# 2017 in heavy metal music

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2017.

## Bands formed

* Bad Wolves
* The Dark Element
* Idle Hands
* Paleface Swiss
* Powerflo
* Silvertomb
* Sons of Apollo

## Bands disbanded

* Amoral
* Black Sabbath
* Dark Sermon
* The Dillinger Escape Plan
* Hail of Bullets
* HIM
* In Dying Arms
* Letlive
* Marionette
* Negură Bunget
* Poured Out
* Soundgarden
* Spawn of Possession
* Textures
* Those Who Fear
* Trap Them
* Vanna
* Xerath
* Your Memorial

## Bands reformed

* As I Lay Dying
* Big Dumb Face
* Carnivore A.D.
* Chimaira (one-off show)
* Eighteen Visions
* Exhorder
* Heavy Load
* Light This City
* Lionheart
* Nachtmystium
* Sadus
* Vengeance Rising (one-off show)

## Events

* On February 2 and 4, Black Sabbath played their final two shows at the Genting Arena in Birmingham. These dates were the final two dates of the band's farewell tour The End.
* On May 4, 2017, Overkill announced that Jason Bittner replaced Ron Lipnicki as the drummer for the band.
* Aerosmith embarked on what may be their final tour after 47 years together, titled the Aero-Vederci Baby! tour.
* Canadian festival Heavy Montreal took year off, returning in July 2018.
* Vio-lence singer Sean Killian was diagnosed with stage four liver cirrhosis.

## Deaths

* January 28 – Geoff Nicholls, former keyboardist of Black Sabbath and Quartz, died from lung cancer at the age of 68.
* January 31 – John Wetton, former bassist of Uriah Heep died from cancer at the age of 67.
* February 8 – Tony "It" Särkkä, former vocalist and multi-instrumentalist of Abruptum and Ophtalamia, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 44.
* February 11 – Trish Doan, bassist of Kittie, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 31.
* February 25 – Rick Chavez, guitarist of Drive, died from internal bleeding.
* March 12 – Joey Alves, former guitarist of Y&T, died from ulcerative colitis at the age of 63.
* March 21 – Gabriel "Negru" Mafa, drummer of Negură Bunget, died from a heart attack at the age of 42.
* April 5 – Paul O'Neill, guitarist, founder, and producer of Trans-Siberian Orchestra and former producer of Dio, Metal Church, and Savatage, died from an intoxication of various prescription medication at the age of 61.
* April 12 – Keni Richards, former drummer of Autograph, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 60.
* April 12 – Tom Coyne, Grammy Award-winning mastering engineer of numerous artists in multiple genres, including Overkill, Metallica, Testament, Mercyful Fate, and Nuclear Assault, among others, died from multiple myeloma at the age of 62.
* April 15 – Matt Holt, vocalist of Nothingface, died from a degenerative illness at the age of 39.
* April 27 – Jeff Decker, former guitarist of Thor, died from a heart attack.
* May 17 – Chris Cornell, vocalist and guitarist of Soundgarden, died from suicide by hanging himself at the age of 52.
* May 20 – Ace Still, former vocalist of Goatlord, died from a heart attack and severe head trauma.
* May 27 – Guillermo Sánchez, bassist of Rata Blanca, died from sepsis.
* June 13 – Masami Tohda, former guitarist of Tokyo Yankees died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 49.
* June 28 – Nic Ritter, former drummer of Warbringer, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 37.
* July 4 – Chris Ross, former vocalist of Vital Remains, died from multiple gunshot wounds at the age of 40.
* July 12 – Marc "Blaash" Michaelson, drummer of Bahimiron, died from undisclosed reasons.
* July 14 – David Zablidowsky, bassist of Adrenaline Mob and Trans-Siberian Orchestra, died in a tour bus accident.
* July 20 – Chester Bennington, vocalist of Linkin Park, died from suicide by hanging himself at the age of 41.
* August 16 – Jason Corsaro, recording engineer of numerous artists in multiple genres, including Motörhead, Deep Purple, Danzig, Soundgarden and Corrosion of Conformity, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 58.
* September 14 – Stig Börje "Boss" Forsberg, owner of Black Mark Production, father of Quorthon, and record producer and engineer of numerous artists, including Bathory, Lake of Tears, Nightingale, and Edge of Sanity, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 73.
* September 22 – Eric Eycke, former vocalist of Corrosion of Conformity, died from undisclosed reasons.
* October 3 – Rainer Hänsel, record engineer and tour promoter for numerous artists, including Saxon, Manowar, Motörhead, Sodom, and Destruction, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 63.
* October 5 – Rodrigo Bvevino, former vocalist of Avenger, died from lung cancer at the age of 42.
* October 21 – Martin Eric Ain, former bassist and vocalist of Celtic Frost and Hellhammer, died from a heart attack at the age of 50.
* October 22 – Daisy Berkowitz, former guitarist of Marilyn Manson, died from colon cancer at the age of 49.
* October 28 – Bruce Black, former drummer of Meliah Rage, died from undisclosed reasons.
* October 28 – Daichi Shimoda, vocalist of Victim of Deception, died from undisclosed reasons.
* November 1 – Scott Wily, former vocalist of Vital Remains, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 41.
* November 5 – Danny Anaya, former drummer of MX Machine and Abattoir, died from cancer at the age of 52.
* November 7 – Whitey Glan, former drummer of Alice Cooper, died from lung cancer at the age of 71.
* November 9 – Chuck Mosley, former vocalist of Faith No More, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 57.
* November 12 – Chad Hanks, bassist of American Head Charge, died from kidney and liver failure at the age of 46.
* November 16 – Marco De Rosa, also known as "M." or "M The Bard", former vocalist of Opera IX, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 43.
* December 13 – Warrel Dane, vocalist of Sanctuary and former vocalist of Nevermore, died from a heart attack at the age of 56.
* December 25 – Nao, former vocalist of United, died of cancer at the age of 56.

