# 2018 in heavy metal music

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2018.

## Bands formed

* Brand of Sacrifice
* Oceanhoarse
* Turilli / Lione Rhapsody

## Bands disbanded

* Adagio (hiatus)
* Burzum
* The Charm the Fury
* The Color Morale (hiatus)
* Darkness Divided
* Devin Townsend Project (hiatus)
* Dew-Scented
* Diablo Blvd
* Dirge Within
* Ed Gein
* Katatonia (hiatus)
* Luca Turilli's Rhapsody
* Machine Head (hiatus)
* Manilla Road
* Morgoth (hiatus)
* Necrophagia
* Rush
* Sleeping Giant
* The Sword (hiatus)
* Tengger Cavalry
* Vattnet
* Young and in the Way

## Bands reformed

* Black River
* Bleed the Sky
* Bleeding Through
* Conception
* Mötley Crüe
* Static-X
* Tengger Cavalry
* Vomitory

## Events

* On January 5, Sodom announced that they had parted ways with guitarist Bernd "Bernemann" Kost and drummer Markus "Makka" Freiwald, who had been members of the band since 1996 and 2010 respectively. Later that month, bassist and vocalist Tom Angelripper announced that Sodom was rejoined by guitarist Frank "Blackfire" Gosdzik, and that Stefan "Husky" Hüskens and Yorck Segatz were revealed as the band's new drummer and second guitarist respectively.
* On January 22, Slayer announced plans to embark on a farewell tour after 37 years together.
* On February 12, Glenn Tipton announced that he had Parkinson's disease, with which he had been first diagnosed with a decade ago, and would no longer be touring with Judas Priest. He stated that he was still a member of the band despite his diagnosis and did not rule out future on-stage appearances. Producer and former Sabbat guitarist Andy Sneap was announced as his replacement for future tours.
* On September 13, vocalist Vince Neil announced that Mötley Crüe had reunited and recorded four new songs for the film adaptation of the band's biography, The Dirt – Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band.
* On September 28, lead vocalist and founding member Robb Flynn announced that Machine Head would do one final tour with longtime members Phil Demmel (guitarist) and Dave McClain (drummer), who had recently left the band. Flynn claimed that they were not breaking up but clarified that "this is the farewell tour of this lineup, this era of Machine Head. This is not the farewell tour of Machine Head."
* Nightwish embarked on a nine-month world tour, titled Decades: World Tour, featuring a special set for fans, including songs that had not been played in a long time. The tour began on March 9, 2018, and an accompanying 2CD compilation called Decades was released on the same day.

