Metal and Rock Albums Releases in 2023 – Full Calendar

A new year is also coming, with new metal and rock albums every month in 2023. We wanted to share a list of the metal and rock albums coming in 2023.

We finally end 2022 and begin a new year full of music. We also expect our favorite bands to share their music as they meet us on stage. This is primarily because we have been forced to be apart most of the time due to the previous epidemic. Metal and rock artists are also preparing to release new albums in 2023.

Before we go to the 2023 metal and rock album list, we also want to remind you of the already-set tour plans for 2023, as many prominent bands have already begun preparing to see their fans. Many of us know that Metallica has already begun touring to meet its fans. Metallica‘s upcoming tour kicks off in Europe in 2023 and may be rescheduled. You can learn more about Metallica’s future tour dates and newest news here, and we’ll keep you up-to-date as we hear more.

We all wish you a wonderful musical year! So, let’s get to our list, which will be updated due to certain plan adjustments and additions. You can also easily purchase all of these albums from this page.

Metal and Rock Albums in 2023

Metallica, Limp Bizkit, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Bring Me the Horizon In Flames, and others will release new songs, as will Avenged Sevenfold, Judas Priest, DevilDriver, and more.

Related: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard announce 2023 tour dates with a new album

January 2023

January 6th, 2023

• Anti-Flag – Lies They Tell Our Children

January 13th, 2023

• Beyond The Black – Beyond The Black Buy
• Obituary – Dying Of Everything
• VV – Neon Noir

January 20th, 2023

• Atrocity – Okkult III
• Black Star Riders – Wrong Side Of Paradise
• Katatonia – Sky Void Of Stars
• Måneskin – Rush!
• Riverside – ID.Entity
• Skald – Huldufolk

January 27th, 2023

• Fucked Up – One Day
• Steve Vai – Vai/Gash Buy
• Uriah Heep – Chaos & Colour

February 3rd, 2023

• All Out War – Celestial Rot
• Memoriam – Rise To Power
• Xandria – The Wonder Awaiting

February 10th, 2023

• Aphyxion – Ad Astra
• Delain – Dark Waters
• In Flames – Foregone
• Pierce The Veil – The Jaws Of Life
• Wig Wam – Out Of The Dark

February 17th, 2023

• Avatar – Dance Devil Dance
• Hellripper – Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags

February 22th, 2023

• Lovebites – Judgement Day

February 24th, 2023

• Dope – Blood Money, Part Zer0
• Godsmack – Lighting Up The Sky
• Heidevolk – Werdekeer
• Host – IX
• Hypno5e – Sheol
• Insomnium Anno 1696
• Steel Panther – On The Prowl
• Venomous Concept – The Good Ship Lollipop

March 3, 2023

• Enslaved – Heimdal
• Entheos – Time Will Take Us All
• Eyes – Congratulations
• Fake Names – Expendables
• Haken – Fauna
• Stargazer – Life Will Never Be The Same
• Tragedy – I Am Woman

March 10, 2023

• The Atomic Bitchwax – Live At Freak Valley Fest (Heavy Psych Sounds)
• The Banishment – Machine And Bone (Frontiers)
• Blackmore’s Night – Shadow Of The Moon 25th Anniversary Edition (earMusic)
• Demons Down – I Stand (Frontiers)
• Duel – Live At Hellfest (Heavy Psych Sounds)
• Excelerate – Arrival (From The Vaults)
• For The Fallen Dreams – For The Fallen Dreams (Arising Empire)
• Gorod – The Orb (Self)
• Judiciary – Flesh + Blood (Closed Casket)
• Läjä Äijälä & Albert Witchfinder – Ordeal And Triumph (Svart)
• Nanowar Of Steel – Dislike To False Metal (Napalm)
• Otherwise – Gawdzillionaire (Mascot)
• Periphery – Periphery V: Djent Is Not A Genre (3DOT)
• Roadrunner United – The All-Star Sessions Re-Release (Roadrunner)
• Roadrunner United – The Concert (Roadrunner)
• Seventh Crystal – Wonderland (Frontiers)
• Suicide Silence – Remember… You Must Die (Century Media)
• Unfelled – Fall Of Endless Perdition (Season Of Mist)

