# 2019 in heavy metal music

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2019.

## Bands formed

* BPMD
* Nemophila
* Vexed

## Bands disbanded

* Black Moth
* Brain Drill
* Children of Bodom
* Continents
* Dirge
* Huldre
* Katedra
* Nitro
* Prophets of Rage
* Slayer
* Unsane

## Bands reformed

* Agent Steel
* Alcatrazz
* Brand New Sin (one-off show)
* Cadaver
* Dirty Looks
* Dismember
* Katatonia
* Mercyful Fate
* Methods of Mayhem
* Mr. Bungle
* Rage Against the Machine
* Sev (one-off show)
* Sister Sin
* Sylosis
* Vio-lence

## Events

* After 51 years together, UFO embarks on their final tour, dubbed "The Last Orders", with founding member Phil Mogg, who plans to retire from the band.
* After 46 years together, Kiss embarks on yet another farewell tour, dubbed "One Last Kiss: End of the Road World Tour".
* After 45 years together, Krokus embarks on their farewell tour this year.
* Slayer is expected to wrap up their farewell tour this year in November.
* Megadeth launches its first-ever MegaCruise, which is set to take place in the Pacific Ocean from October 13‒19.
* Accept announces that Martin Motnik is replacing original bassist Peter Baltes, who left the band the previous November.
* Janet Gardner of Vixen leaves to focus on her solo career. She is replaced by Femme Fatale's Lorraine Lewis.
* Longtime percussionist Chris Fehn of Slipknot departs from the band. This comes after Fehn filed a lawsuit against the band citing withheld payments.

## Deaths

* January 1 – Shane Bisnett, former bassist of Ice Nine Kills, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 31.
* January 16 – Brian Velasco, drummer of Razorback, died from suicide by jumping from the balcony of a condominium.
* January 19 – Ted McKenna, former drummer of Michael Schenker Group and Ian Gillan, died from hemorrhage after hernia surgery at the age of 68.
* January 25 – Bruce Corbitt, vocalist of Rigor Mortis, died from esophageal cancer at the age of 56.
* January 28 – Paul Whaley, drummer of Blue Cheer, died from heart failure at the age of 72.
* March 17 – Bernie Tormé, former guitarist of Ozzy Osbourne and Gillan, died from post-flu complications at the age of 66.
* March 17 – Yuya Uchida, former percussionist and producer of Flower Travellin' Band, died from pneumonia at the age of 79.
* April 13 – Paul Raymond, keyboardist and guitarist of UFO and Michael Schenker Group, died from a heart attack at the age of 73.
* April 26 – Phil McCormack, vocalist of Molly Hatchet, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 58.
* May 21 – Rosław Szaybo, artist and designer of Judas Priest's logo and early albums' artworks, died from lung cancer at the age of 85.
* June 8 – Andre Matos, vocalist of Angra, Shaman and Viper, died from a heart attack at the age of 47.
* June 13 – Nature Ganganbaigal, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist of Tengger Cavalry, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 29.
* August 4 – Paul Finnie, former bassist of Power Quest, died from a heart attack at the age of 44.
* August 5 – Lizzie Grey, vocalist and guitarist of Spiders & Snakes and former guitarist of London, died from Lewy Body disease at the age of 60.
* September 16 – Mick Schauer, former keyboardist of Clutch, died from undisclosed reasons.
* September 18 – Tony Mills, former vocalist of TNT and Shy, died from pancreatic cancer at the age of 57.
* September 19 – Larry Wallis, former guitarist of Motörhead, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 70.
* September 23 – Richard Brunelle, former guitarist of Morbid Angel, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 55.
* October 2 – Morten Stützer, guitarist and former bassist of Artillery, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 57.
* October 21 – Peter Hobbs, vocalist and guitarist of Hobbs' Angel of Death, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 58.
* November 4 – Timi "Grabber" Hansen, former bassist of Mercyful Fate and King Diamond, died from cancer at the age of 61.
* December 25 – Stephen Kasner, artist and cover artwork designer for metal bands, including Forbidden, Marduk, Rotting Christ, and Sunn O))), died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 49.
* December 28 – Elijah Nelson, bassist of Black Breath, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 40.

