# 2013 in heavy metal music

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2013.

## Bands disbanded

* Ava Inferi
* Cataract
* Kiuas
* The Chariot
* Forbidden
* Gaza
* God Forbid
* Inhale Exhale
* Nachtmystium
* Power Quest
* Static-X
* Vomitory
* Weapon

## Bands reformed

* Dark Angel
* Falconer
* Gardenian
* Luna Mortis
* Minsk
* Mutiny Within
* Sonic Syndicate
* SugarComa (one-off reunion)
* Toxik

## Events

* Paul Di'Anno (ex-Iron Maiden) retired after his 2012 tour.
* HammerFall went on hiatus this year and did not release their next album until 2014.
* Lars Ulrich confirmed that Metallica's Orion Music + More festival will be held again this year.
* Ceremonial Oath, who split up in 1995, and Gardenian, who split up in 2004 and had not played a show in 12 years, both reunited for this year's edition of The Gothenburg Sound festival, which took place from January 4–5 at Trädgår'n in Gothenburg, Sweden.
* Metal Church, who split up twice (in 1994 and 2009), reunited for a second time at this year's 70000 Tons of Metal in January.
* Lamb of God singer Randy Blythe stood trial on February 4 on charges of manslaughter in the death of a fan at a concert in Prague, Czech Republic in 2010. He was acquitted on 5 March 2013 of all charges against him. Drummer Chris Adler said in an interview "Not only were we not able to generate any income, but we ended up having to pay more than half a million dollars in legal fees," the drummer said. "It bankrupted the entire band, no money left for any kind of payroll or anything."
* Rush was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles, California, on April 18.
* Liege Lord, who split up in 1989, reunited at the Keep It True XVI festival, which took place from April 19–20 at Tauberfrankenhalle in Lauda-Königshofen, Germany. They were the headliner of the festival.
* Cannibal Corpse celebrated the 25th anniversary of their formation.
* Anthrax announced the departure of guitarist Rob Caggiano.
* Volbeat announced that "former Anthrax and The Damned Things guitarist Rob Caggiano has officially joined Volbeat." Caggiano served as producer on "Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies" alongside long-time production partner Jacob Hansen, who produced and mixed the band's prior four albums.
* Danny Carey (Tool) admitted that he was the band member that had the motorcycle accident, "I cracked four ribs, broke three of them on a motorcycle the other day, so I am kinda laid up at this point. It's making it really painful to play. It's not an easy thing to do," he said.
* On 18 February 2013, bassist Daniel Antonsson quit Dark Tranquillity on good terms. Daniel wanted to focus on his own musical projects, play guitar rather than be the bassist in the band, and not wanting to commit to heavy touring of the band's 10th studio album and being a recording engineer/producer in his studio Gothenburg Rock Studios.
* Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo was not able to attend the Australian tour due to misgivings over contract negotiations. Jon Dette (ex-Evildead, ex-Testament) had replaced Dave for the remainder of the tour. On May 30, Slayer announced that Dave Lombardo has been officially replaced by Paul Bostaph (ex-Exodus, ex-Testament).
* Bison B.C. were dropped by Metal Blade Records, but the band still remains optimistic about the future.
* Symphony X drummer Jason Rullo suffered heart failure, but recovered with cardiac rehab.
* Korn announced that a new album featuring Brian "Head" Welch who officially rejoined the band after 8 years of absence.
* Tim Lambesis, vocalists for As I Lay Dying and Austrian Death Machine, was arrested after police said he tried to hire an undercover detective to kill his estranged wife. Tim has pleaded not guilty, and was released on bail for 2 million on May 31, 2013.
* Mike Portnoy (ex-Dream Theater) leaves Adrenaline Mob due to "scheduling conflicts".
* Protest the Hero drummer and original member Moe Carlson left the band after 12 years. Moe stated, "just to let you know, I'm going back to school, [I don't] have any intentions of touring ever again."