## Deaths

* January 3 – Josiah Boyd, former bassist of A Hill to Die Upon, died after a car accident at the age of 32.
* January 5 – Mikio Fujioka, guitarist of Babymetal, died from injuries caused by falling off an observation deck at the age of 36.
* January 9 – Paul Antignani, former drummer of Sworn Enemy, died from undisclosed reasons.
* January 10 – "Fast" Eddie Clarke, guitarist of Fastway and former guitarist of Motörhead, died of pneumonia at the age of 67.
* January 10 – Alfred Morris III, guitarist of Iron Man, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 60.
* January 16 – Dave Holland, former drummer of Judas Priest, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 69.
* February 1 – Marcin Walenczykowski, guitarist of Vesania and Rootwater, died from lymphoma at the age of 37.
* February 5 – Damien Percy, former drummer of Mortification, died from undisclosed reasons.
* February 7 – Pat Torpey, drummer of Mr. Big, died from Parkinson's disease at the age of 64.
* February 27 – Fabiano Penna, guitarist of Rebaelliun, died from undisclosed reasons.
* March 9 – Guillermo Calero, drummer of Wormed, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 27.
* March 18 – Frank "Killjoy" Pucci, vocalist of Necrophagia, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 51.
* March 28 – Caleb Scofield, bassist and vocalist of Cave In, Old Man Gloom, and Zozobra, died in car crash at age of 39.
* April 25 – Kato Khandwala, record producer, songwriter, mixer, and engineer of albums by Vimic, Pop Evil, and many other different artists, died from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident at the age of 47.
* April 30 – Tim Calvert, former guitarist of Nevermore and Forbidden, died from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at the age of 52.
* May 9 – Ben Graves, former drummer of Murderdolls, Dope, and Pretty Boy Floyd, died from cancer at the age of 46.
* May 29 – Josh Martin, guitarist of Anal Cunt, died from injuries sustained from falling off an escalator at the age of 45.
* June 6 – Ralph Santolla, former guitarist of Iced Earth, Deicide, Death, and Obituary, died after suffering a heart attack, falling into a coma, and being taken off life support at the age of 51.
* June 20 – David Bianco, Grammy Award-winning record producer and engineer of numerous artists, including Ozzy Osbourne, Danzig, Cathedral, and Trouble, died from complications of a stroke at the age of 64.
* June 22 – Vinnie Paul, drummer of Hellyeah and former drummer of Pantera and Damageplan, died from dilated cardiomyopathy and coronary artery disease at the age of 54.
* June 25 – Jake Raymond, former vocalist of Vital Remains, died from undisclosed reasons.
* July 7 – Bret Hoffmann, former vocalist of Malevolent Creation, died from colon cancer at the age of 51.
* July 27 – Mark "The Shark" Shelton, vocalist and guitarist of Manilla Road, died from a heart attack at the age of 60.
* August 10 – Jason “J-Sin” Luttrell, former vocalist of Primer 55, died from Hepatitis C at the age of 40.
* August 14 – Randy Rampage, former vocalist of Annihilator, died from a heart attack at the age of 58.
* August 14 – Jill Janus, vocalist of Huntress, died from committing suicide at the age of 42.
* August 24 – Carlos Denogean, drummer of Weedeater, died after suffering an aneurysm at the age of 30.
* August 25 – Kyle Pavone, vocalist of We Came as Romans, died from a drug overdose at the age of 28.
* September 5 – Richard Bateman, bassist of Nasty Savage, died from a heart attack.
* October 10 – Andie Airfix, graphic designer and cover artist for numerous artists, including Metallica, Def Leppard, Black Sabbath, and Judas Priest, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 72.
* October 12 – Kade Dodson, former drummer of Abated Mass of Flesh and The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 33.
* October 16 – Oli Herbert, guitarist of All That Remains, died from drowning after taking antidepressants and sleeping aids at the age of 44.
* October 23 – Willy Lange, bassist of Lȧȧz Rockit and Dublin Death Patrol, died from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident at the age of 57.
* October 27 – Todd Youth, former guitarist of Agnostic Front, Murphy's Law, Danzig, and Warzone, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 47.
* November 29 – Erik Lindmark, vocalist and guitarist of Deeds of Flesh, died from sclerosis at the age of 46.
* December 3 – Carsten Otterbach, former guitarist of Morgoth, died from multiple sclerosis at the age of 48.
* December 7 – Lucas Starr, former bassist of Oh, Sleeper, died from colon cancer at the age of 34.

## Albums released
### January

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 4 | Abigor | Höllenzwang (Chronicles of Perdition) |
| 5 | Shining | X – Varg Utan Flock |
| 5 | Summoning | With Doom We Come |
| 5 | Watain | Trident Wolf Eclipse |
| 11 | Y&T | Acoustic Classix, Vol. 1 (EP) |
| 12 | Avatar | Avatar Country |
| 12 | Black Veil Brides | Vale |
| 12 | Corrosion of Conformity | No Cross No Crown |
| 12 | Hamferð | Támsins likam |
| 12 | Heidevolk | Vuur Van Verzet |
| 12 | Leaves' Eyes | Sign of the Dragonhead |
| 12 | Mystic Prophecy | Monuments Uncovered (covers album) |
| 12 | Trespass | Footprints in the Rock |
| 12 | Ty Tabor | Alien Beans |
| 12 | White Wizzard | Infernal Overdrive |
| 19 | Anvil | Pounding the Pavement |
| 19 | Arkona | Khram |
| 19 | Black Label Society | Grimmest Hits |
| 19 | Cane Hill | Too Far Gone |
| 19 | Dalriada | Nyárutó |
| 19 | Of Mice & Men | Defy |
| 19 | Terror Universal | Make Them Bleed |
| 19 | Unshine | Astrala |
| 25 | Mike Shinoda | Post Traumatic (EP) |
| 26 | Agrimonia | Awaken |
| 26 | Hämatom | Bestie der Freiheit |
| 26 | In Vain | Currents |
| 26 | Labyrinth | Return to Live (live album) |
| 26 | Loudness | Rise to Glory |
| 26 | Lione/Conti | Lione/Conti |
| 26 | Machine Head | Catharsis |
| 26 | New Years Day | Diary of a Creep (EP) |
| 26 | Orphaned Land | Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs |
| 26 | Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons | The Age of Absurdity |
| 26 | Philip H. Anselmo & the Illegals | Choosing Mental Illness as a Virtue |
| 26 | The Poodles | Prisma |
| 26 | Portal | Ion |
| 26 | Sleeping Giant | I Am |
| 26 | Tribulation | Down Below |
| 28 | Rebellion | A Tragedy in Steel Part II: Shakespeare's King Lear |

