The New Rock + Metal Albums Out Today

Here is your 2025 hard rock + metal album release calendar and all of this week’s newest albums!

Each week is loaded with new rock and metal releases and keeping track of it all can be pretty difficult. Bookmark this page because we’ll be updating this all year and you can check back each Friday to see what’s out that day and go check it all out!

Some of the year’s most anticipated album will drop early in 2025 and it’s already looking to be another incredible year for heavy music, no matter what you’re into.

READ MORE: The Rock + Metal Bands Touring in 2025 – Tour Guide

Scroll down to see what albums will be coming out each week!

February 14, 2025
Amber Asylum – Ruby Red (Prophecy)
Bleeding Through – Nine (SharpTone)
Crazy Lixx – Thrill Of The Bite (Frontiers)
Dawn Of Solace – Affliction Vortex (Noble Demon)
Dynazty – Game Of Faces (Nuclear Blast)
Dysangelium – Exxekratus (W.T.C.)
Ginger Evil – The Way It Burns (Frontiers)
Hangman’s Chair – Saddiction (Nuclear Blast)
In Mourning – The Weight Of Oceans Re-Release (Dalapop)
Lacuna Coil – Sleepless Empire (Century Media)
Loanshark – No Sins To Confess (ROAR)
Love Is Noise – To Live In A Different Way (Century Media)
Mantar – Post Apocalyptic Depression (Metal Blade)
Mantric Momentum – Alienized (Frontiers)
Novarupta – Astral Sands (Suicide)
Pattern-Seeking Animals – Friend Of All Creatures (GEP)
Pothamus – Abur (Pelagic)
Raven – Can’t Take Away The Fire EP (Silver Lining)
Savage Lands – Army Of Trees (Season Of Mist)
Scorpion Child – I Saw the End As It Passed Through Me (Noize in the Attic)
Sicksense – Cross Me Twice (Earache)
Warlung – The Human Touch (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Windwalker – Hyperviolence Expansion Pack (Fearless)

February 21, 2025
The 7th Guild – Triumviro (Scarlet)
Abduction – Existentialismus (Candlelight)
Airforce – Acts Of Madness (ROAR)
Anxious – Bambi (Run For Cover)
Barren Cross – Atomic Arena/State Of Control Re-Release (Dissonance)
Bong-Ra – Black Noise (Debemur Morti)
The Dark – The Dark EP (Arising Empire)
Dirty Honey – Mayhem And Revelry (Dirt)
Ellis Mano Band – Morph (SPV)
God Complex – He Watches In Silence EP (SharpTone)
Grab – Kremess (Prophecy)
Jason Bieler and The Baron Von Bielski Orchestra – The Escapologist (Self)
Karla Kvlt – Thunderhunter (Exile On Mainstream)
Killswitch Engage – This Consequence (Metal Blade)
Manntra – Titans (Napalm)
Mean Mistreater – Do Or Die (Dying Victims)
Morax – The Amulet (High Roller)
Nachtblut – Todschick (Napalm)
One OK Rock – Detox (Fueled By Ramen)
Retromorphosis – Psalmus Mortis (Season Of Mist)
Scour – Gold (Housecore)
Scumripper – For A Few Fixes More (Dying Victims)
Silos – Apocalips (Judge & Jury)
Stinky – Solace (M-Theory)
Twins Crew – Chapter IV (Scarlet)
Vultures Vengeance – Dust Age (High Roller)
Wrekmeister Harmonies – Flowers In The Spring (Thrill Jockey)
Wren – Black Rain Falls (Church Road)

February 28, 2025
Architects – The Sky, The Earth & All Between (Epitaph)
Arion – Like The Phoenix I Will Rise (Reigning Phoenix)
Avantasia – Here Be Dragons (Napalm)
Bon Jovi – Slippery When Wet Re-Release (Ume)
Brainstorm – Plague Of Rats (Reigning Phoenix)
Bronco – Bronco (Magnetic Eye)
Caleb Hyles – The Darkness Before Dawn (Judge & Jury)
Chemicide – Violence Prevails (Listenable)
Dark Chapel – Spirit In The Glass (MNRK Heavy)
Dirkschneider – Balls To The Wall Reloaded (Reigning Phoenix)
Enemy Inside – Venom (Reigning Phoenix)
Grima – Nightside (Napalm)
Havukruunu – Tavastland (Svart)
Hirax – Faster Than Death (Armageddon)
Oversize – Vital Signs (SharpTone)
Perfect Plan – Heart Of A Lion (Frontiers)
The Residents – Doctor Dark (Cherry Red)
Robin McAuley – Soulbound (Frontiers)
Vacuous – In His Blood (Relapse)
Venamoris – To Cross Or To Burn (Ipecac)
Vision Of Disorder – Vision Of Disorder/Imprint Re-Release (Dissonance)
Year Of The Cobra – Year Of The Cobra (Prophecy)
You, Infinite – You, Infinite (Pelagic)

