2020 Rock, Hard Rock And Metal New Releases
May 15, 2020
Asking Alexandria – Like A House On Fire (Sumerian)
Between The Buried And Me – Between The Buried And Me Vinyl Re-Release (Craft)
Firewind – Firewind (AFM)
Horisont – Sudden Death (Century Media)
The Hunna – I’d Rather Die Than Let You In (300)
King Diamond – The Eye Re-Release (Metal Blade)
King Diamond – In Concert Re-Release (Metal Blade)
Paradise Lost – Obsidian (Nuclear Blast)
Pattern-Seeking Animals – Prehensile Tales (InsideOut)
Sarcofago – Hate Re-Release (Greyhaze)
Shrapnel – Palace For The Insane (Candlelight/Spinefarm)
Tokyo Blade – Dark Revolution (Dissonance)
Toledo Steel – The First Strike Of Steel (Dissonance)
Triptykon – Requiem (Live At Roadburn 2019) (Prowling Death/Century Media)
Tyrant – Hereafter (Shadow Kingdom)
Voodoo Gods – The Divinity Of Blood (Reaper)
May 22, 2020
Caligula’s Horse – Rise Radiant (InsideOut)
Die Kreatur – Panoptikum (Napalm)
Her Chariot Awaits – Her Chariot (Frontiers)
The Nixons – Sonic Boom EP (Intercept)
Plague Years – Circle Of Darkness (eOne)
Revenge – Strike.Smother.Dehumanize (Season Of Mist)
May 29, 2020
Bleed From Within – Fracture (Century Media)
Carach Angren – ‘Franckensteina Strataemontanus (Season Of Mist)
Def Leppard – London To Vegas DVD/CD (Eagle Rock)
Grave Digger – Fields Of Blood (Napalm)
The Killers – Imploding The Magic (Island)
Mike LePond’s Silent Assassins – Whore Of Babylon (Silver Lining)
Palaye Royale – The Bastards (Sumerian)
Rush – Permanent Waves Re-Release (Ume/Mercury/Anthem)
Sorcerer – Lamenting Of The Innocent (Metal Blade)
Static-X – Project Regeneration Volume 1 (Otsego)
Vandenberg – 2020 (Mascot)
Xibalba – Anos En Infierno (Southern Lord)
June 5, 2020
-(16)- – Dream Squasher (Relapse)
Currents – The Way It Ends (SharpTone)
Devin Townsend – Empath – The Ultimate Edition (InsideOut)
End – Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face (Closed Casket Activities)
Exhumed/Gruesome – Twisted Horror Split (Relapse)
The Ghost Inside – The Ghost Inside (Epitaph)
Haken – Virus (InsideOut)
Make Them Suffer – How To Survive A Funeral (Rise)
Mercyful Fate – Don’t Break The Oath Re-Release (Metal Blade)
Mercyful Fate – Melissa Re-Release (Metal Blade)
Mercyful Fate – Mercyful Fate Re-Release (Metal Blade)
Powerwolf – Best Of The Blessed (Napalm)
The Rentals – Q36 (Self)
The Sword – Chronology: 2006-2018 (Craft)
The Sword – Conquest Of Kingdoms (Craft)
June 12, 2020
Aversions Crown – Hell Will Come For Us All (Nuclear Blast)
Behold The Arctopus – Hapeleptic Overtrove (Willowtip/P2)
BPMD – American Made (Napalm)
Electric Mob – Discharge (Frontiers)
Living Gate – Deathlust EP (Relapse)
Magnus Karlsson’s Free Fall – We Are The Night (Frontiers)
Michael Angelo Batio – More Machine Than Man (Rat Pak)
Shape Of Water – Great Illusions (Eclipse)
June 19, 2020
Atavist – III: Absolution (Candlelight)
Blues Pills – Holy Moly! (Nuclear Blast)
Constellatia – The Language Of Limbs (Season Of Mist)
Cro-Mags – In The Beginning (Mission Two)
Iron Maiden – The Live Collection – Remastered (BMG)
Lamb Of God – Lamb Of God (Epic)
Mushroomhead – A Wonderful Life (Napalm)
Trapt – Shadow Work (The Label Group/INgrooves)
Vile Creature – Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm! (Prosthetic)