March 17, 2023

• The Answer – Sundowners (Golden Robot)
• Ardent Nova – Ardent Nova (Wise Blood)
• Chelsea Grin – Suffer in Heaven (ONErpm)
• Cross Country Driver – The New Truth (Frontiers)
• Downfall Of Gaia – Silhouettes Of Disgust (Metal Blade)
• Ecstatic Vision – Live At Duna Jam (Heavy Psych Sounds)
• Entropia – Total (Agonia)
• Foretoken – Triumphs (Prosthetic)
• Gideon – More Power. More Pain. (Equal Vision)
• Hanoi Rocks – Oriental Beat Re-Release (Svart)
• Invent Animate – Heavener (UNFD)
• John Diva & The Rockets Of Love – The Big Easy (Steamhammer/SPV)
• Kamelot – The Awakening (Napalm)
• Kruelty – Untopia (Profound Lore)
• The Lords Of Altamont – To Hell With Tomorrow The Lords Are Now (Heavy Psych Sounds)
• Night Demon – Outsider (Century Media)
• Phantom Elite – Blue Blood (Frontiers)
• Redemption – I Am The Storm (AFM)
• RPWL – Crime Scene (The Gentle Art Of Music)
• Pop Evil – Skeletons (MNRK Heavy)
• Seven Spires – Live At ProgPower USA XXI (Frontiers)
• Stormwarning – Stormwarning (Frontiers)
• Theory Of A Deadman – Dinosaur (Roadrunner)
• Transworld Identity – Seven Worlds (Frontiers)

March 24, 2023

• Acid King – Beyond Vision (Blues Funeral)
• August Burns Red – Death Below (SharpTone)
• Babymetal – the Other One (Self)
• Cruachan – The Living And The Dead (Despotz)
• Dawn Ray’d – To Know The Light (Prosthetic)
• Fall Out Boy – So Much (For) Stardust (Fueled By Ramen/Elektra)
• Floor Jansen – Paragon (Self)
• Hatesphere – Hatred Reborn (Scarlet)
• Ihsahn – Fascination Street Sessions EP (Candleight)
• Keep Of Kalessin – Katharsis (Back On Black)
• Liturgy – 93696 (Thrill Jockey)
• Marianas Rest – Auer (Napalm)
• Mork – Dypet (Peaceville)
• Ne Obliviscaris – Exul (Season Of Mist)
• Ov Sulfur – The Burden Ov Faith (Century Media)
• Saxon – More Inspirations (Silver Lining)
• Seven Spires – Live At ProgPower USA XXI (Frontiers)
• Subway To Sally – Himmelfahrt (Napalm)
• Woe Unto Me – Along The Meandering Ordeals, Reshape The Pivot Of Harmony (M-Theory)

March 31, 2023

• Ad Infinitum – Chapter III – Downfall (Napalm)
• Archetypes Collide – Archetypes Collide (Fearless)
• Behemoth – Grom Re-Release (Metal Blade)
• Bury Tomorrow – The Seventh Sun (Music For Nations)
• Cave In – Until Your Heart Stops Re-Release (Relapse)
• Crown Lands – Fearless (Spinefarm)
• Demonstealer – The Propaganda Machine (Black Lion)
• Empyre – Relentless (Kscope)
• Hawkwind – Days Of The Underground – The Studio And Live Recordings 1977-1979 Box Set (Cherry Red)
• Last In Line – Jericho (earMusic)
• Lordi – Screem Writers Guild (Atomic Fire)
• Lotan – Lotan (Uprising)
• Meshuggah – ObZen Re-Release (Atomic Fire)
• The Netherlands – Severance (Svart)
• Nervochaos – Chthonic Wrath (Emanzipation)
• Nothing, Nowhere – Void Eternal (Fueled By Ramen)
• The Ongoing Concept – Again (Solid State)
• Puscifer – Existential Reckoning: Re-Wired (Puscifer/Alchemy/BMG)
• Rotten Sound – Apocalypse (Season Of Mist)
• Sermon – Of Golden Verse (Prosthetic)
• Visions Of Atlantis – Pirates Over Wacken (Napalm)

