Album releases 2012
Here we gather the albums worthy your attention, we try to keep the site updated with the upcoming months meanest Hardrock and Heavy Metal cd releases.
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Heavy Metal album releases December 2012
05/12 - Hammerfall - Gates of Dalhalla (DVD) - Nuclear Blast
07/12 - Saxon - Heavy Metal Thunder-The Movie (DVD) - UDR/ZYX
09/12 - Lavett - Find Your Purpose - RoastingHouse
10/12 - Chickenfoot - LV - earMUSIC
10/12 - Black Sabbath - The Vinyl Collection: 70-78 (9 LP + 7") - Sanctuary
10/12 - Metallica - Quebec Magnetic (DVD) - Mercury
12/12 - Kiss - The Casablanca Singles 1974-1982 (29 7"-vinyl) - Universal
14/12 - Paradox - Tales of the Weird - AFM
14/12 - Mors Principium Est - …and Death Said Live - AFM
14/12 - Daemonicus - Deadwork - Abyss
14/12 - Rammstein - Videos 1995-2012 (DVD) - Universal
17/12 - Scum Of The Earth - The Devil Made Me Do It - Goomba
17/12 - Sapphire Eyes - Sapphire Eyes - Avenue Of Allies
17/12 - Lionville - II - Avenue Of Allies
Heavy Metal album releases October 2012
01/10 - Evocation - Illusions of Grandeur - Century Media
03/10 - Enslaved - Riitiir - Nuclear Blast
03/10 - The 69 Eyes - X - Nuclear Blast
03/10 - Sideburn - IV Monument - Transubstans
03/10 - Papa Roach - The Connection - Eleven Seven
05/10 - Obsession - Order of Chaos - Inner Wound
05/10 - Loch Vostok - V-The Doctrine Decoded - Vicisolum
05/10 - Between The Buried And Me - The Parallax II - Metal Blade
08/10 - Kiss - Monster - Universal
10/10 - Sylosis - Monolith - Nuclear Blast
12/10 - Cauldron - Tomorrow's Lost - Earache
12/10 - Soulspell - Hollow's Gathering - Inner Wound
12/10 - Magica - Center of the Great Unknown - AFM
15/10 - My Dying Bride - A Map of All Our Failures - Peaceville
17/10 - Wintersun - Time I - Nuclear Blast
19/10 - Sister Sin - Now and Forever - Victory
19/10 - Bison B.C. - Lovelessness - Metal Blade
19/10 - War From A Harlots Mouth - Voyeur - Season Of Mist
19/10 - Kotipelto & Liimatainen - Blackoustic - earMUSIC
19/10 - Impera - Legacy of Life - Escape
22/10 - Sonne Adam - Messengers of Desolate Ways - Century Media
24/10 - Kamelot - Silverthorn - Steamhammer
24/10 - Angra - Best Reached Horizons - Steamhammer
24/10 - Skálmöld - Börn Loka - Napalm
24/10 - Paragon - Force of Destruction - Napalm
24/10 - Graveyard - Lights Out - Nuclear Blast
26/10 - Trail Of Murder - Shades of Art - Metal Heaven
26/10 - HIM - XX–Two Decades of Love Metal - Sony
29/10 - Shining - Redefining Darkness - Spinefarm
29/10 - Twisted Sister - Twisted Xmas: Live in Las Vegas (DVD) - Eagle
31/10 - Tiamat - Scarred People - Napalm
31/10 - The Sword - Apocryphon - Napalm
31/10 - Geoff Tate - Kings and Thieves - InsideOut
31/10 - God Seed - I Begin - InsideOut
Heavy Metal album releases September 2012
05/09 - Threshold - March of Progress - Nuclear Blast
07/09 - Liv Kristine - Libertine - Napalm
07/09 - Korn - Live at the Hollywood Palladium (CD + DVD) - AFM
12/09 - Neal Morse - Momentum - InsideOut
14/09 - Elvenking - Era - AFM
14/09 - Rival Sons - Head Down - Earache
17/09 - Vision Divine - Destination Set to Nowhere - earMUSIC
17/09 - Ufomammut - Oro: Opus Alter - Neurot