March 7, 2025
Christian Mistress – Children Of The Earth (Cruz Del Sur)
Crown Magnetar – Punishment EP (Unique Leader)
Cryptosis – Celestial Death (Century Media)
Danheim – Mannavegr Re-Release (Season Of Mist)
Danheim – Munarvágr Re-Release (Season Of Mist)
Dawn Of Ouroboros – Bioluminescence (Prosthetic)
Deathless Legacy – Damnatio Aeterna (Scarlet)
Destruction – Birth Of Malice (Napalm)
Disturbed – The Sickness 25th Anniversary Edition (Warner)
Edge Of Paradise – Prophecy (Napalm)
The Gift Is A Curse – Heir (Season Of Mist)
Maltuka – Black Rite (High Roller)
MindWars – V (High Roller)
Overdrivers – Glory Or Nothing (ROAR)
Raging Speedhorn – Night Wolf (Spinefarm)
Rainbows Are Free – Silver And Gold (Ripple)
Reconciler – Three Songs EP (Smartpunk)
Sacrosanct – Avenging Angel (ROAR)
Sadist – Something To Pierce (Agonia)
Scalpture – Landkrieg (Testimony)
Smith/Kotzen – Black Light/White Noise (BMG)
Spiritbox – Tsunami Sea (Pale Chord)
Staticlone – Better Living Through Static Vision (Relapse)
Swervedriver – The World’s Fair EP (Outer Battery)
Tropic Gold – Sick To Death Of Everything EP (UNFD)
Whitechapel – Hymns In Dissonance (Metal Blade)
The Wildhearts – Satanic Rites Of The Wildhearts (Snakefarm)

March 14, 2025
Abigor – Demos 1993-1994 (Darkness Shall Rise)
Ade – Supplicium (Time To Kill)
Bambara – Birthmarks (Bella Union/Wharf Cat)
Coheed & Cambria – The Father Of Make Believe (Virgin)
Derision Cult – Mercenary Notes Pt. 2 EP (Glitch Mode)
Dorothy – The Way (Roc Nation)
Envy Of None – Stygian Wavz (Kscope)
An Evening With Knives – End Of Time (Argonauta)
Heathen – Bleed The World: Live (Nuclear Blast)
Intensive Care + The Body – Was I Good Enough? (Closed Casket)
Kamelot – The Black Halo Re-Release (Napalm)
Nightstalker – Return From The Point Of No Return (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Nite – Cult Of The Serpent Sun (Season Of Mist)
The Oddeven – Outer Space Outtakes (Eclipse)
Ricky Warwick – Blood Ties (Earache)
Red Fang – Deep Cuts (Relapse)
Rwake – The Return Of Magik (Relapse)
Sanhedrin – Heat Lightning (Metal Blade)
Som – Let The Light In (Pelagic)
Soren Andersen – Live In The Homeland (Mighty)
Steven Wilson – The Overview (Fiction)
Streetlight – Night Vision (Frontiers)
Temperance – From Hermitage To Europe (Napalm)
Tiktaalika – Gods Of Pangaea (InsideOut)
Trold – I Skovens Rige (Mighty)
Warbringer – Wrath And Ruin (Napalm)
Wombbath – Beyond The Abyss (Pulverised)

