Английская Википедия:2023 in heavy metal music

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Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Dynamic listШаблон:YYYY music Шаблон:Year nav topic5 This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2023.

Bands disbanded

• The Agonist
• Betraying the Martyrs
• Dark Fortress
• Dawn Ray'd
• Kiss
• Kix
• Palisades
• Power Quest
• Russkaja
• Terrorizer

Bands formed

• Better Lovers

Bands reformed

• 3 Inches of Blood
• Agalloch
• Blessthefall
• Creed
• Crimson Glory
• The Dillinger Escape Plan
• Extol
• Forbidden
• For My Pain...
• Haste the Day
• Lord Kaos
• Martyr
• Newsted
• A Plea for Purging
• Poisonblack
• Savatage
• Tarot
• Terrorizer
• Thousand Foot Krutch
• Training for Utopia
• Wrathchild

Events

• On January 26, Twisted Sister reunited for a one-off performance following their induction into the Metal Hall of Fame. It was the band's first live performance since disbanding in 2016.
• On February 3, Furnace Fest 2023 has been announced to take place on September 23 and 24 at the Sloss Furnaces in Birmingham, Alabama. Among many bands announced to perform, several of them are reuniting for the festival after having previously split up, including Extol, Haste the Day, A Plea for Purging, and Training for Utopia. On February 22, it was announced that Symphony in Peril, who reformed last year, will play at the festival's preshow, their first show in 18 years.
• On February 27, Marty Friedman performed three songs with Megadeth at the Budokan in Japan. This marked his first performance with the band in 23 years.
• On March 31, an EF1 tornado caused the roof of the Apollo Theater in Belvediere, Illinois, United States, to collapse while the venue was hosting Morbid Angel, Crypta, Revocation, and Skeletal Remains, resulting in one casualty and injuring 28 others.
• On June 7, Slipknot announced the departure of longtime sampler and keyboardist Craig Jones.
• On October 25, Dream Theater announced the departure of drummer Mike Mangini and the return of the band's original drummer, Mike Portnoy, after a 13 year absence.
• On November 5, Slipknot announced the band was parting ways with drummer Jay Weinberg. Weinberg joined the band in 2014, replacing founding member Joey Jordison.
• On December 1 and 2, Kiss concluded their End of the Road World Tour with a set of back-to-back final shows in their hometown of New York City at Madison Square Garden.

Deaths

• January 1 – Sebastian Marino, former guitarist of Overkill and Anvil, died from a heart attack at the age of 57.
• January 9 – Justin Bartlett, artist who created album cover art for Sunn O))), Trap Them, Cadaver, and Hooded Menace, died from stage 4 colorectal cancer at the age of 45.
• January 18 – TJ de Blois, former drummer of A Life Once Lost, died from undisclosed reasons.
• February 14 – Tim Aymar, vocalist of Pharaoh and former vocalist of Control Denied, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 59.
• February 16 – Michael "Majk Moti" Kupper, former guitarist of Running Wild, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 65.
• March 8 – Jim Durkin, guitarist of Dark Angel, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 58.
• March 8 – Josua Madsen, drummer of Artillery, died after being hit by a bus at the age of 45.
• March 22 – Wayne Swinny, guitarist of Saliva, died from a brain hemorrhage at the age of 59.
• April 7 – John Regan, former bassist of Frehley's Comet, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 71.
• April 23 – John Rae, former drummer of Wykked Wytch, died from alcoholism at the age of 51.
• May 1 – Jordan Blake, vocalist of A Skylit Drive, died from undisclosed reasons.
• May 17 – Algy Ward, vocalist of Tank, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 63.
• May 22 – Kirk Arrington, former drummer of Metal Church, died from an unspecified illness at the age of 61.
• May 23 – Mark Adams, former bassist of Saint Vitus, died from Parkinson's disease at the age of 64.
• June 19 – Ryan Siew, guitarist of Polaris, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 26.
• June 23 – Lee Rauch, former drummer of Megadeth and Dark Angel, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 58.
• June 25 – Erik Ferro, drummer of T.T. Quick, died from undisclosed reasons.
• July 14 – Anthony Meo, former drummer of Biohazard, died from cancer.
• July 26 – James Harvey IV, former bassist of Goatwhore, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 35.
• August 5 – Cláudio Lopes, bassist of Dorsal Atlântica, died from a heart attack at the age of 59.
• August 9 – Brad Thomson, former guitarist of The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza, died from undisclosed reasons.
• August 24 – Bernie Marsden, former guitarist of Whitesnake, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 72.
• August 24 – Sakevi Yokoyama, vocalist of G.I.S.M., died from undisclosed reasons.
• September 15 – Axel Blaha, drummer of Paradox, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 59.
• September 26 – Jon Kennedy, former bassist of Cradle of Filth and former vocalist of Hecate Enthroned, died from injuries sustained in a car crash at the age of 46.
• October 24 – Steve Riley, drummer of Riley's L.A. Guns and former drummer of L.A. Guns, W.A.S.P., and Keel, died from pneumonia at the age of 67.
• October 29 – Hiroshi "Heath" Morie, bassist of X Japan, died from colon cancer at the age of 55.
• November 13 – Dave Corsile, former bassist of Thrown into Exile and former guitarist of downset., died from a heart attack.
• November 17 – Charlie Dominici, former vocalist of Dream Theater, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 72.
• December 10 – Cayle Sain, drummer of Twitching Tongues and Ghostemane, died from undisclosed reasons at the age of 31.

