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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2022.
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 7 | Atrocity | Unspoken Names (Demo 1991) (EP)[113] |
| Infected Rain | Ecdysis[114] | |
| Schwarzer Engel | Sieben[115] | |
| 14 | Enterprise Earth | The Chosen[116] |
| Fit for an Autopsy | Oh What the Future Holds[117] | |
| Ilium | Quantum Evolution Event (EP)[118] | |
| Shadow of Intent | Elegy[119] | |
| Skillet | Dominion[120] | |
| Tony Martin | Thorns[121] | |
| Underoath | Voyeurist[122] | |
| Worm Shepherd | Ritual Hymns[123] | |
| 21 | Ashes of Ares | Emperors and Fools[124] |
| Asking Alexandria | Never Gonna Learn (EP)[125] | |
| Battle Beast | Circus of Doom[126] | |
| Boris | W[127] | |
| Confess | Revenge at All Costs[128] | |
| Giant | Shifting Time[129] | |
| Iced Earth | A Narrative Soundscape[130] | |
| Kissin' Dynamite | Not the End of the Road[131] | |
| Sonata Arctica | Acoustic Adventures – Volume One[132] | |
| Tokyo Blade | Fury[133] | |
| 28 | Celeste | Assassine(s)[134] |
| Cloakroom | Dissolution Wave[135] | |
| Dawn of Solace | Flames of Perdition[136] | |
| Emerald Sun | Kingdom of Gods[137] | |
| Krallice | Crystalline Exhaustion[138] | |
| Lana Lane | Neptune Blue[139] | |
| The Last Ten Seconds of Life | The Last Ten Seconds of Life[140] | |
| Lawnmower Deth | Blunt Cutters[141] | |
| Praying Mantis | Katharsis[142] | |
| The Quill | Live, New, Borrowed, Blue (compilation album)[143] | |
| Steve Vai | Inviolate[144] |
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | Abysmal Dawn | Nightmare Frontier (EP)[145] |
| Bevar Sea | The Timeless Zone[146] | |
| Hed PE | Califas Worldwide[147] | |
| Korn | Requiem[148] | |
| Mystic Circle | Mystic Circle[149] | |
| Persefone | Metanoia[150] | |
| Rolo Tomassi | Where Myth Becomes Memory[151] | |
| Saxon | Carpe Diem[152] | |
| Venom Prison | Erebos[153] | |
| 11 | Amorphis | Halo[154] |
| Author & Punisher | Krüller[155] | |
| Cult of Luna | The Long Road North[156] | |
| Girish and The Chronicles | Hail to the Heroes[157] | |
| Napalm Death | Resentment Is Always Seismic – A Final Throw of Throes (mini-album)[158] | |
| Once Human | Scar Weaver[159] | |
| The Silent Wedding | Ego Path[160] | |
| Slash feat. Myles Kennedy & the Conspirators | 4[161] | |
| Tersivel | To the Orphic Void[162] | |
| Voivod | Synchro Anarchy[163] | |
| Zeal & Ardor | Zeal & Ardor[164] | |
| 18 | Annihilator | Metal II[165] |
| Bloodywood | Rakshak[166] | |
| Dagoba | By Night[167] | |
| Esprit D'Air | Oceans[168] | |
| Immolation | Acts of God[169] | |
| Matt Pike | Pike vs. the Automaton[170] | |
| Nightrage | Abyss Rising[171] | |
| Spirits of Fire | Embrace the Unknown[172] | |
| Star One | Revel in Time[173] | |
| 25 | Allegaeon | Damnum[174] |
| Bad Omens | The Death of Peace of Mind[175] | |
| Blood Incantation | Timewave Zero[176] | |
| Corey Taylor | CMFB ...Sides (covers album)[177] | |
| Diablo | When All the Rivers Are Silent[178] | |
| Eight Bells | Legacy of Ruin[179] | |
| George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher | Corpsegrinder[180] | |
| Guns N' Roses | Hard Skool (EP)[181] | |
| HammerFall | Hammer of Dawn[182] | |
| Metalucifer | Heavy Metal Ninja (mini-album)[183] | |
| Scorpions | Rock Believer[184] | |
| Shape of Despair | Return to the Void[185] | |
| Svartsot | Kumbl[186] | |
| Tygers of Pan Tang | A New Heartbeat (EP)[187] |