March 21, 2025
Aversed – Erasure Of Color (M-Theory)
Big Big Train – Bard Re-Release (English Electric)
Bloodywood – Nu Delhi (Fearless)
Cradle Of Filth – The Screaming Of The Valkyries (Napalm)
Dark Driven – From The Unbeliever (Hammerheart)
Dead Bars – All Dead Bars Go To Heaven (Iodine)
Drudkh – Shadow Play (Season Of Mist)
Gates To Hell – Death Comes To All (Nuclear Blast)
Gnod & White Hills – Drop Out III (Thrill Jockey)
Gotthard – Stereo Crush (Reigning Phoenix)
Imperial Triumphant – Goldstar (Century Media)
Katla – Scandinavian Pain (Napalm)
Lordi – Limited Deadition (Reigning Phoenix)
Nattverd – Tidloes Naadesloes (Soulseller)
Noisepicker – The Earth Will Swallow The Sun (Exile On Mainstream)
O.R.k. – Firehose Of Falsehoods (Kscope)
Pop Evil – What Remains (MNRK Heavy)
Rush – Rush 50 Box Set (Ume)
SpiritWorld – Helldorado (Century Media)
Stormo – Tagli/Talee (Prosthetic)
Vitskär Süden – Vitskär Süden Re-Release (Ripple)
Wythersake – At War With Their Divinity (Scarlet)

March 28, 2025
Alien Weaponry – Te Rā (Napalm)
Alliance – Before Our Eyes (Frontiers)
Amenra – De Toorn EP (Relapse)
Amenra – With Fang And Claw EP (Relapse)
Arch Enemy – Blood Dynasty (Century Media)
Brkn Love – The Program (Spinefarm)
The Darkness – Dreams On Toast (Cooking Vinyl)
Deafheaven – Lonely People With Power (Roadrunner)
Don Airey – Pushed To The Edge (earMusic)
Ginevra – Beyond Tomorrow (Frontiers)
Memphis May Fire – Shapeshifter (Rise)
Nothing More – Carnal Deluxe Edition (Better Noise)
Pete Townshend – The Studio Albums (UMe)
Phil X & The Drills – Pow! Right In The Kisser (Frontiers)
Sick Puppies – Wave The Bull (oneRPM)
The Snake – Always Bites Back (Svart)
Vulvarine – Fast Lane (Napalm)
W.E.T. – Apex (Frontiers)

April 4, 2025
Air Drawn Dagger – A Guide For Apparitions (Long Branch)
Benediction – Ravage Of Empires (Nuclear Blast)
Bleed From Within – Zenith (Nuclear Blast)
Debt Neglector – Kinda Rips (Smartpunk)
Frantic Amber – Death Becomes Her (Rock Of Angels)
L.A. Guns – Leopard Skin (Cleopatra)
Lo-Pan – Get Well Soon (Magnetic Eye)
Luna Kills – Deathmatch (SharpTone)
Meshuggah – Immutable, The Indelible Edition (Reigning Phoenix)
The Progressive Souls Collective – Encore Vol. II: Sonic Birth Live (Metalville)
Rotting Christ – 35 Years of Evil Existence – Live in Lycabettus (Season Of Mist)
Tomarum – Beyond Obsidian Euphoria (Prosthetic)
Warfield – With The Old Breed (Napalm)
Wrath Of Logarius – Crown Of Mortis (Season Of Mist)

April 11, 2025
Benthos – From Nothing (InsideOut)
Cabal – Everything Rots (Nuclear Blast)
Elvenking – Reader Of The Runes – Luna (Reaper)
Epica – Aspiral (Reigning Phoenix)
In The Woods… – Otra (Prophecy)
Magnolia Park – Vamp (Epitaph)
Messa – The Spin (Metal Blade)
Teen Mortgage – Devil Ultrasonic Dream (Roadrunner)
Valhalore – Beyond The Stars (Rock Of Angels)
Within Destruction – Animetal (Sumerian)
Ye Banished Privateers – ‘Til The Sea Shall Give Up Her Dead (Napalm)

April 12, 2025 – Record Store Day
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April 18, 2025
Cirkus Prütz – Manifesto (Metalville)
Laurenne/Louhimo – Falling Through Stars (Frontiers)
Madball – True To The Game: The Roadrunner Years (Dissonance)
Sick N’ Beautiful – Horror Vacui (BLKIIBLK)

