With so many new metal and hard rock albums being released each week, it can be difficult to keep up. We’re making things a lot easier for you by keeping track of all the 2022 releases in one convenient location.
Check back often or bookmark this page, because this list is updated on a regular basis. Dates are supplied by record labels and are subject to change.
LOUDWIRE PLAYLISTS:
June 17, 2022
Aptera – You Can’t Bury What Still Burns (Ripple)
Chaos Magic – Emerge (Frontiers)
Civil War – Invaders (Napalm)
Denouncement Pyre – Forever Burning (Agonia)
Executioner’s Mask – Winterlong (Profound Lore)
Grey Daze – The Phoenix (Loma Vista)
Inexorum – Equinox Vigil (Gilead)
Jorn – Over The Horizon Radar (Frontiers)
Nova Twins – Supernova (Marshall)
Oni – Loathing Light (Ironshore)
Quiet Riot – Alive And Well Re-Release (Cleopatra)
Seven Kingdoms – Zenith (Distortion)
Soulfly – The Soul Remains Insane: The Studio Albums 1998 To 2004 (BMG)
Tim Bowness – Butterfly Mind (InsideOut)
Tombs – Ex Oblivion EP (Season Of Mist)
Various Artists – Ziggy Stardust: 50 Years Later (Pale Wizard)
Vatican – Ultra (UNFD)
Vypera – Eat Your Heart Out (Frontiers)
Wayward Sons – Score Settled EP (Frontiers)
Whitesnake – Greatest Hits (Rhino)
White Ward – False Light (Debemur Morti)
Zombi – Zombi & Friends, Volume 1 (Relapse)
June 24, 2022
Alestorm – Seventh Rum Of A Seventh Rum (Napalm)
Alexisonfire – Otherness (Dine Alone)
Belphegor – The Devils (Nuclear Blast)
Black Stone Cherry – Live From The Royal Albert Hall… Y’all (Mascot)
Candy – Heaven Is Here (Relapse)
Classless Act – Welcome To The Show (Better Noise)
Coheed and Cambria – Vaxis II: A Window Of The Waking Mind (Roadrunner)
Darkane – Inhuman Spirits (Massacre)
Emery – Rub Some Dirt On It (Tooth & Nail)
Fallen Sanctuary – Terranova (AFM)
Final Light – Final Light (Red Creek)
Guillotine A.D. – Born To Fall (M-Theory)
The Hellacopters – Through The Eyes Of The Hellacopters EP (Nuclear Blast)
Khold – Svartsyn (Soulseller)
Limbs – Coma Year EP (UNFD)
Mirror Queen – Inviolate (Tee Pee)
Paganizer – Beyond The Macabre (Transcending Obscurity)
Philosophobia – Philosophobia (Sensory)
Porcupine Tree – Closure/Continuation (Music For Nations/Megaforce)
Projected – Hypoxia (Rat Pak)
RXPTRS – Living Without Death’s Permission (Metal Blade)
Saor – Origins (Season Of Mist)
Suicide Silence – The Cleansing Re-Release (Century Media)
Tygers Of Pan Tang – The Wreck-age/Burning In The Shade Re-Release (HNE)
Victorius – Dinosaur Warfare Pt. 2 – The Great Ninja War (Napalm)
Volcandra – Border World EP (Prosthetic)
Werewolves – From The Cave To The Grave (Prosthetic)
July 1, 2022
Conjurer – Pathos (Nuclear Blast)
Derek Sherinian – Vortex (InsideOut)
Greg Puciato – Mirrorcell (Federal Prisoner)
Haunt – Windows Of Your Heart (Iron Grip/Church)
Hulder – The Eternal Fanfare EP (20 Buck Spin)
Massacre – Mythos EP (Nuclear Blast)
Municipal Waste – Electrified Brain (Nuclear Blast)
Necrophobic – Satanic Blasphemies Re-Release (Century Media)
Saint Asonia – Introvert EP (Spinefarm)
July 8, 2022
Ardours – Anatomy Of A Moment (Frontiers)
Blind Channel – Lifestyles Of The Sick & Dangerous (Century Media)
Bullet For My Valentine – Bullet For My Valentine Deluxe Edition (Spinefarm/Search And Destroy)
Cleanbreak – Coming Home (Frontiers)
Dio – Holy Diver Super Deluxe Edition (Rhino)
Frayle – Skin & Sorrow (Aqualamb)
The Machinist – All Is Not Well (Prosthetic)
Powerwolf – The Monumental Mass – A Cinematic Metal Event (Napalm)
Vomit Forth – Seething Malevolence (Century Media)
July 15, 2022
Anthrax – Anthrax XL Blu-ray/CD (Megaforce)
Behold! The Monolith – The Fathomless Deep (Ripple)
Entombed – DCLXVI: To Ride, Shoot Straight And Speak The Truth Re-Release (Threeman)
The Ever Living – Artificial Devices (Chromism)
God Is An Astronaut – The Beginning Of The End (Napalm)
Mantar – Pain Is Forever And This Is The End (Metal Blade)
Molder – Engrossed In Decay (Prosthetic)
Orianthi – Live From Hollywood (Frontiers)
Primal Fear – Primal Fear Re-Release (Atomic Fire)
Sick N’ Beautiful – Starstruck (Frontiers)
Sinner – Brotherhood (Atomic Fire)
July 22, 2022
Fame On Fire – Welcome To The Chaos (Hopeless)
Hatriot – The Vale Of Shadows (Massacre)
Imperial Triumphant – Spirit Of Ecstasy (Century Media)