## Albums released
### January

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 4 | Callejon | Hartgeld im Club |
| 4 | Festerday | Iihtallan |
| 4 | John Garcia and the Band of Gold | John Garcia and the Band of Gold |
| 4 | Legion of the Damned | Slaves of the Shadow Realm |
| 4 | Mark Deutrom | The Blue Bird |
| 4 | Rosetta | Sower of Wind (EP) |
| 9 | Krallice | Wolf (EP) |
| 11 | Born of Osiris | The Simulation |
| 11 | Jinjer | Micro (EP) |
| 11 | Soilwork | Verkligheten |
| 18 | A Pale Horse Named Death | When the World Becomes Undone |
| 18 | Arch Enemy | Covered in Blood (compilation album) |
| 18 | Cane Hill | Kill the Sun (EP) |
| 18 | Dawn of Ashes | The Crypt Injection II (Non Serviam) |
| 18 | Flotsam and Jetsam | The End of Chaos |
| 18 | Lemuria | The Hysterical Hunt |
| 18 | Malevolent Creation | The 13th Beast |
| 18 | Oomph! | Ritual |
| 18 | Papa Roach | Who Do You Trust? |
| 18 | Raven | Screaming Murder Death from Above: Live in Aalborg (live album) |
| 18 | Rifftera | Across the Acheron |
| 18 | Thunder | Please Remain Seated |
| 21 | Oblivion | Oblivion |
| 25 | Ancient Bards | Origine (The Black Crystal Sword Saga Part 2) |
| 25 | Bring Me the Horizon | Amo |
| 25 | Carnal Forge | Gun to Mouth Salvation |
| 25 | Corroded | Bitter |
| 25 | Desecravity | Anathema |
| 25 | Evergrey | The Atlantic |
| 25 | Hecate Enthroned | Embrace of the Godless Aeon |
| 25 | Incite | Built to Destroy |
| 25 | Jetboy | Born to Fly |
| 25 | Kane Roberts | The New Normal |
| 25 | King 810 | Suicide King |
| 25 | King Diamond | Songs for the Dead Live (live album) |
| 25 | Quiet riot | One Night in Milan (live album) |
| 25 | Starbreaker | Dysphoria |
| 25 | Swallow the Sun | When a Shadow Is Forced into the Light |
| 26 | Panopticon | The Crescendo of Dusk (EP) |

### February

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Astronoid | Astronoid |
| 1 | Gideon | No Love/No One (EP) |
| 1 | Metallica | Helping Hands... Live & Acoustic at the Masonic (live album) |
| 1 | Soen | Lotus |
| 1 | Within Temptation | Resist |
| 8 | Beast in Black | From Hell with Love |
| 8 | Downfall of Gaia | Ethic of Radical Finitude |
| 8 | Herman Frank | Fight the Fear |
| 8 | Zao | Decoding the Möbius Strip (EP) |
| 15 | Avantasia | Moonglow |
| 15 | Born from Pain | True Love |
| 15 | Rotting Christ | The Heretics |
| 22 | Attila | Villain |
| 22 | Candlemass | The Door to Doom |
| 22 | Delain | Hunter's Moon |
| 22 | Dream Theater | Distance over Time |
| 22 | Imperia | Flames of Eternity |
| 22 | Last in Line | II |
| 22 | The Moth Gatherer | Esoteric Oppression |
| 22 | Opprobrium | The Fallen Entities |
| 22 | Overkill | The Wings of War |
| 22 | Rhapsody of Fire | The Eighth Mountain |
| 22 | Rock Goddess | This Time |
| 22 | Tora Tora | Bastards of Beale |