## Albums released
### January

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 6 | Halestorm | Reanimate 3.0: The Covers EP (EP) |
| 9 | Laster | Ons Vrije Fatum |
| 13 | Black Anvil | As Was |
| 13 | Code Orange | Forever |
| 13 | Gotthard | Silver |
| 13 | Grave Digger | Healed by Metal |
| 13 | Pain of Salvation | In the Passing Light of Day |
| 13 | Sepultura | Machine Messiah |
| 13 | Wolfchant | Bloodwinter |
| 20 | Firewind | Immortals |
| 20 | Helheim | LandawarijaR |
| 20 | Palisades | Palisades |
| 25 | Aborym | Shifting.negative |
| 27 | Beheaded | Beast Incarnate |
| 27 | Betraying the Martyrs | The Resilient |
| 27 | Chrome Molly | Hoodoo Voodoo |
| 27 | Code | Lost Signal (EP) |
| 27 | Hour of Penance | Cast the First Stone |
| 27 | Jack Russell's Great White | He Saw It Comin' |
| 27 | Kreator | Gods of Violence |
| 27 | Krokus | Big Rocks (covers album) |
| 27 | The Murder of My Sweet | Echoes of the Aftermath |
| 27 | Stephen Pearcy | Smash |
| 27 | Xandria | Theater of Dimensions |

### February

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 2 | De Magia Veterum | Naked Swords into the Womb of the Enemy |
| 3 | Iron Reagan | Crossover Ministry |
| 3 | Soen | Lykaia |
| 10 | Deivos | Endemic Divine |
| 10 | First Blood | Rules |
| 10 | Mors Principium Est | Embers of a Dying World |
| 10 | Mutiny Within | Origins |
| 10 | Nidingr | The High Heat Licks Against Heaven |
| 10 | Overkill | The Grinding Wheel |
| 10 | Thunder | Rip It Up |
| 17 | Battle Beast | Bringer of Pain |
| 17 | Benighted | Necrobreed |
| 17 | Crystal Viper | Queen of the Witches |
| 17 | Once Human | Evolution |
| 17 | Edenbridge | The Great Momentum |
| 17 | Ithilien | Shaping the Soul |
| 17 | Lorna Shore | Flesh Coffin |
| 17 | Stinking Lizaveta | Journey to the Underworld |
| 24 | A Breach of Silence | Secrets |
| 24 | Bloodbound | War of Dragons |
| 24 | Born of Osiris | The Eternal Reign (EP) |
| 24 | Ex Deo | The Immortal Wars |
| 24 | Hetroertzen | Uprising of the Fallen |
| 24 | Immolation | Atonement |
| 24 | Persefone | Aathma |
| 24 | Pyogenesis | A Kingdom to Disappear |
| 24 | Sanctuary | Inception |
| 24 | Sinister | Syncretism |
| 24 | Six Feet Under | Torment |
| 24 | Suicide Silence | Suicide Silence |
| 24 | Trollfest | Helluva |
| 24 | Unearthly Trance | Stalking the Ghost |
| 24 | Vendetta | The 5th |