Jack White – Entering Heaven Alive (Third Man)
Karl Sanders – Saurian Apocalypse (Napalm)
Lessmann Voss – Rock Is Our Religion (Atomic Fire)
Nebula – Transmissions From Mothership Earth (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Nicolas Cage Fighter – The Bones That Grew From Pain (Blacklight)
Oceans Of Slumber – Starlight and Ash (Century Media)
Palisades – Reaching Hypercritical (Rise)
Spite – Dedication To Flesh (Rise)
UFO – High Stakes And Dangerous Men/Lights Out In Tokyo Re-Release (HNE)
Wake – Thought Form Descent (Metal Blade)
Whiplash – The Roadrunner Years (Dissonance)
Witchery – Nightside (Century Media)
ZZ Top – Raw (Shelter/BMG)
July 29, 2022
Arch Enemy – Deceivers (Century Media)
Banks Arcade – Future Lovers (UNFD)
Blacktoothed – Juli (Arising Empire)
Dance Gavin Dance – Jackpot Juicer (Rise)
DevilDriver – Clouds Over California: The Studio Albums 2003-2011 Box Set (BMG)
Funeral Chic – Roman Candle (Prosthetic)
Krisiun – Mortem Solis (Century Media)
My Sleeping Karma – Atma (Napalm)
Oceans – Hell Is Where The Heart Is – Part II: Longing EP (Nuclear Blast)
Reeking Aura – Blood And Bonemeal (Profound Lore)
Stick To Your Guns – Spectre (Pure Noise)
Voivod – Forgotten In Space: The Noise Records Years Box Set (Noise)
August 5, 2022
Amon Amarth – The Great Heathen Army (Metal Blade)
Einherjer – Norse And Dangerous (Live… From The Land Of Legends) (Napalm)
Generation Radio – Generation Radio (Frontiers)
H.E.A.T. – Force Majeure (earMusic)
In Hearts Wake – Green Is The New Black Soundtrack (UNFD)
The Interrupters – In The Wild (Hellcat)
Psycroptic – Divine Council (Prosthetic)
Soulfly – Totem (Nuclear Blast)
August 12, 2022
A-Z – A-Z (Metal Blade)
Bitter End – Harsh Realities Re-Release (M-Theory)
Boris – Heavy Rocks (2022) (Relapse)
Hollywood Undead – Hotel Kalifornia (BMG)
August 19, 2022
Five Finger Death Punch – Afterlife (Better Noise Music)
Hammer King – Kingdemonium (Napalm)
Heilung – Drif (Season Of Mist)
Holding Absence/Alpha Wolf – The Lost & The Longing Split EP (SharpTone)
Six By Six – Six By Six (InsideOut)
Soilwork – Övergivenheten (Nuclear Blast)
Spirit Adrift – 20 Centuries Gone (Century Media)
Thundermother – Black And Gold (AFM)
August 26, 2022
Alcatrazz – Official Bootleg Box Set Volume 2: 1983-1984 (HNE)
Edenbridge – Shangri-La (AFM)
Grave Digger – Symbol Of Eternity (Rock Of Angels)
The Hirsch Effekt – Solitaer EP (Long Branch)
Lacrimas Profundere – How To Shroud Yourself With Night (SPV/Steamhammer)
Machine Head – Of Kingdom And Crown (Nuclear Blast/Imperium)
Muse – Will Of The People (Warner)
September 2, 2022
Blind Guardian – The God Machine (Nuclear Blast)
Epica – Consign To Oblivion Re-Release (Nuclear Blast)
Epica – Live At Paradiso Blu-ray/CD (Nuclear Blast)
Epica – The Phantom Agony Re-Release (Nuclear Blast)
Epica – The Score Re-Release (Nuclear Blast)
Miss May I – Curse Of Existence (SharpTone)
Yungblud – Yungblud (Locomotion/Geffen)
September 9, 2022
Crippled Black Phoenix – Banefyre (Season Of Mist)
Electric Callboy – Tekkno (Century Media)
Fallujah – Empyrean (Nuclear Blast)
Flogging Molly – Anthem (Rise)
September 16, 2022
Behemoth – Opvs Contra Natvram (Nuclear Blast)
The Darling Fire – Distortions (Iodine)
The Devil Wears Prada – Color Decay (Solid State)
Phobophilic – Enveloping Absurdity (Prosthetic)
September 23, 2022
KEN Mode – Null (Artoffact)
Stratovarius – Survive (earMusic)
Venom Inc. – There’s Only Black (Nuclear Blast)
September 30, 2022
Lost Society – If The Sky Came Down< (Nuclear Blast)
Pixies – Doggerel (BMG)
October 7, 2022
Lamb Of God – Omens (Epic)
October 14, 2022
Alter Bridge – Pawns & Kings (Napalm)
Skid Row – The Gang’s All Here (earMusic)
October 21, 2022
Avatarium – Death, Where Is Your Sting (AFM)
2022 Albums Already Released
January 7, 2022
Apes – Lullabies For Eternal Sleep EP (Translation Loss)
At The Movies – The Soundtrack Of Your Life – Vol. 1 Re-Release (Atomic Fire)
At The Movies – The Soundtrack Of Your Life – Vol. 2 (Atomic Fire)
Carr Jam 21 – Can You Feel It EP (Self)
Carnation – Galaxy Studio Sessions (Season Of Mist)
Deaf Club – Productive Disruption (Three One G)
Infected Rain – Ecdysis (Napalm)
Despised Icon – Consumed By Your Poison Re-Release (Century Media)
