jun 18, 2021 |
Bossk "Migration" (CD) |
| Jun 18, 2021 |
Decayed "Old Ghosts And Primeval Demons" (CD) |
| Jun 18, 2021 |
Bloodbeat "Process Of Extinction" (CD) |
| Jun 18, 2021 |
Crobot "Rat Child" (CD/EP) |
| Jun 18, 2021 |
Timo Tolkki's Avalon "The Enigma Rebirth" (CD) |
| Jun 18, 2021 |
Neonfly "The Future, Tonight" (CD) |
| Jun 18, 2021 |
Pharaoh "The Powers That Be" (CD) |
| Jun 18, 2021 |
Ravager "The Third Attack" (CD) |
| Jun 18, 2021 |
Withered "Verloren" (CD) |
| Jun 18, 2021 |
Korgonthurus "XX" (CD) |
| Jun 25, 2021 |
Sxuperion "Auscultating Astral Monuments" (CD) |
| Jun 25, 2021 |
The Absence "Coffinized" (CD) |
| Jun 25, 2021 |
Requiem "Collapse Into Chaos" (CD) |
| Jun 25, 2021 |
Amenra "De Doorn" (CD) |
| Jun 25, 2021 |
Prayers of Sanity "Doctrine Of Misanthropy" (CD) |
| Jun 25, 2021 |
Darkthrone "Eternal Hails" (CD) |
| Jun 25, 2021 |
Cerebral Rot "Excretion Of Mortality" (CD) |
| Jun 25, 2021 |
Pestilence "Exitivm" (CD) |
| Jun 25, 2021 |
Nephren-Ka "From Agony To Transcendence" (CD) |
| Jun 25, 2021 |
Lacuna Coil "Live From The Apocalypse" (CD) |
| Jun 25, 2021 |
Lacuna Coil "Live From The Apocalypse" (DVD) |
| Jun 25, 2021 |
Siderean "Lost On Void’s Horizon" (CD) |
| Jun 25, 2021 |
Loch Vostok "Opus Ferox - The Great Escape" (CD) |
| Jun 25, 2021 |
Mindfield "Seclusion Of Sanity" (CD) |
| Jun 25, 2021 |
Urne "Serpent & Spirit" (CD) |
| Jun 25, 2021 |
Hiraes "Solitary" (CD) |
| Jun 25, 2021 |
De Arma "Strayed In Shadows" (CD) |
| Jun 25, 2021 |
Fractal Universe "The Impassable Horizon" (CD) |
| Jun 25, 2021 |
Thy Catafalque "Vadak" (CD) |
| Jun 25, 2021 |
Suidakra "Wolfbite" (CD) |
| Jun 25, 2021 |
Light The Torch "You Will Be The Death Of Me" (CD) |
| Jun 30, 2021 |
Ruach Raah "Misanthropic Wolfgang" (CD) |
| Jul 2, 2021 |
Born Of Osiris "Angel Or Alien" (CD) |
| Jul 2, 2021 |
Anthropophagus Depravity "Apocalypto" (CD) |
| Jul 2, 2021 |
Drawn And Quartered "Congregation Pestilence" (CD) |
| Jul 2, 2021 |
Year Of No Light "Consolamentum" (CD) |
| Jul 2, 2021 |
Burning Darkness "Dödens Makt" (CD) |
| Jul 2, 2021 |
Butcher In The Fog "Exonerate Me, Baby" (CD) |
| Jul 2, 2021 |
Defocus "In The Eye Of Death We Are All The Same" (CD) |
| Jul 2, 2021 |
Nanowar Of Steel "Italian Folk Metal" (CD) |
| Jul 2, 2021 |
Lord of the Lost "Judas" (CD) |
| Jul 2, 2021 |
Diabolizer "Khalkedonian Death" (CD) |
| Jul 2, 2021 |
Agrypnie "Metamorphosis" (CD) |
| Jul 2, 2021 |
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter "The Divine Horsemen" (CD) |
| Jul 2, 2021 |