### February

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Gnaw Their Tongues | Genocidal Majesty |
| 2 | Long Distance Calling | Boundless |
| 2 | Manigance | Machine Nation |
| 2 | Misery Index | I Disavow (EP) |
| 2 | Saxon | Thunderbolt |
| 9 | The Atlas Moth | Coma Noir |
| 9 | Crescent | The Order of Amenti |
| 9 | Harm's Way | Posthuman |
| 9 | Lovelorn Dolls | Darker Ages |
| 9 | Therion | Beloved Antichrist |
| 9 | Voodoo Circle | Raised on Rock |
| 14 | Band-Maid | World Domination |
| 16 | Angra | Ømni |
| 16 | Cypecore | The Alliance |
| 16 | Dizzy Reed | Rock 'n Roll Ain't Easy |
| 16 | Ektomorf | Fury |
| 16 | Ethan Brosh | Conspiracy |
| 16 | Eyes Set to Kill | Eyes Set to Kill |
| 16 | For the Fallen Dreams | Six |
| 16 | Harakiri for the Sky | Arson |
| 16 | Heavatar | Opus II – The Annihilation |
| 16 | Letzte Instanz | Morgenland |
| 16 | Neal Morse | Life & Times |
| 16 | The Plot in You | Dispose |
| 16 | Pop Evil | Pop Evil |
| 16 | Senses Fail | If There Is a Light, It Will Find You |
| 16 | Visions of Atlantis | The Deep & the Dark |
| 21 | Royal Hunt | Cast in Stone |
| 23 | Deliverance | The Subversive Kind |
| 23 | Deströyer 666 | Call of the Wild (EP) |
| 23 | Dimmu Borgir | Interdimensional Summit (EP) |
| 23 | Megaherz | Komet |
| 23 | MGT | Gemini Nyte |
| 23 | Necrophobic | Mark of the Necrogram |
| 23 | Nick Oliveri | N.O. Hits at All, Vol. 4 |
| 23 | Salem | Attrition |
| 23 | Schwarzer Engel | Kult der Krähe |
| 23 | Sebastien | Act of Creation |
| 23 | Tengger Cavalry | Cian Bi |
| 28 | Hibria | Moving Ground |

### March

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 2 | Andrew W.K. | You're Not Alone |
| 2 | Black Moth | Anatomical Venus |
| 2 | Blaze Bayley | The Redemption of William Black – Infinite Entanglement Part III |
| 2 | Michael Schenker Fest | Resurrection |
| 2 | Rolo Tomassi | Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It |
| 9 | Between the Buried and Me | Automata I |
| 9 | Darkness Divided | The End of It All (EP) |
| 9 | Drudkh | Їм часто сниться капіж |
| 9 | Judas Priest | Firepower |
| 9 | Ministry | AmeriKKKant |
| 9 | Myles Kennedy | Year of the Tiger |
| 9 | Necrodeath | The Age of Dead Christ |
| 9 | Nightwish | Decades (compilation album) |
| 9 | Pestilence | Hadeon |
| 9 | Suicidal Tendencies | Get Your Fight On! (EP) |
| 9 | Three Days Grace | Outsider |
| 9 | Turbowolf | The Free Life |
| 12 | On Thorns I Lay | Aegean Sorrow |
| 16 | The Crown | Cobra Speed Venom |
| 16 | Little Caesar | Eight |
| 16 | Monotheist | Scourge |
| 16 | Northlane | Analog Future (live album) |
| 16 | Stone Temple Pilots | Stone Temple Pilots |
| 16 | Susperia | The Lyricist |
| 23 | The Absence | A Gift for the Obsessed |
| 23 | Axel Rudi Pell | Knights Call |
| 23 | Bad Wolves | False Flags: Volume One (EP) |
| 23 | Blessthefall | Hard Feelings |
| 23 | Borealis | The Offering |
| 23 | BulletBoys | From Out of the Skies |
| 23 | Eldritch | Cracksleep |
| 23 | Izegrim | Beheaded by Trust (EP) |
| 23 | Last Days of Eden | Chrysalis |
| 23 | Monster Magnet | Mindfucker |
| 23 | Mournful Congregation | The Incubus of Karma |
| 23 | The Sword | Used Future |
| 23 | Will Haven | Muerte |
| 30 | Alesana | The Lost Chapters (EP) |
| 30 | Augury | Illusive Golden Age |
| 30 | Ayreon | Ayreon Universe – The Best of Ayreon Live (live album) |
| 30 | Barren Earth | A Complex of Cages |
| 30 | Escape the Fate | I Am Human |
| 30 | Failure | In the Future (EP) |
| 30 | J.B.O. | Deutsche Vita |
| 30 | Light the Torch | Revival |
| 30 | Marc Rizzo | Rotation |
| 30 | Napalm Death | Coded Smears and More Uncommon Slurs (compilation album) |
| 30 | No One Is Innocent | Frankenstein |
| 30 | Primordial | Exile Amongst the Ruins |
| 30 | Rob Zombie | Astro-Creep: 2000 Live (live album) |
| 30 | Zeke | Hellbender |