June 26, 2020
Ahab – Live Prey (Napalm)
Bell Witch and Aerial Ruin – Stygian Bough Volume 1 (Profound Lore)
Feuerschwanz – Das Elfte Gebot (Napalm)
Grey Daze – Amends (Loma Vista)
Long Distance Calling – How Do We Want To Live? (InsideOut)
Pyrrhon – Abscess Time (Willowtip)
Voidceremony – Entropic Reflections Continuum: Dimensional Unravel (20 Buck Spin)
July 3, 2020
Bury Tomorrow – Cannibal (Music For Nations)
July 10, 2020
Bloody Heels – Ignite The Sky (Frontiers)
Ensiferum – Thalassic (Metal Blade)
Enuff Z’Nuff – Brainwashed Generation (Frontiers)
Tokyo Motor Fist – Lions (Frontiers)
July 17, 2020
Dark Sarah – Grim (Napalm)
Guardian Of Lightning – Cosmos Tree (Eclipse)
Primal Fear – Metal Commando (Nuclear Blast)
Rumahoy – Time II: Party (Napalm)
July 24, 2020
Judicator – Let There Be Nothing (Prosthetic)
Morse, Portnoy, George – Cov3r To Cov3r (InsideOut)
Morse, Portnoy, George – Cover To Cover Anthology (Vol 1-3) (InsideOut)
Neck Deep – All Distortions Are Intentional (Hopeless)
Primal Fear – Metal Commando (Nuclear Blast)
July 31, 2020
Alcatrazz – Born Innocent (Silver Lining)
Alain Johannes – Hum (Ipecac)
Imperial Triumphant – Alphaville (Century Media)
Mora Prokaza – By Chance (Season Of Mist)
August 7, 2020
Deep Purple – Whoosh! (earMusic)
In Hearts Wake – Kaliyuga (UNFD)
August 14, 2020
King Buzzo – Gift Of Sacrifice (Ipecac)
September 25, 2020
Four Stroke Baron – Monoqueen (Prosthetic)
Albums Already Released in 2020
January 24, 2020
Annihilator – Ballistic, Sadistic (Silver Lining)
Blasphemer – The Sixth Hour (Candlelight)
Blue Oyster Cult – Cult Classic Re-Release (Frontiers)
Blue Oyster Cult – Hard Rock Live Cleveland 2014 (Frontiers)
Breaking Benjamin – Aurora (Hollywood)
Davey Suicide – Rock Ain’t Dead (Out Of Line/InGrooves)
Defiled – Infinite Regress (Season Of Mist)
Dirty Shirley – Dirty Shirley (Frontiers)
Hazzerd – Delirium (M-Theory)
Jorn – Heavy Rock Radio II: Executing The Classics (Frontiers)
Kirk Windstein – Dream in Motion (eOne)
Konvent – Puritan Masochism (Napalm)
Marko Hietala – Pyre of the Black Heart (Nuclear Blast)
Midnight – Rebirth by Blasphemy (Metal Blade)
Mortiis – Spirit of Rebellion (Omnipresence)
Necro Di Marte – Immoto (Season of Mist)
Revolution Saints – Rise (Frontiers)
Surgical Strike – Part of a Sick World (Metalville)
Temperance – Viridian (Napalm)
Thy Catafalque – Naiv (Season Of Mist)
January 31, 2020
Amberian Dawn – Looking For You (Napalm)
Clint Lowery – God Bless the Renegades (Rise)
Coffin Curse – Ceased to Be (Memento Mori)
Dark Matter – Nebula to Black Hole (My Kingdom)
Dead Kosmonaut – Gravitas (High Roller)
Deathwhite – Grave Image (Season Of Mist)
Gary Moore – Live From London (Mascot)
Heathen – The Evolution of Chaos Re-Release (Mascot)
Leeched – To Dull the Blades of Your Abuse (Prosthetic)
A Life Divided – Echoes (AFM)
Lordi – Killection (AFM)
Nechochwen/Panopticon – Split (Bindrune)
Obsidian Tongue – III (Bindrune)
Paul Di’Anno – Hell Over Waltrop – Live Germany (Metalville)
Savage Hands – The Truth in Your Eyes (Sharptone)
Serenity – The Last Knight (Napalm)
Theory of a Deadman – Say Nothing (Atlantic)
February 7, 2020
Delain – Apocalypse & Chill (Napalm)
God Dethroned – Illuminati (Metal Blade)
Godsticks – Inescapable (Kscope)
