Английская Википедия:2018 in heavy metal music

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Шаблон:Dynamic list Шаблон:YYYY music Шаблон:Year nav topic5 This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2018.

Bands formed

• Oceanhoarse
• Turilli / Lione Rhapsody

Bands disbanded

• Adagio (hiatus)
• Burzum
• The Charm the Fury
• The Color Morale (hiatus)
• Darkness Divided
• Devin Townsend Project (hiatus)
• Dew-Scented
• Diablo Blvd
• Dirge Within
• Ed Gein
• Katatonia (hiatus)
• Luca Turilli's Rhapsody
• Machine Head (hiatus)
• Manilla Road
• Morgoth (hiatus)
• Necrophagia
• Rush
• Sleeping Giant
• Soundgarden
• The Sword (hiatus)
• Tengger Cavalry
• Vattnet
• Young and in the Way

Bands reformed

• Black River
• Bleed the Sky
• Bleeding Through
• Conception
• Mötley Crüe
• Static-X
• Tengger Cavalry
• Vomitory

Events

• On January 5, Sodom announced that they had parted ways with guitarist Bernd "Bernemann" Kost and drummer Markus "Makka" Freiwald, who had been members of the band since 1996 and 2010 respectively. Later that month, bassist and vocalist Tom Angelripper announced that Sodom was rejoined by guitarist Frank "Blackfire" Gosdzik, and that Stefan "Husky" Hüskens and Yorck Segatz were revealed as the band's new drummer and second guitarist respectively.
• On January 22, Slayer announced plans to embark on a farewell tour after 37 years together.
• On February 12, Glenn Tipton announced that he had Parkinson's disease, with which he had been first diagnosed with a decade ago, and would no longer be touring with Judas Priest. He stated that he was still a member of the band despite his diagnosis and did not rule out future on-stage appearances. Producer and former Sabbat guitarist Andy Sneap was announced as his replacement for future tours.
• On September 13, vocalist Vince Neil announced that Mötley Crüe had reunited and recorded four new songs for the film adaptation of the band's biography, The Dirt – Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band.
• On September 28, lead vocalist and founding member Robb Flynn announced that Machine Head would do one final tour with longtime members Phil Demmel (guitarist) and Dave McClain (drummer), who had recently left the band. Flynn claimed that they were not breaking up but clarified that "this is the farewell tour of this lineup, this era of Machine Head. This is not the farewell tour of Machine Head."
• Nightwish embarked on a nine-month world tour, titled Decades: World Tour, featuring a special set for fans, including songs that had not been played in a long time. The tour began on March 9, 2018, and an accompanying 2CD compilation called Decades was released on the same day.