### April

| Date | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Omega Diatribe | Trinity |
| 6 | Bleed from Within | Era |
| 6 | Caliban | Elements |
| 6 | The Dead Daisies | Burn It Down |
| 6 | Hypno5e | Alba – Les Ombres Errantes |
| 6 | Kalmah | Palo |
| 6 | Kamelot | The Shadow Theory |
| 6 | Panopticon | The Scars of Man and the Once Nameless Wilderness |
| 6 | Underoath | Erase Me |
| 6 | Whyzdom | As Times Turn to Dust |
| 6 | Winterfylleth | The Hallowing of Heirdom |
| 10 | Autokrator | Hammer of Heretics |
| 13 | Behemoth | Messe Noire (live album) |
| 13 | Bonfire | Temple of Lies |
| 13 | Breaking Benjamin | Ember |
| 13 | Carpathian Forest | Likeim (EP) |
| 13 | Crematory | Oblivion |
| 13 | Derek Smalls | Smalls Change (Meditations Upon Ageing) |
| 13 | Emerald Sun | Under the Curse of Silence |
| 13 | Jen Ledger | Ledger (EP) |
| 13 | Motör Militia | World in Flames |
| 13 | Nekrogoblikon | Welcome to Bonkers |
| 13 | Rotten Sound | Suffer to Abuse (EP) |
| 19 | Cancer Bats | The Spark That Moves |
| 20 |
| 20 | Black Stone Cherry | Family Tree |
| 20 | Bullet | Dust to Gold |
| 20 | From Ashes to New | The Future |
| 20 | Gus G | Fearless |
| 20 | James Christian | Craving |
| 20 | Melvins | Pinkus Abortion Technician |
| 20 | Ross the Boss | By Blood Sworn |
| 20 | Sleep | The Sciences |
| 20 | Stryper | God Damn Evil |
| 20 | Temperance | Of Jupiter and Moons |
| 20 | Tesseract | Sonder |
| 27 | Anthrax | Kings Among Scotland (DVD) |
| 27 | The Armed | Only Love |
| 27 | Aura Noir | Aura Noire |
| 27 | Blitzkrieg | Judge Not |
| 27 | Blood Tsunami | Grave Condition |
| 27 | Cruachan | Nine Years of Blood |
| 27 | Dylan Carlson | Conquistador |
| 27 | Godsmack | When Legends Rise |
| 27 | Ingested | The Level Above Human |
| 27 | Kobra and the Lotus | Prevail II |
| 27 | Lee Aaron | Diamond Baby Blues |
| 27 | Power Trip | Opening Fire: 2008–2014 (compilation album) |
| 27 | Riot V | Armor of Light |
| 27 | Skindred | Big Tings |
| 27 | Tomorrow's Eve | Mirror of Creation III – Project Ikaros |

