Metal and Hard Rock Albums Release in January 2023

A new year arrived with new metal and rock albums in January 2023. We wanted to share a list and reviews of the metal and rock albums coming in this month. Metal and rock album will release in January 2023. We will also help you to discover which metal and hard rock genre albums.

New Metal and Hard Rock Albums Release in January 2023

You could also check which rock and metal albums were released in December 2022.

January 2023 is an exceptional month for metal and rock fans from around the world just for these albums: Katatonia, Måneskin, Uriah Heep, The Smashing Pumpkins, and more bands will release their new albums. Let’s get to our monthly or yearly releases list, which we will update on the upcoming album release calendar if something changes below!

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Katatonia, Måneskin, Uriah Heep, The Smashing Pumpkins, and more bands will release their new albums, box sets, EPs, and LP editions, including Deluxe Edition. Check out below which rock and metal bands gonna release new albums in December 2022.

Katatonia – Sky Void Of Stars (Napalm)

Release Date:  January 20 – Label: Napalm Records

Katatonia brings an ambient vibe with this new 11-track release, written and produced by frontman Jonas Renkse.

Katatonia continues to shape the genre, maintaining loyal to their own musical principles as they circle the musical cosmos and leave their mark. “Sky Void of Stars” sparkles brilliantly in metal and beyond, projecting its voice beyond infinity.

Sky Void Of Stars albumlist:

1. Austerity
2. Colossal Shade
3. Opaline
4. Birds
5. Drab Moon
6. Author
7. Impermanence
8. Sclera
9. Atrium
10. No Beacon To Illuminate Our Fall
11. Absconder

Måneskin – Rush!

Release Date: January 20 – Label: Epic/Sony

Måneskin‘s new album ‘Rush!’ will be released on January 20, 2023, with the new single ‘Gossip’ following the following week on January 13.

Måneskin‘s Damiano talked about the upcoming album: “Tom Morello’s outstanding experience allowed us to work on the tracks effortlessly. We can’t express how grateful we are to him joining us for this song. It’s an honour for the whole band!”

Victoria added, “The song was born from a riff that Thomas wrote a while ago. We kept it in the drawer for a long time and picked it up later on. Then the great Tom Morello joined us and brought that extra touch to Måneskin’s typical uptempo irreverence.”

Rush! albumlist:

1. Own My Mind
2. Gossip feat. Tom Morello
3. Timezone
4. Bla Bla Bla
5. Baby Said
6. Gasoline
7. Feel
8. Don’t Wanna Sleep
9. Kool Kids
10. If Not for You
11. Read Your Diary
12. Mark Chapman
13. La Fine
14. Il Dono della Vita
15. Mammamia
16. Supermodel
17. The Loneliest

Uriah Heep – Chaos & Colour

Release Date: January 27 – Label: Silver Lining

Uriah Heep, along with Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, and Nazareth, is one of the most successful and longest-serving British hard rock bands.

The follow-up album to 2018’s “Living the Dream,” Uriah Heep‘s album “Chaos & Color,” is out on January 27th, 2023.

Chaos & Colour albumlist:

1. Save Me Tonight
2. Silver Sunlight
3. Hail the Sunrise
4. Age of Changes
5. Hurricane
6. One Nation, One Sun
7. Golden Light
8. You’ll Never Be Alone
9. Fly Like an Eagle
10. Freedom to Be Free
11. Closer to Your Dreams
12. Save Me Tonight (Demo)

The Smashing Pumpkins – ATUM: A Rock Opera in Three Acts: Act Two

Release Date: January 27 – Label: Martha’s Music/Thirty Tigers

The Smashing Pumpkins band’s upcoming 12th studio album, “Atum: A Rock Opera in Three Acts”, is out on January 2023.

The album will be published in three different parts of 11 songs: Atum: Act One on November 15, 2022, Atum: Act Two on January 31, 2023, and Atum: Act Three on April 21, 2023. On April 21, a physical box set with all 33 tracks and ten more exclusive songs will be released.