Albums expected

January

Day	Artist	Album
13	Ahab	The Coral Tombs
	Beyond the Black	Beyond the Black
	Eisregen	Grenzgänger
	Obituary	Dying of Everything
	Turmion Kätilöt	Omen X
	VV	Neon Noir
20	Atrocity	Okkult III
	Dark Princess	Phoenix
	Imperium Dekadenz	Into Sorrow Evermore
	Katatonia	Sky Void of Stars
	Riverside	ID.Entity
	Sabaton	Heroes of the Great War (EP)
	Twilight Force	At the Heart of Wintervale
27	...And Oceans	As in Gardens, So in Tombs
	Ablaze My Sorrow	The Loss of All Hope (EP)
	Ronnie Romero	Raised on Heavy Radio (covers album)
	Steve Vai	Vai/Gash
	Uriah Heep	Chaos & Colour

February

Day	Artist	Album
3	All Out War	Celestial Rot
	Korn	Requiem Mass (EP)
	Memoriam	Rise to Power
	Russkaja	Turbo Polka Party
	Victor Smolski	Guitar Force
	Xandria	The Wonders Still Awaiting
10	Aphyxion	Ad Astra
	Delain	Dark Waters
	Dream Theater	Distance Over Time Demos (2018) (compilation album)
	In Flames	Foregone
	Narrow Head	Moments of Clarity
	Pierce the Veil	The Jaws of Life
	Wig Wam	Out of the Dark
17	Avatar	Dance Devil Dance
	Bridear	Aegis of London... Live! (live album)
	Clint Lowery	Ghostwriter (EP)
	Code Orange	What Is Really Underneath? (remix album)
	Hellripper	Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags
	Jason Bieler	Postcards from the Asylum
	Man Must Die	The Pain Behind It All
	Oceanhoarse	Heads Will Roll
	Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs	Land of Sleeper
	Robin McAuley	Alive
	See You Next Tuesday	Distractions
	Skinflint	Hate Spell
22	Lovebites	Judgement Day
24	Azaghal	Alttarimme on Luista Tehty
	Dope	Blood Money, Part Zer0
	Godsmack	Lighting Up the Sky
	Hammerhedd	Nonetheless
	Hed PE	70's Hits from the Pit (covers album)
	Heidevolk	Werdekeer
	Hypno5e	Sheol
	Insomnium	Anno 1696
	Kauan	ATM Revised
	Märvel	Double Decade (compilation album)
	Necrovation	Storm the Void/Starving Grave (EP)
	Steel Panther	On the Prowl
	Venomous Concept	The Good Ship Lollipop