### May

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Thou | The House Primordial (EP) |
| 1 | Twilight | Trident Death Rattle (EP) |
| 2 | Dead Cross | Dead Cross (EP) |
| 4 | Angelus Apatrida | Cabaret de la Guillotine |
| 4 | Dimmu Borgir | Eonian |
| 4 | Ihsahn | Àmr |
| 4 | Iron Angel | Hellbound |
| 4 | Iron Fire | Dawn of Creation: Twentieth Anniversary (compilation album) |
| 4 | Parkway Drive | Reverence |
| 4 | Shinedown | Attention Attention |
| 4 | Thy Catafalque | Geometria |
| 4 | The Word Alive | Violent Noise |
| 10 | Harley Flanagan | Hard-Core Dr. Know (EP) |
| 11 | Bad Wolves | Disobey |
| 11 | The Body | I Have Fought Against It, But I Can't Any Longer. |
| 11 | Child Bite | Burnt Offerings (compilation album) |
| 11 | Engel | Abandon All Hope |
| 11 | Jizzy Pearl | All You Need Is Soul |
| 11 | Lords of Black | Icons of the New Days |
| 11 | Praying Mantis | Gravity |
| 11 | Sevendust | All I See Is War |
| 11 | Silent Stream of Godless Elegy | Smutnice |
| 11 | Skinless | Savagery |
| 11 | Trauma | As the World Dies |
| 15 | Kekal | Deeper Underground |
| 15 | Powerglove | Continue? |
| 18 | The Afterimage | Eve |
| 18 | Amorphis | Queen of Time |
| 18 | At the Gates | To Drink from the Night Itself |
| 18 | Burn the Priest | Legion: XX (covers album) |
| 18 | Five Finger Death Punch | And Justice for None |
| 18 | Fragments of Unbecoming | Perdition Portal |
| 18 | Grayceon | IV |
| 18 | Overkill | Live in Overhausen (DVD) |
| 23 | Snowy Shaw | White Is the New Black |
| 25 | Bleeding Through | Love Will Kill All |
| 25 | Candlemass | House of Doom (EP) |
| 25 | Don Airey | One of a Kind |
| 25 | Dream On, Dreamer | It Comes and Goes |
| 25 | Failure | Your Body Will Be (EP) |
| 25 | Hoobastank | Push Pull |
| 25 | Jonathan Davis | Black Labyrinth |
| 25 | Light This City | Terminal Bloom |
| 25 | Lordi | Sexorcism |
| 25 | Midnattsol | The Aftermath |
| 25 | Smile Empty Soul | Oblivion |
| 25 | Subsignal | La Muerte |
| 25 | Svalbard | It’s Hard to Have Hope |
| 25 | Witch Mountain | Witch Mountain |

### June

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Alien Weaponry | Tü |
| 1 | Convictions | Hope for the Broken |
| 1 | Ghost | Prequelle |
| 1 | Kataklysm | Meditations |
| 1 | Powerflo | Bring That Shit Back! (EP) |
| 1 | Skinflint | Skinflint |
| 6 | Ribspreader | The Van Murders – Part 2 |
| 8 | Acârash | In Chaos Becrowned |
| 8 | Eisregen | Satan Liebt Dich (EP) |
| 8 | Exmortus | The Sound of Steel |
| 8 | Refuge | Solitary Men |
| 8 | TNT | XIII |
| 8 | Tremonti | A Dying Machine |
| 8 | Yob | Our Raw Heart |
| 8 | Zeal & Ardor | Stranger Fruit |
| 13 | The Gazette | Ninth |
| 15 | A Sound of Thunder | It Was Metal |
| 15 | ASG | Survive Sunrise |
| 15 | Cor Scorpii | Ruin |
| 15 | Down Among the Dead Men | …And You Will Obey Me |
| 15 | Funeral Mist | Hekatomb |
| 15 | Jason C. Miller | In the Wasteland |
| 15 | Lizzy Borden | My Midnight Things |
| 15 | Madball | For the Cause |
| 15 | Mike Shinoda | Post Traumatic |
| 15 | Orange Goblin | The Wolf Bites Back |
| 15 | Tad Morose | Chapter X |
| 21 | Code Orange | The Hurt Will Go On (EP) |
| 22 | Craft | White Noise and Black Metal |
| 22 | Impending Doom | The Sin and Doom Vol. II |
| 22 | Khemmis | Desolation |
| 22 | Marduk | Viktoria |
| 22 | Nine Inch Nails | Bad Witch |
| 29 | Bullet for My Valentine | Gravity |
| 29 | Converge | Beautiful Ruin (EP) |
| 29 | Crystal Viper | At the Edge of Time (EP) |
| 29 | Death Requisite | Threnody |
| 29 | Fates Warning | Live Over Europe (live album) |
| 29 | Kevin Hufnagel | Messages to the Past |
| 29 | Night Verses | From the Gallery of Sleep |
| 29 | NonExist | In Praise of Death (EP) |
| 29 | Stormwitch | Bound to the Witch |
| 29 | Thou | Inconsolable (EP) |