Ritual King – Ritual King (Ripple)
Sepultura – Quadra (Nuclear Blast)
Sylosis – Cycle of Suffering (Nuclear Blast)
Ye Banished Privateers – Hostis Humani Generis (Napalm)
February 14, 2020
Anvil – Legal at Last (AFM)
Archon Angel – Fallen (Frontiers)
Black Swan – Shake the World (Frontiers)
Blaze of Perdition – The Harrowing of Hearts (Metal Blade)
Brian Posehn – Grandpa Metal (Megaforce)
Diabulus In Musica – Euphoric Entropy (Napalm)
Godthrymm – Reflections (Profound Lore)
Great American Ghost – Power Through Terror (eOne)
Hollywood Undead – New Empire, Vol. 1 (BMG)
Ihsahn – Telemark EP (Candlelight)
Kreator – London Apocalypticon: Live at the Roundhouse (Nuclear Blast)
Kvelertak – Splid (Rise)
Necrowretch – The Ones From Hell (Season Of Mist)
Psychotic Waltz – The God-Shaped Void (InsideOut)
Pyogenesis – A Silent Soul Screams Loud (AFM)
Serious Black – Suite 226 (AFM)
Seven Spires – Emerald Seas (Frontiers)
Shark Island – Bloodline (Self)
Suicide Silence – Become the Hunter (Nuclear Blast)
February 21, 2020
Biff Byford – School of Hard Knocks (Silver Lining)
Deliverance – Holocaust 26: 1-46 (Deadlight)
Demons & Wizards – III (Century Media)
Dio – The Studio Album Collection: 1996-2004 (BMG/Niji)
Discharge – Protest And Survive: The Anthology (BMG)
Framing Hanley – Envy (Thermal)
Ozzy Osbourne – Ordinary Man (Epic)
Polaris – The Death Of Me (SharpTone)
Raspberry Bulbs – Before the Age of Mirrors (Relapse)
Sightless Pit – Grave Of A Dog (Thrill Jockey)
The Word Alive – Monomania (Fearless)
February 28, 2020
Audrey Horne – Waiting for the Night (Napalm)
Dark Fortress – Spectres From the Old World (Century Media)
Five Finger Death Punch – F8 (Better Noise)
Insect Ark – The Vanishing (Profound Lore)
Intronaut – Fluid Existential Inversions (Metal Blade)
Neaera – Neaera (Metal Blade)
The Night Flight Orchestra – Aeromantic (Nuclear Blast)
Nils Patrik Johansson – The Great Conspiracy (Metalville)
Regarde Les Hommes Tomber – Ascension (Season Of Mist)
Tombs – Monarchy of Shadows EP (Season Of Mist)
Toundra – Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (InsideOut)
Wishbone Ash – Coat of Arms (SPV/Steamhammer)
March 6, 2020
Body Count – Carnivore (Century Media)
Burning Witches – Dance With the Devil (Nuclear Blast)
Crematory – Unbroken (Napalm)
Earth Rot – Black Tides of Obscurity (Season Of Mist)
Elyne – Art of Being Human (Self)
My Dying Bride – The Ghost Of Orion (Nuclear Blast)
The Neal Morse Band – The Great Adventour: Live in BRNO 2019 (InsideOut)
Novena – Eleventh Hour (Frontiers)
March 13, 2020
Code Orange – Underneath (Roadrunner)
Conny Bloom – Game! Set! Bloom! (Mighty)
Devin Townsend Project – By a Thread: Live in London 2011 Vinyl Box Set (InsideOut)
Jonathan Hulten – Chants From Another Place (Kscope)
March 20, 2020
Hyborian – Volume II (Season Of Mist)
White Stones – Kuarahy (Nuclear Blast)
March 27, 2020
Candlemass – The Pendulum EP (Napalm)
Igorrr – Spirituality And Distortion (Metal Blade)
In This Moment – Mother (Roadrunner/Atlantic)
Irist – Order Of The Mind (Nuclear Blast)
Me And That Man – New Man, New Songs, Same S–t, Vol. 1 (Napalm)
Omega Infinity – Solar Spectre (Season Of Mist)
Parkway Drive – Viva The Underdogs (Epitaph)
Pearl Jam – Gigaton (Monkeywrench/Republic)