Despised Icon – The Healing Process Re-Release (Century Media)
Necrophagous – In Chaos Ascend (Transcending Obscurity)
Needless – The Cosmic Cauldron (Uprising)
Nihility – Beyond Human Concepts (Vicious Instinct)
Nocturnal Graves – An Outlaws Stand (Season Of Mist)
Oar – The Blood You Crave (Blighttown)
Power Paladin – With The Magic Of Windfyre Steel (Atomic Fire)
Seven Nines And Tens – Over Opiated In A Forest Of Whispering Speakers (Willowtip)
Tygers Of Pan Tang – A New Heartbeat EP (Mighty)
Wilderun – Epigone (Century Media)
January 14, 2022
Aethereus – Leiden (The Artisan Era)
Arise From Worms – Arise From Worms EP (Goremaster)
Autumn’s Child – Zenith (Pride & Joy)
Belphegor – Blutsabbath Re-Release (Nuclear Blast)
Belphegor – The Last Supper Re-Release (Nuclear Blast)
Big Scenic Nowhere – The Long Morrow (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Breaths – Though Life Has Turned Out… (Trepnation)
Buffalo Revisited – Volcanic Rock Live (Ripple)
Descent – Order Of Chaos (Redefining Darkness)
Earthless – From The Ages Re-Release (Nuclear Blast)
Earthless – Rhythm From A Cosmic Sky Re-Release (Nuclear Blast)
Earthless – Sonic Prayer Re-Release (Nuclear Blast)
Ecryptus – Kyr’am Beskar’gam EP (SBDC)
Electromancy – Technopagan (Metal Assault)
Eliminator – Ancient Light (Dissonance)
Enterprise Earth – The Chosen (MNRK Heavy)
Ereb Altor – Vargtimman (Hammerheart)
Fit For An Autopsy – Oh What The Future Holds (Nuclear Blast)
Furis Ignis – Decapitate The Aging World (Iron Bonehead)
Hit The Ground Runnin’ – Sudden Impact Re-Release (AOR Heaven)
Lee McKinney – In The Light Of Knowledge (Sumerian)
Magnum – The Monster Roars (SPV/Steamhammer)
Maule – Maule (Gates Of Hell)
Mizmor – Wit’s End (Gilead)
Nullification – Kingdoms To Hovel (Personal)
Oceans – Hell Is Where The Heart Is Part I: Love EP (Nuclear Blast)
Oshiego – Jaljalut (Seven Kings)
Out Of This World – Out Of This World (Atomic Fire)
Party Cannon – Volumes Of Vomit (Gore House)
Pridelands – Light Bends (SharpTone)
Shadow Of Intent – Elegy (Blood Blast)
Skillet – Dominion (Atlantic)
Slowbleed – A Blazing Sun, The Fiery Dawn (Creator-Destructor)
Space Coke – Lunacy (Forbidden Place)
Spartan – Of Kings And Gods (Pest)
Tony Martin – Thorns (Dark Star)
Toundra – Hex (InsideOut)
Tristan Harders’ Twilight Theatre – Drifting Into Insanity (Pride & Joy)
Various Artists – Dominance And Submission: A Tribute To Blue Oyster Cult (Ripple)
Verbum – Exhortation To The Impure (Iron Bonehead)
Voodoma – Hellbound (Pride & Joy)
Weaponry – Everwinding Slaughter (Xtreem)
Wiegedood – There’s Always Blood At The End Of The Road (Century Media)
Wolfbastard – Hammer The Bastards (Clobber)
Worm Shepherd – Chalice Ov Rebirth (Unique Leader)
Wrong War – Once Upon A Weapon (Atomic Action/Council)
XCIII – Void (My Kingdom)
January 21, 2022
40 Watt Sun – Perfect Light (Svart)
Abyssus – Death Revival (Transcending Obscurity)
Acheron – Satanic Victory EP Re-Release (Vic)
Age Of Apocalypse – Grim Wisdom (Closed Casket)
Ashes Of Ares – Emperors And Fools (Rock Of Angels)
Battle Beast – Circus Of Doom (Nuclear Blast)
Beriedir – Aqva (Rockshots)
Billy Talent – Crisis Of Faith (Spinefarm)
Blood – Dysangelium Re-Release (Vic)
Boris – W (Sacred Bones)
Comeback Kid – Heavy Steps (Nuclear Blast)
Druid Lord – Relics Of The Dead (Hells Headbangers)
Edge Of Forever – Seminole (Frontiers)
The Ferrymen – One More River To Cross (Frontiers)
Giant – Shifting Time (Frontiers)
Great American Ghost – Torture World EP (MNRK Heavy)
Hanging Garden – Neither Moth Nor Rust EP (Lifeforce)
Heir Apparent – Graceful Inheritance Re-Release (Hammerheart)
Kandia – Quaternary (Frontiers)
Kissin’ Dynamite – Not The End Of The Road (Napalm)
Lalu – Paint The Sky (Frontiers)
Lionheart – Second Nature Re-Release (Metalville)
Nocturna – Daughters Of The Night (Scarlet)
SETYØURSAILS – Nightfall (Napalm)
Sleepwulf – Sunbeams Curl (Heavy Psych Sounds)
SOM – The Shape Of Everything (Pelagic)
Sonata Arctica – Acoustic Adventures – Volume One (Atomic Fire)
Spitfire – Denial To Fail (No Remorse)
Through The Noise – Tragedies EP (Eclipse)
Tokyo Blade – Fury (Dissonance)
Torchbearer – Solace (Self)
Verikalpa – Tunturihauta (Scarlet)
Vrsty – Welcome Home (Spinefarm)
January 28, 2022