### March

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 3 | Blaze Bayley | Endure and Survive |
| 3 | Emmure | Look at Yourself |
| 3 | John 5 and the Creatures | Season of the Witch |
| 3 | Majesty | Rebels |
| 3 | Within the Ruins | Halfway Human |
| 7 | Cirith Gorgor | Bi Den Dode Hant (EP) |
| 10 | Black Map | In Droves |
| 10 | Cellador | Off the Grid |
| 10 | Darkest Hour | Godless Prophets & the Migrant Flora |
| 10 | Dunderbeist | Twilja (EP) |
| 10 | Edge of Paradise | Alive (EP) |
| 10 | Evocation | The Shadow Archetype |
| 10 | Fen | Winter |
| 10 | Havok | Conformicide |
| 10 | Hydrogyn | Redemption |
| 10 | Lock Up | Demonization |
| 10 | Nick Douglas | Regenerations |
| 10 | Planning for Burial | Below the House |
| 15 | Demonic Resurrection | Dashavatar |
| 17 | The Charm The Fury | The Sick, Dumb & Happy |
| 17 | Dead Neanderthals | Craters |
| 17 | Fit for an Autopsy | The Great Collapse |
| 17 | King of Asgard | Tauder (EP) |
| 17 | Obituary | Obituary |
| 17 | The Raven Age | Darkness Will Rise |
| 17 | Righteous Vendetta | Cursed |
| 17 | Saille | Gnosis |
| 17 | Vangough | Warpaint |
| 17 | Woe | Hope Attrition |
| 23 | Northlane | Mesmer |
| 24 | Art of Anarchy | The Madness |
| 24 | Arvas | Black Path |
| 24 | Bonfire | Byte the Bullet |
| 24 | Brother Firetribe | Sunbound |
| 24 | Brutality Will Prevail | In Dark Places |
| 24 | House of Lords | Saint of the Lost Souls |
| 24 | Night Ranger | Don't Let Up |
| 24 | Pallbearer | Heartless |
| 24 | Steel Panther | Lower the Bar |
| 31 | Arch Enemy | As the Stages Burn! (live album) |
| 31 | Body Count | Bloodlust |
| 31 | Demon Hunter | Outlive |
| 31 | Invidia | As the Sun Sleeps |
| 31 | Jasta | The Lost Chapters |
| 31 | Mantar | The Spell (EP) |
| 31 | Mastodon | Emperor of Sand |
| 31 | The Moth Gatherer | The Comfortable Low (EP) |
| 31 | Nightrage | The Venomous |
| 31 | Sinner | Tequila Suicide |
| 31 | Warbringer | Woe to the Vanquished |