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 10 Years | Deconstructed[188] |
| Crowbar | Zero and Below[189] | |
| Eric Wagner | In the Lonely Light of Mourning[190] | |
| Flaw | Revival (covers album)[191] | |
| Sabaton | The War to End All Wars[192] | |
| Sunflower Dead | March of the Leper[193] | |
| Ty Tabor | Shades[194] | |
| Vein.fm | This World Is Going to Ruin You[195] | |
| Vio-lence | Let the World Burn (EP)[196] | |
| Warrior Soul | Out on Bail[197] | |
| 5 | King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard | Made in Timeland[198] |
| Troglodyte | The Hierarchical Ecological Succession: Welcome to the Food Chain[199] | |
| 11 | Black Pantera | Ascensão[200] |
| Brandon Boyd | Echoes and Cocoons[201] | |
| Claustrofobia | Unleeched[202] | |
| Cloven Hoof | Time Assassin[203] | |
| Ghost | Impera[204] | |
| Grim Reaper | Reaping the Whirlwind (live album)[205] | |
| Kiss | Off the Soundboard: Live in Virginia Beach (live album)[206] | |
| Love/Hate | HELL, CA[207] | |
| New Horizon | Gate of the Gods[208] | |
| Shaman's Harvest | Rebelator[209] | |
| Wolves at the Gate | Eulogies[210] | |
| 12 | Dog Fashion Disco | Cult Classic[211] |
| 18 | Agathodaimon | The Seven[212] |
| Dark Funeral | We Are the Apocalypse[213] | |
| Dawn of Ashes | Scars of the Broken[214] | |
| Manigance | Le bal des ombres[215] | |
| Ronni Le Tekrø | Bigfoot TV[216] | |
| Ronnie Atkins | Make It Count[217] | |
| Stabbing Westward | Chasing Ghosts[218] | |
| Týr | A Night at the Nordic House (live album)[219] | |
| 23 | Deathspell Omega | The Long Defeat[220] |
| 25 | Abbath | Dread Reaver[221] |
| Animals as Leaders | Parrhesia[222] | |
| Architects | For Those That Wish to Exist at Abbey Road (live album)[223] | |
| BillyBio | Leaders and Liars[224] | |
| Crystal Viper | The Last Axeman (mini-album)[225] | |
| Eucharist | I Am the Void[226] | |
| Hardcore Superstar | Abrakadabra[227] | |
| Killing Joke | Lord of Chaos (EP)[228] | |
| Michael Romeo | War of the Worlds, Pt. 2[229] | |
| Pist.On | Cold World EP (EP)[230] | |
| Reckless Love | Turborider[231] |
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Centinex | The Pestilence (EP)[232] |
| Kublai Khan | Lowest Form of Animal (EP)[233] | |
| Lords of the Trident | The Offering[234] | |
| Meshuggah | Immutable[235] | |
| Nekrogoblikon | The Fundamental Slimes and Humours[236] | |
| Satan | Earth Infernal[237] | |
| Trick or Treat | Creepy Symphonies[238] | |
| Wolf | Shadowland[239] | |
| 8 | Destruction | Diabolical[240] |
| Hällas | Isle of Wisdom[241] | |
| Incite | Wake Up Dead[242] | |
| Inglorious | MMXXI Live at the Phoenix (live album)[243] | |
| Mors Principium Est | Liberate the Unborn Inhumanity (compilation album)[244] | |
| Papa Roach | Ego Trip[245] | |
| Terzij de Horde | In One of These, I Am Your Enemy[246] | |
| Treat | The Endgame[247] | |
| 14 | Psychostick | ... and Stuff (compilation album)[248] |
| 15 | Abated Mass of Flesh | The Existence of Human Suffering[249] |
| Axel Rudi Pell | Lost XXIII[250] | |
| Cancer Bats | Psychic Jailbreak[251] | |
| Grand Belial's Key | Kohanic Charmers[252] | |
| JBO | Planet Pink[253] | |
| Månegarm | Ynglingaättens Öde[254] | |
| Monuments | In Stasis[255] | |
| Nazareth | Surviving the Law[256] | |
| Powerglove | Flawless Victory (EP)[257] | |
| Ronnie Romero | Raised on Radio (covers album)[258] | |
| Semblant | Vermilion Eclipse[259] | |
| These Arms Are Snakes | Duct Tape & Shivering Crows (compilation album)[260] | |