Deaths

• January 3 – Josiah Boyd, former bassist of A Hill to Die Upon, died after a car accident at the age of 32.
• January 5 – Mikio Fujioka, guitarist of Babymetal, died from injuries caused by falling off an observation deck at the age of 36.
• January 9 – Paul Antignani, former drummer of Sworn Enemy, died from undisclosed reasons.
• January 10 – "Fast" Eddie Clarke, guitarist of Fastway and former guitarist of Motörhead, died of pneumonia at the age of 67.
• January 10 – Alfred Morris III, guitarist of Iron Man, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 60.
• January 16 – Dave Holland, former drummer of Judas Priest, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 69.
• February 1 – Marcin Walenczykowski, guitarist of Vesania and Rootwater, died from lymphoma at the age of 37.
• February 5 – Damien Percy, former drummer of Mortification, died from undisclosed reasons.
• February 7 – Pat Torpey, drummer of Mr. Big, died from Parkinson's disease at the age of 64.
• February 27 – Fabiano Penna, guitarist of Rebaelliun, died from undisclosed reasons.
• March 9 – Guillermo Calero, drummer of Wormed, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 27.
• March 18 – Frank "Killjoy" Pucci, vocalist of Necrophagia, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 51.
• March 28 – Caleb Scofield, bassist and vocalist of Cave In, Old Man Gloom, and Zozobra, died in car crash at age of 39.
• April 25 – Kato Khandwala, record producer, songwriter, mixer, and engineer of albums by Vimic, Pop Evil, and many other different artists, died from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident at the age of 47.
• April 30 – Tim Calvert, former guitarist of Nevermore and Forbidden, died from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at the age of 52.
• May 9 – Ben Graves, former drummer of Murderdolls, Dope, and Pretty Boy Floyd, died from cancer at the age of 46.
• May 29 – Josh Martin, guitarist of Anal Cunt, died from injuries sustained from falling off an escalator at the age of 45.
• June 6 – Ralph Santolla, former guitarist of Iced Earth, Deicide, Death, and Obituary, died after suffering a heart attack, falling into a coma, and being taken off life support at the age of 51.
• June 22 – Vinnie Paul, drummer of Hellyeah and former drummer of Pantera and Damageplan, died from dilated cardiomyopathy and coronary artery disease at the age of 54.
• June 25 – Jake Raymond, former vocalist of Vital Remains, died from undisclosed reasons.
• July 7 – Bret Hoffmann, former vocalist of Malevolent Creation, died from colon cancer at the age of 51.
• July 27 – Mark "The Shark" Shelton, vocalist and guitarist of Manilla Road, died from a heart attack at the age of 60.
• August 10 – Jason “J-Sin” Luttrell, former vocalist of Primer 55, died from Hepatitis C at the age of 40.
• August 14 – Randy Rampage, former vocalist of Annihilator, died from a heart attack at the age of 58.
• August 14 – Jill Janus, vocalist of Huntress, died from committing suicide at the age of 42.
• August 24 – Carlos Denogean, drummer of Weedeater, died after suffering an aneurysm at the age of 30.
• August 25 – Kyle Pavone, vocalist of We Came as Romans, died from a drug overdose at the age of 28.
• September 5 – Richard Bateman, bassist of Nasty Savage, died from a heart attack.
• October 12 – Kade Dodson, former drummer of Abated Mass of Flesh and The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 33.
• October 16 – Oli Herbert, guitarist of All That Remains, died from drowning after taking antidepressants and sleeping aids at the age of 44.
• October 23 – Willy Lange, bassist of Lȧȧz Rockit and Dublin Death Patrol, died from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident at the age of 57.
• October 27 – Todd Youth, former guitarist of Agnostic Front, Murphy's Law, Danzig, and Warzone, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 47.
• November 29 – Erik Lindmark, vocalist and guitarist of Deeds of Flesh, died from sclerosis at the age of 46.
• December 3 – Carsten Otterbach, former guitarist of Morgoth, died from multiple sclerosis at the age of 48.
• December 7 – Lucas Starr, former bassist of Oh, Sleeper, died from colon cancer at the age of 34.

Albums released

January

Day	Artist	Album
4	Abigor	Höllenzwang (Chronicles of Perdition)
5	Shining	X – Varg Utan Flock
	Summoning	With Doom We Come
	Watain	Trident Wolf Eclipse
11	Y&T	Acoustic Classix, Vol. 1 (EP)
12	Avatar	Avatar Country
	Black Veil Brides	Vale
	Corrosion of Conformity	No Cross No Crown
	Hamferð	Támsins likam
	Heidevolk	Vuur Van Verzet
	Leaves' Eyes	Sign of the Dragonhead
	Mystic Prophecy	Monuments Uncovered (covers album)
	Trespass	Footprints in the Rock
	Ty Tabor	Alien Beans
	White Wizzard	Infernal Overdrive
19	Anvil	Pounding the Pavement
	Arkona	Khram
	Black Label Society	Grimmest Hits
	Cane Hill	Too Far Gone
	Dalriada	Nyárutó
	Of Mice & Men	Defy
	Terror Universal	Make Them Bleed
	Unshine	Astrala
25	Mike Shinoda	Post Traumatic (EP)
26	Agrimonia	Awaken
	Hämatom	Bestie der Freiheit
	In Vain	Currents
	Labyrinth	Return to Live (live album)
	Loudness	Rise to Glory
	Lione/Conti	Lione/Conti
	Machine Head	Catharsis
	New Years Day	Diary of a Creep (EP)
	Orphaned Land	Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs
	Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons	The Age of Absurdity
	Philip H. Anselmo & the Illegals	Choosing Mental Illness as a Virtue
	The Poodles	Prisma
	Portal	Ion
	Sleeping Giant	I Am
	Tribulation	Down Below
28	Rebellion	A Tragedy in Steel Part II: Shakespeare's King Lear