### April

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 7 | Azarath | In Extremis |
| 7 | Dead by April | Worlds Collide |
| 7 | Deep Purple | Infinite |
| 7 | Deez Nuts | Binge & Purgatory |
| 7 | Falling in Reverse | Coming Home |
| 7 | Jesters of Destiny | The Sorrows That Refuse to Drown |
| 7 | The Obsessed | Sacred |
| 7 | Ulver | The Assassination of Julius Caesar |
| 14 | Blood Feast | The Future State of Wicked |
| 14 | Corroded | Defcon Zero |
| 14 | The Dead Rabbitts | This Emptiness |
| 14 | Dimmu Borgir | Forces of the Northern Night (live album) |
| 14 | Enterprise Earth | Embodiment |
| 14 | Infernäl Mäjesty | No God |
| 14 | Necrowretch | Satanic Slavery |
| 14 | Novembers Doom | Hamartia |
| 14 | Oranssi Pazuzu | Kevät/Värimyrsky (EP) |
| 14 | Richie Kotzen | Salting Earth |
| 21 | Axel Rudi Pell | The Ballads V (compilation album) |
| 21 | Crazy Lixx | Ruff Justice |
| 21 | Disbelief | The Symbol of Death |
| 21 | Ghost Bath | Starmourner |
| 21 | Heiress | Restless Aim |
| 21 | Incubus | 8 |
| 21 | Jotnar | Connected/Condemned |
| 21 | Labyrinth | Architecture of a God |
| 21 | Les Discrets | Prédateurs |
| 21 | Nothing Left | Destroy and Rebuild (EP) |
| 21 | Uneven Structure | La Partition |
| 21 | While She Sleeps | You Are We |
| 21 | With Our Arms to the Sun | Orenda |
| 21 | Your Chance to Die | Ex Nihilo |
| 28 | A Killer's Confession | Unbroken |
| 28 | All That Remains | Madness |
| 28 | Artificial Language | The Observer |
| 28 | Astral Doors | Black Eyed Children |
| 28 | Ayreon | The Source |
| 28 | Barathrum | Fanatiko |
| 28 | Firespawn | The Reprobate |
| 28 | He Is Legend | Few |
| 28 | Life of Agony | A Place Where There's No More Pain |
| 28 | Mindmaze | Resolve |
| 28 | Noumena | Myrrys |
| 28 | Pyramaze | Contingent |
| 28 | Skyclad | Forward into the Past |
| 28 | Stahlmann | Bastard |
| 28 | Terror | The Walls Will Fall (EP) |

### May

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 5 | Eisregen | Fleischfilm |
| 5 | Full of Hell | Trumpeting Ecstasy |
| 5 | God Dethroned | The World Ablaze |
| 5 | Hate | Tremendum |
| 5 | Motionless in White | Graveyard Shift |
| 5 | Seven Kingdoms | Decennium |
| 5 | Spoil Engine | Stormsleeper |
| 5 | The Sword | Greetings From... (live album) |
| 8 | Nokturnal Mortum | Істина |
| 10 | Aldious | Unlimited Diffusion |
| 10 | Holy Blood | Glory to the Heroes (EP) |
| 10 | Mark Slaughter | Halfway There |
| 12 | Ajattara | Lupaus |
| 12 | Harem Scarem | United |
| 12 | Gideon | Cold |
| 12 | Kobra and the Lotus | Prevail I |
| 12 | Sacred Oath | Twelve Bells |
| 12 | Seether | Poison the Parish |
| 12 | Voyager | Ghost Mile |
| 12 | Warrant | Louder Harder Faster |
| 16 | Nargaroth | Era of Threnody |
| 19 | 3Teeth | <shutdown.exe> |
| 19 | DragonForce | Reaching into Infinity |
| 19 | Linkin Park | One More Light |
| 19 | Oceano | Revelation |
| 19 | Papa Roach | Crooked Teeth |
| 19 | Rock Goddess | It's More Than Rock and Roll (EP) |
| 19 | Scale the Summit | In a World of Fear |
| 26 | Alestorm | No Grave But the Sea |
| 26 | Avatarium | Hurricanes and Halos |
| 26 | Danzig | Black Laden Crown |
| 26 | Divinity | The Immortalist |
| 26 | Dream Evil | Six |
| 26 | In Hearts Wake | Ark |
| 26 | The Letter Black | Pain |
| 26 | Nocte Obducta | Totholz (Ein Raunen aus dem Klammwald) |
| 26 | Rhapsody of Fire | Legendary Years (compilation album) |
| 26 | Sólstafir | Berdreyminn |
| 31 | Naer Mataron | Lucitherion: Temple of the Radiant Sun |

