2023 MUSIC RELEASE CALENDAR

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UPCOMING RELEASES


Friday, March 3, 2023

ACE OF SPADES – Born to Booze, Live to Sin – A Tribute to Motörhead (Live) [Cleopatra]
ACRESBurning Throne [A Wolf At Your Door/Silva Screen]
CARRIONMorbid Nailgun Necropsy [Self-Released]
EARTH GROANS – Tongue Tied – EP [Solid State]
ENSLAVED – Heimdal [Nuclear Blast]
ENTHEOS – Time Will Take Us All [Metal Blade]
EYES – Congratulations [Indisciplinarian]
FAKE NAMES – Expendables [Epitaph]
HAKEN – Fauna [InsideOut]
LORD SONNY THE UNIFIER – America’s Newest Hitmaker [Interstellar Smoke]
REDLIGHT KING – In Our Blood [AFM]
STARGAZER – Life Will Never Be The Same [Mighty]
STONED JESUS – Father Light [Season Of Mist]
TEMPTRESS – See [Metal Assault]
TRAGEDY – I Am Woman [Napalm]
VILLAGERS OF IOANNINA CITY – Through Space And Time [Alive In Athens 2020] [Napalm]
WITCH RIPPER – The Flight After the Fall [Magnetic Eye]
71TONMAN – Of End Times [Transcending Obscurity]


Friday, March 10, 2023

THE ATOMIC BITCHWAX – Live At Freak Valley Fest [Heavy Psych Sounds]
THE BANISHMENT – Machine And Bone [Frontiers]
BLACKMORE’S NIGHT – Shadow Of The Moon 25th Anniversary Edition [earMusic]
DEMONS DOWN – I Stand [Frontiers]
DUEL – Live At Hellfest [Heavy Psych Sounds]
EXCELERATE – Arrival [From The Vaults]
FOR THE FALLEN DREAMS – For The Fallen Dreams [Arising Empire]
GOROD – The Orb [Self]
JUDICIARY – Flesh + Blood [Closed Casket]
NANOWAR OF STEEL – Dislike To False Metal [Napalm]
OTHERWISE – Gawdzillionaire [Mascot]
PERIPHERY – Periphery V: Djent Is Not A Genre [3DOT]
ROADRUNNER UNITED – The All-Star Sessions Re-Release [Roadrunner]
ROADRUNNER UNITED – The Concert [Roadrunner]
SEVENTH CRYSTAL – Wonderland [Frontiers]
SUICIDE SILENCE – Remember… You Must Die [Century Media]
UNFELLED – Fall Of Endless Perdition [Season Of Mist]


Friday, March 17, 2023

THE ANSWER – Sundowners [Golden Robot]
CHELSEA GRIN – Suffer in Heaven [ONErpm]
CROSS COUNTRY DRIVER – The New Truth [Frontiers]
DOWNFALL OF GAIA – Silhouettes Of Disgust [Metal Blade]
ECSTATIC VISION – Live At Duna Jam [Heavy Psych Sounds]
ENTROPIA – Total [Agonia]
FORETOKEN – Triumphs [Prosthetic]
GIDEON – More Power. More Pain. [Equal Vision]
HANOI ROCKS – Oriental Beat Re-Release [Svart]
INVENT ANIMATE – Heavener [UNFD]
JOHN DIVA & THE ROCKETS OF LOVE – The Big Easy [Steamhammer/SPV]
KAMELOT – The Awakening [Napalm]
KRUELTY – Untopia [Profound Lore]
THE LORDS OF ALTAMONT – To Hell With Tomorrow The Lords Are Now [Heavy Psych Sounds]
NIGHT DEMON – Outsider [Century Media]
PHANTOM ELITE – Blue Blood [Frontiers]
REDEMPTION – I Am The Storm [AFM]
RPWL – Crime Scene [The Gentle Art Of Music]
POP EVIL – Skeletons [MNRK Heavy]
STORMWARNING – Stormwarning [Frontiers]
THEORY OF A DEADMAN – Dinosaur [Roadrunner]
TRANSWORLD IDENTITY – Seven Worlds [Frontiers]