February

Day	Artist	Album
1	Gnaw Their Tongues	Genocidal Majesty
2	Long Distance Calling	Boundless
	Manigance	Machine Nation
	Misery Index	I Disavow (EP)
	Saxon	Thunderbolt
9	The Atlas Moth	Coma Noir
	Crescent	The Order of Amenti
	Harm's Way	Posthuman
	Lovelorn Dolls	Darker Ages
	Therion	Beloved Antichrist
	Voodoo Circle	Raised on Rock
14	Band-Maid	World Domination
16	Angra	Ømni
	Cypecore	The Alliance
	Dizzy Reed	Rock 'n Roll Ain't Easy
	Ektomorf	Fury
	Ethan Brosh	Conspiracy
	Eyes Set to Kill	Eyes Set to Kill
	For the Fallen Dreams	Six
	Harakiri for the Sky	Arson
	Heavatar	Opus II – The Annihilation
	Letzte Instanz	Morgenland
	Neal Morse	Life & Times
	The Plot in You	Dispose
	Pop Evil	Pop Evil
	Senses Fail	If There Is a Light, It Will Find You
	Visions of Atlantis	The Deep & the Dark
21	Royal Hunt	Cast in Stone
23	Deliverance	The Subversive Kind
	Deströyer 666	Call of the Wild (EP)
	Dimmu Borgir	Interdimensional Summit (EP)
	Megaherz	Komet
	MGT	Gemini Nyte
	Necrophobic	Mark of the Necrogram
	Nick Oliveri	N.O. Hits at All, Vol. 4
	Salem	Attrition
	Schwarzer Engel	Kult der Krähe
	Sebastien	Act of Creation
	Tengger Cavalry	Cian Bi
28	Hibria	Moving Ground

March

Day	Artist	Album
2	Andrew W.K.	You're Not Alone
	Black Moth	Anatomical Venus
	Blaze Bayley	The Redemption of William Black – Infinite Entanglement Part III
	Michael Schenker Fest	Resurrection
	Rolo Tomassi	Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It
9	Between the Buried and Me	Automata I
	Darkness Divided	The End of It All (EP)
	Drudkh	Їм часто сниться капіж
	Judas Priest	Firepower
	Ministry	AmeriKKKant
	Myles Kennedy	Year of the Tiger
	Necrodeath	The Age of Dead Christ
	Nightwish	Decades (compilation album)
	Pestilence	Hadeon
	Suicidal Tendencies	Get Your Fight On! (EP)
	Three Days Grace	Outsider
	Turbowolf	The Free Life
12	On Thorns I Lay	Aegean Sorrow
16	The Crown	Cobra Speed Venom
	Little Caesar	Eight
	Monotheist	Scourge
	Northlane	Analog Future (live album)
	Stone Temple Pilots	Stone Temple Pilots
	Susperia	The Lyricist
23	The Absence	A Gift for the Obsessed
	Axel Rudi Pell	Knights Call
	Bad Wolves	False Flags: Volume One (EP)
	Blessthefall	Hard Feelings
	Borealis	The Offering
	BulletBoys	From Out of the Skies
	Eldritch	Cracksleep
	Izegrim	Beheaded by Trust (EP)
	Last Days of Eden	Chrysalis
	Monster Magnet	Mindfucker
	Mournful Congregation	The Incubus of Karma
	The Sword	Used Future
	Will Haven	Muerte
30	Alesana	The Lost Chapters (EP)
	Augury	Illusive Golden Age
	Ayreon	Ayreon Universe – The Best of Ayreon Live (live album)
	Barren Earth	A Complex of Cages
	Escape the Fate	I Am Human
	Failure	In the Future (EP)
	J.B.O.	Deutsche Vita
	Light the Torch	Revival
	Marc Rizzo	Rotation
	Napalm Death	Coded Smears and More Uncommon Slurs (compilation album)
	No One Is Innocent	Frankenstein
	Primordial	Exile Amongst the Ruins
	Rob Zombie	Astro-Creep: 2000 Live (live album)
	Zeke	Hellbender