### June

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 2 | Adrenaline Mob | We the People |
| 2 | DGM | Passing Stages (live album) |
| 2 | Doyle | Doyle II: As We Die |
| 2 | Eighteen Visions | XVIII |
| 2 | Elder | Reflections of a Floating World |
| 2 | Gravetemple | Impassable Fears |
| 2 | Great White | Full Circle |
| 2 | Jorn | Life on Death Road |
| 2 | Miss May I | Shadows Inside |
| 2 | The One Hundred | Chaos + Bliss |
| 2 | Phobia | Lifeless God |
| 2 | Secret Sphere | The Nature of Time |
| 2 | Sikth | The Future in Whose Eyes? |
| 2 | Tankard | One Foot in the Grave |
| 2 | Tengger Cavalry | Die on My Ride |
| 2 | Unleash the Archers | Apex |
| 2 | Vallenfyre | Fear Those Who Fear Him |
| 2 | Wednesday 13 | Condolences |
| 9 | Anathema | The Optimist |
| 9 | Dawn of Ashes | Daemonolatry Gnosis |
| 9 | Suffocation | ...Of the Dark Light |
| 9 | Svartsyn | In Death |
| 9 | Volumes | Different Animals |
| 9 | White Skull | Will of the Strong |
| 16 | Carach Angren | Dance and Laugh Amongst the Rotten |
| 16 | Chon | Homey |
| 16 | CKY | The Phoenix |
| 16 | Dead Head | Swine Plague |
| 16 | Iced Earth | Incorruptible |
| 16 | Nickelback | Feed the Machine |
| 16 | Tombs | The Grand Annihilation |
| 16 | Wizard | Fallen Kings |
| 23 | 311 | Mosaic |
| 23 | Bison | You Are Not the Ocean You Are the Patient |
| 23 | Broken Hope | Mutilated and Assimilated |
| 23 | Conveyer | No Future |
| 23 | Desultory | Through Aching Aeons |
| 23 | Dying Fetus | Wrong One to Fuck With |
| 23 | Goatwhore | Vengeful Ascension |
| 23 | Jyrki 69 | Helsinki Vampire |
| 23 | KMFDM | Yeah! (EP) |
| 23 | Municipal Waste | Slime and Punishment |
| 23 | Powerflo | Powerflo |
| 23 | Tarja | An Empty Dream (EP) |
| 23 | The White Noise | AM/PM |
| 30 | The Acacia Strain | Gravebloom |
| 30 | Origin | Unparalleled Universe |
| 30 | Shade Empire | Poetry of the Ill-Minded |
| 30 | Stone Sour | Hydrograd |
| 30 | Sworn In | All Smiles |
| 30 | Vintersorg | Till Fjälls, Del II |

### July

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 7 | Aborted | Bathos (EP) |
| 7 | Decapitated | Anticult |
| 7 | Esprit D'Air | Constellations |
| 7 | M.O.D. | Busted, Broke & American |
| 7 | Melvins | A Walk with Love & Death |
| 7 | Mr. Big | Defying Gravity |
| 7 | Orden Ogan | Gunmen |
| 13 | Ewigkeit | Cosmic Man |
| 14 | 12 Stones | Picture Perfect |
| 14 | Bloody Hammers | The Horrific Case of Bloody Hammers (EP) |
| 14 | Boris | Dear |
| 14 | Dayseeker | Dreaming Is Sinking /// Waking Is Rising |
| 14 | Edguy | Monuments (compilation album) |
| 14 | Integrity | Howling, for the Nightmare Shall Consume |
| 14 | Kissin’ Dynamite | Generation Goodbye – Dynamite Nights (live album) |
| 21 | Decrepit Birth | Axis Mundi |
| 21 | Ded | Mis•an•thrope |
| 21 | In This Moment | Ritual |
| 21 | The Kindred | Weight (EP) |
| 21 | Klingenberg Syndrome | Whiskey Tango Foxtrot |
| 21 | Nine Inch Nails | Add Violence (EP) |
| 21 | Pathology | Pathology |
| 21 | Projected | Ignite My Insanity |
| 21 | Shattered Sun | The Evolution of Anger |
| 21 | To Speak of Wolves | Dead in the Shadow |
| 21 | Wintersun | The Forest Seasons |
| 26 | Adagio | Life |
| 28 | Alice Cooper | Paranormal |
| 28 | Byzantine | The Cicada Tree |
| 28 | Callejon | Fandigo |
| 28 | Make Them Suffer | Worlds Apart |
| 28 | Masterplan | PumpKings (covers album) |
| 28 | The Midnight Ghost Train | Cypress Ave. |
| 28 | Oceans Ate Alaska | Hikari |
| 28 | Prong | Zero Days |
| 28 | Rage | Seasons of the Black |
| 28 | Rex Brown | Smoke on This… |
| 28 | Rings of Saturn | Ultu Ulla |
| 28 | Shadowside | Shades of Humanity |
| 31 | Thunderstick | Something Wicked This Way Comes |