17/09 - Serpentine Path - Serpentine Path - Relapse
17/09 - Hooded Menace - Effigies of Evil - Relapse
19/09 - Bullet - Full Pull - Nuclear Blast
19/09 - Dokken - Broken Bones - Frontiers
19/09 - Kix - Live in Baltimore (CD + DVD) - Frontiers
21/09 - Danko Jones - Rock'n'Roll is Black & Blue - Bad Taste
21/09 - Dio - The Very Beast of Dio Vol. 2 - Niji
21/09 - Venturia - Dawn of a New Era - Lion Music
21/09 - Ashent - Inheritance - Lion Music
21/09 - Sybreed - God is an Automaton - Listenable
21/09 - Posthum - Lights Out - Indie
21/09 - Nettlecarrier - Nettlecarrier - Indie
21/09 - Illdisposed - Sense the Darkness - Massacre
21/09 - Vision Of Disorder - The Cursed Remain Cursed - Candlelight
21/09 - Undercroft - Ruins of Gomorrah - Season Of Mist
21/09 - The Chariot - One Wing - Season Of Mist
21/09 - As I Lay Dying - Awakened - Metal Blade
21/09 - Satan's Wrath - Galloping Blasphemy - Metal Blade
21/09 - I Am I - Event Horizon - Zee Pee Tee
21/09 - The Gathering - Disclosure - Psychonaut
26/09 - Witchcraft - Legend - Nuclear Blast
26/09 - Motörhead - The Wörld Is Ours–Vol 2: Anyplace... (DVD) - UDR/EMI
28/09 - The 69 Eyes - X - Nuclear Blast
28/09 - Manowar - The Lord of Steel - Magic Circle
28/09 - Sinister - The Carnage Ending - Massacre
28/09 - U.D.O. - Live in Sofia (DVD + 2 CD) - AFM
Heavy Metal album releases August 2012
A Forest Of Stars - A Shadowplay For Yesterdays (Prophecy)
Acherontas/Nightbringer - The Ruins of Edom Split (Agonia)
Alunah - White Hoarhound (Psychedoomelic)
Andrew W.K. - I Get Wet Re (Century Media)
Autopsy - Born Undead DVD (Peaceville)
Beardfish - The Void (Inside Out)
Bedemon - Symphony Of Shadows (Svart)
Black Light Burns - The Moment You Realize Yout're Going To Fall (Rocket Science)
Bloodred Hourglass - Lifebound (Spinefarm)
Call Of The Wild - Leave Your Leather On (Kemado)
Darkness By Oath - Near Death Experience (Metal Blade)
Deadly Remains - Severing Humanity (Deepsend)
Deiphago - Satan Alpha Omega (Hells Headbangers)
Destroyer 666 - Phoenix Rising (Season Of Mist)
Doro - Under My Skin (AFM)
Downspirit - Bulletproof (Metalville)
Dragony - Legends (Limb)
Dublin Death Patrol - DDP 4 Life Re (Mascot)
Dublin Death Patrol - Death Sentence (Mascot)
Dust Bolt - Violent Demolition (Napalm)
Eagle Twin - The Feather Tipped the Serpent's Scale (Southern Lord)
Eluveitie - The Early Years (Nuclear Blast)
Ephel Duath - On Death And Cosmos EP (Agonia)
Fozzy - Sin And Bones (Century Media)
Gaytheist - Stealth Beats (Good To Die)
Grave - Endless Procession Of Souls (Century Media)
Gypsyhawk - Revelry & Resistance (Metal Blade)
Hex Machine - Fixator (Learning Curve)
Holy Knights - Between Daylight and Pain (Scarlet)
I Am War - Outlive You All (Razor & Tie)
In This Moment - Blood (Century Media)
Join The Dead - Join The Dead EP (Roxx)
Just Like Vinyl - Black Mass (Superball)
Kaipa - Vittjar (Inside Out)
Katatonia - Dead End Kings (Peaceville)
Khonsu - Anomalia (Season Of Mist)
Korpiklaani - Manala (Nuclear Blast)
Laster - Wijsgeer & Narreman (Dunkelheit)
Locrian - The Clearing & The Final Epoch (Relapse)
Loudness - Eve To Dawn (Frostbyte)
Marty Friedman - Bad DNA (Prosthetic)
Marty Friedman - Future Addict (Prosthetic)