## Deaths

* January 16 – Claudio Leo, former guitarist of Lacuna Coil, died from cancer at the age of 40.
* January 26 – Bryan Carlstrom, recording engineer of numerous artists in a wide spectrum of genres, including Anthrax, Alice in Chains, D.R.I., Sacred Reich, White Zombie, and Incubus, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 51.
* March 12 – Clive Burr, former drummer of Iron Maiden, Trust and Samson, died from multiple sclerosis complications at the age of 56.
* March 19 – David Henning "Blackmoon" Parland, founding member, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist of numerous Swedish death and black metal bands, including Dark Funeral, Necrophobic, and Infernal, died by suicide at the age of 42.
* March 24 – Willi Lackmann, original Grave Digger bassist, died from undisclosed reasons.
* April 5 – Sławomir Kusterka (a.k.a. Mortifer), bassist of Hate, died from cardiac dysrhythmia in his sleep at the age of 27.
* April 5 – Jeremy Andrew "Andy" Johns, record producer and audio engineer of numerous artists, including Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, Ozzy Osbourne, and L.A. Guns, died from stomach ulcer complications at the age of 62.
* April 13 – Chi Cheng, bassist of Deftones died from complications following the 2008 car crash he was involved in at the age of 42.
* April 18 – Storm Elvin Thorgerson, graphic artist, music video director, and album cover designer of numerous artists, including Pink Floyd, Dream Theater, Black Sabbath, Rainbow, Helloween, and Bruce Dickinson, among others, died from cancer at the age of 69.
* May 2 – Jeffrey John "Jeff" Hanneman, founding member, songwriter, and guitarist of Slayer, died from alcohol-related cirrhosis of the liver at the age of 49.
* May 18 – Phil Buerstatte, former drummer of White Zombie, died from MRSA infection at the age of 46.
* May 21 – Trevor Bolder, bassist of Uriah Heep and Wishbone Ash, died from pancreatic cancer at the age of 62.
* June 1 – Maria Johanna Mårlöv, former Therion vocalist, died from cancer at the age of 38.
* June 2 – Mick Morris, bassist of Eighteen Visions and live bassist of Bleeding Through, died due to a pre-existing heart condition at the age of 35.
* August 10 – Phil Baheux, drummer of Channel Zero died from heart problems at the age of 45.
* August 23 – Joey LaCaze, founding member and drummer of Eyehategod, died from respiratory failure at the age of 42.

## Films

* Metallica released their 3D movie on August 9, 2013. The movie is entitled Metallica: Through the Never and was developed by Picturehouse.
* Dream Theater released their movie on November 4, 2013. The movie is entitled Dream Theater: Live at Luna Park and was developed by Eagle Rock Entertainment.

## Albums expected / released
### January

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Oblivion | Called to Rise |
| 1 | Subterranean Masquerade | Home (EP) |
| 8 | Newsted | Metal (EP) |
| 8 | Hollywood Undead | Notes from the Underground |
| 12 | Mors Principium Est | ...And Death Said Live |
| 12 | Mutiny Within | Synchronicity |
| 18 | Blockheads | The World is Dead |
| 18 | Helloween | Straight Out of Hell |
| 18 | Nightfall | Cassiopeia |
| 18 | Rotten Sound | Species at War (EP) |
| 18 | Saille | Ritu |
| 21 | Fen | Dustwalker |
| 21 | The Prophecy | Salvation |
| 21 | Riverside | Shrine of New Generation Slaves |
| 22 | Crashdïet | The Savage Playground |
| 22 | Holy Grail | Ride the Void |
| 22 | Love and Death | Between Here & Lost |
| 22 | Touché Amoré and Pianos Become the Teeth | Touché Amoré / Pianos Become the Teeth (Split EP) |
| 22 | Lightning Swords of Death | Baphometic Chaosium |
| 22 | Voivod | Target Earth |
| 25 | Convulse | Inner Evil |
| 25 | Cult of Luna | Vertikal |
| 25 | Hatebreed | The Divinity of Purpose |
| 25 | Koldbrann | Vertigo |
| 25 | Jørn Lande | Symphonic (compilation) |
| 25 | Pink Cream 69 | Ceremonial |
| 25 | Stratovarius | Unbreakable (EP) |
| 28 | Funeral for a Friend | Conduit |
| 29 | A Sound of Thunder | Queen of Hell (EP) |
| 29 | Assassin | Chaos and Live Shots (DVD) |
| 29 | Circle II Circle | Seasons Will Fall |
| 29 | The Gates of Slumber | Stormcrow (EP) |
| 29 | Tomahawk | Oddfellows |