At The Gates "The Nightmare Of Being" (CD) |
| Jul 2, 2021 |
Lost In Grey "Under The Surface" (CD) |
| Jul 9, 2021 |
Futility "Anhedonic" (CD) |
| Jul 9, 2021 |
Mayhem "Atavistic Black Disorder / Kommando" (CD/EP) |
| Jul 9, 2021 |
Powerwolf "Call Of The Wild" (CD) |
| Jul 9, 2021 |
L.A. Guns "Cocked & Loaded Live" (CD) |
| Jul 9, 2021 |
Ruadh "Eternal" (CD) |
| Jul 9, 2021 |
Night Crowned "Hädanfärd" (CD) |
| Jul 9, 2021 |
Eternal Valley "Kingdom Of Misery" (CD) |
| Jul 9, 2021 |
Unendlich "Paradox Of A Broken World" (CD) |
| Jul 9, 2021 |
Kambrium "Synthetic Era" (CD) |
| Jul 9, 2021 |
Xasthur "Victims Of The Times" (CD) |
| Jul 9, 2021 |
71TonMan "War Is Peace // Peace Is Slavery" (CD) |
| Jul 16, 2021 |
Paradise Lost "At The Mill" (CD) |
| Jul 16, 2021 |
Paradise Lost "At The Mill" (DVD) |
| Jul 16, 2021 |
Dear Mother "Bulletproof" (CD) |
| Jul 16, 2021 |
Vomit Ritual "Callous" (CD) |
| Jul 16, 2021 |
Nothing Sacred "No Gods" (CD) |
| Jul 23, 2021 |
Sleep Waker "Alias" (CD) |
| Jul 23, 2021 |
Attila "Closure" (CD) |
| Jul 23, 2021 |
Craven Idol "Forked Tongues" (CD) |
| Jul 23, 2021 |
Yngwie Malmsteen "Parabellum" (CD) |
| Jul 23, 2021 |
Mordred "The Dark Parade" (CD) |
| Jul 30, 2021 |
Netherbird "Arete" (CD) |
| Jul 30, 2021 |
Axel Rudi Pell "Diamonds Unlocked II" (CD) |
| Jul 30, 2021 |
Underdark "Our Bodies Burned Bright on Re-Entry" (CD) |
| Jul 30, 2021 |
Dimman "Songs And Tales of Grievance" (CD) |
| Jul 30, 2021 |
Praise the Plague "The Obsidian Gate" (CD) |
| Jul 30, 2021 |
Groza "The Redemptive End" (CD) |
| Jul 30, 2021 |
Lantlos "Wildhund" (CD) |
| Aug 13, 2021 |
Gost "Rites Of Love And Reverence" (CD) |
| Aug 20, 2021 |
Sodom "Bombenhagel" (CD) |
| Aug 20, 2021 |
KK's Priest "Sermons Of The Sinner" (CD) |
| Aug 20, 2021 |
Brainstorm "Wall Of Skulls" (CD) |
| Aug 27, 2021 |
Our Place of Worship Is Silence "Disavowed, And Left Hopeless" (CD) |
| Aug 27, 2021 |
Thyrfing "Vanagandr" (CD) |
| Sep 17, 2021 |
Vulvodynia "Praenuntius Infiniti" (CD) |
| Sep 17, 2021 |
Eternal Flight "SurVive" (CD) |
| Sep 24, 2021 |
Dream Ocean "The Missing Stone" (CD) |
| Sep 24, 2021 |
Forgetting The Memories "Vemod" (CD) |
Europe / Worldwide*
* The world-wide release date (barring North America) often corresponds to the European release date. However, smaller labels and regional distros may render this correlation invalid in many instances.
| Date | Band/Release |
|---|---|
| 28-5-21 |
Mosara "Mosara" (CD) |
| 23-8-13 |
Trouble "The Distortion Field" (CD) >> Reviewed |