| 22 | Archgoat | All Christianity Ends (EP)[261] |
| Caliban | Dystopia[262] | |
| Die Apokalyptischen Reiter | Wilde Kinder[263] | |
| King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard | Omnium Gatherum[264] | |
| Märvel | Graces Came with Malice[265] | |
| Miseration | Black Miracles and Dark Wonders[266] | |
| Northlane | Obsidian[267] | |
| Ocean Grove | Up in the Air Forever[268] | |
| Primus | Conspiranoid (EP)[269] | |
| Skull Fist | Paid in Full[270] | |
| Somali Yacht Club | The Space[271] | |
| Speckmann Project | Fiends of Emptiness[272] | |
| Udo Dirkschneider | My Way (covers album)[273] | |
| 23 | Charlie Benante | Moving Pitchers (EP)[274] |
| Kirk Hammett | Portals (EP)[275] | |
| The Lord | Forest Nocturne[276] | |
| 29 | Al-Namrood | Worship the Degenerate[277] |
| Crashdïet | Automaton[278] | |
| The Gathering | Beautiful Distortion[279] | |
| Helms Alee | Keep This Be the Way[280] | |
| Heriot | Profound Morality (EP)[281] | |
| Rammstein | Zeit[282] | |
| Thunder | Dopamine[283] | |
| Void of Vision | Chronicles II: Heaven (EP)[284] | |
| Vulcano | Stone Orange[285] | |
| Watain | The Agony & Ecstasy of Watain[286] |
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | Depressed Mode | Decade of Silence[287] |
| Fozzy | Boombox[288] | |
| Halestorm | Back from the Dead[289] | |
| Ibaraki | Rashomon[290] | |
| Jani Liimatainen | My Father's Son[291] | |
| Jeff Scott Soto | Complicated[292] | |
| Lord of the Lost | The Heartbeat of the Devil (EP)[293] | |
| Puppy | Pure Evil[294] | |
| Three Days Grace | Explosions[295] | |
| Ufomammut | Fenice[296] | |
| Upon a Burning Body | Fury[297] | |
| Windwaker | Love Language[298] | |
| 13 | Demiricous | III: Chaotic Lethal[299] |
| Graham Bonnet Band | Day Out in Nowhere[300] | |
| Jungle Rot | A Call to Arms[301] | |
| Misery Index | Complete Control[302] | |
| Primitive Man | Insurmountable (EP)[303] | |
| Visions of Atlantis | Pirates[304] | |
| Zero Hour | Agenda 21[305] | |
| 18 | Novelbright | Assort[306] |
| 20 | Anvil | Impact Is Imminent[307] |
| Blut Aus Nord | Disharmonium – Undreamable Abysses[308] | |
| Cave In | Heavy Pendulum[309] | |
| Chuck Wright's Sheltering Sky | Chuck Wright's Sheltering Sky[310] | |
| Evergrey | A Heartless Portrait (The Orphean Testament)[311] | |
| James LaBrie | Beautiful Shade of Gray[312] | |
| Malevolence | Malicious Intent[313] | |
| Ratos de Porão | Necropolítica[314] | |
| Sadist | Firescorched[315] | |
| Septicflesh | Modern Primitive[316] | |
| Spheric Universe Experience | Back Home[317] | |
| Zinny Zan | Lullabies for the Masses[318] | |
| 25 | Man with a Mission | Break and Cross the Walls II[319] |
| 27 | Baest | Justitia (EP)[320] |
| Brutality | Sempiternity[321] | |
| Cadaveria | Emptiness[322] | |
| Crematory | Inglorious Darkness[323] | |
| Decapitated | Cancer Culture[324] | |
| Def Leppard | Diamond Star Halos[325] | |
| Holocausto Canibal | Crueza Ferina[326] | |
| Lord Belial | Rapture[327] | |
| Michael Schenker Group | Universal[328] | |
| Mournful Congregation | The Exuviae of Gods – Part I (EP)[329] | |
| Odd Crew | Dark Matters (Part 1)[330] | |
| Trollfest | Flamingo Overlord[331] | |
| 31 | Ribspreader | Crypt World[332] |
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | The Algorithm | Data Renaissance[333] |
| Astronoid | Radiant Bloom[334] | |
| Battlelore | The Return of the Shadow[335] | |
| Bleed from Within | Shrine[336] | |
| Gwar | The New Dark Ages[337] | |