### February

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 1 | The 69 Eyes | Love Runs Away (EP) |
| 1 | Blind Guardian | A Traveler's Guide to Space and Time (box set) |
| 1 | Enforcer | Death by Fire |
| 1 | Manilla Road | Mysterium |
| 1 | Raven Lord | Descent to the Underworld |
| 1 | Sinister | Years of Massacre (Compilation) |
| 1 | Sonic Reign | Monument in Black |
| 5 | Passages Into Deformity | Defeated Sanity |
| 5 | Hate | Solarflesh – A Gospel of Radiant Divinity |
| 5 | Red | Release the Panic |
| 5 | Spektr | Cypher |
| 12 | Bullet for My Valentine | Temper Temper |
| 15 | Misery Index | Live in Munich (live album) |
| 15 | Suffocation | Pinnacle of Bedlam |
| 16 | Sacred Steel | The Bloodshed Summoning |
| 18 | Officium Triste | Mors Viri |
| 19 | Complete Failure | The Art Gospel of Aggravated Assault |
| 19 | Black Boned Angel | The End |
| 19 | Portal | Vexovoid |
| 19 | Shai Hulud (band) | Reach Beyond the Sun |
| 19 | Wednesday 13 | The Dixie Dead |
| 22 | Arkona | Decade of Glory |
| 22 | Eternal Tears of Sorrow | Saivon Lapsi |
| 22 | Lord | Digital Lies |
| 22 | Lost Soul | Genesis XX: Years Of Chaoz (Compilation) |
| 22 | Stratovarius | Nemesis |
| 22 | W.E.T. | Rise Up |
| 25 | Darkthrone | The Underground Resistance |
| 25 | Omnium Gatherum | Beyond |
| 25 | Steven Wilson | The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) |
| 26 | Byzantine | Byzantine |
| 26 | Ruins | Place of No Pity |
| 26 | Vreid | Welcome Farewell |
| 26 | Within the Ruins | Elite |

### March

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Crystallion | Killer |
| 1 | Rotting Christ | Kata ton Daimona Eaytoy |
| 1 | Saxon | Sacrifice |
| 1 | Thyrfing | De Ödeslösa |
| 1 | Wolfchant | Embraced by Fire |
| 4 | Hardcore Superstar | C'mon Take on Me |
| 4 | Long Distance Calling | The Flood Inside |
| 5 | Krokus | Dirty Dynamite |
| 5 | Neaera | Ours is the Storm |
| 5 | Soilwork | The Living Infinite |
| 8 | Horna | Askel Lähempänä Saatanaa |
| 8 | Lordi | To Beast or Not to Beast |
| 11 | Blood Tsunami | For Faen |
| 11 | Orange Goblin | A Eulogy For The Fans (DVD) |
| 12 | Adrenaline Mob | Covertá (EP) |
| 12 | Common Dead | Allegorize |
| 12 | Rammstein | Videos 1995–2012 (DVD) |
| 15 | Imperia | Queen of Passion (compilation) |
| 15 | KEN mode | Entrench |
| 15 | Torture Killer | Phobia |
| 15 | Wardruna | Runaljod - Yggdrasil |
| 18 | Intronaut | Habitual Levitations (Instilling Words with Tones) |
| 19 | Anthrax | Anthems (covers EP) |
| 19 | Clutch | Earth Rocker |
| 19 | Hundredth | Revolt (EP) |
| 19 | Jungle Rot | Terror Regime |
| 19 | Six Feet Under | Unborn |
| 22 | Adept | Silence the World |
| 22 | Aeternus | ...And the Seventh His Soul Detesteth |
| 22 | Hypocrisy | End of Disclosure |
| 22 | Northlane | Singularity |
| 22 | Pretty Maids | Motherland |
| 22 | Serenity | War of Ages |
| 22 | Stonelake | Monolith |
| 22 | Trail of Tears | Oscillation |
| 22 | Visions of Atlantis | Ethera |
| 22 | Von | Dark Gods: Seven Billion Slaves |
| 25 | Amaranthe | The Nexus |
| 25 | The Amenta | Flesh Is Heir |
| 25 | Finntroll | Blodsvept |
| 25 | Gamma Ray | Master of Confusion (EP) |
| 25 | Moss | Horrible Nights |
| 25 | October Tide | Tunnel of No Light |
| 25 | Axel Rudi Pell | Live on Fire (DVD) |
| 26 | Benea Reach | Possession |
| 26 | DGM | Momentum |
| 26 | Kvelertak | Meir |
| 26 | Sevendust | Black Out the Sun |
| 26 | Suicidal Tendencies | 13 |
| 29 | Persefone | Spiritual Migration |
| 30 | Avantasia | The Mystery of Time |