April 25, 2025
Avenger Of Blood – Revenge Is My Name EP (M-Theory)
Cadaver – Hymns Of Misanthropy (Listenable)
Caliban – Back From Hell (Century Media)
Conan – Violence Dimension (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Deserted Fear – Veins Of Fire (Testimony)
Eluveitie – Ànv (Nuclear Blast)
GhostSeeker – Divergence (Rock Of Angels)
H.E.A.T. – Welcome To The Future (earMusic)
Landmvrks – The Darkest Place I’ve Ever Been (Arising Empire)
Liv Kristine – Amor Vincit Omnia (Metalville)
Raven – Screamin’ Down The House (1985-1988) Box Set (HNE)
Sacred Steel – Ritual Supremacy (Rock Of Angels)
Sumac + Moor Mother – The Film (Thrill Jockey)
Sunflower Bean – Mortal Primetime (Lucky Number)

May 2, 2025
Crematory – Destination (ROAR)
Paradise Slaves – With Hell In His Eyes (Spinefarm)

May 9, 2025
Behemoth – The Shit Ov God (Nuclear Blast)

May 16, 2025
Sleep Theory – Afterglow (Epitaph)

May 23, 2025
Senna – Stranger To Love (SharpTone)

June 6, 2025
King Parrot – A Young Person’s Guide To King Parrot (Housecore)

Albums Already Released

January 3, 2025
Decrepid – Suffered Existence Re-Release (Brutal)
Estuarine – Corporeal Furnace (independent)
Faidra – Dies Irae EP (Northern Silence)
Lord Agheros – Anhedonia (My Kingdom)
Megafauna – I Owe This Land A Body (Syrup Moose)
Mutagenic Host – The Diseased Machine (Memento Mori)
Old Nick – Where Poison Apples Grow EP (Grim Stone)
Paleface Swiss – Cursed (Blood Blast)
Patriarkh – ПРОРОК ИЛИЯ (Napalm)
Revel in Void – The Painting (independent)
Rotten Sound – Murderworks Re-Release (Time To Kill)
Serpentum – The Hilt of Forking Tongues (independent)

January 10, 2025
Alt Blk Era – Rave Immortal (Earache)
Barshasketh – Antinomian Asceticism (W.T.C.)
Ex Deo – Year Of The Four Emperors EP (Reigning Phoenix)
Faithxtractor – Loathing & The Noose (Redefining Darkness)
The Halo Effect – March Of The Unheard (Nuclear Blast)
Hanry – Disruption EP (Pelagic)
Haunted Horses – Dweller (Three One G)
Magnum – Live At KK’s Steel Mill (Steamhammer/SPV)
Maw – The Humble Collapse (Argonauta)
Moon Wizard – Sirens (Hammerheart)
Mourn The Light – The Magic Is Calling EP (Argonauta)
Nine Treasures – Awakening From Dukkha Re-Release (Metal Blade)
Nine Treasures – Wisdom Eyes Re-Release (Metal Blade)
Plaguewielder – In Dust & Ash (Self)
Rise Of Tyrants – Trauma Re-Release (Brutal)
Stick To Your Guns – Keep Planting Flowers (SharpTone)
Tremonti – The End Will Show Us How (Napalm)
Urfeind – Dauþalaikaz (Nine To Zero)
Wyatt E. – zamāru ultu qereb ziqquratu Part 1 (Heavy Psych Sounds)

January 17, 2025
A.M.E.N. – Argento (My Kingdom)
The Big Deal – Electrified (Frontiers)
Cerebral Hemorrhage – Exempting Reality (Comatose)
Dark Fortress – Pulling At Threads (Live In Europe 2023) (Century Media)
Datura – Visions For The Celestial Re-Release (Ripple)
Day By Day – Dust And Ashes EP (Flatspot)
Dragonknight – Legions (Scarlet)
Dunes – Land Of The Blind (Ripple)
Eidola – Mend (Blue Swan)
Godzillionaire – Diminishing Returns (Ripple)
Grave Digger – Bone Collector (Reigning Phoenix)
Häxkapell – Om Jordens Blod Och Grepp (Nordvis)
Hazzerd – The 3rd Dimension (M-Theory)
Hesperia – Fra Li Monti Sibillini (Hammerheart)
Landfall – Wide Open Sky (Frontiers)
Necrodeath – Arimortis (Time To Kill)
Porous – The Days Of Our Death (Gravity Well)
Shutdown – By Your Side EP (Equal Vision)
Steve Hackett – Live Magic At Trading Boundaries (InsideOut)
Thy Kingdom Will Burn – The Loss And Redemption (Scarlet)
Tokyo Blade – Time Is The Fire (Dissonance)
Tumenggung – Back On The Streets (Jawbreaker)
Vitriolic – Black Steel Vengeance (Dying Victims)
W.A.S.P. – The 7 Savage: 1984-1992 Box Set (Madfish)