### August

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 4 | Accept | The Rise of Chaos |
| 4 | Dale Crover | The Fickle Finger of Fate |
| 4 | Dead Cross | Dead Cross |
| 4 | Deep Purple | Johnny's Band (EP) |
| 4 | Marty Friedman | Wall of Sound |
| 4 | Quiet Riot | Road Rage |
| 4 | Russkaja | Kosmopoliturbo |
| 4 | Thor | Beyond the Pain Barrier |
| 4 | Toxik | Breaking Class (EP) |
| 4 | Wage War | Deadweight |
| 11 | All Out War | Give Us Extinction |
| 11 | Cormorant | Diaspora |
| 11 | Hinder | The Reign |
| 11 | Incantation | Profane Nexus |
| 11 | Motograter | Desolation |
| 11 | Necrophobic | Pesta (EP) |
| 11 | Venom Inc. | Avé |
| 18 | End of Green | Void Estate |
| 18 | Eluveitie | Evocation II – Pantheon |
| 18 | Janet Gardner | Janet Gardner |
| 18 | KMFDM | Hell Yeah |
| 18 | Thy Art Is Murder | Dear Desolation |
| 25 | Akercocke | Renaissance in Extremis |
| 25 | Brendon Small | Brendon Small's Galaktikon II: Become the Storm |
| 25 | Dagoba | Black Nova |
| 25 | Die Apokalyptischen Reiter | Der Rote Reiter |
| 25 | Eskimo Callboy | The Scene |
| 25 | The Haunted | Strength in Numbers |
| 25 | Korpiklaani | Live at Masters of Rock (live album) |
| 25 | Lacrimosa | Testimonium |
| 25 | Leng Tch'e | Razorgrind |
| 25 | Leprous | Malina |
| 25 | Lionheart | Second Nature |
| 25 | Sannhet | So Numb |
| 25 | Queens of the Stone Age | Villains |

### September

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Anubis Gate | Covered in Black |
| 1 | Botanist | Collective: The Shape of He to Come |
| 1 | Epica | The Solace System (EP) |
| 1 | Motörhead | Under Cöver (covers album) |
| 1 | Paradise Lost | Medusa |
| 1 | Rosetta | Utopioid |
| 1 | Septicflesh | Codex Omega |
| 1 | Subterranean Masquerade | Vagabond |
| 8 | Arch Enemy | Will to Power |
| 8 | Cannabis Corpse | Left Hand Pass |
| 8 | Lionize | Nuclear Soul |
| 8 | Living Colour | Shade |
| 8 | Lynch Mob | The Brotherhood |
| 8 | Stray from the Path | Only Death Is Real |
| 8 | Threshold | Legends of the Shires |
| 13 | Galneryus | Ultimate Sacrifice |
| 15 | Belphegor | Totenritual |
| 15 | Caligula's Horse | In Contact |
| 15 | The Contortionist | Clairvoyant |
| 15 | Cripper | Follow Me: Kill! |
| 15 | Ensiferum | Two Paths |
| 15 | Fleshkiller | Awaken |
| 15 | A Hill to Die Upon | Via Artis Via Mortis |
| 15 | Myrkur | Mareridt |
| 15 | Nothing More | The Stories We Tell Ourselves |
| 15 | Prophets of Rage | Prophets of Rage |
| 15 | Soil | Scream: The Essentials |
| 15 | Vattnet | Vattnet |
| 22 | Archspire | Relentless Mutation |
| 22 | Chelsea Wolfe | Hiss Spun |
| 22 | Counterparts | You're Not You Anymore |
| 22 | Cradle of Filth | Cryptoriana – The Seductiveness of Decay |
| 22 | Devilish Impressions | The I |
| 22 | Diablo Blvd | Zero Hour |
| 22 | Enter Shikari | The Spark |
| 22 | Kauan | Kaiho |
| 22 | King Parrot | Ugly Produce |
| 22 | Mastodon | Cold Dark Place (EP) |
| 22 | Matt Cameron | Cavedweller |
| 22 | Monarch | Never Forever |
| 22 | Otherwise | Sleeping Lions |
| 22 | Satyricon | Deep Calleth Upon Deep |
| 22 | Sons of Texas | Forged in Fortitude |
| 22 | Ufomammut | 8 |
| 22 | With the Dead | Love from With the Dead |
| 22 | Wolves in the Throne Room | Thrice Woven |
| 29 | 5 Star Grave | The Red Room |
| 29 | 36 Crazyfists | Lanterns |
| 29 | Arckanum | Den Förstfödde |
| 29 | Act of Defiance | Old Scars, New Wounds |
| 29 | Emil Bulls | Kill Your Demons |
| 29 | Jag Panzer | The Deviant Chord |
| 29 | Kublai Khan | Nomad |
| 29 | Loincloth | Psalm of the Morbid Whore |
| 29 | Nocturnal Rites | Phoenix |
| 29 | Primus | The Desaturating Seven |
| 29 | Propagandhi | Victory Lap |
| 29 | Tetrarch | Freak |
| 29 | UFO | The Salentino Cuts (covers album) |
| 29 | Unsane | Sterilize |