### March

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Darkwater | Human |
| 1 | Demon Hunter | Peace |
| 1 | Demon Hunter | War |
| 1 | In Flames | I, the Mask |
| 1 | Mark Morton | Anesthetic |
| 1 | Mike Tramp | Stray from the Flock |
| 1 | Queensrÿche | The Verdict |
| 1 | While She Sleeps | So What? |
| 8 | Brymir | Wings of Fire |
| 8 | Children of Bodom | Hexed |
| 8 | Doro | Backstage to Heaven (EP) |
| 8 | Iron Fire | Beyond the Void |
| 8 | Iron Savior | Kill or Get Killed |
| 8 | Mägo de Oz | Ira Dei |
| 8 | Misery Index | Rituals of Power |
| 8 | The Raven Age | Conspiracy |
| 8 | Tesla | Shock |
| 8 | Týr | Hel |
| 15 | Any Given Day | Overpower |
| 15 | Fallujah | Undying Light |
| 20 | Tengger Cavalry | Northern Memory |
| 22 | Battle Beast | No More Hollywood Endings |
| 22 | Bloodbound | Rise of the Dragon Empire |
| 22 | Burning Rain | Face the Music |
| 22 | Cellar Darling | The Spell |
| 22 | The End Machine | The End Machine |
| 22 | Megadeth | Warheads on Foreheads (compilation album) |
| 22 | Stahlmann | Kinder der Sehnsucht |
| 22 | Waylander | Eriú's Wheel |
| 22 | Zeal & Ardor | Live in London (live album) |
| 29 | Anthem | Nucleus (compilation album) |
| 29 | Devin Townsend | Empath |
| 29 | Forever Still | Breathe in Colours |
| 29 | I Prevail | Trauma |
| 29 | L.A. Guns | The Devil You Know |
| 29 | Manowar | The Final Battle I (EP) |
| 29 | Nightrage | Wolf to Man |
| 29 | Okilly Dokilly | Howdilly Twodilly |
| 29 | Whitechapel | The Valley |

### April

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 5 | Brant Bjork | Jacoozi |
| 5 | Cirith Gorgor | Sovereign |
| 5 | Eluveitie | Ategnatos |
| 5 | Enterprise Earth | Luciferous |
| 5 | Exumer | Hostile Defiance |
| 5 | Necrodeath | Defragments of Insanity |
| 5 | Periphery | Periphery IV: Hail Stan |
| 5 | Sworn Enemy | Gamechanger |
| 12 | Andy Black | The Ghost of Ohio |
| 12 | Big Business | The Beast You Are |
| 12 | Black River | Humanoid |
| 12 | Blackguard | Storm |
| 12 | Diesear | BloodRed Inferno |
| 12 | Hamferð | Ódn (EP) |
| 12 | Posthum | Like Wildfire |
| 19 | After the Burial | Evergreen |
| 19 | Allegaeon | Apoptosis |
| 19 | Alpha Wolf | Fault (EP) |
| 19 | Grand Magus | Wolf God |
| 19 | Jordan Rudess | Wired for Madness |
| 19 | L'Acéphale | L'Acéphale |
| 19 | Per Wiberg | Head Without Eye |
| 26 | The Damned Things | High Crimes |
| 26 | Dub Trio | The Shape of Dub to Come |
| 26 | Enforcer | Zenith |
| 26 | Hardline | Life |
| 26 | Helheim | Rignir |
| 26 | Helms Alee | Noctiluca |
| 26 | King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard | Fishing for Fishies |
| 26 | Månegarm | Fornaldarsagorna |
| 26 | Marissa Nadler & Stephen Brodsky | Droneflower (collaboration album) |
| 26 | New Years Day | Unbreakable |
| 26 | Nine Shrines | Retribution Therapy |
| 26 | Paragon | Controlled Demolition |
| 26 | Steel Prophet | The God Machine |
| 26 | Sunn O))) | Life Metal |
| 26 | Vaura | Sables |
| 28 | Archivist | Triumvirate |