Friday, March 24, 2023

AUGUST BURNS RED – Death Below [SharpTone]
BABYMETAL – the Other One [Self]
CRUACHAN – The Living And The Dead [Despotz]
DAWN RAY’D – To Know The Light [Prosthetic]
FALL OUT BOY – So Much [For] Stardust [Fueled By Ramen/Elektra]
FLOOR JANSEN – Paragon [Self]
HATESPHERE – Hatred Reborn [Scarlet]
IHSAHN – Fascination Street Sessions EP [Candleight]
LITURGY – 93696 [Thrill Jockey]
MARIANAS REST – Auer [Napalm]
MORK – Dypet [Peaceville]
NE OBLIVISCARIS – Exul [Season Of Mist]
OV SULFUR – The Burden Ov Faith [Century Media]
SAXON – More Inspirations [Silver Lining]
SEVEN SPIRES – Live At ProgPower USA XXI [Frontiers]
SUBWAY TO SALLY – Himmelfahrt [Napalm]
THE HIRS COLLECTION – We’re Still Here [Get Better]
WOE UNTO ME – Along The Meandering Ordeals, Reshape The Pivot Of Harmony [M-Theory]


Friday, March 31, 2023

AD INFINITUM – Chapter III – Downfall [Napalm]
ARCHETYPES COLLIDE – Archetypes Collide [Fearless]
BURY TOMORROW – The Seventh Sun [Music For Nations]
CAVE IN – Until Your Heart Stops Re-Release [Relapse]
CROWN LANDS – Fearless [Spinefarm]
EMPYRE – Relentless [Kscope]
ISAAK – Hey [Heavy Psych Sounds]
KINGSMEN – Bones Don’t Lie [SHARPTONE]
LAST IN LINE – Jericho [earMusic]
LORDI – Screem Writers Guild [Atomic Fire]
LOTAN – Lotan [Uprising]
THE NETHERLANDS – Severance [Svart]
NERVOCHAOS – Chthonic Wrath [Emanzipation]
NOTHING, NOWHERE – Void Eternal [Fueled By Ramen]
OHHMS – Rot [Church Road]
THE ONGOING CONCEPT – Again [Solid State]
PUSCIFER – Existential Reckoning: Re-Wired [Puscifer/Alchemy/BMG]
ROTTEN SOUND – Apocalypse [Season Of Mist]
SERMON – Of Golden Verse [Prosthetic]
VISIONS OF ATLANTIS – Pirates Over Wacken [Napalm]


Friday, April 7, 2023

ANGUS MCSIX – Angus McSix And The Sword Of Power [Napalm]
KISS – Off The Soundboard: Poughkeepsie, New York 1984 [UMe]
LINKIN PARK – Meteora 20th Anniversary Edition [Warner]
PAUL GILBERT – The Dio Album [Music Theories]
POWERWOLF – Interludium [Napalm]
RAIDER – Trial By Chaos [Self]
SAVAGE HANDS – Rock Bottom EP [SharpTone]
SUNROT – The Unfailing Rope [Prosthetic]
TRIBULATION – Hamaratia EP [Century Media]







Friday, April 14, 2023

ARCHON ANGEL – II [Frontiers]
BIOHAZARD – Urban Discipline/No Holds Barred – Live In Europe [Dissonance]
BLACK ORCHID EMPIRE – Tempus Veritas [Season Of Mist]
DODHEIMSGARD – Black Medium Current [Peaceville]
FROM FALL TO SPRING – Rise [Arising Empire]
THE HELLFREAKS – Pitch Black Sunset [Napalm]
HOLY MOSES – Invisible Queen [Fireflash]
INFECTED RAIN – The Devil’s Dozen DVD/CD [Napalm]
THE INFINITY RING – Nemesis & Nativity [Profound Lore]
JESUS PIECE – …So Unknown [Century Media]
L.A. GUNS – Black Diamonds [Frontiers]
LUCIFER STAR MACHINE – Satanic Age [The Sign]
MAGNUS KARLSSON’S FREE FALL – Hunt The Flame [Frontiers]
METALLICA – 72 Seasons [Blackened]
MIKE TRAMP – Songs Of White Lion [Frontiers]
OVERKILL – Scorched [Nuclear Blast]
POISON RUIN – Harvest [Relapse]