March

Day	Artist	Album
1	Galneryus	Between Dread and Valor
	Lynch	Reborn
3	Earth Groans	Tongue Tied (EP)
	Enslaved	Heimdal
	Entheos	Time Will Take Us All
	Full of Hell & Primitive Man	Suffocating Hallucination
	Fury of Five	Half Past Revenge (EP)
	Haken	Fauna
	Sandrider	Enveletration
	Sortilège	Apocalypso
9	Wes Borland	Mutiny on the Starbarge
10	For the Fallen Dreams	For the Fallen Dreams
	Frozen Crown	Call of the North
	Gorod	The Orb
	Ice Age	Waves of Loss and Power
	Isole	Anesidora
	Minenwerfer	Feuerwalze
	Nanowar of Steel	Dislike to False Metal
	Otherwise	Gawdzillionaire
	Periphery	Periphery V: Djent Is Not a Genre
	Sacrificium	Oblivion
	Story of the Year	Tear Me to Pieces
	Suicide Silence	Remember... You Must Die
	Tulus	Fandens Kall
17	Aftermath	No Time to Waste
	Babylon A.D.	Live Lightning (live album)
	Chelsea Grin	Suffer in Heaven
	Contrarian	Sage of Shekhinah
	Dark Sanctuary	Cernunnos
	Downfall of Gaia	Silhouettes of Disgust
	Elysion	Bring Out Your Dead
	Gideon	More Power. More Pain.
	Invent Animate	Heavener
	John Diva and the Rockets of Love	The Big Easy
	Kamelot	The Awakening
	Mystic Circle	Erzdämon
	Narnia	Ghost Town
	Night Demon	Outsider
	Pop Evil	Skeletons
	Redemption	I Am the Storm
	Seven Spires	Live at ProgPower USA XXI (live album)
	Theory of a Deadman	Dinosaur
24	Acid King	Beyond Vision
	August Burns Red	Death Below
	Babymetal	The Other One
	Cruachan	The Living and the Dead
	Dawn Ray'd	To Know the Light
	Excalion	Once Upon a Time
	Floor Jansen	Paragon
	Hatesphere	Hatred Reborn
	Ihsahn	Fascination Street Sessions (EP)
	Keep of Kalessin	Katharsis
	Liturgy	93696
	Ne Obliviscaris	Exul
	Project 86	Omni, Part 1
	Saxon	More Inspirations (covers album)
	Subway to Sally	Himmelfahrt
	Xysma	No Place Like Alone
29	After the Burial	Embrace the Infinity (EP)
31	Ad Infinitum	Chapter III – Downfall
	Alpha Wolf	Shh (EP)
	Attack Attack!	Dark Waves (EP)
	Bury Tomorrow	The Seventh Sun
	De La Tierra	III
	Last in Line	Jericho
	Lordi	Screem Writers Guild
	The Ongoing Concept	Again
	Rotten Sound	Apocalypse
	Visions of Atlantis	Pirates Over Wacken (live album)

April

Day	Artist	Album
7	Angel Vivaldi	Away with Words, Pt. 2 (EP)
	Cultura Tres	Camino de Brujos
	Kiss	Off the Soundboard: Poughkeepsie, New York, 1984 (live album)
	Paul Gilbert	The Dio Album (covers album)
	Powerwolf	Interludium
	Rise of the Northstar	Showdown
	Tribulation	Hamartia (EP)
14	Atreyu	The Hope of a Spark (EP)
	Dødheimsgard	Black Medium Current
	Holy Moses	Invisible Queen
	Infected Rain	The Devil's Dozen (live album)
	Jesus Piece	...So Unknown
	L.A. Guns	Black Diamonds
	Magnus Karlsson's Free Fall	Hunt the Flame
	Metallica	72 Seasons
	Mike Tramp	Songs of White Lion (covers album)
	Overkill	Scorched
20	Portrayal of Guilt	Devil Music
21	The 69 Eyes	Death of Darkness
	Angus McSix	Angus McSix and the Sword of Power
	Anthem	Crimson & Jet Black
	As Everything Unfolds	Ultraviolet
	Axel Rudi Pell	The Ballads VI (compilation album)
	Bell Witch	Future's Shadow Part 1: The Clandestine Gate
	Dorthia Cottrell	Death Folk Country
	Enter Shikari	A Kiss for the Whole World
	Liv Kristine	River of Diamonds
	Magnus Rosén Band	It's Time to Rock the World Again
	Texas Hippie Coalition	The Name Lives On
28	Cradle of Filth	Trouble and Their Double Lives (live album)
	Crown the Empire	Dogma
	Disciple	Skeleton Psalms
	Elvenking	Reader of the Runes – Rapture
	Graveworm	Killing Innocence
	Iced Earth	Hellrider/I Walk Among You (EP)
	IGNEA	Dreams of Lands Unseen
	Majesty	Back to Attack
	Necronomicon	Constant to Death
	Runemagick	Beyond the Cenotaph of Mankind
	Smoulder	Violent Creed of Vengeance