April 7th, 2023

• Angus McSix – Angus McSix And The Sword Of Power (Napalm)
• Johnny Thunders – From The Beginning To The End Box Set (Cleopatra)
• KISS – Off The Soundboard: Poughkeepsie, New York 1984 (UMe)
• Linkin Park – Meteora 20th Anniversary Edition (Warner)
• Paul Gilbert – The Dio Album (Music Theories)
• Powerwolf – Interludium (Napalm)
• Raider – Trial By Chaos (Self)
• Savage Hands – Rock Bottom EP (SharpTone)
• Sunrot – The Unfailing Rope (Prosthetic)
• Tribulation – Hamaratia EP (Century Media)

April 14th, 2023

• Holy Moses – Invisible Queen
• Metallica – 72 Seasons
• Archon Angel – II (Frontiers)
• Biohazard – Urban Discipline/No Holds Barred – Live In Europe (Dissonance)
• Black Orchid Empire – Tempus Veritas (Season Of Mist)
• Dodheimsgard – Black Medium Current (Peaceville)
• From Fall To Spring – Rise (Arising Empire)
• The Hellfreaks – Pitch Black Sunset (Napalm)
• Holy Moses – Invisible Queen (Fireflash)
• Hollywood Undead – Hotel Kalifornia Deluxe Edition (BMG)
• Infected Rain – The Devil’s Dozen DVD/CD (Napalm)
• The Infinity Ring – Nemesis & Nativity (Profound Lore)
• Jesus Piece – …So Unknown (Century Media)
• L.A. Guns – Black Diamonds (Frontiers)
• Lucifer Star Machine – Satanic Age (The Sign)
• Macabre – Sinister Slaughter Re-Release (Nuclear Blast)
• Magnus Karlsson’s Free Fall – Hunt The Flame (Frontiers)
• Mike Tramp – Songs Of White Lion (Frontiers)
• Overkill – Scorched (Nuclear Blast)
• Poison Ruin – Harvest (Relapse)
• Zozobra – Savage Masters Re-Release (Brutal Panda)

April 21th, 2023

• 40 Watt Sun – The Inside Room Re-Release (Svart)
• 40 Watt Sun – Wider Than The Sky Re-Release (Svart)
• The 69 Eyes – Death Of Darkness (Atomic Fire)
• Angel – Once Upon A Time (Cleopatra)
• Anthem – Crimson & Jet Black (Reaper)
• As Everything Unfolds – Ultraviolet (Long Branch)
• Axel Rudi Pell – The Ballads VI (Steamhammer/SPV)
• Dawn Of Ouroboros – Velvet Incandescence (Prosthetic)
• Dorthia Cottrell – Death Folk Country (Relapse)
• Enter Shikari – A Kiss For The Whole World (SO/Ambush Reality)
• Grave Pleasures – Plagueboys (Century Media)
• Hirax – Hate, Fear And Power Re-Release (Armageddon)
• Hirax – Raging Violence Re-Release (Armageddon)
• Jethro Tull – RökFlöte (InsideOut)
• Liv Kristine – River Of Diamonds (Metalville)
• Magnus Rosen – It’s Tome To Rock The World Again (Sound Pollution)
• Predatory Void – Seven Keys To The Discomfort Of Being (Century Media)
• Revolution Saints – Eagle Flight (Frontiers)
• Smackbound – Hostage (Frontiers)
• Smashing Pumpkins – ATUM: A Rock Opera in Three Acts: Act 3 (Martha’s Music)
• Texas Hippie Coalition – The Name Lives On (MNRK)
• These Beasts – Cares, Wills, Wants (Magnetic Eye)
• Through Fire – Devil’s Got You Dreamin’ (Sumerian)

April 28th, 2023

• Cradle Of Filth – Trouble And Their Double Lives (Napalm)
• The Crown – The Burning/Eternal Death Re-Release (Dissonance)
• Crown The Empire – Dogma (Rise)
• The Damned – Darkadelic Elvenking – Reader Of The Runes – Rapture (AFM)
• Danava – Nothing But Nothing (Tee Pee)
• Defiled – The Highest Level (Season Of Mist)
• Enforced – War Remains (Century Media)
• Fires In The Distance – Air Not Meant For Us (Prosthetic)
• HammerFall – Crimson Thunder 20th Anniversary Edition (Nuclear Blast)
• Hawkwind – The Future Never Waits (Cherry Red)
• Ignea – Dreams Of Lands Unseen (Napalm)
• King’s X – In The New Age: The Atlantic Recordings 1988-1995 (HNE)
• Sinner – Born To Rock – The Noise Years ’84-’87 (Dissonance)
• Spotlights – Alchemy For The Dead (Ipecac)
• Swollen Teeth – Swollen Teeth EP (Blowed Out)
• Trapeze – Midnight Flyers: Complete Recording Volume 2 (1974-1981) (HNE)