Friday, April 21, 2023

40 WATT SUN – The Inside Room Re-Release [Svart]
40 WATT SUN – Wider Than The Sky Re-Release [Svart]
THE 69 EYES – Death Of Darkness [Atomic Fire]
ANTHEM – Crimson & Jet Black [Reaper]
AS EVERYTHING UNFOLDS – Ultraviolet [Long Branch]
AXEL RUDI PELL – The Ballads VI [Steamhammer/SPV]
DAWN OF OUROBOROS – Velvet Incandescence [Prosthetic]
ENTER SHIKARI – A Kiss For The Whole World [SO/Ambush Reality]
GRAVE PLEASURES – Plagueboys [Century Media]
JETHRO TULL – RökFlöte [InsideOut]
LIV KRISTINE – River Of Diamonds [Metalville]
MAGNUS ROSEN – It’s Tome To Rock The World Again [Sound Pollution]
PREDATORY VOID – Seven Keys To The Discomfort Of Being [Century Media]
REVOLUTION SAINTS – Eagle Flight [Frontiers]
SMACKBOUND – Hostage [Frontiers]
SMASHING PUMPKINS – ATUM: A Rock Opera in Three Acts: Act 3 [Martha’s Music]
THESE BEASTS – Cares, Wills, Wants [Magnetic Eye]
THROUGH FIRE – Devil’s Got You Dreamin’ [Sumerian]


Saturday, April 22, 2023

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Friday, April 28, 2023

THE CROWN – The Burning/Eternal Death Re-Release [Dissonance]
THE DAMNED – Darkadelic Elvenking – Reader Of The Runes – Rapture [AFM]
DANAVA – Nothing But Nothing [Tee Pee]
DEFILED – The Highest Level [Season Of Mist]
ENFORCED – War Remains [Century Media]
FIRES IN THE DISTANCE – Air Not Meant For Us [Prosthetic]
HAMMERFALL – Crimson Thunder 20th Anniversary Edition [Nuclear Blast]
HAWKWIND – The Future Never Waits [Cherry Red]
IGNEA – Dreams Of Lands Unseen [Napalm]
KING’S X – In The New Age: The Atlantic Recordings 1988-1995 [HNE]
SINNER – Born To Rock – The Noise Years ’84-’87 [Dissonance]
SPOTLIGHTS – Alchemy For The Dead [Ipecac]
SWOLLEN TEETH – Swollen Teeth EP [Blowed Out]
TRAPEZE – Midnight Flyers: Complete Recording Volume 2 [1974-1981] [HNE]


Friday, May 5, 2023

THE ACACIA STRAIN – Step Into The Light [Rise]
BATTLE BORN – Blood, Fire, Magic And Steel [Prosthetic]
CURRENTS – The Death We Seek [SharpTone]
DEATH GOALS – A Garden Of Dead Flowers [Prosthetic]
DEATHSTARS – Everything Destroys You [Nuclear Blast]
DRAIN – Living Proof [Epitaph]
ENFORCER – Nostalgia [Nuclear Blast]
HEROD – The Iconoclast [Pelagic]


Friday, May 12, 2023

JONAS BROTHERS – The Album


Friday, May 19, 2023

ALCATRAZZ – Take No Prisoners [Silver Lining]
ARJEN LUCASSEN’S SUPERSONIC REVOLUTION – Golden Age Of Music [Music Theories]
FROZEN SOUL – Glacial Domination [Century Media]
THE OCEAN – Holocene [Pelagic]
SLEEP TOKEN – Take Me Back To Eden [Spinefarm]
THULCANDRA – Hail The Abyss [Napalm]
THE USED – Toxic Positivity [Big Noise]