### October

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 6 | Angel Vivaldi | Synapse |
| 6 | August Burns Red | Phantom Anthem |
| 6 | Autograph | Get Off Your Ass |
| 6 | The Black Dahlia Murder | Nightbringers |
| 6 | Ctulu | Cultus in Tenebris (EP) |
| 6 | The Darkness | Pinewood Smile |
| 6 | Fireball Ministry | Remember the Story |
| 6 | Haemorrhage | We Are the Gore |
| 6 | Lunatic Soul | Fractured |
| 6 | Marilyn Manson | Heaven Upside Down |
| 6 | My Ticket Home | UnReal |
| 6 | The Ongoing Concept | Places |
| 11 | Coldrain | Fateless |
| 13 | Daniel Cavanagh | Monochrome |
| 13 | Enslaved | E |
| 13 | Exhumed | Death Revenge |
| 13 | Fozzy | Judas |
| 13 | Gothminister | The Other Side |
| 13 | Gruntruck | Gruntruck |
| 13 | L.A. Guns | The Missing Peace |
| 13 | MyChildren MyBride | Vicious World |
| 13 | Power Quest | Sixth Dimension |
| 13 | Robert Plant | Carry Fire |
| 13 | Samael | Hegemony |
| 13 | Through the Eyes of the Dead | Disomus |
| 20 | Slipknot | Day of the Gusano: Live in Mexico |
| 20 | Amenra | Mass VI |
| 20 | Blut Aus Nord | Deus Salutis Meæ |
| 20 | Europe | Walk the Earth |
| 20 | Gwar | The Blood of Gods |
| 20 | Iron Monkey | 9–13 |
| 20 | Nick Oliveri | N.O. Hits at All, Vol. 3 |
| 20 | Nogod | Proof |
| 20 | Oz | Transition State |
| 20 | Sons of Apollo | Psychotic Symphony |
| 20 | Trivium | The Sin and the Sentence |
| 20 | Veil of Maya | False Idol |
| 20 | VUUR | In This Moment We Are Free – Cities |
| 20 | We Came as Romans | Cold Like War |
| 25 | Concerto Moon | Tears of Messiah |
| 25 | Lovebites | Awakening from Abyss |
| 27 | 10 Years | (How to Live) As Ghosts |
| 27 | All Pigs Must Die | Hostage Animal |
| 27 | Butcher Babies | Lilith |
| 27 | Communic | Where Echoes Gather |
| 27 | Forgotten Tomb | We Owe You Nothing |
| 27 | Gnaw | Cutting Pieces |
| 27 | Hollywood Undead | Five |
| 27 | Keldian | Darkness and Light |
| 27 | Madam X | Monstrocity |
| 27 | Misanthrope | ΑXΩ |
| 27 | Ne Obliviscaris | Urn |
| 27 | Powerman 5000 | New Wave |
| 27 | Red | Gone |
| 27 | Savage Messiah | Hands of Fate |
| 27 | Serenity | Lionheart |
| 27 | Theory of a Deadman | Wake Up Call |
| 27 | Winds of Plague | Blood of My Enemy |
| 31 | Acid Witch | Evil Sound Screamers |
| 31 | Big Dumb Face | Where Is Duke Lion? He's Dead... |