### May

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 3 | Amon Amarth | Berserker |
| 3 | Kampfar | Ofidians Manifest |
| 3 | L7 | Scatter the Rats |
| 3 | Myrath | Shehili |
| 3 | Origin | Abiogenesis – A Coming into Existence (compilation album) |
| 3 | Ringworm | Death Becomes My Voice |
| 10 | Abnormality | Sociopathic Constructs |
| 10 | Aphyxion | Void |
| 10 | Arch/Matheos | Winter Ethereal |
| 10 | Danny Worsnop | Shades of Blue |
| 10 | Extrema | Headbanging Forever |
| 10 | Handful of Hate | Adversus |
| 10 | Idle Hands | Mana |
| 10 | Possessed | Revelations of Oblivion |
| 10 | Whitesnake | Flesh & Blood |
| 11 | Ulver | Drone Activity |
| 17 | Artificial Language | Now We Sleep |
| 17 | Avatar | The King Live in Paris (live album) |
| 17 | Bethlehem | Lebe Dich Leer |
| 17 | Black Flame | Necrogenesis: Chants from the Grave |
| 17 | Crazy Lixx | Forever Wild |
| 17 | Full of Hell | Weeping Choir |
| 17 | October Tide | In Splendor Below |
| 17 | Pythia | The Solace of Ancient Earth |
| 17 | Rammstein | Untitled |
| 17 | Saint Vitus | Saint Vitus |
| 17 | Savage Messiah | Demons |
| 17 | Starkill | Gravity |
| 24 | Deathspell Omega | The Furnaces of Palingenesia |
| 24 | Destrage | The Chosen One |
| 24 | Diamond Head | The Coffin Train |
| 24 | Earth | Full Upon Her Burning Lips |
| 24 | Emil Bulls | Mixtape (covers album) |
| 24 | Fleshgod Apocalypse | Veleno |
| 24 | Marko Hietala | Mustan Sydämen Rovio |
| 24 | Misþyrming | Algleymi |
| 24 | Siamese | Super Human |
| 24 | Soto | Origami |
| 24 | Stormlord | Far |
| 27 | Batushka | Панихида |
| 31 | D–A–D | A Prayer for the Loud |
| 31 | Darkthrone | Old Star |
| 31 | Death Angel | Humanicide |
| 31 | Gaahls Wyrd | GastiR – Ghosts Invited |
| 31 | Gloryhammer | Legends from Beyond the Galactic Terrorvortex |
| 31 | Janet Gardner | Your Place in the Sun |
| 31 | Krypts | Cadaver Circulation |
| 31 | Paul Masvidal | Mythical (EP) |
| 31 | Texas Hippie Coalition | High in the Saddle |
| 31 | Vader | Thy Messenger (EP) |

### June

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 7 | Axel Rudi Pell | XXX Anniversary Live (live album) |
| 7 | Cave In | Final Transmission |
| 7 | Combichrist | One Fire |
| 7 | Diviner | Realms of Time |
| 7 | Enthroned | Cold Black Suns |
| 7 | Firespawn | Abominate |
| 7 | Majestica | Above the Sky |
| 7 | Motionless in White | Disguise |
| 7 | Nebula | Holy Shit |
| 7 | Pelican | Nighttime Stories |
| 7 | Roadsaw | Tinnitus the Night |
| 7 | The Rods | Brotherhood of Metal |
| 7 | Tanzwut | Semannsgarn |
| 7 | Upon a Burning Body | Southern Hostility |
| 7 | Warrior Soul | Rock 'n' Roll Disease |
| 7 | Xentrix | Bury the Pain |
| 14 | Baroness | Gold & Grey |
| 14 | Beheaded | Only Death Can Save You |
| 14 | Hate | Auric Gates of Veles |
| 14 | Ingested | The Call of the Void (EP) |
| 14 | Kat | Without Looking Back |
| 14 | The Lord Weird Slough Feg | New Organon |
| 14 | Neal Morse | Jesus Christ the Exorcist |
| 14 | Suicide Silence | Rare Ass Shit (compilation album) |
| 14 | Thank You Scientist | Terraformer |
| 14 | Timo Tolkki's Avalon | Return to Eden |
| 21 | Hed PE | Stampede |
| 21 | Kryptos | Afterburner |
| 21 | The Meads of Asphodel | Running Out of Time Doing Nothing |
| 21 | Memoriam | Requiem for Mankind |
| 21 | Tony Mills | Beyond the Law |
| 28 | Beastwars | IV |
| 28 | Bloody Hammers | The Summoning |
| 28 | Cro-Mags | Don't Give In (EP) |
| 28 | Generation Axe | The Guitars That Destroyed the World (Live in China) (live album) |
| 28 | He Is Legend | White Bat |
| 28 | Majesty | Legends |
| 28 | Nocturnal Breed | We Only Came for the Violence |