### July

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 6 | Atrocity | Okkult II |
| 6 | Bongripper | Terminal |
| 6 | DevilDriver | Outlaws 'til the End: Vol. 1 (covers album) |
| 6 | Dog Fashion Disco | Experiments in Embryos |
| 6 | Harley Flanagan | The Original Cro-Mags Demos (1982/83) (compilation album) |
| 6 | Immortal | Northern Chaos Gods |
| 6 | Kissin’ Dynamite | Ecstasy |
| 6 | Six Feet Under | Unburied |
| 6 | Taking the Head of Goliath | Taking the Head of Goliath (EP) |
| 6 | Vixen | Live Fire (live album) |
| 13 | Between the Buried and Me | Automata II |
| 13 | Black Fast | Spectre of Ruin |
| 13 | Bury Tomorrow | Black Flame |
| 13 | Chelsea Grin | Eternal Nightmare |
| 13 | Deafheaven | Ordinary Corrupt Human Love |
| 13 | Debauchery | In Der Hölle Spricht Man Deutsch |
| 13 | Hopesfall | Arbiter |
| 13 | Mr. Big | Live from Milan (live album) |
| 13 | Obscura | Diluvium |
| 18 | United | Absurdity |
| 20 | The Agony Scene | Tormentor |
| 20 | Daron Malakian and Scars on Broadway | Dictator |
| 20 | Finnr's Cane | Elegy |
| 20 | Jungle Rot | Jungle Rot |
| 20 | Powerwolf | The Sacrament of Sin |
| 20 | Skeletonwitch | Devouring Radiant Light |
| 20 | Tokyo Blade | Unbroken |
| 20 | Wisdom in Chains | Nothing in Nature Respects Weakness |
| 27 | Chris Caffery | The Jester's Court |
| 27 | Dee Snider | For the Love of Metal |
| 27 | Halestorm | Vicious |
| 27 | Michael Romeo | War of the Worlds, Pt. 1 |
| 27 | Otep | Kult 45 |
| 27 | Redemption | Long Night's Journey into Day |
| 27 | Tarja | Act II (live album) |
| 27 | Thou | Rhea Sylvia |
| 27 | Within the Ruins | World Undone (EP) |

### August

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 3 | Crossfaith | Ex Machina |
| 3 | Lord of the Lost | Thornstar |
| 3 | Manticora | To Kill to Live to Kill |
| 3 | Soreption | Monument of the End |
| 10 | Enuff Z'Nuff | Diamond Boy |
| 10 | Erra | Neon |
| 10 | Mad Max | 35 |
| 10 | Primal Fear | Apocalypse |
| 10 | Sinsaenum | Repulsion for Humanity |
| 10 | Van Canto | Trust in Rust |
| 17 | Annisokay | Arms |
| 17 | Black Tusk | T.C.B.T. |
| 17 | Doro | Forever Warriors, Forever United |
| 17 | The Eternal | Waiting for the Endless Dawn |
| 17 | Moonspell | Lisboa Under the Spell (live album) |
| 17 | Parasite Inc. | Dead and Alive |
| 17 | Sid Wilson | Sexcapades of the Hopeless Robotic |
| 24 | Alice in Chains | Rainier Fog |
| 24 | The Amity Affliction | Misery |
| 24 | Ancestors | Suspended in Reflections |
| 24 | Lair of the Minotaur | Dragon Eagle of Chaos (EP) |
| 24 | Mantar | The Modern Art of Setting Ablaze |
| 24 | Mob Rules | Beast Reborn |
| 24 | Nonpoint | X |
| 31 | Beyond the Black | Heart of the Hurricane |
| 31 | Conan | Existential Void |
| 31 | KEN mode | Loved |
| 31 | Monte Pittman | Better or Worse |
| 31 | Monte Pittman | Between the Space |
| 31 | Omnium Gatherum | The Burning Cold |
| 31 | Sear Bliss | Letters from the Edge |
| 31 | Thou | Magus |
| 31 | U.D.O. | Steelfactory |