### April

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 2 | Drowning Pool | Resilience |
| 2 | Killswitch Engage | Disarm the Descent |
| 2 | Bring Me the Horizon | Sempiternal |
| 2 | Toxic Holocaust | From the Ashes of Nuclear Destruction (compilation) |
| 3 | Dir En Grey | The Unraveling (EP) |
| 5 | Deathchain | Ritual Death Metal |
| 5 | Volbeat | Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies |
| 5 | Saltatio Mortis | Manufactum III |
| 8 | Device | Device |
| 8 | The Meads of Asphodel | Sonderkommando |
| 8 | Shining | One One One |
| 9 | Dawn of Ashes | Anathema |
| 9 | Ghost | Infestissumam |
| 9 | Keep of Kalessin | Introspection (EP) |
| 9 | Stone Sour | House of Gold & Bones – Part 2 |
| 12 | Ctulu | Seelenspiegelsplitter |
| 12 | Memory Garden | Doomain |
| 12 | Mystic Prophecy | Best of Prophecy Years (compilation) |
| 12 | Wastefall | Meridiem (EP) |
| 15 | Iced Earth | Live In Ancient Kourion (DVD) |
| 15 | Sacred Mother Tongue | Out of the Darkness |
| 15 | Spiritual Beggars | Earth Blues |
| 16 | Jeff Loomis | Requiem for the Living (EP) |
| 16 | Skid Row | United World Rebellion: Chapter One (EP) |
| 17 | Coldrain | The Revelation |
| 18 | Noumena | Death Walks With Me |
| 19 | Amorphis | Circle |
| 19 | Beastwars | Blood Becomes Fire |
| 19 | Gama Bomb | The Terror Tapes |
| 19 | Heaven Shall Burn | Veto |
| 19 | Steak Number Eight | The Hutch |
| 22 | Hacride | Back to Where You've Never Been |
| 23 | Amplifier | Echo Street |
| 23 | Kaledon | Altor: The King's Blacksmith |
| 23 | Queensrÿche with Geoff Tate | Frequency Unknown |
| 23 | Rob Zombie | Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor |
| 24 | Atrocity | Okkult |
| 24 | Dreamtale | World Changed Forever |
| 26 | Deep Purple | Now What?! |
| 26 | Howl | Bloodlines |
| 26 | The Ocean | Pelagial |
| 26 | Sodom | Epitome of Torture |
| 26 | Vicious Rumors | Electric Punishment |
| 28 | Malefice | Five |
| 29 | Cathedral | The Last Spire |
| 29 | Freedom Call | Ages Of Light (compilation) |
| 29 | Kingdom Come | Outlier |
| 29 | Satan | Life Sentence |
| 30 | After the Burial | This Life is All We Have (EP) |
| 30 | Altar of Plagues | Teethed Glory and Injury |
| 30 | Arsis | Unwelcome |
| 30 | Cauldron | Tomorrow's Lost (American Version) |
| 30 | Hybrid | Angst |