Aegrus – The Carnal Temples EP (Osmose)
Big Big Train – Welcome To The Planet (English Electric)
Burned In Effigy – Rex Mortem (Self)
Bye Bye Tsunami – Bye Bye Tsunami EP (Nefarious)
Celeste – Assassine(s) (Nuclear Blast)
Cloakroom – Dissolution Wave (Relapse)
Crystal Ball – Crysteria (Massacre)
Deathcult – Of Soil Unearthed (Invictus)
Earthless – Night Parade Of One Hundred Demons (Nuclear Blast)
Ectoplasma – Inferna Kabbalah (Memento Mori)
Faster Pussycat – Babylon: The Elektra Years 1987-1992 (HNE)
Freaks And Clowns – We Set The World On Fire (Metalville)
Gloves Off – Life…And Everything After (Upstate)
Grave Next Door – Sanctified Heathen (Black Doomba)
Harpyie – Blutbann (Metalville)
Hazemaze – Blinded By The Wicked (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Jethro Tull – The Zealot Gene (InsideOut)
Kraemer – All The Way (Frontiers)
Lana Lane – Neptune Blue (Frontiers)
The Last Ten Seconds Of Life – The Last Ten Seconds Of Life (Unique Leader)
Lawnmower Deth – Blunt Cutters (Dissonance)
Malefic Throne – Malefic Throne EP (Hells Headbangers)
Milquetoast – Caterwaul (Wise Blood)
The Mist From The Mountains – Monumental – The Temple Of Twilight (Primitive Reaction)
Nasson – Scars (Frontiers)
The Quill – Live, New, Borrowed, Blue (Metalville)
Rabid Dogs – Black Cowslip (Time To Kill)
Ravenous Death – Visions From The Netherworld (Memento Mori)
Steve Vai – Inviolate (Favored Nations/Mascot)
Stone House On Fire – Time Is A Razor (Electric Valley)
Tangent – Tangent EP (Dying Victims)
Tension – Decay (Dying Victims)
Toxpack – Zwanzig.Tausend.Volt (Napalm)
Vicious Knight – Alteration Through Possession (Dying Victims)
Wobbler – Afterglow Re-Release (Karisma)
Wobbler – Hinterland Re-Release (Karisma)
Wobbler – Rites At Dawn Re-Release (Karisma)
February 4, 2022
Abhoria – Abhoria (Prosthetic)
Abysmal Dawn – Nightmare Frontier EP (Season Of Mist)
Astrophobos – Corpus (Personal)
Korn – Requiem (Loma Vista)
Mass Worship – Portal Tombs (Century Media)
Michael Romeo – War Of The Worlds, Part II (InsideOut)
Mystic Circle – Mystic Circle (Atomic Fire)
Obsidian Sea – Pathos (Ripple)
Persefone – Metanoia (Napalm)
Powertryp – Midnight Marauder (Rafchild)
Rolo Tomassi – Where Myth Becomes Memory (MNRK)
Saxon – Carpe Diem (Silver Lining)
Seremonia – Neonlusifer (Svart)
Venom Prison – Erebos (Century Media)
Vorga – Striving Toward Oblivion (Transcending Obscurity)
Vulcano – Stone Orange (Emanzipation)
February 11, 2022
Amorphis – Halo (Atomic Fire)
Author & Punisher – Kruller (Relapse)
City Of Lights – Before The Sun Sets (Frontiers)
Creeping Flesh – And Then The Bombs Came (Emanzipation)
Cult Of Luna – The Long Road North (Metal Blade)
Degreed – Are You Ready (Frontiers)
The Devils Of Loudun – Escaping Eternity (The Artisan Era)
Eddie Vedder – Earthling (Republic)
Girish And The Chronicles – Hail To The Heroes (Frontiers)
Hangman’s Chair – A Loner (Nuclear Blast)
Hexen – Being And Nothingness Re-Release (M-Theory)
Jizzy Pearl’s Love/Hate – Hell, CA (Golden Robot)
Lionville – So Close To Heaven (Frontiers)
Mariangela Demurtas – Dark Ability EP (Self)
Mecca – 20 Years (Frontiers)
Naked Gypsy Queens – Georgiana EP (Mascot)
Napalm Death – Resentment Is Always Seismic – A Final Throw Of Throes EP (Century Media)
Near Death Condition – Ascent From The Mundane (Unique Leader)
Nervochaos – All Colors Of Darkness (Emanzipation)
Night Cobra – Dawn Of The Serpent (Irongrip/High Roller)
Once Human – Scar Weaver (earMusic)
Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy And The Conspirators – 4 (Gibson)
Ten – Here Be Monsters (Frontiers)
Tersivel – To The Orphic Void (Uprising)
Trouble – One For The Road/Unplugged Re-Release (Hammerheart)
Voivod – Syncro Anarchy (Century Media)
Zadra – Guiding Star (Frontiers)
Zeal & Ardor – Zeal & Ardor (MVKA)
February 18, 2022
Annihilator – Metal II (earMusic)
Ard – Take Up My Bones (Prophecy)
Asiwyfa – Jettison (Equal Vision)
Black Map – Melodoria (Minus Head)
The Body & OAA – Enemy Of Love (Thrill Jockey)
Boguslaw Balcerek’s Crylord – Human Heredity (Pride & Joy)
Bunuel – Killers Like Us (Profound Lore)
Dagoba – By Night (Napalm)
Esprit D’Air – Oceans (Starstorm Records)
Fostermother – The Ocean (Ripple)
Glasya – Attarghan (Scarlet)
Goodbye June – See Where The Night Goes (Earache)