| Killswitch Engage | Live at the Palladium (live album)[338] | |
| Las Cruces | Cosmic Tears[339] | |
| Memphis May Fire | Remade in Misery[340] | |
| Origin | Chaosmos[341] | |
| Red Handed Denial | I'd Rather Be Asleep[342] | |
| Thornhill | Heroine[343] | |
| 5 | Wolfsbane | Genius[344] |
| 10 | Billy Howerdel | What Normal Was[345] |
| Deadguy | Buyer's Remorse: Live from the Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest (live album)[346] | |
| downset. | Maintain[347] | |
| Dragged Under | Upright Animals[348] | |
| Kiss | Off the Soundboard: Live at Donington 1996 (live album)[349] | |
| Kreator | Hate Über Alles[350] | |
| Michael Monroe | I Live Too Fast to Die Young[351] | |
| Motionless in White | Scoring the End of the World[352] | |
| Satyricon | Satyricon & Munch[353] | |
| Schandmaul | Knüppel aus dem Sack[354] | |
| Secrets | The Collapse[355] | |
| Seventh Wonder | The Testament[356] | |
| Severe Torture | Fisting the Sockets (EP)[357] | |
| Soreption | Jord[358] | |
| Tierra Santa | Destino[359] | |
| William DuVall | 11.12.21 Live-In-Studio Nashville[360] | |
| Wind Rose | Warfront[361] | |
| 13 | Tombs | Ex Oblivion (EP)[362] |
| 15 | Dir En Grey | Phalaris[363] |
| Rings of Saturn | Rings of Saturn[364] | |
| 17 | Civil War | Invaders[365] |
| Infanteria | Patriarch[366] | |
| Jorn | Over the Horizon Radar[367] | |
| Oni | Loathing Light[368] | |
| Seven Kingdoms | Zenith[369] | |
| Tungsten | Bliss[370] | |
| 22 | Manowar | The Revenge of Odysseus (Highlights) (EP)[371] |
| Spiritbox | Rotoscope (EP)[372] | |
| 24 | Alestorm | Seventh Rum of a Seventh Rum[373] |
| Betraying the Martyrs | Silver Lining (EP)[374] | |
| Between the Buried and Me | The Great Misdirect Live (live album)[375] | |
| Black River | Generation aXe[376] | |
| Black Stone Cherry | Live from the Royal Albert Hall... Y'All (live album)[377] | |
| Coheed and Cambria | Vaxis – Act II: A Window of the Waking Mind[378] | |
| Darkane | Inhuman Spirits[379] | |
| Dawn of Destiny | Of Silence[380] | |
| Enphin | End Cut[381] | |
| Khold | Svartsyn[382] | |
| Paganizer | Beyond the Macabre[383] | |
| Porcupine Tree | Closure/Continuation[384] | |
| Projected | Hypoxia[385] | |
| Victorius | Dinosaur Warfare Pt. 2 – The Great Ninja War[386] | |
| 30 | Bleeding Through | Rage (EP)[387] |
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Derek Sherinian | Vortex[388] |
| Greg Puciato | Mirrorcell[389] | |
| Haunt | Windows of Your Heart[390] | |
| Holy Dragons | Jörmungandr – The Serpent of the World[391] | |
| Massacre | Mythos (EP)[392] | |
| Municipal Waste | Electrified Brain[393] | |
| Randy Holden | Population III[394] | |
| Saint Asonia | Introvert (EP)[395] | |
| Shinedown | Planet Zero[396] | |
| Superheist | MMXX[397] | |
| 6 | Coldrain | Nonnegative[398] |
| 8 | Altaria | Wisdom[399] |
| Blind Channel | Lifestyles of the Sick & Dangerous[400] | |
| Powerwolf | The Monumental Mass – A Cinematic Metal Event (live album)[401] | |
| Wormrot | Hiss[402] | |
| 13 | Obituary | Cause of Death – Live Infection (live album)[403] |
| Slowly We Rot – Live & Rotting (live album)[403] | ||
| 15 | Antigama | Whiteout[404] |
| Jack Starr's Burning Starr | Souls of the Innocent[405] | |
| Mantar | Pain Is Forever and This Is the End[406] | |
| Senses Fail | Hell Is in Your Head[407] | |
| Sinner | Brotherhood[408] | |
| 22 | Hatriot | The Vale of Shadows[409] |
| Imperial Triumphant | Spirit of Ecstasy[410] | |