April

Date	Artist	Album
1	Omega Diatribe	Trinity
6	Bleed from Within	Era
	Caliban	Elements
	The Dead Daisies	Burn It Down
	Hypno5e	Alba – Les Ombres Errantes
	Kalmah	Palo
	Kamelot	The Shadow Theory
	Panopticon	The Scars of Man and the Once Nameless Wilderness
	Underoath	Erase Me
	Whyzdom	As Times Turn to Dust
	Winterfylleth	The Hallowing of Heirdom
10	Autokrator	Hammer of Heretics
13	Behemoth	Messe Noire (live album)
	Bonfire	Temple of Lies
	Breaking Benjamin	Ember
	Carpathian Forest	Likeim (EP)
	Crematory	Oblivion
	Derek Smalls	Smalls Change (Meditations Upon Ageing)
	Emerald Sun	Under the Curse of Silence
	Jen Ledger	Ledger (EP)
	Motör Militia	World in Flames
	Nekrogoblikon	Welcome to Bonkers
	Rotten Sound	Suffer to Abuse (EP)
19	Cancer Bats	The Spark That Moves
20
	Black Stone Cherry	Family Tree
	Bullet	Dust to Gold
	From Ashes to New	The Future
	Gus G	Fearless
	James Christian	Craving
	Melvins	Pinkus Abortion Technician
	Ross the Boss	By Blood Sworn
	Sleep	The Sciences
	Stryper	God Damn Evil
	Temperance	Of Jupiter and Moons
	Tesseract	Sonder
27	Anthrax	Kings Among Scotland (DVD)
	The Armed	Only Love
	Aura Noir	Aura Noire
	Blitzkrieg	Judge Not
	Blood Tsunami	Grave Condition
	Cruachan	Nine Years of Blood
	Dylan Carlson	Conquistador
	Godsmack	When Legends Rise
	Ingested	The Level Above Human
	Kobra and the Lotus	Prevail II
	Lee Aaron	Diamond Baby Blues
	Power Trip	Opening Fire: 2008–2014 (compilation album)
	Riot V	Armor of Light
	Skindred	Big Tings
	Tomorrow's Eve	Mirror of Creation III – Project Ikaros

May

Day	Artist	Album
1	Thou	The House Primordial (EP)
	Twilight	Trident Death Rattle (EP)
2	Dead Cross	Dead Cross (EP)
4	Angelus Apatrida	Cabaret de la Guillotine
	Dimmu Borgir	Eonian
	Ihsahn	Àmr
	Iron Angel	Hellbound
	Iron Fire	Dawn of Creation: Twentieth Anniversary (compilation album)
	Parkway Drive	Reverence
	Shinedown	Attention Attention
	Thy Catafalque	Geometria
	The Word Alive	Violent Noise
10	Harley Flanagan	Hard-Core Dr. Know (EP)
11	Bad Wolves	Disobey
	The Body	I Have Fought Against It, But I Can't Any Longer.
	Child Bite	Burnt Offerings (compilation album)
	Engel	Abandon All Hope
	Jizzy Pearl	All You Need Is Soul
	Lords of Black	Icons of the New Days
	Praying Mantis	Gravity
	Sevendust	All I See Is War
	Silent Stream of Godless Elegy	Smutnice
	Skinless	Savagery
	Trauma	As the World Dies
15	Kekal	Deeper Underground
	Powerglove	Continue?
18	The Afterimage	Eve
	Amorphis	Queen of Time
	At the Gates	To Drink from the Night Itself
	Burn the Priest	Legion: XX (covers album)
	Five Finger Death Punch	And Justice for None
	Fragments of Unbecoming	Perdition Portal
	Grayceon	IV
	Overkill	Live in Overhausen (DVD)
23	Snowy Shaw	White Is the New Black
25	Bleeding Through	Love Will Kill All
	Candlemass	House of Doom (EP)
	Don Airey	One of a Kind
	Dream On, Dreamer	It Comes and Goes
	Failure	Your Body Will Be (EP)
	Hoobastank	Push Pull
	Jonathan Davis	Black Labyrinth
	Light This City	Terminal Bloom
	Lordi	Sexorcism
	Midnattsol	The Aftermath
	Smile Empty Soul	Oblivion
	Subsignal	La Muerte
	Svalbard	It’s Hard to Have Hope
	Witch Mountain	Witch Mountain

