HEAVY METAL ALBUM OF 2013

Albums expected / released

January

Day	Artist	Album
1	Oblivion	Called to Rise[61]
	Subterranean Masquerade	Home (EP)[62]
8	Corpus Mortale	Fleshcraft[citation needed]
	Newsted	Metal (EP)[63]
	Hollywood Undead	Notes from the Underground[64]
12	Mors Principium Est	...And Death Said Live[65]
	Mutiny Within	Synchronicity[66]
18	Blockheads	The World is Dead[67]
	Helloween	Straight Out of Hell[68]
	Nightfall	Cassiopeia[69]
	Rotten Sound	Species at War (EP)[70]
	Saille	Ritu[71]
21	Fen	Dustwalker[72]
	The Prophecy	Salvation[73]
	Riverside	Shrine of New Generation Slaves[74]
22	Crashdïet	The Savage Playground[75]
	Holy Grail	Ride the Void[76]
	Love and Death	Between Here & Lost[77]
	Touché Amoré and Pianos Become the Teeth	Touché Amoré / Pianos Become the Teeth (Split EP)[78]
	Lightning Swords of Death	Baphometic Chaosium[79]
	Voivod	Target Earth[80]
25	Convulse	Inner Evil[81]
	Cult of Luna	Vertikal[82]
	Dreamshade	The Gift of Life[83]
	Hatebreed	The Divinity of Purpose[84]
	Koldbrann	Vertigo[84]
	Jørn Lande	Symphonic (compilation)[85]
	Pink Cream 69	Ceremonial[86]
	Stratovarius	Unbreakable (EP)[87]
28	Funeral for a Friend	Conduit[88]
29	A Sound of Thunder	Queen of Hell (EP)[89]
	Assassin	Chaos and Live Shots (DVD)[90]
	Circle II Circle	Seasons Will Fall[91]
	The Gates of Slumber	Stormcrow (EP)[92]
	Tomahawk	Oddfellows[93]

February

Day	Artist	Album
1	The 69 Eyes	Love Runs Away (EP)[94]
	Blind Guardian	A Traveler's Guide to Space and Time (box set)[95]
	Enforcer	Death by Fire[96]
	Frankenbok	Cheers, Beers & Beards![97]
	Manilla Road	Mysterium[98]
	Raven Lord	Descent to the Underworld[99]
	Sinister	Years of Massacre (Compilation)[100]
	Sonic Reign	Monument in Black[101]
4	Red	Release the Panic[102]
5	Defeated Sanity	Passages Into Deformity[103]
	Hate	Solarflesh – A Gospel of Radiant Divinity[104]
	Spektr	Cypher[105]
12	Bullet for My Valentine	Temper Temper
15	Misery Index	Live in Munich (live album)[106]
	Suffocation	Pinnacle of Bedlam[107]
16	Sacred Steel	The Bloodshed Summoning[108]
18	Officium Triste	Mors Viri[109]
19	Complete Failure	The Art Gospel of Aggravated Assault[110]
	Black Boned Angel	The End[111]
	Portal	Vexovoid[112]
	Shai Hulud (band)	Reach Beyond the Sun[113]
	Wednesday 13	The Dixie Dead[114]
22	Arkona	Decade of Glory[115]
	Eternal Tears of Sorrow	Saivon Lapsi[116]
	Lord	Digital Lies[117]
	Lost Soul	Genesis XX: Years Of Chaoz (Compilation)[118]
	Stratovarius	Nemesis[119]
	W.E.T.	Rise Up[120]
25	Darkthrone	The Underground Resistance[121]
	Omnium Gatherum	Beyond[122]
	Steven Wilson	The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)[123]
26	Byzantine	Byzantine[124]
	Ruins	Place of No Pity[125]
	Vreid	Welcome Farewell[126]
	Within the Ruins	Elite[127]