### July

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 5 | 3Teeth | Metawar |
| 5 | Abbath | Outstrider |
| 5 | Brand of Sacrifice | God Hand |
| 5 | Bullet | Live (live album) |
| 5 | Ellefson | Sleeping Giants |
| 5 | Immortal Bird | Thrive on Neglect |
| 5 | Turilli / Lione Rhapsody | Zero Gravity (Rebirth and Evolution) |
| 10 | Gyze | Asian Chaos |
| 12 | 311 | Voyager |
| 12 | Batushka | Hospodi |
| 12 | Disentomb | The Decaying Light |
| 12 | Elder | The Gold & Silver Sessions (EP) |
| 12 | Oh, Sleeper | Bloodied / Unbowed |
| 12 | Ribspreader | Crawl and Slither |
| 12 | Suicide Silence | Live & Mental (live album) |
| 12 | Torche | Admission |
| 19 | Cancer | Ballcutter (EP) |
| 19 | Crown the Empire | Sudden Sky |
| 19 | Flaw | Vol IV: Because of the Brave |
| 19 | Jeromes Dream | Untitled |
| 19 | Sabaton | The Great War |
| 19 | Scott Stapp | The Space Between the Shadows |
| 19 | Sum 41 | Order in Decline |
| 19 | Through Fire | All Animal |
| 19 | Wormed | Metaportal (EP) |
| 19 | Wreck and Reference | Absolute Still Life |
| 26 | All Out War | Crawl Among the Filth |
| 26 | Hatriot | From Days Unto Darkness |
| 26 | Lordi | Recordead Live – Sextourcism in Z7 (DVD) |
| 26 | Thy Art Is Murder | Human Target |
| 26 | The Trigger | The Time of Miracles |
| 26 | Wolves at the Gate | Eclipse |
| 31 | John 5 and the Creatures | Invasion |

### August

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 2 | Bad Omens | Finding God Before God Finds Me |
| 2 | Carnifex | World War X |
| 2 | Finsterforst | Zerfall |
| 2 | Narnia | From Darkness to Light |
| 2 | Northlane | Alien |
| 2 | NorthTale | Welcome to Paradise |
| 2 | Russian Circles | Blood Year |
| 2 | Sacrilege | The Court of the Insane |
| 2 | Skillet | Victorious |
| 2 | Volbeat | Rewind, Replay, Rebound |
| 9 | The Contortionist | Our Bones (EP) |
| 9 | Destruction | Born to Perish |
| 9 | Pathology | Reborn to Kill |
| 9 | Richard Henshall | The Cocoon |
| 9 | Slipknot | We Are Not Your Kind |
| 9 | Spread Eagle | Subway to the Stars |
| 9 | Suicidal Angels | Years of Aggression |
| 9 | Zombie Apocalypse | Life Without Pain is a Fucking Fantasy (EP) |
| 16 | Capture | Lost Control |
| 16 | Devourment | Obscene Majesty |
| 16 | Diocletian | Among the Flames of a Burning God |
| 16 | HammerFall | Dominion |
| 16 | Killswitch Engage | Atonement |
| 16 | King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard | Infest the Rats' Nest |
| 16 | Twilight Force | Dawn of the Dragonstar |
| 23 | Equilibrium | Renegades |
| 23 | Freedom Call | M.E.T.A.L. |
| 23 | Illdisposed | Reveal Your Soul for the Dead |
| 23 | Isole | Dystopia |
| 23 | It Prevails | A Life Worth Living (EP) |
| 23 | Knocked Loose | A Different Shade of Blue |
| 23 | Nemesea | White Flag |
| 23 | Sacred Reich | Awakening |
| 28 | Coldrain | The Side Effects |
| 30 | Elvenking | Reader of the Runes – Divination |
| 30 | Entombed A.D. | Bowels of Earth |
| 30 | Necronautical | Apotheosis |
| 30 | Sons of Apollo | Live with the Plovdiv Psychotic Symphony (live album) |
| 30 | Tarja | In the Raw |
| 30 | Tool | Fear Inoculum |
| 30 | Visions of Atlantis | Wanderers |
| 30 | Wage War | Pressure |