June

Day	Artist	Album
1	Alien Weaponry	Tü
	Convictions	Hope for the Broken
	Ghost	Prequelle
	Kataklysm	Meditations
	Powerflo	Bring That Shit Back! (EP)
	Skinflint	Skinflint
6	Ribspreader	The Van Murders – Part 2
8	Acârash	In Chaos Becrowned
	Eisregen	Satan Liebt Dich (EP)
	Exmortus	The Sound of Steel
	Refuge	Solitary Men
	TNT	XIII
	Tremonti	A Dying Machine
	Yob	Our Raw Heart
	Zeal & Ardor	Stranger Fruit
13	The Gazette	Ninth
15	A Sound of Thunder	It Was Metal
	ASG	Survive Sunrise
	Cor Scorpii	Ruin
	Down Among the Dead Men	…And You Will Obey Me
	Funeral Mist	Hekatomb
	Jason C. Miller	In the Wasteland
	Lizzy Borden	My Midnight Things
	Madball	For the Cause
	Mike Shinoda	Post Traumatic
	Orange Goblin	The Wolf Bites Back
	Tad Morose	Chapter X
21	Code Orange	The Hurt Will Go On (EP)
22	Craft	White Noise and Black Metal
	Impending Doom	The Sin and Doom Vol. II
	Khemmis	Desolation
	Marduk	Viktoria
	Nine Inch Nails	Bad Witch
29	Bullet for My Valentine	Gravity
	Converge	Beautiful Ruin (EP)
	Crystal Viper	At the Edge of Time (EP)
	Death Requisite	Threnody
	Fates Warning	Live Over Europe (live album)
	Kevin Hufnagel	Messages to the Past
	Night Verses	From the Gallery of Sleep
	NonExist	In Praise of Death (EP)
	Stormwitch	Bound to the Witch
	Thou	Inconsolable (EP)

July

Day	Artist	Album
6	Atrocity	Okkult II
	Bongripper	Terminal
	DevilDriver	Outlaws 'til the End: Vol. 1 (covers album)
	Dog Fashion Disco	Experiments in Embryos
	Harley Flanagan	The Original Cro-Mags Demos (1982/83) (compilation album)
	Immortal	Northern Chaos Gods
	Kissin’ Dynamite	Ecstasy
	Six Feet Under	Unburied
	Taking the Head of Goliath	Taking the Head of Goliath (EP)
	Vixen	Live Fire (live album)
13	Between the Buried and Me	Automata II
	Black Fast	Spectre of Ruin
	Bury Tomorrow	Black Flame
	Chelsea Grin	Eternal Nightmare
	Deafheaven	Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
	Debauchery	In Der Hölle Spricht Man Deutsch
	Hopesfall	Arbiter
	Mr. Big	Live from Milan (live album)
	Obscura	Diluvium
18	United	Absurdity
20	The Agony Scene	Tormentor
	Daron Malakian and Scars on Broadway	Dictator
	Finnr's Cane	Elegy
	Jungle Rot	Jungle Rot
	Powerwolf	The Sacrament of Sin
	Skeletonwitch	Devouring Radiant Light
	Tokyo Blade	Unbroken
	Wisdom in Chains	Nothing in Nature Respects Weakness
27	Chris Caffery	The Jester's Court
	Dee Snider	For the Love of Metal
	Halestorm	Vicious
	Michael Romeo	War of the Worlds, Pt. 1
	Otep	Kult 45
	Redemption	Long Night's Journey into Day
	Tarja	Act II (live album)
	Thou	Rhea Sylvia
	Within the Ruins	World Undone (EP)