May 2023

May 5, 2023

• Blood Ceremony – The Old Ways Remain (Rise Above)
• Burning Witches – The Dark Tower (Napalm)
• Currents – The Death We Seek (SharpTone)
• Curse Of Cain – Curse Of Cain (Atomic Fire)
• Dave Lombardo – Rites Of Percussion (Ipecac)
• Death Goals – A Garden Of Dead Flowers (Prosthetic)
• Deathstars – Everything Destroys You (Nuclear Blast)
• The Devil Wears Prada – Color Decay Deluxe Edition (Solid State)
• Die Humane – The Grotesque (WURMgroup)
• Drain – Living Proof (Epitaph)
• Enforcer – Nostalgia (Nuclear Blast)
• Herod – The Iconoclast (Pelagic)
• Hypocrisy – Abducted Re-Release (Nuclear Blast)
• Hypocrisy – The Fourth Dimension Re-Release (Nuclear Blast)
• Hypocrisy – Osculum Obscenum Re-Release (Nuclear Blast)
• Hypocrisy – Penetralia Re-Release (Nuclear Blast)
• Jerome’s Dream – The Gray In Between (Iodine)
• The Modern Age Slavery – 1901 | The First Mother (Fireflash)
• Smokey Mirror – Smokey Mirror (Rise Above)
• Teeth – A Biblical Worship Of Violence EP (Nuclear Blast)
• Tygers Of Pan Tang – Bloodlines (Mighty)
• Therapy? – Hard Cold Fire (Marshall)
• Unearth – The Wretched; The Ruinous (Century Media)
• Vintersea – Woven Into Ashes (M-Theory)
• Weathers – Are We Having Fun? (Sumerian)
• Winger – Seven (Frontiers)

May 12, 2023

• The Acacia Strain – Failure Will Follow (Rise)
• The Acacia Strain – Step Into The Light (Rise)
• The Amity Affliction – Not Without My Ghosts (Pure Noise)
• Battle Born – Blood, Fire, Magic And Steel (Prosthetic)
• Cattle Decapitation – Terrasite (Metal Blade)
• Circus Of Rock – Lost Behind (Frontiers)
• DevilDriver – Dealing With Demons Vol. II (Napalm)
• Dropkick Murphys – Okemah Rising (Dummy Luck)
• Heavens Edge – Get It Right (Frontiers)
• Michael Thompson Band – The Love Goes On (Frontiers)
• ScreaMachine – Church Of The Scream (Frontiers)
• Veil Of Maya – [m]other (Sumerian)

May 19, 2023

• Alcatrazz – Take No Prisoners (Silver Lining)
• Arjen Lucassen’s Supersonic Revolution – Golden Age Of Music (Music Theories)
• Blindfolded And Led To The Woods – Rejecting Obliteration (Prosthetic)
• Def Leppard With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Drastic Symphonies (UMe)
• Frozen Soul – Glacial Domination (Century Media)
• Ghost – Phantomime EP (Loma Vista)
• Gozu – Remedy (Blacklight)
• Henget – Beyond North Star (Season Of Mist)
• Miscreance – Convergence Re-Release (Season Of Mist)
• Mystic Prophecy – Hellriot (Rock Of Angels)
• Neal Schon – Journey Through Time (Frontiers)
• The Ocean – Holocene (Pelagic)
• Roadwolf – Midnight Lightning (Napalm)
• Sleep Token – Take Me Back To Eden (Spinefarm)
• Sweet & Lynch – Heart & Sacrifice (Frontiers)
• Thulcandra – Hail The Abyss (Napalm)
• The Used – Toxic Positivity (Big Noise)
• Yakuza – Sutra (Svart)