March

Day	Artist	Album
1	Crystallion	Killer[128]
	Rotting Christ	Kata ton Daimona Eaytoy[129]
	Saxon	Sacrifice[130]
	Thyrfing	De Ödeslösa[131]
	Wolfchant	Embraced by Fire[132]
4	Hardcore Superstar	C'mon Take on Me[133]
	Long Distance Calling	The Flood Inside[134]
5	Krokus	Dirty Dynamite[135]
	Neaera	Ours is the Storm[136]
	Soilwork	The Living Infinite[137]
8	Horna	Askel Lähempänä Saatanaa[138]
	Lordi	To Beast or Not to Beast[139]
11	Blood Tsunami	For Faen[140]
	Orange Goblin	A Eulogy For The Fans (DVD)[141]
12	Adrenaline Mob	Covertá (EP)[142]
	Common Dead	Allegorize[143]
	Rammstein	Videos 1995–2012 (DVD)[144]
13	Derdian	Limbo[145]
15	Imperia	Queen of Passion (compilation)[146]
	KEN mode	Entrench[147]
	Torture Killer	Phobia[148]
	Wardruna	Runaljod - Yggdrasil[149]
18	Intronaut	Habitual Levitations (Instilling Words with Tones)[150]
19	Anthrax	Anthems (covers EP)[151]
	Clutch	Earth Rocker[152]
	Hundredth	Revolt (EP)[153]
	Jungle Rot	Terror Regime[154]
	Six Feet Under	Unborn[155]
20	Warlord	The Holy Empire[156]
22	Adept	Silence the World[157]
	Aeternus	...And the Seventh His Soul Detesteth[158]
	Hypocrisy	End of Disclosure[159]
	Northlane	Singularity[160]
	Pretty Maids	Motherland[161]
	Serenity	War of Ages[162]
	Stonelake	Monolith[163]
	Trail of Tears	Oscillation[164]
	Visions of Atlantis	Ethera[165]
	Von	Dark Gods: Seven Billion Slaves[166]
25	Amaranthe	The Nexus[167]
	The Amenta	Flesh Is Heir[168]
	Finntroll	Blodsvept[169]
	Gamma Ray	Master of Confusion (EP)[170]
	Moss	Horrible Nights[171]
	October Tide	Tunnel of No Light[172]
	Axel Rudi Pell	Live On Fire (DVD)[173]
26	Benea Reach	Possession[174]
	DGM	Momentum[175]
	Kvelertak	Meir[176]
	Sevendust	Black Out the Sun[177]
	Suicidal Tendencies	13[178]
29	Persefone	Spiritual Migration[179]
30	Avantasia	The Mystery of Time[180]

April

Day	Artist	Album
2	Drowning Pool	Resilience[181]
	Killswitch Engage	Disarm the Descent[182]
	Bring Me the Horizon	Sempiternal[183]
	Toxic Holocaust	From the Ashes of Nuclear Destruction (compilation)[184]
3	Dir En Grey	The Unraveling (EP)[185]
5	Deathchain	Ritual Death Metal[186]
	The Storyteller	Dark Legacy[187]
	Volbeat	Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies[188]
	Saltatio Mortis	Manufactum III[189]
8	Device	Device[190]
	The Meads of Asphodel	Sonderkommando[191]
	Shining	One One One[192]
9	Dawn of Ashes	Anathema[193]
	Ghost	Infestissumam[194]
	Keep of Kalessin	Introspection (EP)[195]
	Stone Sour	House of Gold & Bones – Part 2[196]
12	Ctulu	Seelenspiegelsplitter[197]
	Memory Garden	Doomain[198]
	Mystic Prophecy	Best of Prophecy Years (compilation)[199]
	Wastefall	Meridiem (EP)[200]
15	Iced Earth	Live In Ancient Kourion (DVD)[201]
	Sacred Mother Tongue	Out of the Darkness[202]
	Spiritual Beggars	Earth Blues[203]
16	Jeff Loomis	Requiem for the Living (EP)[204]
	Skid Row	United World Rebellion: Chapter One (EP)[205]
18	Noumena	Death Walks With Me[206]
19	Amorphis	Circle[207]
	Beastwars	Blood Becomes Fire[208]
	Gama Bomb	The Terror Tapes[209]
	Heaven Shall Burn	Veto[210]
	Mastercastle	On Fire[211]
	Steak Number Eight	The Hutch[212]
22	Hacride	Back to Where You've Never Been[213]
23	Amplifier	Echo Street[214]
	Kaledon	Altor: The King’s Blacksmith[215]
	Queensrÿche with Geoff Tate	Frequency Unknown[216]
	Rob Zombie	Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor[217]
24	Atrocity	Okkult[218]
	Dreamtale	World Changed Forever[219]
26	Deep Purple	Now What?![220]
	Howl	Bloodlines[221]
	The Ocean	Pelagial[222]
	Sodom	Epitome of Torture[223]
	Vicious Rumors	Electric Punishment[224]
28	Malefice	Five[225]
29	Cathedral	The Last Spire[226]
	Freedom Call	Ages Of Light (compilation)[227]
	Kingdom Come	Outlier[228]
	Satan	Life Sentence[229]
30	After the Burial	This Life is All We Have (EP)[230]
	Altar of Plagues	Teethed Glory and Injury[231]
	Arsis	Unwelcome[232]
	Cauldron	Tomorrow's Lost (American Version)[233]
	Hybrid	Angst[234]

