With so many new metal and hard rock albums being released each week, it can be difficult to keep up. We’re making things a lot easier for you by keeping track of all the 2023 releases in one convenient location.
Check back often or bookmark this page, because this list is updated on a regular basis. Dates are supplied by record labels and are subject to change.
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March 3, 2023
Ace Of Spades – Born To Booze, Live To Sin – A Tribute To Motorhead (Cleopatra)
Blak29 – The Waiting (Cleopatra)
Earth Groans – Tongue Tied EP (Solid State)
Enslaved – Heimdal (Nuclear Blast)
Entheos – Time Will Take Us All (Metal Blade)
Eyes – Congratulations (Indisciplinarian)
Fake Names – Expendables (Epitaph)
Haken – Fauna (InsideOut)
Lord Sonny The Unifier – America’s Newest Hitmaker (Interstellar Smoke)
Nuclear Holocaust – Sailing The Seas Of Nuclear Waste (Selfmadegod)
Redlight King – In Our Blood (AFM)
Sortilege – Apocalypso (Season Of Mist)
Stargazer – Life Will Never Be The Same (Mighty)
Stoned Jesus – Father Light (Season Of Mist)
Temptress – See (Metal Assault)
Tragedy – I Am Woman (Napalm)
Villagers Of Ioannina City – Through Space And Time (Alive In Athens 2020) (Napalm)
Witch Ripper – The Flight After The Fall (Magnetic Eye)
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 7, 2023
Angus McSix – Angus McSix And The Sword Of Power (Napalm)
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 14, 2023
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)
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)
Magnus Karlsson’s Free Fall – Hunt The Flame (Frontiers)
Metallica – 72 Seasons (Blackened)
Mike Tramp – Songs Of White Lion (Frontiers)
Overkill – Scorched (Nuclear Blast)
Poison Ruin – Harvest (Relapse)
April 21, 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)
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)
These Beasts – Cares, Wills, Wants (Magnetic Eye)
Through Fire – Devil’s Got You Dreamin’ (Sumerian)
April 22, 2023
Record Store Day – Check out all the rock and metal releases here
April 28, 2023
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 5, 2023
The Acacia Strain – Step Into The Light (Rise)
Battle Born – Blood, Fire, Magic And Steel (Prosthetic)
Burning Witches – The Dark Tower (Napalm)
Currents – The Death We Seek (SharpTone)
Curse Of Cain – Curse Of Cain (Atomic Fire)
Death Goals – A Garden Of Dead Flowers (Prosthetic)
Deathstars – Everything Destroys You (Nuclear Blast)
Drain – Living Proof (Epitaph)
Enforcer – Nostalgia (Nuclear Blast)
Herod – The Iconoclast (Pelagic)
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)
Frozen Soul – Glacial Domination (Century Media)
Henget – Beyond North Star (Season Of Mist)
The Ocean – Holocene (Pelagic)
Sleep Token – Take Me Back To Eden (Spinefarm)
Thulcandra – Hail The Abyss (Napalm)
The Used – Toxic Positivity (Big Noise)
May 26, 2023
Arrival Of Autumn – Kingdom Undone (Nuclear Blast)
Legion Of The Damned – The Poison Chalice (Napalm)
Vonavibe – Bleed To Life (Eclipse)
June 2, 2023
Rival Sons – Darkfighter (Low Country Sound/Atlantic)
July 7, 2023
Bloodbound – Tales From The North (AFM)
July 14, 2023
Winterstorm – Everfrost (AFM)
2023 Albums Already Released
Jan. 6, 2023
Anti-Flag – Lies They Tell Our Children (Spinefarm)
Serenity – Memoria DVD/CD (Napalm)
Sons Of Cult – Back To The Beginning (Xtreem)