Marty Friedman - Loudspeaker (Prosthetic)
Master - The New Elite (Pulverised)
Monuments - Gnosis (Century Media)
Mountain Man - Two (No Sleep)
Murder Construct - Results (Relapse)
Necrovation - Necrovation (Agonia)
Nuclear Death Terror - Chaos Reigns (Southern Lord)
Oiltanker - Shadow of Greed/Crusades (Southern Lord)
Over Your Threshold - Facticity (Metal Blade)
Poison Idea - The Fatal Erection Years(Southern Lord)
Polarization - Chasing The Light (Mediaskare)
Project 86 - Wait For The Siren (Team Black)
Rob Zombie - Mondo Sex Head (Universal)
Saccage - Death Crust Satanique (Broken Limbs)
Scum Of The Earth - The Devil Made Me Do It (Goomba)
Seth - Les Blessures de L'ame (Season Of Mist)
Shores - Leavening (No Idea)
Sky Of Rage - Sky Of Rage (Metalville)
Sophicide - Perdition Of The Sublime (Willowtip)
Sound Storm - Immortalia (Scarlet)
Stealing Axion - Moments (InsideOut)
Striker - Armed To The Teeth (Napalm)
Such Gold - Misadventures (Razor & Tie)
Sunflower Dead - Sunflower Dead (Bloody Bat)
Texas Hippie Coalition - Peacemaker (Carved)
The Chant - A Healing Place (Lifeforce)
The Chariot - One Wing (eOne)
The Faceless - Autotheism (Sumerian)
The Foreshadowing - Oionos Re (Metal Blade)
The Foreshadowing - Second World Re (Metal Blade)
The Forsaken - Beyond Redemption (Massacre)
Triumph - Live At Sweden Rock Festival CD/DVD (TML)
Wind Rose - Shadows Over Lothadruin (Bakerteam)
World Fire - Spreading My Wings (Frostbyte)
Xibalba - Hasta La Muerte (Southern Lord)
Heavy Metal album releases July 2012
04/07 - Nile - At the Gate of Sethu - Nuclear Blast
04/07 - Kataklysm - The Iron Will: 20 Years... (DVD) - Nuclear Blast
06/07 - Miseration - Tragedy Has Spoken - Lifeforce
06/07 - Bonded By Blood - The Aftermath - Earache
06/07 - Doro - Under My Skin-A Fine Selection of... - AFM
11/07 - Serj Tankian - Harakiri - Warner Bros
13/07 - Pagan Altar - Time Lord - Cruz Del Sur
13/07 - Eluveitie - Live on Tour (2 CD) - Concert Live
16/07 - Ian Gillan & Tony Iommi - WhoCares (2 CD) - earMUSIC
16/07 - Baroness - Yellow & Green - Relapse
18/07 - Slipknot - Antennas to Hell - Roadrunner
18/07 - Periphery - II: This Time It's Personal - Century Media
18/07 - Hellyeah - Band of Brothers - Eleven Seven
18/07 - Bury Tomorrow - The Union of Crowns - Nuclear Blast
20/07 - Zonaria - Arrival of the Red Sun - Listenable
20/07 - Fatal Force - Unholy Rites - Metal Heaven
20/07 - Circle II Circle - Full Circle-The Best of - AFM
20/07 - Rumpelstiltskin Grinder - Ghostmaker - Candlelight
25/07 - Grave Digger - Home at Last (EP) - Napalm
27/07 - To/Die/For - Samsara - Massacre
27/07 - King Of Asgard - ...to North - Metal Blade
27/07 - Dew-Scented - Icarus - Metal Blade
27/07 - Cloudscape - New Era - RoastingHouse
30/07 - Nachtmystium - Silencing Machine - Century Media
Heavy Metal album releases May 2012
02/05 - Before The Dawn - Rise of the Phoenix - Nuclear Blast
02/05 - Angelus Apatrida - The Call - Century Media
02/05 - Oddland - The Treachery of Senses - Century Media
04/05 - U.D.O. - Celebrator - AFM
04/05 - Six Feet Under - Undead - Metal Blade
04/05 - Watain - Opus Diaboli (DVD) - His Masters
07/05 - Cradle Of Filth - Midnight in the Labyrinth - Peaceville