May

Day	Artist	Album
1	Delain	Interlude (compilation)[235]
3	Lacrimas Profundere	Antiadore[236]
	Rhapsody of Fire	Live – From Chaos to Eternity (live)[237]
	Shade Empire	Omega Arcane[238]
7	Joe Satriani	Unstoppable Momentum[239]
10	Arckanum	Fenris Kindir[240]
	Chaostar	Anomima[241]
	Immolation	Kingdom of Conspiracy[242]
13	My Dying Bride	The Manuscript (EP)[243]
14	The Dillinger Escape Plan	One of Us Is the Killer[244]
	Tribulation	The Formulas of Death[245]
17	Blood Red Throne	Blood Red Throne[246]
	Gothminister	Utopia[247]
	Masterplan	Novum Initium[248]
20	Leprous	Coal (Leprous album)[249]
21	Airbourne	Black Dog Barking[250]
	Avalon	The Land of New Hope[251]
	A Pale Horse Named Death	Lay My Soul to Waste[252]
	U.D.O.	Steelhammer[253]
24	Dew-Scented	Insurgent[254]
	Kylesa	Ultraviolet[255]
	Suidakra	Eternal Defiance[256]
27	Burzum	Sôl Austan, Mâni Vestan[257]
	Dagoba	Post Mortem Nihil Est[258]
	Dark Tranquillity	Construct[259]
	Evile	Skull[260]
	Christopher Lee	Charlemagne: The Omens of Death[261]
	Tesseract	Altered State[262]
28	Aborym	Dirty[263]
	Alice in Chains	The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here[264]
	Antigama	Meteor[265]
	Anvil	Hope in Hell[266]
	ASG	Blood Drive[267]
	Blood Ceremony	The Eldritch Dark[268]
	Judas Priest	Epitaph (DVD)[269]
	Sacred Oath	Fallen[270]
	Svartsyn	Black Testament[271]
29	Chthonic	Bú-Tik[272]
31	Cardiant	Verge[273]
	Tristania	Darkest White[274]

June

Day	Artist	Album
3	White Wizzard	The Devil's Cut[275]
4	Megadeth	Super Collider[276]
5	Oliva	Raise the Curtain[277]
7	Summoning	Old Mornings Dawn[278]
11	The Black Dahlia Murder	Everblack[279]
	Black Sabbath	13[280]
	Children of Bodom	Halo of Blood[281]
	Deafheaven	Sunbather[282]
	Integrity	Suicide Black Snake[283]
	Jørn Lande	Traveller[284]
	My Ruin	The Sacred Mood[285]
	Scale the Summit	The Migration[286]
14	Magnus Karlsson	Free Fall[287]
17	Amberian Dawn	Re-Evolution (compilation)[288]
	Kalmah	Seventh Swamphony[289]
18	Dark Moor	Ars Musica[290]
	Fuck the Facts	Amer (EP)[291]
	High On Fire	Spitting Fire Live Vol. 1 (live)[292]
		Spitting Fire Live Vol. 2 (live)[293]
	Valient Thorr	Our Own Masters[294]
21	Edenbridge	The Bonding[295]
	Eternal Oath	Ghostlands[296]
	Extol	Extol (album)[297]
	Raven	Rock Until You Drop (DVD)[298]
24	Autopsy	The Headless Ritual[299]
	Firewind	Apotheosis - Live 2012 (live)[300]
	Orphaned Land	All is One[301]
	Queensrÿche with Todd La Torre	Queensrÿche[302]
25	Amon Amarth	Deceiver of the Gods[303]
	August Burns Red	Rescue & Restore[304]
	Deeds of Flesh	Portals to Canaan[305]
	Havok	Unnatural Selection[306]
	Hopes Die Last	Wolfpack EP[307]
	Mouth of the Architect	Dawning[308]
26	Hibria	Silent Revenge[309]
	Trauma	Karma Obscura[310]
28	Agathodaimon	In Darkness[311]
	Darkane	The Sinister Supremacy[312]
	Impiety	Vengeance Hell Immemorial (compilation)[313]
	Månegarm	Legions of the North[314]
	Sirenia	Perils of the Deep Blue[315]