### September

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 7 | Cauldron | New Gods |
| 7 | Clutch | Book of Bad Decisions |
| 7 | Counterparts | Private Room (EP) |
| 7 | Korpiklaani | Kulkija |
| 7 | Krisiun | Scourge of the Enthroned |
| 7 | Manimal | Purgatorio |
| 7 | Metal Allegiance | Volume II – Power Drunk Majesty |
| 7 | Monstrosity | The Passage of Existence |
| 7 | Nashville Pussy | Pleased to Eat You |
| 7 | Pig Destroyer | Head Cage |
| 7 | Satan | Cruel Magic |
| 7 | The Skull | The Endless Road Turns Dark |
| 7 | Skyharbor | Sunshine Dust |
| 7 | Suicidal Tendencies | Still Cyco Punk After All These Years |
| 14 | Archgoat | The Luciferian Crown |
| 14 | Bosse-de-Nage | Further Still |
| 14 | Brant Bjork | Mankind Woman |
| 14 | Deicide | Overtures of Blasphemy |
| 14 | Failure | The Furthest Thing (EP) |
| 14 | Fit for a King | Dark Skies |
| 14 | Grave Digger | The Living Dead |
| 14 | Treat | Tunguska |
| 14 | Turmion Kätilöt | Universal Satan |
| 14 | Uriah Heep | Living the Dream |
| 21 | Aborted | TerrorVision |
| 21 | Abysmal Torment | The Misanthrope |
| 21 | Avenged Sevenfold | Black Reign (EP) |
| 21 | Betzefer | Entertain Your Force of Habit |
| 21 | Black Majesty | Children of the Abyss |
| 21 | Dark Sarah | The Golden Moth |
| 21 | Dragonlord | Dominion |
| 21 | Hardcore Superstar | You Can't Kill My Rock 'n Roll |
| 21 | Mayan | Dhyana |
| 21 | Madder Mortem | Marrow |
| 21 | Slash featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators | Living the Dream |
| 21 | Sumac | Love in Shadow |
| 21 | Therapy? | Cleave |
| 21 | Voivod | The Wake |
| 26 | Dir En Grey | The Insulated World |
| 28 | Anaal Nathrakh | A New Kind of Horror |
| 28 | Beartooth | Disease |
| 28 | Brainstorm | Midnight Ghost |
| 28 | Dynazty | Firesign |
| 28 | Gory Blister | 1991.Bloodstained |
| 28 | Helrunar | Vanitas Vanitatvm |
| 28 | Necronomicon | Unleashed Bastards |
| 28 | North of South | New Latitudes |
| 28 | Once Human | Stage of Evolution (live album) |
| 28 | Revocation | The Outer Ones |
| 28 | Riverside | Wasteland |
| 28 | Stratovarius | Enigma: Intermission II (compilation album) |
| 28 | Terror | Total Retaliation |
| 28 | Vreid | Lifehunger |
| 28 | Vulcain | Vinyle |
| 30 | Rise to Fall | Into Zero |

### October

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 5 | Author & Punisher | Beastland |
| 5 | Behemoth | I Loved You at Your Darkest |
| 5 | Coheed and Cambria | Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures |
| 5 | High on Fire | Electric Messiah |
| 5 | Ice Nine Kills | The Silver Scream |
| 5 | Monuments | Phronesis |
| 5 | Sylar | Seasons |
| 5 | Windhand | Eternal Return |
| 5 | Wrath | Rage |
| 10 | Chthonic | Battlefields of Asura |
| 12 | Aeternus | Heathen |
| 12 | Atreyu | In Our Wake |
| 12 | Beyond Creation | Algorythm |
| 12 | Dragony | Masters of the Multiverse |
| 12 | Gama Bomb | Speed Between the Lines |
| 12 | Impellitteri | The Nature of the Beast |
| 12 | Iron Reagan | Dark Days Ahead (EP) |
| 12 | London | Call That Girl |
| 12 | Nazareth | Tattooed on My Brain |
| 12 | Polyphia | New Levels New Devils |
| 12 | Racetraitor | 2042 |
| 12 | Seventh Wonder | Tiara |
| 12 | Skálmöld | Sorgir |
| 12 | Tank | Sturmpanzer |
| 12 | Terrorizer | Caustic Attack |
| 12 | Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats | Wasteland |
| 12 | Verni | Barricade |
| 15 | Heir Apparent | The View from Below |
| 16 | Tourniquet | Gazing at Medusa |
| 19 | Ace Frehley | Spaceman |
| 19 | Amaranthe | Helix |
| 19 | Disturbed | Evolution |
| 19 | Gorod | Aethra |
| 19 | Marty Friedman | One Bad M.F. Live!! (live album) |
| 19 | Saliva | 10 Lives |
| 19 | Shining | Animal |
| 19 | Soulfly | Ritual |
| 19 | Sunflower Dead | C O M A |
| 26 | Bloodbath | The Arrow of Satan Is Drawn |
| 26 | The Browning | Geist |
| 26 | Chevelle | 12 Bloody Spies (compilation album) |
| 26 | Cryptopsy | The Book of Suffering – Tome II (EP) |
| 26 | Fifth Angel | The Third Secret |
| 26 | Haken | Vector |
| 26 | Hate Eternal | Upon Desolate Sands |
| 26 | Icarus Witch | Goodbye Cruel World |
| 26 | Into Eternity | The Sirens |
| 26 | KMFDM | Live in the USSA (live album) |
| 26 | Mass Hysteria | Maniac |
| 26 | Sirenia | Arcane Astral Aeons |
| 26 | Skull Fist | Way of the Road |
| 26 | Ted Poley | Modern Art |
| 26 | Unleashed | The Hunt for White Christ |
| 26 | Warrel Dane | Shadow Work |