May

Day	Artist	Album
5	Blood Ceremony	The Old Ways Remain
	Burning Witches	The Dark Tower
	Currents	The Death We Seek
	Dave Lombardo	Rites of Percussion
	Deathstars	Everything Destroys You
	Enforcer	Nostalgia
	Haunt	Golden Arm
	Krallice	Porous Resonance Abyss
	Lumsk	Fremmede Toner
	Savage Grace	Sign of the Cross
	Scarlet Aura	Rock in Sange si Vointa
	Therapy?	Hard Cold Fire
	Tygers of Pan Tang	Bloodlines
	Unearth	The Wretched; the Ruinous
	Vintersea	Woven into Ashes
	Winger	Seven
12	The Acacia Strain	Step into the Light / Failure Will Follow
	The Amity Affliction	Not Without My Ghosts
	Cattle Decapitation	Terrasite
	DevilDriver	Dealing with Demons Vol. II
	Heavens Edge	Get It Right
	Veil of Maya	Mother
19	Alcatrazz	Take No Prisoners
	Arjen Lucassen's Supersonic Revolution	Golden Age of Music
	Botanist	VIII: Selenotrope
	Def Leppard with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra	Drastic Symphonies
	Ghost	Phantomime (EP)
	Heretoir	Wastelands (EP)
	Mystic Prophecy	Hellriot
	The Ocean	Holocene
	Sleep Token	Take Me Back to Eden
	Sweet & Lynch	Heart & Sacrifice
	Thulcandra	Hail the Abyss
	Yakuza	Sutra
26	Elegant Weapons	Horns for a Halo
	Godsticks	This Is What a Winner Looks Like
	Immortal	War Against All
	Kalmah	Kalmah
	Legion of the Damned	The Poison Chalice
	Magnus Rosén Band	Outside the Rock Box (mini-album)
	Metal Church	Congregation of Annihilation
	Sirenia	1977
	Tesla	Full Throttle Live (live album)
	Trespass	Wolf at the Door
	Vomitory	All Heads Are Gonna Roll

June

Day	Artist	Album
2	Anubis Gate	Interference
	Avenged Sevenfold	Life Is But a Dream...
	Bongzilla	Dab City
	Buckcherry	Vol. 10
	Gloryhammer	Return to the Kingdom of Fife
	Omnium Gatherum	Slasher (EP)
	Wytch Hazel	IV
9	Extreme	Six
	Glass Casket	Glass Casket (EP)
	Godflesh	Purge
	Ray Alder	II
	Rise to Fall	The Fifth Dimension
	Scar Symmetry	The Singularity (Phase II – Xenotaph)
	Shakra	Invincible
	Slipknot	Adderall (EP)
16	Arkona	Kob'
	Church of Misery	Born Under a Mad Sign
	Fifth Angel	When Angels Kill
	Finger Eleven	Greatest Hits (compilation album)
	Joel Hoekstra's 13	Crash of Life
	King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard	PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation
	Queens of the Stone Age	In Times New Roman...
	Saturnus	The Storm Within
	Thy Catafalque	Alföld
23	Jag Panzer	The Hallowed
	Nocturnal Breed	Carry the Beast
	Pyramaze	Bloodlines
	Tsjuder	Helvegr
	Xasthur	Inevitably Dark
30	Before the Dawn	Stormbringers
	Death Ray Vision	No Mercy from Electric Eyes
	Divide and Dissolve	Systemic
	Raven	All Hell's Breaking Loose
	Slaughter to Prevail	Live in Moscow (live album)
	Virgin Steele	The Passion of Dionysus

July

Day	Artist	Album
7	1476	In Exile
	Bangalore Choir	Center Mass
	Better Lovers	God Made Me an Animal (EP)
	Blackbraid	Blackbraid II
	Blaze Bayley	Damaged Strange Different and Live (live album)
	Bloodbound	Tales from the North
	Butcher Babies	Eye for an Eye... / ...'Til the World's Blind
	Fen	Monuments to Absence
	Nita Strauss	The Call of the Void
	The Raven Age	Blood Omen
	Will Haven	VII
14	Edge of Paradise	Hologram
	Eleine	We Shall Remain
	Evile	The Unknown
	Fallstar	Sacred Mirrors
	Freedom Call	The M.E.T.A.L. Fest (live album)
	Kim Dracula	A Gradual Decline in Morale
	Vendetta	Black as Coal
	Voyager	Fearless in Love
21	Akercocke	Decades of Devil Worship (live album)
	Cadaver	The Age of the Offended
	Soil	Restoration (compilation album)
	Voivod	Morgöth Tales
	The Zenith Passage	Datalysium
28	Contrarian	Demos & Oddities: 1995–1999 (compilation album)
	From Ashes to New	Blackout
	Girlschool	WTFortyfive?
	Mutoid Man	Mutants
	Panzerchrist	Last of a Kind
	Sevendust	Truth Killer
	Signs of the Swarm	Amongst the Low & Empty
	Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats	Slaughter on First Avenue (live album)