Immolation – Acts Of God (Nuclear Blast)
Jonas Lindberg And The Other Side – Miles From Nowhere (InsideOut)
The Last Of Lucy – Moksha (Transcending Obscurity)
Lord Agheros – Koine (My Kingdom)
Lunar Blood – Twilight Insurgency (Pulverised)
Manic Sinners – King Of The Badlands (Frontiers)
Matt Pike – Pike vs. The Automaton (MNRK Heavy)
The Neptune Power Federation – Le Demon De L’Amour (Cruz Del Sur)
Pure Wrath – Hymn To The Woeful Hearts (Debemur Morti)
Re-Machined – Brain Dead (Pride & Joy)
Rot TV – Tales Of Torment (Tee Pee)
Savage Grace – After The Fall From Grace Re-Release (Hammerheart)
Savage Grace – Master Of Disguise Re-Release (Hammerheart)
Schizophrenia – Recollections Of The Insane (Redefining Darkness)
Sickbay – Brutal Existence EP (Redefining Darkness)
Spirits Of Fire – Embrace The Unknown (Frontiers)
Star One – Revel In Time (InsideOut)
Static-X – Machine 20th Anniversary Edition (Otsego)
Veonity – Elements Of Power (Scarlet)
February 25, 2022
Abraham – Debris De Mondes Perdus (Pelagic)
Allegaeon – Damnum (Metal Blade)
Bad Omens – The Death Of Peace Of Mind (Sumerian)
Cobra The Impaler – Colossal Gods (Listenable)
Corey Taylor – CMFB…Sides EP (Roadrunner)
George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher – Corpsegrinder (Perseverance)
Dashboard Confessional – All The Truth That I Can Tell (Hidden Note/AWAL)
Dead Head – Haatland (Petrichor)
D’Virgilio, Morse & Jennings – Troika (InsideOut)
Early Eyes – Look Alive! (Epitaph)
Eight Bells – Legacy Of Ruin (Prophecy)
Embryonic Devourment – Heresy Of The Highest Order (Unique Leader)
Firebreather – Dwell In The Fog (RidingEasy)
HammerFall – Hammer Of Dawn (Napalm)
Hebosagil – Yossa (Svart)
Metal Cross – Soul Ripper (From The Vaults)
Mountaineer – Giving Up The Ghost (Lifeforce)
Scorpions – Rock Believer (Spinefarm)
Serious Black – Vengeance Is Mine (AFM)
Serpent Cobra – Beware EP (Helter Skelter/Regain)
Shape Of Despair – Return To The Void
(Season Of Mist)
Short Stack – Maybe There’s No Heaven (UNFD)
Svartsot – Kumbl (Mighty)
Tankard – For A Thousand Years Box Set (Noise)
Thurston Moore – Screen Time (Southern Lord)
March 4, 2022
10 Years – Deconstructed (Mascot)
As I May – Karu (Uprising)
Cadaveria – The Shadows’ Madame Re-Release (Time To Kill)
Crowbar – Zero And Below (MRNK Heavy)
Dan Reed Network – Let’s Hear It For The King (Drakkar)
The Defaced – Charlatans (ViciSolum)
Deserted Fear – Doomsday (Century Media)
Endtime – Impending Doom (Heavy Psych Sounds)
The Flower Kings – By Royal Decree (InsideOut)
Godless Truth – Godless Truth (Transcending Obscurity)
Hath – All That Was Promised (Willowtip)
Jirm – The Tunnel, The Well, Holy Bedlam (Ripple)
Kuolemanlaakso – Kuusumu (Svart)
Kris Barras Band – Death Valley Paradise (Mascot)
Marillion – An Hour Before It’s Dark (earMusic)
Midnight – Let There Be Witchery (Metal Blade)
Sabaton – The War To End All Wars (Nuclear Blast)
Sanhedrin – Lights On (Metal Blade)
Sylvaine – Nova (Season Of Mist)
Twisted Tower Dire – Crest Of The Martyrs Demos (Nameless Grave)
Ty Tabor – Shades (Rat Pak)
Vein.FM – This World Is Going To Ruin You (Closed Casket)
Vio-Lence – Let The World Burn EP (Metal Blade)
Warpath – Disharmonic Revelations (Massacre)
Warrior Soul – Out On Bail (Livewire/Cargo)
March 11, 2022
Brandon Boyd – Echoes And Cocoons (Wit/The Orchard)
Chromancy – Shadows In Atlantis (Fighter)
Dead Lord – Dystopia EP (Century Media)
Edge Of Forever – The Days Of Future Past: The Remasters (Frontiers)
E-L-R – Vexier (Prophecy)
Ghost – Impera (Loma Vista/Concord)
Haunted Shores – Void (3Dot)
House Of Shakira – Lint XXV (Frontiers)
Invocator – Excursion Demise Re-Release (Hammerheart)
Invocator – Weave The Apocalypse Re-Release (Hammerheart)
Jizzy Pearl’s Love/Hate – Hell, CA (Golden Robot)
KISS – Off The Soundboard: Live In Virginia Beach (UMe)
Konvent – Call Down The Sun (Napalm)
Little Caesar – American Dream Re-Release (Dirty Deeds)
Messa – Close (Svart)
New Horizon – Gate Of The Gods (Frontiers)
Oddland – Vermillion (Uprising)
Rust N’ Rage – One For The Road (Frontiers)
Shaman’s Harvest – Rebelator (Mascot)
Sonic Youth – In/Out/In EP (Three Lobed)
Syk – Pyramiden (Housecore/Nuclear Blast)
Vanir – Sagas (Mighty)
The Violent – The Violent EP (Self)