August

Day	Artist	Album
3	Crossfaith	Ex Machina
	Lord of the Lost	Thornstar
	Manticora	To Kill to Live to Kill
	Soreption	Monument of the End
10	Enuff Z'Nuff	Diamond Boy
	Erra	Neon
	Mad Max	35
	Primal Fear	Apocalypse
	Sinsaenum	Repulsion for Humanity
	Van Canto	Trust in Rust
17	Annisokay	Arms
	Black Tusk	T.C.B.T.
	Doro	Forever Warriors, Forever United
	The Eternal	Waiting for the Endless Dawn
	Moonspell	Lisboa Under the Spell (live album)
	Parasite Inc.	Dead and Alive
	Sid Wilson	Sexcapades of the Hopeless Robotic
24	Alice in Chains	Rainier Fog
	The Amity Affliction	Misery
	Ancestors	Suspended in Reflections
	Lair of the Minotaur	Dragon Eagle of Chaos (EP)
	Mantar	The Modern Art of Setting Ablaze
	Mob Rules	Beast Reborn
	Nonpoint	X
31	Beyond the Black	Heart of the Hurricane
	Conan	Existential Void
	KEN mode	Loved
	Monte Pittman	Better or Worse
		Between the Space
	Omnium Gatherum	The Burning Cold
	Sear Bliss	Letters from the Edge
	Thou	Magus
	U.D.O.	Steelfactory

September

Day	Artist	Album
7	Cauldron	New Gods
	Clutch	Book of Bad Decisions
	Counterparts	Private Room (EP)
	Korpiklaani	Kulkija
	Krisiun	Scourge of the Enthroned
	Manimal	Purgatorio
	Metal Allegiance	Volume II – Power Drunk Majesty
	Monstrosity	The Passage of Existence
	Nashville Pussy	Pleased to Eat You
	Pig Destroyer	Head Cage
	Satan	Cruel Magic
	The Skull	The Endless Road Turns Dark
	Skyharbor	Sunshine Dust
	Suicidal Tendencies	Still Cyco Punk After All These Years
14	Archgoat	The Luciferian Crown
	Bosse-de-Nage	Further Still
	Brant Bjork	Mankind Woman
	Deicide	Overtures of Blasphemy
	Failure	The Furthest Thing (EP)
	Fit for a King	Dark Skies
	Grave Digger	The Living Dead
	Treat	Tunguska
	Turmion Kätilöt	Universal Satan
	Uriah Heep	Living the Dream
21	Aborted	TerrorVision
	Abysmal Torment	The Misanthrope
	Avenged Sevenfold	Black Reign (EP)
	Betzefer	Entertain Your Force of Habit
	Black Majesty	Children of the Abyss
	Dark Sarah	The Golden Moth
	Dragonlord	Dominion
	Hardcore Superstar	You Can't Kill My Rock 'n Roll
	Mayan	Dhyana
	Madder Mortem	Marrow
	Slash featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators	Living the Dream
	Sumac	Love in Shadow
	Therapy?	Cleave
	Voivod	The Wake
26	Dir En Grey	The Insulated World
28	Anaal Nathrakh	A New Kind of Horror
	Beartooth	Disease
	Brainstorm	Midnight Ghost
	Dynazty	Firesign
	Gory Blister	1991.Bloodstained
	Helrunar	Vanitas Vanitatvm
	Necronomicon	Unleashed Bastards
	North of South	New Latitudes
	Once Human	Stage of Evolution (live album)
	Revocation	The Outer Ones
	Riverside	Wasteland
	Stratovarius	Enigma: Intermission II (compilation album)
	Terror	Total Retaliation
	Vreid	Lifehunger
	Vulcain	Vinyle
30	Rise to Fall	Into Zero