January 24, 2025
Abduction – Existentialismus (Candlelight)
August Burns Red – Thrill Seeker 20th Anniversary Edition (ABR)
Avatarium – Between You, God, The Devil And The Dead (AFM)
Axestasy – Withering Tides (Dying Victims)
Blacktoothed – Headway (Arising Empire)
Bonfire – Higher Ground (Frontiers)
Bumblefoot – Bumblefoot…Returns! (Self)
Century – Sign Of The Storm (Dying Victims)
The Ferrymen – Iron Will (Frontiers)
The Great Old Ones – Kadath (Season Of Mist)
Harakiri For The Sky – Scorched Earth (AOP)
Irae – Promiscuous Fire EP (Signal Rex)
Labyrinth – In The Vanishing Echoes Of Goodbye (Frontiers)
Misanthropik Torment – Make Assassinations Great Again (SelfMade)
Negative Thirteen – Recover What You Can (Self)
Oni – Genesis EP (Self)
Putred – Megalit al Putrefacției (Memento Mori)
Riverside – Live ID. (InsideOut)
Tigertailz – For A Few Dollarz More (The Archives Vol 1: 1984-1991) (HNE)
Time Rift – In Flight (Dying Victims)
Unreqvited – A Pathway To The Moon (Prophecy)
Voidfallen – The Rituals Of Resilience (Noble Demon)
Vukovi – My God Has Got A Gun (SharpTone)
Wardruna – Birna (By Norse)
Wildness – Avenger (Frontiers)

January 31, 2025
Chris Harms – 1980 (Napalm)
TheCityIsOurs – Will You Still Love Me? (Arising Empire)
Great American Ghost – Tragedy Of The Commons (SharpTone)
Grief Ritual – Collapse (Church Road)
Hawkwind – Live At The Royal Albert Hall (Cherry Red)
The Hellacopters – Overdriver (Nuclear Blast)
Jaye Jayle – After Alter (Pelagic)
Kelsey Karter + The Heroines – Love Made Me Do It (Self)
Kilmara – Journey To The Sun (Rock Of Angels)
Nachash – Eschaton Magicks (Signal Rex)
Naked Whipper – Chapel Defilement (Iron Bonehead)
Nest – Woodsmoke Re-Release (Avantgarde)
The Night Flight Orchestra – Give Us The Moon (Napalm)
Pentagram – Lightning In A Bottle (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Pyre – Where Obscurity Sways (Osmose)
Rats Of Gommorrah – Infectious Vermin (Testimony)
Relics Of Humanity – Absolute Dismal Domain (Willowtip)
Selvans – Saturnalia (Avantgarde)
Skaldr – Samsr (Avantgarde)
Tayne – Love (Inside Job/MNRK)
Tyran – Tyran’s Oath (Listenable)
Void Of Hope – Proof Of Existence (Avantgarde)
Wrath – Children Of The Wicked: The Early Years (Dissonance)
Zangoma – Faka Mulilo (Svart)

February 7, 2025
-(16)- – Guides For The Misguided (Relapse)
Days Of Jupiter – The World Was Never Enough (Reigning Phoenix)
Dream Theater – Parasomnia (InsideOut)
Dymna Lotva – The Land Under The Black Wings: Swamp Re-Release (Prophecy)
Dymna Lotva – Wormwood Re-Release (Prophecy)
Ereb Altor – Hälsingemörker (Hammerheart)
Fvzz Popvli – Melting Pop (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Jinjer – Duel (Napalm)
Marko Hietala – Roses From The Deep (Nuclear Blast)
Noctambulist – Noctambulist II: De Droom (These Hands Melt)
Obscura – A Sonication (Nuclear Blast)
Phrenelith – Ashen Womb (Dark Descent)
The Rumjacks – Dead Anthems (Four Four)
Saber – Lost In Flames (ROAR)
Saber – Without Warning Re-Release (ROAR)
Saor – Amidst The Ruins (Season Of Mist)
Thundermother – Dirty & Divine (AFM)

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