July

Day	Artist	Album
2	Huntress	Starbound Beast[316]
9	Butcher Babies	Goliath[317]
	Battlecross	War of Will[318]
	Nothnegal	Nothnegal (EP)[319]
12	Hypocrisy	Penetralia / Osculum (box-set)[320]
15	Panzerchrist	7th Offensive[321]
16	Evan Brewer	Your Itinerary[322]
18	King Conquer	1776[323]
	Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals	Walk Through Exits Only[324]
	Seven Witches	Rebirth[325]
	Trouble	The Distortion Field[326]
19	Baroness	Live At Maida Vale (live EP)[327]
	Karnivool	Asymmetry[328]
	Powerwolf	Preachers of the Night[329]
22	Stormzone	Three Kings[330]
23	American Head Charge	Shoot (EP)[331]
	Black Tusk	Tend No Wounds (EP)[332]
	Counterparts	The Difference Between Hell and Home[333]
	Five Finger Death Punch	The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell, Volume 1[334]
	Legion of the Damned	Ravenous Plague[335]
	Misery Signals	Absent Light[336]
26	Deadlock	The Arsonist[337]
	We Came as Romans	Tracing Back Roots[338]
27	Mercenary	Through Our Darkest Days[339]
29	James LaBrie	Impermanent Resonance[340]
30	Chimaira	Crown of Phantoms[341]

August

Day	Artist	Album
2	The Defiled	Daggers[342]
	Lingua Mortis Orchestra and Rage	LMO[343]
	Exhumed	Necrocracy[344]
6	Iwrestledabearonce	Late For Nothing[345]
	Newsted	Heavy Metal Music[346]
	Revocation	Revocation (album)[347]
8	Rosetta	The Anaesthete[348]
9	Equilibrium	Waldschrein [349]
16	Fleshgod Apocalypse	Labyrinth[350]
	Manowar	The Lord Of Steel Live (live EP)[351]
	Soil	Whole[352]
19	Watain	The Wild Hunt[353]
20	Born of Osiris	Tomorrow We Die ∆live[354]
21	Turisas	Turisas2013[355]
23	ReVamp	Wild Card[356]
	Tarja Turunen	Colours in the Dark[357]
	Unshine	Dark Half Rising[358]
27	Avenged Sevenfold	Hail to the King[359]
	DevilDriver	Winter Kills[360]
30	Gorguts	Colored Sands[361]
	Kreator	Dying Alive (DVD)[362]
31	Avulsed	Ritual Zombi[363]

September

Day	Artist	Album
2	Haken	The Mountain[364]
	The Safety Fire	Mouth of Swords[365]
3	Deliverance	Hear What I Say![366]
	Vista Chino	Peace
	Annihilator	Feast [367]
6	Dark Age	A Matter of Trust[368]
	Ministry	From Beer to Eternity[369]
	Ashes Of Ares	Ashes Of Ares[370]
7	Michael Angelo Batio	Intermezzo[371]
9	Satyricon	Satyricon[372]
13	Onslaught	VI[373][374]
	Poisonblack	Lyijy[375]
	Carcass	Surgical Steel[376]
17	The Devil Wears Prada	8:18[377]
	Eyes Set to Kill	Masks[378]
	Ulcerate	Vermis (album)[379]
	Týr	Valkyrja [380]
	Gwar	Battle Maximus [381]
20	Hirax	Immortal Legacy[382]
	Stormlord	Hesperia[383]
24	Dream Theater	Dream Theater[384]
	Megadeth	Countdown to Extinction: Live (CD/DVD)[385]
	Ra	Critical Mass[386]
25	The Gathering	Afterwords [387]
27	Master	The Witchhunt [388]
	myGRAIN	Planetary Breathing[389]
	Mystic Prophecy	Killhammer[390]
	Wisdom	Marching for Liberty[391]
	Hatesphere	Murderlust [392]
30	Devin Townsend	The Retinal Circus (CD/DVD) [393]