Riot – Rock World (Rare & Unreleased 87-95) (Metal Blade)
Tesla – Five Man London Jam (UMe)
Unleashed – Shadows Of The Deep Re-Release (MDD)
Unleashed – Victory Re-Release (MDD)
Void Of Sleep – Metaphora (Aural)
Wake – Devouring Ruin (Translation Loss)
WuW – Rétablir L’Eternité (Prosthetic)
April 3, 2020
Ad Infinitum – Chapter I: Monarchy (Napalm)
All Time Low – Wake Up, Sunshine (Fueled By Ramen)
August Burns Red – Guardians (Fearless)
Beggar – Compelled To Repeat (APF)
Bury Tomorrow – Cannibal (Music For Nations)
Dynazty – The Dark Delight (AFM)
Loviatar – Lightless (Prosthetic)
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Viscerals (Rocket)
Testament – Titans Of Creation (Nuclear Blast)
tētēma – Necroscape (Ipecac)
Witches Of Doom – Funeral Radio (My Kingdom)
April 10, 2020
Ayreon – Electric Castle Live And Other Tales DVD/CD (Music Theories)
Azusa – Loop Of Yesterdays (Solid State)
Brant Bjork – Brant Bjork (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Calligram – The Eye Is The First Circle (Prosthetic)
Gaytheist – How Long Have I Been On Fire? (Hex)
Grey Daze – Amends (Loma Vista)
Joe Satriani – Shapeshifting (Legacy)
Kingsmen – Revenge, Forgiveness, Recovery (SharpTone)
Metal Church – From The Vault (Rat Pak)
Nightwish – Human. :II: Nature. (Nuclear Blast)
Red – Declaration (Self)
Sparta – Trust The River (Dine Alone)
The Strokes – The New Abnormal (Cult/RCA)
Wolfheart – Wolves Of Karelia (Napalm)
April 17, 2020
Aborted – La Grande Mascarade EP (Century Media)
Abysmal Dawn – Phylogenesis (Season Of Mist)
The Black Dahlia Murder – Verminous (Metal Blade)
The Ditch And The Delta – The Ditch And The Delta (Prosthetic)
Enter Shikari – Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible (So)
Jarboe – Illusory (Consouling Sounds)
Khemmis – Doomed Heavy Metal EP (Nuclear Blast)
Myrath – Live In Carthage DVD/CD (earMusic)
Oranssi Pazuzu – Mestarin Kynsi (Nuclear Blast)
April 24, 2020
Acherontas – Psychic Death – The Shattering Of Perceptions (Agonia)
Axel Rudi Pell – Sign Of The Times (SPV/Steamhammer)
Cirith Ungol – Forever Black (Metal Blade)
Def Leppard – London To Vegas DVD/CD (Eagle Rock)
Elder – Omens (Armageddon Shop)
Heilung – Lifa: Heiling Live At Castlefest DVD (Season Of Mist)
Helfro – Helfro (Season Of Mist)
Katatonia – City Burials (Peaceville)
Lovebites – Electric Pentagram (Red River)
(O) – SkamHan (Napalm)
Trick Or Treat – The Legend Of The XII Saints (Scarlet)
Trivium – What The Dead Men Say (Roadrunner)
Ulcerate – Stare Into Death And Be Still (Debemur Morti)
The Used – Heartwork (Big Noise)
Warbringer – Weapons Of Tomorrow (Napalm)
Werewolves – The Dead Are Screaming (Prosthetic)
May 1, 2020
Aether Realm – Redneck Vikings From Hell (Napalm)
Havok – V (Century Media)
Vader – Solitude In Madness (Nuclear Blast)
Witchcraft – Black Metal (Nuclear Blast)
May 8, 2020
…and Oceans – Cosmic World Mother (Season Of Mist)
BlackLab – Abyss (New Heavy Sounds)
Cryptex – Once Upon A Time (SPV/Steamhammer)
Green Carnation – Leaves Of Yesteryear (Season Of Mist)
Hayley Williams – Petals For Armor (Atlantic)
Lamb Of God – Lamb Of God (Epic)
Naglfar – Cerecloth (Century Media)
Sojourner – Premonitions (Napalm)
Winterfylleth – The Reckoning Dawn (Candlelight/Spinefarm)