### November

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 2 | The Algorithm | Compiler Optimization Techniques |
| 2 | Arsis | Visitant |
| 2 | Audiotopsy | The Real Now |
| 2 | Cancer | Shadow Gripped |
| 2 | Farmer Boys | Born Again |
| 2 | Hank von Hell | Egomania |
| 2 | Hollywood Undead | Psalms (EP) |
| 2 | The Ocean | Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic |
| 2 | Opeth | Garden of the Titans: Live at Red Rocks Amphitheater (live album) |
| 2 | Sick of It All | Wake the Sleeping Dragon! |
| 2 | Silent Planet | When the End Began |
| 2 | Tenacious D | Post-Apocalypto |
| 9 | All That Remains | Victim of the New Disease |
| 9 | Architects | Holy Hell |
| 9 | Ashes of Ares | Well of Souls |
| 9 | August Burns Red | Winter Wilderness (EP) |
| 9 | Cripple Bastards | La Fine Cresce Da Dentro |
| 9 | Cult Leader | A Patient Man |
| 9 | David Reece | Resilient Heart |
| 9 | Einherjer | Norrøne Spor |
| 9 | Evoken | Hypnagogia |
| 9 | Lacuna Coil | The 119 Show – Live in London (live album) |
| 9 | Psycroptic | As the Kingdom Drowns |
| 9 | Stephen Pearcy | View to a Thrill |
| 16 | All Hail the Yeti | Highway Crosses |
| 16 | Amon Amarth | The Pursuit of Vikings: 25 Years in the Eye of the Storm (live album) |
| 16 | Artillery | The Face of Fear |
| 16 | Memphis May Fire | Broken |
| 16 | Nita Strauss | Controlled Chaos |
| 16 | P.O.D. | Circles |
| 16 | Sigh | Heir to Despair |
| 17 | Opera IX | The Gospel |
| 23 | Cattle Decapitation | Medium Rarities (compilation album) |
| 23 | Conception | My Dark Symphony (EP) |
| 23 | Death Ray Vision | Negative Mental Attitude |
| 23 | Electric Boys | The Ghost Ward Diaries |
| 23 | In the Woods... | Cease the Day |
| 23 | Sinbreed | IV |
| 23 | Sodom | Partisan (EP) |
| 23 | Unearth | Extinction(s) |
| 30 | Chrome Division | One Last Ride |
| 30 | Emigrate | A Million Degrees |
| 30 | Nachtmystium | Resilient (EP) |

### December

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 5 | Lovebites | Clockwork Immortality |
| 7 | Alcatrazz | Parole Denied – Tokyo 2017 (live album) |
| 7 | Apocalyptica | Plays Metallica by Four Cellos – A Live Performance (live album) |
| 7 | Carnifex | Bury Me in Blasphemy (EP) |
| 7 | Dark Moor | Origins |
| 7 | Graf Orlock | Examination of Violent Cinema, Volume 1 |
| 7 | Haken | L+1VE (EP) |
| 7 | Jason Becker | Triumphant Hearts |
| 7 | Metal Church | Damned If You Do |
| 7 | Myrkur | Juniper (EP) |
| 7 | Steelheart | Rock'n Milan (live album) |
| 14 | Venom | Storm the Gates |
| 14 | Volbeat | Let's Boogie! Live from Telia Parken (live album) |
| 17 | Lionize | Cyber Attackers (EP) |
| 21 | Blood Feast | Chopped, Sliced and Diced (EP) |
| 21 | Jon Schaffer's Purgatory | Purgatory (EP) |