### November

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 3 | Annihilator | For the Demented |
| 3 | Cannibal Corpse | Red Before Black |
| 3 | Converge | The Dusk in Us |
| 3 | Like Moths to Flames | Dark Divine |
| 3 | Lustre | Still Innocence |
| 3 | Moonspell | 1755 |
| 3 | My Enemies & I | The Beast Inside |
| 3 | Primitive Race | Soul Pretender |
| 3 | Scour | Red (EP) |
| 3 | Umbra et Imago | Die Unsterblichen – Das zweite Buch |
| 3 | Zao | Pyrrhic Victory (EP) |
| 10 | Amberian Dawn | Darkness of Eternity |
| 10 | Antigama | Depressant (EP) |
| 10 | Destruction | Thrash Anthems II (compilation album) |
| 10 | Electric Wizard | Wizard Bloody Wizard |
| 10 | Elvenking | Secrets of the Magick Grimoire |
| 10 | Entheos | Dark Future |
| 10 | Evanescence | Synthesis |
| 10 | Jeff Scott Soto | Retribution |
| 10 | Pink Cream 69 | Headstrong |
| 10 | Santa Cruz | Bad Blood Rising |
| 10 | Shakra | Snakes & Ladders |
| 10 | Sinsaenum | Ashes (EP) |
| 10 | Threat Signal | Disconnect |
| 10 | Toothgrinder | Phantom Amour |
| 10 | The Unguided | And the Battle Royale |
| 10 | Witchery | I Am Legion |
| 10 | Your Memorial | Your Memorial (EP) |
| 13 | Project46 | Tr3s |
| 17 | Black Sabbath | The End (live album) |
| 17 | The Body & Full of Hell | Ascending a Mountain of Heavy Light |
| 17 | Cavalera Conspiracy | Psychosis |
| 17 | Fieldy | Bassically |
| 17 | Galactic Cowboys | Long Way Back to the Moon |
| 17 | Godflesh | Post Self |
| 17 | In Flames | Down, Wicked & No Good (EP) |
| 17 | Iron Maiden | The Book of Souls: Live Chapter (live album) |
| 17 | Oblivion | The Path Towards... |
| 17 | Phinehas | Dark Flag |
| 17 | Polkadot Cadaver | Get Possessed |
| 17 | Tarja | From Spirits and Ghosts (Score for a Dark Christmas) |
| 19 | Folkodia | Battle of the Milvian Bridge |
| 21 | Krallice | Go Be Forgotten |
| 24 | Cardiant | Mirrors |
| 24 | Jen Majura | InZENity |
| 24 | Loch Vostok | Strife |
| 24 | Taake | Kong Vinter |
| 24 | Thantifaxath | Void Masquerading as Matter (EP) |
| 30 | Silent Descent | Turn to Grey |

### December

| Day | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Deinonychus | Ode to Acts of Murder, Dystopia and Suicide |
| 1 | The Faceless | In Becoming a Ghost |
| 1 | Five Finger Death Punch | A Decade of Destruction (compilation album) |
| 1 | Glassjaw | Material Control |
| 1 | Intervals | The Way Forward |
| 1 | Leviathan | The First Sublevel of Suicide (compilation album) |
| 1 | Morbid Angel | Kingdoms Disdained |
| 1 | Operation: Mindcrime | The New Reality |
| 1 | Pretty Boy Floyd | Public Enemies |
| 1 | Warrior Soul | Back on the Lash |
| 5 | Project 86 | Sheep Among Wolves |
| 7 | Status Minor | Three Faces of Antoine |
| 8 | The Atomic Bitchwax | Force Field |
| 8 | Atrocity | Masters of Darkness (EP) |
| 8 | Cleric | Retrocausal |
| 8 | Coronatus | Secrets of Nature |
| 8 | Diablo Swing Orchestra | Pacifisticuffs |
| 8 | Ghost | Ceremony and Devotion (live album) |
| 8 | Iron Savior | Reforged – Riding on Fire |
| 8 | Schwarzer Engel | Sinnflut (EP) |
| 8 | War of Ages | Alpha |
| 15 | Asking Alexandria | Asking Alexandria |
| 15 | Autopsy | Puncturing the Grotesque (EP) |
| 15 | For All Eternity | The Will to Rebuild |
| 15 | Massacration | Live Metal Espancation (live album) |
| 22 | Tribulation | Lady Death (EP) |
| 22 | Venom | 100 Miles to Hell (EP) |
| 29 | Nortt | Endeligt |