| Karl Sanders | Saurian Apocalypse[411] | |
| Oceans of Slumber | Starlight and Ash[412] | |
| Palisades | Reaching Hypercritical[413] | |
| Scar for Life | Sociophobia[414] | |
| Witchery | Nightside[415] | |
| 28 | Bad Wolves | Sacred Kiss (EP)[416] |
| Incantation | Tricennial of Blasphemy (compilation album)[417] | |
| 29 | Belphegor | The Devils[418] |
| Black Magnet | Body Prophecy[419] | |
| Chat Pile | God's Country[420] | |
| Krisiun | Mortem Solis[421] | |
| Stick to Your Guns | Spectre[422] | |
| Torture Killer | Dead Inside (EP)[423] |
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | Tom Hunting | Hunting Party (EP)[424] |
| 5 | Abaddon Incarnate | The Wretched Sermon[425] |
| Amon Amarth | The Great Heathen Army[426] | |
| Dub War | Westgate Under Fire[427] | |
| Einherjer | Norse and Dangerous (Live... from the Land of Legends) (live album)[428] | |
| H.E.A.T | Force Majeure[429] | |
| Psycroptic | Superhuman Council[430] | |
| Soulfly | Totem[431] | |
| Toxik | Dis Morta[432] | |
| Vanden Plas | Live & Immortal (live album)[433] | |
| 12 | Arch Enemy | Deceivers[434] |
| Boris | Heavy Rocks[435] | |
| The Halo Effect | Days of the Lost[436] | |
| Hollywood Undead | Hotel Kalifornia[437] | |
| Jackyl | 30 Coming in Hot (compilation album)[438] | |
| Locrian | New Catastrophism[439] | |
| Ghost Frontiers (EP)[439] | ||
| Norma Jean | Deathrattle Sing for Me[440] | |
| Wolfbrigade | Anti-Tank Dogs (EP)[441] | |
| 14 | Melvins | Bad Mood Rising[442] |
| 19 | Conan | Evidence of Immortality[443] |
| Five Finger Death Punch | AfterLife[444] | |
| Heilung | Drif[445] | |
| I Prevail | True Power[446] | |
| Lillian Axe | From Womb to Tomb[447] | |
| Parasite Inc. | Cyan Night Dreams[448] | |
| Psyclon Nine | Less to Heaven[449] | |
| Russian Circles | Gnosis[450] | |
| Soilwork | Övergivenheten[451] | |
| Spirit Adrift | 20 Centuries Gone (compilation album)[452] | |
| 26 | Becoming the Archetype | Children of the Great Extinction[16] |
| Brymir | Voices in the Sky[453] | |
| Dynazty | Final Advent[454] | |
| Grave Digger | Symbol of Eternity[455] | |
| Lacrimas Profundere | How to Shroud Yourself with Night[456] | |
| Long Distance Calling | Eraser[457] | |
| Machine Head | Of Kingdom and Crown[458] | |
| Santa Cruz | The Return of the Kings[459] | |
| Sigh | Shiki[460] | |
| Soil | Play It Forward (covers album)[461] | |
| Tad Morose | March of the Obsequious[462] | |
| 27 | Imperial Age | New World[463] |
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oceans Ate Alaska | Disparity[464] |
| 2 | Blind Guardian | The God Machine[465] |
| The Callous Daoboys | Celebrity Therapist[466] | |
| The Hu | Rumble of Thunder[467] | |
| Mad Max | Wings of Time[468] | |
| Mantic Ritual | Heart Set Stone (EP)[469] | |
| King's X | Three Sides of One[470] | |
| Megadeth | The Sick, the Dying... and the Dead![471] | |
| Mike Tramp | For Første Gang[472] | |
| Miss May I | Curse of Existence[473] | |
| Novelists | Déjà Vu[474] | |
| 9 | Allen/Olzon | Army of Dreamers[475] |
| Bloodbath | Survival of the Sickest[476] | |
| Fallujah | Empyrean[477] | |
| Holy Fawn | Dimensional Bleed[478] | |
| Kiss | Off the Soundboard: Live in Des Moines 1977 (live album)[479] | |
| KMFDM | Hyëna[480] | |
| Mezarkabul | Makina Elektrika[481] | |
| Ozzy Osbourne | Patient Number 9[482] | |
| Parkway Drive | Darker Still[483] | |
| Revocation | Netherheaven[484] | |
| Stray from the Path | Euthanasia[485] | |
| Trauma | Awakening[486] | |