Throat Locust – Dragged Through Glass EP (Self)
Varmia – Prolog EP (M-Theory)
Jan. 13, 2023
Ahab – The Coral Tombs (Napalm)
Antimozdebeast – Vision (Self)
Anubis – Decreation Day EP (Self)
Beyond The Black – Beyond The Black (Nuclear Blast)
Crom – The Era Of Darkness (From The Vaults)
Defy The Curse – Horrors Of Human Sacrifice (Hammerheart)
Draken – Book Of Black (Majestic Mountain)
Endtime/Cosmic Reaper – Doom Sessions Vol. 7 EP (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Jared James Nichols – Jared James Nichols (Black Hill)
Kommandant – Titan Hammer (ATMF)
Obituary – Dying Of Everything (Relapse)
Screamer – Kingmaker (Steamhammer/SPV)
Turmion Katilot – Omen X (Nuclear Blast)
Ville Valo – Neon Noir (Spinefarm)
Jan. 20, 2023
Atrocity – Okkult III (Massacre)
Big City – Sunwind Sails (Frontiers)
Black Star Riders – Wrong Side Of Paradise (Earache)
Celestial Wizard – Winds Of The Cosmos (Scarlet)
Dryad – The Abyssal Plain (Prosthetic)
Gypsy Chief Goliath/End Of Age – Turned To Stone Chapter 7 Split (Ripple)
Half Life – Like A Jungle (Club Inferno)
Heroes And Monsters – Heroes And Monsters (Frontiers)
Imperium Dekandez – Into Sorrow Evermore (Napalm)
Issa – Lights Of Japan (Frontiers)
Katatonia – Sky Void Of Stars (Napalm)
Laura Cox – Head Above Water (earMusic)
Maneskin – Rush! (Epic/Sony)
Natt – Natt (Edged Circle)
Riverside – ID.Entity (InsideOut)
Seether – Disclaimer Re-Release (Craft)
Slegest – Avstand (Dark Essence)
Ten – Something Wicked This Way Comes (Frontiers)
Tidal Wave – The Lord Knows (Ripple)
Tribunal – The Weight Of Remembrance (20 Buck Spin)
Twilight Force – At The Heart Of Wintervale (Nuclear Blast)
U.F.O. – No Heavy Petting Re-Release (Chrysalis)
Jan. 27, 2023
…And Oceans – As In Gardens, So In Tombs (Season Of Mist)
Anzillu – Ex Nihilo (M-Theory)
Arctic Rain – Unity (Frontiers)
Bizarrekult – Den Tapte Krigen (Season of Mist)
Conjureth – The Parasitic Chambers (Memento Mori)
Crowne – Operation Phoenix (Frontiers)
Dismal – Via Entis (Aural)
Dokken – The Elektra Albums 1983-1987 Box Set (BMG)
Dust Prophet – One Last Look Upon The Sky (Self)
Electric Mob – 2 Make U Cry & Dance (Frontiers)
Girish And The Chronicles – Back On Earth (Frontiers)
Girlschool – The School Report 1978-2008 (HNE)
Green Day – Nimrod Re-Release (Warner)
Holocaust – Heavy Metal Mania: The Complete Recordings Volume 1 – 1980-1984 (HNE)
Hour Of Penance – Misotheism Re-Release (Agonia)
Iron Void – IV (Shadow Kingdom)
Knogjarn – Mera Bedövning EP (Indie)
Liv Sin – Kali Yuga (Mighty)
Love Gang – Meanstreak (Heavy Psych Sounds)
The Lucid – Saddle Up and Ride (SpilerHead Records)
New Miserable Experience – Philosophy On Pessimism (Translation Loss)
Obelyskkh – Ultimate Grace Of God (Exile On Mainstream)
Ominous Scriptures – Rituals Of Mass Self-Ignition (Willowtip)
Oozing Wound – We Cater To Cowards (Thrill Jockey)
Pelican – City Of Echoes Re-Release (Thrill Jockey)
Ronnie Romero – Raised On Heavy Radio (Frontiers)
Smashing Pumpkins – ATUM: A Rock Opera in Three Acts: Act Two (Martha’s Music/Thirty Tigers)
Soen – Cognitive Re-Release (Silver Lining)
Soen – Tellurian Re-Release (Silver Lining)
Steve Vai – Vai/Gash (Mascot)
Suasion – The Infinite (Atomic Fire)
The Tangent – Pyramids, STars & Other Stories: The Tangent Live Recordings 2004-2017 (InsideOut)
Uriah Heep – Chaos & Colour (Silver Lining)
White Reaper – Asking for a Ride (Elektra)
You Me at Six – Truth Decay (AWAL Recordings)