Wolves At The Gate – Eulogies (Solid State)
March 18, 2022
Aeviterne – The Ailing Facade (Profound Lore)
Agathodaimon – The Seven (Napalm)
Chip Z’Nuff – Perfectly Imperfect (Frontiers)
Cypress Hill – Back In Black (MNRK)
Dark Funeral – We Are The Apocalypse (Century Media)
Eric Wagner – In The Lonely Light Of Mourning (Cruz Del Sur)
Erra – Erra Deluxe Edition (UNFD)
FM – Thirteen (Frontiers)
Friends Of Hell – Friends Of Hell (Rise Above)
Gauntlet Rule – The Plague Court (From The Vaults)
Hellfrost And Fire – Fire, Frost And Hell (Transcending Obscurity)
Hell In The Club – Kamikaze – 10 Years In The Slums EP (Frontiers)
Hell Militia – Hollow Void (Season Of Mist)
Hot Water Music – Feel The Void (Equal Vision)
Landmvrks – Lost In The Waves (The Complete Edition) (Arising Empire)
The L.I.F.E. Project – Big F.O.U.R. EP (Blood Blast)
Moonlight Haze – Animus (Scarlet)
Shewolf – Shewolf (Frontiers)
Shining Black – Postcards From The End Of The World (Frontiers)
Slaegt – Goddess (Century Media)
Stabbing Westward – Chasing Ghosts (COP International)
Trench – Encased In Chrome EP (New Damage)
Tyr – A Night At The Nordic House DVD/CD (Metal Blade)
Without Waves – Comedian (Prosthetic)
March 25, 2022
Abbath – Dread Reaver (Season Of Mist)
Absent In Body – Plague God (Relapse)
Animals As Leaders – Parrhesia (Sumerian)
Architects – For Those That Wish To Exist At Abbey Road (Epitaph)
BillyBio – Leaders And Liars (AFM)
Bomber – Nocturnal Creatures (Napalm)
Capricorn – For The Restless (Wild Kingdom)
Crystal Viper – The Last Axeman (Listenable)
Dream Widow – Dream Widow EP (Roswell)
Flotsam & Jetsam – Iron Tears/Metal Shock Re-Release (Vic)
Hardcore Superstar – Abrakadabra (Self)
Ignite – Ignite (Century Media)
Killing Joke – Lord Of Chaos EP (Spinefarm)
Lucifer’s Child/Mystifier – Under Satan’s Wrath Split (Agonia)
Machine Gun Kelly – Mainstream Sellout (Bad Boy/Interscope)
Michael Romeo – War Of The Worlds, Part 2 (InsideOut)
MWWB – The Harvest (New Heavy Sounds)
Night Demon – Year Of The Demon (Century Media)
Nite – Voices Of The Kronian Moon (Season Of Mist)
Placebo – Never Let Me Go (Rise)
Reckless Love – Turborider (AFM)
Soul Glo – Diaspora Problems (Epitaph)
Svartsot – Kumbi (Mighty)
Various Artists – Legacy: A Tribute To Leslie West (Provogue)
Witchpit – The Weight Of Death (Heavy Psych Sounds)
April 1, 2022
Aldo Nova – The Life And Times Of Eddie Gage EP (Self)
Bhleg – Fäghring (Nordvis)
Black Death Cult – Diaspora (Profound Lore)
Carpenter Brut – Leather Terror (Universal)
Centinex – The Pestilence EP (Agonia)
Evil Invaders – Shattering Reflection (Napalm)
The Hellacopters – Eyes Of Oblivion (Nuclear Blast)
I Klatus – Targeted (Dead Sage)
Kublai Khan TX – Lowest Form Of Animal EP (Rise)
Lords Of The Trident – The Offering (Self)
Meshuggah – Immutable (Atomic Fire)
Misfire – Sympathy For The Ignorant (MNRK Heavy)
Nekrogoblikon – The Fundamental Slimes And Humours (Self)
The Nocturnal Affair – (Meta)Morphosis (Earache)
Northlane – Obsidian (Believe)
Pattern-Seeking Animals – Only Passing Through (InsideOut)
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Unlimited Love (Warner)
Satan – Earth Infernal (Metal Blade)
Violet Blend – Demons (Eclipse)
Wolf – Shadowland (Century Media)
April 8, 2022
Angel Nation – Antares (Inner Wound)
Bjorn Riis – Everything To Everyone (Karisma)
Black Swan – Generation Mind (Frontiers)
Decasia – An Endless Feast For Hyenas (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Destruction – Diabolical (Napalm)
Dynazty – Final Advent (AFM)
Envy Of None – Envy Of None (Kscope)
First Signal – Closer To The Edge (Frontiers)
Fortune – Level Ground (Frontiers)
Hallas – Isle Of Wisdom (Napalm)
Health – DISCO4 :: PART II (Loma Vista)
Incite – Wake Up Dead (Atomic Fire)
Inglorious – MMXXI Live At The Phoenix (Frontiers)
Jack White – Fear Of The Dawn (Third Man)
Linda Lindas – Growing Up (Epitaph)
Lux Incerta – Dark Odyssey (Klonosphere/Season Of Mist)
Mors Principium Est – Liberate The Unborn Humanity (AFM)
Papa Roach – Ego Trip (New Noize)
Therion – Beyond Sanctorum Re-Release (Hammerheart)
Therion – Lepaca Kliffoth Re-Release (Hammerheart)
Therion – Symphony Masses: No Drakon Ho Megas Re-Release (Hammerheart)
Tool – Fear Inoculum Vinyl Re-Release (RCA)