16/05 - Katana - Storms of War - Gain
18/05 - The Cult - Choice of Weapon - Black Lodge
18/05 - Great White - Elation - Frontiers
18/05 - Cattle Decapitation - Monolith of Inhumanity - Metal Blade
18/05 - Nightmare - Mercury Rain - AFM
18/05 - Carach Angren - Where the Corpses Sink Forever - Season Of Mist
18/05 - Engel - Blood of Saints - Season Of Mist
21/05 - Velvet Revolver - Let It Roll-Live in Germany (DVD) - Eagle Vision
22/05 - Sister Sin - Now and Forever - Victory
23/05 - Firewind - Few Against Many - Century Media
23/05 - Sabaton - Carolus Rex - Nuclear Blast
23/05 - Sonata Arctica - Stones Grow Her Name - Nuclear Blast
23/05 - V/A - Realm of Napalm Vol.3 (DVD) - Napalm
25/05 - Burzum - Umskiptar - Byelobog
25/05 - Blaze Bayley - The King of Metal - Blaze Bayley
28/05 - Malice - New Breed of Godz - Steamhammer
28/05 - Kill Devil Hill - Kill Devil Hill - Steamhammer
28/05 - Godsmack - Live and Inspired - Eagle Rock
30/05 - Grand Magus - The Hunt - Nuclear Blast
30/05 - Architects - Daybreaker - Century Media
30/05 - Marduk - Serpent Sermon - Century Media
Heavy Metal album releases April 2012
02/04 - Borknagar - Urd - Century Media
02/04 - Unisonic - Unisonic - earMUSIC
04/04 - Renegade Five - Nxt Gen - Universal
04/04 - Fields Of The Nephilim - Ceremonies - EMI
04/04 - Overkill - The Electric Age - Nuclear Blast
04/04 - UFO - The Chrysalis Years Vol 2 (5 CD) - Chrysalis
04/04 - Whitesnake - Ready an' Roll (DVD) - Stageview
04/04 - Judas Priest - Unleashed (DVD) - Stageview
09/04 - General Surgery - A Collection of Depravation - Relapse
10/04 - Demon Hunter - True Defiance - Solid State
11/04 - Jeff Loomis - Plains of Oblivion - Century Media
11/04 - Accept - Stalingrad - Nuclear Blast
11/04 - Exumer - Fire & Damnation - Metal Blade
11/04 - Job For A Cowboy - Demonocracy - Metal Blade
11/04 - Dragonforce - The Power Within - Electric Generation
18/04 - Municipal Waste - The Fatal Feast - Nuclear Blast
18/04 - Saxon - The Carrere Years 1979-84 (4 CD) - EMI
20/04 - Cancer Bats - Dead Set on Living - Hassle
20/04 - In Mourning - Weight of Oceans - Spinefarm
20/04 - Acephalix - Deathless Master - Southern Lord
20/04 - High On Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis - Century Media
23/04 - Running Wild - Shadowmaker - Steamhammer
23/04 - Holy Moses - 30th Year Anniversary-In the... - Steamhammer
23/04 - Mekong Delta - Intersections - Steamhammer
23/04 - Prong - Carved into Stone - Long Branch
23/04 - Aura Noir - Out to Die - Back On Black
25/04 - Europe - Bag of Bones - Gain
25/04 - Paradise Lost - Tragic Idol - Century Media
25/04 - Raubtier - Från Norrland till Helvetets Port - Despotz
25/04 - Moonspell - Alpha Noir - Napalm
25/04 - Unleashed - Odalheim - Nuclear Blast
25/04 - Dawn Of Disease - Crypts of the Unrotten - NoiseArt
25/04 - Saxon - Heavy Metal Thunder-Live-Eagles Over Wacken - UDR
25/04 - Saxon - Heavy Metal Thunder-Live-Eagles Over... (DVD) - UDR
27/04 - Saint Vitus - Lillie F-65 - Season Of Mist
27/04 - Crystal Viper - Crimen Excepta - AFM
27/04 - At Vance - Facing Your Enemy - AFM
27/04 - Bangalore Choir - Metaphor - AOR Heaven
27/04 - Huntress - Spell Eater - Napalm
30/04 - Marilyn Manson - Born Villain - Hell, Etc.