### May

* Onyx; Pop Evil, May 14, 2013
| Day | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Delain | Interlude (compilation) |
| 3 | Lacrimas Profundere | Antiadore |
| 3 | Rhapsody of Fire | Live – From Chaos to Eternity (live) |
| 3 | Shade Empire | Omega Arcane |
| 7 | Joe Satriani | Unstoppable Momentum |
| 10 | Arckanum | Fenris Kindir |
| 10 | Chaostar | Anomima |
| 10 | Immolation | Kingdom of Conspiracy |
| 13 | My Dying Bride | The Manuscript (EP) |
| 14 | The Dillinger Escape Plan | One of Us Is the Killer |
| 14 | Tribulation | The Formulas of Death |
| 17 | Blood Red Throne | Blood Red Throne |
| 17 | Gothminister | Utopia |
| 17 | Masterplan | Novum Initium |
| 20 | Leprous | Coal (Leprous album) |
| 21 | Airbourne | Black Dog Barking |
| 21 | Avalon | The Land of New Hope |
| 21 | A Pale Horse Named Death | Lay My Soul to Waste |
| 21 | U.D.O. | Steelhammer |
| 24 | Anvil | Hope in Hell |
| 24 | Dew-Scented | Insurgent |
| 24 | Kylesa | Ultraviolet |
| 24 | Suidakra | Eternal Defiance |
| 27 | Burzum | Sôl Austan, Mâni Vestan |
| 27 | Dagoba | Post Mortem Nihil Est |
| 27 | Dark Tranquillity | Construct |
| 27 | Evile | Skull |
| 27 | Christopher Lee | Charlemagne: The Omens of Death |
| 27 | Tesseract | Altered State |
| 28 | Aborym | Dirty |
| 28 | Alice in Chains | The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here |
| 28 | Antigama | Meteor |
| 28 | Anvil | Hope in Hell |
| 28 | ASG | Blood Drive |
| 28 | Blood Ceremony | The Eldritch Dark |
| 28 | Judas Priest | Epitaph (DVD) |
| 28 | Sacred Oath | Fallen |
| 28 | Svartsyn | Black Testament |
| 29 | Chthonic | Bú-Tik |
| 31 | Cardiant | Verge |
| 31 | Tristania | Darkest White |

### June

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 3 | White Wizzard | The Devil's Cut |
| 4 | Megadeth | Super Collider |
| 5 | Oliva | Raise the Curtain |
| 7 | Summoning | Old Mornings Dawn |
| 11 | The Black Dahlia Murder | Everblack |
| 11 | Black Sabbath | 13 |
| 11 | Children of Bodom | Halo of Blood |
| 11 | Deafheaven | Sunbather |
| 11 | Integrity | Suicide Black Snake |
| 11 | Jørn Lande | Traveller |
| 11 | My Ruin | The Sacred Mood |
| 11 | Scale the Summit | The Migration |
| 14 | Magnus Karlsson | Free Fall |
| 17 | Amberian Dawn | Re-Evolution (compilation) |
| 17 | Kalmah | Seventh Swamphony |
| 18 | Dark Moor | Ars Musica |
| 18 | Fuck the Facts | Amer (EP) |
| 18 | High on Fire | Spitting Fire Live Vol. 1 (live) |
| 18 | High on Fire | Spitting Fire Live Vol. 2 (live) |
| 18 | Valient Thorr | Our Own Masters |
| 21 | Edenbridge | The Bonding |
| 21 | Eternal Oath | Ghostlands |
| 21 | Extol | Extol (album) |
| 21 | Raven | Rock Until You Drop (DVD) |
| 24 | Autopsy | The Headless Ritual |
| 24 | Firewind | Apotheosis – Live 2012 (live) |
| 24 | Orphaned Land | All Is One |
| 24 | Queensrÿche with Todd La Torre | Queensrÿche |
| 25 | Amon Amarth | Deceiver of the Gods |
| 25 | August Burns Red | Rescue & Restore |
| 25 | Deeds of Flesh | Portals to Canaan |
| 25 | Havok | Unnatural Selection |
| 25 | Hopes Die Last | Wolfpack EP |
| 25 | Mouth of the Architect | Dawning |
| 25 | Skillet | Rise |
| 26 | Hibria | Silent Revenge |
| 26 | Trauma | Karma Obscura |
| 28 | Agathodaimon | In Darkness |
| 28 | Darkane | The Sinister Supremacy |
| 28 | Impiety | Vengeance Hell Immemorial (compilation) |
| 28 | Månegarm | Legions of the North |
| 28 | Sirenia | Perils of the Deep Blue |