October

Day	Artist	Album
1	Broken Hope	Omen Of Disease [394]
	Fates Warning	Darkness in a Different Light [395]
	Scar the Martyr	Scar the Martyr (album) [396]
	Within Temptation	Paradise (What About Us?)[397]
	The Browning	Hypernova [398]
4	Running Wild (band)	Resilient[399]
	Soulfly	Savages [400]
8	Korn	The Paradigm Shift [401]
	Ulver	Messe I.X-VI.X [402]
11	Death Angel	The Dream Calls for Blood[403]
	Testament	Dark Roots of Thrash (CD/DVD)[404]
14	Deep Purple	Perfect Strangers Live (DVD) [405]
15	Doomriders	Grand Blood[406]
	Red Fang	Whales and Leeches[407]
	Trivium	Vengeance Falls[408]
	Monster Magnet	Last Patrol [409]
16	Europe	Live At Sweden Rock - 30th Anniversary Show (DVD) [410]
21	Pestilence	Obsideo [411]
	Motörhead	Aftershock[412]
22	Ihsahn	Das Seelenbrechen [413]
	Lita Ford	The Bitch is Back... Live [414]
	Metal Church	Generation Nothing [415]
25	Inquisition	Obscure Verses For The Multiverse [416]
	Sahg	Delusions Of Grandeur [417]
	Sepultura	The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must Be the Heart [418]
28	Ayreon	The Theory of Everything [419]
	Hail Of Bullets	III: The Rommel Chronicles [420]
	Man Must Die	Peace Was Never An Option [421]
29	Kataklysm	Waiting For The End To Come [422]
	Kill Devill Hill	Revolution Rise [423]
	Protest the Hero	Volition (Protest the Hero album)[424]
	Skeletonwitch	Serpents Unleashed[425]
	Toxic Holocaust	Chemistry of Consciousness [426]
	Warbringer	IV: Empires Collapse [427]
	Winds of Plague	Resistance (Winds of Plague album) [428]

November

Day	Artist	Album
5	Dream Theater	Live at Luna Park[429]
	Falkenbach	Asa [430]
	Melvins	Tres Cabrones [431]
	Stryper	No More Hell To Pay [432]
8	Cronian	Erathems [433]
	Endstille	Kapitulation 2013 [434]
	Epica	Retrospect (DVD) [435]
	Iron Mask	Fifth Son of Winterdoom [436]
12	Handful of Hate	To Perdition [437]
	Living Sacrifice	Ghost Thief [438]
	Black Tide	Bite the Bullet (EP) [439]
13	Leaves' Eyes	Symphonies of the Night [440]
15	Apocalyptica	Wagner Reloaded (Live) [441]
	Alestorm	Live At The End Of The World (DVD) [442]
18	Rush	Clockwork Angels Tour [443]
19	Code	Augur Nox [444]
	Ephel Duath	Hemmed By Light, Shaped By Darkness [445]
	Five Finger Death Punch	The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell, Volume 2 [446]
22	Artillery	Legions [447]
	Betzefer	The Devil Went Down to the Holy Land [448]
	Hell	Curse And Chapter [449]
	Pro-Pain	The Final Revolution [450]
	Rhapsody of Fire	Dark Wings of Steel [451]
25	Almah	Raise The Sun [452]
26	Black Sabbath	Live... Gathered in Their Masses [453]
	Deicide	In the Minds of Evil[454]
29	Benedictum	Obey [455]
	Human Fortress	Raided Land [456]
	Nightwish	Showtime, Storytime (DVD/CD) [457]

December

Day	Artist	Album
13	Alghazanth	The Three-faced Pilgrim [458]