1. ATUM
2. Butterfly Suite
3. The Good In Goodbye
4. Embracer
5. With Ado I Do
6. Hooligan
7. Steps In Time
8. Where Rain Must Fall
9. Beyond The Vale
10. Hooray!
11. The Gold Mask

January 2023 Metal and Rock Albums

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January 6th, 2023

• Anti-Flag – Lies They Tell Our Children (Spinefarm)
• Serenity – Memoria DVD/CD (Napalm)
• Sons Of Cult – Back To The Beginning (Xtreem)
• Throat Locust – Dragged Through Glass EP (Self)
• Varmia – Prolog EP (M-Theory)

January 13th, 2023

• Ahab – The Coral Tombs (Napalm)
• Antimozdebeast – Vision (Self)
• Anubis – Decreation Day EP (Self)
• Beyond The Black – Beyond The Black (Nuclear Blast)
• Crom – The Era Of Darkness (From The Vaults)
• Defy The Curse – Horrors Of Human Sacrifice (Hammerheart)
• Draken – Book Of Black (Majestic Mountain)
• Endtime/Cosmic Reaper – Doom Sessions Vol. 7 EP (Heavy Psych Sounds)
• Jared James Nichols – Jared James Nichols (Black Hill)
• Kommandant – Titan Hammer (ATMF)
• Obituary – Dying Of Everything (Relapse)
• Screamer – Kingmaker (Steamhammer/SPV)
• Turmion Katilot – Omen X (Nuclear Blast)
• Ville Valo – Neon Noir (Spinefarm)

January 20th, 2023

• Atrocity – Okkult III (Massacre)
• Big City – Sunwind Sails (Frontiers)
• Celestial Wizard – Winds Of The Cosmos (Scarlet)
• Dryad – The Abyssal Plain (Prosthetic)
• Gypsy Chief Goliath/End Of Age – Turned To Stone Chapter 7 Split (Ripple)
• Half Life – Like A Jungle (Club Inferno)
• Heroes And Monsters – Heroes And Monsters (Frontiers)
• Imperium Dekandez – Into Sorrow Evermore (Napalm)
• Issa – Lights Of Japan (Frontiers)
• Katatonia – Sky Void Of Stars (Napalm)
• Laura Cox – Head Above Water (earMusic)
• Måneskin – Rush! (Epic/Sony)
• Natt – Natt (Edged Circle)
• Riverside – ID.Entity (InsideOut)
• Seether – Disclaimer Re-Release (Craft)
• Slegest – Avstand (Dark Essence)
• Ten – Something Wicked This Way Comes (Frontiers)
• Tidal Wave – The Lord Knows (Ripple)
• Tribunal – The Weight Of Remembrance (20 Buck Spin)
• Twilight Force – At The Heart Of Wintervale (Nuclear Blast)
• U.F.O. – No Heavy Petting Re-Release (Chrysalis)

January 27th, 2023

• …And Oceans – As In Gardens, So In Tombs (Season Of Mist)
• Anzillu – Ex Nihilo (M-Theory)
• Arctic Rain – Unity (Frontiers)
• Conjureth – The Parasitic Chambers (Memento Mori)
• Crowne – Operation Phoenix (Frontiers)
• Dismal – Via Entis (Aural)
• Dokken – The Elektra Albums 1983-1987 Box Set (BMG)
• Dust Prophet – One Last Look Upon The Sky (Self)
• Electric Mob – 2 Make U Cry & Dance (Frontiers)
• Girish And The Chronicles – Back On Earth (Frontiers)
• Girlschool – The School Report 1978-2008 (HNE)
• Green Day – Nimrod Re-Release (Warner)
• Holocaust – Heavy Metal Mania: The Complete Recordings Volume 1 – 1980-1984 (HNE)
• Hour Of Penance – Misotheism Re-Release (Agonia)
• Knogjarn – Mera Bedövning EP (Indie)
• Liv Sin – Kali Yuga (Mighty)
• Love Gang – Meanstreak (Heavy Psych Sounds)
• New Miserable Experience – Philosophy On Pessimism (Translation Loss)
• Obelyskkh – Ultimate Grace Of God (Exile On Mainstream)
• Ominous Scriptures – Rituals Of Mass Self-Ignition (Willowtip)
• Oozing Wound – We Cater To Cowards (Thrill Jockey)
• Pelican – City Of Echoes Re-Release (Thrill Jockey)
• Ronnie Romero – Raised On Heavy Radio (Frontiers)
• The Smashing Pumpkins – ATUM: A Rock Opera in Three Acts: Act Two (Martha’s Music/Thirty Tigers)
• Soen – Cognitive Re-Release (Silver Lining)
• Soen – Tellurian Re-Release (Silver Lining)
• Steve Vai – Vai/Gash (Mascot)
• Suasion – The Infinite (Atomic Fire)
• The Tangent – Pyramids, STars & Other Stories: The Tangent Live Recordings 2004-2017 (InsideOut)
• Uriah Heep – Chaos & Colour (Silver Lining)
• White Reaper – Asking for a Ride (Elektra)