Feb. 3, 2023
All Out War – Celestial Rot (Translation Loss Records)
Fvnerals – Let The Earth Be Silent (Prophecy)
Holy Water – Holy Water (The Flenser)
Lansdowne – Medicine (AFM)
Leprous – Aphelion Tour Edition (InsideOut)
Memorium – Rise To Power (Reaper)
Mithridatum – Harrowing (Willowtip)
Nervochaos – Chthonic Wrath (Emanzipation)
Rexoria – Imperial Dawn (Sound Pollution/Black Lodge)
Russkaja – Turbo Polka Party (Napalm)
Sanguisugabogg – Homicidal Ecstasy (Century Media)
Smashing Pumpkins – ATUM – Act II (Thirty Tigers)
The Winery Dogs – III (Three Dog)
WuW – L’Orchaostre (Pelagic)
Xandria – The Wonders Still Awaiting (Napalm)
Feb. 10, 2023
Darkthrone – Goatlord: Original (Peaceville)
Delain – Dark Waters (Napalm)
Distant – Heritage (Century Media)
eMolecule – The Architect (InsideOut)
Infinite & Divine – Ascendancy (Frontiers)
In Flames – Foregone (Nuclear Blast)
Integrity – Humanity Is The Devil Re-Release (Relapse)
Jenner – To Live Is To Suffer Re-Release (Fighter)
Khymera – Hold Your Ground (Frontiers)
Luger – Revelations Of The Sacred Skull (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Motive Black – Auburn (AFM)
Oak – Disintegrate (Season Of Mist)
Paramore – This Is Why (Atlantic)
Pierce The Veil – The Jaws Of Life (Fearless)
Stormo – Endocannibalismo (Prosthetic)
T3nors – Naked Soul (Frontiers)
Wig Wam – Out Of The Dark (Frontiers)
Feb. 17, 2023
All My Shadows – Eerie Monsters (Frontiers)
Avatar – Dance Devil Dance (Thirty Tigers)
Creye – III: Weightless (Frontiers)
Darkspace – Darkspace I Re-Release (Season Of Mist)
Darkspace – Darkspace II Re-Release (Season Of Mist)
Darkspace – Darkspace III Re-Release (Season Of Mist)
Darkspace – Darkspace -I Re-Release (Season Of Mist)
Darkspace – Darkspace III I Re-Release (Season Of Mist)
Deicide – Bible Bashers (Dissonance)
First Signal – Face Your Fears (Frontiers)
Half Me – Soma (Arising Empire)
Hail The Void – Memento Mori (Ripple)
Hellripper – Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags (Peaceville)
Jack Harlon & The Dead Crows – Hail To The Underground (Blues Funeral)
Motley Crue – Crücial Crüe: The Studio Albums 1981-1989 (BMG)
Robin McAuley – Alive (Frontiers)
See You Next Tuesday – Distractions (Good Fight)
Siege Of Power – This Is Tomorrow (Metal Blade)
Skillet – Dominion: Day Of Destiny Deluxe Edition (Atlantic)
Solence – Hope Is A Cult (Hopeless)
Tithe – Inverse Rapture (Profound Lore)
Tramalizer – Fumes Of Funeral Pyres (Soulseller)
Transatlantic – The Final Flight: Live At L’Olympia (InsideOut)
UFO – Werewolves Of London Re-Release (Cleopatra)
Ulthar – Anthronomicon (20 Buck Spin)
Ulthar – Helionomicon (20 Buck Spin)
Feb. 24, 2023
Air Raid – Fatal Encounter (High Roller)
Big|Brave – Nature Morte (Thrill Jockey)
Bodyfarm – Ultimate Abomination (Edged Circle)
Dark Embrace – Dark Heavy Metal (Massacre)
Death Pill – Death Pill (New Heavy Sounds)
Dope – Blood Money Part Zer0 (Self)
Godsmack – Lighting Up The Sky (BMG)
Heidevolk – Wederkeer (Napalm)
Host – IX (Nuclear Blast)
Hypno5e – Sheol (Pelagic)
Insomnium – Anno 1696 (Century Media)
Megaton Sword – Might & Power (Dying Victims)
Motorhead – Bad Magic: Seriously Bad Magic (Silver Lining)
No Spill Blood – Eye Of Night (Svart)
Omega Infinity – The Anticurrent (Season Of Mist)
Siena Root – Revelation (Atomic Fire)
Steel Panther – On The Prowl (Self)
Stoner – Boogie To Baja (Heavy Psych Sounds)