August

Day	Artist	Album
4	Crypta	Shades of Sorrow
	Skindred	Smile
11	George Lynch & Jeff Pilson	Heavy Hitters II (covers album)
	Kataklysm	Goliath
	King Kobra	We Are Warriors
	Megaherz	In Teufels Namen
	Tarja	Rocking Heels: Live at Metal Church (live album)
18	Atreyu	The Moment You Find Your Flame (EP)
	Cyhra	The Vertigo Trigger
	Horrendous	Ontological Mysterium
	Nocte Obducta	Karwoche (Die Sonne Der Toten Pulsiert)
	Orbit Culture	Descent
	Ringworm	Seeing Through Fire
	Skálmöld	Ýdalir
	Slipknot	Live at MSG (live album)
	Spirit Adrift	Ghost at the Gallows
	Warmen	Here for None
22	Dethklok	Dethalbum IV
25	Alice Cooper	Road
	The Armed	Perfect Saviors
	Asking Alexandria	Where Do We Go from Here?
	Blut Aus Nord	Disharmonium – Nahab
	Dethklok	Metalocalypse: Army of the Doomstar (soundtrack album)
	Endstille	Detonation
	Exmortus	Necrophony
	Filter	The Algorithm
	Hurricane	Reconnected
	Incantation	Unholy Deification
	Lions at the Gate	The Excuses We Cannot Make
	U.D.O.	Touchdown
	The Word Alive	Hard Reset
28	Exhumed	Beyond the Dead (EP)

September

Day	Artist	Album
1	Escape the Fate	Out of the Shadows
	Marduk	Memento Mori
	Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons	Kings of the Asylum
	Polaris	Fatalism
	Primal Fear	Code Red
	Soen	Memorial
	Stitched Up Heart	To the Wolves
	Taake	Et Hav Av Avstand
8	Bio-Cancer	Revengeance
	Conquer Divide	Slow Burn
	Cryptopsy	As Gomorrah Burns
	Dying Fetus	Make Them Beg for Death
	Finsterforst	Jenseits (EP)
	George Lynch	Guitars at the End of the World
	Kvelertak	Endling
	Oomph!	Richter und Henker
	Puddle of Mudd	Ubiquitous
	Saliva	Revelation
	Sylosis	A Sign of Things to Come
15	Baroness	Stone
	Brujeria	Esto Es Brujeria
	Corey Taylor	CMF2
	Electric Boys	Grand Explosivos
	Gridlink	Coronet Juniper
	Mayhem	Daemonic Rites (live album)
	Molybaron	Something Ominous
	Night Verses	Every Sound Has a Color in the Valley of Night: Part 1
	Otep	The God Slayer
	Ronnie Romero	Too Many Lies, Too Many Masters
	Shade Empire	Sunholy
	Shining	Shining
	Tesseract	War of Being
	War of Ages	Dominion
20	Kill Devil Hill	Seas of Oblivion
22	3Teeth	EndEx
	Annisokay	Abyss Pt I (EP)
	Cannibal Corpse	Chaos Horrific
	Dayshell	Pegasus
	KEN mode	Void
	Mercenary	Soundtrack to the End of Times
	Profanatica	Crux Simplex
	Rebaelliun	Under the Sign of Rebellion
	Staind	Confessions of the Fallen
	Thy Art Is Murder	Godlike
	Wolves at the Gate	Lost in Translation (covers album)
29	Black Stone Cherry	Screamin' at the Sky
	Blackbriar	A Dark Euphony
	Code Orange	The Above
	Dark the Suns	Raven and the Nightsky
	Harm's Way	Common Suffering
	KK's Priest	The Sinner Rides Again
	Nervosa	Jailbreak
	Nikki Stringfield	Apocrypha
	Primordial	How It Ends
	Red	Rated R
	Taproot	SC\SSRS
	Wolves in the Throne Room	Crypt of Ancestral Knowledge (EP)