Treat – The Endgame (Frontiers)
Wet Leg – Wet Leg (Domino)
April 15, 2022
Alunah – Strange Machine (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Armored Saint – Delirious Nomad Re-Release (Metal Blade)
Armored Saint – March Of The Saint Re-Release (Metal Blade)
Armored Saint – Raising Fear Re-Release (Metal Blade)
Axel Rudi Pell – Lost XXIII (SPV/Steamhammer)
Darkher – The Buried Storm (Prophecy)
DeVicious – Black Heart (Pride & Joy)
J.B.O. – Pink Planet (AFM)
Manegarm – Ynglingaättens Öde (Napalm)
Monuments – In Stasis (Century Media)
Nazareth – Surviving The Law (Frontiers)
Poison Rose – Little Bang Theory (Frontiers)
Ronnie Romero – Raised On Radio (Frontiers)
Semblant – Vermilion Escape (Frontiers)
Soulbound – Towards The Sun Re-Release (Metalville)
Stone Broken – Revelation (Spinefarm)
These Arms Are Snakes – Duct Tape & Shivering Crows (Suicide Squeeze)
April 22, 2022
Aldo Nova – Aldo Nova 2.0 Reloaded (Self)
Amenra/Cave In/Marissa Nadler – Songs Of Townes Van Zandt Vol. III (Neurot)
Audrey Horne – Devil’s Bell (Napalm)
Caliban – Dystopia (Century Media)
Corpsessed – Succumb To Rot (Dark Descent)
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter – Wilde Kinder (Nuclear Blast)
Dorothy – Gifts From The Holy Ghost (Roc Nation)
Huntsmen – The Dying Pines EP (Prosthetic)
Kirk Hammett – Portals EP (Blackened)
Ocean Grove – Up In The Air Forever (UNFD)
Primus – Conspiranoid EP (ATO)
Radiant – Written By Life (Massacre)
Ruby The Hatchet – Live At Earthquaker EP (Magnetic Eye)
Shinedown – Planet Zero (Atlantic)
Skull Fist – Paid In Full (Atomic Fire)
Solitary – XXV: Live At Bloodstock DVD/CD (Metalville)
Somali Yacht Club – The Space (Season Of Mist)
Static Abyss – Labyrinth Of Veins (Peaceville)
Udo Dirkschneider – My Way (Atomic Fire)
Undeath – It’s Time… To Rise From The Grave (Prosthetic)
Various Artists – Brown Acid: The Fourteenth Trip (RidingEasy)
Wardruna – Kvitravn – First Flight Of The White Raven (By Norse)
April 29, 2022
Ann Wilson – Fierce Bliss (Silver Lining)
Devil Master – Ecstasies Of Never Ending Night (Relapse)
Helms Alee – Keep This Be The Way (Sargent House)
Kaipa – Urskog (InsideOut)
Lament Cityscape – A Darker Discharge (Lifeforce)
No/Mas – Consume/Deny/Repent (Closed Casket Activities)
Rammstein – Zeit (Universal)
Robin Trower – No More Worlds To Conquer (Provogue/Mascot)
Speckmann Project – Fiends Of Emptiness (Emanzipation)
Ted Nugent – Detroit Muscle (Pavement)
Thunder – Dopamine (BMG)
Various Artists – Reigning Blood – A Tribute To Slayer (Satyrn)
Velcrocranes – What If I Die (InsideOut)
Watain – The Agony & Ecstasy Of Watain (Nuclear Blast)
May 6, 2022
Aenimus – Sacrificial EP (Nuclear Blast)
Arcade Fire – We (Columbia)
AWOLNATION – My Echo, My Shadow, My Covers (Better Noise)
Black Eye – Black Eye (Frontiers)
Christian Death – Evil Becomes Rule (Season Of Mist)
Cosmic Putrefaction – Crepuscular Dirge For The Blessed Ones (Profound Lore)
Deaf Club – Bad Songs Forever EP (Three One G)
Demonical – Mass Destroyer (Agonia)
Fozzy – Boombox (Century Media)
Halestorm – Back From The Dead (Atlantic)
Haunter – Discarnate Ails (Profound Lore)
Ibaraki – Rashomon (Nuclear Blast)
Jani Liimatainen – My Father’s Son (Frontiers)
Jeff Scott Soto – Complicated (Frontiers)
Jo Quail – The Cartographer (By Norse)
Motor Sister – Get Off (Metal Blade)
Ou – One (InsideOut)
Pure Reason Revolution – Above Cirrus (InsideOut)
Sabaton – The Symphony To End All Wars (Nuclear Blast)
Silverstein – Misery Made Me (UNFD)
Stoner – Totally… (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Tank – Don’t Walk Away Re-Release (High Roller)
Tank – Filth Hounds Of Hades Re-Release (High Roller)
Tank – Power Of The Hunter Re-Release (High Roller)
Three Days Grace – Explosions (RCA)
Ufomammut – Fenice (Neurot)
Upon A Burning Body – Fury (Seek & Strike)
Wo Fat – The Singularity (Ripple)
May 13, 2022
The Big Deal – First Bite (Frontiers)
The Black Keys – Dropout Boogie (Nonesuch)
Cage Fight – Cage Fight (Candlelight)
Carnivore – Carnivore Re-Release (Dissonance)
Demiricous – III: Chaotic Lethal (Post)
Dishwalla – Alive EP (Pavement)
Ecstatic Vision – Elusive Mojo (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Graham Bonnet Band – Day Out In Nowhere (Frontiers)