### September

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 2 | Mgła | Age of Excuse |
| 6 | Disillusion | The Liberation |
| 6 | Kayo Dot | Blasphemy |
| 6 | Sleeping with Sirens | How It Feels to Be Lost |
| 6 | Sonata Arctica | Talviyö |
| 6 | Transport League | A Million Volt Scream |
| 11 | Infant Annihilator | The Battle of Yaldabaoth |
| 13 | The 69 Eyes | West End |
| 13 | Alice Cooper | Breadcrumbs (EP) |
| 13 | Beartooth | The Blackbird Session (EP) |
| 13 | Betraying the Martyrs | Rapture |
| 13 | Blood Red Throne | Fit to Kill |
| 13 | Chelsea Wolfe | Birth of Violence |
| 13 | Cold | The Things We Can't Stop |
| 13 | Crashdïet | Rust |
| 13 | Dawn of Destiny | The Beast Inside |
| 13 | Devilish Impressions | Postmortem Whispering Crows (EP) |
| 13 | The Hu | The Gereg |
| 13 | Korn | The Nothing |
| 13 | Puddle of Mudd | Welcome to Galvania |
| 13 | Sinner | Santa Muerte |
| 13 | Tom Keifer | Rise |
| 13 | Visceral Disgorge | Slithering Evisceration |
| 13 | Void of Vision | Hyperdaze |
| 13 | War of Ages | Void |
| 13 | Winterfylleth | The Siege of Mercia: Live at Bloodstock 2017 (live album) |
| 20 | The Agonist | Orphans |
| 20 | As I Lay Dying | Shaped by Fire |
| 20 | Blut Aus Nord | Hallucinogen |
| 20 | Cult of Luna | A Dawn to Fear |
| 20 | Exhorder | Mourn the Southern Skies |
| 20 | Kobra and the Lotus | Evolution |
| 20 | Michael Schenker Fest | Revelation |
| 20 | The Number Twelve Looks Like You | Wild Gods |
| 22 | Arallu | En Olam |
| 26 | Behemoth | O Pentagram Ignis (EP) |
| 27 | Acid Reign | The Age of Entitlement |
| 27 | Borknagar | True North |
| 27 | Car Bomb | Mordial |
| 27 | Corky Laing | Toledo Sessions |
| 27 | Dayseeker | Sleeptalk |
| 27 | DragonForce | Extreme Power Metal |
| 27 | Excalion | Emotions |
| 27 | Ghost | Seven Inches of Satanic Panic (EP) |
| 27 | Hellyeah | Welcome Home |
| 27 | IQ | Resistance |
| 27 | KMFDM | Paradise |
| 27 | Netherbird | Into the Vast Uncharted |
| 27 | Of Mice & Men | Earthandsky |
| 27 | Opeth | In Cauda Venenum |
| 27 | SeeYouSpaceCowboy | The Correlation Between Entrance and Exit Wounds |
| 27 | Sifting | The Infinite Loop |
| 27 | Steel Panther | Heavy Metal Rules |
| 27 | Thunder | The Greatest Hits (compilation album) |
| 27 | Wednesday 13 | Necrophaze |
| 27 | Wind Rose | Wintersaga |