October

Day	Artist	Album
6	Carnifex	Necromanteum
	Heavy Load	Riders of the Ancient Storm
	Heretoir	Nightsphere
	Iron Savior	Firestar
	October Tide	The Cancer Pledge
	Of Mice & Men	Tether
	Prong	State of Emergency
	Svalbard	The Weight of the Mask
13	Amorphis	Queen of Time (Live at Tavastia 2021) (live album)
	Beartooth	The Surface
	Krieg	Ruiner
	Laster	Andermans Mijne
	On Thorns I Lay	On Thorns I Lay
	Oni	The Silver Line
	Ronnie Atkins	Trinity
	Sulphur Aeon	Seven Crowns and Seven Seals
	Sven Gali	Bombs and Battlescars
	Theocracy	Mosaic
	Varg	Ewige Wacht
20	The Amenta	Plague of Locus (EP)
	Angelus Apatrida	Aftermath
	The Callous Daoboys	God Smiles Upon the Callous Daoboys (EP)
	Cirith Ungol	Dark Parade
	Dog Eat Dog	Free Radicals
	Lynch Mob	Babylon
	Myrkur	Spine
	Night Ranger	40 Years and a Night with the Contemporary Youth Orchestra (live album)
	Temperance	Hermitage – Daruma’s Eyes Pt. 2
	Within Temptation	Bleed Out
27	Autopsy	Ashes, Organs, Blood and Crypts
	Dokken	Heaven Comes Down
	Doro	Conqueress Forever Strong and Proud
	End	The Sin of Human Frailty
	Icarus Witch	No Devil Lived On
	In This Moment	Godmode
	King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard	The Silver Cord
	Mark Tremonti	Christmas Classics New & Old (covers album)
	Obscura	A Celebration I – Live in North America (live album)
	Of Virtue	Omen
	Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs	Live in New York (live album)
	Poppy	Zig
	Sorcerer	Reign of the Reaper

November

Day	Artist	Album
3	Angra	Cycles of Pain
	Atreyu	A Torch in the Dark (EP)
	Bad Wolves	Die About It
	Dying Wish	Symptoms of Survival
	Green Lung	This Heathen Land
	Insomnium	Songs of the Dusk (EP)
	Kontrust	Madworld
	Mortuary Drape	Black Mirror
	Serenity	Nemesis AD
	Silent Planet	Superbloom
	Spiritbox	The Fear of Fear (EP)
	Suffocation	Hymns from the Apocrypha
	Watain	Die in Fire – Live in Hell (Agony and Ecstasy Over Stockholm) (live album)
8	Nemophila	The Initial Impulse (EP)
10	Diviner	Avaton
	Gama Bomb	Bats
	Helmet	Left
	Hinayana	Shatter and Fall
	Secret Sphere	Blackened Heartbeat
	Sodom	1982 (EP)
	Tarja	Dark Christmas (covers album)
	Vastum	Inward to Gethsemane
11	Mike Mangini	Invisible Signs
17	Aeternus	Philosopher
	Celeste	Epilogue(s) (EP)
	Corroded	Plague
	DGM	Life
	Eldritch	Innervoid
	Lacey Sturm	Kenotic Metanoia
	Nonpoint	Heartless (EP)
	Racetraitor	Creation and the Timeless Order of Things
	Sadus	The Shadow Inside
	Texas in July	Without Reason (EP)
20	Impending Doom	Last Days (EP)
24	Bernie Marsden	Working Man
	Cruciamentum	Obsidian Refractions
29	Panopticon	The Rime of Memory

December

Day	Artist	Album
1	Demoncy	Black Star Gnosis
	Extortionist	Devoid (EP)
	Ghost	13 Commandments (compilation album)
	Paradise Lost	Icon 30
	Visions of Atlantis	A Pirate's Symphony
4	Xibalba	Aztlán (EP)
8	Atreyu	The Beautiful Dark of Life
	Dimmu Borgir	Inspiratio Profanus (covers album)
	Ektomorf	Vivid Black
	Judicator	I Am the Void (EP)
	Polkadot Cadaver	Echoes Across the Hellscape
	Porcupine Tree	Closure/Continuation.Live (live album)
	Trick or Treat	A Creepy Night Live (live album)
15	Children of Bodom	A Chapter Called Children of Bodom (The Final Show in Helsinki Ice Hall 2019) (live album)
	Evergrey	From Dark Discoveries to Heartless Portraits (compilation album)
	Hed PE	Detox
	Rob Arnold	Menace
	Therion	Leviathan III
	Troll	Trolldom
26	Die Apokalyptischen Reiter	Die Mutter des Teufels (EP)
29	Lord of the Lost	Weapons of Mass Seduction (covers album)