Friday, May 26, 2023

VONAVIBE – Bleed To Life [Eclipse]


Friday, June 2, 2023

RIVAL SONS – Darkfighter [Low Country Sound/Atlantic]


Friday, July 7, 2023

BLOODBOUND – Tales From The North [AFM]


Friday, July 14, 2023

WINTERSTORM – Everfrost [AFM]


Friday, August 4, 2023

SKINDRED – Smile [Earache]

PAST RELEASES


FRIDAY, January 6, 2023

ANTI-FLAGLies They Tell Our Children [Spinefarm]
IGGY POPEvery Loser [Gold Tooth]
LOONA – [0] [Blockberry Creative]
RUPAUL – Black Butta [RUCO]










Friday, January 13, 2023

CIRCA WAVES – Never Going Under [Lower Third]
GAZ COOMBERS – Turn the Car Around [Hot Fruit/Virgin]
MARGO PRICE – Strays [Loma Vista]
OBITUARYDying Of Everything [Relapse]
VV – Neon Noir [Heartagram/UMG/Spinefar]









Friday, January 20, 2023

ELLA HOOPER – Small Town Temple
FRAN – Leaving [Fire Talk]
GUIDED BY VOICES – La La Land [Guided by Voices Inc.]
HARDY – The Mockingbird & The Crow [Big Loud]
JOHN CALE – Mercy [Domino/Double Six]
JULY TALK – Remember Never Before [Six Shooter]
KATATONIA – Sky Void of Stars [Napalm]
LADYTRON – Time’s Arrow [Cooking Vinyl]
LÅPSLEY – Cautionary Tales of Youth
LUKAS GRAHAM – 4 (The Pink Album) [Warner]
MÅNESKIN – Rush!
THE MURDER CAPITAL – Gigi’s Recovery [Human Season]
NEW FOUND GLORY – Make the Most of It [Revelation]
RIVERSIDE – ID.Entity
WE ARE SCIENTISTS – Lobes


FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2023

AVATARDance Devil Dance [Thirty Tigers]
CAROLINE POLACHEKDesire, I Want to Turn Into You [Perpetal Novice]
INHALERCuts & Bruises [Polydor]
JORDAN DAVISBluebird Days [MCA Nashville]
ORIBTALOptical Delusion [Orbital/London Music Stream]
PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGSLand of Sleeper [Rockjet/Missing Piece]
PILEAll Fiction [Exploding in Sound]
P!NKTrustfall [RCA]






Friday, February 24, 2023

AIR RAID – Fatal Encounter [High Roller]
BIG|BRAVE – Nature Morte [Thrill Jockey]
BODYFARM – Ultimate Abomination [Edged Circle]
DARK EMBRACE – Dark Heavy Metal [Massacre]
DEATH PILL – Death Pill [New Heavy Sounds]
DOPE – Blood Money Part Zer0 [Self]
GODSMACK – Lighting Up The Sky [BMG]
HEIDEVOLK – Wederkeer [Napalm]
HOST – IX [Nuclear Blast]
HYPNO5E – Sheol [Pelagic]
INSOMNIUM – Anno 1696 [Century Media]
MEGATON SWORD – Might & Power [Dying Victims]
MOTORHEAD – Bad Magic: Seriously Bad Magic [Silver Lining]
NO SPILL BLOOD – Eye Of Night [Svart]
OMEGA INFINITY – The Anticurrent [Season Of Mist]
ONTBORG – Following the Steps of Damnation [Black Lion]
SIENA ROOT – Revelation [Atomic Fire]
STEEL PANTHER – On The Prowl [Self]
STONER – Boogie To Baja [Heavy Psych Sounds]
TO THE GRAVE – Director’s Cut [Unique Leader]
VENOMOUS CONCEPT – The Good Ship Lollipop [Extrinsic/Graphite]


*All dates are for U.S. releases unless otherwise noted. Release dates are subject to change, and often do.