### October

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 4 | The Darkness | Easter Is Cancelled |
| 4 | Dysrhythmia | Terminal Threshold |
| 4 | Exhumed | Horror |
| 4 | Gatecreeper | Deserted |
| 4 | Helloween | United Alive (live album) |
| 4 | In Mourning | Garden of Storms |
| 4 | Insomnium | Heart Like a Grave |
| 4 | Issues | Beautiful Oblivion |
| 4 | Nightstalker | Great Hallucinations |
| 4 | Paul Masvidal | Human (EP) |
| 4 | Toxic Holocaust | Primal Future: 2019 |
| 4 | We Lost the Sea | Triumph & Disaster |
| 4 | William DuVall | One Alone |
| 9 | Vinnie Moore | Soul Shifter |
| 11 | Babymetal | Metal Galaxy |
| 11 | Bury Your Dead | We Are Bury Your Dead (EP) |
| 11 | The Devil Wears Prada | The Act |
| 11 | Eclipse | Paradigm |
| 11 | Eye of the Enemy | Titan |
| 11 | Gideon | Out of Control |
| 11 | Grim Reaper | At the Gates |
| 11 | Lacuna Coil | Black Anima |
| 11 | Life of Agony | The Sound of Scars |
| 11 | Michael Sweet | Ten |
| 11 | Municipal Waste | The Last Rager (EP) |
| 11 | Profanatica | Rotting Incarnation of God |
| 11 | Toothgrinder | I AM |
| 11 | Unleash the Archers | Explorers (EP) |
| 11 | Vanden Plas | The Ghost Xperiment – Awakening |
| 11 | Varials | In Darkness |
| 18 | 1349 | The Infernal Pathway |
| 18 | Alter Bridge | Walk the Sky |
| 18 | I Declare War | Downcast (EP) |
| 18 | Infected Rain | Endorphin |
| 18 | Konkhra | Alpha and the Omega |
| 18 | Lionize | Panic Attack! |
| 18 | Michael Monroe | One Man Gang |
| 18 | Ray Alder | What the Water Wants |
| 18 | Santa Cruz | Katharsis |
| 18 | Uneven Structure | Paragon |
| 25 | Alcest | Spiritual Instinct |
| 25 | Bad Wolves | N.A.T.I.O.N. |
| 25 | Botanist | Ecosystem |
| 25 | Edenbridge | Dynamind |
| 25 | Exmortus | Legions of the Undead (EP) |
| 25 | Fit for an Autopsy | The Sea of Tragic Beasts |
| 25 | Hour of Penance | Misotheism |
| 25 | Jinjer | Macro |
| 25 | Leprous | Pitfalls |
| 25 | Mayhem | Daemon |
| 25 | Norma Jean | All Hail |
| 25 | North of South | The Dogma and the Outsider (EP) |
| 25 | Ogre | Thrice as Strong |
| 25 | Orodruin | Ruins of Eternity |
| 25 | Phil Campbell | Old Lions Still Roar |
| 25 | Puppy | III (EP) |
| 25 | Rings of Saturn | Gidim |
| 25 | Saint Asonia | Flawed Design |
| 25 | Skinlab | Venomous |
| 25 | Sunn O))) | Pyroclasts |
| 25 | Vision Divine | When All the Heroes Are Dead |
| 30 | Nikki Stringfield | Harmonies for the Haunted (EP) |