May 26, 2023

• Arrival Of Autumn – Kingdom Undone (Nuclear Blast)
• Brodequin – Festival Of Death Re-Release (Season Of Mist)
• Brodequin – Instruments Of Torture Re-Release (Season Of Mist)
• Brodequin – Methods Of Execution Re-Release (Season Of Mist)
• Hanoi Rocks – The Days We Spent Underground: 1981-1984 Box Set (HNE)
• Immortal – War Against All (Nuclear Blast)
• Incendiary – Change The Way You Think About Pain (Closed Casket)
• Kings Never Die – All The Rats (Metalville)
• Legion Of The Damned – The Poison Chalice (Napalm)
• Metal Church – Congregation Of Annihilation (Rat Pak)
• Mournful Congregation – The Exuviae of Gods – Part II (Osmose/20 Buck Spin)
• Oceanlord – Kingdom Cold (Magnetic Eye)
• Raven – Faster Than The Speed Of Light (HNE)
• Sirenia – 1977 (Napalm)
• Troller – Drain (Relapse)
• Vonavibe – Bleed To Life (Eclipse)

June 2, 2023

• Atlases – Between The Day & I (Lifeforce)
• Avenged Sevenfold – Life Is But A Dream (Warner)
• Bongzilla – Dab City (Heavy Psych Sounds)
• Buckcherry – Vol. 10 (Round Hill)
• Dieth – To Hell And Back (Napalm)
• Gloryhammer – Return To The Kingdom Of Fife (Napalm)
• Graveworm – Killing Innocence (AFM)
• Hollywood Vampires – Live In Rio (earMusic)
• Necrofier – Burning Shadows In The Southern Night (Season Of Mist Underground Activists)
• Omnium Gatherum – Slasher EP (Century Media)
• Pupil Slicer – Blossom (Prosthetic)
• Rival Sons – Darkfighter (Low Country Sound/Atlantic)
• Tigercub – The Perfume Of Decay (Loosegroove)

June 9, 2023

• The 69 Eyes – Blessed Be Re-Release (Svart)
• Art Nation – Inception (Frontiers)
• The Defiants – Drive (Frontiers)
• Extreme – Six (earMusic)
• False Memories – Hybrid Ego System (Frontiers)
• Glass Casket – Glass Casket EP (Silent Pendulum)
• Godflesh – Purge (Avalanche)
• Johnny The Boy – You (Season Of Mist)
• McFly – Power To Play (BMG)
• Ratt – The Atlantic Years Box Set (Rhino)
• Ray Alder – II (InsideOut)
• Scar Symmetry – The Singularity (Phase II – Xenotaph) (Nuclear Blast)
• Shakra – Invincible (AFM)
• Stellar Circuits – Sight To Sound (Nuclear Blast)

June 16, 2023

• Alt. – Abeyance (SharpTone)
• Avkrvst – The Approbation (InsideOut)
• Saturnus – The Storm Within (Prophecy)
• Thy Catafalque – Alföld (Season Of Mist)
• Varmia – nie nas widzę (M-Theory)
• Vypera – Race Of Time (Frontiers)

June 23, 2023

• DeathCollector – Death’s Toll (Prosthetic)
• Degrees Of Truth – Alchemists (Scarlet)
• Fear Factory – Mechanize Re-Release (Nuclear Blast)
• Fear Factory – Re-Industrialized Re-Release (Nuclear Blast)
• High Priest – Invocation (Magnetic Eye)
• Jag Panzer – The Hallowed (Atomic Fire)
• Jegong – The Complex Inbetween (Pelagic)
• Power Trip – Live In Seattle (Southern Lord)
• Pyramaze – Bloodlines (AFM)
• Swans – The Beggar (Mute/Young Gods)
• Tsjuder – Helvegr (Season Of Mist)
• Xasthur – Inevitably Dark (Lupus Lounge)

June 30, 2023

• The Hu – Rumble Of Thunder Deluxe Edition (Better Noise)
• Raven – All Hell’s Breaking Loose (Silver Lining)
• Throw The Fight – Strangeworld (Long Branch)

August 4th, 2023

• Skindred – Smile

Release TBD

• Anthrax
• Artillery
• As I Lay Dying
• Baroness
• Body Count
• Butcher Babies
• Chuck Billy (Testament)
• Dååth
• Deicide
• Devildriver
• Doro
• Evile
• Exodus
• Fear Factory
• Guns N’ Roses
• Immortal
• Judas Priest
• Killswitch Engage
• King Diamond
• King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
• Manowar
• Melvins
• Mercyful fate
• Nile
• Nita Strauss
• Overkill
• Sevendust
• Testament
• Within Temptation

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