Heavy Metal album releases March 2012
02/03 - Corrosion Of Conformity - Corrosion of Conformity - Candlelight
02/03 - Veil Of Maya - Eclipse - Sumerian
02/03 - Oz - Vinyl Tracks - Black Mark
07/03 - Barren Earth - Devil's Resolve - Peaceville
09/03 - Hysterica - Art of Metal - Black Lodge
13/03 - Cannibal Corpse - Torture - Metal Blade
14/03 - Epica - Requiem for the Indifferent - Nuclear Blast
16/03 - Sigh - In Somniphobia - Candlelight
19/03 - Spawn Of Possession - Incurso - Relapse
23/03 - Ministry - Relapse - AFM
23/03 - Jeff Scott Soto - Damage Control - Frontiers
23/03 - Pretty Maids - It Comes Alive (2 CD) - Frontiers
23/03 - Gun Barrel - Brace for Impact - Massacre
23/03 - Cynic - The Portal Tapes - Season Of Mist
26/03 - Mad Max - Another Night of Passion - Steamhammer
26/03 - Kill Devil Hill - Kill Devil Hill - Steamhammer
26/03 - Axel Rudi Pell - Circle of the Oath - Steamhammer
26/03 - 3 Inches Of Blood - Long Live Heavy Metal - Century Media
26/03 - Borknagar - Urd - Century Media
26/03 - Naglfar - Téras - Century Media
26/03 - Velvet Revolver - Live at Rockpalast 2008 (DVD) - Eagle Vision
28/03 - Overkill - The Electric Age - Nuclear Blast
28/03 - Iron Maiden - En Vivo! (2 CD) - EMI
Heavy Metal album releases February 2012
01/02 - Battle Beast - Steel - Nuclear Blast
01/02 - Unisonic - Ignition (EP) - earMUSIC
01/02 - Mustasch - Sounds Like Hell, Looks Like Heaven - Gain
03/02 - Dunderbeist - Black Arts & Crooked Tails - Indie
08/02 - Caliban - I am Nemesis - Century Media
10/02 - Coldworker - Doomsayer's Call - Listenable
10/02 - Goatwhore - Blood for the Master - Metal Blade
10/02 - Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light - Southern Lord
15/02 - Eluveitie - Helvetios - Nuclear Blast
15/02 - Psycroptic - The Inherited Repression - Nuclear Blast
17/02 - Orange Goblin - Eulogy for the Damned - Candlelight
17/02 - Woods Of Ypres - Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light - Earache
22/02 - Hellsaw - Trist - Napalm
24/02 - Xandria - Neverworld's End - Napalm
24/02 - Terrorizer - Hordes of Zombies - Season Of Mist
24/02 - Drudkh - Eternal Turn of the Wheel - Season Of Mist
24/02 - OSI - Fire Make Thunder - Metal Blade
27/02 - Napalm Death - Utilitarian - Century Media
27/02 - Asphyx - Deathhammer - Century Media
27/02 - Vengeance - Crystal Eye - Steamhammer
27/02 - UFO - Seven Deadly - Steamhammer
27/02 - Freedom Call - Land of the Crimson Dawn - Steamhammer
29/02 - Rage - 21 - Nuclear Blast
29/02 - Heidevolk - Batavi - Napalm
Heavy Metal album releases January 2012
10/01 - Steelwing - Zone of Alienation - Napalm
13/01 - Vile - Metamorphosis - Hammerheart
20/01 - Primal Fear - Unbreakable - Frontiers
20/01 - Lacuna Coil - Dark Adrenaline - Century Media
20/01 - Aborted - Global Flatline - Century Media
20/01 - Vektor - Outer Isolation - Heavy Artillery
20/01 - Stahlmann - Quecksilber - AFM
20/01 - Kells - Anachromie - Season Of Mist
23/01 - Blind Guardian - Memories of a Time to Come-Best of - Virgin
23/01 - Nashville Pussy - From Hell to Texas-Live and... - Steamhammer
25/01 - Lamb Of God - Resolution - Roadrunner
25/01 - Iron Fire - Voyage of the Damned - Napalm
25/01 - Avatar - Black Waltz - Gain
25/01 - Biohazard - Reborn in Defiance - Nuclear Blast
27/01 - Ram - Death - Metal Blade
27/01 - Necronomicon - Invictus - Massacre
27/01 - Lillian Axe - XI: The Days Before Tomorrow - AFM
27/01 - Blessed By A Broken Heart - Feel the Power - Rude
27/01 - Suicidal Angels - Bloodbath - NoiseArt
27/01 - House Of Shakira - H.O.S. - Lion Music
27/01 - Abigail Williams - Becoming - Candlelight
27/01 - El Caco - Hatred, Love & Diagrams - Indie
27/01 - God Seed - Live at Wacken (CD+DVD) - Indie