### November

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Angel Witch | Angel of Light |
| 1 | Cannabis Corpse | Nug So Vile |
| 1 | Counterparts | Nothing Left to Love |
| 1 | Decadence | Six Tape |
| 1 | Eskimo Callboy | Rehab |
| 1 | Fire From the Gods | American Sun |
| 1 | Nile | Vile Nilotic Rites |
| 1 | Novembers Doom | Nephilim Grove |
| 1 | Paganizer | The Tower of the Morbid |
| 1 | Stray from the Path | Internal Atomics |
| 1 | Voyager | Colours in the Sun |
| 8 | Agnostic Front | Get Loud! |
| 8 | Blind Guardian | Legacy of the Dark Lands |
| 8 | The Dark Element | Songs the Night Sings |
| 8 | Esoteric | A Pyrrhic Existence |
| 8 | Otherwise | Defy |
| 8 | Pretty Maids | Undress Your Madness |
| 8 | Quiet riot | Hollywood Cowboys |
| 8 | Wolfbrigade | The Enemy: Reality |
| 11 | Shark Island | Bloodline |
| 15 | Abigail Williams | Walk Beyond the Dark |
| 15 | Bombus | Vulture Culture |
| 15 | Cyhra | No Halos in Hell |
| 15 | Despised Icon | Purgatory |
| 15 | Ragnarok | Non Debellicata |
| 15 | Spoil Engine | Renaissence Noire |
| 22 | Avatarium | The Fire I Long For |
| 22 | Blood Incantation | Hidden History of the Human Race |
| 22 | Child Bite | Blow Off the Omens |
| 22 | Crystal Viper | Tales of Fire and Ice |
| 22 | Dog Fashion Disco | Tres Pendejos |
| 22 | Hypno5e | A Distant (Dark) Source |
| 22 | Leaves' Eyes | Black Butterfly (EP) |
| 22 | Lindemann | F & M |
| 22 | Magic Kingdom | MetAlmighty |
| 22 | Obsequiae | The Palms of Sorrowed Kings |
| 22 | Signum Regis | The Seal of a New World |
| 22 | Sodom | Out of the Frontline Trench (EP) |
| 22 | Tygers of Pan Tang | Ritual |
| 22 | What We Do in Secret | Repose |
| 29 | Black Veil Brides | The Night (EP) |
| 29 | Bölzer | Lese Majesty (EP) |
| 29 | Cattle Decapitation | Death Atlas |
| 29 | Fleshcrawl | Into the Catacombs of Flesh |
| 29 | Prong | Age of Defiance (EP) |
| 29 | Stormwarrior | Norsemen |

### December

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 6 | Blitzkrieg | Loud and Proud (EP) |
| 6 | Cro-Mags | From the Grave (EP) |
| 6 | Fen | The Dead Light |
| 6 | Human Fortress | Reign of Gold |
| 6 | The Murder of My Sweet | Brave Tin World |
| 6 | Nightwish | Decades: Live in Buenos Aires (live album) |
| 6 | The Old Dead Tree | The End (EP) |
| 6 | Running Wild | Crossing the Blades (EP) |
| 6 | Scissorfight | Doomus Abruptus, Vol. 1 |
| 11 | Band-Maid | Conqueror |
| 13 | Jasta | The Lost Chapters – Volume 2 |
| 13 | Nothing Left | Disconnected |
| 13 | Officium Triste | The Death of Gaia |
| 13 | Oni | Alone (EP) |
| 13 | Sid Wilson | Sexcapades of the Hopeless Robotic, Vol. 2 |
| 13 | Stone Sour | Hello, You Bastards: Live in Reno (live album) |
| 26 | The Acacia Strain | It Comes in Waves |
| 27 | Bring Me the Horizon | Music to Listen to~Dance to~Blaze to~Pray to~Feed to~Sleep to~Talk to~Grind to~Trip to~Breathe to~Help to~Hurt to~Scroll to~Roll to~Love to~Hate to~Learn Too~Plot to~Play to~Be to~Feel to~Breed to~Sweat to~Dream to~Hide to~Live to~Die to~Go To (EP) |