October

Day	Artist	Album
5	Author & Punisher	Beastland
	Behemoth	I Loved You at Your Darkest
	Coheed and Cambria	Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures
	High on Fire	Electric Messiah
	Ice Nine Kills	The Silver Scream
	Monuments	Phronesis
	Sylar	Seasons
	Windhand	Eternal Return
	Wrath	Rage
10	Chthonic	Battlefields of Asura
12	Aeternus	Heathen
	Atreyu	In Our Wake
	Beyond Creation	Algorythm
	D. D. Verni	Barricade
	Dragony	Masters of the Multiverse
	Gama Bomb	Speed Between the Lines
	Impellitteri	The Nature of the Beast
	Iron Reagan	Dark Days Ahead (EP)
	London	Call That Girl
	Nazareth	Tattooed on My Brain
	Polyphia	New Levels New Devils
	Racetraitor	2042
	Seventh Wonder	Tiara
	Skálmöld	Sorgir
	Tank	Sturmpanzer
	Terrorizer	Caustic Attack
	Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats	Wasteland
15	Heir Apparent	The View from Below
16	Tourniquet	Gazing at Medusa
19	Ace Frehley	Spaceman
	Amaranthe	Helix
	Disturbed	Evolution
	Gorod	Aethra
	Marty Friedman	One Bad M.F. Live!! (live album)
	Saliva	10 Lives
	Shining	Animal
	Soulfly	Ritual
	Sunflower Dead	C O M A
26	Bloodbath	The Arrow of Satan Is Drawn
	The Browning	Geist
	Chevelle	12 Bloody Spies (compilation album)
	Cryptopsy	The Book of Suffering – Tome II (EP)
	Fifth Angel	The Third Secret
	Haken	Vector
	Hate Eternal	Upon Desolate Sands
	Icarus Witch	Goodbye Cruel World
	Into Eternity	The Sirens
	KMFDM	Live in the USSA (live album)
	Mass Hysteria	Maniac
	Sirenia	Arcane Astral Aeons
	Skull Fist	Way of the Road
	Ted Poley	Modern Art
	Unleashed	The Hunt for White Christ
	Warrel Dane	Shadow Work

November

Day	Artist	Album
2	The Algorithm	Compiler Optimization Techniques
	Arsis	Visitant
	Audiotopsy	The Real Now
	Cancer	Shadow Gripped
	Farmer Boys	Born Again
	Hank von Hell	Egomania
	Hollywood Undead	Psalms (EP)
	The Ocean	Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic
	Opeth	Garden of the Titans: Live at Red Rocks Amphitheater (live album)
	Sick of It All	Wake the Sleeping Dragon!
	Silent Planet	When the End Began
	Tenacious D	Post-Apocalypto
9	All That Remains	Victim of the New Disease
	Architects	Holy Hell
	Ashes of Ares	Well of Souls
	August Burns Red	Winter Wilderness (EP)
	Cripple Bastards	La Fine Cresce Da Dentro
	Cult Leader	A Patient Man
	David Reece	Resilient Heart
	Einherjer	Norrøne Spor
	Evoken	Hypnagogia
	Lacuna Coil	The 119 Show – Live in London (live album)
	Psycroptic	As the Kingdom Drowns
	Stephen Pearcy	View to a Thrill
16	All Hail the Yeti	Highway Crosses
	Amon Amarth	The Pursuit of Vikings: 25 Years in the Eye of the Storm (live album)
	Artillery	The Face of Fear
	Memphis May Fire	Broken
	Nita Strauss	Controlled Chaos
	P.O.D.	Circles
	Sigh	Heir to Despair
17	Opera IX	The Gospel
23	Cattle Decapitation	Medium Rarities (compilation album)
	Conception	My Dark Symphony (EP)
	Death Ray Vision	Negative Mental Attitude
	Electric Boys	The Ghost Ward Diaries
	In the Woods...	Cease the Day
	Sinbreed	IV
	Sodom	Partisan (EP)
	Unearth	Extinction(s)
30	Chrome Division	One Last Ride
	Emigrate	A Million Degrees
	Nachtmystium	Resilient (EP)

December

Day	Artist	Album
5	Lovebites	Clockwork Immortality
7	Alcatrazz	Parole Denied – Tokyo 2017 (live album)
	Apocalyptica	Plays Metallica by Four Cellos – A Live Performance (live album)
	Carnifex	Bury Me in Blasphemy (EP)
	Dark Moor	Origins
	Graf Orlock	Examination of Violent Cinema, Volume 1
	Haken	L+1VE (EP)
	Jason Becker	Triumphant Hearts
	Metal Church	Damned If You Do
	Myrkur	Juniper (EP)
	Steelheart	Rock'n Milan (live album)
14	Venom	Storm the Gates
	Volbeat	Let's Boogie! Live from Telia Parken (live album)
17	Lionize	Cyber Attackers (EP)
21	Blood Feast	Chopped, Sliced and Diced (EP)
	Jon Schaffer's Purgatory	Purgatory (EP)