### July

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 2 | Huntress | Starbound Beast |
| 9 | Butcher Babies | Goliath |
| 9 | Battlecross | War of Will |
| 9 | Nothnegal | Nothnegal (EP) |
| 10 | Proyecto Eskhata | "El despertar de Queztgull" |
| 12 | Hypocrisy | Penetralia / Osculum (box-set) |
| 15 | Panzerchrist | 7th Offensive |
| 16 | Evan Brewer | Your Itinerary |
| 18 | King Conquer | 1776 |
| 18 | Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals | Walk Through Exits Only |
| 18 | Seven Witches | Rebirth |
| 18 | Trouble | The Distortion Field |
| 19 | Baroness | Live At Maida Vale (live EP) |
| 19 | Karnivool | Asymmetry |
| 19 | Powerwolf | Preachers of the Night |
| 22 | Stormzone | Three Kings |
| 23 | American Head Charge | Shoot (EP) |
| 23 | Black Tusk | Tend No Wounds (EP) |
| 23 | Counterparts | The Difference Between Hell and Home |
| 23 | Five Finger Death Punch | The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell, Volume 1 |
| 23 | Legion of the Damned | Ravenous Plague |
| 23 | Misery Signals | Absent Light |
| 26 | Deadlock | The Arsonist |
| 26 | We Came as Romans | Tracing Back Roots |
| 27 | Mercenary | Through Our Darkest Days |
| 29 | James LaBrie | Impermanent Resonance |
| 30 | Chimaira | Crown of Phantoms |

### August

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 2 | The Defiled | Daggers |
| 2 | Lingua Mortis Orchestra and Rage | LMO |
| 2 | Exhumed | Necrocracy |
| 6 | Iwrestledabearonce | Late For Nothing |
| 6 | Newsted | Heavy Metal Music |
| 6 | Revocation | Revocation (album) |
| 8 | Rosetta | The Anaesthete |
| 16 | Fleshgod Apocalypse | Labyrinth |
| 16 | Manowar | The Lord Of Steel Live (live EP) |
| 16 | Soil | Whole |
| 19 | Watain | The Wild Hunt |
| 20 | Blessthefall | Hollow Bodies |
| 20 | Born of Osiris | Tomorrow We Die Alive |
| 21 | Turisas | Turisas2013 |
| 23 | ReVamp | Wild Card |
| 23 | Tarja Turunen | Colours in the Dark |
| 23 | Unshine | Dark Half Rising |
| 27 | Avenged Sevenfold | Hail to the King |
| 27 | DevilDriver | Winter Kills |
| 30 | Gorguts | Colored Sands |
| 30 | Kreator | Dying Alive (DVD) |
| 30 | Nine Inch Nails | Hesitation Marks |
| 31 | Avulsed | Ritual Zombi |
| 31 | Kayo Dot | Hubardo |

### September

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 2 | Haken | The Mountain |
| 2 | The Safety Fire | Mouth of Swords |
| 3 | Deliverance | Hear What I Say! |
| 3 | Vista Chino | Peace |
| 3 | Annihilator | Feast |
| 6 | Dark Age | A Matter of Trust |
| 6 | Ministry | From Beer to Eternity |
| 6 | Ashes Of Ares | Ashes Of Ares |
| 7 | Michael Angelo Batio | Intermezzo |
| 9 | Satyricon | Satyricon |
| 10 | Gemini Syndrome | Lux |
| 10 | Nine Inch Nails | Live 2013 EP (EP) |
| 13 | Onslaught | VI |
| 13 | Poisonblack | Lyijy |
| 13 | Carcass | Surgical Steel |
| 17 | The Devil Wears Prada | 8:18 |
| 17 | Eyes Set to Kill | Masks |
| 17 | Ulcerate | Vermis (album) |
| 17 | Týr | Valkyrja |
| 17 | Gwar | Battle Maximus |
| 20 | Hirax | Immortal Legacy |
| 20 | Stormlord | Hesperia |
| 24 | Dream Theater | Dream Theater |
| 24 | Megadeth | Countdown to Extinction: Live (CD/DVD) |
| 24 | Ra | Critical Mass |
| 25 | The Gathering | Afterwords |
| 27 | Master | The Witchhunt |
| 27 | myGRAIN | Planetary Breathing |
| 27 | Mystic Prophecy | Killhammer |
| 27 | Wisdom | Marching for Liberty |
| 27 | Hatesphere | Murderlust |
| 30 | Devin Townsend | The Retinal Circus (CD/DVD) |