| Ville Laihiala & Saattajat | Ei Meillä Ole Kuin Loisemme[487] | |
| Until I Wake | 'Inside My Head" | |
| 16 | The 69 Eyes | Drive (EP)[488] |
| Behemoth | Opvs Contra Natvram[489] | |
| Clutch | Sunrise on Slaughter Beach[490] | |
| Destrage | SO MUCH. too much.[491] | |
| The Devil Wears Prada | Color Decay[492] | |
| Edenbridge | Shangri-La[493] | |
| Electric Callboy | Tekkno[494] | |
| Epoch of Unlight | At War with the Multiverse[495] | |
| Hartmann | Get Over It[496] | |
| Hetroertzen | Phosphorus, Vol. 1[497] | |
| House of Lords | Saints and Sinners[498] | |
| Marco Mendoza | New Direction[499] | |
| Omega Diatribe | My Sphere (EP)[500] | |
| Spiritus Mortis | The Great Seal[501] | |
| 23 | KEN mode | Null[502] |
| Moonspell | From Down Below – Live 80 Meters Deep (live album)[503] | |
| OvO | Ignoto[504] | |
| Razor | Cycle of Contempt[505] | |
| Silent Knight | Full Force[506] | |
| Stratovarius | Survive[507] | |
| Venom Inc. | There's Only Black[508] | |
| 30 | Autopsy | Morbidity Triumphant[509] |
| Drowning Pool | Strike a Nerve[510] | |
| Rage | Spreading the Plague (EP)[511] | |
| Raven | Leave 'Em Bleeding (compilation album)[512] | |
| Sammy Hagar and the Circle | Crazy Times[513] | |
| Sceptic | Nailed to Ignorance[514] | |
| Slipknot | The End, So Far[515] | |
| Sonata Arctica | Acoustic Adventures – Volume Two[516] | |
| Tankard | Pavlov's Dawgs[517] |
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Acid Witch | Rot Among Us[518] |
| 5 | Liturgy | As the Blood of God Bursts the Veins of Time (EP)[519] |
| 7 | Blind Illusion | Wrath of the Gods[520] |
| Borealis | Illusions[521] | |
| Charlotte Wessels | Tales from Six Feet Under, Vol. II[522] | |
| Counterparts | A Eulogy for Those Still Here[523] | |
| The Cult | Under the Midnight Sun[524] | |
| Ellefson–Soto | Vacation in the Underworld[525] | |
| Goatwhore | Angels Hung from the Arches of Heaven[526] | |
| King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard | Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava[527] | |
| Lamb of God | Omens[528] | |
| Lost Society | If the Sky Came Down[529] | |
| Queensrÿche | Digital Noise Alliance[530] | |
| Wednesday 13 | Horrifier[531] | |
| 12 | King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard | Laminated Denim[527] |
| 14 | Alter Bridge | Pawns & Kings[532] |
| Bloody Hammers | Washed in the Blood[533] | |
| Dragonland | The Power of the Nightstar[534] | |
| Eleine | Acoustic in Hell (EP)[535] | |
| Gun | The Calton Songs[536] | |
| Lorna Shore | Pain Remains[537] | |
| Nothing More | Spirits[538] | |
| Outline in Color | Coast Is Clear[539] | |
| Skid Row | The Gang's All Here[540] | |
| Sleeping with Sirens | Complete Collapse[541] | |
| Varials | Scars for You to Remember[542] | |
| We Came as Romans | Darkbloom[543] | |
| 21 | Architects | The Classic Symptoms of a Broken Spirit[544] |
| Avantasia | A Paranormal Evening with the Moonflower Society[545] | |
| Avatarium | Death, Where Is Your Sting[546] | |
| Black Veil Brides | The Mourning (EP)[547] | |
| Brutus | Unison Life[548] | |
| Exhumed | To the Dead[549] | |
| Gothminister | Pandemonium[550] | |
| In This Moment | Blood 1983 (EP)[551] | |
| Sahg | Born Demon[552] | |
| Serj Tankian | Perplex Cities (EP)[553] | |
| Stryper | The Final Battle[554] | |
| Ugly Kid Joe | Rad Wings of Destiny[555] | |
| A Wake in Providence | Eternity[556] | |
| WarCry | Daimon[557] | |
| White Skull | Metal Never Rusts[558] | |