J.B.O. – Planet Pink (AFM)
Jungle Rot – A Call To Arms (Unique Leader)
Master Boot Record – Personal Computer (Metal Blade)
Max Creeps – Nein (Velocity)
Misery Index – Complete Control (Century Media)
Moon Tooth – Phototroph (Pure Noise)
Nechochwen – Kanawha Black (Bindrune)
Opeth – In Cauda Venenum (Extended Edition) (Atomic Fire)
The Pineapple Thief – Give It Back (Kscope)
Primitive Man – Insurmountable EP (Closed Casket)
Skills – Different Worlds (Frontiers)
The Smile – A Light For Attracting Attention (XL)
Visions Of Atlantis – Pirates (Napalm)
Zero Hour – Agenda 21 (Frontiers)
May 20, 2022
Anvil – Impact Is Imminent (AFM)
Blut Aus Nord – Disharmonium – Undreamable Abysses (Debemur Morti)
Brandy And The Butcher – Lucky Foot (Self)
Cave In – Heavy Pendulum (Relapse)
Evergrey – A Heartless Portrait (The Orphean Testament) (Napalm)
Gronibard – Regarde Les Hommes Sucer (Season Of Mist)
Helsott – Will And The Witch (M-Theory)
James LaBrie – Beautiful Shade Of Grey (InsideOut)
The Loyal Seas – Strange Mornings In The Garden (American Laundromat)
Malevolence – Malicious Intent (Nuclear Blast/MLVLTD)
Sadist – Firescorched (Agonia)
Septicflesh – Modern Primitive (Nuclear Blast)
Space Of Variations – Imago (Napalm)
Thy Kingdom Will Burn – The Void And The Vengeance (Scarlet)
Watashi Wa – People Like People (Tooth & Nail)
Zinny Zan – Lullabies For The Masses (Wild Kingdom)
May 27, 2022
After Forever – After Forever 15th Anniversary Edition (Nuclear Blast)
Black Lung – Dark Waves (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Black Void – Antithesis (Nuclear Blast)
Crematory – Inglorious Darkness (Napalm)
Decapitated – Cancer Culture (Nuclear Blast)
Def Leppard – Diamond Star Halos (Ume)
The Flower Kings – Back In The World Of Adventures Re-Release (InsideOut)
The Flower Kings – Retropolis Re-Release (InsideOut)
Gramma Vedetta – The Hum Of The Machine (Mandrone)
Hollow Front – The Price Of Dreaming (UNFD)
Liam Gallagher – C’Mon You Know (Warner)
Liam Gallagher – Down By The River Thames (Warner)
Lord Belial – Rapture (Hammerheart)
Mark Tremonti – Mark Tremonti Sings Sinatra (NDSS)
Michael Schenker Group – Universal (Atomic Fire)
Mournful Congregation – The Exuviae Of Gods – Part I EP (Osmose)
Raven – Rock Until You Drop The 4CD Over The Top Edition (HNE)
Simon McBride – The Fighter (earMusic)
Taking Back Sunday – Tell All Your Friends 20th Anniversary Edition (Craft)
Tank – Honour And Blood Re-Release (High Roller)
Tank – This Means War Re-Release (High Roller)
Trollfest – Flamingo Overlord (Napalm)
June 3, 2022
Artificial Brain – Artificial Brain (Profound Lore)
Astronoid – Radiant Bloom (3DOT)
Battlelore – The Return of The Shadow (Napalm)
Bleed From Within – Shrine (Nuclear Blast)
Candlemass – Epicus Doomicus Metallicus Vinyl Re-Release (Peaceville)
Crobot – Feel This (Mascot)
Druids – Shadow Work (Pelagic)
GWAR – The New Dark Ages (Pit)
Killswitch Engage – Live At The Palladium (Metal Blade)
Memphis May Fire – Remade In Misery (Rise)
The Oklahoma Kid – Tangerine Tragic (Arising Empire)
Origin – Chaosmos (Nuclear Blast/Agonia)
Orphantwin – Future Classic (Solid State)
Somnus Throne – Nemesis Lately (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Temple Of Void – Summoning The Slayer (Relapse)
Valleyheart – Heal My Head (Tooth & Nail)
June 10, 2022
Attempt Survivors – Educated Hips EP (Iodine)
Billy Howerdel – What Normal Was (Alchemy/Rise)
Bloody Heels – Rotten Romance (Frontiers)
Deathwhite – Grey Everlasting (Season Of Mist)
Downset – Maintain (Nuclear Blast)
Dragged Under – Upright Animals (Mascot)
Grace – Hope (Frontiers)
Heart Attack – Negative Sun (Atomic Fire)
Kardashev – Liminal Rite (Metal Blade)
KISS – Off The Soundbound: Live At Donington 1996 (UMe)
Kreator – Hate Uber Alles (Nuclear Blast)
Michael Monroe – I Live Too Fast To Die Young (Silver Lining)
Moodring – Stargazer (UNFD)
Motionless In White – Scoring The End Of The World (Roadrunner)
Rosetta Stone – Demos And Rare Tracks 1987-1989 (Cleopatra)
Seventh Wonder – The Testament (Frontiers)
Severe Torture – Fisting The Sockets EP (Season Of Mist)
The Tangent – Songs From The Hard Shoulder (InsideOut)
Venus 5 – Venus 5 (Frontiers)
Wind Rose – Warfront (Napalm)
Yatra – Born Into Chaos (Prosthetic)