### October

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Broken Hope | Omen Of Disease |
| 1 | The Browning | Hypernova |
| 1 | Fates Warning | Darkness in a Different Light |
| 1 | Scar the Martyr | Scar the Martyr |
| 1 | Within Temptation | Paradise (What About Us?) |
| 4 | Running Wild | Resilient |
| 4 | Soulfly | Savages |
| 8 | A Day to Remember | Common Courtesy |
| 8 | Korn | The Paradigm Shift |
| 8 | Ulver | Messe I.X-VI.X |
| 11 | Death Angel | The Dream Calls for Blood |
| 11 | Testament | Dark Roots of Thrash (CD/DVD) |
| 14 | Deep Purple | Perfect Strangers Live (DVD) |
| 15 | Doomriders | Grand Blood |
| 15 | Red Fang | Whales and Leeches |
| 15 | Trivium | Vengeance Falls |
| 15 | Monster Magnet | Last Patrol |
| 16 | Europe | Live At Sweden Rock – 30th Anniversary Show (DVD) |
| 21 | Pestilence | Obsideo |
| 21 | Motörhead | Aftershock |
| 22 | Ihsahn | Das Seelenbrechen |
| 22 | Lita Ford | The Bitch is Back... Live |
| 22 | Metal Church | Generation Nothing |
| 25 | Inquisition | Obscure Verses for the Multiverse |
| 25 | Sahg | Delusions Of Grandeur |
| 25 | Sepultura | The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must Be the Heart |
| 28 | Ayreon | The Theory of Everything |
| 28 | Hail Of Bullets | III: The Rommel Chronicles |
| 28 | Man Must Die | Peace Was Never an Option |
| 29 | Kataklysm | Waiting For The End To Come |
| 29 | Kill Devill Hill | Revolution Rise |
| 29 | Myka Relocate | Lies to Light the Way |
| 29 | Protest the Hero | Volition |
| 29 | Skeletonwitch | Serpents Unleashed |
| 29 | Toxic Holocaust | Chemistry of Consciousness |
| 29 | Warbringer | IV: Empires Collapse |
| 29 | Winds of Plague | Resistance |

### November

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 5 | Dream Theater | Live at Luna Park |
| 5 | Falkenbach | Asa |
| 5 | Melvins | Tres Cabrones |
| 5 | Stryper | No More Hell To Pay |
| 8 | Cronian | Erathems |
| 8 | Endstille | Kapitulation 2013 |
| 8 | Epica | Retrospect (DVD) |
| 8 | Iron Mask | Fifth Son of Winterdoom |
| 12 | Handful of Hate | To Perdition |
| 12 | Living Sacrifice | Ghost Thief |
| 12 | Black Tide | Bite the Bullet (EP) |
| 13 | Leaves' Eyes | Symphonies of the Night |
| 13 | Sacrificium | Prey for Your Gods |
| 15 | Apocalyptica | Wagner Reloaded (Live) |
| 15 | Alestorm | Live At The End Of The World (DVD) |
| 18 | Rush | Clockwork Angels Tour |
| 19 | Code | Augur Nox |
| 19 | Ephel Duath | Hemmed By Light, Shaped By Darkness |
| 19 | Five Finger Death Punch | The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell, Volume 2 |
| 22 | Artillery | Legions |
| 22 | Betzefer | The Devil Went Down to the Holy Land |
| 22 | Hell | Curse And Chapter |
| 22 | Pro-Pain | The Final Revolution |
| 22 | Rhapsody of Fire | Dark Wings of Steel |
| 25 | Almah | Raise The Sun |
| 26 | Black Sabbath | Live... Gathered in Their Masses |
| 26 | Deicide | In the Minds of Evil |
| 29 | Benedictum | Obey |
| 29 | Human Fortress | Raided Land |
| 29 | Nightwish | Showtime, Storytime (DVD/CD) |

### December

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 18 | Skálmöld and the Iceland Symphony Orchestra | Skálmöld & Sinfóníuhljómsveit Íslands (CD/DVD) |