| 24 | Galahad | The Last Great Adventurer[559] |
| 26 | Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas | Cocoon for the Golden Future[560] |
| 28 | Brant Bjork | Bougainvillea Suite[561] |
| Darkthrone | Astral Fortress[562] | |
| Dead Cross | II[563] | |
| Defleshed | Grind Over Matter[564] | |
| Demon Hunter | Exile[565] | |
| Despised Icon | Déterré (EP)[566] | |
| Dr. Acula | Dr. Acula[567] | |
| Fear Factory | Recoded (remix album)[568] | |
| Fire from the Gods | Soul Revolution[569] | |
| Fit for a King | The Hell We Create[570] | |
| Joe Lynn Turner | Belly of the Beast[571] | |
| King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard | Changes[527] | |
| Royal Hunt | Dystopia – Part II[572] | |
| Sodom | 40 Years at War – The Greatest Hell of Sodom (compilation album)[573] | |
| Therion | Leviathan II[574] |
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 96 Bitter Beings | Synergy Restored[575] |
| Black Anvil | Regenesis[576] | |
| Dayseeker | Dark Sun[577] | |
| Depresszió | Vissza a Földre[578] | |
| Devin Townsend | Lightwork[579] | |
| Disillusion | Ayam[580] | |
| Frank Bello | Then I'm Gone (EP)[581] | |
| Ingested | Ashes Lie Still[582] | |
| Voivod | Ultraman (EP)[583] | |
| 8 | Vinnie Moore | Double Exposure[584] |
| 11 | Arallu | Death Covenant[585] |
| Chelsea Grin | Suffer in Hell[586] | |
| Drudkh | Всі належать ночі[587] | |
| Enuff Z'Nuff | Finer Than Sin[588] | |
| Epica | The Alchemy Project (EP)[589] | |
| He Is Legend | Endless Hallway[590] | |
| Kampfar | Til Klovers Takt[591] | |
| Last in Line | A Day in the Life (EP)[592] | |
| Leatherwolf | Kill the Hunted[593] | |
| Ring of Fire | Gravity[594] | |
| Xentrix | Seven Words[595] | |
| 18 | 16 | Into Dust[596] |
| Aurora Borealis | Prophecy Is the Mold in Which History Is Poured[597] | |
| Autograph | Beyond[598] | |
| Candlemass | Sweet Evil Sun[599] | |
| Disturbed | Divisive[600] | |
| Nickelback | Get Rollin'[601] | |
| Ronnie Atkins | Symphomaniac (EP)[602] | |
| Saint Asonia | Extrovert (EP)[603] | |
| Soen | Atlantis (live album)[604] | |
| Tallah | The Generation of Danger[605] | |
| Threshold | Dividing Lines[606] | |
| U.D.O. | The Legacy (compilation album)[607] | |
| Wolves at the Gate | Lowborn (EP)[608] | |
| 25 | Elder | Innate Passage[609] |
| Hibernus Mortis | The Monoliths of Cursed Slumber[610] | |
| In the Woods... | Diversum[611] | |
| Judicator | The Majesty of Decay[612] | |
| The Last Ten Seconds of Life | Disquisition on an Execution (EP)[613] | |
| Leather | We Are the Chosen[614] | |
| Lee Aaron | Elevate[615] | |
| Ofermod | Ofermodian Litanies (mini-album)[616] | |
| Sword | III[617] | |
| 28 | Necrodeath | Singin' in the Pain[618] |
| Day | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | Amberian Dawn | Take a Chance – A Metal Tribute to ABBA (covers album)[619] |
| Deströyer 666 | Never Surrender[620] | |
| Eisregen | Wiedergänger (EP)[621] | |
| Hammers of Misfortune | Overtaker[622] | |
| 9 | Lionheart | Welcome to the West Coast III[623] |
| Ripper | Return to Death Row (EP)[624] | |
| Serenity | Memoria (live album)[625] | |
| 14 | Nemophila | Seize the Fate[626] |
| 15 | Rotting Christ | The Apocryphal Spells, Vol. I (EP)[627] |
| The Apocryphal Spells, Vol. II (EP)[627] | ||
| 22 | Rudra | Eight Mahavidyas[628] |
| 25 | Snowy Shaw | This Is Heavy Metal, Plain & Simple (compilation album)[629] |
| 30 | Lord of the Lost | Blood & Glitter[630] |
| Satanic Warmaster | Aamongandr[631] |